It's been an overall good day!
It was in the 70's and the forecast on my phone reported it was going to be rainy, so I made sure to take my umbrella. Although it barely rained at all! Oh well...
When I stepped out the door to wait for the bus, I could not help but look at this pretty plant near the neighbor's house across the street and to the right. I have no idea what this plant is but it caught attention for about a minute.
Just after I opened up the back gate on the way to my bookshop, I started to consider taking those bunches of pictures with my little JP raptor I call Shorty, for raptor_family. It wasn't until after I finished opening up and turning everything on that I started doing it. I figured I might as well get the outdoors part done before it would rain--but it didn't. So I watered the potted plants again today. All in all, it was very nice out! Had a good time placing Shorty here and there from the back gate all the way to just outside my shop. I'll have a Shorty update on there after I'm done fixing and eating dinner. It's going to be divided into different parts, with the photos and little commentary from the dino's perspective. I already thought of what he'd say in telling the tale of his epic new adventure...
I started enhancing and brightening the dark ones on the old PC (as well as making an icon for Shorty from now on when it comes to posting as him) for a while before I went out to buy a cherry Coke. As nice as today has been, it's also been slow. Only had one browser.
Anyway, after lunch (leftover pizza, a nutty buddy bar, and soda), I got back to sketching. I got started on Sokka!! It's looking overall very good so far. I finished drawing some of the basics of his head, down to one arm and hand. Took a long while to do, after finishing up on drawing in the top of the bookshelf he and Mao will be in front of and got part of the next row started.His whole arm and hand I did was the most challenging for today. I also got most of his facial expression, an ear, and the start of what his outfit will look like.
In my previous entry, I mentioned that I hadn't decided which of two postures and expressions Sokka would have when speaking to Mao. Today I decided the "What are you talking about?" expression over the "Aww that sounds soo cute!"
As I was sketching, I had decided not to color after all the pencil work is finshed. Because some of these details are very, very small--and I don't think some of them would be seen very good once it's colored. (Very small titles written into the spines of some of the books, and Sokka's hand for example). Sooo I'm just going to have it be a pencil sketch. If I want a colored Sokka, I would have to draw him bigger. The same goes with Mao, because he will be drawn even smaller! His collar and bell attached to it will be tiny! So no, no color for this one. Just shading.
Now I must get dinner started. Be back soonish!
When I stepped out the door to wait for the bus, I could not help but look at this pretty plant near the neighbor's house across the street and to the right. I have no idea what this plant is but it caught attention for about a minute.
Just after I opened up the back gate on the way to my bookshop, I started to consider taking those bunches of pictures with my little JP raptor I call Shorty, for raptor_family. It wasn't until after I finished opening up and turning everything on that I started doing it. I figured I might as well get the outdoors part done before it would rain--but it didn't. So I watered the potted plants again today. All in all, it was very nice out! Had a good time placing Shorty here and there from the back gate all the way to just outside my shop. I'll have a Shorty update on there after I'm done fixing and eating dinner. It's going to be divided into different parts, with the photos and little commentary from the dino's perspective. I already thought of what he'd say in telling the tale of his epic new adventure...
I started enhancing and brightening the dark ones on the old PC (as well as making an icon for Shorty from now on when it comes to posting as him) for a while before I went out to buy a cherry Coke. As nice as today has been, it's also been slow. Only had one browser.
Anyway, after lunch (leftover pizza, a nutty buddy bar, and soda), I got back to sketching. I got started on Sokka!! It's looking overall very good so far. I finished drawing some of the basics of his head, down to one arm and hand. Took a long while to do, after finishing up on drawing in the top of the bookshelf he and Mao will be in front of and got part of the next row started.His whole arm and hand I did was the most challenging for today. I also got most of his facial expression, an ear, and the start of what his outfit will look like.
In my previous entry, I mentioned that I hadn't decided which of two postures and expressions Sokka would have when speaking to Mao. Today I decided the "What are you talking about?" expression over the "Aww that sounds soo cute!"
As I was sketching, I had decided not to color after all the pencil work is finshed. Because some of these details are very, very small--and I don't think some of them would be seen very good once it's colored. (Very small titles written into the spines of some of the books, and Sokka's hand for example). Sooo I'm just going to have it be a pencil sketch. If I want a colored Sokka, I would have to draw him bigger. The same goes with Mao, because he will be drawn even smaller! His collar and bell attached to it will be tiny! So no, no color for this one. Just shading.
Now I must get dinner started. Be back soonish!