Toren Atkinson’s Absolute Blog

Number 37: the Rastafomorian.

I answered an ad on craigslist for a children’s book illustrator. I met with the guy and I think I have a decent shot of outdrawing the competition (knock on paper) from what he tells me. I’m not stupidstitious so I’m just going to go ahead and tell you that I hope this thing works out! Part of The Horribles experiment has just been about diversifying my styles and trying new stuff, because I feel like I’ve hit a rut in my drawing and anyway, the RPG well is dry. Working in the Raincoast warehouse for a year really made me ache to do something in the kid’s book vein, so we’ll see how long it takes for me to get disillusioned with that.

Here is a piece of advice to everyone out there in Blogland: don’t get so many projects on the go that you can’t keep track of them all. To wit: 

My bedroom recording studio 
Thickets Album 
The Horribles 
My CafePress store 
The next Spaceship Zero RPG scenario (makes my head hurt)
C:/ (the music project – totally on the backburner but all of my ridiculous ditties that don’t get the Thickets treatment will end up here) 
Mutants & Masterminds Power Enterprise characters for pdf
VGG convention organization    I’m sure I’m forgetting something. 

So I had John Metzger come over tonight and try to figure out what the hell has been going on with my recording setup. And after some trials and tribulations, that’s just what he did. So, I can now finally present to you, one of my first three experi-ditties: a cubic zirconium in the rough (about one minute long).