I'M GOING TO BE AT THE ART WALK!! And sketches!

Earlier this week I showed you guys this picture from a secret project.

I am pleased to announce that that secret project is THE EDMONTON ART WALK.

Every year, Edmonton's Whyte Avenue becomes art central, with artists selling and making art all down the street! And this year, I'm gonna be one of them.

So what does this mean for updates?

I'm still getting use to my work hours, but with me working on stuff for the Artwalk, you should be seeing regular art updates. Now, both of these projects are going to take up a lot of time. Heck, just getting a few things worked out in the last two weeks was so insane, I couldn't work on fixing Slug At Work.

But I won't be selling comics at the Artwalk, which means I'm definitely going to attempt to make comics at the same time so I don't get withdrawal or something! I don't know how, and I'm going to be extremely busy, but I'll do what I can to make it work!

Basically, updates are irregular from now till the ArtWalk

Oh yeah, I promised sketches for you guys, right?

Well, I'll be honestly, these aren't the greatest sketches, because I was drawing super light and running out of pages,(i have now turn the book upside down and drawing on the back pages) but heres a few rough sketches for now

And the one nice sketch!

So you can see a bit of a theme going on. Sharks and Slugs. That's still not final, I've got mermaids and betta fish paintings on the way too and possibly some other things.

That's all for now guys

Wish me luck. Cause its going to be and interesting two months!

-Tegan Dumpleton aka The SlugLady

Attention all US residence! Please Stop SOPA now! Please?

Okay, I don't really like using ArtSlug for political things, but this involves the art world a lot! I had a much longer, detailed thing planned (and it's own little doodle) but THERE IS NO TIME LEFT! SOPA could be passed tomorrow!


SOPA, or Stop Online Piracy Act, would give companies omnipotent power to take down not just certain videos, but entire sites. Even things that once would be covered under "fair use" such as fan videos charity related media or non-profit animations containing parodies would not only be taken down, but be considered felonies. And so that social media sites won't become liable, they would have to shut themselves down. This can include DA, YouTube, Tumblr and Facebook!

FACE. BOOK. The social media site so famous, it got an award winning movie made about it.

Look, I don't like copyright infringement, but these companies already have enough power to combat copyright infringement. SOPA just gets rid of lawyers and the chance for sites to defend themselves.

I might be canadian, but I have friends in the US, and a great majority of art comes out the US these days. And the last thing i want is for the US to give any other country ideas.

SOPA could be passed tomorrow, so PLEASE, contact you're senator, makes some calls. PLEASE get on this!

If you'd like to suggest an alternative, read up on the OPEN act, which at least allows sites to defend themselves in court: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/alternative-sopa-open-process-befitting-open-internet

If you want to know more about SOPA, check out this video here: http://vimeo.com/31100268

And check out the main protest sight, which will help you contact your representatives about why we don't want SOPA: http://americancensorship.org/

Seeya
 Tegan Dumpleton aka SlugLady28

I've censored the following, in protest of a bill that gives any corporation and the US government the power to censor the internet--a bill that could pass THIS WEEK. To see the uncensored text, and to stop internet censorship, visit:
http://americancensorship.org/posts/15412/uncensor

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