Challenge on the Horizon

I'm going to do something brave and bold, which is to try to post one drawing every day in October. I really ought to put it off until November and make it PePiDraMo (Personal Picture Drawing Month), but heck, let's try it.

On second thought, I think I'll make in two drawings a week in October and if I can do that, make it one a day in October.

Welp, better get started, then... only way to make a habit is to start it.

Child, I am Disappoint

Silly Bandz. The new Polly Pocket. The new Littlest Pet Shop. New Monopoly.

Back in my day (yeah, I said it; come at me, bro) fourth grade to be precise, my at-the-time best friend was obsessed with rubber bands. I mean just actual rubber bands in plain beige-brown. I don't know why he liked them so much, but he found some kind of use for them. Other kids did, too, mostly in the form of making rubber band balls.

Toys were a lot more simple back in those days- basically it was "here's a chunk of plastic, go to town". And we did. Polly Pocket bent at the waist and that was about it. The Littlest Pet Shop was nothing more than plastic shaped and colored like a tiny animal and some more plastic accessories. We supplied the goddamned imagination.

Toys have literally gone too far these days. They've taken all of the imagination and actual brain work out of them. These things practically play with themselves. Did we really need Polly Pocket to have a million pain-in-the-ass accessories? Whatever happened to giving her an outfit and a house and letting her and her friend go on adventures in it?

Seems like toys had achieved the perfect balance between the 50's and 2007- enough color and shape and mobility to stimulate the mind, but simple enough that it encouraged us to come up with a storyline on our own. Naaah, that's way too complex now. Kids don't wanna think while they play! Here- this thing thinks for you! It plays with itself!

I know I was kinda born sort of old, but as the weeks go by, I find myself identifying more and more with my RP Partner's character, the centuries-old vampire.

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Billie Joe and Alister

I keep making her look cute or pretty in the drawings, but really, she's my RP partner's character and she's supposed to be ugly. Ah, but my character thinks she's beautiful and he 's rather fond of her. When I draw, I think I'm seeing her through his eyes. It's like he's describing her to me and I'm just drawing. "She has this great pout, without trying or anything; be sure to get that. No, make it more full... yeah. Her nose kinda turns up, and it's really cute and short. Her hair's orange and wavy and full. No, prettier than that. Yeah. That's her alright."

The NecroMOMicon"

Weening your little horrid delight is extremely important, if the host mother's life is to be spared. If the host mother is not a initiated in the dark ways, a natural, or shall we say relatively natural, feeding can be attempted, but the results are often messy. And noisy. And can put your little god-child in the mindset that all around him are to be devoured. Really, just give him a bottle. It works better for everyone.

I'm so irrationally annoyed with everything in the world right now. I'd better be heading to bed soon.

Sully Kugin

Sully Kugin <3 I need to make a proper sketch concept sheet for her. *Head tilt* She doesn't look much like a boy, does she? I mean, if one reads a lot of June magazine, she might.