Distractions! I was looking through old City Silent stuff when preparing to get back into it and I saw some distorted images I'd used of Digby a couple years ago. And I really liked the approach. So I wondered if I could push it a little further. I did a Smatt. I distorted the ref photo, then distorted the pencil sketch and distorted the final image one last time to get some more movement and attitude from it. Then I wondered if I could apply this approach to portraiture. I took an old ref photo of me and did the same thing. While I don't think it's good for every portrait, I like the ideas enough to want to play more with them. Which is not helping me get the comic done.