Excuse and a sketch

I apologize for missing ANOTHER showcase post. But I have multiple excuses for it.

1) The artist I contacted never wrote me back. <--- best excuse
2) The internet at my house died on Friday and I couldn't have written it anyway. <--- backup excuse
3) The dog ate my post. <--- I don't even have a dog.

Anyway, so those are the reasons I didn't post.

As usual, I've been working on a painting whenever I can get up the energy. I've been kinda mopey lately, so I haven't made my usual shutout progress. But you can't see it until I'm done, as always. It should be up later this week, though. Depending on my mental health XD

But I did do a sketch that I will show you! It's of my secondary character Lara from my novel-becoming-manga Nothing Good Ever Happens to Christine Ceal. Yes, I decided to change my manga from the Aoudanian Chronicles to Nothing Good because that story is more complete and, with the modern setting, it is easier to find references.

Plus, it's humorous and I think people will like it better.

The quality is bad because I was too lazy to clean up the scanner's mess. So I won't be posting it on DA because of that. It was mostly just a quick concept thing...

I did get to use my new 6H-6B pencils (I only had HB-6B before) and my handy-dandy kneading eraser.

WHICH REMINDS ME! When I was at Michaels to get the previously mentioned supplies, I saw this and had to buy it:

It's a raven statuette with feathers and everything. I couldn't resist. It's fully Soren approved, too, and I'm hoping he'll be in a good enough mood to behave until my mental state improves.

That's all, folks!