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You can now buy the first four Magical Creatures Cards from the Purky Shop!
For now, you can choose between the Mermaid, the Centaur, the Aevine and the Elf Don Quijote, but I'm hoping to have more available soon, so watch this space. In the meantime, buy my cards, they're totally great, they come with envelopes and everything so you can write to your magical-creature-loving friends!
For now, you can choose between the Mermaid, the Centaur, the Aevine and the Elf Don Quijote, but I'm hoping to have more available soon, so watch this space. In the meantime, buy my cards, they're totally great, they come with envelopes and everything so you can write to your magical-creature-loving friends!
And now on Facebook!
After my brand new and really awesome and pretty website at http://www.mi-chemin.net , you can now officially follow me on Facebook if you're so inclined, at http://www.facebook.com/AldaRanaIllustration
You'll get exclusive pictures, news concerning my budding commercial endeavours (cards!!), probable bad jokes, and the like.
No one can say I'm not taking this seriously :p
(The next step is probably to get on twitter - I have an account in theory but I gave up on using it after a few fays. I'm MUCH too wordy)
(but just in case - I'm not the Aldarana (https://www.deviantart.com/aldarana) on twitter. It was already taken. Mine is @AldaGrenouille (and I had to go and check the
New website!
Well, it's the same website as before, but with a brand new design and, maybe more importantly, now it works. (That's a perk.) This time I was less ambitious and limited the code-wrangling to a minimum; almost all of it was done by Wordpress and their cohorts of clever plugin makers. So hopefully this time I won't get hacked every five minutes by bored Malaysians*.
Anyway, here it is: http://www.mi-chemin.net
(I kept my old domain name even though it's probably not the most intuitive - 'à mi-chemin' means 'halfway' in French. It comes from the Land Halfway that featured in several of my old stories; I wish I could say I'm halfway to
Going pro
A few weeks ago, I was rejected for a university position I applied to with my brand new PhD and shiny CV - and it made me realise something which should have been obvious for years, i.e., there's not much of a future for academics in the field of Ancient Greek studies. Except teaching French (and Latin if I'm lucky) to unmotivated high schoolers, and I know from experience that it's not for me.
So, as a last-resort thing, following the inspiration of Verity Lambert in the Adventure in Space and Time biopic, I'm going to give myself a year or so to see if I can make it in the field of illustration and actually make money from it.
Of course,
Commissions
Recently, one or two people asked if they could commission pictures from me and what were my prices, and of course I had no idea because I had never really thought about it. So I thought about it, and worked out something.
So, if you want to commission a drawing - of whatever you like, as long as it's not pornographic or gory - here's the menu:
Portraits (realistic headshots or cartoony full-body portraits)
Sketch: 20€ / $27
With monochrome colouring: 30€ / $41
Full-colour digital painting: 50€ / $68
Character-centric illustration with vague background: 70€ / $95
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Original character concept
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