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GAAAAAAAAHHHHHH ten more pages roughed and I can actually watch television! I can have the TV on or listen to audiobooks when pencilling, but not when roughing. Apparently the part of my brain that follows story is the same part that's engaged when roughing things out, and it's a different bit that draws things. Which makes rather a lot of sense.

I've got 3 DVDs from Netflix and a whole mess of 'em from a friend sitting and waiting for me to be able to watch them, and I haven't had the television on anything other than one of the satellite music channels in about a month now. Tell me again why I'm paying exorbitant amounts of money for fifty billion channels?

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Tell me again why I'm paying exorbitant amounts of money for fifty billion channels?

So you can surf for hours to determine nothing's on.

Yup, that looks like it's so. *sigh*

I mean, I've watched more hours of Law & Order: SVU that is humanly possible.

LOL, I myself, and seen the original L&W more times than I can count...... Good ol' TNT

Can you send me the roughs before you start penciling them, so I can say stuff like, "Wait, that's not what's supposed to be going on in that panel," or "Her hair thingie is going to be there in the pencils, right?"

Also, between Netflix and my new manga and George R R Martin and karate, I never watch TV on TV.

(a) If I do that it will be a couple of days before I can start on the pencils.

(b) I do not think you understand what I mean when I say "rough". They should more properly be termed "thumbnails". My roughs are incomprehensible to anyone but me, and about four inches tall. The images are scribbles, mostly indicating the direction people are looking and the rough idea of what the composition of the panel and page is going to be. Detail on the level of things like major bodily features (like, say, arms and legs) is omitted; you're not going to be able to see stuff like hair thingies.

Example: This is page 1, actual size:

And that's slightly more detailed than a lot of them are.

What I call the pencils are what Tpop calls the roughs, and what I call "Good God can't I ink yet?" are what Tpop calls the refined pencils. And before you panic about how there's a whole extra step in there you weren't accounting for in the timeline, let me remind you that I've said I'm doing it all digitally, after I work out the roughs/thumbs so that the refined pencils are the inks.

OK, never mind. But prepare for lots of "where's her hair-thing" comments on the pencils/roughs. Unless it's all perfect the first time, of course.

OF COURSE IT'LL BE PERFECT THE FIRST TIME!! I am never wrong! Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.

Er, anyway, no prob. If you have any major changes, mention them in the pencils because once I do the "inks" I'll get irritated at requested major changes. XD Luckily, digital inks are easier to change than traditional ones.

Oh yeah - quick-n-dirty scans of the scribbly sketches of the guys I worked on at the sketch party at Yaoi-Con: here (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/telophase/effa078b.jpg) and here (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/telophase/d4879558.jpg). The second one has Jordan and Nick on it, so you cna see the differences I'm doing. Nick's eyes are going to be a bit more Sanzo/Hakkai sad, and Jordan's a bit more Goku expressive, although obviously nowhere near as big.

Er, your cold didn't happen to start with a stiff neck, did it?

No, but I did have one for a while. I think I just slept on it wrong. It began with a general oogy feeling.

(If you also have a fever and it's so stiff you can't touch your chin to your chest, go to the ER.)

No fever, and I'm OK on moving; I think it may be headache-related more than cold-related, but it's ahrd to tell since I've got the occasional sneeze and a weeeeee bit of a dry throat (which may be due to allergies. IT'S ALL SO CONFUSING.)

I should probably eat something, come to think of it. I haven't actually been feeling hunger for a couple of days, even when I have been hungry, jsut the associated problems that go with low blood sugar. It may be due entirely to not having eaten anything but two tortillas this morning.

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