Morning, everyone !! :-D
It's snowing !!!
I feel like a little owlet... so excited... wanting to go outside and have a snowball fight !! ^^


That's awesome news, Hyper !!! :-D
I didn't know about that all... but I feel very happy for you and your friend, and wish her the best and fastest recovery !!
**Happy hug**


... Aw... That's not an easy work... Please be careful, DD... :-\ ** Courage Hugs **

Hi Owl,
Don't hit any cops:-)

Thanks for your nice words. :-) As I've already said, however, the final drawing won't be much different from this- I'll probably make the drawing bigger and try to make it look like an actual matrioska instead of its current form, but some basic elements (the face and suit design for example) will remain pretty much the same (even if I might change some colors-for example I'll make the tie red, as it is ingame, instead of black, as it is in this drawing). In short, it won't become a masterpiece or something, but only slightly better (and bigger).

Honest answer please-pretending to be nice won't help me, as I mostly asked here in order to know whether I should draw a final concept (which will take quite some time) and thus being nice won't help in getting an actual opinion.
(Even though honestly, I half-expect to read that this is a kindergarten-level drawing... :-/)

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Thanks for the nice words from you too, ddickinson! I like this idea too (well naturally, it's my idea after all) :P However, I should mention that if I actually make a full drawing, it won't probably include anything nested inside (because of my skill limitations-if I drew nested characters, I'd have to account for a pseudo-3d depiction of the opened Manny matrioska, and drawing 3d objects that aren't rectangular is one of my weakest points). And about the having fun part, my "fun" would be thus severely limited by my frustration of not being able to actually draw what I have in mind. In short, I'll probably keep it simple to both achieve a better work overall and have more fun and less frustration while drawing.

Good morning *big hug* That sounds good, it also started snowing here :-) So we can have a snowball fight soon :P

Morning, Owl! *big hug*

How are you doing today?

It's been snowing here as well, and despite the difficulties it can cause on the farm, I still get all exited about the snow. Me, my partner, and my brothers actually had a nice snowball fight this morning. Snow is always so much fun, just as long as we don't get too much of it.


I'm always careful, I very rarely fall through a roof :-). It's just started snowing again, which is nice, but not when you are working and you end up wet and there is a strong cold wind. I'm just glad I have a nice thick top on to keep me warm.

Well I'll be Diplomatic and say I can't give you an honest answer at the moment....

Actually, that's a pretty good idea! Thanks a lot moonshineshadow for proposing it! Yes, that would probably work pretty well-and I could thus make the most difficult to draw characters smaller, in order to avoid drawing them in detail or something. I'll have to see of course what other characters I could draw if I follow this suggestion (I haven't played Grim Fandango at all and, even thought I like the plot, I won't be able to play the Remastered either until I get a better pc, so I don't know the Grim Fandango universe very well...Or maybe I could skim a Let's Play to see the characters...) Anyways, I'll see what I'll do this afternoon, as I have some time then.

P.S. In case I manage to make a drawing good enough to post in the contest thread, I'll probably mention that you gave me the idea to put the matrioskas next to each other, because credit needs to go where it's due!

Sounds good. I hope you have fun doing it and I am curious to see what the result will be. And I really like your idea and hope that gog is not too fussy about drawing skills since I can quite understand how you might feel, but let me tell you my drawing really sucks :D

Hi, Synd !!
Lol, nope, I'll be careful !! ^^


Hi, Moonshine !!
** Frozen Hug **
Yay !!! Snowball fight !!
< Starts preparing loads of snowballs... >


Hey, DD ! ** Big Hug back **
I'm... tired. Not enough slept. But it's fine... I don't have to wake up early tomorrow ! :-)
I'm jealous of your actual snowball fight !!! :-D


Rarely... ? Ô__Ô ... Has it already happened ?
Just reading you makes me feel completely frozen... :-|
** Hot-water bottle shaped Hug **


I like the idea either, maybe drawing all the characters next to each other, from the largest to smallest... maybe starting with Glottis, since it's the biggest one :-) ... But I thought you would actually make them in real matriochka shapes... more fat and "round"... I think like this they'd better match all together... (?)

Thanks for your comments too LaPtiteBete! Well, moonshineshadow beat you in proposing this idea by a few minutes, but then again he didn't propose anything particular regarding each character's size. Maybe I will indeed draw Glottis as the bigger one (given his size), but probably with a closed mouth, because drawing all these teeth he has will be complicated. And I also already mentioned on aprevious post that the final shapes will be closer to a real matrioska (how close I cannot know beforehand because I'll have to see which shape fits each character). Anyways, as I mentioned, I'll try this out in the afternoon and post the result (if it's nice enough) on the contest thread.

Once again, thanks everybody for your kind words! :-)

You're welcome :-) can't wait to see the result... !! (and Good luck for the contest !!)

I'm sorry you didn't get enough sleep. Was it due to your owlet? How is the teething coming along?

I'm glad to hear you get tomorrow in bed, with no early morning (except to look after the nest :-)). I'm hoping to get Sunday off work, my first day off in over a month (YAY!). I can't wait to just sleep in for a change, and spend the morning in a nice warm bed.


It has, sadly. I was light proofing and repairing a barn (for growing rhubarb in the dark, which sounds silly, but it works quite well.) and I fell through the roof. Luckily I wasn't too badly hurt, just some very bruised ribs, which took aver a month to heal. Bruised ribs are so painful, I couldn't even sleep properly or do other things, as it just kept hurting my poor ribs. Accidents are bound to happen on a farm. But I'm all better now, and so far no more falls. :-)

You get used to being out in the cold, as log as you wrap up warm it's not too bad. A nice thick coat and jumper work wonders, but if you ever find yourself working in the cold, especially when it's wet and windy, one of the most important thing to remember is a good padded bra, not to look good, but for keeping vital parts warm :-).


Well I had better make a move, I have finished sorting the sheep out and now I'm off to do the cows and then onto the greenhouse. I'm hoping to have it done in a few days, then I can make a start on the next two.

These are the kind of things we are building (the link below), but ours are not quite so high (as we don't need them that high), but about the same length and width. We are building them ourselves from scratch, so that we can customise them better for our needs, and it works out so much cheaper than if we buy them pre-made. It's more work, but I enjoy it.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Greenhouse_at_Wilson_Farm%2C_East_Lexington_MA.jpg/1024px-Greenhouse_at_Wilson_Farm%2C_East_Lexington_MA.jpg

Just breathing hurts ribs too:-)

Nope... It's all my fault this time !
Among the causes of my lack of sleep, you'll find :
1) The owlet is awaken/crying loud for a random reason
2) There is a howling wind/thunderstorm outside
3) I just don't want to go to bed, no matter how tired I am
4) My brain is stuck in a loop... classical insomnia story :-)
So yesterday it was a 3) :-)


Awesome program ! ** High Five !! **

Wow... :-( You live dangerously !
Glad to read you haven't been too badly hurt... and that you're all better now !!
** relieved hug**

Lol'd at the "good padded bra" !! ^__^ you're so right. Vital parts... !! :-D
Well, GOOD LUCK for all your works...
This greenhouse look awesome... I can't believe all that you're able to do... you're really impressive ! :))