(So… obviously missing a lot of production notes due to the database deletion. I’m just going to continue).

Finished the pages for The Piper Man, the first story in Fish & Chocolate (though it was the second story I drew)…

Meh. I had a hard time with this one. Had one of those “yeah that’ll look awesome!”-times in drafting it, and then getting round to actually drawing some of those “awesome!” things was… like, not so awesome. More like headache-inducing. I test-coloured a couple of pages at the beginning, though I’m not really sure if I like how they came out. They’ll prbably look a bit better with text on. I’m really not sure I like that first page much at all, anyway. Oh jeezuz, here I go with the happy XD

A little bit about The Piper Man! So, I think this is technically the newest story to add to the bunch. It’s about 3 years old now? It’s been through a few drafts. Not too many. I had one of those “complete visions” of the idea for it one night, and had to write the whole thing down in case I forgot. At one point it was going to go in an anthology, although that fell through. Kinda good in a way, as I get to mash it together with the other two F&C stories, and it sits quite nicely alongside them.

I’m going to be interested to see what other people think about it. I have a firm idea of what it’s about, although when I showed the draft to Paul, he found rather different things to say about it. I think that’s cool. I will be fascinated to see if people see it from his point of view, or my point of view, or a totally different thing.

Anyway! Currently, I’m about 10 pages into doing roughs for Matryoshka. So, 30-odd pages to go, then I’m done with the pencils! Woo!

I couldn’t sleep last night and cut my hair instead. I’ve wanted long layers for a while, but my hair is too short. So I have short layers X’D I am far too impatient for my own good! I also get bored with my hair too quickly to let it grow to anywhere near the length I’d like to have it at, really. So anyway, my hair looks a bit like I dragged a razor through it. Which is pretty much what I did. Luckily I’m not too fussed about my hair, so.

Here’s the pieces we’ll be auctioning off at the (very, very late…) launch party for The Spider Moon:

I felt like making a new outfit for Kal (but doesn’t it make him look older! O_O;) Actually, that particular illustration is an adapted version of the third cover I was hoping to do for The DFC, for when Part Three of TSM started its run. All in all I’m glad I finally got to do that picture one way or another, as I was kinda fond of it.

They’ll go as a pair: linework on A4 Bristol board and a coloured print of each, starting at £5. So the winning bidder will get 4 items total. The proceeds will go to Mind, which is a charity I support anyway, but I want to give it an extra boost. That is… if anyone wants the pieces ;3; Of course I’m terrified that nobody will bid and we’ll all just stand there and then go home…

…someone will buy these for £5, won’t they? Right? (Right…?)

Okay. Sigh.

I had several mishaps regarding my blog going missing/losing databases/files going AWOL/previous hosting fucking my stuff up. I’m too bored of the situation to complain about it any longer, and it won’t do anyone or anything any good! So. I’m just going to start again. I was thinking about re-writing special entries for prominent events that are now lost in the internet-ether, but I think it would be a bit strange, so…

Here we go again! I’m going to try and post something nice in the next couple of days to cheer the space up! ^^; In the meantime, I spent a while making my main site look new and nice. Unfortunately I’ve not had anything to update it with for a long while, since I’m up to my ears in half-finished comics!