OK, unless you’ve really been skimming across my Facebook and Twitter posts, you know that I’ve moved to Orlando. In order to make this move, I had to quit my job and I’m on the hunt for a new one. Temp agencies haven’t really panned out yet.In the meantime, bills will still be coming in and I need to be making something, income-wise.

So here’s the deal- I’ll do commissioned drawings. These will not be sketches, but fully rendered drawings, detail depending on the subject you request. All drawings will be on 8 1/2″ x 11″ card stock, making them easy to find a frame for. Depending on the subject matter, the medium will be charcoal or ink. Either way, you’ll have a nice darkly rendered drawing to show off. The price for a drawing is $20, as long as you’re not asking for more than three people in it. I hear you asking, how will this work?

First off either e-mail at carpaltunnelpress@gmail.com or private message through Facebook, letting me know what you want. If you want a likeness of someone, send me a photo. I draw comics, but for you, I’ll draw just about anything. When I’m done, which should take 1-3 days, I’ll e-mail you a watermarked scan of your drawing, at a resolution of 72 dpi.

How do you get money to me? I prefer PayPal, but you can mail me a check, if you want. Once I have the money, I’ll mail you your drawing in a plastic sleeve and inside a reinforced envelope, clearly marked “DO NOT BEND.” If you have trouble with your mailman bending your large mail to fit, consider having it sent to a work address.

This week, I’ve been able to do a lot of drawing. Tomorrow’s strip just needs to scanned and cleaned up then it’ll be posted. Next week’s strip is about 35% done, and the week after was started last night. There’s a strip about three weeks away that has also been done, and that strip will mark the last strip for collection into minicomic form, which shall be known as Bunkee #5, which I should have done in time for MegaCon.

The first print run of Bunkee #5 will be done in the old minicomic style of me printing these myslef and assembling them by hand. There just won’t be enough time to print them through ka-blam for a first print run, but the second printing will be done through ka-blam, and available through IndyPlanet. The annotations for each strip will be at the back of Bunkee #5, a running thing from here on out.

Pretty soon, a link for Threat of the Cybergirl will be on the links side of the web site, which will take you to the IndyPlanet listing, where you can order a copy print on demand, which will start happening for most everything done through ka-blam.

Also, check out  my e-bay listings, as I’m selling a few things lying around. I could use the extra cash, and if I can figure out the anatomy, a special little drawing I’m working on will show up there before making its way onto Etsy.

FYI, I’ll be putting this up for sale on eBay.

If anyone buys a comic directly from me, either at a convention or through the store here at my web site, I do a sketch in them, just to add some value. Tomorrow, I’m mailing out four mini-comics and in each of them, I did a sketch as a “thank you” to the buyer. Along the way, I put together a couple of sketches that I really liked.

I don’t get to draw Bad Bette much anymore, but I’d already drawn Jet-Pack Jenny in a copy of Bunkee #4. The Darwin drawing means nothing to the comics, but was a little gift for the buyer. I screwed up on the letter spacing, but it’s a great sketch idea, and I’m thinking about making it into a T-shirt design, wither with ka-blam or Cafe Press. Let me know what you think.

No new strip this Monday. It’s been a busy week, and the weekend is even busier. It’s not that I’ve been letting myself get distracted, I’ve just gotten too many balls up in the air creatively. You wanna know something, though? I’m happy with having the past two months having new content every week. However, I am going to make you a deal. I will post a redrawing of an older strip, and in exchange, you forgive me. Deal?

I said do we have a deal?

Okay, for Easter Monday, I’ll post a new strip AND a redrawn one, as well. Now be happy, that’s all you’re getting.

Taken from skepchick.org.

I’ve yet to decide if I’m doing anything for Thursday or not.

I have plans to be at the Caldwell Arts Council’s Festival In the Park on Saturday, May 22. My plan is to have a book of my work to browse through and to be drawing Jet-Pack Jenny comics all day. That is, unless the weather decides not to cooperate. More on that later, if it proves to be a factor.

UPDATE: The rain location is the Mulberry Rec Center.

In the meantime, you might also spot me at Futs on Main Street in Lenoir Wednesday night when I’ll be taking in the music of Will Willis and Patrick Crouch, while drawing a little. It’s a routine for me, and you should come just to listen to the music. You should come to Futs on Wednesday nights if you can, to take in some great music. There was a great crowd last week, and there’s even a little cafe in the back if you’d like a little bite to eat. I go there to take in the music, primarily. Drawing is just something else I do while listening, trying to stay out of the way, but I’ll talk if you come up and say hi.

There will be no new strip this Monday. However, I’m doing my best in the next 9 days to get a little ahead on the comic, and avoid any further delays.

The day job hours are a little rough, and on top of that, I’m trying to work on the side to earn some extra cash needed to do things like oh, get a driver’s license, and eat.

In the next week, also look for a little shameful plugging and shilling as things progress here in the wonderfully productive world we call Carpal Tunnel Press.