Did you miss me? Did you even know I was gone? It’s been over two weeks since I’ve posted anything. Nothing much happened in my life while I wasn’t blogging. Was just being lazy and wasting time like a chubby cat when I wasn’t drawing. I came up well short on my sketch card goal of completing 35-40. I only even got 22 drawn.
Final tally:
• 22 sketch cards drawn
• 18 (I think) sketch cards inked
• 6 sketch cards colored
• 5 sketch cards finished
Two of the colored sketch cards I lacked the right color of marker to finish (Only have about 20), the fifth finished card was penciled portraity card of Nelson Mandela. It came out so right that I didn’t even want to try to ink it.
So yes, I came up well short of my goal. However, I’m not entirely displeased. I didn’t think I had a chance to begin with, and the fact that I got as far as I did was actually fairly encouraging, considering how lazy I know myself to be. I even got over my inability to draw more than two sketch cards in one sitting, doing as many as four at one point. The last 10 or so I inked and all six I colored were all done in the same sitting as well.
I’m not there yet, but I’m on my way.
Now that that is out of the way as an official happening (I will still finish the rest when the mood strikes), November is National Novel Writing Month. I’m trying man, but I’m getting nowhere fast. I’m having a really hard time with the first few lines of my epic. It’s like… I can visualize it in my head, I know exactly how it’s supposed to play out, I just cannot find the words for it. Any suggestions? I know we’ve got at least a couple of authors out there in the sports card blogosphere.
I have also received cards from the following people since last we spoke:
Wax Heaven (Giveaway stuffs)
Sorry, Sweet Georgia Brown is playing, one sec…
Okay, where was I? Oh yes, I will get to work on getting your packages sent, starting today. Baseball Dad and Shot Not Taken’s are packaged up already, so they will likely be going out today (Sorry Ray, I guess it was a good thing I didn’t mention a specific week when I said they’d be going out “mid-week” a couple weeks ago).
Also of note, to M. Ryan, I don’t think the DeMetrius Williams Sweet Spot RC auto will be making it to you this round (*cough*becauseIcan’trememberwhereitis*cough*), so hopefully our trade didn’t hinge on it. Everything else is present and accounted for, however.
I’ll just send DeMetrius all willy-nilly whenever I find it.
I will scan the wonderful cards I’ve received as soon as I can and finally get around to doing some proper thank yous to y’all as well as a few that others I missed along the way.
The last thing I want to do before I get on with my day is ask Nachos Grande where he got the ridiculously awesome A&G mini-sized top loader & sleeve. The collecting world needs to know this information!
Until our next…
Life and Baseball Cards 