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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
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7:58 pm
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The Blackwater Tales is updated.
Okay, well its not an update, but it's just a novelty to write that again. Hopefully it should be soon though! Aiming for the beginning of February for a major rehaul, lots of plotting going on.
Happy Christmas gentlefolk! Have a really good time.
P.S. Updates will probably be at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) libromio from now on, cause all my stuff is spilling over there anyway, and I'm lazy!
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(tell me a secret)
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| Monday, December 10th, 2007
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2:02 am - Tumpity-tum.
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So I lied. Some stuff is staying over here, think libromio is going to contain all malevolent strains of arty-fartyness. And that same piece I'm STILL tinkering at...
Man, I always produce work that is x100 better than my first try after someone says to me 'Hey, that's not what I had in mind, try again.' Which is half depressing and half really good, I think. I think? I don't stretch myself enough on my own.
Ahh, nothing quite beats being able to pass drawings back and forth to you in English class, Islay, but hey! Send me the ending to the danged novel already, I'm on tenterhooks.
So here we go! Anti-depression I WILL FORCE MYSELF TO DO THINGS manifesto.
Things to do
- Take accidentally abducted keys back to manager.
- Meet _evening_rain_ tomorrow ON TIME.
- Redraw last few pages of Blackwater, get back on weekly schedule.
- Catch up on Gmail.
- Do Lucy and Leonard next.
- Buy MFI sheets and prepare a ground for Cwn Annwn triptych.
- Thumbnail sketches, get on with it!
- Take reference photos of Hugh.
- Finish the goddamn Chthonic illustrations before senility sets in. (sorry again!!)
- Take books back to Library.
- Sort out bank accounts.
- Tidy up fetid mess of room.
- Email Lorenzo.
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(5 traitors / tell me a secret)
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| Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
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12:05 am - maybe in you I'll believe, maybe I'll believe in you.
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Ooof, backache. Illustration of one of the characters from Islay's novel-type-thing in the making. Which one day you WILL find yourself buying for far too much money from Waterstones. I swear.
( Read more... )
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(2 traitors / tell me a secret)
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| Sunday, September 30th, 2007
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3:02 am
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So it looks like I've gone from sleeping all night and then literally ALL day, to not sleeping at all. Oh, Body Clock, I should have you institutionalised, but the sense of attachment is just too strong.
But apart from the not sleeping, and also I seem to be getting bruised and infected easier than ever, I am now doing OKAY. I think. As I said, things have not been good of late, my grandma hospitalised from a stroke, and the unexpected return of my dad's suffocating attacks, all combined into a neat morass of Existential Dread. A la Munch, but with slightly less in the way frozen screams, red sunsets, and seductively buxom vampiric ladies. Come to think of it, more of the latter would not have gone amiss, but what can one do.
So, aaah, I have caved and bought another MP3 player, and also PG Wodehouse and Don Quixote on audiobooks, so I'm going to listen to them on my rambles and be horrifyingly waspish. And Rufus Wainwright! Dear Lord, lately he's growing on me like...like a worryingly shaped patch on a sunburnt British citizen. His music makes me want to cry and dance, sometimes both at the same time, which I'm pretty sure is a good thing.
Before this degenerates into one of those neverending lists of Everything I Have Bought Ever, er, have some sports illustrations! I hate sport with such passion, that the fact I spent two nights hunched over a tablet doing these is a testament to how much I love Becca. Or how good she is at, you know...manipulating my insatiable need to please. Either way!
( Read more... )
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(6 traitors / tell me a secret)
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| Sunday, July 15th, 2007
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5:52 pm
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Page 41 is up.
It is REALLY getting to me the differences in tone and contrast between my laptop and computer. Anything I colour on here seems...practically gangrenous on my computer, and all the values are completely off. And I mean, I could readjust it, but it bugs me that I don't know how different things look on different screens. Augh. Any advice on getting screen continuity?
What else? I spilled lemonade all over the kitchen floor, and now it makes endearing little sticky noises when you walk on it.
I miss college, and my college folk. I'm not sure I can hack this leaving everyone behind thing.
