transitions ~

thank you all for your well wishes ~ ! i am returned from Costa Rica unkilled by the heat and dusted with something that almost looks like a tan (if you only knew how white i was before!). don't have the vacation pictures yet, so i will hold off on sharing the fabulousness until then.

i went away thinking i would spend a lot of time mulling over projects and getting mentally organized to come back and make a bold assault on all of my creative aspirations. in truth, i spent almost no time whatsoever actually thinking about anything at all. i really needed the break.

i made some decisions before i left that i hope i can stick to. among them, i am deconstructing Reconstruction one final time with one final major change to the artwork and a transition out of the current storyline. it's one thing to transition abruptly out of something ~ it's a bigger trick to kick off what comes next in a way that will hopefully eventually make sense. i have a lot of work ahead of me.



Razi-el dons a scarf for a "hood".
i probably spent more time and energy trying to decide on Razi-el's garb for the transition than anything else. i'm still not sure how i feel about putting him in "real" clothes, but i had been wanting to get away from the robes and wings business for a long long time.

and yeah, it's all just pencil. i'm dropping the ink and the painting. i'm just 1,000 times happier with the art in its "raw" form.

i haven't a prayer of catching up on my lj flist. hope everyone is well and i will just jump in with reponses, etc., when i can.

happy weekend all!

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