ah what a fab day! i'm taking the whole day off every other form of work and errand and planning my neo comp entry! (as well as randomly boogying when ever i feel like it on wren's new dance mat XD )

so far i've got the idea and style sorted, planned where all the panels will go on each page and very briefly sketched what will be in each panel - now i'm working on finalising my initial sketches, then i'll be showing it to lee before i start the proper pages. lots to do but i have to say i'm in love with this comic! all the influences are so up my street its unbelievable and i feel like i haven't had to hold myself back on any crazy graphical ideas either.

its a shame i can't post up any development work but hopefully once the comp's over i'll be able to post up a cool timeline-esque development dump which might be interesting. it's nice to work on actual comic pages as i'm usually sidetracked into standalone projects or life drawing practice (or *ahem* planning yet more comics and never managing to draw them ^^;; )

apart from today, i'll be trying to fit work on the neo comp into my free time so as not to get in the way of my 3D work, but with both neo and the RSoM comic i've decided if it gets to a certain point (maybe mid-june with this one, which has a july deadline) and i haven't really made any progress, i'll just work on it full-time until its done ^_^ this one especially will be good 2D concept-y work for my portfolio so i've got no problem with spending extra time on it ^^

i got a fantastic birthday picture from rodentnetworks - thanks so much to nattherat!! i wasn't expecting anything like that so i'm really chuffed *^^*

i got some cool presents from wren and banemoo this morning before they headed off to work including all the homebrew enabling stuff for my DS - i spent the first few minutes of this morning installing 'colours!' which i've now got working - now i can join the ranks of those at wednesdayAnime who peruse their laptops/handhelds in the break XD

i also got persona 3 for the PS2! i read the booklet while eating breakfast and it looks *so good* o.O; so i'm sort of stopping myself from starting the game til i get my thumbnails done, or that'd be me for the rest of the day i think ^^;;

i got books 2 & 3 of dramacon and to terra! very different series but both are 3 books each so i can now finish each of them which is very cool ^^

i also got the box set of the entire series of speed grapher!!! XD XD ooo...shiny! i can't wait to watch it through again (we've only watched up to maybe episode 7 so far - i have the first 2 DVDs already) - so if anyone wants to offer me a decent price for the first 2 DVDs of speed grapher then please do, otherwise i'll probably bring-and-buy them next con ^^

~skips off happily~

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