happydance

Well, my first day of 'finish the fucking pencils for chapter 1 already' went well. I got to put a big X on my improvised calendar. Hooray! Launch is still a ways off but it's that one step closer now. And I only have three pages of complicated cityscape left to pencil.

the anthropic principle

What a strange thing to wake up to.

I was lying there in bed with half my face buried in the pillow. With my left eye open, I cold see all the pale little specks of dust and fuzz against the dark blue pillowcase.

One of them had a face. My face. Tiny, the size of a grain of rice, but sharp and clear. It was still there when I looked with my other eye, too. Right there in the two or three inch distance my uncorrected eyes focus on ultra-sharply. I've seen faces in chance details but never ones this clear, and never my own.

It almost seemed to be moving. Maybe talking. But I can't lipread worth a damn and it wasn't quite that detailed anyway.

dippy giggling

When I get an expression really right, I giggle. I'm giggling a lot as I pencil out p. 14 of Absinthe, our first introduction to Inspector Kaese. My already-expressive (to me, at least) body language in my thumbnail roughs is getting delightfully enhanced with expressions I wasn't quite expecting, based in the dialogue Nick wrote. This is really making me happy.

I'm also continually happy that along with markings for gutters at ¹⁄₂, ¹⁄₃, and ¹⁄₄ of the page, I went on a whim and put one in at φ. The Golden Ratio is, indeed, pleasing - it feels like a playful place to break the square of the page at.

(Also, Eddie Campbell's system of doing the lettering first works damn well.)