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~ A stream, for you! Two, in fact!

Luke plays Starfox on the SNES Mini! Also Donkey Kong Country!

Jane Plays Two Point Hospital - THE MUMMY RETURNS! - I have missed the TPH streams A LOT. I think I'm living vicariously through Jane, as I am no good at these sorts of games.

~ Found my tarot cards, after searching all the logical places, it turns out they were in the same place that my World of Warcraft cards had been. Huh.

I thought they were Rider Waite designs, but they're not, they're by some Swiss guy, and all the text on the cards is in French.

~ I still have not finished Royal Assassin but, apart from a day where I avoided reading because UGH, it's because I've been doing other things! (I'm on page 510, so I've got 240 pages left, which is an entire book in itself, but I'm just going to chill and not worry too much about it).

~ So yes, Other Things! I have been digging out pens and inks, and playing with them. Part of this is down to the brush lettering I was tinkering with (I don't think I've mentioned this before), and part of it is down to an artist I started following on twitter, off the back of seeing their art elsewhere. They do stuff that reminds me of woodcuts (sort of), and I thought at first it was inked, but now I come to examine it closer, I think it's all digital (the hatching is WAY too uniform for by hand).

I've always been interested in doing lettering, and have examples of stuff I've done (but consequently not done much with) going back to being a teenager - one of the first things I did was my favourite quote from Christopher Pike's Last Vampire series - and it's just something I've tinkered about with since. I think occasionally I've posted a bit of it and said, "Oh I'd like this on a t-shirt!", but never gone further than that.

Also I bought an italic pen set about a year ago, when I was thinking about using fountain pens again, but didn't use it much because really what I wanted was a bog standard nib, not an italic one.

(I have a very small list of fountain pens I want, starting with this Kaweco Sport - my friend Sarah lent me her Kaweco for a bit, and I liked it, which obviously led me to looking up how much these things cost).

And then, IDK, something in my brain was like, "you can draw with these!" so that is, in part, what I have been doing. I'm not sure my mum would approve, but she's not here to argue with so *blows raspberry*

I always thought, for some reason, that if you drew with ink, you had to use a dip pen or a brush, even though I've drawn with inky pens before? Like, one of the reason I like the Pilot V5/7 Pens is because I've used them to draw with!

I mean, look! Manuscript even make a set that's specifically for illustration or writing music! I may have to add this to the list, heh.

I need to get some of it scanned, but I'll try to get it up on the sketchblog so you can see what the heck I am blathering about!