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(1 traitor / tell me a secret)
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| Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
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1:10 am
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Happy birthday, DFI! You've been eighteen for almost an hour! I know you already got art, but I was just doodling ideas about demons and evil eye tattoos, and now I look at it I realise that I drew you almost exactly the same subject matter for your last birthday, completely by accident. What a Freudian nightmare. Do you still have that one? I think the character's name was Regina.
( Read more... )
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(1 traitor / tell me a secret)
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| Sunday, July 8th, 2007
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7:09 pm - And I said so's everything but he didn't get it.
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Page 40! Oh my.
In the mean time, I really am still employed after all! Oh, what joy it gives me to while away my days explaining to listless american teenagers what a cathedral is, blissfully unaware as they are of the fact that they have just walked into one in order to ask me.
No really, it is fabulous, and if anyone's walking down the Royal Mile at weekends, you can peek in and embarrass me, as I will probably be drawing under the desk in what I imagine to be an effortlessly subtle way. And then you can take great malicious pleasure in exposing me. Or, you know, not.
( Read more... )
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(6 traitors / tell me a secret)
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| Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
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8:26 pm - Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
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Spam spam spam. I went to this really neat exhibition about India today, called 'Tea and Tigers'. It had a ton of stuff on the East India Trading Company, a bunch of fabulous Indian art, and those colouring-in sheets with felt tip pens that are supposed to be for kids but are clearly irresistable to the weak-minded.
So I've been thinking lately, as I've been drawing Chthonic stuff, about the concept of flatness in art. In these Indian paintings there is no sense of perspective at all, it's verging on a symbolic language, you know what it means, but it's your mind thats making the visual leap. And I think a lot of art I'm attracted to adheres to that, like Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, who were the first artists who really made me crazy about drawing. So why is that? Maybe its a sense of design as opposed to perceptual illusion? It's interesting to me, that even when I'm trying to work on different planes of perspective, I still want to flatten things out, lay it all out to the viewer. I'm really drawn to Mayan and Egyptian art too, that kind of narrative stillness. But then I like the illusion of depth too when I paint, so I guess its a conflict.
Anyway, I really need to start painting properly again. But this digital shit is just too damn entertaining!
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(6 traitors / tell me a secret)
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12:13 pm - And they say 'May you live in Interesting Times'
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The comic is updated.
Also this week! Terrorists attacked Scotland, there was a thunder storm that lasted three days, half of Britain is deluged in water, the Postal Service went on strike, the Rail Service went on strike, and this is all our fault for making civil partnerships legal. Or something. Also I became employed, became potentially unemployed, sold some paintings, and made a giddying leap into vegetarianism. Is there some kind of Cosmic link running through all this? I don't know.
No two-headed jackal babies being birthed in the streets, rivers of blood, dying stars falling to earth, etcetera, as yet. We're good.
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(12 traitors / tell me a secret)
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| Thursday, June 28th, 2007
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2:41 am
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| Sunday, June 24th, 2007
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11:07 am
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Page 38!
Still waiting for the blasted tablet. Tomorrow, tomorrow, or I will unleash the unholy wrath of my judgement upon PC World.
Also, I've started volunteering at Oxfam at the weekend. I'm having an awesome time, excluding the counting up at the end of the day, which mostly involves me staring vaguely at piles of money and trying to not to hyperventilate. It's kind of depressing that I'm outdone by a bunch of slightly senile old ladies at arithmetic.
The downside of this is that I am hopelessly, irresistably attracted to useless bits of junk, especially really old junk, and in the two afternoons so far I've found myself buying about fifteen old paperbacks, an old whisky bottle, and two dilapidated house plants I felt sorry for. This may become a problem for me.
Back to waiting at the letterbox with a hungry look in my eye. Come to meee, delivery man.
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(6 traitors / tell me a secret)
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| Sunday, June 17th, 2007
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12:50 pm
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The comic iz updated.
That fish is referenced from one of your lovely photos, _evening_rain_. Man, there's something about fish to me, they're so beautiful and so repulsive at the same time.
Also.
