Imaginary time capsule

So yeah, I've started reading Shade the Changing Man. It's wonderfully weird. And a bit like Doctor Who, if the Doctor was stranded on earth with just a vague idea who he was or what he should do. So sort of like the Eight Doctor Adventures. Shade's first body even looks a bit like Eight.

Anway, I put on some equally weird Laurie Anderson records and ignored just about everything I know about colours. It felt right.

( 'My worrisome case. Too sensitive. Too dreamy. Too impulsive' )

Oh Vertigo comics, how I've missed your insanity.

This came out of a desire to try to colour something shiny (like a shiny hiney). And because I've always felt vaguely guilty about that Blue Beetle drawing not having a companion Booster Gold piece.

( I wonder why flying superheroes even bother with walking )

I aknowledge that the drawings I do still differ a lot from how I want them to be, but I think I can spot some improvement compared to, say, the Beetle drawing I made last year.

I've hardly drawn anything so far this year, but here's my answer to the "draw yourself as the last video game character you played as" challenge.

( Tilly Stratford: Ace Attorney )

Anyway, lately I've been trying to get back in the drawing habit by doodling when I've got nothing better to do. Not gonna lie, there's been a healthy helping of Dick Gumshoe doodles. And Larry Butz. Showing once and for all that when it comes to liking video game characters, I really haven't got a "type".

It's really getting chilly at night. I've found my old hot water bottle because there's nothing I love better than to drift off to sleep feeling the heat radiating from the bottom of my bed.

This being my first autumn with Linni (well my first autumn with Linni outside of the shelter) it hadn't really occurred to me that Linni too would become fond of my hot water bottle.

And you see, Linni usually hates sleeping at the end of the bed at night.

So when I woke up at night feeling nature's call, I groggily checked to see if Linni was sleeping next to me (which she usually does), and satisfied with not finding her there, I leapt out of bed - and in the process kicked Linni halfway across the room from where she'd been sleeping happily curled up on the duvet over the hot water bottle.

Ah the jolts of guilt that comes from pet ownership. She's forgiven me by now though.

For the remainder of the night we figured out a compromise; hot water bottle in the middle, my legs on one side and her on the other. No more cross-room cat kicking.


(Illustrated for your convenience no good reason at all)

I guess that'll be the agreement for the next couple of nights too. Maybe when it gets colder I'll make a ghetto-style hot water bottle from a soda bottle and put it in her bed next to my desk.

I dreamed I watched the sequel to X-Men First Class. It was very good. The first part was very clever and intellectual while the second half had great action (and for some reason Superman references. Keep your comicverses apart, subconcious!).

We shall see if my prophetic skills are up to scratch. If it is, I'm particularly looking forward to rewatching the part where James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender started making out. (What a lovely little brain I have. What do lovely little brains get? That's right, they get chocolate treats!)

All this reminds me I'm absolutely going to watch Captain America sometime in the near future - sadly it doesn't open until Friday at the local cinema. But I've heard good things so far, and Dum Dum Duggan's in it, so I bet I'll get my money's worth.

And finally, unrelated: There's a brilliant challenge going around Tumblr these days, which asks you to draw your favourite character in the outfit you're wearing at the moment. Seeing as at this exact moment my favourite character is Jigen Daisuke, and I'm wearing my favourite shirt*, this kept me entertained for some time.

( Fedora and revolver not part of my actual ensemble, obviously )

*The legendary Shirt of Indeterminable Colour. Is it blue? Is it purple? Nobody knows!

Insomnia sketches somehow turned into List of General Character Design Elements in Lupin III I Love. This is what I found in my sketchbook this morning:

( Quick'n'dirty )

That doesn't even strike me as a complete list, maybe some other night I'll do a list of more character-specific design elements, or the art choices I really can't stand in this show. It's fun just trying to mimic other styles in general.

Tilly's drawing all the time again, must be the end of a semester.

This has been lying unfinished on my desk for a while, I first started on it when leaper182 and I were discussing Steal Napoleon's Dictionary!, a Lupin III TV special that's not the best of its kind, but we agreed one of its highlights is seeing Inspector Zenigata in appropriate attire in a classic car race.

Seeing as I skipped over the good Inspector for my last bit of Lupin sketching silliness I thought it was time to give Zenigata his due.

( And everything's better when there's breeches involved )

A moment of silence, please, for my trusty mechanical pencil that perished during this process. It has served my family for many years - I stole inherited it from my sister at least five years ago and I think about ninety percent of the drawings I've posted here were made with that Pilot Supergrip. But alas, it gave up the spirit.

...And then I discovered that the Pilot Supergrip is possibly the cheapest mechanical pencil out there, and I so I bought an identical one for pocket change. Ah to live in a consumer society!

Yes, this comes as a surprise to no one: Tilly falls in love with something so hard she can't help herself but start drawing. Have I ever drawn any non-fanart with my tablet? I really can't think of anything.

So! With my recent violent infatuation with Justice League International the inevitable finally came!

( Springing into action! )

Oh dear, this is what comes of reading eighties' X-Men comics and not being able to sleep.

I done committed fanart.

( Everybody's primary coloured favourite )

Man I really would like to sleep now.

Why do I keep making theeeese.

( Enter Britannicus )

I might actually touch upon the actual main plot in the next part. You never know.