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South Mountain

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trying very hard to come up with some story for myself. not having much luck, I don’t know what kind of story I want to make (except a good one) and if I should write a srcipt or doodle something or what. frustrating.
this post is mostly to show this picture of a leaf, because it is pretty.

halfway through flight volume 5:

the only stories I really, really loved so far were the new “treehead and igloohead” story and the malinky robot karakuri(?) story.

the beisbol one was pretty cute too, but not my favorite.

am I too hard to please now? I find myself uninterested in most of the stories so far. some I was put off by art or boring/uninteresting story (how is this possible considering the fantastical plots? I can’t say) and (weirdly) the way the words were written by hand or something. 

this would all be less distressing if I actually had something to SHOW for my snobbishness. I want to do something amazing.

 

(More than once.)

I was going to put lyrics here, but it made no sense.

more art at deviantart

stayed up really late working on pages after a script-related snafu. d’oh. but I am excited.

also really excite ‘cus flight 5 just arrived at my house. Still kind of miss the days of volume 1 where I knew of a bunch of the submitters and was SO. EXCITED. to see them published. Like the girl who did Strings of Fate and those people. To ask “where are they now” is probably ridiculous; they are probably having great careers I just don’t know about anymore. 

I should follow webcomics now. I am really ignorant of what’s out there now. My dad just got a new scary-go-round book. Something isn’t right.

 

anyway.

here is a picture from going to the zoo today:

Megan, you’re a loser

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changed blog design again. Have yet to find one I am completely happy with. though I did only just figure out that there’s some customizable stuff…

well aren’t you posting frequently, Megan?

go: 3 drawings on DeviantArt. I ARE PROLIFIC. or not.

am conflicted over quality of my comic pages. I think I definitely need school to teach me how to not go so fast and sloppily. I like to hope I have lots of potential under all my inkblots and wobbly lines.

on the other hand, the pages are getting better, I think. In terms of how they are arranged and how they are drawn. It’s also getting easier and easier to draw everyone. but I know my weaknesses. hopefully when we get out of the current scene (lots of conversation), I’ll make better backgrounds, etc…:/ trying to think about line weight more. Still should get a ruler, I know. No one else finds my panels charming, right?

Because it’s 2:30 AM and no one is awake to keep me company:

good things while comicing

• listening to This American Life online
• listening to animated commentaries
• drinking diet coke
• keeping from being bored by working on another drawing
• distracting self by blogging. ha!

 

inspiring:

• Dorkily: rereading manga like naruto and bleach. I should probably find a better sounding comic to be reading for fun, but whatever. deal with it.
• pixar. especially commentaries (see a trend?)
• looking at the stack of pages already done. I’m on pages 34 and 35. my god.
• Alphonse Mucha (See over here, or google his name, like I just did.) the lines and complicated decorations…perfect for the dramatics of Madame Leopard and for my own slight obsession with complicating my pages…

I should like, add the links to blogs and things I actually read to the “blogroll” huh? hmm.

A.A. Milne

I almost forgot how much I love A.A. Milne’s(original) version of Winnie the Pooh. The quotes here are seriously making me really sentimental. I might go break out my books if I weren’t so sure I would end up crying:

“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.”

“We can’t all, and some just don’t. That’s all there is to it.”

“He respects Owl, because you can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right.”

The only other historical figure whose quotes get me so much is Van Gogh. I need to start reading his letters, STAT:

 

“I think that I still have it

in my heart someday

to paint a bookshop

with the front yellow and pink,

in the evening, and the black

passerby like a light

in the midst of darkness.”

 

In any case, I am currently looking for A.A. Milne books on amazon, so this will probably resurface. I already want to illustrate this poem for fun.

I think I’m also going to end up rambling how awesome Beatrix Potter is. oh boy.

Anyway, read The House at Pooh Corner over here immediately.

I need to find out more about E.H. Shepard too. His little ink illustrations in the book are so perfect.

Oh, Sam

 

so yes, I do draw sometimes. I’m actually currently working on The Comic. hooray.

today was one of those days where I can taste the kind of person I want to be in 10, 20 years. I want to spend evenings coloring things with crayon and laughing at things with friends and baking brownies. 

I’m really very easily pleased. Also possibly around 7. But I am beginning to hope that it’s alright.

I am laughing

I found Kate Beaton’s site a little while ago, and how much do I love her comics? especially the history ones? Garfields? Cookie-eating Napoleon? it’s awesome.

so go here and read the “history project” first. then the rest.

 

coming back home from Canada tomorrow. yay 12 hour train ride. augh. 

on the other hand I am SO excited to go draw things when I get back. (of course, in that case I should draw NOW, you know? but it’s enough to be excited for now). I saw these GREAT chinese wall paintings at the R.O.M. and aaaaah. so good. and dinosaurs and prints and….eeeeek! so I hope to draw a lot. 

and Kate Beaton’s comics make me want to draw about Darwin (there was an exhibit about him at the museum) he was hilarious. well. sweet too. but hilarious. especially the whole HMS Beagle trip.

Because I can:

favorite, favorite songs right now:

• “birthday” by The Accidental (well, the whole CD is pretty good, I think, but this one is so quiet and sweet and a little sinister…)
• “I felt your shape” by the microphones (old favorite, but “birthday” reminds me of it, and now it’s in my head)
• “Libraries” by seabear (lyrics get stuck in my head…”and I don’t believe you live in a library…”
• “your new twin sized bed” by death cab for cute (so sad. oh, deathcab.)
• “simple things” by Belle&Sebastian (for some reason this super short song really gets stuck in my head…)
• the entire Yotsuba&! soundtrack. I love the kuricorder pops orchestra….
• “between hello & goodbye” by the fieldmice (ok, so I definitely only found this because the boy least likely to did a cover and I could never find it. I wish, I wish I could….)
• “who” by agyness deyn and the five o’clock heroes (way better than a song featuring a supermodel should be…)

there you go. interesting updates (doubtful, but you know) will come when I return from Canada…I want to go home and work on the comic SO BAD.