The Book of the Shadows

Summer is almost over, and winter is coming!

There was a question, and so I gave an answer.

I'm finally back! It's been a good three months since my last post, but I'm here for one, hopefully two, new posts this week. Here is the first one, a very colorful and lighthearted piece.

The new anime season kicks off in earnest this weekend after the holidays. One series in particular I am looking at is called, Interviews with Monster Girls . The spiritual successor to Daily Life with Monster Girls , this series involves a biology teacher who ends up with three of the titular monster girls in his class. It promises to be as much of a habitual line-stepper romantic comedy as Daily Life was. It should be fun to see what this newest iteration of the renewed monster-girl trope brings.

I hope everyone is ready for a fun Halloween weekend. It's a little odd whenever holidays like this fall on a Monday, but maybe this piece will get you into the mood a little early.

Ochiba no naka ibara hime / Beauté de sommeil Parmi les Chute des feuilles/ Sleeping Beauty Among the Falling Leaves

With the Strawberry Moon and the solstice now behind us, we are officially into the summer season. To get things rolling this summer, here's a new piece featuring my current favorite story going.

I wasn’t sure going into the end of 2015 that I would be able to either come up with an idea for a project, or complete a project, in time for Valentine’s Day this year. But, as it is seldom seen, I did stumble into a minor project of sorts.

A preview of a new project to be released next weekend.

Here it is, the finished product. Mana Anzai.

I took a few days off to work on other projects, including what may be an official new major story for the Book of the Shadows. But, now I'm back with another update on the project.

Today's post is a relatively quick one. Today, I'll be adding skin tone to Mana.

Welcome back for a look at a little more of my progress on painting this portrait.

On the agenda for today,a look at the second iteration of my Mana art project. 

Man I'm wiped... really tired right now. But, things roll on. There's a story chapter coming out today, and updates to my website are going to be done in the not too distant future.

This, my friends, is a teaser.

Over the course of any project there are time you will arrive at ideas or plans that you will subsequently abandon for various reasons. I thought I'd share a few of those here.

I'm changing up the way I do my anime reviews just a little bit. That along with other personal issues has delayed my end of the Winter season review by about a week. But, it should make the process of digesting the reviews a bit better. For today, and tomorrow, I'll be doing a little more groundwork for a future story release.

As is usually the case I like to share details about the art pieces I share, but try not to overlap them with my holiday greetings or other such announcements. So, here are the details on my Valentine's Day share;

Okay, I don’t know what happened exactly, but this post is going out more than a bit late. I had one done for this morning and it up and disappeared. So, let’s try this again…