I am streaming today! At 1 PM EST, as usual. I'll be sketching and doing portraits.
Here's the stream URL: https://www.twitch.tv/mcahogarth
Youtube's been updated, so you can watch old streams there. I actually talk in the newer videos! But I'm responding to the chat so I have no idea how mu...
2020-06-19 11:29:59 +0000 UTC View Post
My favorite silly page on the wiki today. (Tomorrow it will be something else.)
I am streaming today! At 1 PM EST, as usual. I'll be working on the book cover and when I get tired of staring at the painting, or I finish it, I guess I'll figure something else out.
Here's the stream URL: https://www...
2020-06-17 11:30:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I present to you some of the funny screenshots shared among the wiki editors this week as we worked. (I was going to say 'tinker' but the amount of effort being put in by the handful of volunteers deserves proper description). Some of the stubs made by people on their way to filling things in are ridic. I love it. š
Related, I am streaming today! At 1 PM EST! I will ...
2020-06-12 11:34:57 +0000 UTC View Post
What a mess, I am embarrass. š
I am streaming today! At 1 PM EST, as usual. I'll be working on the book cover and various interior illustrations, if I get tired of staring at the painting.
Here's the stream URL: https://www.twitch.tv/mcahogarth
As usual, you can catch recent streams on ...
2020-06-10 11:29:43 +0000 UTC View Post
We are about two weeks into this wiki and itās growing fast enough that Iām making back-ups every couple of days. There will come a day when changes are minimal and infrequent enough that I can move to a weekly back-up, but that day is not today, wonāt be tomorrow, and honestly I donāt see it coming for several months.
As an illustration, I bring you an image! I did not think to check the wiki statistics until today and wasn't that an eye-opener. 420 content pages! And we havenā...
2020-06-08 17:17:56 +0000 UTC View Post
With all the catching up!
First of all, thank you, audiobook lovers! Your donations last Friday made it possible to order Chapter 1 of Amulet Rampant, which I will post when it gets to me! Bandcamp is again waiving their percentage of sales, so all proceeds will go toward Chapter 2 (or 3, if we get ambitious!). Or, I guess, you could just just use Paypal if you don't want to go ...
2020-06-05 15:00:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I will be working on the painting, over which I am skeptical right now so hopefully I will be able to rescue it....
Don't know if the mic will be on this time, depends on my mood.
Stream is at 1 PM EST! https://www.twitch.tv/mcahogarth
The last stream has been ported to youtube, you can catch it on my channel 2020-06-03 12:02:44 +0000 UTC View Post
It's pretty evident to me that I needed a wiki a long time ago. Some of you will recall a fan-built one on the Wikia site, but I never really got involved with that one because Wikia is full of ads and extremely slow and I hate their wiki software which does weird things with image pop-ups and... it was pretty much the opposite of what I wanted, which was something clean and fast, like Wikipedia, and something I could control on a site I could backup myself.
The new peltedverse wi...
2020-06-02 12:02:26 +0000 UTC View Post
With pen sketch I found randomly that I really liked. Sometimes I like to doodle directly in ink. Anyway! Today's news!
Audiobook lovers, I was able to afford one chapter of Amulet Rampant, so I put it up on Bandcamp as a 'pay what you want, including nothing' track. Today, Bandcamp is waiving their percentage of the sale, so all the proceeds go to me! (Thank you, Bandc...
2020-05-29 11:41:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I have added, for amusement, the spreadsheet I found for Jahir's college schedule during the Mindtouch era. I was hunting around for stuff for the wiki when I ran into it... I don't remember at all doing it but I guess that explains why I never lost track of his schedule while writing...!
Anyway! Welcome new subscribers! There are lots of you lately, thank you for joining us! I hope to see those of you with Discord-level access on the chat server. We love new f...
2020-05-26 14:07:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Borb instead, who came to visit me while I was reading by the window. Brave borb! He was less than six feet away from me!
Usually I have news on Saturday, but today there is only borb.
2020-05-23 14:11:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's stream is at 2 PM EST! Not 1! In order to catch stragglers, I will try to get the camera on ten minutes early. Or you could Follow me on Twitch, then you'd get notifications when I go live! (I think.) https://www.twitch.tv/mcahogarth
Why the delay? Today's the last day of school! I am going out with Daughter for a wee celebration and I'm not sure when we'll be home. Hooray...
2020-05-22 12:47:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we stream again! I have a handful of small tasks (fresh illustrations for the wiki, more Society portraits-Are you a member of the Society, and did you request your portrait? If not, use this doc!) but what I'd really like to start on is the book cover for the ...
2020-05-20 12:09:49 +0000 UTC View PostAfter consultation with the members of the Pelted Historical Society (join now!), I have decided that consolidating all our various efforts to maintain the Peltedverse database would be a good idea, and a wiki is the logical way to do that. So! If you like wikis (or are interested in learning them--they're not hard!) and/or want to contribute to the efforts of the Historical Society and earn yourself ...
2020-05-19 19:21:32 +0000 UTC View Post
A few days ago I made mention of the Pelted Historical Society and the portraits I was doing for its members as a thank-you for their assistance. Itās been a while since Iāve talked about the Historical Society, so this feels like a good opportunity.
There are, at present, 27 books in the Peltedverse setting (not counting the one I just finished and have not yet published), and some number of short stories I havenāt enumerated and have failed to collect into books. I did a rough c...
