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Isaac and I had a good weekend. Friday was the Artwalk and since we hadn't been in quite awhile we stopped by. It was so so packed! I didn't find anything but a cute cake keychain. Everyone went to Roosevelt's where we were lucky enough to find a table. I had a cup of Woodchuck, the only beer I can stand. Later on we went over to Vanessa's and stayed till two in the morning.

On Saturday Isaac and I had pancakes. Him...pumpkins and I...pecan buttermilk. Then we went to the library and checked out books on how to survive an alien invasion, forgotten cocktails, crafting, typography, poetry, Japanese patterns, and a Kobe Abe novel. Success! I'm kind of surprised how many good books are local library buys. I hadn't gone in a very long time. Then he went off to close at work. I went to visit him for his lunch and stayed a couple of hours reading magazines and taking lame pictures on Photobooth. I love being around him while he works!

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A couple of days ago I found out I have surpassed my yearly goal of reading 52 books! 56 so far! I didn't think I was going to make it this year because of starting school but somehow I did. Does anyone still do this 52 books a year thing? How many have you read so far? Lately:

What I Was by Meg Rosoff - Most amazing, brilliant, beautiful, every single good word rolled into one imaginary non-existent word that doesn't exist but should so as to describe this lovely book.

Persepolis and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi - Wonderful, can't believe I took so long to read them.

One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box by Deb Olin Unferth, Sarah Manguso + Dave Eggers - A lot of hit or miss with me but I really didn't like Deb Olin Unferth's stories.

The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival: Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone by Dene Low - Childrens book I picked up because of the pretty illustration on the cover. It seemed like it would be a cute story but I found it disappointing.

Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs by Ellen Kennedy - One of the most awful, poorly written, no-point books I've ever read. It's supposed to be a book of poems.

Lastly, check this book out. Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails: From the Alamagoozlum to the Zombie 100 Rediscovered Recipes and the Stories Behind Them. Recipes for vintage cocktails from the 1800s to the 1940s, super awesome! We, Isaac's friends and us, are planning a small cocktail party to make some of these. Can't wait!

Trying to figure out a colour scheme that would work on a longer project and wouldn't be so time consuming as the current default. Here's a page from The Treasure of Constantinople, re-dunned. Too much work, but my other attempts sucked. I never drew it with any solid blacks or any colour plan, and it's obvious that the dudes who are good at this stuff think about that first.


Here's another one, where I did all the values first and then tried to do colour washes overtop, similar to the David Roberts stuff I've been looking at this week. Dunno what I'm doing wrong, though - it looks muddy.


I'd like to be able to do something simple that wouldn't be too time consuming, but I think since I didn't originally plan for solid blacks, my dumb ass will have to do it the hard way.

my eyes are sore from playing so much

(i need a job)

God dammit i hate illustrator. Any tips guys? the program really isnt intuitive at all.
This is my first attempt, so be gentle! i'm gonna try and produce a new illustrator image every day so that i hopefully become efficient this time next month.

DAMMIT I HATE YOU ILLUSTRATOR WHY ARE YOU AN INDUSTRY STANDARD?!</p>

Is it a Chud? A mole? Who knows....he wants to scratch your back, though...

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That cat has CRAZYFACE!

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