Dreamin' Bout Those Dreamy Eyes

Yeah, More Bone fanart! I can't seem to get enough of these guys.

I couldn't decide whether I liked it better with the rainbow color overtop, or without... so you get both!

Moby Dick: Bro hug

I just really needed to draw a happy pic today. My gal Karly is coming over on Tuesday, and this is what I'm going to do to her when she gets here. >:D She's my best friend from childhood and conviently shorter than me... Makes it easier to give her these types of hugs.

This is Ishmael and Queequeg from Moby Dick, by the way! In case you can't recognize them in color!! On a technical note, I really botched up 'Queg's tattoos, and I don't think I gave the man enough bulk, either. I'm still getting a grasp of their designs... but, man, are they just so fun to draw! :D

Moby Dick: new hat

So, I got a chance later today to actually sit down... and so I read some Moby Dick (I'd like to get the book finished before I have to return to my schoolin'). I got the the part where Queequeg saves Toshtego, and then I was stupid and scanned ahead. I didn't read any plot, but I fell on this sentence that said Queequeg lost his hat during a boat-lowering for a group of whales.

Then I had to draw this.

Ishmael, Queequeg doesn't trust you judgement!

Conversation - Bone fan art

Just a little doodly piece I just finished. I should be doing other things.... But I am so distracted! Gah!

Moby Dick - Doodles

So, I'm working on reading Moby Dick by Herman Melville right now... I'm about half way through. It's hard to put down! I absolutely love Ishmael and Queequeg. They have such a strong and awesome friendship! And they, when together, are mostly always hilarious. Sarcastic humor at it's best!! I can't pick a favorite part... It's all good.

"If there yet lurked any ice of indifference towards me in the Pagan's breast, this pleasant, genial smoke we had, soon thawed it out, and left us cronies. He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married; meaning, in his country's phrase, that we were bosom friends; he would gladly die for me, if need should be. In a countryman, this sudden flame of friendship would have seemed far too premature, a thing to be much distrusted; but in this simple savage those old rules would not apply." --Moby Dick, Chapter 10 : "A Bosom Friend"

"Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but sorry guard. With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how could I--being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering altitude--how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all whale-ships' standing orders, 'Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.'" --Moby Dick, Chapter 35 : "The Mast Head"

Elisa Rose

We had to put my goat, Elisa, down yesterday. We knew she had cancer for a few months, but it wasn’t affecting her quality of life, so we just kept an eye on her and tried our best to make her as happy as possible. She was her normal, hyper, happy self on Sunday, but Monday morning she started acting uncomfortable, and by 5 o’clock, we knew it was time.

She was buried by 8:00, and I’m still in a bit of shock.

She was a great goat. She was my 4-H project for a few years before we were both too old to do it. The first day I brought her home, she was scared from being taken away from her mother, so I sang to her and that calmed her down. I took my schoolwork (I was homeschooled) out to the barn everyday for a few weeks. I always did my math with her in my lap.

I held her as the vet put her down, and sang a little song.

Yeah, yeah. She was just an animal. But I don’t care who you are, it’s so sad when a pet dies.

I loved that goat. She was such a sweetheart.

Booklist 2011

Novels:

Count of Monte Cristo
Man in the Iron Mask
Frankenstein
2,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Man Who Laughs
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Alice in Wonderland
North and South (British)
The Bride Collector
Michal (Wives of King David)
Hollow Kingdom book II
Hollow Kingdom Book III
Unfinished Tales (Tolkien)
Treasure Island
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Grapes of Wrath
Brave New World
The Call of the Wild
Swiss Family Robinson
Lord of the Flies
Bluebeard
White Noise
Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
Huckleberry Finn
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dracula
Ulysses
War and Peace
The Old Man and the Sea
Gone with the Wind
Till We Have Faces
Kidnapped
Watership Down
Moby Dick
Island of Dr. Moreau
Through the Looking Glass
The Mysterious Island
Robinson Crusoe


Series:

Tarzan
The Inheritance Series
Redwall
Book of Lost tales (two volumes - Tolkien)
Drawn to Life (two volumes)
The Rescues series (9 books) (Margery Sharp)

Comics:

Maus
Calvin and Hobbes

Re-Read:

Don Quixote
Les Miserables
Lord of the Rings
the Phantom of the Opera
the Narnia Series (7 books?)
Wuthering Heights
Hunchback of Notre Dame