Oof. Okay, finally got the Romance Novel Cover Contest entries more or less sorted. If you sent me something but don't see it posted, give me a poke and I'll check my e-mail again.

And got the shipping rates for Insecticomics Volume III: The Turnip Is My Secret Baby! mostly sorted. Because our postal system hates us, if you're in Canada, I still have to calculate your shipping manually. Those of you in the States, shipping is $2.00, outside North America is $4.10. If you're in Canada, it will be something like twice that because it's stupid. CD iself is $5.00, prices are in US monies, throw me an e-mail ( wayward at insecticons dot com ) if you want one.

Or wait until the next TFCon and pick it up in person. I'm always there.

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- How I Does It table of contents/request list
- 100 Themes List
- Commissions: Are CLOSED because I need to get the ones on the queue done before October.
- For sale: BotCon 2009 figures.
- Other Vengeance 2.0 chapter five: We were sidetracked by a coda to chapter four.

Just need a few days to compile the entries and whatnot.

Volume III will be available as soon as I talk to the post office and find out what shipping rates are this year ( it's actually more complicated than that, but the story isn't very interesting. ) ( If you need it now-now-now and want me to calculate your specific shipping, you're still waiting until the weekend for me to mail it. )

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- How I Does It table of contents/request list
- 100 Themes List
- Commissions: Are CLOSED because I need to get the ones on the queue done before October.
- For sale: BotCon 2009 figures.
- Other Vengeance 2.0 chapter five: We were sidetracked by a coda to chapter four.

Finally getting around to putting these guys up. All are mint-in-sealed-bag with instructions, shipping is whatever Canada Post demands, prices are in American. Links take you to the Seibertron.Com galleries so you can see the figures in more detail.

Flak - $40

Kup - $50

Landshark - $45

Razorclaw - $65

Skyquake - $55

Thunderclash - $55


If you're interested, e-mail me ( wayward@insecticons.com )

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- How I Does It table of contents/request list
- 100 Themes List
- Commissions: Are open.
- Other Vengeance 2.0 chapter five: Up to thirty-two pages, no idea how long it'll end up. Your teaser: Inferno confronts her Maximal past.

Because the not-tutorials series is running longer than I expected it to ( I figured I'd do maybe three or four before I was distracted by something shiny, ) a master list instead of updating every single links list each time.

Yon pages thus far:

How I draw
Proportion cheats
Hands
Faces, but mostly noses
Guys
Gals
Clothing
Breast physics
Feet
Children
Hair
Pregnancy stages
Arms

Disclaimer: There are better artists and real tutorials out there for actual learnings. The HIDI series is exactly what it says on the label: How I, Wayward, draw humans. Some of it is useful tricks and cheats you can apply to your own work, some of it is pointing out the obvious, but none of it is to be taken as a set in stone anatomy lesson. I draw semi-realistic, not totally-realistic. Besides, there's so much variation in people that it's nigh-impossible to say This Is How It Is Always.

I'm totally serious about the noses, though. VARY YOUR NOSES!

Yes, I take requests for, "Hey, could you do a page on [topic]?" Only topic I won't cover is genitalia. You want genitals, do your own research - I got no interest in getting into size fights.

And when we have our naked frailties hid,
That suffer in exposure, let us meet,
And question this most bloody piece of work,
To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us.
In the great hand of God I stand; and thence
Against the undivulged pretence I fight
Of treasonous malice.
- Macbeth, Act II, scene iii

For those of you in the cheap seats, Other Vengeance 2.0 is a Beast Wars-based Transformers-as-Humans story. Yeah, yeah, one of those. As of this chapter, they've been squishy for a week and have more or less got the hang of the basics.

I quite like how this chapter turned out, which means the rest of you probably won't. You'll note that it diverges quite sharply from the cartoon, plot arc-wise. I tried sticking more or less to Season Two in the original version of Other Vengeance and it eventually bogged down under its own weight and fizzled out. Thus I'm exploring the universe from another direction. Hopefully it will entertain.

Synopsis: Everyone's been trapped inside by the rain for three days, the fuzors are still sick, and now Dinobot finds himself in charge of a murder investigation. Dinobot mangles Macbeth, Waspinator sings, and Optimus has one of his worst days ever.

It only ended up being fifty-one pages in the end, heh. ( And if you think adding nine pages worth of edits to what started at forty-two pages is bad, you'll fall over dead if I tell you how 'Morning' came about. ) It's chopped into four parts. It should keep you from asking when the next chapter is coming out for a couple hours. Maybe if I call them 'novellas' instead of 'chapters', a five or six month wait between updates won't seem so bad. I've certainly got the word count for it.

Trivia: Other Vengeance 2.0 is now longer than the original version ( 521kB vs 468kB. )

Link to the Other Vengeance 2.0 main page.

Link to Other Vengeance 2.0 - 'This Most Bloody Piece Of Work'

( Yeah, it'll all make sense and tie together someday. We're still in the build-up section of the story at large. )

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- 100 Themes List
- Commissions: Are open.
- Other Vengeance 2.0 chapter five: Up to twenty-eight pages, no idea how long it'll end up. Your teaser: Inferno confronts her Maximal past.