I posted a new drawing video of Carciphona's website layout drawing on my youtube channel ^^



Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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FanExpo is over! And that's the last convention of the year for me, I can now happily retire into working myself to death again YAY! I've made a post on my blog about fanexpo and you can read about it here c:

In other news, Carciphona was released in Polish by Yumegari last month, and I just got a few copies in the mail today!



The printing quality is pretty damn good for a small, start up publisher with small runs; if I have to be picky about the printing, I would say a lot of the imperfections can be blamed on my saved quality of the first volume in the first place. I'm not sure how well they're selling, but they sure did put a lot of effort into making the manga completely Polish. The book pdf I sent them had totally flattened pages with sfx and words and everything (the same as what I use) which was ass to use because of all the pages that I had bleed problems with as well that I could do nothing about, but they managed to translate the entire volume without leaving any signs of the manga being a translated manga. The lettering was superb, and I was surprised to see that they even updated all the sound effects as well. It makes sense since pronunciation is different in polish, but that would have made the translation project an ungodly amount of work, which they did a perfect job of. I think they're also selling it for a lot cheaper than what I sell mine for, so I highly recommend this version if you're a reader from Poland (:

addendum: I also want to mention that yumegari advertised this as shoujo-ai, not me hahaha, hopefully not too many old readers will be thrown off!


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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I'm back! Thanks everyone for coming, and hello any new  visitors Click here for the post about the weekend.


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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Barring any mishap in getting there and getting in, I'll be at otakon next weekend in the artist alley!! I'll be with *bara-chan at table D10/D11, and here is exactly where that is with the help of this map ~korilin made:

The entrance is at the bottom right, and we're just left from it! That is usually the corner people neglect and forget to visit, but with so many of my friends and other awesome artist there I'd like to shit myself and just say this is the AWESOME CORNER that you must remember to visit ;-; if you're going, hope to see you there!

Aside from the regular prints and books--which there are many many new items this year, I will also be selling... a modern design of veloce's pendant!

courtesy of my lovely waifu ~Sepia-Heart since I can't take photos for crap and the pendant looks like some weird chrome icon stuff for windows I don't know
BUT YES I will be bringing a few of these to Otakon, and I don't think I will sell it separately afterwards online for a while since I cannot think of a packaging solution and I really don't have the time to think about it ): It is sold as a necklace with a steel chain, but it is also perfect as a charm if you want to take off the pendant and attach it to your phone or keychain : D


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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Hello everyone in poland! This post is for you

I am working with a new publishing house YUMEGARI to bring my manga Carciphona into poland, in polish! The books are still being translated and produced so they're not out yet, but it is available for preorder on their site ^^ I've never done this before and the company is also new, so I don't know if there will be enough interest to keep it going; only book 1 is being worked on right now. But if you've enjoyed the series in English, or you have friends who can't understand it just because it's in English, consider supporting us and getting a copy in Polish ^^

The official website is not accessible to Poland right now while we bring the manga to print, but it will be back in a little while!


I had planned to apply to Otakuthon this year as I did last year but I failed to register this year ;; If anybody has an AA or dealer space that they don't mind sharing with me, please let me know! I would really like to go back to otakuthon but it's a tragedy that I failed so hard LOL;;




It's that time of the year where tons of conventions are happening and everybody is posting about all the goods they'll be selling all over the country. If you can't make it to any of them, I'm now having a sale on those very same posters at my shop! These posters are priced regularly at $15 each at con and previously on DA for $19, but for one month they will be sold online at $10 each ^^

These are 11"x17" in size, printed on 80lb glossy cover stock paper with full bleed (no white borders). Those who have seen them at the con can vouch for you that they're amazing in quality, and if you've seen how I usually draw, you will know that they're packed with detail even at this size . Please visit my shop at shilin.storenvy.com and have a look ^^ The catalog is available in the product preview images, and you can click corresponding "add to cart" buttons on the right for the prints you would like.


