After slight derailment, the night train rallys! I'd have been better off letting a few more of these plastic dinosaurs get to work, but in any case I have succeeded in finishing off 3 additional images for the book.
I will make a few more additions and then post the final art. The "one of those nights" theme has been further enlivened by the fact that our daughter has been inexplicably awake since 1:45AM. Not sick. Not able to hear me working from her bedroom. Not usually prone to this behavior... Nonetheless, she is sitting in my lap right now and has succeeded in clouding that aforementioned "endless potential" of an evening :) I've gotten some work done, even with her company, but far far less than I'd hoped. So it goes...
Here it goes, one of those inescapable realities (for me at least) of work as an author & illustrator: the all nighter! Part of me loves it. The family tucked soundly into bed, the dog rumbling and squeeking on the couch, the BBC awaiting at midnight, and 8 blissful hours of uninterrupted time stretching with endless potential... Sensibly enough however, I don't indulge in such practice on too regular a basis. More than most I imagine, but it can't be healthy. Deadlines light the fire however and I always need a few of these wonderful evenings to get a book project finally put to bed. Get cozy. Here we go!
Freed at last from his ancient prison, the Monkey King quickly proved himself a demanding, boastful, arrogant beast -- rampaging though the world. Some treat their freedoms with grace and dignity...others wreak havoc. So it has gone. So it goes.
The latest in a series of sketches that I've been working out. Boo, the character depicted here, is checking in on her pet dinosaur, who is sleeping just below her bedroom window.
My first Illustration Friday posting -- the sketch anyhow. I didn't quite join this new venture in time for finishing last week's topic on time. I will post the finished piece on Sunday. The theme: "Roots". Mine scare me. The topic for this coming week is "Depth". Look out below.
Working out some new sketches. They are coming slowly. Work, not play, will get me there.
Alas, that "Every-Other-Day" mantra will be hard to keep up with. So it goes. I am certainly drawing every day, its more a matter of prioritizing time and taking the break to scan things in and make a post. by that admission, I'm not currently very good "blogger" material, but suppose that I will get more in the groove over time. Keep up while you can!
