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The Book of Lost Souls, written by J Michael Straczynski, and A Distant Soil volume IV. Both sold out everywhere. But here.
This piece is several years old, a combo of digital and hand painted art. It is available in my Cafe Press shop on a number of items. I closed down my shop awhile ago, but found Zazzle impossible to use! So, the shop is back up.
Zazzle presents the same challenge for me as many other websites: the latency problems due to my satellite service provider makes it almost useless.
BTW, I’ve hired a security specialist to handle my website problems. We’ve had recurring DDOS issues, and this explains why my IP address is banned in so many places: my IP and mail server was repeatedly hijacked. It was nothing personal: just a vulnerability on my programming that is common on many websites.
Anyway, this picture was one of my earliest attempts to paint something digitally. I laugh when I think of how difficult it was, because everything about it, including isolating the line art layer, seems so simple now. Only the background on this is digital, of course, The foreground is painted by hand.
I used this for a postcard back in 2008, and was surprised to find I’d never featured it on the website.
Zazzle gives me issues because it insists the art I’m submitting to make items from is not big enough and tells me the images won’t display right. Which is a baldfaced lie. The trouble is there is no override for this, and since it won’t let me do anything I’m more than happy to go back to Cafepress. Zazzle may have more variety of items to alter but it does me bugger all if it keeps arguing with me.
Interesting that you’ve had those problems with Zazzle. Not that I’ve actually put up that much yet, but I haven’t had a problem with my images. I tend to save the originals at a higher level of resolution (300 to 400 pixels per inch) and then downsize them for Zazzle, which may address the “big enough” question. Hmmm. I’ll have to keep this in mind, because I prefer the Zazzle products to Cafe Press ones.
Colleen, your struggles with internet connectivity always keep me mindful that the urban experience of superfast, easy access internet is NOT the case for many people in America still. I know too many people who because they have instant, fast access they believe that everyone does. Heck, right now, my only internet connection is my laptop’s mobile broadband card, and its connectivity can be iffy at times. Hope things improve for you soon on that front.
I LOVE this postcard. I have one that I keep on my desk for an occasional “Look at the pretty!” break from writing and research.
The problem with Zazzle may have more to do with your internet service than with Zazzle. We have constant uplink queue issues, and that makes using Zazzle, even to order product, almost impossible.
I have had very poor internet for a long time, but the last week has been particularly bad. I have had almost no luck with costumer srvice, and will not get repairs until later next week. It’s ridiculous. The repair guy called today, and his instructions were to “de-install”. I had to explain, again, that I don’t want a “de-install” I want REPAIRS.
I cannot believe these people.