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So my plan was to finally get around to talking about Maggio, since I got completely distracted with Bloom and the book's connection with Kipling, but I am currently under a heated blanket and a little too cozy for putting in any deep thoughts about books right now. Honestly, I also want to find out if something goes horribly wrong for Warden and his amour, Mrs. Holmes (Dana Holmes, her husband, is his boss) in this chapter or not. I've been anticipating it for a while, and as crazy and probably a functional alcoholic as Milt Warden is, I kind of hope he ruins Dana Holmes's whole day. Aside from his blatant policies of favoritism and the fact that he gave his wife Gonorrhea, he also thinks the best way for a modern man to rule is through suppression and fear. He thinks this because someone smarter and far more terrifying told him so, and he liked the idea.
Yeah, pity this in a time before divorce was fairly easy and not socially consequential. Dana's a prick, and his first Sargent giving his wife better than he ever did (and then some) is entirely deserved. I'm sort of hoping Milt destroys his life completely, somehow, before it's all through.
I'm still working on my flower in my sketchbook, and frankly, this it turning into another one of those sketches that's actually a finished work, that just happens to live in my sketchbook. It's another one that combines ink and acrylics, and I'm still really digging the look. I could've had it done already if I'd come back to work on it after I got home, but my wrist wasn't really up for that. I love my crow quill, but I need to find a slightly nicer handle for it, I think. Or maybe just one of those squidgy grips stuck on its existing handle. Yeah, I think I have one of those running around, actually.
Once the flower's done, I might put it in my finished section rather than my sketchbook, supposing I don't accidentally mess it up.
I got my new fountain pen in today, a hongdian black forest fountain pen, which was very kindly recommended to me by someone whose fanfiction I read, Drakonis, who knows a lot about the hobby. Even with my wrist talking to me, I couldn't resist trying it out, and just at first blush, I'm quite happy. It came in black, my favorite color, and the slightly heavier weight of it it, I guess with the metal body, feels very nice to hold. My other fountain pen was surprisingly easy on my hands, and this one is, too - it's the lack of pressure needed to write, I think - and overall is a definite upgrade from my speedball, which is not actually that bad, price considering, it just wasn't quite what I had learned I wanted.
All my fan-sketchpages are still uploaded and ready to go up on my website, and I still need to make the pages for them. I think probably I'll either get that done sometime this week, or, more likely, the weekend. It takes a few hours and is just fiddly enough that me trying to do it after a full shift is a good way to do something goofy and accidentally leave it up for the entire world to see.
Yeah, pity this in a time before divorce was fairly easy and not socially consequential. Dana's a prick, and his first Sargent giving his wife better than he ever did (and then some) is entirely deserved. I'm sort of hoping Milt destroys his life completely, somehow, before it's all through.
I'm still working on my flower in my sketchbook, and frankly, this it turning into another one of those sketches that's actually a finished work, that just happens to live in my sketchbook. It's another one that combines ink and acrylics, and I'm still really digging the look. I could've had it done already if I'd come back to work on it after I got home, but my wrist wasn't really up for that. I love my crow quill, but I need to find a slightly nicer handle for it, I think. Or maybe just one of those squidgy grips stuck on its existing handle. Yeah, I think I have one of those running around, actually.
Once the flower's done, I might put it in my finished section rather than my sketchbook, supposing I don't accidentally mess it up.
I got my new fountain pen in today, a hongdian black forest fountain pen, which was very kindly recommended to me by someone whose fanfiction I read, Drakonis, who knows a lot about the hobby. Even with my wrist talking to me, I couldn't resist trying it out, and just at first blush, I'm quite happy. It came in black, my favorite color, and the slightly heavier weight of it it, I guess with the metal body, feels very nice to hold. My other fountain pen was surprisingly easy on my hands, and this one is, too - it's the lack of pressure needed to write, I think - and overall is a definite upgrade from my speedball, which is not actually that bad, price considering, it just wasn't quite what I had learned I wanted.
All my fan-sketchpages are still uploaded and ready to go up on my website, and I still need to make the pages for them. I think probably I'll either get that done sometime this week, or, more likely, the weekend. It takes a few hours and is just fiddly enough that me trying to do it after a full shift is a good way to do something goofy and accidentally leave it up for the entire world to see.
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I ended up springing for a medium nib, as you suggested, and it's a perfect caliber for writing, though I may grab a fine tip for drawing. I actually just finished cleaning it after emptying out my converter, it's been a lot of fun.