Happy new year, journal folks! Have been getting over the emotional holiday hangover, but I'm pretty close to full speed now. I've had a bunch of things to update the journal about, so to avoid spamming it with a bunch of smaller updates, I'm gonna split it into two bigger updates, one with projects and one with my leisurely pursuits:

mari.somnol is officially parked

I've had plans for mari.somnol for well over a year now (this journal just happens to be from eight months ago instead), so I figured it'd be a good time to make it official by deleting everything on that domain and parking it. Not a lot to say that that page doesn't explain to you, why I'm doing it, what's taking so long, what to expect from mari_v4, but I think the Cammy came out really adorable. Gonna get some site backups going now, methinks.

toyhou.se will be going (temporarily) private soon

I mentioned it in passing at the end of the two-year anniversary of Cammy art post on Letters, but I will be taking all the lads on my toyhou.se private and slowly rebuilding their profiles and drawing them again. I really want my toyhou.se to be something I'm proud of—I love the site, I love all the functionality, I pay for Premium—but at the moment, everything on there is so ancient that I can't be. I actually avoid looking at it.

For specifics, I'd like to draw matching icons for all my lads, update the profiles, get some nice profile art going, and get all the random lad ideas and designs I've had cooking finally posted so people can look at 'em. I'll get this (long-term) project going in a few days, I wanna draw another Cammy for it.

mtlx artwork test completed!

I finally have test prints of all the Last Summer artwork! I had the booklet done before Christmas, but I needed to resize and reprint the back cover/spine art since it came out too big. Now it's all done and I can do the proper print order and get everything assembled! I have a local video if you'd like to see the prototype in motion (H264, 10.8MB), or you can just enjoy these photos:

You'll be able to purchase some of these real soon from my Bandcamp, if you'd like some Cammy music in hardcover. You'll get exclusive demos with your purchase!