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Below are the 25 most recent journal entries.

	2008.06.01  23.22 INEXACT SCIENCE #1: Human Attraction. A very very long time ago, I agreed to draw 20 comics about science. Then life got mildly extremely busy. Here is the first one. ( Full, giant-hearted 180KB comic behind the cut. ) Further reading (and sources) can be found here.

	2008.01.14  20.22 The Greatest Meme. Bold talk, calling it "the greatest meme," but who can argue with this for all the benevolent educational awesomeness it'll produce? beatonna just finished drawing 20 comics about historical figures, and now the gauntlet has been thrown, and a whole slew of people are jumping on board to do the same, but for different subjects, from literature to sports to comics, and more. Against my better judgment: Count me in! I'll take the first twenty comments about scientific principles and draw comics about them. Lasers! Botfly gestation! Hawking radiation! Quantum mechanics! Bring it ON. (Science. Who can resist SCIENCE?) EDIT: The list is complete! Thank you all. Stay tuned for... 1. Human Attraction 2. The Fundamental Theorem of Combinatorial Enumeration 3. Cold Fusion 4. Delta-32 Mutation 5. Quantum Double-Slit Experiment 6. Evolution 7. Ant Pheremones 8. Fitt's Law 9. Stem Cell Research 10. Strong vs. Weak Nuclear Bonds 11. The Periodic Table of the Elements 12. Bernoulli's Principle 13. The Coriolis Effect 14. Prisms 15. Phylogenetic Systematics 16. Exothermic Chemical Reactions 17. Background Radiation of the Universe 18. Prions 19. Something To Do With Parasites 20. Echolocation

	2007.12.22  10.45 #5: Not a superpower. (See the larger image...) ...and that's five! This was fun. You probably already knew this fact, though. (Reminder: Comment in the original post if you want a holiday gift of five questions yourself.)

	2007.12.20  23.16 #4: Plotting something! (See the larger image...) What would a plot of your fears look like?

	2007.12.17  22.44 #3: A misspelled crown. (Not Korean Won.) Next answer is up at the old post. (Click to see the larger version...)

	2007.12.15  11.21 #2: Antarctica Question #2 is answered, over on the other thread. (See it at a readable size...)

	2007.12.15  00.13 Meeeeeeme? Meme. (FIVE QUESTIONS.) No fancy exposition here, because it's late. Waaaaay back in early August(!), I volunteered to be asked five questions by shumashi in some LJ meme, with the intent of answering in comics form. This month, I picked up a homebrew cartridge and a truly amazing little drawing program for the Nintendo DS after reading about it on a blog somewhere. The nice thing is that there's an associated Java app (by Ben Jaques) that can re-render your paint strokes at larger resolutions, or let you playback the paintings in faster than real-time. So, after much dalliance (I've been rather busy), I've started to draw the answers on the DS. It's a bit of a challenge, what with the newness of playing with color...with no layers and no undo...but I figure it's a fun experiment to learn the ropes and doodle in free time. I'll put all of the answers in this post, with a new notice as each is finished, so if you check back, they'll all be in one place. 1. What's the best meal you've ever eaten? I really hope this didn't come across as picking a fight with vegetarians. ( ..and the other four questions. ) Same rules apply. Want to play the game? Ask in the comments if you'd like me to come up with five questions for you, and I'll oblige.

	2007.11.05  22.21 (Mini)Sketchcrawl, 11/4! As Jeff said, he, Robert, Nathan, and I did a short sketchcrawl yesterday afternoon around the Liberty Park area. It was a good time, especially towards the end. ( About three pages of warmup, and then the following page, which I really like. ) ( ...and then there was Gilgal Park. ) I never would have guessed that such a place was within walking distance of Liberty Park. Wow. Thanks again to jimmytrout for organizing this!

	2007.10.28  13.19 24-hour comic "A Fish Called W-." over on slcomix... Hello, happy people! Last week's 24-hour insaaaaaaanity is now posted at slcomix. (Feel free to comment either here or there, if you're so inclined.)

	2007.10.20  00.08 24 HOURS WITH FOURTEEN ARTISTS. Insanity. Hilarity ensues? This Saturday (and Sunday), starting at 10am MST, I'm doing a 24-hour-comics day, against my better judgment, at Night Flight Comics with the likes of jatg and jimmytrout, others from slcomix, and possibly some "professional" comickers, too. I don't know if I'll have internet down there, but feel free to post random ideas here, and I'll refer to the comments here (if I can) when the creativity well is running dry in the long, dark teatime of 2:30am. Wish me luck. Or just cluck your tongue at me. It's all good.

	2007.09.16  15.04 (SCA != LARP) ...or so I'm guessing. jimmytrout is fascinated by the SCA, so he proposed a sketch night at Sugarhouse Park to draw the local knights and fencers. That looks nothing like jimmytrout, but he was moving his head faster than the fencing swords behind him. Then, yesterday, I was riding past Liberty Park, and there was a gaggle of LARPers making funny voices and hitting each other with boffers. The difference between the two groups? The local SCA seems to take their re-enacting far more seriously—they had actual suits of actual armor. The LARP participants had actual suits of actual cardboard. (Take your pick on which is more endearing.)

