Monthly Archives: October 2006

My inner teenage girl is obviously not done with me. This one not only has a large-eyed girl, but–god help us all–sparkly magic. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/41603153/ I could feel my soul dying as I painted, and yet…and yet…it was so…so…right. Much more of this, and it’ll be unicorns. I know it. And then it’s praying for the […]

Blaaarggghle! I’m in the home stretch on this painting. Just the hands left to do, which involves holding my left hand in contorted positions and staring at it until hand and eyeballs both cramp. I was absolutely cookin’ yesterday–I worked on it straight until 11pm, played a little WoW, then went back and worked on […]

Painting big-eyed, vaguely cartoony maidens is creepily addictive. They’re like hamsters or My Little Thingies. I enjoy it desperately, even as I feel like I’m turning into Margaret-goddamn-Keane. Or potato chips, for people who don’t get addicted to certain subject matters. The longer I paint, the more I think that art has a strong involuntary […]

The yard is overrun with mushrooms. We’d spot one every now and again before, but the last few days of cool damp have caused an explosion. There are two varieties. One medium small kind–much bigger than, say, to take an example purely at random Liberty Cap mushrooms but a bit smaller than, again, purely randomly, […]

Finally got around to watching “V for Vendetta” last night. It was kinda interesting–it was an okay movie, bit cheesy in places, but you could see the bones of a really good comic book under it. Lots of things that don’t quite hold up in movies work very well in comics, and I could practically […]

My PMS is starting to recede–I am not quite so close to the edge of bursting into tears, and now just snappish–but it’s still there. Urgghl. Starting to fool around with the Happy Little Capybara again, and fiddled with some character designs. Dunno if they’ll stay that way–in my current mental state, all someone has […]

You know what the Green Lantern’s problem is? No imagination. Doesn’t matter which one it is, it’s all the same. Giant green fist and green lasers. Sinestro’s making giant gold energy dragons that eat tanks, and all the Green Lantern can do is the same old bloody green lasers. It makes you wonder if the […]

Today was spectacularly unproductive, in a start-something-stop-lose-interest-repeat kind of muddle. And I have PMS. I know this, because at around 9:30 am I yelled “I AM TIRED OF LIVING IN SQUALOR!” and cleaned. Plus I’m supposed to get a really important phone call, which has been rescheduled no less than five times, and which I’m […]