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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So I had planned to apply to Otakuthon this year as I did last year; I subscribed to its newsletter since apparently it's the only way to keep track of its stuff and it's half french first then half english, which is probably why this year I missed the AA sign up date by a landslide apparently.... I checked back after the latest newsletter came without notice about AA, only to find that it's been sold out, and upon checking the forums apparently it happened in march LOL IDEK SO I HAVE AN ISSUE HERE...

I'm thinking about going for dealer's room, but I'd rather not because I feel like people go there expecting cheap mass produced goods for official stuff and then they see my expensive obsolete stuff LOL;;;;;; I feel reluctant asking this as well but if there's anyone with a premium artist space that they're willing to share, I am willing to pay for the table for it ;; The reason I don't like to ask like this whenever I fail---and I've failed many times--is because I take up a LOT of space, on the table and behind the table, and I don't want to be a hindrance. But if you have one of those 8" tables and you don't have a lot of stuff and don't mind sharing, please let me know ;; I am still considering dealers so may end up just going for it.

Thanks for reading! I seriously need to stop being so bad at life lmfao

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It's that time of the year where tons of conventions are happening and everybody is posting about all the goods they'll be selling all over the country. If you can't make it to any of them, I'm now having a sale on those very same posters at my shop! These posters are priced regularly at $15 each at con and previously on DA for $19, but for one month they will be sold online at $10 each ^^

These are 11"x17" in size, printed on 80lb glossy cover stock paper with full bleed (no white borders). Those who have seen them at the con can vouch for you that they're amazing in quality, and if you've seen how I usually draw, you will know that they're packed with detail even at this size . Please visit my shop at shilin.storenvy.com and have a look ^^ The catalog is available in the product preview images, and you can click corresponding "add to cart" buttons on the right for the prints you would like.


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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Anime North this coming weekend c: I'll be bringing THIS


Yes, the original pages for Carciphona! The binder is pretty damn heavy so I will only be bringing pages from the Arenscura arc as photographed above. Up to page 50 of book 3 (or more if I finish more this week) are in there with crappy handwriting text, so you can spoil yourself and read on if you like (: If you're interested in seeing them, come and ask and I'll show you!

I most likely won't be taking commissions as I think I need to work on comic pages in order to play catch up, and my sketch commissions suck anyway. But I may change my mind if I realize that's being way too socially awkward penguiin of me orz


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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Sorry for not writing here much! I have a personal blog and a tumblr which I use for rants and scraps, and for some reason I figure this journal thing doesn't have much of a blog vibe to it, so I tend to just use it as announcement space.

I will be going to Anime North in Toronto on the last weekend of May! I couldn't go as an artist last year but I will be in the Comic Market this year, with prints and my manga/art books (: I live in Toronto so I will have plenty of books with me; If you wanted a copy but didn't want to pay for shipping, or just scared of the credibility of online shopping and the post office, this would be a great opportunity to get one! There are also many new high quality prints I've made last year as well as this year
My table is at F10. It's the farthest aisle from registration (which is all the way at the top) but at least I get a nice corner to myself and not knock people's stands over with my books and luggage haha ;;


In other news, I've made a new forum for my webcomic Carciphona! There used to be one years ago, but I wasn't doing a good job keeping up with updates and had many hiatuses, and was generally neglecting the forums so I let it die off ): This one is fresh so there's barely anything on it, but with your help maybe it will grow into a nice cozy place ^^

Thanks for looking


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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Volume 2 preorder event has ended! Thanks sooo much to everyone who preordered ;; I will be shipping out the books this week, most likely completing before the week is over. The books should arrive within the month at the latest for North American orders, and hopefully not too long for international orders! To all those who preordered, I will keep you updated via e-mail when everything has been shipped out, so you know when to expect them ^^

The preorder raffle drawing was also done today! There were 305 separate orders, so with the first 50 bonus entries added (and the spreadsheet starting at row 4), I've generated 6 winners using row numbers. Click here to see the image form of the results for legitimacy and for fun (and one of the winners entered their e-mail address wrong lol~) but tl;dr, the winners are:

Kira D.
Doriane P.
Amelie C.
Kelly M.
Melody W.
Yuen Ling T.

