Day #22.Favorite Cartoon Character

Inexplicably New York. Smexy but not a Furry. "Metrosexual" before it was even a word. The exception that proves the rule... the friggen exception to every rule. Needs no introduction...

...accept no substitutes, Doc.

Day #21.Guilty Pleasure

I'm not big on guilt; I drink, I swear, I'm loud and I'm OK with these things, so this theme wasn't easy.

Coffee is all I got; I feel guilty it dehydrates me to the point that I shouldn't have more Coffee, but then I do anyway and feel better... right before I feel a whole lot worse.

Hence the "Guilt" :D

Day #20.Your Dream Job

@7 I wanted to be a firemen, but I knew I wasn't really up to the physicality of it.
@14 I wanted to be an architect, but I knew couldn't wrap my brain around the maths of it.
@21 I wanted to be able to walk again, properly, without braces or canes, which I since have done.

<--That sort of thing teaches you achievable dreams aren't really worth the time to dream them, in fact they're called "Goals". That's the sort of thing I wish I could unlearn.

Since then, myself, I don't dream anymore. But insomnia leaves me a lot of hours to be captured up in crazed thoughts; neither dreams nor goals, just ramblings of happy mad-bits tied together by couplets and limericks matched w/ phosphorescent images, some would call musings.

I think I've trained all my life to be suited to the task "Creating".

If I could have a dream job, it would probably be to make of "Job of Dreaming", make 'em bigger, better, broader. BOMBASTIC even. I reckon' I'd be quite good at that.

Day #19.Sea Creature

Our Ronnie (veronicakaitlyn) asked for Loch Ness, so this is for her. I never did much imagine Nessie was a Brontosaurus. I like to imagine she’s more magical than just that. Not that a Brontosaurus could really be ‘just’ anything.

Day #18.ZOMBIES

Beside my tablet, I keep a vial of Zombie!Cure I picked up sometime ago. I've got escape routes, weapons, back-up escape routes, back-up weapons, etc. Zombie Apocalypse comes & I'm all about the double-tap + heads-shots-only. I get that.
But today, I realized what I don't get is "Fan-Girls". If they ever up-rose... I'd just swallow my shotgun.

Appearance @ B+N [Union Square, NYC]

Speaking on things inherently New York; how 'bout a public Appearance;

"ZOMBIES" is tomorrow theme for 30 Day Drawing Challenge, so if you're going to be in NYC, come to The Infernal Devices; Clockwork Angel book release/announcement event, where I will probably ask you to make your bestest zombie face

Actually, ~SupeRsquiTo-PouF and I will be there, hiding in plain sight, while Cassie Clare says a thing, in the after glow of Holly Black & Maureen Johnson being awesome, plus Prizes and Revelry!

Barnes & Nobles in Store Event
Wednesday August 04, 2010 7:00 PM
Union Square
33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-253-0810

I would say, "If you can come, that'd be swell. If you can't... I hear someone will be someone will be live-streaming it, " . . . BUT as someone on DeviantArt pointed out this is very likely to be the only thing (in the foreseeable future) where Nic, Cassie + my small s'Elf will be under the same roof!

So, if you have your copy of FCBD: City of Bones Comic I suggest you make the effort to come out. I'd promise not to bite but that option feels subjective.

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Wednesday’s [August 4th 2010, B+N Union Square affair] was a warm and memorable event (and not just because the humidity was about a billion). Thank you to everyone who turned up and made it awesomener!

We were all very grateful. Actually, grateful doesn’t begin to sum up…

Here’s a photo from our dinner, well fed and sated, three of my all-time favorite people (Honey Coated Casshat, Shiny Happy Holls hugged on by Our Crys ), being happy, together. I ♥/∞

[The pic links to an LJ!Scrapbook full of photos. If you’ve got some too, I’d love to see/share them!]

