Is it madness?

Today has been sort of a rough one. I went to sleep last night a bit late- but then because I felt unwell I couldn't sleep for at least an hour. Then nightmares were waking me up. Then at some point nearer to morning I got a charlie horse cramp in my calf and that bothered me for a while. I've spent most of the day sort of flailing around being a not terribly functional entity.

While I watched the Voice tonight I made a silly sketch because I wanted to do something creative, and so just continuing to get used to the tablet seemed like something of a plan. This whole digital art thing is strange to me still!


I had plans to work on my sculpt, or work on the actual comic that I have going... but I decided that it would be best to not work on something that I actually cared about because I was afraid I'd end up doing it harm.

The Voice had some fun music, though still nobody has really grabbed me. I do have to giggle whenever Shakira says something about hips not lying because

Hips do not lie, they do exactly what they say on the tin.
I am easily amused. xD

Also, a moose just walked by, I saw him through our sliding glass door. Well then.

Now it is time for bed, though frustratingly, it appears that the internet has stopped working and I'm currently connected via my phone. e_e

Hey guys! I finalized my costume design! I took the armour and jacket and sort of merged it into a battle dress. xD It's an imperfect drawing, but I was only focused on getting out a design. I have never done a fashion drawing before actually, but I don't think they're terribly concerned with the realism of the model. lol

Please ignore the fact that my model looks like an alien giraffe

I'm not sure exactly what materials I'm going to use. The real costume is leather of course, but that's expensive and heavy. Expensive is the more important thing here though. I'm more concerned with it looking good though over comfort, because if it looks like crap because I have the wrong fabric why did I bother, ya'know? I'm considering looking to snag some thrift store/ebay/etc leather trench coats or something to cannibalize.

I've been trying to figure out exactly how the back of the costume works (the flowy bits in the back are my most favorite design element), but I wasn't having the best luck finding good reference photos of the back. I have seen useful video though, though that can be a hazardous proposition. "Oh, I'm just watching this for, erm, research!" *afterward* "Oops, wasn't paying attention to what I meant to! Gotta watch it again I guess, daaarn."

Shhhhhhhh Loki!

Unrelated, we also started to make candles tonight! I took a couple of pictures of the process, they're under the cut if you want to see them. Basically we need candles for ritual, and we can't ever find the right colours, and we want unscented candles because we burn incense but the large majority of candles seem to be scented already... so we got a candle making kit and are trying out making our own. We just wanted to try some simple white votives for a first try.

( Candle making pictures )

My mom used to make fancy candles when I was growing up, so I have a bit of an idea of how it works. If I was currently speaking to my mom, I would consider asking her about it. xP

I was planning on doing more this weekend, but I actually ended up being really sick. e_e Because of this I haven't been quite as productive as I would have hoped, but I don't think I did too terrible.

I did play Borderlands 2 with Scottie more, we are at an important story point and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THE FEELS