Busy, angsty weekend...

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Oh man.  for various reasons that I will not go into right now, my weekend sucked completely.  Funny though, how in spite of the brick-solid awfulness of it all, I managed to be productive.  Drawing bug bit me hard after a long hiatus (probably due to the Alphonse Mucha art book I picked up with my Barnes & Noble gift card) and I cranked this out in about a half hour.  Pen & ink with Prismacolor pencils.  Kikyo.

It looks awful cute as a 8 x 10 print, too. (We did prints today...wheee). 

I just love Kikyo, I can't help it.  I imagine her character as being slightly mad, just a bit off-balance since she was resurrected ('cause I imagine croaking would tend to make a person a little bit nuts).  Then, I think about her before she died...what she must have been like.  Probably really cool, a bit sad, tough, smart, independent.  A modern woman, really.  Which makes her all the more tragic.  Anyway she falls off a cliff like a pro and for that reason alone she rocks in my book (she's like the Wile E. Coyote of "Inuyasha"...Someone should make a "Whoops!" sign for her to hold up every time she takes a header off a mountain, or buy her an ACME parachute so she could call it base jumping...just some ideas.).