Fragments From My Sketchbook

Episode 2 – Duck Tales

Invitation. To love.

So I decided not to continue my 365 Illustration Project the way I did it (my other option was to scratch out sleeping from my daily schedule). But I still feel the need of doing something similar, and sometimes, only sometimes, even doing it similarly to the “good old days”. Now I'll show you some of these (don't mock the topics. I'm still an isolated freakish spinster, so what.)

Until the next episode of “fragments from my sketchbook”,

yours sincerely

Whatever happened to ye olde consistency?

So you're probably wondering if I'll ever continue posting to these sites of mine. Well... Thing is, I'm wondering too.

Here's the case in brief:

• I got a fulltime job (FINALLY) in January at the local newspaper as a layout editor. That takes a lot of time, like, being there from morning till late afternoon (sometimes even till night) and even working when I'm at home. Besides, I'm new, still in probation, so I'd better be very active. Like very, very active.
• I have exams. Serious ones. Like there are these modules, and my work for it must be like super-ultra-extreme-awesomazing, because I'll need to defend it at my finals in June.
• It's my senior year. That means I'll have to start working on my Big Final Work thingy (something like a thesis but less tapping the keyboard, more drawing and glueing and whatever creative work), and learn all those terrifyingly great amount of... stuff.
• I have some other things I promised my friends before Christmas and everything. Like this great book a friend of mine wrote, I'm making its layout and even doing some proofreading too. So... things like that.

As you can see, it's quite a busy period for me. But fear not, I'll work something out!

New Year greetings

Merry Christmas!

… and that would do for most of my followers, I guess. :) (I hope I got the Polish and the Chinese special characters right. I’d really hate if I ended up wishing “Happy Chickensoup” or something like that.)

featuring: the brilliant and always dashing Tenth Doctor and the also brilliantly dashing Susi Poppins Steier, BGFF of mine.

New freebie

So. Yes. New piece from the Great Entrustedproperty Seasons Facebook Cover Series. If you don't know what I'm talking about, click here.

Allons-y!

So (by the way how lame it is that I start almost every post with a “so” and end them with a “well...”? It's like I'm from the twin planet of ChanTho's) I basically did everything the 365 Illustration Project had. It is done. I even did the alldrawingsinonepicture thing, the heymypicturesareusedinchina thing, the only thing I didn't do is to sell some swimsuits with my characters (which I'm willing to do if you wish).

Time has come for a fresh start. Which means, from now on I'm not the 365IP-girl, but the 30DW-whovian. Well, I admit, I'll have to work on that title. Nevertheless!

Now don't feel marginalized, but – unlike 365IP – I'm gonna post this drawing project only on tumblr (and deviantART if you – for some weird reason – prefer that). So if you're interested in it at least a bit, start memorizing this url:

http://entrustedproperty.tumblr.com/

(Now you can't say I made it difficult.) I'm not saying it's the end of my blog on blogger, let's just put it this way: I switch to the another one for a short period and let's see if there's a reason I post here something later.

OK, now I'm working very hard to make “well” my last word, but it's just not happening. Well...

They teach me in China

Yes, it is true. You might remember my BGFF, Susi, who had been teaching English for kids in a fancy language school in China for one year. She loved to try out new and creative teaching methods – some of these they still use – and in that she went so far as to use drawings from blogs that are blocked there and make Chinese kids write new subtitles on them. One day I got these from her...

That's what 365 drawings look like – unpacked

It is about 2,3 m × 1,3 m.

Byebye Bear

Annd basically we're done. I've drawn and posted all the 365 illustrations. Count it if you don't believe me. You can do it now. It's all posted here. Or maybe just take some time to revisit (or visit the first time) the old ones from the beginning, if you'd like.

 Now I'll take a little pause, about a week, and after that I'm back with my next project. I'm not sure if I'm gonna post them here as well or just on my tumblr, but either way, I'm gonna keep you updated about it.