teleos

This is Conrad Black with an anonymous girlfriend, and an inkblot. The ink went all down the side of the book, which may colour subsequent sketches, if I don't cover it over, or photoshop it out.

This blog is pretty light on the promised book and movie reviews, and has resolved itself into a "sketch blog," which is fine by me. Others, such as the group in the links at right (should add more there), are better at the reviewing (or at least more diligent), and have many more interesting thoughts to post. I seem to get unecessarily negative when I'm here, and keep having to remind myself to cheer up. I'm not like this all the time, I promise.

And as well, I seem to want to save the serious reviewing for publications. It's a snobbery of mine, bred of a long history of "not giving it away."

Funny to think that, and have a log on the web where "giving it away" is the deal, but I've always liked showing off my sketchbook, as people who know me will tell you (perhaps at times to excess). Right now, I've got the notion to put up everything I sketch on Flikr (I've only uploaded "6% of my monthly limit" it tells me), and only blog the highlights. That might be an interesting project.

Should say that the original of this drawing is 11" x 14", and it was drawn in a black-covered, spiral-bound Canson brand sketchbook, with 65-lb paper (not so good for the ink washes). Also a Pilot "fine" roller pen. Pencil to start, this time. Drew it last night in bed, but don't know how long it took. It's always daunting to see those illustrator's "how-to" articles where they note the amount of time spent to complete a drawing, and it's something absurd for a complicated work like "half an hour."

That's for illustration clients to know how much they are being billed. I've only got one client at the moment (The McGill Reporter, [scroll down to bottom for itty-bitty image]) and the drawings I do for them are usually dashed off, because they look fresher that way. When I get my portfolio up to date (should do that right away), you'll be able to see them.

There, that's a nice chat with an invisible, possibly non-existent audience, then, isn't it? Of course, such an audience is any writer's lot, unless one has a lot of friends who like to write in, or one says something very controversial. I'm neither way.

"Teleos" means "knowledge" in Greek, I think, and was just a word that popped into my head, as most of these words, writings in these drawings, even the subject of many of them, are.