lassitude

It's been a busy few weeks at the Art Cave.

Moving preparations, which I'd been putting off, now need to be tackled At Once, as I now have a little over a month to winnow, cull, and pack up all my worldly possessions. This makes me want to take to my bed with the vapors. Tackling it even a little bit at a time is overwhelming. Where are my cabaña boys to handle this all?

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Work is busy, I suppose, in the sense that there is a lot to do, with no immediate deadline for most of the projects -- just a distant thought about how it really should all get done soonish. So Saltmine U. continues much as it has been.

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I have a new painting to do, which I'm quite excited about, but want to keep the subject secret until it's finished.

More class work from the man with two silver earrings than I want to think about is in the queue.

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Comic-con looms.

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And all this, combined with summer heat, is giving me a severe case of lassitude, and lack of appetite -- sure signs of stress. Some people, when stressed, devour everything that isn't nailed down. I, however, end up picking at food when I get preoccupied, and have to be reminded to eat. Stress exacerbates this. The only thing that sounds appealing at the moment is faffing about, drinking gin & tonic.

Well.

That's not the only thing.

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sketchbook dump

From the quicksketch class a week-and-a-half ago; marker, 5 minutes each. I've discovered that five minutes seems to be about the shortest period of time I can successfully manage a drawing in. All the sketches done in three-, two-, and one-minute intervals just do not look nearly as good. Also, I need more practice getting the markers to look smooth and not scratchy.

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sample comic page class assignment

This was the last digital assignment: take a section of a comic script, and do the pencils, inks, and color for the 3-panel page, in three hours.... This assignment was the most fun I'd had in the digital class in weeks; maybe even since it started. The page is rough, choppy, and needs a lot of work, but I got it all done in three hours; the only person in the class who managed it.

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tribal bellydancer digital quick sketch

Here's another one of Sabrina, who stayed to pose for the night's digital illustration class.... The little quick sketches are rough for me; I usually need much, much longer to get anything that looks like a form down. If I can just get the form to roll and the values correct in that short time, I consider it a win.

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tribal bellydancer painting

I'm very happy with how this one turned out, and Sabrina, the model, liked it too, which was a great compliment.... It's interesting to me how the paintings of models I know and get along with turn out whole orders of magnitude better than the ones where I don't know the model at all. There's something about making that connection that helps me immensely in getting a read on who they are and what they're about, and I think it shows in the resulting work.

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