	2007.09.16  12.28 I'm not dead yet. Here's the first of a couple artdumps. It's a bit of a crosspost with slcomix but these (sometimes friends-only) artdumps will have more commentary. jimmytrout challenged me at one of the SLC RoCo meetups to draw 10 minutes every day for a week. He kept it up a whole lot better than I did, but ( here are the results... )

	2007.07.14  20.35 Embarassing Nerd Cred. In Latin. I was cleaning out my storage room today, and found the following pages of my second-year Latin notebook, thought long-lost. Was I really such a dweeb at age 14? YES. ( Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics. In Latin. )

	2007.06.22  22.44 ...said of the photo "very russian constructivist in its composition." Ian suggested the photo du jour (after he thankfully rescinded this one). ( A staple of America... ) Drawn over about a half-hour while listening to his interview on NPR. I made the mistake of trying to add the yellow with a watercolor pen, forgetting that the ink in my Tombows is far more water-soluble than the trusty ol' Pentel Pocket Brush. Scanned while chattin' with K, who provided the title.

	2007.06.21  00.33 No! Sleep! 'Til Brooklyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz A sketch from last week, actually seen around Spooner Lake in Nevada: It looked JUST like this. Honest! A sketch from last night, which has pretty good hair and very bad eyes and may look familiar: ( Original reference... ) (I hope tomorrow night is a relatively early night.)

	2007.06.06  22.55 Blub-blub? ( Original reference photo, from parts unknown... )

	2007.06.04  22.53 JUNE de Vivre!* After the MAYlaise. Ze Frank says to make something every day; I'm in a pact with Stef and Mario and Paul to draw daily for May. Wait...May? ( That didn't work out so well... ) So now: June! ( Original source image. ) And that's about it for now. * Thanks rstevens.

	2007.04.13  23.14 Disappearing hands hold invisible coffee Before ceding the day, a quick ten minute sketch (abridged comics workout) from this image. ( And the original image... ) Hopefully this weekend is productive and artistic! Happy Friday the 13th. Whoo.

	2007.03.16  23.22 Not Penrod Pulaski Day Andy, I'm sorry I missed your day. I even had printed your wonderful bit of self-deconstruction, but the insomnia doodles in the wee hours of Friday morning were only of Sufjan's sad, sad song.

	2007.03.12  22.58 My first ever life-drawing class. As much as I love to draw, I've never done an actual nude life-drawing session until this past weekend, while visiting the Bay Area. On Saturday, Kate let me tag along to her regular drop-in life-drawing session on the Berkeley campus (in Kroeber Hall). I was a bit nervous, to be honest, more of trying not to look like an idiot among these "real" artists than anything else, but it turned out not to be a big deal at all. The first poses were underway when we stepped in, and so we just dived into drawing. During the breathers, I'd ask Kate (who has far more experience in life-drawing) for pointers, and peek at the amazing renders on the canvases around us. Some people were sketching precise crosshatched contours with microns; one woman was even watercoloring with her fingers and a fat brush, if I remember it. ( Figure sketches behind the cut... ) I probably ought to pick up that Force book, too, before I go again... whenever that may be. (Thanks, Kate! This was fun.)

	2007.02.04  01.04 Hourly Comics SaturDay! ...because I was working on Thursday. ( Hourly Comics Day, two days late (the OB twist). ) The day can be summed up in pretty much one image: Since I don't draw stick figures, it turned into a 30 minutes drawing, 30 minutes not drawing day. But it was fun! And people like starring in comics, I found out. "No! You sit down and draw! Now!"

	2007.01.26  00.10 Not your typical crime procedural. Just got back from seeing the Australian cop drama Noise. It's one of those films that it's really good to go into cold, and for which I was a bit glad that there was a (surprise) Q&A afterward. ( Behind the cut: sketches from the Q&A and cryptic quotes. ) Overall, it was pretty good. Worth catching if it makes it over here...at least on DVD.

	2007.01.25  07.47 Sundance '07 Sketches, Round 1 One of the nice things about living in SLC is the Sundance Film Festival. We won't see Pan's Labyrinth in local theaters until February, but that's because the local theaters (even here in the heart of the city, miles from the freezing Los Angelinos and fur-coat-chic Park City) are stocked to the brim with festival entries and all sorts of indie goodness. I was able to score a few tickets early thanks to shumashi, and saw the first two the other night. ( One was very, very good, and the other was insane. ) Tonight, I'll be seeing an Australian cop drama called Noise that sounded good (har, no pun intended), and Friday Sunday is the zany New Zealand romcom Eagle vs. Shark.

	2007.01.11  23.07 Drawing Britons when I should be asleep. Nathan, this is for you. And yes, it was helpful. ( Sketches of British people from Flickr and sidemargin blathering. ) Part of my sketchbook challenge this year is to try to draw people from different parts of the world so that you can actually tell they are from different parts of the world. Like Toth liked to rant about. Sleep now!

	2007.01.09  23.03 The actual sad truth is that I wanted to change lightbulbs rather than draw. Comics workout with Mario and Paul and Stef. I only had time for one round. Paul gave me a title. ( The Sad Truth. ) I really wanted to do something instead about sunglasses bought from a Jack Bauer Outlet Store not making the wearer as invulnerable as Jack himself. Sad truth. Yep, creativity just wasn't flowing tonight.