Alright, here is what I came up! With such limited time, learning a whole new medium and under 10MB's, and at a crazy yoga retreat. See you in Toronto May 18th!!
comics, prints, illustrations
Had a really crazy week! I've been working on Rococo's Garden (code name for my next game) with Amine and Ashley and we've had some really cool ideas. I am just so grateful that I get to world build all day, seriously a dream come true!!
I am also so proud to see Songs of the Lost get nominated for an Amaze award 2023, super cool!! Looks like I'll be coming to Berlin. We were nominated under the Diversity category. I feel a little weird about that honestly, being mixed race has nothing to do with why I make games. I guess it is impossible to separate? Also the team is indeed surprisingly diverse LOL I literally never even noticed. We have 2 Mexican mixed race women writing and making art, a Japanese man programming, a black woman making music and an Indian man doing game design.
I did choose my collaborators because of our shared experiences, Ashley and I work so well together because we have very similar backgrounds and have similar questions about our place in this world. Almost all of my most successful collaborations have been with diverse creators, probably because we understand each other easier. Anyway, I'll take this nomination like a shot of tequila! As my mama likes to say, "It's good for you". I am genuinely over the moon that Songs of the Lost is getting some recognition, we love what we created and are really excited to see the characters return in our next games. Our first nomination as Apocablyss Studios!!!!! YAY. Stay tuned <3
Blogs!!
I almost totally forgot about this blog. I used to blog so religiously when I was just getting started with my art career, I will try to do that again, at least for a while. It's a great way to journal for the future!! I'm so glad I went with Blogger and not Wix or whatever!
I've been listening to the White Pube and they were talking about how RSS could be the future of consuming art and I was like, YES! The come back of Blogger. I feel so exhausted by Instagram these days, I've never been this hooked by something that wasn't a cute boi. I even started using ads, who am I!!
Anyway, so my life has twisted and turned into funny shapes since my last post. I moved to Nova Scotia for a stint and had a really beautiful and strange time. It's kind of embarrassing, but I went there to get to know my mostly absent father and spent the greater part of the pandemic in one of the most beautiful and haunting places I've ever been - Lunenburg Nova Scotia. I had a small 1950's fisherman's house all to myself with tons of yard space and some of the most glorious sunrises of all time. The town used to have 4 grocery stores at one point, but now it only had an art shack open to tourists for 3 months a year.
At first I didn't know how to drive which was brutal because Blue Rocks was an hour an a half walk from the closest grocery store in Lunenburg. I had some of the most awkward and comforting bonding moments with my dad driving me to the pool and teaching me how to drive.
I did my first residency with the Lunenburg School of the Arts, created a few paintings which I am still getting the hang of making, below is an image of a quick patch job with moss that actually turned out alright? I had accidently gotten glue all over the frame a day before the show and was like, I'll cover it in moss!!! Moss makes everything better 👀