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E is for Edith

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I'm sure everyone is already tired of seeing people that they've never heard of being sketched out for my daily stuff... well, sorry, today is another character from my fantasy novel in progress. A girl named Edith.

She's king of the pinwheel that all the characters revolve around, well, in a Ptolemaic sort of fashion. She's a nice girl in my story, but, well, lemons and and lemonade and all that.

Her fist hurts from punching monsters in the face.

D is for Demog

A-Z Challenge day number 4!

Back to things from my would-be fantasy novel. This is something I referred to as a Demog in my manuscript so far. It's a chimera made by the gods to torment men.

It ended up looking a bit more ape-like than what I wanted to sketch, but again, you're getting first drafts, I'm not going back and changing stuff once its down.

It's funny, the reason I like sketching, or art in general, is because it allows me to express things that exist only in my head for others to vie...

C is for Carp

Day 3 of the A-Z Challenge.. click for more info.

After the previous couple of days I wanted to do something not human. I was going to do a car, but decided that I really wasn't that interested in doing all those straight lines and perfect circles (or ovals, whatever).

So, instead I did a fish... a carp to be exact. Except I don't really know what they look like. I checked out Google - turns out they look just like regular fish. So, whatever. Here's a fish... I mean, here's a carp.

I live in...

B is for Bit

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Yes, it's day two. This sketch was much quicker than yesterday's. I decided that even if I'm not too happy with them, they're going up anyway. For me, sketching, painting, sculpting, writing, I'm not too great the first go round, I tend to vomit something up and hope it looks okay. I usually work several ideas up before I ever get one to the point I'm willing to show someone.

Well, not this month, it's a daily dose of fir...

A is for Andrew

Okay, it's day one of the A-Z Challenge and I'm raring to go. Actually, I'm ready to quit. To repeat for something like, the 12th time in the past week, I decided to chuck my previous theme at the last minute and go with something new.

So I decided Friday night to go with a sketch-a-day. And after an hour piddling around I came up with today's image. I was going to do something astronomy related, then I decided to do a pretty complicated scene with an old man staring at the stars... astronomy ...

What Am I Going to Do?

IT'S ONLY TWO DAYS before the beginning of the A-Z challenge and as I've mentioned several times in the past week or two, I'm chucking my previous A-Z posts. What am I going to do in its stead?
Yes, it's true, and I hope everyone is ready for this epic 11th hour ditching of a month's worth of posts. Now I can tell you what I was going to post about, since I'm not doing that anymore. 
The Alphabet.
Yes, I was going to start 'A' by talking about the letter 'A.' My first post talked about Arsenio H...

Looks Like I Became a TV Snob

THE OTHER DAY my son was all freaked out because he said he had to have this show DVR'd and he wasn't going to be around to do it. He asked if I would pretty please take care of it for him. No problem.
I whipped out he 'ol remote and started thumbing the menu options and I noticed something: None of the menus looked right. The font was wrong, the little icons were wrong, the colors of the little boxes were wrong. Was this even my TV?
Technically, it was the cable company that made the changes...

My Dog Will Eat You!

My wife wanted to give any would be criminals or trespassers fair warning.
The attack dog would have come closer... but  he's scared of the sign.
Guster, the dog of doom, will devour your toes in a fit of fury should you dare to pass through into his domain.

I hope everyone had a pleasant weekend. I suppose I did. Although it was filled with missed opportunities.

However, now that it's Monday, I'm anxious to touch on the Comment Of The Week from last week. I don't have travel too far back in tim...

Witches, Chiropractors, and Esperanto.. How Can It Not Be Good?

I often play dumb here on my blog, I also tend to take stances on issues that I don't really support because I want people to like me. It's part of a great effort on my part not to come off as a jerk. People don't like know-it-alls. I want people to like me, so I play dumb. Sometimes I write something that is really intended more for comedic effect and may not necessarily reflect my true views on a subject… the real me is still a mystery. So, I figured I'd post about some things and how...

I Bought BOOKS!

I MADE MENTION in Monday's post that I was back in the writing saddle now. All geared up and ready to roll with that fantasy novel I was working on last fall. I whipped out all these notes I made before I started writing, world building notes, my outline, even a synopsis of events leading up to the story.
None of that matched what I wrote.
I'm not sure what the point of an outline is if I don't actually use it. But I apparently found some use for it. So, I went back and reread my 50k or so of s...