A Show Needs A Name

I’m pretty sure I’ve already mentioned all of this stuff before, but I really wanted to draw Jack, so there 🙂

Harsh Hair Critic

Here’s that second part I was supposed to post yesterday:

I actually redrew it from scratch this morning, as last night’s drawing was way too stiff. I hated the pose I drew, and I couldn’t get the baby’s face right, so after spending too much time googling for a good reference image, I just asked my husband to take a photo of me holding Eli.

As usual, after having uploaded I see more mistakes that I’ve missed, but oh well. I think I like this current style I’m drawing these in, so I’m going to try and stick to it for a while and see what comes out.

Thus ends my narcissistic hair saga. Until I try to do something to my head again…

Purim Sameah!

Today was lovely! We went out to the city center to show Eli what Purim looks like in Jerusalem. I thought she’d enjoy the various costumes, dancing and music. Like a responsible adult, I checked the weather forecast. It promised to be cold and cloudy, so I dressed us for that. No umbrellas, rubber boots or rain coats, because it wasn’t supposed to rain! It started pouring as soon as we were far enough from the house to not want to turn back for umbrellas – I was secretly hoping it’d stop raining as soon as we got to the tram. It didn’t. Eli got excited about the puddles, and immediately got her feet soaking wet. There was a tiny band with trumpets and people dressed in white Renaissance costumes that skipped carefully around the muddy puddles trying to not get their fancy dresses too dirty, unsuccessfully, of course.

I love it when it rains, and so does Eli. With my husband being so vastly outnumbered he quickly gave up trying to trick us into going home, and with a sigh had a wonderful time as well. We hastily bought Eli some new warm socks and got her tiny feet dry and warm before she feel asleep. There really wasn’t too much to see in that weather, so we tried out a new restaurant (Eli woke up in time for the dessert) and made our way home, after grabbing the photos I wanted developed.

I spent my few free hours rewatching and chopping up the stream recording. There’s still a bit more editing I’d like to do, but I hope to be posting it this week. In the meantime, here’s a frame of what the finished result will probably look like:

Peanut Snacks

A very late post because I spent the evening with the family, watching movies and eating pizza 😀

Nursery States

Another somewhat hectic day and a rushed blog post. I originally wanted to do this one on paper, but realizing I’d have to do the background a whopping three times I quickly gave up on that idea. Based on a true story, as usual 😀

Baby and Plasticine

Not much progress to see on yesterday’s image, I’ve finished outlining everything and the next step is to establish the values. I think. I’ve been curious to try the technique of working in black and white first, and only then adding colour. The plan is to finish today, possibly at night, if Eli falls asleep at a reasonable hour.
In the meantime, behold my February Plasticine Adventures!

Imaginary Blog Posting

I spent a lot of time composing a post in my head today, and even decided on a funny sketch to go along with it! In fact, the whole thing felt so completely polished to my brain, that it decided I actually published it! So when my free time came, I started working on an illustration I’ve been planning for the past few weeks, feeling very accomplished and productive with my time. But wait! I didn’t actually post anything yet! Aaaaagh! Silly brain.
So that other imaginary post will come on a different day. In the meantime, here’s what I’m hoping to finish tomorrow for my monthly “portfolio piece” goal.

The Red Tub

Inspired by a few comments by  JIF from Procrastinator’s Day Off, I drew this week’s comic page post:

In my conversation with JIF, I referred to the red object as a bucket, which was a lie. A poorly worded, too-lazy-to-google lie. It is, in fact, a basin. Or a tub. I’ve not conquered all the nuances of the subject just yet, I hope JIF might shed some light on the issue.

I always thought of the word “tub” in connection to either a bath or ice-cream before. And “basin” strikes me as something bigger and to do with lakes. In my head, I always referred to our red thing as a “tazik” (Russian for tub, apparently). Ah well, I truly learned something new today!

Hugs

I’m afraid this week’s comic post isn’t funny. 

My little one fell and cut her gum pretty badly. She’s okay now, but I’m still a bit shaken up. But drawing and posting daily means drawing and posting daily, and since I’ll be embarrassing myself on stream tomorrow I decided to post the weekly comic today. And that’s the most memorable thing that happened.