Dropping The Shopping.

I’m secretly hoping 2019 is the year I get to add some more Babayka-Lives fan-art to my Deviantart Babayka-Lives fan-art folder. It could use some fattening up, if anybody wants to feed it art?

Also I have to confess, I’m kind of considering maybe shutting down my Etsy Store this year at some point too, sadly. Babayka-Lives is (for good or bad) totally a one-man show, and so I haven’t really been able to give my online store any time or love or really do anything with it since it started. I very much like the idea of making and putting out Babayka or Yana themed knick-knacks and oddities on the side to help with cost, but struggle to find the time to do so or set anything up (plus the daily Etsy emails drive me mad).

My plan in the beginning was to maybe hook up with other arty creators (like plushy makers and print makers, etc, etc) and put out some Babayka-Lives related merch that way. But with all my time going towards actually making the comic, this hasn’t really happened yet.

That said… I would be very open to hearing what folks might like to see me sell if I do keep it going? Another setback and something I haven’t really had time to tackle is even just thinking of things people might wanna see in my store, so all feedback is very welcome and really does help. As always, Babayka-Lives contact address can be found here. 

I have watched youtube videos on how to make homemade action-figures and done research like that, but realistically it really would be stuff I could do on the side in my downtime, and in a small workspace with a small budget. Although maybe one day I’ll meet an indy action-figure maker and team-up with them on some Babayka and Brides toys.

I also enjoyed doing the Slasher paper doll of me on the cover of SLASH-UPS back in 2017, and have played around with the idea of maybe doing some Babayka themed ones at some point in the future, too, if people would like to see those?

I sadly just suffer from the curse of having more ideas than free time to do them in, annoyingly. I’m sure many of you are probably the same.

Scary Spider Sunday.

What better way to end the week, then with some more terrifying spider action.

Just between you and me, I think this particular spider is my favourite of all the many eight-legged creepy crawlies I’ve had to draw recently. He just seem the most organic looking of the bunch.

The big question is who or what has he caught in his web, though?

Infestation.

It’s crazy how many spiders I’ve had to draw and ink recently. I figure I must have drawn well over a hundred legs lately. Here’s a sneak peek at sixteen of them.

With all these Rats, Bees and Spiders posts recently, it’s like this blog is infested.

ZOM-BEE.

Christmas might be over for another year, but here’s a little slice of unseen Xmas 2018.

It’s a card I did last month drawn in the theme of the next SLASH-UPS challenge (which I’m still not announcing just yet, but also not really doing a very good job of hiding).

I’m actually pretty pleased with this sketch, considering I did it so quickly and was so worn out when I drew it.