Congratulations, and thanks to everyone who participated! You have already been contacted if you are one of the winners.


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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I've uploaded a new drawing video of one of my latest pieces ^^
youtube.com/watch?v=s6A0zsBg8q0
I've preserved everything to the best of my ability to demonstrate what it's like for me to work on a detailed piece for 30 hours. It's not meaningful to watch it in its entirety because it gets repetitive really fast, but I've always wondered how something like this would be like for a lot of artists I follow, so I figured I would make one myself. More info about the video is in the video comment!

And there are a few other new videos as well in my channel that I didn't post here about (:

I'm starting to apply for conventions for this year. I had intended to go to anime boston but decided against it last minute ): The first confirmed convention is Anime North in May! I'm applying to a few others too but seeing how fighting for space in AA these days is a bloody battle to the death, I'm going to wait until I have confirmation and payment processed for each con before saying I'm going haha ;; I wish there were more cons in Canada because going to the states sucks LOL... I hate being treated like a criminal ugh


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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"Veloce has finally left her home behind her, but the forces of the  King and Blackbird are not her only concerns. A mysterious illness  threatens to take her down before she can leave Kronzel."

Carciphona Volume 2 is now available for preorder at my shop at shilin.storenvy.com!

And as usual, I am hosting a (almost) month-long preorder event from Sunday, March 4 to Saturday, March 31 to promote my newest book! Order the book during this period to be eligible for:

• A discount!
• Much cheaper shipping to the USA ($5 per maximum of 2 books rather than $8 each)
• A place in the preorder raffle

All preorders are entered into a raffle for a chance to win your order for free! (ie. refunded) The number of winners depends on the amount of preorders: for every 50 preorders, there will be one more winner chosen. The first 50 preorders will receive a bonus entry (for a total of 2) into the raffle! All gone ): An e-mail has been sent to all those who made it on the list

Winners will be announced and contacted on April 2 (just so you guys don't think I'm trolling)


All preorders will be shipped during the first week of April, right after preorders end. With the release of volume 2, I am offering combined shipping for those interested in purchasing both books to save shipping costs for you. If you would like to switch out one book for another (eg. 2 copies of volume 2 instead of 1+2), please clearly indicate in your order note or e-mail me to confirm ahead of time. Shipping prices are as follows:

• Canada: up to 2 books per shipment: $5
• USA: up to 2 books per shipment: $5
• International: 1 book: $11, 2 books: $14

If you would like to preorder, but do not have the means to pay for it online (ie. cannot use paypal or credit cards), you can choose to mail your payment to me. However I will not be responsible for any lost payment (though it has never happened in the past ~30 cash orders I have received). Please write me an e-mail at shilin@ashen-ray.com indicating your interest and I will send you everything you'll need to know! Unfortunately cash orders will not be entered into the raffle ):

Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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Hello! It's that time of the year again where I rise from the dead to haunt small children.


Carciphona book 2 is almost here! It will be available for preorder starting Sunday, March 4 at 8pm EST at my shop, shilin.storenvy.com, running until March 31. Manga updates will also resume on that day along with a surprise for you so remember to check back for it ^^

The preorder event this time will be a raffle. Every preorder placed has a chance to win your order for free! (ie. your payment refunded) One more winner will be chosen for every 50 preorders placed, and the first 50 preorders will receive a bonus entry into the draw

More pictures of the book and full details will be posted on the day of the release.


