Oh boy. I am waaaaaay behind on my story posts! I’ve been caught up with a few writing projects, and with so much writing on my plate already, the thought of writing about writing was a little overwhelming. Hopefully next week is lighter and I can get back on track!
In the meantime, here’s a painting for Illustration Friday. I’ve never done IF before, and it took me a while to come up with an idea for the theme “bottled.” What do I think of when I think of bottles? …Bonsai kitties, apparently.
First some art, cuz I always feel bad when I post but don’t have any art to show.
Next, a general announcement: I changed the permalinks on my blog. If anyone’s linking to specific entries, your old links should work as far as I know, but you might want to change them in any case.
Okay, now for the real entry!
Ah, let me tell you guys. The last eight months have been quite the roller coaster ride. A slow, boring, yet disproportionately frightening roller coaster ride. Not too many twists, turns or stomach-flipping plummets, but plenty of screams and the silent fear of falling or losing limbs.
In fact, the only real surprise on this ride that warrants a few screams of terror happened last week. I quit my job. I’ve got two weeks left, but it’s a sure thing, now. Next Thursday is my last day.
But really, the most surprising (and amusing) part of all this is just how freaked out my sister seems to be. Last week when I told her I was going to quit, she told me “no, you’re not.” The next day when I told her I handed in my two weeks’ notice, she didn’t believe me. Just now I was e-mailing her about some ideas I have for the next few months—ideas that have nothing to do with my job, FYI—and she replies back, “Did you decide not to quit your job?”
Whoa, sis, calm down. You’re not allowed to be more freaked out about this than I am. Continue reading
It’s 2011, and you know what that means. If any of you guys have big plans, you better get crackin’. You’ve only got a year left! Uh… you know, if you’re concerned about that sorta thing.
Which makes me wonder. The Mayans predicted the world would end in 2012… but what day? Like, is this something I can pencil in on my calendar? Y’know, for scheduling purposes?
Anyhoo. Here’s some New Year art.
Wow. Is it really November already? Wait. When do we turn our clocks back?
So I’ve been doing… things… mostly I’ve been trying to fit in drawing while I’m not working. It’s quite a struggle, let me tell you. To be honest, I’d be happy if I could just draw and write all day. But, the bills must be paid.
Anyhoo. Here’s an accumulation of stuff from the past few weeks. I don’t post works in progress much, but it may be a while before I get to post again, so I’m going for it dammit. But first, here’s the finished stuff.
In the future, sloths will look like this, and will actually be pretty awesome. Too bad the human race will be extinct by then so we won’t get to appreciate it.
I actually started this a whiiiile ago… like in 2006. I got it half-painted and then never finished. I’ve always meant to get back to it… and so randomly one night I broke it out. It’s probably better that I waited anyway, I’ve learned a thing or two about painting and color since then.
Around the same time that I finished that painting I realized I haven’t touched gouache in a while. This was highly experimental, and I’m not thrilled with it. The digital mockup I did looks better :p so I may revisit this sometime too.
My nieces tried out for All County Choir a couple weeks ago (one made it, one didn’t, but there’s always next year). And, well, it’s not every day you get an opportunity to draw children in an environment where they can’t really run off on you.
They can’t run off… but they can still squirm a lot, which made the girl at the top of this one a challenge. Man, anytime your nieces can pick out what’s wrong in a drawing, you know you’re in trouble.
This guy at least waited until I was wrapping up my sketch before he got up and started running around the cafeteria.
Okay, now the WIP stuff.
Some random (but not too random) panels from a storyboard I’m working on.