Now, you know, back to work-stuffs…

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Day #17.A Delicious Food

(World Famous) Lindy's Cheesecake. There is nothing better... and if there is I'd never know since I've developed a crippling intolerance to lactose. Still, make a bee-line for there whenever I get near her, at least for Good Morning Coffee or Midday Long Island Ice-Teas :D

Day #16.Drawing With Eyes Closed

Another bit of a cheat, Collab effort with one of my wards, 8-year-old Grace. She wanted to draw the T.A.R.D.I.S. in the Time-Vortex. All the colors and crayons are hers. I kept my eyes closed all the while it was, freakishly intense for me...

Day #15.A Dinosaur

Bit of a cheat cuz this is NOT a dinosaur, but I was looking at the Dinosaurs on the toy-shelf, trying to pick just one, when I saw Retro!Godzilla giving Nu!Godzilla the stank eye. This just had to be done.

Day #14.Portrait of a Pet(s)

• Misery [Age 18]; she's a flippin' Ninja.
• Omen [Age 9]; she's a goddamn pillow.
• Id [Age 71/2]; she's the kindest, dumbest, gentlest pile of black fur you’d ever meet. Sucha shame there's such stigma about black cats, racists!

Day #13.A Freaking Baby

Tamir’s Child + a Nymph from Cirque Du Soleil; Allegria.

Day #12.An Elderly Person

Fleur + an Nostalgic Old Bird from “Cirque Du Soleil; Allegria”. Maybe a cheat, since their features are exaggerated to begin with but since we’ve been watching this DVD for the past few days, its hard to pull inspiration from anywhere else.

Day #11.Super Villain

When it comes to “Villains” there is no one more villainous than Hilter… except I don’t want to draw him, so instead I’ve drawn Charlie Chaplin (from ‘the Great Dictator’), because he is still rather “Super”.

Day #10.Super Hero

Charlie Chaplin was much more than just Super and he has/will always been a Hero to me.

Day #9.Siamese Twins

First thought; it could only be of Ping + Jing [from Big Fish], partly because for Twins, conjoined or otherwise, they've got such different countenance its equally disarming as it is charming ...but mostly because they end up with Wandering Poet Laureate/Turned Bank Robber/Turned Wall Street Tycoon played by Steve Buscemi, which is a level of awesome I could never capture on paper.

Day #8.Scene From A Movie

Having just watched "Inception" for the second time, it's difficult to entertain the prospect of drawing of a scene from any other movie... but then comes the tougher choice of which scene, since I kinda love them all.

So, here is 13-hours of straight quick work, including a bit of something from nearly every scene, only not spoiler-y (if you can imagine such a thing!)

CLICK thru to see the individual sketches on tumblr

• The Shade
• The Extractor
• The Mark
• The Forger
• The Pointman
• The Architect
• The Tourist
  

Day #7.Hybrid Animal

Up till an hour ago, not a damn thing came to mind, until I saw SciFi Channel's trailer promos from ComicCon2010 and among them was "Sharktopus"(?!). It's not the it inspired, it's that the concept confused me. Because if Sharks can only see shapes through shadow... well, honestly, wouldn't they just scare the crap out of themselves if they were part Octopus? I think, yes...

Day #6.What's In Your Bag?

Most common items found in every bag I own; 1) Fleur De Lis 2) packets of Sugar and 3) specialized stationary… possibly a RedBull. To think, this is my tiniest bag, still pretty full-up with nerdist chaos <3

For a change of pace and medium, I borrowed the schoolroom and its supplies, which was a good idea in every way except execution. Believe me, the last thing you want is children poking through your things while you’re focused on trying to capture “still life”.
Hardest.Theme.Yet.

Day #5.Childhood Memory

My earliest childhood memory is having been mauled by a dog at age 2. I didn't mind very much cuz I loved that dog. I've loved no other dog since. Seriously, total cat-person... and now it makes sense.

Day #4.Redesign Book Cover

I always resented how drab Salinger's Book Covers were. I could never hate the man, but he sure made resenting him easy. Only "Catcher" had a variant cover, but that did little for me since "Franny & Zooey" was always my favorite of his works. See?

Note: Favoritism!