Monday 13th July 2009

What I'm doing: playing Fallout 3 and watching Daria. Also drawing a long overdue strip for FQP, slowed by my not inconsiderable problems with digital inking to a damnable crawl.

Saturday 11th July 2009

Ahhh, talking heads - how I've missed drawing you: LIES.
The consequence of doing comics, I suppose - characters gotta talk somewhere. Rainy, rainy day today, watched the shit out of some Daria, wrasslin', some Sister Streetfighter, GI Joe, Space Battleship Yamato: but mostly spent it laying on my bed playing Fallout while my brain gently wept to know such simple pleasures as relaxing while shooting the heads off giant radioactive scorpions because they just aren't going to shotgun-decapitate themselves.

Friday 10th July 2009

Thang gawd! 12th weekend and that means a few days off work next week during which I intend to sleep late in a manner I haven't since summers in high school. I may lose a day somewhere from sleep alone - I don't care what Lemmy says. I love sleep.
V busy day at work today. Not much drawing or fiddly photoshopping done.
Watching: Torchwood. And that's all. Not much telly today.
Listening: Erasure greatest hits, Eddie Vedder, Tracy Chapman
Reading: Batman, Muppets, Amazing Spider-Man Annual

Thursday 9th July 2009

Watching: CSI: Miami (why, God? WHYYYYYYY?), Daria, Mahou Shoujotai,

Girl, you know a Cheer Crip can't be hittin' it with a Cheer Blood

Watching: Daria, Bring It On: the Thrillogy, Torchwood, Weeds.

Tuesday 8th July 2009

Today: workin' late.
Hot. Knackered.
Also sketching, but it's pretty aimless as I catch up with my viewing, mainly:
Torchwood, Daria, Brak, Mahou Shoujotai, Kabuto (again)
Can't draw robots! Thinking I should knock this drawing lark on the head until I get some vishyool edumaction.
Also lettering up some thumbnails for writer approval while I get stuck into drawing up the actual strip. Should have made time for that today, I suppose.

Saturday 4th July 2009

Wednesday 3rd July 2009

Hmm... Trying to break out of my comfort zone and learn to draw new things on demand, I'm beginning to think I've bitten off more than I can chew with a short story for FutureQuake Press about a time-traveller trying to destroy organised religion, as by page three I have to draw Abu ‘Ali Mansur Tāriqu l-Ḥākim, who's an 11th century caliph and imam, and it only occurred to me while thumbnailing the pages and seeking out reference that some things - such as devout muslim leaders who discourage the creation of images of their likeness - might be hard to find visual reference for, as might the Church of the Holy Sepulchre before it was destroyed in the 11th century. Ah well - this must be where that 'imagination' thing I've read about comes into play, but I don't think it'll catch on.

Watching: the season of ATHF I didn't realise had just been shown - hurrah!
Reading: Power Pack Classic, Captain America
Playing: Sudoku, Fallout 3

Tuesday 30th June 2009

All finished watching ATHF :(
Time to catch up with my toku.

Monday 29th June 2009

Out of bed later than usual, finish sketch, sketch is awful - don't care, only a bit of fun.
Watching: True Blood, ATHF

Sunday 28th June 2009

Quick sketches are never quick when you're doing other things - like a 'late to the party' GTA4 online deathmatch. That was bloody fun, but I suspect being run over by a car in real life isn't quite as entertaining.
I'm off t'bed, online sketching competitions can wait until tomorrow...

Saturday 27th June 2009

More half-assed doodles brought about by the daaaaaaamn hot weather, still as the desert yet rife with pollen, dammit. I'm also in the process of artist-ifying the flat so I can have some elbow room to draw, rather than being cramped into a 'study' at the back of the living room.
Watching: Greek, Brak, Kamen Rider Decade, Goldeneye, Robin Hood
Listening: Michael Jackson: Best of, REO Speedwagon: the Hits
Playing: Fallout 3

Friday 26th June 2009

Damn hot, damn busy, and just had the day capped off with a kick in the teeth from someone of whom I'd expected better - which is actually the real pisser more than the actual (metaphorical) teeth-kick. Always sad when people let you down...
Finally set my mind to sitting down and getting the stuff finished that I've promised to people, like the short stories I promised I'd illustrate yet have not made much of an effort about, despite them being good showpieces.
Watching: Greek, Smackdown, Secret Life of the American Teenager, The Brak Show
Listening to: Off The Wall - just because...

Thursday, 25th june 2009

Still pretty snowed under at work, so any would-be creative enterprises are taking a back seat. My version of down-time today came in the form of photoshopping a little doggie onto a green background, which made me happy. The details of his passing made me sad.

Wednesday, 24th June 2009

Bloomin' hen night shirts. If I see one more Whacky Wendy or Syphilitic Susan I'll go mental...

Tuesday, 23rd June 2009

Long days at work, not much scribbly time.
Watching: Greek, Mitchell and Webb, The Brak Show
Reading: Jack Staff, Invincible
Listening to: Camera Obscura, Rocky Horror OST

Oh right, so I actually have to learn how to use Illustrator now?

Well that plain straight-up sucks right there. Damn thing isn't exactly intuitive.

I should probably be working rather than writing a blog entry...

SUnday 21st June, 2009

Sunday, scribblings away while I catch up with my television, watching:
Greek season 2
ATHF season 5
Damnation Alley
Local pro wrestlers in the local leisure center the evening of last: would have been a lot better with booze and an audience of braying wooden-toothed rednecks, but you can't have everything.

Saturday 20th June 2009

Saturday 20th June 2009

Overtime running off samples for a tender.