There and Back Again

Wow. So it was a hectic couple weeks. (I apologize if any of this is scattered...my train of thought is less than linear tonight.) 

Um yeah, I flew out to California for the Bay Area Sherlock Convention and Sherlock Tea Party, an adventure which, in the specific, ranged from failure to fiasco (through NO fault of the convention -- it was a combination of exhaustion and bad luck on the part of me and my best friend) but I got to meet a couple artists I REALLY admire and buy more fan art that I need frames for. So that was cool. 

The rest of the trip was hugging people I miss, drinking in a swimming pool and watching a girl I've been friends with since third grade become a mom, then hopping over to New Mexico to see my OWN mom, then got home this week and have been trying since then to sort the scattered parts of my life that I dropped when I took off on vacation. 

Because I still have no job and stuff. 

So, along with the normal boring stuff I have on my plate, like dealing with government bureaucracy, I needed to finish this month's Let's Draw Sherlock entry, in which we were to put the characters in to a favorite movie or tv scene. 

I haven't been posting process pictures because, well, I did a lot of the layout and flat colors all in one night (in the hotel after BASC) and then...most of what I did was reworking Sherlock's face again and again on my various flights before finally deciding that the first version was best after all even if it isn't exactly what I wanted. 

So last night I finally got my post-vacation act together and got it finished (and did one load of laundry! Go me! ...okay, that was really just because I was all out of clean PJs, save the warm cozy pair that would KILL me in this weather.) last night: 

There are a lot of things I'm not totally satisfied with, but this one was fighting me. And it honestly came out better than I was expecting at the halfway point. I like how John's jacket turned out. (If you weren't sure or aware, this is a mimic of a scene from The Fifth Element. She KNOWS it's a Multipass, Sherlock!)

Anyway, I needed to get THIS done because I have GOT to start working on some very specific portfolio pieces for a particular employment position that I probably won't get but...certainly won't if I don't try. They will be made in Illustrator. *sigh* *groan* *whine* *complain* 

(I don't dislike Illustrator. I just like pixel art more than vector art, and MORE importantly, I'm woefully out of practice in Illustrator. Which is ONE of the reasons I'm DOING a few AI pieces. But my process usually includes a good deal of preliminary foot stomping and 'i don't wanna's.)

Anyway, I have a few more new things -- just sketches -- from my trip, but they are yet to be scanned. Although, at least a couple might be used for the vector projects. So there's that. But once I get them scanned, I'll most likely post them here. Just a few dribs and drabs, you know. 

Until next time. Stay classy. Or get classy. Or at least stop sleeping in the bathtub.