Poking around behind-the-scenes of the blog at the moment so actual posting is (you can probably see) thin on the ground. Also resolved to stop using my scanner as a useful table for dumping documents on, so I’m not tempted just to take poor webcam snapshots of my sketchbooks (see above) in lieu of actually scanning them in. We’ll see how that goes…

I have started a new job with widely varying hours and don’t seem to know from one week to the next where I will be. So far this has not turned out to be conducive to the creative process, nor to updating this blog, but perhaps it will get easier after Christmas.

On a much more positive note, I have finally acquired (and legitimately, I might add!) a copy of Photoshop, complete with student discount courtesy of my Life Drawing course. And once I have time to dedicate to installing and playing with it, I guess it will be pretty useful. At the moment the box is just sat atop my printer, looking decorative and excessive.

Jake passed away a year ago today. I like to imagine that he’s currently sat in some other realm with all the great cats of history, who now spend their time spectrally grooming and surveying each other with thinly veiled disdain.

* The title of this post is completely unrelated to anything within, but seems like a good idea.

I doodled this witch and she appeared to be sat on (or maybe climbing over) something, so I added a fibreglass lion. There were a lot of those in Bournemouth at the time I sketched this, so it seemed reasonable.

In my next post: a wardrobe.