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Blah Blah Blah (and also Quentin Coldwater)

Thu, 09 May 2019 19:08:53 GMT

I've been having A Time recently. My unemployment is about to run out and, even though we'll be ok, I am still stressing. The temp agency hasn't found any placements and, again, I know we'll be ok but it's hard to tell my Panic Mode brain that. So, the freaking out in conjunction with not getting ANOTHER job that I really felt like I was going to get has put me in a weird place, mentally. Therefore, I've been watching a lot of Gill and Gilbert on YouTube and playing Flight Rising and not actually doing anything that might be good or useful.

I've been reading a lot of fix-it fics for The Magicians post season 4. I wanted to draw Quentin because they did him mad dirty and I don't like what the showrunners decided to do AT ALL. So, late last night, I went ahead and knocked it out.

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As ever, print available via Deviantart

J did manage to maybe network an art-related gig for me, though! There is a firehouse in Seattle that offers retiring firefighters a pencil sketch of them when they first started at the firehouse as a retirement gift. The artist they had on retainer has, himself, retired, and J talked up my art to a firefighter that is teaching a class where she works. Long story short(er) the firefighter really likes my portraits and is going to have me do a test commission to make sure that I can, like, draw a firetruck, and then will quite possibly have me on retainer to do these drawings. J is the absolute best and most wonderful person in the world. I genuinely do not appreciate her nearly enough.

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The Magicians... Oof.

Sun, 21 Apr 2019 07:09:14 GMT

My sister-in-law, her fiance, and their girlfriend came to visit us this past week. They all live in Atlanta and this is kind of the first time we've all gotten together without parents around. It was so much fun! We took them to all of the major Seattle sights and spent a couple of days in Vancouver. This included a sort of impromptu visit to Science World in Vancouver which features Stan, the second most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil in the world. I cried. Possibly more than I cried when I saw the fossil of Lucy. I just... I don't know... Seeing history right in front of my eyes like that is just so emotionally overwhelming. I spent a really significant amount of time looking at him and it was wonderful!

We also got no small amount of British candies. Also, ketchup-flavored chips. Why aren't those a thing in America?? They legit just taste like fries dipped in ketchup. America LOVES fries dipped in ketchup!

But I digress! We really did have such a lovely time with them and are looking forward to the next time we can all get together. It was also the longest amount of time that J and her sister had been able to just hang out together in a really long time. J is seven years older, but they're really close and it was nice for them to be able to have that time.

I also watched season four of The Magicians, which is a show I've been HARDCORE binge-watching over the last few weeks. I have thoughts about the finale which I don't know are solid enough to articulate. There are feelings; some of them are complicated and quite mixed. I keep waffling between loving it and hating it. Mainly, I'm just sad. Either way, I chipped away at a drawing of Margo over this past week and I like how it turned out:

Click to enlarge--the thumbnail makes the drawing look a lot darker than it is!

As per usual, print available via Deviantart.

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I liiiiiiiiiiiiive!

Mon, 04 Mar 2019 10:23:41 GMT

I've been on a huge kick recently for The Killers. They dropped their first album, "Hot Fuss" when I was in high school and I've been a ride or die fan ever since. I don't know why, exactly, other than I just like the sounds they make. Most of my other favorite bands are closely tied to specific times in my life or bring up a really particular emotional connection. The Killers just make music that I really really like. I like literally every single song I've ever heard them sing which I can't actually say for most of the bands that I consider my favorites.

So, I drew Brandon Flowers who is the lead singer. I found a recording of their Lollapalooza in Brazil concert performance which was almost exactly an hour and half long and that's how long it took me to draw this. I could have fiddled with it some more, but, like, it's Brandon Flowers fanart and I wasn't about to spend three hours of life whittling away at getting his stubble exactly right, you know?

Anyway, I love him. Click to enlarge!

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