Batty

[merest]

I worked some more on my bats today. I would've gone longer, but my wrists were really starting to talk to me - enough that I'll probably have to lay off anything that isn't typing for the next several hours, possibly all day. 

And that was with me swapping out my brushes for my G pen - trying to ink all those cliff lines with a brush while keeping the line steady would've killed me.

I'm still using ground sumi-e ink, for what it's worth, I'm just rolling my pen in it instead of my brush. It really does seem to flow best when it's fresh. 

Ideally, it's a little easier to see what I'm going for now that I've started to ink the landscape, even though the valleys and horizon remain as a thin sketch.  

There's also a couple of filters on this one, because the yellow tones really do drive me that nuts, I keep forgetting how easy it is to use them nowadays.

Book-wise, Orion and his wife have saved a clan of slaves from the evil dinosaur people and made it to a forested woodland called "Paradise", but the evil Dino-god is blocking his goddess-wife's ability to contact her pantheon, and, worse than that, hijacked her internet  phone line psychic connection to trace their location and send even more dino-minions to threaten the group. Oh no!

As far as I can tell, the protagonist is still wearing nothing but a loincloth. I'm torn between wanting him shirtless for the entire book, and hoping the author will find an excuse to truss him up in something equally fun in between scenes of graphic lizard murder. 

I have work tomorrow after another surprisingly long holiday, and there's a part of me that's sort of hoping I'll have a nice steady schedule for the next couple of months. Free time is lovely, but pay's important and getting back into a rhythm helps a lot when it comes to dealing with the necessity of work.