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Wow. It's been almost a week since I last updated?
When I stop updating chances are about 80% it's just that I have a lot of stuff I want to post, and I'm putting off writing it up. So yeah, things have been happening. Nothing too exciting, yet I haven't written it up either.
You know what I did discover? I suck *utterly* at drawing male characters. I only suck moderately at female ones. Probably my best effort yet was what I worked on tonight, which is *supposed* to be Mulder in Hal Jordan's Spectre outfit.
(... um, it made sense in my mind. Actually, in my mind it was the *inevitable*, logical result of the situation we were left with at the end of Season 9. Aren't you glad I don't regale you with the contents of my mind more often?)
So not only does it not look at all like *Mulder*, it looks like some kind of deformed dwarf with a giraffe neck. grrr. It helps a little if I chant "angles not curves" over and over and it would probably help if I actually learned to ink properly, but still. And for some reason my subconsious thinks characters will look less girly if I draw the pencils really dark. I need to stop doing that.
Plus I've apparently lost the ability to draw people in hooded cloaks. I used to be *good* at that, back in the days when I thought Emperor Palpatine was cute and doodled him all over my notebooks.
... it really does make sense in context. Which would be the fic I seem to have given up my NaNo novel for. No, it's not a crossover. More a . . .synthesis.
Seriously. It makes sense in *context*.
One of my professors saw my sketchbook and asked to look through it. He said my attempt at Leyla Harrison looked like Hilary Clinton. O-kay. Now if only my Monica comes out looking like Monica Lewinsky, I'll be happy. He said I should keep drawing. Since I'd already been drawing through most of his lecture, that means he approves of me doing that, right?
So that's what I've been up to. Yep.
When I stop updating chances are about 80% it's just that I have a lot of stuff I want to post, and I'm putting off writing it up. So yeah, things have been happening. Nothing too exciting, yet I haven't written it up either.
You know what I did discover? I suck *utterly* at drawing male characters. I only suck moderately at female ones. Probably my best effort yet was what I worked on tonight, which is *supposed* to be Mulder in Hal Jordan's Spectre outfit.
(... um, it made sense in my mind. Actually, in my mind it was the *inevitable*, logical result of the situation we were left with at the end of Season 9. Aren't you glad I don't regale you with the contents of my mind more often?)
So not only does it not look at all like *Mulder*, it looks like some kind of deformed dwarf with a giraffe neck. grrr. It helps a little if I chant "angles not curves" over and over and it would probably help if I actually learned to ink properly, but still. And for some reason my subconsious thinks characters will look less girly if I draw the pencils really dark. I need to stop doing that.
Plus I've apparently lost the ability to draw people in hooded cloaks. I used to be *good* at that, back in the days when I thought Emperor Palpatine was cute and doodled him all over my notebooks.
... it really does make sense in context. Which would be the fic I seem to have given up my NaNo novel for. No, it's not a crossover. More a . . .synthesis.
Mulder gives a half-turn to show off the cloak, which somehow avoids catching on any of the underbrush. "The Wrath of God? I think I'm starting to like this kid, Doggett."
"Since when do you read comics?" John asks as they're interrupted by the sound of Scully over the audio link.
"Mulder? John? The feed went funny for a second, are you three doing okay out there?"
John reaches for his mike, but it seems to have turned into something sleek and silvery and Mulder gets his on first.
"Hey, Scully," Mulder says cheerfully, "In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape our sight. Let those who worship evil's might beware our power--"
John has gotten his communicator working meanwhile and cuts him off. "Yeah, we're fine, Scully, Monica. Tommy was just testing out some tactics, must have interfered with the signal."
"All right. Well, report back when you're about to move in," Monica says.
"Will do. Doggett out." He clicks it off, and without stopping to think, stows it away in his own uniform. Mulder's watching him. "Why does Scully put up with you, again?" John asks rhetorically.
"Must be my charm," Mulder says with a grin, tucking his plam away beside his communicator and setting off after Tommy into the forest. "C'mon, the night's only going to get blacker."
Seriously. It makes sense in *context*.
One of my professors saw my sketchbook and asked to look through it. He said my attempt at Leyla Harrison looked like Hilary Clinton. O-kay. Now if only my Monica comes out looking like Monica Lewinsky, I'll be happy. He said I should keep drawing. Since I'd already been drawing through most of his lecture, that means he approves of me doing that, right?
So that's what I've been up to. Yep.