Rain, why do you mock me?

So, I’ve had a slight problem with my car this week. One windcreen wiper works, one doesn’t. Unfortunately, this week has also decided to be the first to host torrential downpours, at least in a few months. The adventure of getting the car to the garage, through pouring rain, having to stop every 100 yards to open the bonnet and temporarily fix the linkage back together is something that isn’t a great tale to tell, so I’ll spare you. Suffice to say, it took a large chunk of my Saturday away from me.

Still, positive thinking is the order of the day (week, month, year, decade, life…) so the thing to concentrate on is the productivity of the last few days. I’m loving the progress I’ve made since ditching the comics/art forums and just getting to work. So far this weekend, I’ve finished two private commissions (a family portrait and a band logo), I’ve worked on some Transformers: Mosaic stuff (which I’m very excited about, hopefully I’ll be able to reveal why later), finished –**RETROSPECTIVELY CENSORED**–

All this, and without the use of my legs. What an urban achiever I must be. Okay, slight exagerration, but the fact remains I am getting rather… shall I say… portly. Maybe rotund, I like that term. This isn’t due to being lazy or eating too much, or drinking too much. Really. I eat healthily, for the most part, and I quit drinking last weekend, until my holiday in the States at the end of July, at least. The problem is, I have a weird clicking knee problem, which doesn’t hurt, but I’ve been advised by the doctor to not do any kind of exercise involving knee-bending. Which leaves swimming (I’m terrified of water) and weights. Weights are fine, but you don’t lose weight off your gut area. My physio won’t start until I register with another doctor, which isn’t easy, due to my working hours. Better sort it out soon, though, or I’ll end up looking like everyone expects a comic geek to look like.

That preview image from the last post? Yeah, that’s still in progress. For some reason, though, I had to work up this Gambit image, since my sketchbook has been screaming at me to do it for months. Here’s the end result. I’m satisfied.