A STEP FORWARD FOR BOBOWORLD?

I haven't really checked the visit counter in a while, but it would please some of you to know that the Bobobos will be getting a home computer and very soon! Not sure if Katie could also wrangle a scanner/printer with that computer money, but I guess in a month not only would class assignments become easier to get done, but I'll be able to work on stories...I'm hoping.
So uh, that's it. Maybe stories and sketch updates will become frequent.

And you know who you are, the original boboworld bookmark is waiting for you to stop acting like a mother from any random Lifetime movie. stop neglecting it, contact me and initiate some action to get it to you.

I guess I'll be on MSN messenger sporadically (as opposed to the usual never) so you can add me to your contacts and hope I choose to see who's online at any given day. It's for your own good, since I'm holding your bookmark in a hardcover Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring and I don't pay much attention to wherever I last stored that overwhelming behemoth of a read.

SOMEDAY...

I just may decide to slap together a collection of extended, polished, yet intentionally mediocre stories in book form. Maybe. A lecturer made a suggestion that I keep on writing after she read a non-fiction piece of work I did as homework for her class. Even though I ruined her critique by covering all the points she listed (and threw in a few extra), she enjoyed my B graded paper (that I thought deserved a C- at best.
Although I haven't written any Boboworld stuff or finished the many I started, I started a pencil doodle at a company workshop this week that I was pleased with, and tried to keep that sheet of paper in great shape until I reached home, because it's looking, I find, like a great cover for my book of collected, expanded, polished and mediocre stories. You'll see it when it's done.

In the meantime, here's a sketch I did during my Wednesday class. I'm starting to hate that class, although I'm one of the top performers. See ya!

SKETCH UPDATE!


Better couldn't have been done. I hammered this one out in class yesterday.

A COUPLA THINGS....

Classes. They started out well enough, but are turning out to be yet another underwhelming event both in actual educational content and in what I like to call the Human Experience.
As fas as an actual class goes, the time that could be spent being educated in the coursework is occupied by the overly chatty types that generate discussions that would crack the ice at a party or a singles bar. The lecturer takes the bait, joins in, wastes class time, then remembers with ten minutes to go that there were a good few things they wanted to explain on that day. Never mind though. The class shall read up on those few things while they do a couple of assignments that can't be done without the reading.
I complain, but I am happy to be doing something other than collect dust.


I have a sketch or two I did while waiting for class to start. I have to get them scanned, then I'll put them up. Shamelessly, I have been enjoying the old-school cartoony approach that Jon Morris has, and have been incorporating it into my stuff of late. A good example of this is a Popeye sketch I did in blue ink during a class group presentation that wasn't going well this week. One of the girls in the class spotted it and aked if she could have it when I was done. I only agreed because we share the same birthday and (it would please horoscope geeks to know) some behavioural traits. Creepy. It was a great drawing, though.

It's really damn hard to balance coursework with GTA: San Andreas and the odd urge to draw something. Time management has never been a strong point of mine, so I try to tackle schoolwork and cram a little GTA in there before I go to sleep. I may look around for a new, presentable sketchbook at the end of the month so I can try to chuck a lot of new influence sketches in it.

Eiichiro Oda's "One Piece" is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Monkey D. Luffy has got to be one of the most charming, funny and fun hero characters I've come across in a long time. If you find One Piece anywhere, give it a try!

I can spike my beard now!

Next update may be a sketch update! Bye.