[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-birdsong-pencil-roughs":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Yesterday afternoon I sat on the roof in the sun with Viviane's tomato plants, reading a friend's freshly written novel and doing the pencils for the story I'm submitting for the \u003Ca href=\"http://community.livejournal.com/birdsong_comic/\">Birdsong anthology\u003C/a>. Here's the first page:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/birdsong_pencil1-b9a2e01cba.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI'm very excited for this anthology; it's going to feature work by the fabulous \u003Ca href=\"http://warwickjohnsoncadwell.blogspot.com/\">Warwick Johnson Cadwell\u003C/a> (one of Britain's best illustrators, I think. You can spot his editorial illustrations in \u003Ci>The Guardian\u003C/i>), \u003Ca href=\"http://chamonkee.livejournal.com/profile\">Will Kirkby\u003C/a> (\u003Ca href=\"http://chamonkee.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">chamonkee\u003C/a>, a guy with humble Live Journal beginnings like me, but whose work is taking off amazingly), Manga whizz kid and co-editor with Will \u003Ca href=\"http://naniiebim.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">naniiebim\u003C/a>, the remarkable \u003Ca href=\"http://tozocomic.com/\">David O'Connell\u003C/a> (\u003Ca href=\"http://tozocomic.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">tozocomic\u003C/a>: have you seen the latest installments of \u003Ci>Tozo\u003C/i>... romance!) and two people whose work I'm getting to know: \u003Ca href=\"http://shakino.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">shakino\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://rakugaking.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">rakugaking\u003C/a>. All our work is due Sept 6, so you should be hearing news about the publication sometime fairly soon after that. (This self-publishing stuff has so much quicker of a turn-around than children's books...) I was only going to take two pages, but I found it was actually easier to tell my story in four pages, so Will and Naniiebim let me have two more.\\r\n\\r\nMy Glasgow Auntie took Stuart and me out for lunch on Saturday, and we had a lovely day wandering the streets of London. I had to take her for a pastry at Yauatcha in Soho after \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/229727.html\">my tasty visit there\u003C/a> the other day with Ellen and Myla, mmm. Stuart took the second photo on this pretty, cafe-lined, hidden road off Oxford Street, called \u003Ca href=\"http://www.stchristophersplace.com/\">St Christopher's Place\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/auntie2-2b7efb6066.jpg\" width=\"330\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/auntie1-d197c53c22.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI just noticed some nice sketchbook drawings from my hometown, of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.urbansketchers.com/2009/08/seattle-sketchers-at-work-at-gas-works.html\">Gasworks Park\u003C/a> (thanks to \u003Ca href=\"http://twitter.com/urbansketchers\">Urban Sketchers\u003C/a>). Ooh, have a look at their work on the \u003Ca href=\"http://urbansketchers-seattle.blogspot.com/\">Seattle section of the blog!\u003C/a> I think \u003Ca href=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LKowsIcWpZc/SpIZ8h4FkEI/AAAAAAAAAGk/yXZVsmyBmbw/s1600-h/gasworks.jpg\">this drawing\u003C/a>'s brilliant.","2009-08-24T07:26:00.000Z","birdsong-pencil-roughs",[],"birdsong pencil roughs",1776628733175]