So I’m in the midst of sending stuff out, which I find thunderously demoralising, and college marking for final projects, which I also find thunderously demoralising, and a change of routine and projects at the arts centre, which ain’t much fun either.

Anyhow, image from Wombat… May not be final text…

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/colorful_india.html

as ever. It’s an every other day visit for me in the hope that there’s a new update up there. Lovely stuff.

As is www.abduzeedo.com which is a daily hit for me for similar reasons. My major regret at the moment is that the places I visit out of awe for the work contained on there will always be above my skill level… But hey ho. Vicariously living through the work of others and all that.

One of the loveliest things about Brushes is that you can view the work as it happened as an animated video file (although that said as soon as layers were introduced to the app it broke the animation viewer and importer with outputted data being on a level 1 – 4 basis despite the level you drew your data on – witness the fact that you can see the interior of the image drawn prior to the outlines. That said it’s still both lovely and remarkable what the lil app can do).

So here’s a video of one of the more recent pages drawn (page 14 if’n your interested). I think I’ll be outputting one vid per page, maybe, it’s certainly doable. My main issue would be sourcing music but, then again, as the music provided to this and the last video I made was made by youth group musicians maybe I’m in a good position for that one too. I like the stuff they make, certainly…

Anyhow: video below, hope you like.

Admittedly there is a smidge of recycling going on here. But hey ho, I like it and it saves me an hour which I can spend sleeping prior to the Superbowl tonight…

On the coffee image I tend to work with outlines and then lose them (see the beer one for an example…) I’m still in two minds where to go with it… Here’s the coffee image and the beer one each in a slightly different amount of outline again.

Yesterday was comic museum, Forbidden Planet, GOSH and Saatchi gallery as part of the take the kids out of the classroom where they all get grumpy day. Was a LOT of fun, mainly because I like the class and the other teacher a lot.

Today, I’ve just been informed, is International Paul sorts out some of his junk day. So if it doesn’t start with coffee then it’ll not go well (this was doodled while having a coffee in the newly (ish) opened Jamie’s Italian in Guildford… It was too busy to stop and eat in but a friend and I had a coffee there anyhow, which was OK and a pudding, which was less so – a little cloying and imbalanced imho).

But I doodled this after work. No, I’m not going to do this as a daily theme… It’s an irregular thing and I was taken with the colours.

Two versions: one with and one without outlines. I like both, but the subject material was positive after a 13 hour day.

(edited to take into account a little bit of morning Pixelmator playing).

… and not just because I spend ages on a project that few will see and fewer may remember. I also noticed that the previous book draw flat plan was missing 6 panels. Doh me indeed.

Final one, complete bar the epilogue which is only available in the 43 printed books, can be found here: http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb274/apaulio/all-by-ten-FINAL.jpg

((said in a deep, ominous Battlestar Galactica voice)).

First off: this is not they.

Jumped into the photography studio today between classes with two of the final three books. One is being sent off tomorrow and I wanted to capture it afore it goes. (The bottom book of the three in the top pic is the working copy I keep on me most of the time. It’s torn and bent and creased and ragged but has a nice character regardless – a little like me I guess. Small also).

Anyhow this, hopefully, represents the last but one step of the Book Draw. It’ll be strange to see it all go but there you go, it’s been a lovely thing to be involved in.

OK yes, I know, I should have gone to sleep the moment I had the chance but this project…. This project… It sort of takes over my brain in strange ways.

So, been a while since I’ve done anything Big Book Draw related. For some reason I picked up the files the other day to have a look through and doodled about with a little bit of colour.

Which leads me to this. Another night gone but three books – colour throughout – made. One I’ll keep, one will be for someone I’m fond of and truly hope can be a part of the final action of the Book Draw and one will probably end up as a competition prize in some way.

So, 43 books. Should do something with them. What I’d like to do, what I’ve always wanted to do, is have an exhibition/book launch day where the people who helped come to recieve a mini-book each to say thank you. That’s what I’d love to do but whether I can we’ll see. It’ll take a smidge of organising and sometimes I have the energy and sometimes I don’t. The icing on the cake would be if we can get a story teller to tell the story with asides and jokes and comments as he/she reads the story aloud. That would give the media students the chance to film it as a Jackanory type story and would be a wonderful post script to a project that took over so much.

That said I am happy with the three coloured in versions. They look pretty sweet. We’ll see if they go anywhere.