Well, my laptop is still working! I also had a fantastic holiday, I didn't want to come back, who would with pictures like this?
Porto Cristo, Mallorca
The day after I came off holiday I decided to make my back yard a usable space, it's a good suntrap for the afternoon and early evening, and it was just a dumping ground before. Now it's nice:
Anyway, I've not done much art again since coming back (and I did zero on holiday), but I've been working on Jaime Lannister today:
I did do another Cersei Lannister test on the new paper, and I really didn't like it, so I've gone back to my original paper that I did Cersei Lannister on, and I'll be using that going forward. Plans for next week it to just carry on with this project :) There's a website coming back online, I'm not sure if I've mentioned it before, it's called Briefbox. They were hacked last year, and took the opportunity to sort out their security, and upgrade the website too. I'll have a look at it when it's back online. The owners post briefs online for you to work on (ie logo design, graphic design, illustration, etc), but they're made-up. It's quite good to use to practise. The old website is still accessible: http://briefbox.me/ I've also come across a concept I like the look of: A bullet journal, you can read more on it here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelwmiller/how-to-start-a-bullet-journal?utm_term=.do6YMLDBQb#.brOxvy6M3A Anyway, I'm off to watch the Canadian Grand Prix (my favourite, Jenson Button has just dropped out of the race as his engine set on fire), so I'll leave you with my Pinterest of the Week: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/314548355205688849/ For once it's not anything arty, but I feel like since just before my holiday and after my tolerance to idiots is improving!
I'm back! :) My weather fears were confirmed while we holidayed in Newquay, the weather was typically British when we arrived:
But it soon cheered up:
The weather was very hit and miss though. We didn't leave our campsite for the first 3 days as the weather was so bad. Cornwall is really nice, but I thought Newquay was a bit of a dump. St Ives was my favourite town. We also went to Lands End, the Minack Theatre, Tintagel Castle, the Eden Project, Healeys Cider Farm at the St Austell Brewery. In a nutshell I wouldn't go back to Cornwall, as I feel like I've seen everything I want to see there, and for where we live in the UK it's a long way to drive to go to the seaside!
One thing that really made holiday (and probably shouldn't have) was a shop called Edge. It was really 3 shops in one, being run by one person, a second-hand game/DVD shop, comics & fancy dress. Rob, the owner, started talking to us about board and card games (not your typical Monopoly boards games), and we bought a card game called Love Letter. The following week we went for a gaming night that Rob invited us to, and we played a few games of Betrayal at House on the Hill. What a fantastic game! However Rob didn't have any copies of this game available to sell, so we went back a couple of days later and bought another card game called Card of the Dead, and a board game called Pandemic. Rob then introduced us to Magic The Gathering, and this game is now my new obsession! I won't bore you anymore with the details, but we ended up coming home early as the weather was due to take a turn for the worse, and we didn't want to pack the trailer tent away if it was raining.
Anyway, that's enough about my holiday, unsurprisingly I didn't really draw anything, but I had a few token sketches I will ashamedly share with you:
So now what I'd like to say is I'll be back on with drawing, but truthfully we all know what I'm like ;) I will endeavour to do something though. I quite like what I did before my holiday, in that I went straight to BriefBox and picked a project before I could change my mind!
