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UGH.

That's been my general mood all week.

I have a lot going on. And I'm not used to that, so I'm not handling it very well. I'm like, "I should do the thing." and then the part of me that royally hates all things new is like, "The thing is horrible. Binge watch Daredevil s2 instead." And I go, "Yes sir, brain-that-should-know-better, I shall watch Daredevil rather than acknowledge my responsibilities."

Formatting children's books is hard. Figuring out how to do it is hard. How do you even art for kids' books?

How do people who work and go to school and raise kids ever get anything done? I'm single, and I'm not going to college and I have a pretty easy schedule, so in all truthfulness, there ought to be a never ending stream of art flowing from me. But this week, I have like a grand total of six drawings.

All hail the laziest blogger!

Art (c) Mo Willems

Anyhow.

This week I've been mostly just like, "Meh. Fanart. Meh illustrations. Meh."

So I stuck to what I know the best, and that's pretty much Tristan and Gang, 'cause story or not, they're fabulous. (At least to me they are.)

1.) Tristan sometimes tells Kate that he's sorry for getting her into messy situations, and he's adorable about it.

2.) SO SO SO. KATE GETS INTERROGATED AND HURT AND STUFF. And then the gang crashes in and saves her. (It's all very plotty and it makes perfect sense....) BUT she's hurt. So Tristan freaks out, because after all, she's his girl, and he blames himself, and it's awesome.  (Am I feeling that sadistic joy writers keep talking about? Oooh.)

 3.) So then Tristan goes on a rage rampage and full-on storms the antagonist's headquarters, because he's a fool, and ultimately gets caught.

wow, such thug.

4.) I like to torment Bella and Jack with pictures of Tyler and Max being bros and doing bro things, because they know what happens and it makes them sad. Spoiler alert: I'mma kill one. WOO.

Ignore Max's shovel-hand. It's stupid.

 5.) Ugh, I meant to draw Monty waving his saw around and singing about poison in his pocket, but I didn't get around to it. Instead, here, have the finished product of the sketch from last week. Don't speak to me, it did not turn out as I had envisioned and it makes me want to yell and throw things.  Blech.

6.)  And here's my favorite bit of the song "Beauty Is" from Light in the Piazza. BECAUSE CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW CUTE FABRIZIO IS? LIKE SERIOUSLY.

 Question Time!

Favorite overall?
Favorite from Tristan and Gang?
 Have you heard any new musicals lately?

Anyone else excited about the new Bourne movie?

Alright ladies, gents, and androids, 

Treskie out.

 

Picture Saturday-- Ahem.

Picture Saturday has not reared it's ugly head in a good.... what, three weeks?

I am ashamed.

But I had to go to a wedding, and then it was Mother's Day week, and I was really very busy.

Anyway, there is rather a lot of Phantom stuff again.

My friend asked me how our musical high was going.

I told her it's still going strong.
 

The minion represents me, and the banana represents the
Phantom of the Opera, and other musicals I'm obsessed with.

We listened to POTO again last night, and I've lost count of how many times that is in a month.....

Yeah, when we decide to obsess, we obsess.

I really want to listen to the Scarlet Pimpernel musical again, but that is only at the college library, and for some reason the college library freaks me out. ME! I love libraries! But the college one has this atmosphere like, "IF YOU MAKE A NOISE WE WILL DEMOLISH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. DON'T BLINK, DON'T EVEN BLINK. BLINK AND YOU'RE DEAD." and as such I still haven't worked up the courage to go in and find the stupid CD.

(Speaking of musicals, I might need to do a post comparing and contrasting the original Newsies movie and the Newsies Broadway musical, because.... because reasons.)

RIGHT! So, shall we get this thing going?

1.) Here, we have the colored versions of the Steampunk girls I drew last time.

 2.) A couple of my sisters informed me that this one is the Steampunk version of Jack, and after some dubious eyeballing of this picture, I have come to agree. So here, Steampunk Jack for you.

3.) The lady inventor, because she's funny and I like her, and I think I've named her Veronica. 

4.) This one is basically me when I get up in the morning. Expression and all.

Yes, I turn into Gollum, got a problem with that?

5.) Amy told me that if I want to illustrate kids books, I should maybe start drawing kids. She had a point, so I drew horribly disproportionate children, and they're adorable.

6.) I did not really like how disproportionate they were, so sad-little-crying-girl came next.  ( Again, I don't know why there are weird splotches, but oh well.)

7.) Random dancing girl with fabulous hair.

8.) DAREDEVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Because blind Catholic superheroes are the BEST. OHMYGOODNESS.

No, I didn't mess up when I wrote 'purpose' in pen, why would you think that?

9.) Bad, bad sketches. I don't know why I only had blue and pink colored pencils with me, but the girl looks slightly maniacal, and something went horribly wrong with that ballerina.

10.) Sometimes I can't draw.

11.) And then we have another gigantic batch of Phantom fanart because I have no life. (But I do love my musicals.)

I tried a new angle for Think of Me, and I firmly believe that it will look less weird when I color it in.

11.) One of the times I listened to it, I realized that Christine's last word in the musical is 'morning', and the Phantom's last word is 'night.' And for some reason that contrast made me really sad. So....

12.) This one I'm working on right now. When it's done the Erik and Raoul will be standing on stairs, and it will be colored and I plan on making it fabulous....

If you can tell me the lyrics to this part, I will give you cyber brownies. 

13. And finally.... (you guys are probably SO happy...) We have that part where he leads her through the mirror and they do that song with the note that I can't hit.*

*cries all the tears*

And with that, I think I'm going to bid you all a very fond farewell, try to maybe catch up on Supernatural so I can watch the really painful finale when it airs, and pray that the sun comes out, because it's been gray for over a week now, and I'd really like some bright days now, please and thank you.

Which picture is your favorite?
Who do you ship Christine with? (Bearing in mind that I'm planning on doing a post defending my ship sometime soon.)
Do you listen to musicals?
Do you like Steampunk? 

I love you all!

Treskie out.