So, this brings me to one of the items on that list. draw some cartoons. Oddly enough, starting a blog was on there too, et viola. I started scribbling. A terrible pikachu having battery problems scrawl. I scrapped the idea of drawing, I wasn't very good. It didn't bother me, I just figured it wasn't for me, no problem, next list item. I wrote some stories, and gave up.
I decided to revisit drawing, feeling like drawing very simplistic pictures, more to illustrate and add depth to stories than show them. This is where Jimoth was born. With some inspiration from Tailsteake's Ribby from 1/0 (above) I boiled it down to the main features you'd want to illustrate with, eyes, mouth, hands and body. So, that's all Jimothy's wound up with. I got to thinking of a little comic strip to draw him onto, and my mind began to wander into a comedy routine working as a comic strip, after all they're both comical.
I figured the best thing to do for my drawings would be illustrations of my comedy. One of the routines I'm writing, about an evening down the pub, made a great place to start. With a drop of colour, and a shadow for depth, and I knew I'd struck gold. A clean illustration of my comedy, in comic-strip form.
The same reasons that gave birth to Jimothy, taking things I want to do, and finding a way I want to do them in, are what's starting this blog. This blog was originally about a game I was writing, but that I gave up on. I still want to write a blog, so, putting it hand-in-hand with everything else, here it is.
"Do what you enjoy, not what's easy." - Me, just now.
I just Googled* that quote to see where I heard it, and I can't find any info, so, because I believe unwaveringly that Google is all-knowing, means I just made it up, also, I found an interesting page called "Hate Small Talk? These 5 Questions Will Help You Work Any Room" that if you take out the business-related slant on it, is actually fairly sound.
* For the spell-checker's sake, yes, Google can now be used as a verb, complete with past (Googled) present (to Google) and active (Googling) tenses.
