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8/3/2004 - It's Monday and I'm having a rough week already. The temp job I'm on until next Tuesday is wiping me out. With unpaid lunch and commute it's an eleven hour day, extremely stressful, and underpaid.
Ugh.
In the name of money though, that holy kiss touching you every time you've decided she's turned her back, I should mention that if anyone is interested in any of the sketchblogs pictures I've posted, feel free to inquire. All reasonable offers considered. The Bethanne series I gave to Bethanne, and anything from the old archive is back in Massachusetts, so it's unavailable.
If not, it's fine. Just wanted to mention it, and I could use the money. But I haven't the energy to push anything these days. Bruno book # 3 and #9 will be out surely sometime before the year 2014.
Oh, but I did have a pleasant weekend. Dylan came to visit and we talked about comics, a bit of life, and then more about comics. A welcomed diversion.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200408.html#20040803)
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8/6/2004 - Umm.. friday. Made it through the week. So, uh, sketches. Some from National Geographic, some from random web sites. Basically studying faces and nationalities. I used the tracing technique, which is interesting in it's own way even though it feels like cheating. I guess it's curious because there is less translation going on between the photo and the drawing, less for me to interpret through communicating from my eye to my hand. I could go on at leangth about this, perhaps I will at some point, but for now I am going to snuggle with Bethanne a bit and then sleep.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200408.html#20040806)
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8/9/2004 - Bethanne is away and I've been drawing Little-Dee non-stop 7-10 all weekend and have no brain cells left. On the bright side, the inking brush is now a natural extension like a second claw.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200408.html#20040809)
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8/10/2004 - It's kinda' funny, actually. The past few days I've been musing on the idea of how my strange Bruno "sense of humor" has leaked into Little Dee here and there. And then in today's Bruno I suddenly see Little Dee leaking in. Life is odd.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200408.html#20040810)
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8/12/2004 - I've been kinda' sick for a couple weeks now. Can't figure it out. Sleep, exercise, better diet, none of it's doing much. And so I could barely draw tonight. Just these doodles. I'm still mazed that Bruno came out and not terribly done this week.
I did start a 9-month job today. A WA state job, pays decent, medical, dental, fun supervisor and staff. I'm quite in amazement that it fell into my lap. Now if I can just get healthy enough to concentrate when they're showing me things.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200408.html#20040812)
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8/16/2004 - So the background isn't great, but it still felt so good to draw from a reference, even a crummy low-res one. I mean, it's been so nice these past months to be able to do easier backgrounds, give myself a break a bit, but I do miss the photo-reference backgrounds so much. Honestly, if I knew she'd be spending so much time in Pittsfield, i woulda' taken a load of pictures while I was there, but instead I got none, and it's so hard to find any decent ones online.
So yeah. Like I need more work. I should just enjoy the break. Besides, the backgrounds have still been attractive. Pretty much. :-/
And speaking of which, I've felt progressively better these past two days. I'll try to keep being easy on myself and hope I'm better.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200408.html#20040816)
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8/17/2004 - The anti-celebrityville. I grew up watching my introverted parents, and slowly I learned how to live life going unnoticed. Which is a fine way to live, if you like that sort of thing, but I'm afraid it's not been the best thing for my career.
Someone mentioned recently how amazingly popular Bruno was considering my total lack of PR, or advertising, or anything. I think that speaks volumes. Dee has been little exception.
If anyone out there is a bored spouse at home with a degree in marketing, or a publisher, or someone who simply knows their stuff and wants to take this big stupid weight off my shoulders.
I'm tired.
Maybe I'm just tired tonight, i don't know.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200408.html#20040817)
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8/19/2004 - Today is a better day. And Bethanne is the sweetiest.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200408.html#20040819)
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8/20/2004 - Sketches, still playing around with markers like last week. I spent a couple lunches around where I work sketching scenes and such, plus a few other random doodles. I kinda' like the style, and oddly I think my drawing faces in my sketchblog has been good, I just noticed this week like I've actually been learning quite a bit. Chins, noses, brows. All sorts of stuff I defined in my head, which I'm now seeing how narrow (if not plain incorrect) some of the definitions are.
That and my brother and Su are visiting for th next week. Taking it off from work and flitting about happily. Looking foreward to it.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200408.html#20040820)
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8/23/2004 - So, there's been a hurricane in Pittsfield, so says the news (and Brian, thanks Brian). Not too much damage, but I'll probably slip it into the strip sometime in the next week.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200408.html#20040823)
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8/25/2004 - I'm not so sure what to make of Gina either. I mean, in my head, where she came from (aside some from Bite Me), what's her role.
(link: http://www.brunostrip.com/notes/200408.html#20040825)
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