Well, it's a rainy night outside. This pretty much puts a complete damper on my evening run. I've learned that wet sneakers offer very little traction and although, from what I understand, the parkour philosophy would suggest that I treat wetness as just another obstacle: I'm not yet confident enough to tackle high climbing with little traction. 

Instead I've stayed inside. I've been looking at my comics for ideas on self-depiction. I'm going to have to settle on a drawing style for the comic work that's to come. In my proposal for this project, as well as my honors thesis, my self-depiction was a cuter, "chibi" version of myself. Accessibility was the key, and the subject matter was abstract. My model was the self-depictions of Scott McCloud, cute, simple and abstract (see above). 

This time the subject matter is far less abstract. Parkour is a physical discipline, it requires a more grounded, realistic style. Not too realistic. I don't want to bite off more than I can chew. Thinking something more along the lines of Craig Thompson's cartoony brush-lines. Gotta sit down and do some sketching. 

Actually, I've recently picked up Christopher Downes' A Diary of a Work in Progress and enjoyed the hell out of it. The thing that made it particularly inspirational was the fact that Chris decided to do a page a day for a book project. Admirable habit that I might have to cultivate. Plus, rendering environments is something else that I'll have to practice. Must find some time to take out my pad and do some observations.