I'm sorry, I only signed up to see if I could do it. But there is too much stuff on fandom there that actually depresses me when I read through it =[

I've replied to as many messages in my inbox that I could! If I did not reply to you please feel free to note me here if it was urgent. Sorry! I'm sort of doing this for my own sanity.

To my tumblr followers:
So so so sorry! You guys are fantastic and chatty, and I felt so overwhelmed at all your support whenever I talked about things, and I loved you guys popping in to see my livestreams. You're all awesome! But I feel safer on dA. I really wish I was less internet shy, but I'm not =S

Thanks for all the birthday messages guys! I wish I could be around here more often because you all are so amazing and wonderful. Especially YOU [link]

Oh wow I reached my points goal! Completely forgot about that.

I said I'd make some DW people but someone's already made 11 [link] and Amy ([link]), but I'll still make the master. Should I make him blond and homeless or all suited up?

EDIT: fixed the amy link.
Hm. That Amy looks worrying like sady's John =S

When I first got my dA I faithfully thanked every comment I got (mostly out of gratitude that people were commenting at all) and I tried to carry this on even when I got lots and lots of comments on my fanart stuff. Out of politeness, or to remind people I'm human being not a mystical art producing machine or something. You know P=

But ever since I got tumblr that habit sort of drained out of me. It's probably because it's impossible to thank for likes and reblogs, so I just twitched helplessly, and let it happen. But it's carried on over here. I don't reply to the majority of my comments anymore, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

So, some questions:

Do you prefer it if I thank? Or is my endless blubbering annoying to scroll through? Am I being rude by not replying, or do you leave feedback and not mind whether I respond or not? I feel weird replying to comments on my old stuff, because I don't really remember drawing it at all, and sometimes people leave comments that I honestly don't know how to reply to.

_{On a side note, I read each and every comment I receive on my phone every morning before I get up. It's a nice way to start the day and remind myself how lovely people are}

I don't know how many of you guys listen to radio dramas, but I was linked to this by a fellow horror fan. I really really highly recommend taking the hour out to listen. I put it on as background as I was drawing and by the end I was so wrapped up in the story I couldn't draw properly!

I won't say anything else because I don't want to spoil it.

Pontypool

Okay, so maybe I'm just rolling around wanting summer to be over already so I can see the second season, but I've been thinking a lot about a character who only appears in one book, but whose influence on the Sherlock Holmes universe is massive.

_{Quick Scandal in Bohemia summary:
Alder was a retired opera singer who lived in London, who had an affair with the King of Bohemia and managed to retain a photograph of the two of them together when he broke it off. Upon learning that the King was going to get married, she threatened to send the photograph to his uptight fiancées family as revenge. She was too smart for the king and resisted all attempts to steal the photo back. Holmes was hired as a last resort, and what followed was Holmes in various forms of disguise, accidental wedding attendance, and Adler crossdressing and following Holmes around. She successfully escaped with her new hubby Godfrey Norton and Holmes was so impressed by her that he asked the king for her portrait photo as a payment and never made jokes about female intelligence again.}


Some people see her as Holmes's counterpart, but I've always seen her as more of a female Watson. She didn't beat him because she was smarter than him, she beat him because she understood him. She committed crime for emotional reasons, rather than for a love of law breaking.

She and Holmes had no 'history' as claimed by the 2009 movie. She wasn't a supervillain. She was an exceptional person who wasn't afraid of morally dubious acts to protect her relationship with someone she loved. (like John shooting the cabbie in BBC!verse?)

I'm interested to see how they handle the whole scandal thing, because in this day and age, what happened between Adler and the king wasn't scandalous. Also, Watson was living with his wife during the story, and only visited Holmes on occasion. Does this mean the whole John/Sarah thing would have escalated during this 12 month gap that we've had between series? Would he have moved out of 221B??

I don't understand how I've survived so long waiting for this tv show @_@

Okay I did it!

I'm now heli0centric on tumblr. I'll post some old stuff there, and some closeups from my comic so you's can see all the detail. And I'll take sketch requests. I don't know. Anyway, if it all gets too much, I'll just duck out again. I'm internet shy ;_;

So if you have a tumblr come and say hi and laugh at me as I n00b out.

Okay I'm being all insomniac again and stuff so excuse if my words come out weird it's like 4 in the morning.

EVERY TIME something of mine gets weirdly popular (shimeji, the meme thingy) I can always link it back to tumblr. Is there like a massive group of sherlock fans there or something? I'd get one, but tumblr hurts my brain! Someone explain it? ;__;

most of your gallery is Sherlock fanart.

I feel like I should be working on something more worthwhile, but I don't really wanna. Is this bad? Is fandom sapping my creativity? Or channelling it, somehow?

