THE SIMPSONS NEWS

On Monday I was told that I would be going on hiatus at the end of the week.  Not good news since we haven’t gotten our tax refund yet and I had to pay property tax earlier this month.  We’re not doing well financially. Lucky for me, something came up on the episode I’m currently revising that postponed my hiatus.

The episode I’m revising is short, so the writers have added an extra sequence at the end of the show that’s a bit epic.  This sequence may or may not be made BUT in order to find out if it will, I have to storyboard it. This has bought me, at least one more week of work.

In the meantime, I get to think up what I will do during my hiatus to perhaps make a little bit more money.  I might open myself up for commissions.  I’m not too sure if anyone would be interested though.  Especially since I will not except any commissions asking me to draw them SIMPSONS drawings. I would get in trouble if I did that.

If I made myself open to accept commissions, would you be interested in getting a drawing from me?

FAMILY

Ambrose’s birthday was Sunday. He became a 2 year old  We were planning on doing something small and intimate. Mostly because it would be too much work to do more and because he’s so young, ANYTHING we did for him at this point would seem very exciting for him.

We had made plans to go to our favorite park and have a picnic, just the six of us. Then we’d come back home and invite the cousins over for cake.

Things didn’t quite turn out the way we thought.  So many people asked about Ambrose’s birthday and what we were going to do that it turned out a bit bigger than we thought.  We had to cancel going to the park because we didn’t want anyone to come and meet us there.  We weren’t prepared for a PARTY at the park. We didn’t want to bring all the food and drinks everything that would be involved to throw a party at a park.  So instead we got the house ready for the people to simply come over at the last minute.

Well, Ambrose had a blast. He had so much fun with his cousins. He got a few airplane toys and a cool Batmobile toy. He was happy. Like I said, ANYTHING that was new and out of the ordinary that we did for him would be a big deal in his eyes. It was great, and in the end, Alesha and I were very happy how it all turned out.

ROLE PLAYING GAMES/FAMILY

Last week a wrote about playing a role playing game with my kids using RISUS,  making it out to be more of a LARP than simply a tabletop game experience.  Well, I tested out the game with them this Saturday with great successes.  The kids LOVED it.  I had Elizabeth and Dante go on an adventure to get back some childrens’ stolen candy from a wicked witch who lived in a scary cave.  They had a blast running around and play acting out their adventure.  So much fun in fact they wanted to play again immediately after it was done.

The next day we tried it out again. This time, we took it outside to the playground so we had a wider environment to play in. Unfortunately, Dante didn’t want to play once we got to the playground.  He just wanted to play at the playground. Elizabeth was very disappointed. I ended up running an adventure for her alone, but without her brother to play off of, she didn’t find it as enjoyable.  I’ll try again some other time in a different place and see if we can get the “magic” back from the first game.

ART

I must admit, it’s getting more and more difficult to finish working on my project.  I’m so burned out on it right now.  I really want to move on to my next project, which is a webcomic.  But I’m committed to seeing this through, because I think the finished product will look good.  I just don’t know how to finish this any faster than I’m currently doing. It’s a LOT of work coming up with shots. I mean, that’s why it’s a paying job.

This is what I’ve done in the last two weeks:

It doesn’t help that I’m writing this section as I draw it.

I gotta get this darn thing done. I’m so close to getting to the final stages.
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