2020-05-18 18:19:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not sure whether to title this one 'mlem' or 'I gotta foot and I know howda use it.' But either way, cat has resumed supervising me now that I'm pressing on the end of the latest novel project. It is comforting to have such an undemanding manager. Most of the time he sleeps through my efforts. š
Anyone play any generation-friendly games? Teaching my parents these long, involved European-style board games wastes too much time on exposition of rules and demonstration of parts and h...
2020-05-16 11:15:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Above you see Wednesday's portraits from the Pelted Historical Society! They are scribbly, but I did them at a rate of about one per nine minutes? From pencil to color? Something like that. Anyway, today I'm going to finish up that list and then move on to your prompts if there's any time left. (Are you a member of the Society, and did you request your portrait? If not, use 2020-05-15 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
That's you! My stream topic for the day is doing portraits of the Pelted alter-egos of those of you who signed up to help me track continuity across the Pelted stories... so get your descriptions ready! (Are you going to miss the stream? Request your portrait anyway with this doc!)
Want to join the Historical Society? 2020-05-13 11:39:26 +0000 UTC View Post
It seems like every other person has a Discord server and is inviting you onto it these days (and then you get there, and nothingās happening on it! What is that, yāall!) Someone asked me how to engage with Discord without wanting to cram a pillow over your head and this is a common enough question that I thought Iād answer it for everyone because these feels, I feel them. I find Discord overwhelming too; I know people who are on thirty+ servers and I donāt know how ...
2020-05-12 14:54:24 +0000 UTC View Post
With bonus picture of my super messy desk as I work on the cover for the new micro-novel about the Three Dads (Palland, Petaq, Haladir). I climbed on a stool to get this embarrassing picture! Now I just need the rest of the household to wake up so I can vacuum all the eraser dust. š
Today I stream at 1 PM EST! The theme is art prompts! Be prepared! https://www.twitch.tv/mcahogarth
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It's Wednesday! That means at 1 PM EST it's time for livestreaming! I'll be working on a project... it's a surprise until you get there. š Friday we'll return to prompts because those are fun.
URL here! https://www.twitch.tv/mcahogarth
Page above is from Friday's wacko stream. Prompts were "Jahir and Vasiht'h having ice cream" and "Nieve's girls doing something fun" (hair dying is only fun when you do it t...
2020-05-06 12:28:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Monday, patrons! I am knee-deep in final prep for Conversations 2, so a few quick things:
And here's the last of the redraws from my first session. This picture of Tacit Snow as a Tam-illee (yes, I was mixing worlds, oops) was one of my favorites, mostly because at the time it represented some Serious Skill in terms of clothing draping and designs. I tried to preserve that in this year's version, while moving away from the quasi-uchikake thing I was trying to do then toward something more like a Korean wonsam.
I think my art's become more stylized/architectural as the years ...
2020-05-01 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Yet another of my old FurryMuck characters. Tacit Snow lived in a teahouse in the middle of a forest, and was a serene and gentle shapeshifter with a wardrobe of kimono-like outfits.
Livestream today at 1 PM EST!Here's the URL: https://www.twitch.tv/mcahogarth
Now that I'm an affiliate, my channel supports subscriptions! If you are an Amazon Prime member, you have one free Twitch subs...
2020-04-29 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Good news, everybody! (Anyone else hear Futurama when people say that?) Last week I successfully made Twitch Affiliate status, which means people can pay me if they choose! To make it worthwhile for them to do so, though, I need to actually show up and draw on a predictable basis, so I have set my Spring Streaming Schedule for Wednesdays and Fridays at 1 PM EST. (I want to change this later, because I'd like an evening stream for people who can't attend during their workdays,...
2020-04-27 14:15:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I think this is 'mood' for most of us. But we keep moving don't we? We are unstoppable. :D
I have news and plans and stuff but I think I will save it for next week. Instead I will share this cookie dough recipe which is my new favorite. It creates cookies that don't flatten out when you bake them, which is *nice*. They make nice chewy things, very pleasing.
2020-04-25 15:36:35 +0000 UTC
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I'll be working on this dragon and her girl (or girl and her dragon?) until it gets too wet to continue, then I'll maybe switch to art prompts. :)
https://www.twitch.tv/mcahogarth
My goal here is to get to affiliate (which allows people to pay me if they want!) and then choose a set time to stream and do it once a week... probably to do prompts, unless I'm working on something I need to finish. I'm almost the...
2020-04-23 12:28:52 +0000 UTC View Post
āNo effort is useless,ā the Calligrapher says.
The transition between Farren, the person, and the Calligrapher, the role, is a lot less noticeable than it is with Shameā¦ but sometimes you can hear the distinction easily, and this is definitely one of those times. I squint at him, but heās not paying attention to my face. Heās pointing to one of my letters. āHere, this word. This is exquisitely done.ā
āExquisite is an overstatement,ā I say. āIt should be reserve...
2020-04-21 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As you can see from this particularly ridiculous page from near the end of the last stream, we had so much fun I figured I'd do it again! (Also I am three hours shy of earning Twitch affiliate status and I am BOUND AND DETERMINED to get to that milestone.)
If you're around at 2 PM EST, join us! You don't need an account to watch. URL is here: https://www.twitch.tv/mcahogarth
2020-04-20 13:17:04 +0000 UTC View Post