zachariah

Missing two days in a row means I am a terrible person. This is something we already knew. In my defense, I drew on paper and just never bothered scanning it on one of the days, so I did get a little practice. I also cleaned/refilled my fountain pen; I'd like to practice my penmanship a little. My scrawl now is nigh unrecognizable. Normal pens, you say? Blasphemy!

Dewey's Readathon was yesterday, and I didn't take part. The first week it was on my radar it was just another "thing Nay's gonna do", then I realized "hey, this is something I can do!". I hadn't asked off of work, and didn't really have a stack of books I was burning to read, so I decided not to officially sign up this time. I did decide to try to read the massive volume compilation pt.1 of Sandman, but I ended up just finishing Twilight instead. At work. Half the book in two hours, which is pretty good for me (I'm a slow reader). I've taken books to work before, and it always ends the same way - I eat the book and neglect my work. It's not a good habit to form, but it is oh-so-satisfying.

( Image is very small, but I'll cut for consistency. )

I'm slowly getting through Kingdom Hearts. I just beat the Agrabah world, which is probably not very far into the game, but it's farther than I've ever been in-game.

( Morning coffee 'n art. )

Tomorrow be the job fair. I need a dress coat. -_-

( Moar! )

I like how these images are being kept in my "lj" folder currently.

( Wall of words? )

Well, this is a bit better than the last giant face I posted, but not by too much. One of these days, someone will explain "expressions" to me. :)

( About an hour and a half. )

I like kitchens, partly because they produce such delicious items such as pie. I'm a cake fan, I love cookies, I'd put my life on the line for a golden slab of baklava, there's a sweet spot in my soul for pie, etc.

Let's just say I appreciate sugar.

( 15-20min? Forced myself not to color. )

Or here, for that matter. I'm a wee bit late for work.

( 30 minute color fun. )

Spending hours alone in the apartment is a funny thing lately. I find it difficult to focus, and just kind of drift around in my head. I've doodled an absolute ton today, and deleted most of it as crap. What little I've kept needs dramatic revision. Drawing is fun, but coming out of an unplanned retirement is hard. I'm far rustier than I like, and I'm using a completely new tool to draw with than I was a year ago. It's very nice and makes a lot of things easier, but it's also got a tiny screen and puts out heat like a furnace, straight up into my chest. No wonder I'm sweating.

( The eyes have it. )

I should not be up, I should not be frakking up, I do not understand why my brain has not ceased activity yet. I am five kinds of lucky that I don't work today. And that I have lots of coffee. Fraaaak.

I'm posting a very quick sketch. I don't know if I will do so again tomorrow. Nay has encouraged this art hobby for years, but I'm a criticism-phobic curmudgeon with more love than talent for this sort of thing, so I think I've worn her down. At least, she doesn't make the suggestion so often anymore.

( 15 min, and had to stop myself before I redrew everything from scratch. )

I have three weeks to brush up on .NET before an informational meeting for a local dev company at the school. I don't know whether I should shoot for the internship or the entry-level salaried position. If Nay gets the time off, I'll also be able to visit my parents and grandma (from Washington) for a day or two. I've been reading every day for about a week, which is nice, but odd. I've been drawing lately, which after something like a year (?) of nothing, is...refreshing. It's easy to forget how fun it is to make things appear. It's easier to see the mistakes, and that's indubitably why I quit so often, but I'll try not to focus on the negative.

Cripes, it's late.

I've gone from having consecutive days off to split days off, and I'm not sure whether I like it or not. Most of the time I only have to work two days before getting more time off, but errands that need to be done seem more time consuming. Yeah, whine whine whine. :D

I'm restarting Kingdom Hearts. I've wanted to play through these games for years, but I've never been able to get far enough into it to set the addiction. My plan this time around is 30 minutes a day, before I go to bed. Now if I had a similar plan for coding and drawing, I might really start feeling good about myself!

I haven't called my parents in a while. Maybe I ought to?