At the risk of boring everyone to death I'm still having problems with that damn printer, sigh! So that means no new print, again. In the interim I'm trying to get my shop up and running, hopefully this week some time.

I'm also working on a few promo type images that I can post on a few other places that are on my radar. Things to get folks coming here and to my portfolio site. I'll post those here once they are there, if that makes any sense.

At work today, during my lunch break, I did a little sketch of a classic Universal Monster, The Creature from the Black Lagoon.

I discovered that the printing problem that I'd encountered a couple of weeks ago (God, was it that long ago) was being caused by the damn printer itself. The paper/transparency's feed underneath a retaining bar just before the printer spits out the hard copy. This bar is fitted with small sprockets to, I presume, help the paper feed through the machine. Because the ink on the transparency does not dry instantly, like it does on paper, these sprockets were dragging the ink from its surface leaving a dozen neat rows of small dots on the image. I had to take a screw driver to the thing and remove it. I think that it still works OK but I have been unable to test this as I ran out of ink farting around with the damn thing. Ink arrives tomorrow so testing will ensue.

In the mean time I've done a little sketching in my trusty Moleskine.