Things I love: Figment Daily Themes

at Figment.com you can sign up to have a writing prompt sent to you every weekday, Monday-Friday. I love these things. I love them very much.

I don't often use them, but whenever I get into a writing rut I can just go through my email history and find something to dig me out. Plus, they're always interesting to read! :D

bored

And this is what I do when I'm bored!

In case you can't tell what that thing up there is, I build house plans. And yes, I am extremely bored.

On the other hand, this thing easily took four hours, because right after finishing it my little sister ran past and unplugged the computer. The computer is so old that when you unplug it, everything crashes. So I lost all of my work. It was highly depressing. I felt like I had to finish it again, so here it is. XD

Which reminds me of something I just read about Sharon Kay Penman's book the Sunne in Splendour. She wrote the first copy of the manuscript, five hundred pages worth of historical fiction, only to have her only copy stolen from her car. She was unable to write for six years after that, after which she rewrote the whole thing. I was almost physically sick when I heard that. Let it be a lesson to us all to back up everything we write a million times.

And since Ms. Penman's book is about King Richard III... here's an article about the recreation of his face! And guess what? He doesn't have a withered arm...

NaNoWriMo

~and other things that are not being finished~
a startling report by Chloe

Well, folks, it seems as though the world is conspiring against my finishing the novel I started back in November.

I apologize, that is a bit of a hasty thing to say. In fact, I'm merely unable to type with ease, thereby hindering my ability to write efficiently. Why, you ask?  Well, because one of my beloved siblings has spilled Doctor Pepper all over the keyboard, and now bits and pieces of it are refusing to work.

I didn't like Doctor Pepper to begin with, but this was the last straw.

On the bright side, now I have a plausible excuse to procrastinate. Wait, is that actually a bright side? I have yet to decide.

This blog post took me a full fifteen minutes to write, which may not seem like a lot of time but trust me, it is. Normally I can write an entire sermon about something in fifteen minutes. Le sigh.

And now, off to find excuses to not draw! I take my bow and exit...

New and improved, slightly less incomplete character list!

And it even has its own page! There shall be much rejoicing. Visit it here: CLICK
Actually, it's mostly for me, though. Haha.

At last count: 290 Characters are on the page.
Not looking forward to counting again. It takes so long, even using the best tech I can find! :P

Resolutions

Started figuring out what I'm doing with my main New Years Resolution (i.e. write and illustrate entire graphic novel/comic thing) and subsequently filled pages of paper with sketches and studies. This is only a tiny portion of the stuff I've drawn. But you know, practice makes perfect! (I hope.)

adventures

I have been continuing to enjoy my new-found love, the sepia brush inking pen, in the rare times when I take a break from my sign-painting duties and NaNoWriMo novel finishing. (FYI, I only made it about halfway through my plot by the time I reached my 50,000 mark: I'd apparently not realized exactly how many words I'd be using for world-building and planned far too much in-between stuff.)

This is Constantine. He's from my novel, which is a massively retold bunch of fairytales melded together and thrown into a world filled with civil strife. He's the beast from Beauty and the Beast. Mostly I just wanted to draw something on my watercolor paper.

Now... I am off to stop procrastinating! I shall finish my novel... if it is the last thing I do. Right after I eat a bowl of ice cream.

I keep forgetting I have a haiku blog, too.

With the dawning of a new year (and, of course, the pressure to announce corresponding resolutions) I was meandering around my email and blogger pages, looking for distractions. Of course, I found one, in the form of my own long-forgotten haiku blog.

 Chloe's 100 Haiku blog

Like the goofball I am, I was going strong with these until about July, when I apparently had my first senior moment (senior as in high school senior) and my entire memory of my project was wiped from my brain.

Ah, well, that's okay. Better late than never, I suppose! 

Chloe recently discovered she loves:

Brush inking pens. I can't believe I never realized how amazingly fun they are to use.

More December Drawings

My character Leo... the writing on the side is a "guide to surviving Leo during the holidays" with helpful tips like "don't let him have sugar because he's hyper enough already". Tried to do him in my cartoony style.

Drew this on 12/12/12, hence the date in the corner. Practiced coloring. That girl has one terrible paper cut... I was watching Star Trek while coloring and got a bit distracted.

doodles

Finally did the "Draw This Again" meme, I'm pretty pleased with the outcome.

In our youth, my friend Charlotte and my sister and I all loved our webkinz to bits. This is Charlotte's raccoon and my white terrier, a happy married couple, as humans.

And finally, happy (belated) holidays to you all! I drew this while suffering from a splitting headache and watching football with my grandfather (I will never understand that game) which is why there is absolutely no rhyme or reason to his sweater. Sigh.

Happy 2013!

I rang in the new years with a Doctor Who marathon and (slightly cold) spaghetti... altogether quite an enjoyable way to celebrate, if you ask me.

last drawing of 2012

I hope everyone had an awesome Christmas! (sorry for not posting, I'm a dud blogger and I had a fever and a cough and spent most of Christmas break trying not to fall asleep and miss the excitement.)

Oh, and obligatory list of New Years' resolutions:

1. write and illustrate an entire graphic novel. I don't even care if its terrible I just wanna do it.
2. actually that's my only resolution at the moment. I never resolve myself until about January 15th. Maybe I should resolve to stop procrastinating on this kind of time stuff.

  Now I guess I'm off to do.... something of worth, hopefully. :D

Happy December!

I guess you could say that I've started off the month with a whole lot of seasonal drawings. These are just a few of the ones I've finished already.

November has come and gone...

.... and I wrote 50,000 words!
I might come blog more now that I'm not freaking out about plotting (which is what I did all October) or freaking out about writing (which is what I did all November). We'll see. ;)

New Blog Style!

I must admit, I was a bit disenchanted with the old one.Still, I was sad to say goodbye for ever (Blogger no longer offers that template for use).

But now I suppose I have a very good reason to finally make that new header, too-- my old one doesn't quite fit the header space! :)

Just to clarify: I only colored this, the lineart was drawn by an internet friend. :)

Look, ma, no braces!

Oops, never mind.


Due to a mistake by the Orthodontist, last week I didn't get my braces off (as scheduled)and instead must keep them on until September.

That said, I do happen to be the only kid in the entire universe who didn't want to get her braces off, so all's well. (Actually it briefly occurred to me to reapply my rubber bands to give myself an overbite so they'd have to correct it.)

School...

So school started yesterday to my dismay, and I now (once again) know my Latin vowels and dipthongs, have read about the Puritans and the explorer Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, and know a little more about Elucid's elements, and also the philosopher/astronomer Thales. 

And that is all I have to say about it.

sick sick sick sick sick agh yup

I'm all shaky and nauseous and I have a terrible headache.

And the worst part is that I really want to draw, but I can hardly see the paper because my head spins every time I sit up.

And that is enough of my complaining. :D

Rewriting adventures...

I'm busybusybusy rewriting last year's NaNoWriMo novel, mostly because my friend Charlotte ordered me to, but also because I'm getting more hyped for this year's novel, and I'm trying to see what I can do more effectively this year. (For one thing, I'm making sure this novel plan is long enough-- last year I finished my story halfway through the month and still had like 25,000 words to write.)

This is one of the characters, Harrow Hemingsworth, from my other potential novel idea for this November.

Now, off to continue my rewriting....

Quick doodle dump...