Day 3 - Bucket List

1. Write and illustrate a(nother) children's book (no matter how many, this will always be on my bucket list)
2. Write and illustrate a graphic novel
3. Be a positive influence in the lives of troubled kids
4. Have my own Wikipedia page
5. Be in a band (other than the marching band - that one's already been crossed off)
6. Go to Burning Man
7. Go skydiving
8. Be a stand-up comedian
9. Write a full-length play and have it produced (I'd also accept a series of one-acts)
10. Listen to a cover of "Baby Got Back" sung by Sean Connery

Day 2 - Two

You and me against the world.

Day 1 - New

I'm trying a new 31-day blog challenge, because I always want to blog - really! - but I can never think of anything I want to blog about.
As mentioned in my most recent post from weeks and weeks ago, I've been taking old crappy drawings from years ago, and reworking them to try and make them better. It originally began as an exercise to use up my cheap gel pens, but turned into an exercise in self-encouragement. It feels really good to draw over an old drawing with my new drawing skills, and see how far I've come in the past couple of years.
Hence, in the theme of Day 1 of the 31-Day Blog Challenge, I found this old drawing of a baby and a scary hand that I did about 3 years ago. I don't remember why I originally did it, so it was that much easier to re-purpose.

I'm trying to use up the pink gel pen. Turns out, pink is pretty hard to use up.

Oh yeah, the theme for Day 1 is "New." Here's the rest of them if you're interested.

Weird Doodles

Hello friends,

In the absence of any ideas for new cool projects, I've been taking some shitty old drawings from several years ago and trying to re-work them into better drawings. Unfortunately, I don't have any "before" pictures; I tried taking some, and quickly discovered that it was a sure-fire way to jinx the drawing. You'll just have to take my word that they were even shittier before.

The other thing is that I bought a set of glitter fluorescent gel pens a while back, discovered that they were of low quality, and now am trying to use them up. The scanner doesn't pick up the fluorescent colors too well, but the glitter shows up rather nicely.

You can click on any item to enlarge. I'd make them bigger, but it seems to create formatting issues on this blog.

You can't see here, but her wings are fluorescent orange and yellow like a monarch's.

Her wings are more neon green. The gel pen makes the paper buckle, but at least it's easier to see the sparklies.

I didn't notice that the paper folded on the scanner, but I kind of like how it looks.

More later... maybe...

You're welcome, Internet.

I just want y'all to know the internal conflict I struggle with daily.

If I were a real dick, I would have written, "NOBODY CARES, JENNY!"

But I didn't.

Because I'm not a dick.

(But damn, I sure wish I were sometimes.)

Tuesday Evening

The Trouble With Men