YEEESSS. Arriving tomorrow, I may actually weep with joy. And we will get married, and have children, and die old and content. So anyone want anything drawn, ask me now, I will be in drawing heat. I know I still have Chthonic drawings outstanding, sorry Julie! I'm so on to it this week.
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(8 traitors / tell me a secret)
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| Friday, June 8th, 2007
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10:41 pm
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Documentation of my art show, inwards!
( Photos. )
I'm really kicking myself, I was carrying home all my paperwork on the bus, and I seem to have dropped that lifedrawing of the lady with the shaded chin. If anyone sees it floating around the streets of Edinburgh, I beg you, bring it home. I'm sure it's cold and hungry. And naked, definitely naked.
current music: Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Humanoid Boogie
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(4 traitors / tell me a secret)
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| Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
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8:52 am
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A colour page this week.
The colour here is partly due to the fact that I actually have time on my hands for the first time this year, but I think it ties in quite well with the whole trippy mood, and the first time there's been any nature in the comic. But I don't know if I should keep it.
Also a product of my terrifying amount of free time, I've finally got around to using my deviantart. I may have told you that three times already, sorry!
And I'm also really disappointed that the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab doesn't ship to Britain. Dang it.
And thanks to everyone who came to the art show! None of my imaginary series of nightmare scenarios occurred, much to my joy and suprise. I'm invigilating this week, so I'll take some photos of it all.
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(4 traitors / tell me a secret)
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| Friday, May 25th, 2007
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10:49 am - It's never lupus.
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Hey world, I got my course finished, something I can't quite believe has happened. I'm pretty burnt out. I'll maybe post pictures of my show here after the assessments. In the meantime, way too much television!
This show is like crack.
Also, I'm really trying to teach myself digital colouring f'reals right now, in anticipation of getting a tablet. So if anyone has a good tutorial, it would be awesome if you could link me up. I'd really like to get ahold of OpenCanvas too, I guess its going to be expensive. Sigh.
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(15 traitors / tell me a secret)
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| Sunday, April 29th, 2007
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8:41 pm
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New Comic Page is up.
(So hey, while you're there check out Leia Weathington's cover art for April. It's seriously neat and it's only going to be there fooor...one more day! Fly, you fools, fly!)
Oh man, but I feel like I haven't slept in a year. Ow, eyeballs, ow. If I owe you drawings, money, heartfelt apologies, or anything, really, I am trying to get around to it. In the mean time, hibernation is dandy, thanks.
( More Scribbly things. )
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(2 traitors / tell me a secret)
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| Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
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11:51 am
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Page...something or other is up.
It's just about...a month until The Final Exhibition on my course, so I've been having fun and giggles attempting to drag a tree up three flights of stairs and accidentally bashing people with giant canvases.
So you know, if you're in the right country at the right time, you're totally invited! It promises to be satisfactorily filled with large blocks of ice, trees, plaster casts of teenage boys, smashed up records, and awesome wigs. I guess I'll post a flyer up here with details when there is one.
In the mean time, I'm just going to be really, really nervous. That works.
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(6 traitors / tell me a secret)
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| Sunday, April 15th, 2007
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8:39 pm - The last time I saw you, you looked so much older.
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| Sunday, April 8th, 2007
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2:12 pm
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Page Twenty-eight is up. Also, a cast page, for the terribly confused.
Did I mention this quarante__deux lady? Not only is she a freaking genius, but she's also just turned seventeen. So you know, if you haven't run over to her deviantart page yet, I'm afraid I really...I just don't know what's wrong with you. Many happy returns Erin! Having a window into the world in your head is an awesome thing.
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(2 traitors / tell me a secret)
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| Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
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9:19 pm - Oh! You pretty thing.
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More quick scribbles, because I am so productive, it physically hurts. Except, really not. Oh, not technically worksafe, mild nudity ahoy!
( More of the pesky greek immortal types. )
Just downloaded Echo and the Bunnymen's Killing Moon again, after hearing that cover in class. I first heard this song in the intro to Donnie Darko, and it quickly became, just my favourite song ever, ever. It's unbelievably haunting and evocative, and the way his voice is just so fragile and lost, so full of surrender. Auugh, it's painful! No love, Bunnymen.
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