GlowingRaptor Studio

Justin and I are going to be at fanime this memorial day weekend!  

We'll be at tables 175 and 176. With the banner we got, you won't be able to miss us.  We'll have prints, originals, stickers, buttons, and bookmarks.  We'll also be taking small commissions for pickup at the con!  

If you're going to be there, drop by and say hello.  :)

My comic, Elysion Age has officially been on the net for a year now! If you haven't checked it out, now's a good time.

http://glowingraptor.com/elysionage/

It came to my attention that The Secret Prince of Tir-na-nOg, the book I illustrated (written by M.J. Bell) has been the recipient of the Mom's Choice award. Specifically, it won the gold in the category of Fantasy, Myths and Legends for the age group of 9 to 12.

Very exciting. :D And a good reason to plug the book again. XD

The book can be purchased at Barnes and Noble!

and more info on the award, and a list of the other winners...



...It is incredibly trippy for me to know that the creator of Reading Rainbow has seen my work. I used to love that show as a kid.



So fanime is coming up! I've started on some art card sized things because over the past few months I've collected this surplus of frames that are... well, just the perfect size for art cards.

( sketches behind the cut )

The store is now up and running, check it out!
I also added a link to the revamped site of my webcomic, Elysion Age in my section of the site.

There's still little tweaks here and there to do, but the site is has been restored to up and running status.

In other news, Justin and I have been considering using this as a sketchblog as well as a newsblog for our site. So, yeah. More posting will be done, but it'll be art, instead of just stuff about the site and which cons we'll be at. :D

The move is complete and the galleries are now live!
Our commission info is in the middle of being reworked (again, lulz), as is the store. Also, the link to the Elysion Age comic has come down. Its site has been moved as well and is under construction. As soon as I get it current as far as having all the pages up there, it will go back up.

Other than those things, everything should be up and running, so please let us know if there are any dead links or whatnot.

ok, the transfer took a little longer than I thought but the site is now down. We're going to work on getting it back up as quickly as possible. The shell is up, and I'll work to make sure the rest goes up as quick as possible.

I'll edit this entry with updates as the site starts to go back up.


(EDIT: Ok, I spent all day on it, but gallery2 has decided it doesn't like us, so the galleries aren't going up today. I have alternatives I'm going to try, specifically wordpress and joomla, and hopefully the galleries will be back up by tomorrow.)

(EDIT 4/18/09: Sorry about the lag, we've been researching options for the gallery, and getting the new site for Elysion Age set up, as well as a nifty new store front. I will make a new post when all of this is ready to go live.)

Justin and I have decided to switch webhost providers, so glowingraptor.com is going to be experiencing a little downtime somewhere within the next 72 hours.
So! if you see the site out of commission, we are aware of it, and know that it will go back up soon.

In the meantime, feel free to visit us on deviantart!

http://allytha.deviantart.com/
http://vrass.deviantart.com/

Justin and I are going to be at fanime again this year! We've reserved a couple tables in the artist alley, so if you're going to be there, be sure to come by 175 and 176 to say hello. We'll be offering full and postcard sized prints, books, stickers, buttons, and bookmarks.

And unlike last year, this year we will be open for commissions at the con for pickup later. So if you're interested in that, be sure to come by friday or saturday so you'll be guaranteed a spot.

Note that if you're not going to be there and are interested in a commission, Justin and I are open for standard commissions. Check our info for details.

Justin and I had a blast at FC last week. We got to meet a lot of online friends face to face for the first time as well as a bunch of new people. Everyone was just awesome in general. We did quite well profit wise, more so than I thought we would, given the state of the economy. So yeah, a really cool experience overall, we are DEFINITELY going back next year!



With the con out of the way, Justin and I got around to getting up our commission pricelists, as well as nifty order forms! Check it out if you're interested in commissioning us at all.

Happy new year!!


Alrighty, the new site is pretty much up and running, save a couple of sections that are still under construction. Namely the commissions section. We're reworking our pricelists at the moment, and want to be done in time to do preorders for FC, so those will be going up very soon.
In addition to the more comprehensive pricelist, there will be a super nifty order form.

In other news, Elysion Age was invited onto www.kidjutsu.com, a free, kid friendly comics community. Check the site out, it's pretty awesome.

Justin and I will have a table in the dealer's room at Further Confusion this year!


...Ok, I know that's what we said last year, and then came down with a nasty flu. But this year, come hell or high water we will be there. XD

We'll have prints, originals, hand decorated boxes, buttons, bookmarks and stickers available for purchase. We will also be taking commissions. We're actually both going to be open for badge pre orders very soon, so keep an eye out for that as well.

