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I left work early last Saturday to go enjoy @party, and have a relaxing evening. It was a lot of fun. I got there with enough time before dinner was served to just sit back and not have to do anything. Someone was outside gaming, and so I drew him.

And I had a fun time listening to chiptunes and watching demos. It made me want to do hand drawn animation again... and maybe I'll do some for fun sometime soon.

I've also been having fun on the side with my shirt painting techniques (working with fabric markers and a wet paintbrush over my silkscreened outlines).
I did the white shirt first (and have since worked on it a few times) to try things out and see what looked good before doing the shirt I have up on Etsy. The other gray one below is an alternate I don't think I'm quite finished with yet (I want to darken the wing membranes).

The gradients on her skin were a pain that I think I barely recovered into something reasonable. I won't be trying that again. I want to bring some just silkscreened, unpainted shirts to 5Pi-Con, though, and see if anyone wants custom colors.

I feel guilty when I haven't been drawing for a while. I missed Dr Sketchy's this month to dress up at a Ren Faire; and while I had a lot of fun, it was too chilly to sit down and draw anything (plus there was cool stuff to see!).

Luckily, I had a good chance to draw again at a party recently. It was fun and relaxing.

I spent last weekend at a nerdy convention in CT with a bunch of friends. While sitting my dealers table, I got to sit back and relax, hang out and chat with cool (by geek standards) people, cut some mat board, and draw some of the people around me.

So I skipped a week due to being very busy. And then I skipped a week 'cause I was on vacation. And it was a good and lazy vacation, full of reading, and doing a good (and needed) job of not worrying about anything. Until then end, when I felt guilty for not doing any drawing (which is good for me, and not really "work" per se), and I sketched a slight likeness of my cousin, who we were visiting, and Steven when he fell asleep with his book.

Dr Sketchy's is this weekend, and I think I've finally managed to recruit a small handful of people to join me. Should be lots of fun (and doodles) to be shared.

I haven't been sketching. I've been tediously color correcting my prints. And I missed Dr Sketchy's to go see Steven perform at the Silver Kingdom Renaissance Festival. So I am behind on the sketching..
Here are some older ones to fill the gap.