workspace

Okay, so I took a few days off, in which I meant to get a lot done (which if you count catching up on over a week's worth of sleep in the past 4 days, watching a lot of movies and tv shows, and making serious head way on my Halloween costume a lot, then I did. Spent the first half of today cleaning/organizing my place, got very stressed out (it's always emotionally jarring for me when it gets the the time of year where I have to put away the shorts to make room for sweaters) and so I did what I usually do when I get all yucked up, I put on a good record, spend the A side just lying down, thinking calm and happy thoughts, and then when it's time to flip the record, I get up and do something. In this case, Wilco's A.M. and drawing. And then i realized that my room right now might be the best creative space I've ever had. It's kind of spacious (bigger than my old place but not too big), colorfully decorated, and just a little bit on the chilly side (if I get too warm I just fall asleep). So here are some pictures of where my brain does its thing (some product of this space to be posted later tonight, early tomorrow).

Yes, I do ofttimes pull the little extra-space board out of the desk and use it as a giant clipboard. And yes that is not Wilco's A.M., it's Belle & Sebastian's The Boy with the Arab Strap..good job that one guy who thought he'd caught the vinyl incongruity in this post.

everybody wants to save the world

And sometimes, it's rather easy. Sure, maybe there's a protest (or ten) you're too far away from to partake in, maybe you haven't managed to make yourself carbon-neutral, maybe your cape just isn't back from the drycleaners yet. But you know what you can do? You can sign this petition for the Sierra Club to help them get permanent protection for the Arctic Refuge. And yes, I know, I don't usually use my blog like this, but I was asked to make a pledge for how many signatures I thought I could get, and well, I really aimed um, ambitiously. So please help them save an important threatened habitat and help me not let them down by filling in tori holder in the bottom two fields where it asked who referred you.  Thanks a million, and I promise I won't make (too much) of a habit of this.

because this lil guy unfortunately can't stand up for himself, otherwise we wouldn't need petitions

sketchy

Okay so I'm really really busy with not-at-all-fun stuff right now, but I just had to post this. From last night:

Yes, some of it isn't factually correct, but I was just doing it off the top of my head.

And here are a couple older ones I did, I seem to have no etch-a-sketch art in here

deserving of the title 'post'

Okay, so I just was bit by the comicscritter (mythical creature, first cousin of imaginarymonster) and had to post this now. I promise I'll try to replace this with a good scan sometime this week. Also, I promise I'll explain what (to some of you) will come across as a glaring "what? no way! wait, why aren't you expanding on that" later.As always, click for full size image, if I don't do thumbnails, it wrecks the whole formatting Here you go. Goodnight/goodmorning.

unrelated

So I just thought I would post something because not posting yesterday felt weird, and also, it's been many a post since we've had any photos up in here. Scanned a ton in for a portfolio few weeks ago, here are a couple.

twenty

This is it kiddos, the end of the "to twenty' series. I had an absolute blast with it, and hope you did too. So here's the last installment. Also, please go get yourself a goodiebag, I swear they're more than worth it,and I want to get them all out so I can take down that page.

you're invited!

In addition to my festivities today, I'm also having a little dinner with my closest friends  (in town) later in the week, and made them these silly little invites to let them know I have no idea when exactly, but something will happen and they should be ready at a moment's notice. and since I consider ya'll close friends (of a sort) there's a special suprise gift type thing for you today, but only if you're at the ready this moment. Click on the invite for your own special birthday perk! Yay!

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