Two days until THE AGING

I'm trying not to rabbit on about the webcomic too much now, since I'm hoping to have it up in a somewhere in the four to six week range. But I thought I'd put a little up today. Generally I've been busily filling a sketchbook with practice on hands and rough experiments in style, since I wouldn't say I really have one of my own yet. But I have been trying to get one "template" image down for each of the four main characters that I can then refer to whenever I draw them. To the left is an older one of Ben that I drew about six weeks ago and to the right is one of Charlotte that I drew last week. I don't think they're worth a thorough dissection but I will say that the reason my characters always seem to be pointing or laying their hand away from themselves is simply my way of forcing more hand practice.

Meanwhile, shucks howdy but job hunting has been a strange creature this time around. Now that I have a few months behind me of data entry, I'm getting a couple of calls a week with offers of moderate to high paying jobs (proportionate to my current pay) where I'd get to work in the heart of London.

Which would be great, except that these jobs are always just evolved versions of what I'm doing now. I've been able to find some better job listing sites and an agency that claims it deals with media (publishing/film/tv) and it actually does - as opposed to the usual, which is that they deal in media sales....but that is too recent to expect results yet. Man, it's a tough thing this drawing a line in the sand about my next job having to relate to my degree and/or passions but if you keep taking "anything" jobs then you'll only ever be more qualified for FURTHER "anything jobs".

To conclude: The Greek word for "Wanker" is "Malaka". It is sometimes used as a coloquial greeting, such as "Hey there, my [Malaka's]!". Knowledge is power!