Hi, and welcome to Celine's journal!

Who I am: An artist. What I draw/paint: Character design, fantasy art and somewhat sexy looking stuff. :D And babies.

Web presence:

☆ Website: http://www.purpletophat.com
☆ myspace: http://www.myspace.com/purpleceline
☆ facebook: http://www.facebook.com/purpletophat
☆ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/purpleceline

☆ Commissions: Currently full up, will reopen slots in January 2010!

Shows:

☆ Faeriecon in Baltimore, November 6-8. Table T-22

☆ The New England Fan Experience in Boston, MA, November 13-15.

( You know the drill, lots and lots of pics under the cut. Allow time to load! )

Whee, Duane drove us down one day early to get his love doortoriver at her grandma's so we can leave tomorrow. Soooo yes, I'm in NYC just for the night and yes, I'm running around like a drunken chihuahua and yes, I'm done with cons for the seasons and yes, I'm acutally working like a nut to finish all commishes before Christmas and....

I MADE IT INTO SAN DIEGO COMIC CON AGAIN YOU GUYS. YESSSSSSS.



Museum of Natural History pretty. Me go tomorrow after breakfast maybe. Me sleep nao. Various con photo posts and art stuffs coming, I swear. XD



Night everyone. :D

My top hat is a rock star.

Well, the last two weeks were a total blur, but I know I spent them here:



( Floridaaaa )

Currently in NYC for the NY Anime Festival. I finally have a new computer,which is great for things like, KEEPING IN TOUCH with people, because even I normally don't fail so hard at updating :X Anyhoo.

Maybe now I can start doing things like reducing my backlog of picture posts or oh, working on new pieces in Photoshop without having to go wash the dishes while I wait for a file to load....

*hugs all and apologizes for long radio silence* XOXOX

Hai guys, briefly reemerging to signal my continuing existence.



Guess what guys, I'm trolling around Boston :P

( A late summer afternoon drive... )

My current to-do list:

Work on commissions.

Work on chibi paintings! Tis my project for the month.

Buy a new laptop. Most urgent.

Set up desk/office

Finish sorting through CA pics

Yoga!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO jenelycam

Happy Birthday Dawn!

No longer in LA :( But YAY New Hampshire.:) Already missing isako tho T_T...

Here are a few photos of an afternoon I spent on Melrose in WeHo last week.



( Enjoy the pictoores! )

HAI GUYS!

I know, I've been totally remiss in updating people with what's going on on this trip. The Comic-con pics are still being sorted through, so I'm going to be making out-of-order photo posts. :)

And so, today we have...me and Mickey lazily strolling around Chinatown and Little Tokyo, looking at cute stuff and half nekked anime chicks, because that is how we roll.



( Pretty pictures <s>surprisingly free of nekked chicks no wait come baaaack</s>! )

Hi guys, life's been a little crazy of late and you can expect picture posts in the near future but for now:

For those of you attending San Diego Comic-con, I will be sitting at Artists' Alley table KK-11 from Thursday to Sunday. :D

*preps*

This from distaff_exile who reposted from someone else.



If you are reading this right now, you have more luxury than someone in Iran could ever hope for right now. If you are watching TV or a video on youtube, updating your status on Facebook, Tweeting, or even texting your friend, you are lucky. If you are safe in your home, and were able to sleep last night without the sounds of screaming from the rooftops, you need to know and understand what is happening to people just like you in Iran right now.



They are not the enemy. They are a people whose election has been stolen. For the first time in a long time, a voice for change struck the youth of Iran, just as it did for many people in the United States only seven months ago. Hossein Mousavi gained the support of millions of people in Iran as a Presidential candidate. He stands for progressiveness. He supports good relations with the West, and the rest of the world. He is supported with fervor as he challenges the oppressive regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


On Friday, millions of people waited for hours in line to vote in Iran's Presidential election. Later that night, as votes came in, Mousavi was alerted that he was winning by a two-thirds margin. Then there was a change. Suddenly, it was Ahmadinejad who had 68% of the vote - in areas which have been firmly against his political party, he overwhelmingly won. Within three hours, millions of votes were supposedly counted - the victor was Ahmadinejad. Immediately fraud was suspected - there was no way he could have won by this great a margin with such oppposition. Since then, reports have been coming in of burned ballots, or in some cases numbers being given without any being counted at all. None of this is confirmed, but what happened next seems to do the trick.

For more information:
PICTURES:
here and <a="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mousavi1388/sets/">here</a>
NEW INFORMATION:
Here - near constant updates
Here - ONTD_political live post
ON TWITTER: REDACTED due to security concerns


دنیارابگوییدچطورآنهاانتخاباتمان دزدیده اند
Tell the world how they have stolen our election
________________________________________________________________________


Times like these, I am so glad I live in a country where my vote still counts. However imperfect things may be right now, it feels like we're actually slowly moving in the right direction. Others may not be so fortunate.

Went to this lovely French restaurant right across the street from the Goddess Store tonight. Nummy from appetizer to desert, and I really enjoyed the decor. Was also wearing my new hardware and faux leather platforms--which are arguably some of the most comfortable super high heels I've ever worn.



