Haven't done a page of Ghiroy in forever. Art in general has been much harder lately. That spark, whatever it is that gets me up and drawing has been absent and I haven't felt like drawing much of anything. Well, that's not entirely true. I've -wanted- to draw but haven't felt like I had anything to say. Just the same old stuff over and over. I do want to do this comic. Thing is, I want to get to the 'good' parts and right now it feels like slogging. I'm impatient. There has to be introduction, character development and such before we go swinging swords about. I know who each of these people are and I really want to get to the meat of things. I hope I can sustain some kind of momentum. Slow sucks but it's better than nothing. So here. Her name's Francesca, by the way. She's named after a wooden frog bank my sister and I had as a kid. It's long gone but I remember it vividly.

Haven't been drawing much lately but I have found another creative outlet. My other blog on BlogSpot is The Movie Wrench, a place where I've written about movies that I thought, well, could have been better. I only have half a dozen posts over there and that's over a five year span. This past week, I decided to make a video of one of those posts. It was a lot of fun to do, showed me what it's really like to perform (sort of; I would still not do anything live as it's too intimidating), to really hammer on a project like this and I learned how to do some editing in Final Cut Pro. So, for what it's worth, there's this:

The Movie Wrench

Another quick one for today.

Had a little run of rabbit drawings (or is that droppings?). All good fun with no real point. Still, was nice to be drawing and inking something. The colors and clothing (such as it is; no pants!) was inspired by a Kickstarter project called Urbance. It looks to be something very fresh and potentially hip and interesting. Way outside my aesthetic though its youth and vibrance is really inspiring. I tried to adapt some of that using my mishmash of rubber-hose and Euro-comic styles. There's an awkwardness about the character I like though his proportions mean that I draw off the edge of the page more often than not. The one of him sitting at the table defines how I'd use him in that everything would be a little small for him, requiring that he have to stick those limbs out at angles to be able to use them. Dunno why, I just like it that way. So until I find something meaningful to work on, there are these.