Caffeinated and ready to Draw

Grabbed a coffee and some perspective. This spring I reduced my hours at the church to make room for Juli to come on staff (as it was in the beginning) but it isn't as easy going to a partial freelance position as I thought. There have been a couple of steady writing gigs, but every time I respond to an RFP it takes a fair bit of time - and getting 1 in 4 is considered doing well (even 1 in 10 is a decent rating). I can't go after everything because there just isn't time. As it is I've got so many projects on the back-burner that I'm running out of stove-top space. In the middle of all of this I keep pushing off pursuing some art-related projects that I would like to explore.
"Yet you have time to blog?" you query...yeah but only because I am doing it while my 11-month old is screaming in my ear at the same decibal levels as a Ted Nugent concert and pawing at my keyboard like a miniature Oscar Peterson.
I have a big writing contract that should be awarded on Tuesday - so pray for me because it would solidify a few things and allow me to make some decisions with the clarity that comes from not choking on the fumes of fiscal depletion.
Here are a couple of drawings - one doodled on a napkin and the other one drawn earlier this week but I finished up some of the colouring today. I was really hoping to do it on my tablet PC. I got it back a while ago (thanks Martin) but now I can't find all of the discs for my Adobe CS and so it isn't functioning yet. There's always next week.
This first drawing is in a "visualization vs. reality" style. Every Sunday I pick out clothes that I hope look good - but I suffer from a form of "dyslexic anorexia" in that I think I look better than I really do. [No offense meant to people who actually suffer from either dyslexia or anorexia its just the best way to describe why I wear some of the outfits I do.] Some people can get away with wearing anything and making it cool - I have the inverse affect - I guess that is how God keeps a cosmic fashion-balance in check. I wouldn't doubt it if one day I will throw together something very similar to the outfit from a couple of posts ago!!


This is a quick doodle I did while waiting for the kidlets. I was just sketching on this loose napkin when I remembered the way they sucked back some noodles for lunch the other day. It reminded me of the Cthulhu - a creature from a Lovecraft short story...
Here is a finished painting by somebody - I got it off of google images - so you can see a more detailed conception of the creature:

Anyhoo - Happy Drawing Day everybody.

Migwec,

Ehkosit