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Once more into the breech
Jan. 18th, 2006 10:51 pmThis... has been a rough few days. I'm honestly glad I can go to work to recover. NOT THAT I DON'T LOVE MY FAMILY, BECAUSE I DO, GODDAMMIT. But seriously? Oy. Got no sleep on from Saturday to Sunday because The Wif was a-smited by a plague and I got Kiddo duty. Thankfully, the library was open before MLK day and we went forth and checked out books and played with trains and other kids and hopped on numbers and letters and had a good ol' time.
Monday was me trying to not pass out watching kiddo while Ne and Dwan worked out. And then shopped. For nigh six hours. I then went out to see the joyfest that is Munich. An awesome movie that combines the weighty subject matter of Israel and Palestine with secret agents trying to kill terrorists. I don't think I felt preached-to at all in that movie, which is always a bonus. The ending was a bit ambiguous and not exactly satisfactory, but then again, maybe it shouldn't be, eh?
Tuesday was a brief respite with kiddo at pre-school and Ne and I having dinner together for once. Then it was us boys again for a little while until bedtime. After which, I promptly sat at my drawing table and got next to nothing done, though I did learn that the Japanese comics artists CLAMP get about 120 - 150 pages of finished comic art done a WEEK. That's almost one page EVERY HOUR! HOLY FUCK!
Needless to say, this kind of resonnated with me and forced me back to my drawing table at around 3:30am this morning when I woke due to "intestinal distress." I actually managed to layout and pencil FOUR whole new pages, with which I'm pretty okay with. I think I'll need to go back and redo some of the eyes, as they're off the original models I was using from my sketchbook (the initial design is a little cuter). The pages have all the things people expect from quality storytelling: open vistas, brilliant dialog, imps being smacked with hammers. Good times. Can't wait to actually ink and scan in some of this stuff. That should be a hoot. Seems like I might actually finish before February if I can keep having good 4-pages-at-a-shot days.
Right now, I'm at work on 2 hours of sleep because I had to take Little Dude to language therapy today. I'm already trying to load up on the caffiene which probably bodes ill.
Monday was me trying to not pass out watching kiddo while Ne and Dwan worked out. And then shopped. For nigh six hours. I then went out to see the joyfest that is Munich. An awesome movie that combines the weighty subject matter of Israel and Palestine with secret agents trying to kill terrorists. I don't think I felt preached-to at all in that movie, which is always a bonus. The ending was a bit ambiguous and not exactly satisfactory, but then again, maybe it shouldn't be, eh?
Tuesday was a brief respite with kiddo at pre-school and Ne and I having dinner together for once. Then it was us boys again for a little while until bedtime. After which, I promptly sat at my drawing table and got next to nothing done, though I did learn that the Japanese comics artists CLAMP get about 120 - 150 pages of finished comic art done a WEEK. That's almost one page EVERY HOUR! HOLY FUCK!
Needless to say, this kind of resonnated with me and forced me back to my drawing table at around 3:30am this morning when I woke due to "intestinal distress." I actually managed to layout and pencil FOUR whole new pages, with which I'm pretty okay with. I think I'll need to go back and redo some of the eyes, as they're off the original models I was using from my sketchbook (the initial design is a little cuter). The pages have all the things people expect from quality storytelling: open vistas, brilliant dialog, imps being smacked with hammers. Good times. Can't wait to actually ink and scan in some of this stuff. That should be a hoot. Seems like I might actually finish before February if I can keep having good 4-pages-at-a-shot days.
Right now, I'm at work on 2 hours of sleep because I had to take Little Dude to language therapy today. I'm already trying to load up on the caffiene which probably bodes ill.
