D I S A N T H U S . C O M

First off, you might have noticed that we have a brand new layout for the site. Huzzah. Annette and I have been fiddling with it for the past week. Not everything is in place yet but they're relatively minor things that still need to be done. We'll keep working on the site, but nothing should fall apart anytime soon ^^; We also haven't had a dark-coloured layout in a pretty long while so it's a nice change. What do you think? The Important Bit: New Painting This new post has been in the works for ages, but we really needed to change the site first because ... reasons. I was commissioned by writing team Ilona Andrews this past summer to do some interior art for the first novel of the Innkeeper Chronicles. The story was initially available as a free serial on their website and I was always looking forward to the updates while awaiting the next installment in their Kate Daniels series. There are a total of five Clean Sweep paintings (incl. the cover) and the fir...

Click to view larger image Site updated with new stuff: I've added the Collage page to the gallery. There are ten (digital) collages, some of which you might recognize if you've visited our site over the years, but there are only three of these, and the rest are new. Three in particular are a set, the Paper Angels , and they were inspired by a regency mystery I've been rereading. As for new paintings, I'm currently finishing something I've been working on for quite some time now. The painting is huge! It's the final part of a theme of paintings which include Olivia and Tomorrow Today . Hopefully I can show it to you soon :)

So ... I'm not happy with the long rant I have for a tutorial, so I've been experimenting with a different way of presenting one that is easier to follow. Much easier. But first the Disanthus site needs to be redone. Yes. Again. The current version (no.9) is a bit of a pain (for me), so it needs to go. The v.10 layout is pretty much done, but we're still contemplating on codes. It used to be easy and fun for me; slicing up the images, opening notepad and writing the codes, sending it to Annette for approval and improvements. But now it just takes time away from what I really want to concentrate on, which is painting. See, I like to keep the layout fresh, because I often get bored with it after a while, which means a new site design and doing the process all over again. I know it's a pain, but I'm like a kid that wants to get it done now. In the meantime, Italy has been booted out of the World Cup (after France's demise), so it's not all bad >:)

I've been having major 'net connection problems lately, so I haven't been online as much as I used to, so updates have been incredibly sporadic. Although I do have stuff I can upload on the site , it will have to wait until the new design is ready. Also, my order for Resident Evil 5 has finally arrived. Good grief! This thing was sold out everywhere! I will definitely work some more on the site design this weekend, but I must prioritize: RE5 comes first. Oh yes, Steroid Chris and Shevalicious will be mine to play with all day ^___^

... but now Disanthus.Com has been resurrected. There are new paintings in the gallery, of course, including a few that have been posted here, then disappeared, but now they've finally made it to their new home ^_^ The ninth version of Disanthus is relatively simple, and we've truly trimmed down on all the excess stuff we've had with the previous designs, and this includes all the codes we didn't really need. In fact, I think this is actually the first time that we are managing with a single CSS file O_O Amazing. I would like to create some kind of mini site for all our old stuff eventually. But that's for another time. It's December, you know.