Peter Pan

We've got a washing machine! Unfortunately it's inaccessible - thinking to foil any would-be quarter thieves, they locked the door to the laundry room without giving any of us tenants a key. They're going to unlock their office tomorrow morning to find a furiously beeping answering machine stuffed to full capacity with angry messages.

But they'll have to step over the heap of dirty laundry stuffed through their mail slot first.

Thinking a lot about storytelling. It's something I've never really thought about before, never consciously practiced. I'm finding myself looking at my comics collection with whole new eyes - realizing why the art in some comics draws you in and keeps you turning the page while in other books you have to slog through it. Interesting pictures seems to be the key... not pretty pictures, exactly, but pictures where there's more going on, where you want to know more, where you're asking 'what happens next?'
It's a weird mental shift, drawing for an audience.

It also seems to be one of those things where advice helps, but like drawing occasionally you get the lightbulb of enlightenment that blinks on over your head as you realize that if you color the whole picture black nobody will be able to tell what's going on...







Playing with crowquills today (not the actual kind yanked out of a crow, but the plastic kind with the replacable metal nib)... I had a bunch of ideas for doing monochromatic pictures but the red ink started leaking through the page and so I only did the one.