Adios, pool. Hello, Wendy!

[secondlina]

I have so many pages to scan and photos to post, i'm at the point where i'm performing triage. I think I should just upload the whole thing and update a little everyday. I really think I should tweak my scanner's settings a bit and clean it's window, poor thing. It suffers under my rule.

So yeah, got a few projects done, and finished my last shift yesterday. Whew. I feel good about that. I've been feeling like i'm living in a bookfort lately. I'm reading far too many boring things. Now i'll hopefully have more straight drawing time  (aka 5 hours of it without interruptions! Yippeee!) and time to see friends.

I actually saw my friend tama the other day. Although she's not in the greatest moment of her life right now, she seemed well and it made me feel happy. She even mentionned picking up writting again. Me and Tama have plotted often in the past to create comic stories... Maybe she's got a few storyboards in stores for me!

At home (which is only metaphorically a bookfort), there's a big change a-coming : we are getting rid of our pool. See, we have a in-ground pool at my house. Here's a tip, when you buy a house, avoid those with in-ground pools. Round out-ground pools are easier to manage. In-ground pools...basically if you don't care for them almost everyday they crack and break and become disgusting. Due to my family's rather hectic schedule (and to the fact that me being gone to Toronto for two months didn't make me very available to swin & clean in the said pool) our pool cracked. Turns out it's cheaper to fill it and buy another then fix the in-ground pool. So yeah... Never buy a house with an in-ground pool. Unless you have a pool boy.

My parents emptied out the pool today. Tomorrow, people will come to fill it up. I poked my nose out of a book to go take a walk in my pool....

I can't believe my whole backyard is going to change. My parents want to put things like a patio in there. We have  a lot of vines everywhere the we are going to have to transplant. They are huge. Check them next to my mom:

Aside from that, I finished my neverland cup. For the character of Wendy in my lost girl theme, I designed a "mother" cup that will contain a miniture of neveland "floating" on green tea. The set comes with a green tea pouch I designed. It's very cute I find:

The cup is obviously a reference to Wendy's victorian setting. The mother word represents how she is a mother for peter but also how she leaves Neverland to be able to be a real mother. Neverland becomes some sort of escapism, lost in her usual routine (the 5'o clock tea).

Gah, all this thinking for lost girl projects makes me want to read Lost Girls by Alan Moore depicting the meeting of Wendy, Alice and Dorothy. Unfortunatly, the graphic novel, no matter how much of an important book is it for comic artists, also happen to be erotic. I've got no problem with the erotic part honestly. I own several borderline erotic graphic novels that I purchased because they were rose stones of graphic art. I mean, if everybody tells you you have to read something because it's part of comic history, you just do it. Besides, reading european comics made me quite used to graphic nudity and sexuality (the french are quite generous in that department). So, it's erotic. That's stil la problem though, because I can't buy it. It's 80$ and since it's erotic, it's impossible to find in a local librairy. To boot, i'd have to order on the web because the comic book shops here don't have to connections to order the book (because it's UK based) and/or can't order erotic materials because they are family oriented. Looks like I won't get to read that for a while. I don't think it's necessary for the evolution of this year's project, but it's definitly something that would have been interesting to check out.

I also rented out a million fairy tale movies and disneys to watch as I work. :)

-Secondlina






 

Comments

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

I like the picture of you standing in the pool. I can't put my finger quite on it, but it's an interesting composition. I'm glad Tama might be getting back into writing as well! I need to finish outlining the Renge/Anlise stuff I want to do for you. After I write my RP post. ;)

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I'm also glad tama is returning to writting! Especially since I might I have time to draw ^^

The pool pic is cool. I had an even cooler one where the perspective gave me this odd stance that looks a lot like the ones in the Oz comics. But that one had a huge dropping shadow, so I put this one instead.

Oh, Renlise and post stuff! Heehee!

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

I'm actually surprised you have pools built into the ground up there. I don't think I ever knew anyone back home who had a pool...well, one family down the road, but they were rich, and we live farther south than you. It kind of scares me thinking about it. XP Far too many near-drownings for me. I bet your parents will like having a larger backyard though.

I really like the teacup idea with the mini Neverland within. The concept just sounds really cool! I hope it all works out.

