Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I've decided to do some more preparation work before I start drawing the bulk of Felicity Jone has Ruined My Life. Mostly this includes lots of life drawing, but I am also going to be doing a huge number of worldsetting illustrations. Everything from clothing to magic and from buildings to critturs has to be drawn out before I draw it in the comic. This is a lot of work but I will be able to get through it well before I can even SMELL April appoaching.

That said, this week is the week I sort out my finances. Starting with my bank, then paypal, then a second attempt at Project Wonderful and as an additional THEN a jaunt with Google Ads. During this I am also going to be trying to increase hits on all my stuff, and try not to curl up into a ball and die.

Also today an expert said that the recession is likely to last ten years. I would like very much for that man to be shot right in the face.

On a related topic, I am about to go and waste an irresponsible amount of time playing computer games. Tatafahnao - Ree

Neowrneowrneowr

I think there is a bubble in my brain. No joke. I am working with paper and pens for the first time in ages, though I have decided not to use any of the nice liners and markers that I acquired last year, and have gone with EL BIRO. I have to wait for the splodges of typing ink to dry before I can fill in parts of it, and then I have to wait till tomorrow to erase the pencil and scans it in.

I am doing three weeks of these style of drawins for My Thingie and then deciding afterwards if it is easier to do it that way, or the way that I am doin it nao.

Also I have done nothing on FJ. At all.

Happy birthing day to Robyn.

I'm going to go and find out what happened to my social skills now.

- Ree

I can't do it while you're watchiiiin.

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I just had a filling, and I need so much anaesthetic that I know what botox is going to feel like.

I cannot drawwhenIamdentiststoned.

So instead I am going to play the sims. BRB.

Spriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!

Today we had the first proper springtime weather, and as usual its making me contemplate stupid things about converting to WIRELESS. Wireless sucks assballs. Sirriously. Anyway.

I refound Heather's Art Blog, its pretty schweet. We went to art school together, and then I decided that I'd had enough of being told that I was shit, so I did not enroll in the Foundation. Heather did enroll, and as you can see an extra year of deadlines and being told what to do has made an already amazing artist even better. Uhm, you're going to need google translate for that first post thar. Heather is not russian. She is from a farm. Well. Not quite. But close enough.

GOOD NEWS ABOUT FELICITY though, incase anyone from over thar actually reads this: I have roughed out the pages that I need to do, and though its still a lot of work, its not difficult work. So I will get started on that MONDAY. How much I get done is entirely proportionate to how much the dentist decides to sedate me this time. Last time it took like five injections to numb me, so I could be pretty out of it for a whyle.

Lush.

OH also this song is made of springtime. I dare you not to feel happy.

Totally Demotivated?

Well, not totally, but pretty close to it. I don't know why, but I just feel so stressed right now, its like, someone is sat on my chest. But they are not because that would be wierd. And make it really hard to draw. Like, seriously.

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Yes I do not know.

Well I suppose I am not totally demotivated, but when I read things like "Oh I am ONLY getting TEN THOUSAND HITS A DAY" or "OH MY ADS ARE ONLY WORTH LIKE FIVE BUCKS" it starts to irritate me into inaction. Personally I would literally LOVE to have ten thousand hits per day, and five bucks a day? Dude thats schweet. My annual income is currently less then a homeless person, no joke. I am probably going to be living here for the next TEN YEARS. I would flash your mom for five bucks a day. Well not really. If I haven't made any money by christmas then maybe.

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How would that work? I mean, would you pay for that on paypal, or would that be like a pay-per-view or a subscription or what? Is it porn if its flashing? Or just tongue-in-cheek sillyness.

Is anyone actually aroused by that anymore?

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Comment me up! I'm sure enquiring minds want to know O.o

Projeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeect.

So I finally did something about Project Wonderful.

In four days I will know how that went.

Ossum.

In the meantime, I have decided to include an image in every blog post which best illustrates both my mood and it's content. Because that seems like the way to go, and also because my eyes have started to skip over my own writing, which cannot ever be a good thing.

Lush.

Also hi, this is the first year I have not given anything to Comic Relief. I do not even feel a little bit guilty.

