Rain rain go away.

It's been so rainy here in Vancouver! It's getting on my nerves. I just want to sit outside and read as the tomatoes in my garden flourish. I mean really now. Also, carrying your laundry to the laundromat in the rain isn't all that exciting. Neither is hanging laundry to dry. Because it never dries. Ever.

After a weird sort of job shuffle, I am unemployed for the entirety of June. This time without school or work, once a dream to my younger self, has become a penniless adventure in rainy town. Finding things to do has been interesting, making play-dates, going for walks, cleaning the house, vanquishing our jungle-lawn and watching like... three movies a day. Otherwise, for the month of June - I've got a film gig or two lined up, and I've been over to the island for a few days I think to visit my Gran. A myriad of things, I suppose, that I haven't been able to do due to school, work and grinding routine. July and August are going to be a lot of work, so my laziness will probably average to a 'sort of' looking back on the summer over-all.

For when the sun comes out, and stays out: http://www.vancouvertrails.com/trails/capilano-pacific-trail/

Writing exercises - trying to blog a little more (hah, that's going well), journal a little more and attempt to form some sort of a cohesive idea for a film idea or two. I took a screen writing class this past spring and found it quite difficult to form an entire story arc. I enjoy creating characters, environments and inciting incidents - but I can't seem to get the hang of writing conflict. That could be because I actively avoid conflict on a day-to-day basis.

Sometimes I draw weird things

If you're looking for a VIP pass of how my mind works, here is the entire tour:

Pencil lines

Digital 'rendering'

This sort of came together during a text message conversation I had over Christmas. Something about if sharks had thumbs what would humanity fight them off with. It also had something to do with there being a  Lethal Weapon marathon on television. It also may have had something to do with my aunt imitating my hand gestures in the Chinese Cultural Center, saying something about lobster claws and velociraptor hands, me combining words and creating the last hope for mankind against the sharks with opposable thumbs, jet packs and nuclear armaments. The lobsteraptor army is lead by the Gary Busey Lobsteraptor, ruthless mercenary.

That is all.

DELECTABLE

Well, here is a milestone of my sketchbook. I began drawing this in the fall of 2008 ( I think? I'm beginning to think it was 2007 ). I just realized I spelled 'delectable' wrong. Shame on me. I was young and reckless! A curious blue toad about to indulge in a fat grub on a silver fork. Unfortunately my scanner is far too small to accommodate sketch book paper, so photography it is! Here's the main photo and a bunch of details after the jump. See the DeviantArt deviation HERE!