Well other than another slightly late start getting out the door. This was another good day at folklife. As far as the sketching was concerned it took me a while to get into my game and perhaps because I was obsessing about that a little too much I didn’t see quite as many acts as I would have liked.
But other than that I think i finally managed to get my pace together and made up for lost time as the day went on.
I got a relitively late start for the first day of this year’s Folklife. Firstly because I was running a little late finishing my week’s quota and also the ongoing construction on Mercer blocked my traditional route under Aurora Ave forcing me to double back a quarter of a mile in order to get to the Seattle Center.
All in all a good start. Friday always has the least going on so there’s no need to hurry to get there and once you do get there there is plenty of time to relax and get your bearings.
As for the sketching it was all a bit of a mixed several of them I thought turned out pretty well while others of them… didn’t. But I think I’m getting myself warmed up and there will be lots more to draw tomorrow.
Today’s Sketch is another from the Seattle Art Museum’s Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough exhibit which ended last week. This one is Anne, Countess of Albermarie & Son 1777-9 by George Romney.
Well this was mostly an uneventful day didn’t really get into my zone until half way into the afternoon and then I had to leave early for the first meetup social that the Graphic Artists Guild was hosting.
The meetup was a bust. Despite having a small number of RSVP no one showed up other than me and the other person hosting it. So after hanging out at the meeting place to keep up appearances and wait for people to come.
But the ride home made it worth it. It’s still pretty light out at 8:30 so I had a wonderful view of the sun setting over the Cascades making a nice pink glow over the snow.
My interest in Star Trek tends to wax and wane over the years. One of the few things I continue like about it is Marc Okrand’s Klingon Language. When I first picked up a copy of the first dictionary it was one of my first encounters with a fully developed conlang (not counting Tolkien) and I was hooked.
So when I stumbled over this video featuring Jen Usellis the other day I just had to share.
When a strip such as mine is dependent on continuity a little mistakes or contradictions can be embarrassing. The little ones, that is to say bits of dialogue that contradict the strip’s text evidence, I treat as typos quietly fix them when I notice them and prey that nobody else does.
But then there are the big ones, the ones that I can’t fix. The best example of this is the first two years where I was still just trying to figure out what was going on and there is tons of information about the setting that doesn’t fit into current cannon not to mention a handful of cheap political jokes that I’m kind of embarrassed about now (not due to being ashamed of my own politics but due to them dating badly.) So because of this my general attitude about the first two years is not to talk about the first two years.
More recently another big one snuck up on me.
The last couple of months have been what I’ve started to call long day storylines. That is to say juggling three subplots that keep on going on while still only happening in 24 hours of strip time. I’m generally uncomfortable with these strips because they have a tendency to constrain the stories you can tell since they don’t allow you to move forward until the “day” ends.
Anyway I was just going through the archives to remind myself on some of the details so it would be easier to finish only to discover that the Spring Mystery, storyline something that took place before the current day and the aftermath of which is an important detail in the current storyline occurred while Kate and Rowan were having breakfast.
I suppose I could tell myself that I’m writing the story in “Anachronic Order” but if I am I’d like to think I was doing it on purpose and a little more competently.
Any way please don’t judge too harshly.