As for the comic, I say pull some strings. There's got to be someone over in the UK who comments on your LJ, right? See about getting the comic that way. I'd never have gotten my Slayers series of manga auf Deutsch without my friend in Germany tracking some down for me. (When you have the money, of course.)

(This post brought to you by a roommate's alarm clock that keeps going off, thus robbing me of my sleep. Thanks for having something to help me pass the time!) ^_^;

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I almost drowned twice I think, and never in the pool. It had a kiddy end and shallow end, which my parents carefully separated with a pool guard rope. My dad or mom would always sit outside next to the pool and read too when we'd be swimming. Just in case. And the fence kept us out of it otherwise.

Yeah, there's a reason why it's mostly rich people who have them: then can afford pool boys or cool cleaning mechnism. Lately there's also salt water pools that require less assistance. Our pool came with the house, it was a rather old pool. It was still pretty fun to have during our childhood.

I'm not sure i'd ask our commun UK friend to find it because buying + shipping would probably end up costing more then me getting it from the US. Henceforth...

(smash the thing. Take out your cartoon mallet)

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

What can I say? I have a natural talent for getting in over my head in water... I know how to swim, thank goodness, but I've never been great at it. I prefer my water frozen... That's good your parents always kept an eye on you guys when you were in the pool though. While I usually end up having issues in lakes, there was one time I was at a local pool and nearly did drown, until the lifeguard reached in and yanked me out. (Yep, I was drowning right near the edge of the pool, but it was out of reach to my little self.) Thank goodness for those people!

I'll let rich people keep their pools. (We do have rich neighbors. Apparently rich people like hiding out on the back roads, deep within the trees.) While I do love playing in a pool every now and again, they can be pretty dangerous...and I can't imagine how much it costs just to keep the water nice. Eh, I am surrounded by water anyway. I can go swim in a local lake for free! No chlorine to irritate my eyes, either. ^_-;

(The irony is as soon as I said the roommate's name -I just spoke it, no shouting- she instantly woke up...only to hit the snooze and go back to sleep. My nerves were shot this morning! It gave me plenty of time to think over my intended rpg post though. I need to start poking dqbunny to hurry up!)

[knightreborn.livejournal.com]

Hey Isa, Lost Girls though UK based is also sold in the US and every single bookstore has a copy bouncing around. Every single Borders store I go to and I mean EVERY SINGLE ONE has at least one copy. Tri County store alone has two copies. If you really want one I can get you one. Fire me a line and we'll talk.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's everywhere in the US! And I guess it would be a good time for me to buy US (dunno if you've heard but our money is almost equivalent right now! Woo!)

I reaaaaallllllyyyy wannit. I don't know if you ever peeked in it. Looks cool. Also, good relationship to my art subject. The only thing still irking me is the price, mainly because I just quit my job. Although, Us price is most likely less then canadian (despite the almost equal money the US cover prices for canadian are still insane.) I dunno. If you could look around, i'd appreciate it. Try to find a good price for it ^^ At worse, I can buy it in january. I saw a few Us web sites that have it for 58$...

I need to look at my money before deciding if I buy it NOW. After my paycheck comes in, i'll tell ya.

Alan moore is my new god.

[knightreborn.livejournal.com]

Not a problem, like I said I can find it anywhere. I looked at a few pages and it looks interesting. I want to read it for myself since I've heard every critique good and bad with it. Yeah just let me know for I can grab it real easily. At Tri County borders it's behind the counter on the top shelf with two just standing up there. (Since well..they know they don't want to risk it on the shelves.)

[tuppa-tuppa.livejournal.com]

Your pool is severely disgusting!
I don't think that it's because the Comic Book Shoppe is family oriented... Check out what my sister reads, you know.
I just think it's because it's an import that's not manga...

[gullwhacker.livejournal.com]

It may not be Lost Girls, but you might have fun with a webcomic I read. I had to look up the URL - its update schedule is something on the order of 'batch of twenty pages every half a year'. So, not something to follow obsessively, but a fun read.

It's called Cheshire Crossing. http://www.cheshirecrossing.net/ Includes a slightly older Wendy, Dorothy, and Alice, a professor who's probably a literary reference I'm /just/ missing, and a few other interesting characters.

Just an idle suggestion...

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Oh, i read that ages a ago and i'm eagerly awaiting issue 4. XD

But thanks anyways ^_^