and they're off ~ !

i'm off to a cranky start this morning. the dogs slept until 9 and now my whole morning is wonky (so much for dogs being a good alarm clock!)

it snowed last night ~ a nice cosmetic patch for what was getting grey and slushy ~ we got a good 3 to 4 inches accumulation (knew i shoulda gone to the grovery store yesterday!). that's all right, i don't really need anything desperately and it's too beautiful to complain about.

still doodling. drew a little three-panel scene last night (drew it badly, i might add), but it was good practice to see what i could do with the pens. there's a dick blick in edina <~ eeeeeeeeee! and one in roseville. and one in minnetonka. so so so dangerous. i've resolved that i am not allowed to buy anything until i've exhausted my supplies here. and i still have lots of supplies, so it will be a while before i can go chasing off.

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okay, i have scripts to write this morning. but before i go, because christastrophe reminded me that i had been wanting to post this forever, i leave you with:



read the story here

and now for something completely snowy ~

aside from this tree (which i snapped between my place and the park), today has been a wash. i worked little, painted little, lost hours doing i-don't-know-what (that ever-popular pastime).

i haven't given up on the whole newfound inking thing or anything like that ~ i'm just sort of at odds trying to come up with a project to try it out on. i'm not good at thinking in short and simple (everything is epic!) ~ so i've mostly inked a lot of doodles i had laying around (and drew pictures of snowy trees ~ can you tell i am a wee bit distracted?)

i need to sit still and come up with a story or at least a scene that will hold my focus long enough to draw it. i thought of pulling something from my NaNo novel or starting Exposition over again. i think Exposition would be the best thing: it's finished (writing-wise) and i know what the beginning looks like.

okay maybe i will go do that. then we can compare the original set of illustrations to the new ones and see what there is to see.

: D