Oh really officer? My speedometer must not be working.
Excuses, excuses.... I really don’t have an excellent excuse for why it’s been nearly a year since my last post. The holidays, then winter hibernation, than—whammo!—fix up the house!, paint the house!, build those stairs to the backdoor that we’ve been putting off for 4 years! Now, put the house on the market.... Sell the house. Now, look, look, look, look for a new house because you need to live somewhere! Look some more.... find a house! Compete for the house! Pay too much for the house! And don’t forget to drive your kids to soccer, piano, and finish out the school year. Now, pack! move! collapse like a bag of bones!
Ok, you get the idea. But still, shame on me! Life and design work did squeeze out illustration work for a time. And that’s no good. I’m less myself when I’m not drawing, painting, illustrating. So while I did pick back up the brush, the pen, the pencil after the move, the blog sat untended.
Today’s SCBWI conference was just the shot in the arm to help me start afresh at the various little disciplines that make up a creative life. Blogging can, and does, get in the way sometimes of creativity. But when held in check, it can be a great motivation to post something, even if it’s a silly little sketch of a small boy getting his toes nibbled by fish. (And just who is in that little submarine?)
I did the sketch for Illustration Friday’s theme of WATER two Fridays ago. It’s a start, not something I’ll carry to finished state. But still kind of like the guy.
