TGIF! or How Did the Week Go By So Fast?
Welcome to the 67th issue of the Skook Works in Progress Newsletter. Thank you for reading. Feel free to share/forward it with anyone who you think would enjoy it.
These Days …
I’ve started another round of physical therapy. The goal isn’t so much to fix my knee (that requires surgery and it’s not a fix so much as an adjustment) as it is to make the rest of my body strong and limber enough to compensate for the weakness of the knee. My body is stiff and tense. This shouldn’t be news to me. I am generally tense. So now I have a bunch of exercises to do make my muscles stretch. Nothing for my mind. It gets to stay tense.
Upcoming – Dentist. Cataract surgeries. More sorting of books and comics. And we’re probably going to be getting a new housemate. The current one is up for an apartment across town. If she gets it we’ll want someone else in the other room.
Mugshots
This week’s process GIF is of a floating landscape. The surreal landscapes of Roger Dean were an inspiration when I was young. THis is my take on a similar subject.
This design is available on a mug in my Zazzle store and all sorts of other schtuff in my Redbubble store.
The Sum of His Parts
The fellow below is the first of my designs that has gotten tagged by Redbubble’s fan art partner program. Redbubble has made deals with various media companies to allow folks to make and sell designs based on various IPs – mostly movies and tv shows. I haven’t made any designs for the program. I definitely haven’t submitted any designs for it. And yet something in RB’s submission algorithms decided that it needed to check with one of the “partners” before the design was posted.
It took a few back and forth emails before someone at RB was willing to tell me that the IP in question was Penny Dreadful. I liked Penny Dreadful. It was fun mashup of various Gothic Horror characters. Most of those characters are in the public domain. None of them are cartoon bunnies.
The Penny Dreadful folks rightly told RB that the design didn’t fit their IP and that it was okay that I could sell it.
A few of my other designs have since been held up while a human at RB checked with a human at some media company. It’s been both funny and annoying. I don’t do much fan art. If I did I wouldn’t try to sell it in one of my stores. Part of the reason is this – I like the freedom to do what I want with the images I’ve created.
Complain, complain.
That’s it for me this week.
How are you?
