Oh? I survived?
AnimeNEXT was...interesting, to say the least. It was actually really busy and we wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for Chase. That car is a saint of a machine, I'm telling you.
That being said, I got to meet some of my Tumblr buddies in real life and that was awesome (and Berryz Koubou put on a wonderful show and were very sweet when we met them the next day). Overall, I had a good con, I'd say, even though it took me roughly a week to recover fully from it. Luckily, the Monday afterwards I had nothing to do (it was a baseball off-day, even), so I was able to convalesce by literally watching Top Gear for eleven hours. My life, ladies and gentlemen.
Actually, I watched the caravan holiday episode last night (I own Series 6-8 on iTunes now) for no reason other than TG the dog. She is the cutest thing, seriously. Also, the boys managed to light their caravan on fire by cooking potatoes. I don't even know how they pulled that one off.
I've been practicing a lot of new art stuff lately, though, and I think it shows: this week's page of The Historians looks like an actual comic, not just a series of images drawn next to one another. There's also some perspective and some wordless storytelling - I'm pretty proud of this. It still needs some work, definitely, but I've actually improved because I put the effort in to do so.
I also practiced with people last night. Specifically, I was working on drawing different types of eyes, but after I'd drawn the ones I use for Algy and Will...well, I drew Algy and Will.
This was actually good practice for me since Algy has a very narrow head and hooded eyes whilst Will's features are more rounded. I was able to work on differentiating them somewhat from each other face-and-body-wise. Also, Londinium. Yeah. It's a book that I should be writing or something. Actually, I've been working on writing it more frequently - I'm just struggling with the earlier bits because I have to write Basil and Dustin at the earliest stages of their friendship and it's weird to write them at a place where they haven't really been in my head since 2005. Argh.
And on that bombshell, it's time to end. Off to do the things archivists do - I'll catch you all later!
That being said, I got to meet some of my Tumblr buddies in real life and that was awesome (and Berryz Koubou put on a wonderful show and were very sweet when we met them the next day). Overall, I had a good con, I'd say, even though it took me roughly a week to recover fully from it. Luckily, the Monday afterwards I had nothing to do (it was a baseball off-day, even), so I was able to convalesce by literally watching Top Gear for eleven hours. My life, ladies and gentlemen.
Actually, I watched the caravan holiday episode last night (I own Series 6-8 on iTunes now) for no reason other than TG the dog. She is the cutest thing, seriously. Also, the boys managed to light their caravan on fire by cooking potatoes. I don't even know how they pulled that one off.
I've been practicing a lot of new art stuff lately, though, and I think it shows: this week's page of The Historians looks like an actual comic, not just a series of images drawn next to one another. There's also some perspective and some wordless storytelling - I'm pretty proud of this. It still needs some work, definitely, but I've actually improved because I put the effort in to do so.
I also practiced with people last night. Specifically, I was working on drawing different types of eyes, but after I'd drawn the ones I use for Algy and Will...well, I drew Algy and Will.
This was actually good practice for me since Algy has a very narrow head and hooded eyes whilst Will's features are more rounded. I was able to work on differentiating them somewhat from each other face-and-body-wise. Also, Londinium. Yeah. It's a book that I should be writing or something. Actually, I've been working on writing it more frequently - I'm just struggling with the earlier bits because I have to write Basil and Dustin at the earliest stages of their friendship and it's weird to write them at a place where they haven't really been in my head since 2005. Argh.
And on that bombshell, it's time to end. Off to do the things archivists do - I'll catch you all later!