September Days

Welcome back to THC's occasional update of what's happening in the studios. Here's what's new and on the horizon here for us! If you like what you see, come and join us at www.patreon.com/tortoiseharecreations - don't miss out on one more month of our exclusives!

• Crowley - With Crowley, the planned four-piece Supernatural set (Dean, Sam, Cas & Crowley) is now COMPLETE! Prints are available here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/245653826/crowley-supernatural-series?ref=listings_manager_grid or get the FULL Supernatural set at a discount here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/245653704/bundle-full-supernatural-set-four-prints?ref=listings_manager_grid   
  
• Full time-lapse greyscale-to-color video - see how Indi's most popular paintings are created start-to-finish, and get a view of Charlie (Felicia Day) from Supernatural to boot! Subscribe to our channel to see all of our video projects: https://www.youtube.com/user/Tortoiseharecreation
  
• Stock Art! More stock is being uploaded weekly at our DriveThruRPG site - if you need art for anything, check out what we've got: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/8677/Tortoise-amp-Hare-Creations 
  
• New Patreon Stock Art Bonus! Every quarter, our patron will be given SIX new pieces of stock art that they own and can use for any project - the quarter will have a theme, and all six pieces will be part of that theme. This month's theme is the lovely horse, so I'll be drawing anything from the humble pack mule to a frightful Nightmare. These are FREE to all of our patrons! Check out the first one and sign up to join us today! https://www.patreon.com/posts/stock-art-pack-1-3255910 
  
• Commissions are currently open - get on the list today! http://indigowarrior.deviantart.com/journal/  This is Altrar the Ancient, painted by commission for Realmwares.com 
  
• Appearances - Updated our 2015 "We Create Dwarf Planets" tour poster for the remainder of 2015 - we run specials at all conventions and festivals, come out and see us if we're in your neck of the woods! 
  

New Speedpaint Video - Xena, Part Three

Part Three of my Xena speedpaint series - this covers all of the armor. Elapsed time is about 3.5 hours (video is 13 minutes).

New SpeedPaint Video - Xena, Part Two

Part Two of my Xena, Warrior Princess speedpainting video is now up on YouTube - it covers about another two hours of painting in 7 minutes.

Thanks for watching guys!

New SpeedPaint Video - Xena, Part One

Hey everyone, a few things...

For my next speedpaint video, I'm approaching it from a different angle. Portraits take me a long time - many, many, many hours. Usually if I convince my computer to record my screen, I have to speed up the video by 20x or even more. At that point people can't even really see what I'm doing - so it loses any use that it might have had to anyone curious to understand my process.

So! What I'm doing for my next speedpaint, Xena the Warrior Princess, is splitting it into parts. I'm recording whenever I paint, but I'm not stitching the videos together, I'm just speeding them up 8x and releasing whatever snippit I managed to get done. Please, let me know which way you all prefer and I'll certainly take that to heart.

I <3 Lucy Lawless. I grew up pretending I was Xena, and I loved her in BSG. I'm actually a bit surprised it's taken me so long to get to her. Will I eventually do a Gabrielle? Yeah, probably, even if it's just for me. :)

Without further adieu, here is Part One of Xena, the Warrior Princess. I hope you enjoy!

ALSO! I've designed a set of 12 Valentine's Day cards as a giant thank you to our Patrons for our first month on Patreon. You can get in on this too! Support our creations on Patreon (for as little as ONE dollar a month!) and get access to the full set, as well as all of our works in progress, high resolution files and downloads, and ALL KINDS of awesome things. Please pledge and help spread the word!

Also, Patrons, we've posted the Director's Cut for Morel page 3 on the stream as well, check it out!

Plus, for all you collector types out there, our patron-stream is the ONLY way you can get all 12 of the cards. Can you forgive yourself if you let such a fantastic bargain pass you by??