31 days of Characters- day 1's post.

As Ruth so kindly mentions in her post on July 2nd (or, more likely, July 1st at like 12:01am) I created a new 30 day challenge since I finished my 30 days of portraits. Originally, I just made it up for Rachel since she loves to create and redesign her characters.  I thought it would motivate her (even when she is busy) to draw and post on her blog everyday.  But the the challenge has been set.  I must also attempt the impossible and try to draw 31 (since july has 31 days) of my very own original characters.  Now, I don't think that I actually have 31 legitimate characters, but we shall see.

I have also been in san francisco hanging with those girls for the past six days, so i haven't exactly been motivated enough to push rachel out of her computer chair and to struggle with her comp set up so I can post here. So instead I'll try to catch up by double or triple posting here everyday.

Casey LeFleur from Jebediah

my phone just did a creepy thing.

it turned itself on even though it was never off.

also i just got home today from spending a week (okay 6 days) in sf.  those six days started off with a great visit to the De Young museum.  I saw all the balenciaga dresses again and drew more of them!  I also just started a new sketchbook and it only took me 4 days to figure out that the pages don't hold pencil well.

oh balenciaga. you are a master of shapes and covers.

not to mention this little nun-ish number that is not only navy, but incredibly cute!

beware. it gets ramble-y after this.

comics are hard!

note: this was the post i was going to do yesterday.

i spent a majority of the day wallowing in the heat. but i also spent a portion looking at historical references for the comic project with rach. i feel like i could drown in all the possible info. so i've come to the conclusion that writing a historical comic (historical in the sense that the characters are set down in a very specific time period and must still adhere to the rules and social complexities of their settings) is hard.  but thank you amazon and my no money I've found a few sources that could be very exciting to flip through or you know, actually read.  i'm pretty excited about checking out if the local bibliotech has some of these resources. but i'm also pretty sad cause i'd rather work on getting this info down instead of reading the pile of novels i've already checked out of the library.  if only i actually felt like reading! if only i could finish a book in an hour! oh the horror that i read incredibly slowly but have equally incredible comprehension as a result!

anyways. portrait in the next post since i haven't drawn it yet.

instead have some james bard with a bg since i didnt draw coli or any of the other characters from this endeavor.