The circus is coming!

I know this because I'm getting a lot of calls for tickets.

I guess it makes a change from calls from people wondering what AAA charges, but I don't work for the circus. I don't even work for AAA.

I have not, thus far this morning, fielded any calls from people actually wanting to talk to this company, much less anyone interested in me.

Thus ends today's Business Productivity Update.

I did, however, have an accidental donut.

A donut is the sort of thing that happens to me three or four times a year but I was hoping it wouldn't happen while I was on the diet. (It's Buehler's fault. He brought them in.)

Also, I had an egg.

Thus ends today's Diet Update.

In other non-news, last night I watched DS episodes. I've watched half of S3 this week. I fully expect to find my writing batteries charged and running any day now.

Thus ends today's Non-Writing Update.

Yesterday, I drew a hand that actually looked like a hand. This morning I copied a sketch of a row of buildings on a street and it looked like a copy of a sketch of a row of buildings on a street.

Having now grasped a few of the fundamentals of perspective, become vaguely aware of anatomy, drawn numerous flower petals, run in horror from the challenges of massed foliage, dabbled a bit with tone, and pushed a few tentative shadows under objects to experiment with anchoring, I think I'm just about ready to start trying to draw Real Things.

At some point today I will pick out something, stare through it, and then draw where it is not.

This is called, "negative space" and for reasons I'm still not quite sure about, it's considered a vital skill. (If pressed, I might venture that it has something to do with not really knowing the shape of something until you know what shape it is not, but that could be a bit more philosophical than the subject warrants.)

Thus ends today's Drawing Update.

Now that I think about it, that donut was a long time ago. Maybe I should eat something more?

(Stairs climbed thus far today: 96)