Wow haven't posted for a while.....

Phew. I haven't been keeping up with this since I came home for Christmas. I doubt I'm gonna be able to update much more either due to helping mum get ready for Xmas (tree, presents, Xmas shopping....oh God, Xmas shopping....) but I'm gonna line out what I hope I shall achieve this break.

1) Get some texture/colour studies done. I collected a vast amount of different snake textures and tried to create a snake siloheutte made out of different scale textures but it was an amazing failure. I just tried looking for said travesty but I think I may have deleted it. Maybe it's on my Norwich PC? Anyways, I'll probably have to present my textures in a more conventional way T_T

2) Do more drawings. Although you can research something all you want, you need to get down with the nitty gritty and get doing some doodles. I've got a sizable amount but I want to do more ('tis 90% of the reason I'm doing this). Hopefully I will come up with more mask/headgear designs and Swimmer designs.

3) Research The Endless Forest. This is something MC pitched to me and I've got to say, it's bloody bonkers but in a delightful, New-Age sort of way. I intend to try and get it to work so I can have a rummage and hopefully create my own "deer". The headcrest designs for special occasions (Halloween etc) are really genius and hopefully will inspire me.

4) Keep up the research generally on mythology - it's a much bigger subject than Crypto zoology (been round for yonks longer I guess) so I need to put more effort in. I'm onto eastern mythology now so I'll be looking at Shinto/Hindu/Buddhist creatures. I recently discovered Ananta - a snake with a thousand heads that Vishnu rested on before creating the universe (as you do) and Vasuki, a serpent-like creature that the gods used to churn the ocean of milk. I love mythology - it makes no sense ^_^

Anyway, that's what I'm hoping to get done over the holidays. I will post though if I discover something I must share.

Merry Christmas!