Painting my Ziggie

And here is Lizzie's new boyfriend Ziggie!

Painting my Lizzie

I painted her because I missed her so much now she has been out to stay with Uncle Sef for a week and a half to get hitched to a new little furry friend (and no: not to have babies, but because I recently learned bunnies shouldn't live alone)



The introductions went smoothly and since two night they have been sharing a cage so she may already be coming home with her new beau tomorrow night :)

This is the new beau, still thinking up a name for him


And this is the couple getting used to eachother:




And finally sharing a cage together:




With a little luck they may be coming home tomorrow night already! So then I will have TWO little bunny friends as my room mates :)

Sorry about the delay...

I am really sorry I didn't have much to upload here anymore these past few months, but me and my family seem te keep getting hit by tragedies that drain me from all energy to work on the book.
I just heard (on my birthday!) that a very close relative - only two weeks after his cancer diagnosis - has already regressed so badly that he is now officially 'untreatable' and has been sent home to.. well.. :-(

I'll see if I can just upload some old stuff maybe. Thanks for still checking here every now and then though, xxx

Lizzie at 8 months..

.. so fully grown if I can believe what the books say about it.
Isn't she cute?

Picking it back up...

Well.. guys... I was finally able to pick the editing and colouring back up. Took me quite a while because I was working really hard on it when I heard the terrible news about my friend, so every time I started again it just felt too traumatic and I stopped again.

But last week I organised a write-in for a couple of fellow wrimo's in a café and that way it was easier to work on the pages again and I was able to break through the trauma. I am going very slowly though (did 1 1/4 page since then), also because I had more bad news end of December and again last week (a close relative turns out to be VERY ill) and as a result I am not doing all that well myself. So I am going to take my time.

I am also not happy with the ending so I still want to change that, so I can't post that yet. I am also a little scared I will lose all my readers if I give you the ending before I am finished with the project.. but I don't want to tease you with withholding it for another half year or so. But I do need to edit it somewhat.

Maybe I can draw different ones and you guys can help me pick :-D

So.. there is my update.. I can upload some of the finished pages again every now and then if you like? Anyone interested in that?

Hoppy hoppy...

My best friend...

His name was Alfred and last Sunday he had fatal parachuting accident. He was 44...

I'll miss you always my dearest Fred...



The last few pages of my book may be a little later because of this, but I know you will all understand. I just wanted to let you know...

Page 138 - part 3

Nancy is not allowed to guess any more... *rofl*



(this is the last third of page 138, but because I had one page double this one still has the wrong page number underneath, but it really IS page 138.. :-D)

Page 138 - part 2

Page 138 - part 1

.. of 3.
tomorrow part 2 ;-)

Page 137!!

(and 138 in a way, since they turned out to be the same page :-D)

Page 136!!!

Yes Ron, there is an IKEA according to google.. :-D
(sorry for the bright green, but any other RGB green became too dark when turned to CMYK)

Page 135!!

I found out yesterday that page 137 and 138 are the same, so the whole story is not 142 pages long, but only 141... so here is the six-before-last page!

Page 134!!!

I am so stuck..

..it's just not pretty any more. Don't know how I was able to do 6 pages a day on day 1 and 2 because I can barely do one the last few days. And yesterday I only edited one.. could it be that we are in week 2 of NaNo? :-s

Page 133!!

Fully inked and all!!

But a link again because a thumbnail may give away the story.
click here:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipteY4BprqAqT5AE0qvSL6cAP_ETF3AfVsGVRugsodi0enihP5UruxMZfBRRXzuslNBFcXvJuiuhGfx9FT_Gkm9qnm_VLGnbb1r5H1bRrR2SrxAF6Rp83KI9i4MV9DDk0GjCHGQVAvvQk/s800/nano09-blog133kl.jpg

Some more examples I am proud of:

Here are pages 9 and 29:





It keeps taking more and more time to edit and ink a page though... I went down from 6 pages a day to 4 already, but the honest thing to do would be to count 2 pages as 2k of words a day (compared to the NaNoWriMo participants that are writing a 50,000 word novel this month) but that way I will reach 50K already when I have only done 60 pages and I want to do at least 100 (3 pages a day), preferably 120 (4 pages a day) and ideally 142 (6 pages a day)... but I am already behind on the 4 pages-a-day quota...

Page 132 again but now fully inked!

Page 132!!!

I felt so bad about working on the wrong page, I did my best to get page 132 ready for you as well. It's edited but only partially coloured (since I haven't solved the CMYK problem yet and I still feel ill), but at least this way you guys can read it already :-)

RGB vs. CMYK... help!!

Anyone have any knowledge about this? I am working in RGB when I should be working in CMYK apparently, because the result is meant for print. A lot of the CMYK colours are a lot less bright though.. so I may have to do the 20 pages I did so far over..

I know how to change the file I am working on to CMYK, but I don't know how to change my swatches and stuff in Photoshop. They do have a whole bunch of pantone swatches to choose from which I think has to do with printing as well, but I wouldn't know which Pantone set to pick..

So if you know anything about this please help! I have felt ill all night and day today so I have hardly worked on my NaNo today... so that's a whole day behind and I don't know how to proceed with this CMYK problem anyway... :-\

HELP!