ARBOREAL DETOUR

The current item on the to-do list involves an elk, and I'm still trying to get to grips with getting an elk to look like an elk (and not a cow, donkey, deer or moose). So I took a wee break and started mapping out a new drawing, and it doesn't involve a mountain...

LITTLE BITS OF ORGANISED

Now that the illustrations are nearing an end, I'm finally getting closer to opening an Etsy shop in an attempt to flog the odd drawing. 

And, in a further incidence of proactivity, I finally drew up some designs to get Moo cards printed up. Organised, I am.

ONE-HUNDRED-AND-TWENTY-SEVEN YEAR OLD PAPER. AND I DREW ON IT.

I found some more mottled endpapers from old books, and since the mountain thing is still going strong this is happening:

pen + ink

13.5x19.5cm

13x18.5cm

The second image is on paper from a book dating back to 1884. There was a pang of guilt, but the endpapers were coming loose anyway and the rest of the book is intact. It’s a wee astronomy book titled Sun Moon and Stars: A Book for Beginners by A. Giberne, with chapter titles like 'Visitors' and 'Little Servants'.

In other news: The book illustrations I’ve been working on are nearly all done (just the cover and a couple of miscellaneous extras to go, I think - more on that later though), which means I now have to stop pretending I have an actual job and up the job hunting mission. They’re still mythical creatures, those job things...

WE LIVE HERE...

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OUR THREE MOUNTAIN-ISLES

10.5x20.5cm

A kind of plot has been forming over the past couple of weeks - about Universal Matter and ancestors and the origins of their mountains - and I'm slowly starting to pull it together into some sort of visual format. I think this might be part of a small-scale-book-trial-(zine?)-thing.

ANOTHER CASE OF THE TISMS

A reworking of Tisms, begun yesterday when I should have been doing something else. A bit of an experiment in making reproducible narratives and subplots to sneak into public places. Possibly.