It's a year in review!
Do you know how long it's been since I posted? Wow. I also see that I failed to post last year, which would be bad, in that I usually forget what I did for New Years from year to year. Except I can remember that last year I went t
my_tallest's party so I could meet his then-new boyfriend, and that was fun!
This year I did NOT party, because I got really hideously sick from food-poisoning the night before, and continued feeling icky all yesterday. So I sat at home and cautiously ate bland things, caught up on Tumblr after a week away, and just barely remembered to turn on the TV in time to see the ball drop. *FWEEEEE*!!! (that's a virtual party-favor thing that you blow into and it unrolls... what the hell ARE those called?)
It also feels like I didn't DO a whole hell of a lot this past year. I really have to think back to figure out where the year went.
The best part of the year has to have been the saw-whet owl banding, I think. I moved up from recording volunteer to actually extracting owls from nets and then doing the banding and measurements, which took me from doing it once a week to 4 or 5 nights a week. So that really killed off October and November. And yet, it's still pretty rewarding.
Hmm. I should go back through my photos and see if I can post a "one photo a month" meme or something. Maybe for tomorrow.
I also feel like I did very little art, which is kind of distressing. Or at least it feels that way. I think I did about 20 pieces, if I'm being generous in the counting... and oh yeah, a 6-page graphic story, which probably accounts for the other lack of production. It took me 9 months to do that, and it hanging over me was probably part of the reason for other lack of production. (5-6 weeks to do, if I counted up the actual time spent.)
If you're interested, you can
see it here; it was a prize for someone in an ElfQuest fan group I'm in; it's not canonical, and is perhaps a bit "inside baseball" in terms of the story, but there it is.
I guess the other thing that killed me this year was that the first part of the year was still spent doing entries for the ElfQuest Fan Art calendar; normally that would have been completed long before New Years, but the nature of the project (producing pages for 3 weekly calendars) made it bleed into 2012, and I did about 5 pin-up montages of canon ElfQuest characters for it:
http://fav.me/d54aqalhttp://fav.me/d4kpwrchttp://fav.me/d54apfthttp://fav.me/d54aom8http://fav.me/d54aoynI also did an entry for the EQFA 2013 calendar, which they ended up selecting for April; again, canonical (the theme was "every picture tells a story", to do a 1-page comic that would convey any kind of story we wanted), and
it can be seen here.
And that's about it! Off to contemplate what I feel safe eating for dinner...