I think it's going to get worse after the new season too.

A DD? Seriously? Thank you to the suggesters, and thanks for all the comments and faves. I'm really glad people find the tutorial helpful.

That's one more thing to tick off my bucket list! 8D

In other news, I drew with a pencil today! That's right, a real, non-digital pencil. It was so awkward without the undo button and not being able to flip the canvas, but I did it. Unfortunately, I don't have a scanner, so you'll have to imagine what it looks like. It's real good though (imo)

I'm not going to lie, I used to hate slash.

I don't know why, maybe it creeped me a bit, but whatever was going on in my head I avoided the stuff whenever possible. I've never been a homophobe (because it's basic human rights, people can have relationships with whoever the hell they want as long as it's consensual both ways) but the main reason I avoided fandom for so many years is because it's saturated with gratuitous gay porn, and I didn't want to deal with sifting though all that to find the stuff I wanted.

And then I tripped and fell into the Sherlock fandom.

I dipped a toe or two in the comms. I scrolled very quickly past all the slash (can't complain, it's Sherlock Holmes and that particular fandom is decades old) and relied on recs to get all the gen stuff I wanted.

But all my favourite authors and artists were doing slash every so often, and I didn't want to censor myself, because, you know, I could be missing out on amazing stuff.

So, I guess things slowly changed. I'm not reading the porn, but I'm happy to read a great case fic and not be put off by the background slash. ("And that solves the interesting, complex mystery of the perpetual motion machine." "OMG Sherlock you are so smart and hot! Do me now!!" "Yeah, why not, that should stave off boredom for another hour or so.") I'm fine with slightly slashy art as long as it's done well and I can read the comms without being freaked out anymore.

So thanks, Sherlock fandom, for slowly stripping away my inhibitions. It was pretty smart of you, and it was all very subtle, but I guess after months of desensitisation these things stop being shocking.

Still tricky to explain my internet history whenever my nosy flatmate wants to borrow my laptop though

Can someone tell me what the whole John and jam thing is about?
Also! Anderson and dinosaurs.
Is it just fandom being strange again?

I know! Exciting, right?

I went through the old PSDs and did a bit of 'remastering', so these are all subtlety different from what I uploaded here, with the exception of Man on the Tor. Oh yeah, and I got rid of the blood in dive



Redbubble seems pretty cool
_{Is it vain to want to order prints of your own stuff? ._.
I think I might do it anyway. Just to see what the quality is like. Yeah.}

I've finally finished the art for the Sherlock visual novel! I told you I could do it


Thank god.

Now I'm free to work on my own stuff again! Isn't that great? I think it is.

So my new official life sucking project is my Sherlock fancomic, which I can start working on again without feeling too guilty.

In case you missed ...
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Also, polls suggest that about a 3rd of you guys would buy prints from me. I don't know how accurate these statistics are, but considering how poor I am I'm happy to oblige

Unfortunately I lost a lot of the high quality backup files when my computer died a while back, so there are few that I can do in large size.

I only starting by selling fanart, cause I feel a bit weird selling prints of other people's OCs. But if there's anything that catches your eye use the 'request a print' button and I'll see what I can do.

Ones that I can sell large are:


I'm also thinking of redrawing because I lost the high quality, but I really want it as a poster. Maybe it's just me, but I really like that one

What do you guys think?

Sherlock VN status:
> Being put together

<sub>Thought I'll update you guys on this incredibly delayed project

Me and the maker have been suffering from creative differences so to speak. As I suspected when I first agreed to draw for this, it was eating up into way too much of my precious little time. She kept hammering me to finish, so we argued and all that. I've actually done more art for this than the VN I was actually paid to illustrate.

I'd drop the whole thing here and now but it's so close to finishing and I've already promised all you guys that I'll get it done. So don't worry, after the next three arts are done I'll put it up here for download. I'll also put the art I've done up in a file so people can download it and make their own VNs on Novelty. Maybe like for a quid or something. And a donation to the poor guy who created Novelty would probably be appreciated. But the VN will be completely free, I can promise you that.

My own personal project is a Sherlock comic, which I've finished writing and am now sketching out. You can see the first couple of sketch pages here and I've done a couple more that I'll post up later. I think it'll be more fun drawing for my own story now, and I won't have to deal with someone harrassing me to finish all the time.

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For the curious, it's a little story about Sherlock having an apparent breakdown while trying to solve the murder(?) of a hotel owner with a dark past.

Also Sally and John team up to go hunt down a criminal.

And there's a sexy lady too.

I'll put the pdf up for download when I'm done, and I've been looking around for places that are decent for printing A4 comics with colour that won't break the bank. BUT that's all far in the future (I'm such a tease)

Again, sorry for the VN delay.</sub>