As of Friday April 22nd, 2016, I'm finally a fully certified high school teacher and University of Alberta alumna! Woo!!

I made it guys! I'm finally done!!11!!

Now, in two weeks time, I'll be kickin' it at the Newgrounds office with the cool kids and PARTYING FOR PICO DAY!! HUZZAH! 

Hey everybody! 

I'm finishing up my final year of university now, so my updates and art posts might be sparse for the next little while. Found out I won't be able to make it to MAGfest 2016 because of that, too. It falls in February this year which is a really busy time for me because I'll be teaching for my practicum. 

That said, I'll be finished school by mid April 2016, so Pico Day is gonna be the perfect excuse to party hard and celebrate being an alumna! Maybe I'll finally be able to try out the full-time artist thing while I look for work as a teacher, too.

Seeing everybody in Philly was really nice - always is. This time I went out there for the express purpose of relaxing, so I got to do that in the company of good friends. Made sure to see Stamper, TomFulp, and RicePirate before they left for PAXPrime, got to sit in on the recording of Sleepycabin's update video, recorded a podcast with @Digsbot and @JohnnyUtah, and get a bunch of commission work done. Even got to see @SandraDRivas as she released her new Eddsworld toon, and @Nackem while she visited from outside of PA! c: Thanks for being so welcoming guys. Philly's always felt like a home away from home.

Good luck with the last little bit of 2015!

Hope everybody's hangin' in there! <3

- Sab

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UPCOMING COMIC CONS in CANADA:

Sept 19-20 - Sask Expo - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Sept 25-27 - Edmonton Expo - Edmonton, Alberta

Oct 30-Nov 1st - Central Canada Comic Con - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Nov 14 - Otafest Aurora - Calgary, Alberta 

Packing my bags for another week-long trip to Philly! Gonna visit the guys at the Newgrounds office as well as Stamper and the Sleepycabin crew. 

Will return to Canada-land on the 1st of September! <3

Every time I travel anywhere to visit with my art pals, I make a point of bringing a comically huge sketchbook with me so I can keep memoirs of my visit in bound sketchbook form! It makes for a great 100% unique souvenir, and I love looking back on the drawings I've been given because a lot of the people have since become prominent artists and animators! 

Last week I FINALLY found a scanner big enough to scan all of the artwork I had amassed over the years and posted all 72 images on IMGUR.

Have a look! Maybe you'll see some familiar artists and characters!

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--> [View Sabtastic's Travelling Sketchbook on IMGUR] <---

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Artists featured (in no particular order):

@HappyHarry

@Sucho

@Egoraptor

@RubberNinja

@Oney

@Psychicpebble

@KnobJockeyNiall

@Stamper

@JohnnyUtah

@Luis

@Ricepirate

@Jazza

@TheSwain

@Jaxxy

@Jonas

@TheShadling

@Nackem

@JonTron

@Shnikkles

@LegolaSS

@SandraDRivas

@Forosha

@Fleadom

@Pickletoez

@Ventastic

@Fungasm

@JakBaronKing

@El-Cid

@Mindchamber

@CosmicDeath

@SamGreen

@LeftHandedSock

@MagicSwordz

@Digsbot

@Dudul

@EsquireBob

@Kirbopher

Woo! My Society6 shirts just arrived in the mail! 

(I shamelessly ordered my own art on t-shirts because I was curious about the quality - turns out it's really comfy and clearly printed!) 

The first one is based on one of my Demon Girl prints, the middle one is my Fierce Deity Link print, and the other is a Sugar Skull Zombie pinup! All artwork that I've posted here on Newgrounds!

[Sab's Society6 Store] <-- US based print company

PS: I've decided that I'm not going to sell my Cintiq Companion (referring to my previous journal post). I found out that WACOM actually sells gently used and repaired models for MUCH cheaper than my brand new one, so I would feel bad selling someone mine for full price when they could save almost a thousand bucks buying it used: [refurbished wacom products]

Hey guys! 

If you know any Canadian artists out there, maybe you can help me out by sharing this with them! I'm selling my tablet because I want to upgrade to the Cintiq Companion 2! Bought it for $2,729.99 and I'm selling it for $2,600.00. It's pretty pricey, but WACOM doesn't ship to Canada, so these are pretty hard to get if you don't have a US hookup or if you don't live close to a Canadian distributor.

The reason that this is sold at original price is because I sent my original tablet back to the provider for repairs and they sent me a brand new one. Rather than open it up and install everything all over again, I'm going to try and sell my new one so I can upgrade later.

It's brand new, unopened in-box, and it has a 2 year warantee until June 2017.

Also this is the 512GB model that runs on Windows 8.

If you're interested and want more details, check out my Kijiji.ca listing here or contact me by e-mail here: sab0d @ hotmail .com

Hey everybody!

Picollage is now available on SharkRobot as a limited-time print! Proceeds are going back to the Newgrounds art community so we can organize more art contests in the future! 

[ Check it out here! ] 

It'll only be for sale until May 31st! 

Artists; thanks for taking part, donating your time and skill, and for being such an awesome supportive community!! <3

It turned out great thanks to all of you talented, amazing people! 

HOLY CRAP IT'S PICO DAY! :D :D Also I'm in Philly! 

If you're watching the Pico Day live stream, keep an eye out for a lady with straight brown hair, a blazer, and a lot of eyeliner. THAT'S-A-ME! SAB! :D

We also just posted the huge art collab that we've been working on since February! Picollage! It's got 56 artists and 1 programmer, all hand-picked by me! Together we hand-blended our artwork to infinitely loop in any direction (Thanks to our awesome programmer Mike)! We had a lot of Newgrounds VIPs contribute their time and skill, so please do check it out if you have a spare moment! Show your friends, too! A majority of these artists will be at the Newgrounds office for Pico Day as well!

[Picollage 2015 in the Game Portal]

P.S: JohnnyUtah was awesome and to got the collab printed + framed, so we'll have the artwork at the office (as a gift to TomFulp) if you ever get the chance to visit there! Thanks Jeff! 

Hope you guys like it! 

Hey guys! 

I'm working on my art piece for the #picollage collab that I started up a few weeks ago. I'll be in 3C! Here's the progress so far! I was streaming it on my Picarto channel earlier:  

[Sabtastic's Stream Channel]

... GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!

I'm starting up a SUPER SECRET invite only art collab for PICO DAY 2015!
This collab is going to feature the work of 56 talented Newgrounds Artists straight from the art portal, and 1 programmer! IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME! Spots are all pretty much spoken for already, but if you know your way around Photoshop/Sai and you want me to put you on a wait list in case somebody drops out, send me a PM!

Generally the collab is going to resemble a giant multi-directional, infinitely looping art worm. Kind of like this one we did in 2007, but not just left to right directions! Every artist will submit a piece of art that will blend into the artwork of the artists beside them. In the end, hopefully by Pico Day on April 25th, I will have compiled all of the artowrk into:

1. A giant explorable interactive image for your EYEBALLS TO ENJOY
2. A printable 18x24" poster
3. A desktop wallpaper of all your favourite NG artists!

....I KNOW RIGHT?! Stay tuned to see how everything is going! This is gonna be SWEET!