Hello, hello, hello (as Count Olaf would say)...

It's been a while since my last Journal and I wanted to let everyone know how things are going with my life and all... but first, I'd like to acknowledge and thank deeply to all the Notes, prayers and well-wishes I received on behalf of my father's health. He's fortunately doing better and has stabilised since his last collapse. He's home, under the care of my Mother and hopefully we'll be able to transfer him to an institution where he can be treated by more professionals than I can count.
So, it seems that the Universe did listen to you all and granted him and all my family some spare time with dad.
Thank you all.

I also want to take this brief space to THANK YOU for all the favourites, comments and critiques you leave on this humble Gallery everyday. There used to be a time when I answered all of the nice things you said, but alas! that time has passed and now I try to keep up the best I can. All I can say is that I read every bit that's osted and sooner or later I'll get to replying to each of your inquiries!



Now, on the other hand, the week I spent at the hospital brought some rather unpleaseant backwash of delayed deadlines on all the projects I was working on before it and I still haven't caught up with it all. Thanks to my clients' patience (being put to the test more than I would like!) I'm slowly working on all the assignments left behind and also trying to cope with new ideas that have arisen.

If you follow my Blog every Friday on the WildeTimes site ([link]), you may have heard of this exciting news by now. If not, here it is:

I've signed up for publishing an exclusive Artbook containing my best work, some new that's never been seen before and development material, along with a fresh new step-by-step onto one of my images and the possibility of getting a signed print with your order!
This has been a dream of mine ever since I started this career but I never actually thought I'd stand a chance of having enough talent or skills to fill up a book with my artwork in it. As it is, it seems I do and my dear Alex Kaulfuss (Head of WildeTimes and also Editor/Publisher extraordinaire of UTOPIA) has proposed to me this wonderful idea which is being put together as I type these lines.
The details of the book are amazing: 48 full-colour pages, in high quality paper, A4 size (8"x11") and with an exclusive signed print inside of each copy.
If you wanted to have the best of me in your book shelf, then PureNRG!: Artbook will be the best bet! We're hoping to make an early 2010 limited release of only 250 exclusive copies. If they sell well, we'll take another edition to the printers. That's where YOU come in, my fellow watchers: you've always been very supportive of me and this will be my most trying project after the novel. This time my artwork stands on its own, without any words to help it or a story to go along with it. So, if you choose to help it grow as you have in these past years since my coming to dA, then save some pennies and get ready to order soon... the book will sport a ridiculous price which I hope will not be too hard on the wallet: U$S 20!
The only downside to the Artbook will be that most of the dark Millenium (all of it, actually) will be left outside, so as to not step on GWs IP Policy. I know many of you are devoted fans of those, but I'd be a liar if I hadn't said anything and let you all down when you didn't saw the imagery of Warhammer 40,000. I hope you still like my original work as much as you do the grim far future and give this book a chance...


*Whew* With that out of the way, I also want to let everyone know that I'm in a bit of a financial need right now and thus, I'm selling all of my B&W original artwork at ridiculous prices (U$S 40 each!) and also taking on commissions in the saeme style for the same price of anything that you can think of. The steps to commission and/or buy an original are the same as with my regular commissions; you can find them at the foot of this Journal...

As for my other projects, I'm preparing a N0.1R proposal so it can see the printed light as well as my Artbook and also completing some rather extravagant and amazingly detailed illustrations of the Dark Millenium (including a Ravenor$Co one! ). I'm also collaborating in various ideas and looking out to get a contract on a story I've developed involving some interesting concepts I'll soon post up for you to see.

Life's been pretty crazy lately as well and work has ot left me much room for anything else, though there's been birthdays, parties, dinners roleplay and much more. I tell you, I can barely sleep sometimes what with all the energy I'm crackling each day...

So, that's all for now. I'll go post a new Poll up and leave you all to it whilst I get some sleep.

I hope you're all doing faboulously well and see you soon!

Nic.-

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