That was a giant waste of my Saturday

[ellenmillion]

I've added another Will Not Vend Again venue to my lengthening list.

I think I lost more in ruined product than I made. There were good spots - it was, at least for a while, a nice sunny day out on a lawn with some great live music, and there were some wonderful people who helped me out when I most needed it. (Vending solo can be a bit of a juggling act, and some tasks are just a helluva lot easier with another set of hands.)

Drove home feeling sorry for myself, but then realized that at least I have a nice house with a great husband to come home to. He helped me hang my tent on the line, poured me into a shower, made me a delicious rummy drink and listened to me vent about the awful parts of the day before cooking up some pasta and popping in an episode of Dark Angel for me.

Despite my title, it wasn't an awful day, it just wasn't fruitful, with patches of absolutely horrible.

Today I gamed, and bought new raingear for next weekend, and more pants that actually fit, worked on the map for Torn World, and drew this:

Comments

[puffbird.livejournal.com]

Is that Resla and Varla? It's awesome! :)

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

It is! Thank you!!

[pers1stence.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love this drawing -- it's one I'd love to own someday.....

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Reallllly? *grins* Glad you like it!

[pers1stence.livejournal.com]

Really. It captures a certain "energy" that happens around little kids that speaks to me and always makes me smile.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Sorry your day sucked.

The picture is lovely. I'm still trying to update my Torn World language notes to include all the stuff that was pretty much agreed upon, in a coherent format.

Re: Thoughts

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

It's the coherency problem I struggle with - I've got reams of handwritten notes in no order whatsoever, and I'm floundering at transferring everything. :P Looking forward to seeing it!!

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Have you tried setting categories and sorting stuff into those? The outline is a big help in sorting the language stuff, for me.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

gah, I'm sorry that your Saturday sucked! That picture is really nice, though. I love how down-to-earth it is.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was going for 'earthy,' and I had lots of little monkey-children to reference at the Folk Fest.

[ryokomusouka.livejournal.com]

I love that drawing...

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

Nice sketch!

[metasilk.livejournal.com]

I love the feel and action of the sketch! I've done that!

Is it OK to offer a comment that would be a critique if I had a clue? Artwise, something in the child's shape seems off in it to me and I'm still trying to poke my head to find out what. It might just be that *I* am short, and thus my 4-year-old is half my height, and my perceptions are weird!. The pictured child reminds me of a child of a friend in many ways, who is more delicate in build than my kid, and the relative proportions are more like what you've drawn. I wonder if what's reading off to me is the child's head and/or face? They are beautiful, but maybe the back of her head is a touch small (an adult's skull shape) and the features too adult, high and spread on the face? I'm trying to draw over my screen image here with my fingers to see if that's what's going on.... er... not very successfully... :P Hope this is OK to post!

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Critiques are always very welcome!

I agree - I think the whole child's head in particular is mis-proportioned, even if the woman is supposed to be a Very Large woman (she's a specific character, and 6'3.). The previous versions were worse, and the paper was starting to disintegrate there, so I called this good enough. I need to draw more kids!!