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PerCaDraMo Day 09 – Mad Hatter

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As always, click on the image above to see the larger version.

This was done with a Faber-Castell brush pen on sketch paper. I have this tiny little sketch pad that’s 3.5×5 inches, perfect for carrying around to do quick cartoons like these. I like to fill the entire page but don’t always have time to do that with a larger sheet of paper. Remember, I work during the dribs and drabs of time I get between Mom duties and other demands. Anyway, this was drawn at our pediatrician office while waiting for the girls to get their flu shots. When I was pregnant, I used to do a lot of sketching in waiting rooms. I almost miss it.

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PerCaDraMo Day 08 – Planet of the Apes Again

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This was the original sketch I did yesterday for PerCaDraMo, and since I’m feeling lousy right now and I did two sketches yesterday, I’m going to just use this one for today. You can compare this with yesterday’s PerCaDraMo and see the difference between the two medium, Brushes on iPad versus brush pen on paper. I will say I was fairly pleased with the fact that I was able to make yesterday’s sketch look like marker on paper, at least to me. After painting in the black lines and areas, I went back with the eraser tool set up with a spotty brush and lightly picked up some of the black so the red color showed through. To me, that gave it the marker on paper effect.

Anyway, I’ve got a lot of stuff to do today, so I’ll post something new tomorrow. But for now, two apes in a row! Enjoy.

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WIP Wednesday – Zombie Santa Holiday Cards Up for Sale!!

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Normally I post a work still in progress on WIP Wednesday, but today I wanted to show an end result and talk about how it happened. Plus, you know, promote my awesome Zombie Santa Christmas card which you can buy at http://www.zazzle.com/cynical_woman.

This is a perfect example of how the iPad has changed how I work. The card was drawn in Sketchbook Pro on the iPad. This was something I worked on whenever I was on the go with the kids. When they had karate lessons or swimming lessons, or when I was sitting in the carpool lane at school waiting to pick them up, I turned on the iPad and worked on this baby. It was a piece put together during whatever spare time I had, then assembled into the finished product on my desktop before being uploaded to Zazzle.com.

I love that the iPad gives me the freedom to work on the go like this. It expands what I can do as a digital artist a thousand-fold. I hate that I have to work on projects in dribs and drabs of time though, because it shows just how full my schedule is.

However, the end result is what matters.

In addition to the very fine cartoon I drew for the front, on the inside the card reads…

“Give a little of yourself this holiday season.”

I think that’s a zombie sentiment we can all get behind, right? If you like the cards, please do stop by my Zazzle store and buy some, or pass along the word to your friends and loved ones so they can purchase these fine holiday cards. I will love you for it and so will Zombie Santa.

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PerCaDraMo Day 07 – Planet of the Apes

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I love Planet of the Apes. Not the Tim Burton movie, not the recent movie with James Franco, but the original movie with Roddy McDowell. I grew up watching those movies, and they were my gateway into science fiction. To this day, I still think they are the best series of movies ever made.

I had a tually drwn today’s cartoon on paper with a Faber Castell brush pen, but I’m not feeling well right now, so I’m not heading up tothe office to scan it in. I’ll post it tomorrow. It’s the same subject matter, same picture, just done on paper instead of on the iPad. This image was done using the Brushes app.

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It’ time for PerCaDraMo!

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It’s November first, and for about five minutes today, I toyed with the idea of participating in NaNoWriMo. Then reality took over and gave me a firm shake. I am exhausted from the 3 all-nighters I pulled this weekend, Hubster won’t be home until after very late tonight, and the kids need to get homework done. And of course the day was spent on catching up on all those items I needed to do this weekend but couldn’t get around to because I was working hell-bent-for-leather on a volunteer project.

But I still want to do something, and there is this other idea I’ve sort of been toying with – drawing a cartoon a day. Nothing fancy, just something to boost my cartooning skills and get me even more into the habit of drawing daily.

So for this month, I’m going to attempt to do PerCaDraMo, Personal Cartoon Drawing Month. The goal is to draw 30 quick cartoons, none of them taking more than 15 minutes to complete. I hope to avoid using a pencil, would prefer to draw on paper, but will cartoon on the iPad when necessary to complete my goal. Like I did tonight. Here is the month’s first cartoon, a self-portrait I like to call, “Is It Time To Freak Out Yet?”

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Whatdaya think?

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Freaky Friday! So I changed my tag line

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Take a look at the header graphic for the site. Notice that something has changed? I have replace the tag line of “Stay-at-home mom and erotica writer” with “Motherhood made me EVIL!!!”

Why the change, you may ask? (Or maybe you’re not asking. Maybe you don’t care. Maybe you’re too busy eating Cheetohs, in which case I hate you for not sharing any with me.) The change is for a couple of reasons, the main one being…

I am not simply a stay-at-home mom and erotica writer. Not that there was ever anything simple about that. However, while I have primarily written in the erotica genre for the last ten years, this website was never really an erotica writer’s website. You never saw a lot of story excerpts here, no contests or give-aways, no big book releases or anything like that. Yeah, I’ve talked about writing erotica from time to time, and I have occasionally put up some stories here, but 99% of my erotica work has been poured straight into the Heat Flash Erotica Podcast, and let’s be honest, Heat Flash is the perfect place for it. It’s a site dedicated entirely to speculative fiction erotica. If that’s what you want, that’s exactly what you get there, and you can find plenty of it all on that one website. It’s focused and direct, and that’s made it a great platform for my odd little stories of erotic fiction.

This website though, the Cynical Woman site, has always been more of a mish-mash of stuff, from the web comics to the artwork to the occasional (okay, the frequent) rant about my life as a mom. An evil mom. A mom who really does have devil horns coming out her head (hey, have you seen me at conventions? The horns are real!!). So as much fun as it is to be a stay-at-home mom and erotica writer, and as catchy as that tag line is, it really doesn’t cover the full theme of this site. And that theme is…

Motherhood has made me evil.

Oh, I was evil before I had kids, but I never really understood the true extent of my nature until after I had them. Giving birth to and caring for a couple of vicious man-eating rug rats has led me to the discovery that I am the kind of parent who enjoys trying to civilize such savage little beasts. I get a kick out of sending a screaming kid to her bedroom and I have no hesitations about handing out time-outs or sweeping through a messy bedroom with a trashbag and vindictive will to enact a scorched earth policy on anything the little ones refused to pick up and put away like they were told to fifty-million times. I am the mom who shows up at a Catholic school, with hair dyed pink and blue and purple, to discuss volunteer hours with the nuns, and then I go home to write erotica stories for the Coming Together charity anthologies. I am the mom who sells cookies for Girl Scouts by cheerfully advertising that yes, those cookies really are made of real Girl Scouts and I made them myself. See my bloody hands? Now please, buy a few boxes and support the Girl Scouts. I play Wii Fit while drinking Choco-Vine wine (although to be honest, the person who decided to combine wine and chocolate is far more evil than I). I sew zombie dolls on the sidelines while waiting for my daughters’ karate classes to end. I am the mom who will save your sorry ass should said zombie dolls ever come to life and take over the world… unless I decide to be the mom who feeds your sorry ass to my zombie babies, because hey, they’re cute and they need to eat too!

In short, I am not your mama’s “Yo Mama!” Rather, I am a strange new species of bitchy breeder all together, and that’s what this website has always been about. So I changed the tag line to “Motherhood has made me EVIL!!!” Yes, you will still see the occasional mention of erotica stories and artwork here, and you can always go to Heat Flash if you want more. Because I’m still a stay-at-home mom and I still write erotica.

I’m just really, really evil, too.

‘Nuff said.