Human Mimeograph

asakiyume: How does this look for a rough sketch of M--?



The scanner washed out the curl in her hair, & I couldn't decide if she should have short or long hair; I can change it if you like.

(This is an illustration for asakiyume's Pen Pal series, which involves messages in bottles, volcanoes, political dissidents, and a floating city, and is therefore much cooler than this picture can do it justice. What can I say, sometimes I have random sketching attacks. Also you should all go read the story.)

...and then I was having such a good sketching that I decided to draw a picture for my brother, who is having shoulder surgery this week.

( Picture! )

My creative endeavors are very hard on my friends and family. "Oh hey!" I'll cry, "I've got this brilliant story idea where you turn into a turtle and nearly get eaten by the Devil! With illustrations!"

Unfortunate friend: O.O

"And by I have this idea I mean it's already written and illustrated. Want to read it?"

I have a WHOLE SERIES of these. They are TOTALLY BRILLIANT. You can tell, because my friends have not banded together to remove all computers, pens, pencils, and paper from my custody.

Oxford!

Going to Oxford tomorrow! If all goes well, I will be having a very late lunch at The Eagle and Child, which is where Tolkien and C. S. Lewis and the writers' group the Inklings met to drink and chat about writing.

I am taking my notebook along. Just in case.

I'm also taking along George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin to read on the train. MacDonald was one of both Tolkien and Lewis's favorite writers - in The Great Divorce, MacDonald basically acts as Lewis's Virgil - so I figure there must be something to him. WE SHALL SEE.

Be back Saturday!