Spurned on by posts from RunningKid, I too thought, ‘Hey, I can go outside during the summer as well, going into London and do some shopping like I used to…’ Well, I did go outside but I just popped out to Illford closer to the outskirts of London. But I sniffed out a Waterstones and quickly found the manga. I’ve found myself buying less manga recently which worries me so I bought another 6; vol. 13-14 of Negima (yay!) and vol. 1-4 of Rurouni Kenshin (‘cause it’s a great classic and they didn’t have vol. 2 of Fruits Basket and yet had all the rest up to 14 :S ). A good haul that cost me less than expected.

However, manga wasn’t the only reason I was out about in the sun (even though it was all overcast, and it even rained… stupid British weather), as I made way to an art store that saw me through my graphic design days, and took the plunge and got me a traditional nib dip pen and ink.

I’ve been drawing for a while but just haven’t shown off anything really except the odd thing or two that I inked half-assedly. Well, I’m am going to try and improve now and get some artwork done. Sadly this may take me a while, as seen above, I will need some practise with the pen to actually get a good effect. (strangely enough I worked upwards on the page :S )

Above is one of my best works which is still sadly pencil. From the stage of getting this inked and scanned is my biggest roadblock at the moment, but I’m working on it and hopefully, I can grow as an artist past the drawing some pretty pictures stage. Making a web comic/manga of my own would be marvellous. Here’s hoping XD

Watch this space and my deviant art account because the dream has never looked closer to me than ever before.