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ugh...
I just finished the first lettering pass for a book and my heart is in turmoil. Grraaaaah. It can be such a sweet series, and the earlier books filled me with absolute delight, but this latest one has some questionable-to-just-plain-wrong developments taking up a good chunk of its pages and all I can think is Whyyyyyy, Japan??? Why would you mess ( Read more... ) -
i did some things
This week's accomplishments (so far ( Read more... ) -
I'll miss you, September...
Hi friends! It's time for me to make a post for the month, since it's the last day I can still do so ( Read more... ) -
happy july!
Happy my birthday ( Read more... ) -
done with everything! (until tomorrow)
I'm taking this moment and this post to write that I have absolutely no work that I need to be doing right this second (oh wait, except a couple illustration sketches. gah! forget that, for the sake of this post). Glorious feeling!! I still have upcoming things to be done (soon) on my calendar, but I don't have materials for any of them at this ( Read more... ) -
one-handed typing post (part-way)
Oh no! What shall I do? My right hand has been rendered unusable because a fuzzy sweet cat has fallen asleep on it! (I am absolutely bragging, yes ( Read more... ) -
garden thrills
I have accomplished just SO many things today! Not all of them should be counted as accomplishments, probably (like painting my toenails "iridescent beetle" shade (I came up with that myself-you layer iridescent turquoise-y polish over black, and it is beautiful), or sampling new(!!) non-dairy frozen yogurt flavours at the local froyo-fad place, or ( Read more... ) -
weekend excursion
My mum and I went to a pottery sale this weekend!! It was great fun. I went home with a cute pair of matching bowls, and these neat little Celtic-knot-design earrings. My mum got two more matching bowls, and a pretty ikebana vase from a potter who had all these creative, interesting designs (my favourite was a big rectangle, like a shallow box ( Read more... ) -
cutest kitten, pretty dog, beautiful music
I was out tonight for a dinner with folks from church ("Saltshaker Dinner," which we do something like yearly? people sign up and then are randomly divided into groups and meet at people's homes and it's fun since you get to spend time with folks you might not normally talk to). When I returned home and opened the door, Josie quickly met me there. ( Read more... ) -
Dramatic Turnaround!!!!!
So that book cover illustration I've been agonizing about! I had a very sudden and unexpected inspiration yesterday when I sat down with my original sketch, looked at it with some disdain, and turned over to another page. Bam!! I could do that... and put that there... and ooh, how about... And now I've got a start on a cover that I'm really excited ( Read more... )