Am I doomed
To an existence
Where you
You, you, and you
(Yes, I know you're all the same—
though it took me a while to catch on)
Will be near enough to see
But never to hold?
Always tantalisingly close
But no cigar?
To check up on
After a …
Jaki, Maali, and DD on one of their vacations Down South circa late 1980s.
I finished Shehan Karunatilaka's Chats with the Dead last week, and it was incredible. As Thimal puts it about Jaki, "how can a character say so little but still be so amazing?".
This Krita piece took …
Nobody reads this blog1. RSS readers are dead, Kottu's stats page makes me weep, and I don't dare post these things on social media. So that leaves me at my most comfortable—a good old conversation with myself.
There is beauty in solitude. You only truly begin to appreciate …
I've been eyeing a graphics tablet for a while now, and on 11.11 there was this gorgeous Gaomon S620 for just $22 (!!!) on AliExpress, an offer I simply couldn't refuse. Well, the tab arrived in the mail today, and I want to share some of my experiments on my …
I've been sketching at work...
I've been sketching at home...
I've sketched someone who looks like Jinora...
And someone who looks like me...
Most are terrible...
But some, I'm quite proud of...
Especially this one 👇
I got myself a set of cheap graphite sketching pencils from our lord and saviour …