An incredibly sweet person included me in their SuperCon report, with a picture and a pimpastic link. Thank youuuu. <3

Speaking of sweet people, thank you to doortoriver for snagging my username during the great username rush over @facebook tonight. I couldn't make it back home at midnight, and it appears 500,000 usernames or some ridic number like that were recorded during the first 15 minutes. Therefore, my facebook url now is: http://www.facebook.com/purpletophat :D

Woo, I woke up at 1pm today :) Guess I was tired, and it's no surprise. Florida SuperCon was a success I didn't expect, and a wonderful experience all around. I got to sell things, network, run around being a weirdo as well as making new friends (*waving at silvertales*). It was also the first con that my parents attended, and I'm glad they saw me, er..thriving in my natural element. XD



( You know the drill: three million pictures under the cut! )

My neighbors' constant doodling inspired me to do the same, so I spent some time sketching what I believe will be my next color piece.



( Cut due to potential N-completely-SFW, depending on your sensibilities. )

Bed now, as I've got work tomorrow. ^^

I can haz real banner now. <3 <3 <3

A quick look at my calendar tells me I last updated about a month ago. Let me assure you that I'm very much alive and more or less well (if you don't count that one time where I thought my teeth were in danger of falling off in mid may--long story, my teeth are actually okay) and getting ready for the insanity I know my life is going to become in the next few months.

On the work front:

1. Con time is upon me again and I'm going to be at Florida Supercon's artist alley this upcoming Friday and weekend! Is anybody else going? I hear Bruce Campbell and that dude who plays Viktor Krum will be there :)

2. Time to get this train under control again. Commissions are closed until August 2009, so I can finish all previous projects, make people happy and move on to the next thing.

The last commission I finished was a rush order completed in March, for koudelka's wedding. Her fiance made the super sikrit order, plied me with pictures and I prayed I wouldn't screw it up. Thus:



A watercolor commish this time.

( Detail and wedding ceremony pic under the cut )

teilea, I have absolutely not forgotten about you.

3. On a sadder note...Lipstick Lingerie had to close its doors on May 24th. I know--I'm sure the store would have made it through the recession if it hadn't been so young--it certainly had the necessary appeal and a growing clientele. However, the decision was made. While it left a little hole in my heart, I'm better for the experience, since I got to meet, play and work with Naydi.



ILU, Naydi Santana. This is far from the end.

Life and other things:

1. I'm about to do something a little nuts. More on that later.

2. In anticipation of said nutty something, Jeff had me over for a couple of days at his place in Miami, so I could regroup, breathe a little, and draw on top of a building listening to awesome DJs while gazing at the South Beach night skyline. If I hadn't made this fact obvious before, I must say it again: I have, like, the best coworkers in the history of ever.



The streets don't look too mean here but as always...



..we fight crime.

( More crime fighting under the cut. Sort of. )

3. I saw the new Star Trek movie twice. Yeah. It was that good. I hadn't seen such a concentration of hot and badass in a movie in a long time, and I might as well come out and say that I've become a Spock/Uhura shipper overnight. OH NOES, like I even have time to draw fanart about cool aliens and their headstrong human women these days. Not fair. Stop being hot and chemistry laden, you GQ mofos. That goes for you too, Captain Kirk. Argh.

4. This. On repeat, in my ipod. I bought the studio version, and it's a piece of art.

And I think we've more or less covered the past month. I gotta get my show ready now. :D Aaah, the days where I'd freak over a three hour art walk gig are long gone.

So my life has been a little crazy insane of late (actual relevant info forthcoming in next posts, I swear XD) and I haven't updated in a month but--I've just been informed that my artwork briefly appeared in the 3rd episode of an LA crime show called "Southland".

Backtracking in order to provide some background on this: lingerie store Bizzy B of Hollywood in CA



ordered a couple of big prints from me last year so they could put them up in their fitting rooms.



Next thing I know, the whole thing ends up on NBC. Okay, so it's not like the camera focused on my art specifically or anything, but as doortoriver tells me, this really was a directorial choice. My stuff was deemed appropriate enough to hang there in the shot. T__T

Episode link: http://www.hulu.com/watch/69629/southland-see-the-woman
You can catch glimpses of the three prints between 16:50 and 17:40. This segment appears to be about a transexual who works in the store and is being harassed by a couple of unsavory individuals. The cops try to help.

( Screen caps because damn this is the first time I'm on teeeveeeeee )

Thanks to ojouchan for the heads up, and for sending my butt over there in the first place. :3

Happy Birtday to soldurios!



Today also coincides with a rather momentous (if all too brief!) episode of my life, which is the second anniversary of my first solo art show (speaking of that, soldurios, that 2007 birthday snakie sitting on your shelf? Was drawn during that show :D I believe there's a picture of that somewhere...) at Enchanted Deva's, with Captain keltickalypso at the helm. :D Aaah, good times.

I was just informed that I was selected to sit in Artist Alley @ Comic-con in San Diego. YES, THAT ONE. Their 4 day memberships are already sold out.

Also, many apologies to all for the radio silence. I'm finishing up a tightly deadlined project and rushing to complete the next commission whenever time allows (teilea, that would be yours :D)