Did I actually write a half-poem on books about the vagina? Er, yes, I did.

(The Vagina Monographs: an illustrated poem)

In less uncomfortable news, I have also been drawing things on the long, long bus ride to work. Because it is so long and I'm tired of telling myself I will do urban sketching when I have the time.

I wrote 1000 words last night on the interdimensional Mughal-era Benedictine nun YA novel last night. This is more words than I have written for it in literally years. I really need to work harder on these projects I supposedly really care about. I also began to sketch out a watercolour illustration which is going...about as well, considering I am ( Read more... )

Have been doing some more digital work, stretching my legs in Photoshop and vector programs. You can see it on the art blog:

New banner header

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In related news, my MacBook Air has been incredibly slow lately. Is it the heat or the workload...?

In the end, it's just practice, isn't it? Like drawing. You can't say you're 'naturally' bad at it; what happens is you don't practice enough. Making friends is an art: it's fun and takes some work ( Read more... )

So many of my favourite anime series revolve around the twin concepts of 'loneliness' and 'friendship'. More precisely, almost every anime I've seen from the simplistic to the weirdly convoluted hinge on the idea of 'connection'. Sometimes it's more 'you are like me', but often it's also 'I did not expect to find this common ground with someone so ( Read more... )

A funny thing happened on the way back from the shops...

I have been wanting to read Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader for a few years, and I had forgotten it until I saw it in a pile sitting on someone's garden wall. There were maybe twenty others including two Twilight books, a Stieg Larsson and a Nicholas Sparks. They had been set out for anyone ( Read more... )

Because, of course, feelings always culminate in fanart on this journal.

( featuring mostly Armand, some Marius, and a very special guest )

OOPS I FORGOT--I saw Richard II. Not in person, I mean the Hollow Crown series was showing on HBO and
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I've been following
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So I've been writing a Little Mermaid retelling in which the mermaid is male, the Sea Witch is also male (and in love with him) and instead of being set in pseudo-medieval England, it's set in pseudo-medieval Moorish Spain.

Anyway, have some wistful angst and pretty boys in flowy robes. Pentel brush pen and Caran D'Ache aquarelle pencils.

( sketch below )