Here we have three more of my not quite generic ladies of Retropolis; I could go on and on, and I’d like to because this is the stage of character work that I really like. I’m trying not to think about what I’ll go through when I skin them to their bones, since that’s the part that I emphatically do not like.
Still, since their faces and hands are taken care of already the worst is probably behind me.
I guess I should believe now that I have all the generic costume parts I need even though I would always like to have more. I do still need to turn out a similar number of male characters. That Clockwork Book clock just keeps ticking.
In the meantime I’m just about a home page away from launching my new site, The Celtic Art Works. That one will do for my Celtic art merchandise what the Retropolis site has done for my retro future: it gathers together all my Celtic design products from Celtic Art & Retro-Futuristic Design, Saga Shirts, and Ars Celtica so that I have a single shopping site where all that wonderful stuff is presented together.
I had meant to finish The Celtic Art Works at about this time last year – but since I didn’t start it until this summer I seem to have missed that goal. It really has been a pretty big job – but sometime this week, anyway, it ought to be done.
As a side effect of all this recent work, I may finally redo my Ladies World Domination Society T-shirt soon. It’s been asking for an update for months now, and armed with all these Retropolitan ladies, well, I probably won’t be able to hold out much longer.
Oh I love that t-shirt! I almost got one, except you didn’t put it on the regular t-shirt, you know the one that comes in a million colors and sizes? Lol, honestly, we ladies don’t only buy the clothes labelled for us. For one thing they tend to run small, and for another, well you’ve heard about women liking choices, right? 😀
I guess I wanted it to be… exclusive?
Anyhow this year that dark women’s tee got a whole bunch of new colors. But maybe when I change the design I’ll add a regular tee, too.
I think this whole concept goes back to an early, chilly morning in 1983, in a little town in Northern California. I walked into a liquor store and said “I’d like change for a dollar”.
The woman behind the counter took a good long look up and down me, and said “You didn’t use the Magic Word”.
Which stopped me in my tracks; but of course, I knew the Magic Word, and I used it, and then I started out. But before I made it out the door I turned around and asked her “Do you know my mother?”
And she told me “We all went to the same school.”
Hence the Ladies World Domination Society. They all went to the same school.
Looking forward to the new Celtic (Saga) site! I actually discovered that stuff first on Printmojo, before I found Retropolis via Printfection — of course, I’m huge fans of both.
As for not being able to hit personal deadlines, yeah, I have a project in the same boat…hey, when you were a kid you’d hear adults say, “There’s not enough hours in the day…” I finally understand it, after a few decades!
Best,
D
I’ve given it a sort of soft launch today – it’ll take me some time to update all the tentacular cross-linking I do from my other sites, and take care of some housekeeping tasks that matter to Google.
But here it is:
http://shop.webomator.com/celtic-art-works/
Looks great! I need to go back and read again how you handled the hover / drop-down menus for tablets, as I have a similar hurdle with a new site I’m building with A LOT of navigation.
Best,
D