Rise of the Disease Queen…

Real Life is such a jokester.  I planned on spending my weekend zipping around Omaha like a gypsy, toting Little Miss Hoopster from game to game for her basketball tournament.  And then, wouldn’t ya know it, the little twerp comes down with THE FLU.  Sky-high temps, looking like a train hit her, and just like that we’re chained to the domicile, pumping all sorts of fever-reducing drugs into her, visiting the doctors at Urgent Care, happy stuff like that.  

But wait — there’s more…  The Disease Queen, being the kind and giving soul that she is, decided not to hoard the virus fun all to herself, so guess who has the bug now?  Go on, guess…

Thanks, hon.  Nice to see you’re looking out for your old man…

Seriously, though, the lack of a tournament freed up the weekend enough to let me tackle one of the most difficult scenes for the ‘Scary Monster’ short.  I’m really starting to get comfortable using the Wacom to pencil the inbetween frames, which speeds things up considerably (no more fighting with tracing paper or digitizing drawings).  I’m hoping someday the paper thing will be necessary only for general sketching, and all my keyframes can be done direct with Painter.  Then I can concentrate on actually learning how to draw… 

The rest of the week I have plans to finish up all the pencil drawings for the remaining scenes.  Most are pretty simple, but there is one more big, bad, scary scene that I’m sure will make me totally crazy.  I lose this weekend to a trip to Kansas City, so whatever I do, I have to do it before Friday.  Could get interesting…