An Assortment of Vacation Stuff

[tealin]

I will share one story with you from my trip to LA. It's only one story, out of the hundreds that happened, but it's indicative of ... so many things.

We went for lunch with a bunch of awesome animation people. My sister and I were at one end of the table, and from the other end we heard a loud sort of pop/bang noise. We looked up, and the guy at the end of the table was holding up his water bottle by the neck and looking at the bottom of it. Apparently he had just swatted a fly. 'What a great silhouette!' he said. The guy next to him said 'Why don't you draw it?' and he was at least 60% serious. The Flykiller replied 'I don't have my sketchbook with me.' I may have been reading too much into it, but it almost sounded like he was disappointed. It was so beautiful, I thought I might cry.


Also at the aforementioned lunch were a couple of illustrators from Washington whose work I'd seen on the Web before, so it was really cool (and unexpected!) to meet them. But the weird thing was, they looked exactly the same, except they had different hair and one had glasses. I'm sure they had more differences but the impression left on the brain was one of strange sameness.

Another attempt at Hermione which I drew on the second leg of the flight. There's a bit of another drawing overlapping this one, but it kind of got incorporated into her head. I realised when I scanned it that she looks a little like a friend of mine from school. The search continues.

There was a very loud woman on the bus. She was talking into her cell phone in a stage voice, even though the bus wasn't loud enough to necessitate that. After she'd called three different people everyone on the bus knew that her flight had been half an hour late but since the bus was also half an hour late that was OK! I assume she's okay with the Internet knowing this as well. One of the other passengers saw my drawing and slipped me a note that read 'The book she is reading is titled Even In Quiet Places.' Irony is alive and well.

Comments

[buttfacemakani.livejournal.com]

ahaha a Loud Talker xD. And lol at the note slipper!! XD

'What a great silhouette!' *dies* oh, animators.

[evgenka555.livejournal.com]

One of the men above looks exactly like a colleague of mine :)
It's amazing.

[dried-frog-pill.livejournal.com]

Welcome back! And lmao at the fellow-bus-passenger-camaraderie XD Although obnoxious cell-phone users are so annoying.

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

Your new Hermy looks like one of my childhood friends doing her "I'm very sweet and innocent. I did not watch step dad's r-rated films or make prank phone calls to the sex-line while you were out!"-face.

The cloned guys look like they are still in puberty. Gotta love long limbed boys!

(Oops edit.)

[wizardelfgirl.livejournal.com]

It's nice to be in a group of people where you could have actually drawn the fly and they wouldn't have seen you funny for it.

And oh the irony of the books you read and the way you are!

-Kaelynn

[(Anonymous)]

What are the names of the illustrators from Washington?

[trashcanbaby.livejournal.com]

I hate those loud cellphone talkers! Nice drawings!

[amandagrazini.livejournal.com]

Hermioneeeeeee

Hermioneeeeeee

*steals it*

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

This year has seen your style evolve to the point where I can barely recognize your drawings as 'Work of Tealin.' But I like it. I've noticed a lot of overstylizing - usually for the purpose of humour. I love your loud lady. She looks like my mom |: ) Who is actually quite mousey unless she's screaming at the little ones. Very interesting.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Funny, I feel like in the last year I've dug myself deeper and deeper into a drawing rut... but if you say I've made progress, then good! I'll latch onto that! :)

[salamandersoup.livejournal.com]

Animators are the coolest people in the world. Ever. xD

[viqii.livejournal.com]

oh, OH HERMIONE!

that's oh so her! it's just how i imagine her when i read the book..

omg.. i love you.


kisses, great drawings!

[blackunicorn777.livejournal.com]

"There was a very loud woman on the bus. She was talking into her cell phone in a stage voice, even though the bus wasn't loud enough to necessitate that. After she'd called three different people everyone on the bus knew that her flight had been half an hour late but since the bus was also half an hour late that was OK!"

if I was sitting beside her my laughter would be more like a roar(looks silly?) XDDD....
the drawing of her and the one of Hermione is really cool!XDDDD

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Love the drawings, as usual (I also thought they were remarkably similar, those two! And I like those slightly bulky forearms - they're cute!), nice new take on Hermione, love the cell phone woman story (especially the coda: isn't it nice how shared pain forges unexpected aliances among strangers?) :), and I also thought that was a very cool momentwith the fly (I couldn't have staged something much more inspiring than that, for your benefit, if I had tried!), and, no, I don't think Mark was kidding at all.