Current location:	Melbourne Australia
Current mood:	hot

Epiphany
Right, so my family's been around, which is (as previously mentioned) the reason for my being unable to get most of my christmas presents (in the form of context-specific drawings, some of which were more NSFW than others) underway and sent. As my family leaves in a few days, I'll have some time to myself at long last, but due to everybody taking leave leaving me unable to access the lab and get the appropriate procedures done, I've got a lot of work to do so I doubt I'll be able to get them all finished on time.

However, as I've been sick for the past week or so and the weather has been somewhat on the warm side, I've been mainly cooped up and, in my worser of moods, trying to avoid time with the family (as my mother occasionally drives me nuts). I knew that whatever it was I was drawing/writing, she'd poke her head in and take a look, so I had to do something safe for work and relatively non-descript.

Enter a 27-month old request. In that time, Strawcat's brief for a character piece of his turned into a commission he was going to get a real professional (:P) artist to do for him. Recently I reread the brief and was like wow! it's so awesome! and sketched the idea in like 8 minutes. Then I colored it in Open Canvas. With a mouse ._.





Following the passing of a day is the coming of another

Let's just say it passed the time. This is the low quality version as the high quality, full resolution file is a tad on the large side. On that note, I'm thinking I might like to make a print or two of this pic as I rather like how it turned out, various deficiencies notwithstanding.

As predicted, my mother poked her nose in and totally told me it was lovely but why must I spend so much time on such things and what was the story and etc. etc. She has this thing about wanting to turn every one of my hobbies to some evangelistic use, which, if commercially viable, I just *might* take her up on one of those avenues at one point if it doesn't entail too much actual religious commitment from me, heh. Dunno. We'll see. I guess I didn't want her looking over my shoulder and demanding an explanation for a) erotic fanfiction b) veiled homoerotica c) Legendz. A horned dragon in a gi would also have proven rather problematic, for that matter. I already ran into enough trouble with the scythe and the necklace, heh.

So there you go. This is effectively how I spent my New Years, as well as attempting to play the Tropical Tycoon^TM version of Monopoly, and sweltering. On that note, I have a couple of New Years Resolutions, just because I need an excuse to keep tabs on things I'd like to keep mindful of:

1. I think I somewhat emotionally regressed, though regressed may not be the right word, so much as changed my management plans. I have to more actively investigate treatment for my moods.
2. I have to get rid of my armpit hair. If the other locations for philogenetically degenerating body hair have been annoying enough for me to actually do something about it (e.g. shaving one's ass), then it stands to (my) reason that I should nix the axillary shrubbery while I'm at it.
3. I should continue reconciling the fact that most of my hobbies are community based exhibition-type activities, and yet I have, for a number of reasons, an aversion to community interaction.

There might be more but I'm way too hot and sweaty to think of any right now. So yeah. Depression is slowly lifting, which is also good.