Finally breaking in my new recycled paper sketchbook, I drew something for the first time in several weeks. I decided to take another crack at the main characters from my novel: Tara, Miranda, and Seiahn. The first time I drew all three of them together was—are you ready for it—4 years ago. I drew Tara and Miranda again in 2006, but wasn’t able to get the right look for Seiahn. He’s supposed to be a generally handsome guy, tall and dark (“hot” as described by Miranda). His face came out pretty well, but I love that I was able to get his hair the way I wanted. I always have a problem drawing the shaggy hair on guys. And then, as I was drawing, I was thinking he might look better with shorter hair, but then I remembered that there was a specific reason his hair was the longer length…*sigh*

Miranda is seems to be channeling a bit of Ramona Flowers with her look, but eh. I created her before ever hearing of Scott Pilgrim. Though, originally her look was decided more goth, less artsy.

Tara came off like I wanted. She’s shy and naive and quite a bit nerdy. I hope she’s a little more extroverted by the end of the book. Or at least a little braver than she ever thought she could be.

Seiahn is…well, he’s mysterious.

Now…to draw E’lari.

Tuesday night, I discovered Seven Brides for Seven Brothers playing on TCM. It was close to the beginning, and I found that I had to watch the thing all the way to the end. It’s just that good.

In this sequence, the Pontipee brothers have come to town to participate in a barn raising. They meet 6 lovely girls, and get the opportunity to test out the manners taught to them by Milly, their new sister-in-law.

It really picks up around the 2:38 mark, and again at around 4:20.

Apparently, this is dubbed and subtitled in Italian. It’s the only one I could find of this particular sequence, but it doesn’t matter, because this number is all dancing, no singing.

This is a movie I really need to add to my DVD collection.

I got tagged on facebook to do this meme a few weeks ago.

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

1. Today, I am 26 yrs 2 mos 19 days old.

2. I won a coloring contest when I was 4. I remember it very well. I was in pre-school, and the teacher gave us all these coloring sheets with a Jack-O-Lantern on it. Then everyone started coloring. I went up to her and told her that she had forgotten to give me one, which was weird. She had one left, and she had already started coloring it, I guess to participate with us. She gave me hers, and she had already outlined the inside of the marker with an orange marker.

To this day, I think I was one of the few entries in my age group who actually colored inside the lines. Anyway, I won a $25 Eckerd Gift Certificate. :)
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