Inspiration has struck! And not in the whimsical sort of way where I think to myself that oh, it'd be fun to do this and this and this. Gut-moving, convicting inspiration. The characters felt and spoke and I fiddled and world built in every spare moment and then some.

The synopsis: Our heroine is an android- a created machine. Like most of her kind when abandoned, she's had her memories wiped, and a new set of programming uploaded. In this case, she's destruction itself- her owners send her out to kill people. And even amongst the myriad number and types of machines out there, she seems to have a certain gift for it. But she's different in more ways than one. She feels and she longs in a way that she knows other machines do not. She wakes up wanting to cry, and not knowing how that is possible.

One day, she's given a remote command to terminate a man- a young one at a university, gifted in the field of artificial intelligence. This man opens her past up for her, and nd this leads her on a journey and down a path to her very creation.

I found my abilities stretched and left wanting- I KNOW what I want it to look like and I know what I want to portray, but there's a vast difference between that and what is actually shown on the paper. Now if I actually manage to finish some of these pieces and do a proper study and concept we might possibly get going on this.

Someday.

These three are some that I really am quite pleased with. While playing Cranium one night I was inspired by a friend and her scribble of... King Kong. Except that I had to, y'know. Do it BETTER. (I'm terrible, I know.) So I went home, did a couple of studies and dove into it feet first.

And on another random note. People, just because I draw and I like to draw and I work to get better at it does not mean I am the natural candidate for drawing... with my eyes closed. Really. George, I'm talking to you.

But, back to the topic at hand. It's in this picture that I realize how much farther I need to come when we talk about my ability to ink. And to draw inanimate objects in general. This is difficult, because I have about as much time as, well. Let's just say I work 11-12 hour days, and my attention span is about, uh. That of maybe a 12 year old preteen's. Said attention span petered out right about the time when I needed to finish up the Empire State Building. I also do blame the lack of photo references from the TOP of the building. You have no idea now many images were from the bottom up.

That said, King Kong!

Updates!!! These are old- at least a month. Sometimes I get into a minor conundrum- Draw? Scan? Draw? Scan? And like the epic battle of semi-truck crashing into hybrid car, drawing almost always wins. Prepare to be spammed.