tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317663422024-03-13T00:27:10.269-04:00Living In SpaceA look at the world through the eyes of an aspiring artist and writer.Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.comBlogger276125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-56299182415580326712008-11-13T14:21:00.003-05:002009-01-14T14:03:21.834-05:00New BlogUpdate: New blog: A Certain Lack of Focus is up and running! See above for most recent updates.Ok, you may have noticed over the last few weeks that my blog has been moving around a lot. The problem is that I've recently decided that, as much as I enjoy the ease of use in blogger, I want a bit more freedom when it comes to design. I temporarily moved hosting over to my website, but if anything Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-82979297613796849622008-11-11T17:27:00.002-05:002008-11-11T17:33:44.945-05:00Honeymoon Sketch Journal Page 8Sorry I missed posting yesterday... it was after eleven when I got home and getting showered seemed more important at the time. This page was fun to draw, though I had a hard time initially getting the arms rendered, because the train was jumping all over the place."Even after it started to fade, I kept getting comments on the henna. For some reason, I kept forgetting that I had henna, and it Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-78204873549971066102008-11-09T21:15:00.002-05:002008-11-09T21:21:02.830-05:00Honeymoon Sketch Journal Page 7This page was one of my favorites to draw because of all the weird little details necessary to show the space on a train room. My first grade teacher would be proud."The first night on the train we stopped for no apparent reason in the middle of nowhere. For about an hour. I had a bit of Harry Potter PTSD. I was sure dementors were boarding the train."Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-81380021228960001082008-11-08T14:36:00.002-05:002008-11-08T14:41:32.205-05:00Honeymoon Sketch Journal Page 6Illustration Friday folks, "Wise" is the next post, further down. This drawing kind of makes Matt look like an old man, but I'm happy with the line work at least. He moved half way though so I had to guess in a few parts and ended up just giving up on his hand."We did a lot of reading on the trip. We also brought some travel board games but didn't play them. Sometimes it's hard to tell if Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-37995004582501365112008-11-07T17:00:00.006-05:002009-10-26T00:06:52.114-04:00Illustration Friday: WiseThis is the first time I've participated in Illustration Friday in AGES. This week's topic is Wise.When I saw the topic I immediately thought of the faeries from my novel. This is a sketch of a character called "the Master," who resembles the devil, which is not an accident. Really though, the character is more bitter and desperate than truly evil. In spite of everything, I've gotten to quite Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-30458263560859639972008-11-07T11:09:00.000-05:002008-11-07T11:10:19.457-05:00Honeymoon Sketch Journal Page 5This one's a little sappy, but it's sincere."I was warned that much of America is a whole lot of corn, wheat, grass, dirt, empty fields, grazing fields, scrubby plants or flat barren rock. Montana is boring. Kansas is horrifically boring. Nebraska, Iowa, Idaho, Utah, it's amazing how many states are supposedly empty. There are many, many flat patches, but it seems like they go by quickly. Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-87523589413769288912008-11-06T13:00:00.003-05:002008-11-06T13:07:02.442-05:00Journal Page 4Here's the next page. The oval shaped thing in the upper left corner is supposed to be a pair of chocolates on a doily. Ah well.This one says: "Apparently, getting married is the best way to get lots of free champagne, wine, and best of all, chocolate."So true. Matt and I decided that we would be on our "honeymoon" for another year or so, just for all the free stuff.Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-58731848936994504282008-11-05T13:06:00.002-05:002008-11-05T13:15:07.851-05:00Journal Page 3Here's page 3. For blogging this is probably a better way to orient the page, but not so much for journaling. You can click on the page for a bigger image."On the wedding day, Matt and I didn't really have much time to enjoy our wedding cake. This cake was actually pretty tasty: yellow/choc. marble, Irish cream filling and normal buttercream icing. So we brought it with us. The first two Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-91785318443366702792008-11-05T12:13:00.003-05:002008-11-05T12:17:17.110-05:00MapSo Cool.Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-33399869414646749312008-11-04T20:24:00.004-05:002008-11-04T20:39:29.105-05:00Vote TattooOk, well, I'm not gunna get a tattoo, because I'm not a tattoo person, but it occurred to me that as commemorative tattoos go, today's election seems like a pretty good reason to get one. So even though I'm not going to get one, I went ahead and designed one:One of the big objections people have to tattoos is, "what will you tell your kids?" It seems to me that this is exactly the kind of tattooMeaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-61403180166670223292008-11-04T15:57:00.003-05:002009-10-26T00:07:33.194-04:00Sketch Journal Page 2I think I was trying to be a bit too clever with this one, but it was fun to draw. For our honeymoon we took a train from Cleveland to Chicago, and after a few hours went on to the Empire Builder, all the way to Seattle. We had just enough time in Chicago to get sandwiches from a chain called Potbelly (YUM) and a cheese/caramel corn mix from Garrett's, which just barely lasted us through the Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-57729295344857220772008-11-04T13:59:00.003-05:002008-11-04T14:01:05.318-05:00My Hope VoteAt 11:00 am, I cast my vote for change.Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-77534022301398510942008-11-03T22:56:00.003-05:002008-11-03T23:00:54.444-05:00Don't Forget To VOTEI don't wanna, you know, push anyone in one direction or the other (snort) but really? Is anyone actually still planning to vote for this guy? Really?Photo from yahoo. Thanks to Sundry for finding it.Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-29677713668118738942008-11-03T21:19:00.007-05:002009-10-26T00:08:18.537-04:00Honeymoon JournalWell, Matt and I are back in town. The honeymoon was awesome, and I'm still feeling a little lazy from the trip, so rather than go over it all at once I'm going to post a page at a time from the journal I started keeping over the honeymoon. I'll talk about the trip in detail as I go.I've been wanting to start a journal for a while, the cool visual kind like you see at Pen in Hand or Lost in Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-8952640590411045462008-10-20T01:28:00.002-04:002008-10-20T01:29:59.519-04:00See You SoonAnd this is one of the big reasons I haven't been blogging much lately... I am now married! Check back in a couple weeks for photos from the wedding and honeymoon.Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-36214232015809913822008-09-24T15:19:00.008-04:002008-09-24T15:46:47.325-04:00Political RageI just heard on NPR that Senator McCain has requested the Presidential debates be postponed on account of the economy. He has also requested, on account of a stomach ache, that he be excused from gym.Senator McCain, if you are elected in November, will you also postpone the Presidency in times of economic crisis? These debates are so essential exactly because of the current state of the economyMeaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-76853018618303542772008-09-21T19:17:00.011-04:002008-09-21T20:52:48.139-04:00Real Living on a DietIf you're following my blog at this point, you probably know me in person, and you probably know I've been on a diet for a while. One of the curses in any diet attempt is the pitfall of eating out. Especially while traveling. It seems like even when you think you're being good, you gain weight while traveling.Probably that's because you aren't being as good as you think. Things that seem Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-31236908606900204882008-09-06T23:39:00.007-04:002008-09-07T00:46:28.063-04:00Wangston's LawEarlier today I was listening to Weekend America on NPR. There was an interesting segment, a short amusement driven piece, about something called Wangston's Law.Wangston's Law states that: Humans should not waste their time discussing any question that can be answered by a robot (google, wikipedia, etc.)This "law" is actually invented by some guy (not named Wangston) who pulls it up at parties Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-31027665880384448562008-08-29T15:55:00.003-04:002008-08-29T16:06:06.334-04:00Micro MemoryAt Aunt Sharron's, the summer I turned five, my cousins found some baby mice. I thought at first they were toy plastic pigs, because mice are born without hair. We showed Aunt Sharron, we thought they were sweet and I hoped to keep them for pets. Instead, she threw all the babies- far younger than me- over the fence like the garden snails. I knew without asking that this was not to send them Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-71059208575504524622008-06-26T22:40:00.006-04:002008-06-26T23:20:45.187-04:00JimDear Jim-I think you've been hanging on these last couple years more because you knew so many people loved you than because you really wanted to. That'd be like you. I don't know how many times my parents called me and said, "Jim's not doing so well, they don't think he's going to make it through the night." And every time, you surprised them, you pulled through with a polite, "no not right Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-52930310306052047222008-06-13T00:42:00.002-04:002008-06-13T00:52:16.516-04:00Puddle Phone PhotoI wanted to share this photo just because I think it looks sort of poetic. Not that I know anything about poetry. This is from Crocker Park, a development that had the potential to be cool but is just kinda lame and trendy instead. You can click on this one for a larger view.Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-90547905365721123882008-06-05T23:53:00.008-04:002008-06-06T00:46:38.964-04:00Hillary ClintonIn the last few days, many of the media mouths, even on my favorite news source, have been criticizing Hillary Clinton. It's not even really criticism so much as it is a fatherly shaking of the head, a "we expect better" sort of voice. And really that's so much worse. If they ever wanted to prove that there was a bias of sexism, they've succeeded.I've been a stanch Obama supporter since the Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-45522241801522239242008-06-01T23:42:00.001-04:002008-06-01T23:42:49.600-04:00BabyMy drawing today is the first peek at my new webcomic Not Quite Magic. I'm hoping to get this going in a few weeks, once I've (I hope) built up a few comics so I can be sure to always post on time. I'll be posting every Monday and Wednesday and every other Friday. This un-inked drawing will be one of the Friday drawings, which aren't necessarily related to the main story line (you'll see once Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-25588294597173403192008-05-28T15:00:00.008-04:002008-05-28T16:08:16.185-04:00200!I just reached page 200 in my novel! I think I'm finally getting close to being finished. Right now I'm working on the climactic scene, which is more because I'm skipping around than because I'm actually that near the end. I expect the finished book will be about 250, maybe a little longer. There are a few scenes I'm putting off writing, either because they're difficult for me (the beginning Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-3124733272915300932008-05-24T14:05:00.002-04:002008-05-24T14:24:44.605-04:00Presidential Style RatingsI just had the best idea ever. Ok, technically NPR already came up with something similar but I wrote most of this post before I read the whole article so I'm posting it anyway.Heard on the news just now that McCain is hosting several vice presidential candidates in his home this week. So it got me thinking. What are they going to do be doing? Will there perhaps be unpredictable tests of Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0