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A Logical Progression
Aug. 21st, 2018 10:30 amThe list of Expedition members to draw seems to grow as I complete it ... Tiring of researching biographies that end with "destroyed by WWI" I decided to start on Priestley, who lived to be a ripe old academic. But I know nothing about Priestley! I can't draw someone I don't know! I read his biography on Wikipedia but the facts of a life give one very little sense of the person, so I had a quick rifle through the index of The Longest Winter (a book about the Northern Party which I haven't read yet), and he's woven through every page. Also in the book are Levick, Browning, Abbott, and Dickason, who I will need to design in short order.
Day after tomorrow, I leave for Liverpool for my visa extension application. I'd hoped to cram in Priestley and finish off that character sketchbook before I left, but the reading now has to come first. Tempting as it is to cram the book in the next two days, and sift out bios for five characters, it makes much more sense to take it as reading material on the train. So now I have two days to fill with something that needs doing.
Hmm, let's see, which of the dozen or more to-do lists shall I dip into first ...
Once upon a time I just turned up for work in the morning and drew what was in my in-tray, and plugged away on other people's projects like a responsible adult. I am certainly much happier executing this mad commission, and imagining giving it up gives me the panic-sweats, but that regular life can look appetizing sometimes.
Day after tomorrow, I leave for Liverpool for my visa extension application. I'd hoped to cram in Priestley and finish off that character sketchbook before I left, but the reading now has to come first. Tempting as it is to cram the book in the next two days, and sift out bios for five characters, it makes much more sense to take it as reading material on the train. So now I have two days to fill with something that needs doing.
Hmm, let's see, which of the dozen or more to-do lists shall I dip into first ...
Once upon a time I just turned up for work in the morning and drew what was in my in-tray, and plugged away on other people's projects like a responsible adult. I am certainly much happier executing this mad commission, and imagining giving it up gives me the panic-sweats, but that regular life can look appetizing sometimes.