In other news, the site is getting a nice winter themed overhaul. So if you should go there sometime today and it is down, that's just me working on putting it back up. ^_^

Ok, updates in both Justin's Illustration gallery and mine!
We've both been spending the last couple weeks getting portfolios together to apply for freelance work at Whitewolf, and those pieces are up in our galleries now. ^_^

http://www.glowingraptor.com/gallery/main.php/v/justin/illustration/

http://www.glowingraptor.com/gallery/main.php/v/alexis/illustration/

Check em out! :D

Ok, so first thing's first, my gallery is now moved, up and running.

http://www.glowingraptor.com/alexis/alexiscala.html

Now that that's out of the way I can get to those commission specials I've been promising. First we've got bookmarks. Roughly 2 by 6 inches, examples can be viewed here.

http://www.glowingraptor.com/temporary/allyvrassbookmark.jpg

It's 10 dollars US for one, and for 15 I can make it double sided. The example is actually a double sided one.
If you would prefer your character to be in a sketch style, as seen here in this badge example...

http://www.glowingraptor.com/temporary/fancysketchbadge.jpg

then the price would be 7 dollars for one, 11 to make it double sided.

As a part of the special, badges in this style are the same price as bookmarks.


Next up we have suncatchers!

http://www.glowingraptor.com/temporary/harpersuncatcher.jpg

Done on tracing paper with markers and then laminated in a 5mm high quality laminate. Unfortunately I have no pics of these in action but they do actually catch the sun rather nicely.

7 dollars for a head, 10 for a chibi (as in the example) and 15 for a fully detailed, full body character.


Payment through paypal is very greatly preferred, and can be made through my alexis AT glowingraptor DOT com address. I do also accept check, cash and money order, through snail mail, just be aware I do not start work until I receive payment.

If you are interested, go ahead and comment and/or email me.

Just making a quick post to let everyone know that Justin's section has been updated and upgraded!

http://www.glowingraptor.com/justin/justinhernandez

Mine will be up tomorrow, as well as the commission specials I've been mentioning for the last couple posts.
(custom bookmarks and suncatchers, as well as some other goodies!!)
Sorry about the lag on getting those available, got caught up with the galleries and some other illustration stuff that needed to get done. Not to mention the comic, which is updated every friday. *hint hint* :D

http://elysionage.thewebcomic.com

The Secret Prince of Tir na-nOg was reviewed recently by ForeWord magazine! It can be read here...
http://www.forewordmagazine.com/reviews/viewreviews.aspx?reviewID=4286

The book itself (as I'm sure I've mentioned a million times here XD) can be purchased at the publisher's website, www.opusiibooks.com,

or at major retailers such as amazon, barnes and noble, border books.

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Prince-Tir-Na-Nog/dp/097962102X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216309413&sr=8-1

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Secret-Prince-of-Tir-na-nOg/M-J-Bell/e/9780979621024/?itm=1

http://www.bordersstores.com/search/title_detail.jsp?id=58045581&srchTerms=The+Secret+Prince+of+Tir-na-nOg&mediaType=1&srchType=Title


I fact, if interested, it's preferred that you purchase it through a major retailer, as that generates interest in the book! Which is of course greatly appreciated.




Alright, so the galleries are back up, turns out it was an error on the part of .mac rather than something I did.
Not being terribly happy with how they handled it, we have started to relocate our art to a wonderful gallery that frysco has installed for us. I'll post here once we've made the switch and all the links go live.


Also I know I mentioned commission specials, they're coming up, I swear. Just as soon as I buy some more laminate. I didn't realize how low I was on it.

It has recently come to my attention that the galleries are not functioning properly. Not good. x_x
We are working to fix this as soon as possible. In the meantime, Justin and I can be found as Vrass and Allytha on deviantart.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

For some good news, I will be posting some commission specials soon, so stay tuned.

Update to my galleries, specifically the illustration, commission, and elysion age sections.

Also, my webcomic is FINALLY up. XD

The dragon bookmarks we debuted at fanime are now available in our store!
Check it out.

Art update coming soon, as well as a webcomic!

So we were at Fanime last week! :D


( Warning, image heavy cut! )

We ended up moving from the tables we thought we'd have, and ended up at 111 and 112. Those are the tables we're going to try to get for next year. We've already paid for a couple tables in '09, now we're just waiting for the chart to be passed to us so we can pick. ^__^

Also! We are open for commissions, and our rates have been tweaked yet again. Visit our commissions page if you're interested.

http://www.glowingraptor.com/commissions.html

ok! Sorry about the abrupt move, but I wanted to have the community up and running in time for fanime. This is now where all glowingraptor.com news and updates will go, whether it be website updates, con schedule announcements, commission/auction specials, all sorts of things like that.


So Justin and I will be attending Fanime again this year! We'll be at tables t19 and t20. We'll have all sorts of prints, plushies, keychains, bookmarks, buttons and stickers! We'll be going in all nice and prepared this time around. XD


Also, I know I announced it a hundred time everywhere else, but I haven't here yet, so bear with me.

I Illustrated a young adult fantasy novel, "The Secret Prince of Tir na-nOg". It has officially been released and is available for purchase through the publisher!

http://www.opusiibooks.com/