Giglamps rambles

Haven't got much to say at the moment as there hasn't been anything going on, unless you count grinding away against an immovable creative block, carrying on with cross-stitch (I'm determined to get that craft drawer cleared out this year and just keep any stash contained in the cupboard; it'd free up a lot of storage space) and generally wandering around. It's from those wanderings that these pictures have mostly originated, so let's have a look... Relatable priorities here. A nicely designed sticker on the back of an old clock (the clock itself was nowt special - I bloody love a good clock, vintage Seiko ones especially, but this one was just plain uninspiring.) A piggy bank in the midst of an identity crisis. Another abandoned shitter in the wild (didn't intend for this to be a recurring theme, I just seem to have coincidentally been coming across a lot of discarded thrones lately.) View across the grass towards town in one of my usual haunts. Stone comme...

Nothing particularly salubrious, but still, I have been drawing things, and here's a small fraction of them. Also finally resolved to give up on redrawing the old issues of Facts About the World because it was just taking up a colossal amount of time and energy and it was impossible to find any meaningful kind of stride with it (both with the art and the writing.) I was also conscious of that time being taken away from other projects which have come up more recently, and it just didn't seem like a worthwhile use of my time anymore. Some of the unfinished bits have been included here anyway (not including the page layouts and things that only reached the lineart stage), and maybe I'll put the rest of the script up at some point. Also, Blogger appears to be making images really fuzzy - bastard. If you're feeling patient, it's a bit of a faff but right clicking on the images and going on "Open image in new tab", you can see them in better quality that way. No...

Catching up with some more pictures today, from a couple of morning walks on different days. I haven't been taking quite as many photos this week because I slipped on some ice, bashed up my arm pretty badly - not ideal. It didn't hurt much in the moment but once I got home and sat down with a cup of tea, then it started absolutely hurting like hell, it's been a bastard ever since and fiddling with the camera just exacerbates it. Ugh . Anyway, here are some pictures from the sunnier of the days... And now, onto the pictures from the moodier morning. And that's that for today, down a ginnel that leads to a grass verge with some houses at a 90 degree angle from the rest and a little garden cordoned off by a drystone wall across the way from said houses, there's this wheelbarrow here. Not quite a spiritual successor to the Wheelbarrow of the Beast but I'll take what I can get at this point.