Zorbius lives!
21
Mar
2010
Part Two of the Black Dragon image! It will NOT be in black and white when finished, but for now it is. More to come!
The music is from ocremix.org
Final Fantasy VII No Such Thing as the Promised Land by Sephire/SGX
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black Dragon part 1:
20
Mar
2010
I’m currently working on this illustration for Tales of Auli. I’m putting a lot of effort into the detail, and eventually the atmosphere and coloring layers. The whole recording was running long, so I had to split it into parts. On top of that, I had to change the music because YouTube wouldn’t let me use Kashmir by Led Zepplin.
The music is now Superbeast and How to Make a Monster by Rob Zombie.
top o’ th’… afternoon?
17
Mar
2010
I WISH WISH WISH I ‘d had a camera with me today.
Doing a timed run for the bus company, we found ourselves in Rowley, where the farms and houses are awesome and expensive. The midday sun was gorgeous and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky… and to top it all off we saw a duplex built like a castle, with two towers and everything.
Today is Saint Patrick’s Day. I made my hat festive.
This has been the first St. Pat’s day I actively celebrated in a while, mostly because I didn’t think it was fair the native pagan religions were subverted by Christianity (for the record, I am a Catholic.) Then I realized I can’t really change the past by being bored and unhappy in the present. The best course of action would be to celebrate the heck out of Halloween this year, which I plan to do. Since Halloween is on a weekend this year, I think I might head to Salem. I hear they throw a great spooky shindig.
This week was awesome for many reasons, and crappy for a few. I suppose that evens it out? I choose to focus on the good right now.
Shortly after updating my blog last week I started work on an illustration for my friend Lyndsey:
In the process I ran the events of the book (I co-authored) through my head. We’re in the middle of a rewrite as it is, but it never hurts to think over the story and find holes or new ideas and insights to add. It was Thursday, I was in the kitchen doing the dishes when all of a sudden the THING happened.
You know the THING if you ever were truly inspired. Like lightning struck the top of my head, popping my eyes open wide, sticking my tongue to the roof of my mouth, freezing my arms in place and causing my toes to lift off the ground. The THING is a new idea, and it feels like falling in love with your own brain (or wherever it is ideas come from. I heard there’s a place in Schenectady that delivers them.) I hustled to the computer and tapped out some notes in an email, sent them speeding down the wires to Lyndsey, and let the momentum carry me. I wrote a new poem:
L is for Luck
The Bad and the Good
and all Little People who live in the wood.
Under stones, under hills, in the basements of homes,
Trolls, Leprechauns, Brownies and Gnomes.
… inspired partly by Saint Patrick’s Day, naturally. I sketched and I cleaned and I drew. I clean when I can’t draw and I draw when I don’t have anything left to clean. I sketch whenever I feel like it.
I also watched a lot of documentaries this week, and realized what it was I was missing before. The THING, and the joy of having real ideas that belong to me, and just plain LEARNING something new. We’re bombarded by information every day, all the time, and it’s gotten to be so much that I forgot what it felt like to seek information and learn it. You have an answer as soon as you can type the question these days, and I’m not saying that’s wrong (in fact I think it’s awesome) just that I became numbed to the feeling of learning something new.
Didn’t mean for this to become such a novel! As I said, a lot of stuff happened.
rollin’
03
Mar
2010
Danielle turned to me earlier this week and said, “I was gonna make my Facebook status ‘Rolling a big katamari’ but then I decided most of my coworkers would think I was getting high.”
Lately I’ve been mulling over updating with tweets, but I don’t have a reliable phone or mobile device with which to tweet. Also, I’m not sure my moment-to-moment thoughts are worth sharing, but everyone who’s thinking of tweeting says that.
I read The Regulators by Stephen King as Richard Bachman. It was one of those odd King books. I realized most of the time if I don’t enjoy a King book its because his ending was rushed or hollow. Like he had a great idea but no resolution in mind when he started. But then again he’s the most successful author in the world or something, so maybe I just need to be less anal about my endings and write as often as he does.
Addicting video games and cooking aside, the week’s been slow. Work moves at a glacial pace, but once I get home the day zooms into bedtime territory. I’d be frustrated if I wasn’t so frazzled.
moving Day
06
Feb
2010
