Skook WIP #46 - Skookworks.com

Good morning! Happy Friday! Feliz Navidad!

Last Sunday I entered the tinyletter subscriber list into the skookworks subscriber database. You should have gotten a request to confirm that new subscription. This week and for the next two weeks you should be getting two versions of this email. The first version will come from tinyletter.com and the second will come from davidleeingersoll.com. (Davidingersoll.com and skookworks.com are all parked on the small internet address but davidleeingersoll.com is considered the primary one.) If you don’t get two copies of this email please check your spam filters.

From December 3rd on I’ll just be sending this newsletter from skookworks. Thank you for your patience with transition.

These Days …

We have a new new manager at the USPS station where I work. I don’t yet have a strong opinion on her. She seems like she’s both confident in her abilities and willing to listen to input from the carriers. We’re still short staffed and we’ve still got a lot of vehicles that need repair. The vehicle that is assigned to my route has needed a new engine and a headlight replacement for about a month now. It’s been sitting sadly in the parking lot, untouched and unloved. Every day I come to work and the supervisors have to figure out which route has an available vehicle for me to use.

Bleah.

Not Quite It

The last few weeks I’ve shared pages from my sketchbook. Mostly the sketches were practice – me working out random ideas rather than developing a specific project. The following sketches are my first attempt at working out illustrations for my 2023 calendar. Maybe.

One of my recent commissions was a recoloring job on a series of illustrations of the zodiac originally done by a famous artist in the 1940s. (I’ll post examples and links to project when it’s ready to be published.) That inspired me to consider doing a series of zodiac illustrations of my own. I thought a post-apocalyptic version of the signs would be fun – mutants and monsters and Mad Max style survivors.

I got six sketches done before deciding that this wasn’t the direction I want to go. Part of the idea process is figuring out what doesn’t work. These are a little too serious. I want bigger and louder and more ridiculous.

In the meantime, here’s half a zodiac.

Aquarius