PAGES

FJ is now massively behind on pages and MY THINGIE's buffer is so thin its barely even a smear. AGG. How did this happen, you may ask, well... I have no idea. I have been drawing, but also procrastinating on it, because other things were more important. Plus when I did get time to draw, that little adventure in retail banking completely took the wind out of my sails.

Still, I am working today and although it is not as fast or as thorough as I had hoped it would be by this stage, its still work. I think I will be able to get most of the launch pages up in time for tomorrow, but I am having to push actual updates back by about a month, which really makes me feel sick to the stomach but ah well.

The reasons and goings on in my life that lead to this will be fully documented in MY THINGIE over the next few weeks.

Annyhu.

I am going back to drawding nao. Luff and stuff - Ree

My Youngest Brother

My youngest brother is really spiteful. At the slightest mention of the word NO he goes into a mood and starts verbally sniping at everyone around him.

Twice in the past week he has really badly hurt me, and I am really getting close to just turning around and telling him to go and f*ck himself RIGHT off. I am completely serious.

I have saved this little bastard's life, so, many, fucking times. I have sacrificed oppertunities so that he could have options. I have helped him to get the grades he needs to have the future he wants. He is a thankless, horrible, spiteful little wretch. Blood may be thicker than water, but the blood in question is going to turn bad if he doesn't stop hurting the people who care about him most.

I'm really sick of being treated like crap for people I have only ever tried to help.

Rawk Your Body Rawk

Maaaaaaan, thats good musics. I smell smoke over on My Myspace, I am getting messages from people asking as to the nature of my relations with Blazes. He has not texted me in quite some time, and I have no credit with which to texteth him. Hrrm hrrm hrrm. Add me to your friends if you like x-x-x - Ree

FINALLY

I have finally started working on pages for FJ again and MAN it feels so good.

I have decided to work in three steps. Step one is the roughwork straight from the script, step two is the neat lineart and framing, then step three is the final linework and shading. At step two the pages are readable enough to go online, which is when I shrink them and put them up so I can meet my upload dates.

When I have uploaded a year's worth of pages, then I will start working back over them and getting them up to a higher standard for print. Its a lengthy process but at least it works. I just found that one of the pages from my script, a short passage of text not even a paragraph long just translated into SEVEN pages worth of comic strippery. Theres a lot of scenery work in the first ten pages, and I am not really happy with them yet, but if I can finish them to a high standard with the print lineart then I think they will be stunning.

I have added some more links to the My Thingie Links Page. In closing have a RETRO COMIC from three months before I started ART SCHOOL.

Doodles was just that, doodlins, which I don't really count as drawing as there isn't really any improvement over the course of it, and it wasn't to express anything through artwork. It was just a meme passed back and forth between me and some friends.

If I can find someone who still has some of them I will dig them out and put them up somewhere, maybe.

EXTRAS!

Wootwoot! Extras and stuff now avaliable over on Felicity Jone has Ruined My Life. Well AN extra anyway, the rest of those files will be worked on and uploaded over the next few days. I really need to get started on the pages for the launch, so far I am still not even done with page 2, so I really need to get a move on.

You can start at the beginning of FJHRML here.

I also need to get a whole buncha pages done for MY THINGIE which is almost at the end of the buffer. Why am I procrastinating? I have no idea. At least I don't have any scripts to write, as they are all done and dusted.

Oh, and because I didn't mention it. Blazes came to stay for the weekend and we had gudd times and he alleviated some of the emo that I had been suffering from in the past two weeks. Which was good. I miss him already though. Cusses to falling in love with a guy too far aways T_T. Then again, I don't really like the guys in this area, so it was bound to happen eventually o.o.

I am off to draw'd nao. Will spam with updates later, kay? xx - Ree

You can be as loud as the hell you want...

Its true. Unless you are at your parents house.

o.o

I have become a pokemon widow. Blazes got a DS, and he got pokemon, and he is playin it a lot. If I didn't know how addictive that game can be, I'd be worried that I wasn't entertaining enough for him. As it is, I know I am not, and I am perfectly okay with that. Ahh romance.

Maria's Character Page went up today at FJ. Its the one I am most happy with. Lush.

Take her home! She's wasted! Yaaaaaaaay!