Continuing to practice in black and white… (yes that is Seitz’s “Pupil’s Concerto #2”).

“Capturing Fireflies”

I’m still short on time, but tonight I got lucky. The image came together without much fuss. I still tend to over-ink and then have to clean up in Photoshop. So that makes this piece “multimedia” and not just “Pen and Ink”.

I probably should have uploaded this earlier in the week but I had thought I’d get the whole piece finished in time to submit for Illustration Friday since the topic coincided nicely. This bit is actually a few years old and there’s a color version in my portfolio – but it’s still only a foreground. I have it on my portfolio to-do list to finish up this image and give it a proper setting. I have the majority of it pencilled out but it still needs ink and color so I’m going to have to post it later when it’s truly finished.

Edit 9.25.06: I finished it.

While I was cutting up peaches in the kitchen over the weekend, I kept thinking how normal my life was with nobody dropping bombs on my house.

I definitely need to continue the inking practice. I’m also still very short on time these days and it’s making me grumpy. If I have time to come up with something better, I’ll post it.

I’m switching over to black and white line art for a little while. Partially because I need the practice and partly because my dayjob schedule has officially gone insane.

At any rate, how is this image related to the topic at hand? Well I admit I was pretty stumped. Then on Saturday we took my in-laws wine tasting at Chrysalis and I commented that we’d probably better drink that 2005 Norton we got back in October as it is supposed to be drunk young and what were we saving it for anyways? To this my father-in-law replied “Well sometimes you just have to make sacrifices!”

THAT’S IT!!!

(No we haven’t drunk it yet but soon… I promise)