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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[edit] To the anon that gifted me a 1 year membership, thank you ;v; [/edit]

# Carciphona prints: [link]
# All other prints: [link]

I've been wanting to sell prints for a while now, but Canadian shipping fees and hassle had always made this a living hell. Some people buy prints from me at DA but I would only get like... $3 out of a $20 print or something ridiculous like that.  But finally I got a friend in the states to help out and I can at last sell them with reasonable shipping fees! (or at least, not double digit...) But that also means I can't sign these prints for you. If you want a signed piece of work, you can buy a book or come find me at a con

These are the same prints I sell at conventions at the same price. They are printed on nice and thick glossy coverstock paper with full bleed (ie. no white borders). Because there are too many to choose from, I divided them into CP and non-CP lists. Just click the corresponding "add to cart" button next to the print number/title! Each product image is a thumbnail list of the prints. You can also go to my website at ashen-ray.com to review bigger versions of those illustrations


Shipping costs the same no matter how many prints you order because they're shipped together.

•     Canada: $5
•     USA: $5
•     Intl: $8

I've re-enabled larger size posters (16x24", 20"x30", 24"x36" etc) on DA because there is no other reasonable way for me to get them made and shipped at this point. I've been asked several times about it because I guess some of my illustrations are pretty elaborate, so here they are!


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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[edit] ugh why is DA's journal/stash stuff full of fail [/edit]

From October 30-November 20, my art book TOCCATA is available for preorder! Full details is summarized in the poster below and explained in the preorder page. Thank you all so much for supporting me for so long, as well as being so patient with me when I keep having to fall silent after making promises about the book due to problems I encountered haha @_@



QUICK FAQ : (for extended FAQ, please read the one in my store)
Can I order it from overseas? Yes (:
"bulletred: Can I buy extra prints shipped with my book? Yes, please send me an e-mail at shop at ashen-ray dot com and I will show you a list you can choose from
Can I mail payment? Yes. Send me an e-mail with your request.
I would like multiple books, can I order together to save shipping? During preorders, no. I've decided to not do this just so I don't get orders mixed up. I will provide combined shipping after this event.
When will the books be shipped? On Nov 20, when preorders end! I might ship them earlier if it's convenient for me to do so.





Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


facebook.com/ashenray facebook.com/carciphona

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Are there any features you'd like to see on my manga website carciphona.com that it does not currently have, or any organization of content that you think could be improved? It has all the usual stuff a webcomic would have like characters, art, world info etc, and my mind is pretty boxed into those so I thought I would ask for some advice ^^
Thanks for any suggestions in advance, and as usual please don't take it as I did not read your input if I don't reply to it (:


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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After 2 months I can finally do this My art book, Toccata, will be available for preorder starting OCTOBER 30, at 8PM EST! Full details, prices and glorious photos will be posted when it starts (: This will happen at my storenvy store here: shilin.storenvy.com.
The reason for the advance announcement is because just like my last preorder event, I have special deals for those who preorder rather than buy later. I have a ton of letter-size prints ready for this and while supplies last, all preorders will receive 2 randomized free prints with their book! The first 50 preorders will be allowed to CHOOSE the prints they want, so I don't want people who are interested in this to miss out XD

In other news, I just came back from New York Anime Festival this week. Thanks again to everyone who came by, said hi and bought stuff! I thoroughly enjoyed my stay and I will no doubt try my best to go back if possible. I have a post up about my trip on my blog here if you're interested: blog.ashen-ray.com/2011/10/20/new-york/

Lastly the artbook being released means I CAN POST ART AGAIN OHHH MY GODDD but I only have like 5 pieces to post and I won't have time to paint until the new years probably lol fml.............. Q___________Q ok ok ok BACK TO SLAVING AWAY ON CARCIPHONA BOOK 2


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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I feel bad not keeping my promises but the one time I am not conservative about promises, things mess up LOL. But the books are being printed right now However because of stuff I'll be busy with in october, I will be delaying its release until I come back from new york anime festival mid/late october because it'd kinda be like leaving the stove on while I'm out. If my plans pan out smoothly, I will bring a few copies to sell at NYAF, and once I confirm all my babies are safe and sound I will be posting more dates and details ^^

A lot of you have been asking me questions about pricing and shipping, I really appreciate your interest! but there are some things that even I don't know the answer to until I get the book in my hands , so please be patient and wait for the release announcement ^^

As for NYAF, The rough floor plan is now out and I will be at the artist alley table B22. It's a long room and I am at the far end (LOL WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN) HERE'S A MAP MADE BY



Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


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I stole this from 's page `v`!!......... I understand I draw a lot of the same stuff/chars/topics nowadays (and I rarely have finished drawings to post anymore; I do post a shit ton of scraps on my blog and tumblr tho) so some of these questions are pretty hard/dumb to answer ): but I am curious what people would answer for any of these questions, and I appreciate your time and meaningful input!

