I can't stand it.
Last month I wasn't posting here a lot because I was having computer problems.
And now I haven't been posting here because some peole said that it takes too long for this blog to load.
I feel disconnected - Like nobody to talk to. Nobody to show what I do. I show stuff to friends, acquaintences, family, strangers.... But here I can talk in general. Just me, not bouncing off someone else, not part of a conversation in which I only tell what's appropriate to that particular conversation. Here I can tell what's on my mind, what I'm thinking about, what's on my mind. (Did I say that already?:-)

I'm going to ask my Computer Guy to break up my blog - separate pages for each year. This blog comes right up on My Computer, but I'm frequently told that other people's computers run slower.

Until we do the Computer work, I just gotta still post. I don't want to act like I'm dead until everything is perfect.

There are piles and piles of pictures here that I was a-wantin' to post. I'm going to show you two of them now. And I hope to have time to show some more of them later.

Following are pictures of Todd, a really fine dancer that I met at Bobcat's recent gig. Well, actually I think Todd runs a radio-station. That's his 'title' of 'what do you do?' But what I saw him doing was dancing. I've only seen that quality of partner dancing in the movies (like Dirty Dancing or Fred Astaire movies). He really leads his partner. Charming:

I had drawn that picture at home - based on what I drew at LiveTrax- where I was tired, drawing in the dark, feeling pressured to draw professionally in a nonprofessional situation, Following is what I originally drew. You can see that catching the character, the personality, is just as important as playing with the shapes that the Artist sees:

I draw differently in different situations. I'm usually at my Best while working at a Party.
What I can quickly do at a Party is not the same

as what I can do alone in the Studio.
Or while NOT relating to people when I'm out in public.
Or while talking to people in social situations.
But I have to do them all in order to 'stay in shape'.
One hand washes the other.

I'm thinking now that I'd like to develop a better 'on-the-spot' sudden 'show' when people look into my private time. I should give serious thought of how to handle that. Maybe the first thing I'll try is to simplify the drawing approach for those times - to know what I'm going to do. To abandon my studying, thinking, trying things that I was doing before they started relating to me. To be able to abandon the self-consciousness that pops up when I'm 'caught'.
But the question is
Front View

or 3/4 View?
I'll have to have a separate plan for both.
Usually intimidated in such situations, I'm now excited for it.

Anyway, I wrote above that I was going to post two pictures. But I was only counting those two pictures as one:-)
Here's the official 'second' picture I was going to post.
It's a picture of one of the girls who goes to a lot of Bobcat's gigs.
Intriguing - that wide mouth of thin red lips looks just like she dresses - like retro '40's or '50's.

Success! Following is a very simple picture that I just scribbled out - no pressure. It was a redo of a picture I had agonized over
a long time ago.
I had come across the old paper, and decided to see what I would do with it today. It's so wonderful to see so much growth.

Here's the new picture:

Here's the old picture it was based on:

Aghk! It's been a whole month since I was able to write here.
I've been having Computer problems. I have been able to check my email etc on other Computers, but the specific programs for writing on this blog, they're just on my special computer. The one in my Studio.

I've been drawing all over the place. Here are some of the pictures that I put aside to show you. I had been into 3-D for really solid shapes in my pictures:

I was so pleased with the recent pictures when I drew them. 3-D. With just line. Not relying on careful modeling to show the solidity. But since then, I started focusing on the placement of the jaw-turn. And I no longer liked the following 2 pictures that were also waiting to be posted:

I gave out the pictures I drew
while waiting on line at Best Buy today.
Except for the following customer.

Here you can see the simple decision I made in lining up the jaw-turn with the lips:

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Last night I worked at a party that ordered Caricatures in Mats. I was asked to show the mats on the website, so I brought along my camera. It looks good even though the photos don't show just how very special the mats really are. They're individually hand painted and decorated. Sparkles and jewels. Solid. They just look great at a Party!

I just got home from today's Face-Painting party. At a golf club. Perfect setup. The kids were great. They all wanted full-face designs.....blah, blah, blah.
Here. I'll just show you a quick picture, so I can get up to telling you what I found the internet today!!

And here's what I found on the internet --
Jim VanderKyle, Caricaturist and DreamWorks Animator,
he put a video clip of me onto his website.
http://sketchme.com/

(Click on 'Testimonials'. Then click on 'View Testimonials'.)
I love Jim's work, and I remember when he told me he was going to put me on his site.
But I forgot about it.
Until tonight.
And there it was - just like he said.
That Artist is multiTalented.

Big project. And I'm almost finished with it. At least, I finished the drawing part. I decided to redo my Samples. Took them apart, decided which to keep and which to replace, and started drawing. Here are the new drawings:

Now all that's left is to
cut them out,
mount them on paper,
get them laminated,
and separate them into groups.