(Also I think you can answer with anything, it can be the name of a character, object, series, situation, style, atmosphere etc)
PROS
01. I like when you draw: ___.
02. I wish you drew more: ___.
03. I wish you drew more fanart of: ___. LOL NONAPPLICABLE
04. I wish you drew more original art of: ___.
05. I wish you drew a comic or4koma of/about: ___.
06. I wish you made a tutorial about: ___.
07. My favorite part of your work is: ___.

CONS
08. I dislike when you draw: ___.
09. I wish you drew less: ___.
10. My least favorite part of your work is: ___.

OTHER
11. If I had to describe your work I'd say: ___.
12. If I had a question to ask about your work it'd be: ___?
13. The main strength & weakness of your work is: ___ & ___
14. Anything else?


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


facebook.com/ashenray facebook.com/carciphona

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I forgot to mention, I'll be at FanEXPO this weekend (thurs to sun) in the artist alley! The hall is huge and the artist alley is wayyyyyy across the room and all along against the back wall. I will be at table 195, between PS3 and Ubisoft, but I think it's pretty pointless to look for me just because of how big the place is so just browse AA (cus there's a ton of good artists anyway!) and maybe you'll come across my table haha I have some new prints for sale this con, including stuff I haven't posted here yet, and although I will not have the art book there, the cover image is available as a poster LOL.

I also sent my artbook file off to the new company I have found! I will wait until I confirmed the print job before making any release announcements, so in case these guys don't work out I wouldn't have to keep changing dates.

And lastly, RIP Jack Layton; whatever your ideals and beliefs are, even if I disagree with some of them, you as a person are an inspiration in my eyes.


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


facebook.com/ashenray facebook.com/carciphona

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I will be releasing my first artbook, Toccata in the upcoming weeks ^^ Details about the actual release will be posted when a date is set, but some general info about the book is: It will be a softcover, 8.5x11" (lettersize) book with ~60 pages of ~30 finished illustrations, including some never before seen artworks that will be posted shortly, and ~40 presentable illustration concepts that I've done over the years. The best of my original, fanart and commission artworks are all featured, and this is the only chance where you can get a lot of these images in print because I don't/can't sell posters of them otherwise.

Here are some teaser images of what you should be expecting!




Secondly, from July 2010 to April 2011, I worked on a commissioned manga chapter (46 pages long) for ~Kulimar of a story he had planned called The Musician.

The detailed script and dialog was provided by him + Mari Holy and my job was to get down the story in manga form. It is a self contained story in a world that he plans to release more similar stories for. I recently noticed he posted it on his site so you guys can finally read it there!
KULIMAR.COM : <- READ RIGHT TO LEFT <-
If you liked the story or have any feedback for the chapter, aside from leaving me feedback, please don't forget to send him a message as well through his website (or I suppose here on DA is fine too!) This is originally his work so I really want him to get the feedback that he deserves, not to mention they would probably help him tremendously in the future ^^


Carciphona volume 3 is now in print and available for sale!
Carciphona is now on SmackJeeves.
My Bookstore now open!


Anime North: May 25-27, Toronto (Confirmed with table)
Otakon: July 27-29, Baltimore (Confirmed with table)
FanEXPO: August 23-26, Toronto (confirmed with table)
All done! see you next year ^^


Carciphona is my original manga series. It is available to read for free online and updates weekly on carciphona.com, and is published by myself in print whenever I finish a new book. Most of the artworks I do are for this series. Please check it out and if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends and those who may be interested! Thank you for all your support ^^


facebook.com/ashenray facebook.com/carciphona

Skin by $Ikue