Compost

I have decided to hold off on starting to post episode 4 of The Word Smith for a little while (hopefully not too long) so that I can get more of it done before starting and hopefully not have to pause in the middle of the episode.  Much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I know, but that's stuff for you.  (It's like stuff.)

I'm still sketching though so I'll continue to inflict my sketches upon the internets, like so:

This is a couple of variants on a design for Ellaire (or is it Elaire?  I don't remember how it's spelled...), a minor villain from the Kyoujo RPG which I have a feeling I may have mentioned in this blog once or twice.

In completely other news, I took down my balcony garden last night (/sadface).  Partly because of the storm (though we seem not to have gotten much of it, comparatively), but also because the tomatoes and basil have been looking rather sad of late.  Indeed, the wind over the last several days has stripped the basil of pretty much all of its leaves.  I did, however, harvest another seven (unripe) tomatoes of decent size before sending the plants to their doom, which will hopefully ripen in my kitchen.  I also plucked off another handful of jalapenos.  My parsley is still looking relatively lively, however, and I'm thinking of looking into freezing it or something.  As I think I mentioned in my previous post, I consider the garden experiment to have been a reasonable success, and now I have to figure out how to use up all these tomatoes and jalapenos I've got.

Well, that's all for the present.  Until next time,
Freak Out.
-TFitC

Ripe Tomatoes

Today, I am starting to post episode three of The Word Smith.  I know, I know, I'll bet you can hardly contain yourself for joy so I'll just get to the point.

Added some toning in photoshop for something a bit different.

The plan is to post one page per week, probably Tuesdays.  I'm fairly close to being done drawing/inking episode 3 so that should be doable.  I'm not sure if I'm going to post these to my blog or just to my website (such as it is), but at the least I'll link to each episode from here.

In other news, I have now harvested four tomatoes (one of which became part of today's sandwich, so far with no ill effects) from my garden so I suppose I can consider that part of the garden a success.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Foliage

Taking a break from posting sketches this week to show some pictures of my balcony garden experiment in progress (not seen since it's first mention way back when).

The tomato plant in my hanging planter is doing quite well and is laden with several developing tomatoes.  I'm crossing my fingers and hoping they ripen so I can have some fresh balcony tomatoes at some point.

My jalapenos are also doing fairly well with lots of proto-peppers in development.  I hope they all ripen too and that they turn out nice and spicy.

Finally, this is my box of basil.  It's growing quite well - much more basil than I'm going to manage to use up myself, I expect.  One plant would have been plenty and I planted three.

Not pictured are my green onions (I've harvested about 2/3 of them so far) and my potted tomato plants.  Overall, things are certainly growing, now I just have to hope the tomatoes and jalapenos ripen at which point I will consider the experiment a success.  I started everything from seeds, so if I do this again next year I'll either start with seedlings or start things indoors about a month or so sooner than I did this year to hopefully be able to start harvesting sooner.  Crossing my fingers right now in the hopes of being able to harvest at least some tomatoes and jalapenos this year.

Until next time,
Freak Out
-TFitC

Green Thumb

A non-drawing post today, but there is still a picture.

I started a balcony garden a little over a week ago.  It's something of an experiment as I've not tried to grow anything since, well, I have no idea, really.  It's going to be an edible garden with some vegetables, fruit and herbs, if all goes well.

So far, my tomatoes have started sprouting.  The first one to appear is on the left (though blurry) and on the right I am now up to four tomatoe seedlings, so things seem off to a good start.  I'm probably going to have to transplant the tomatoes into their own pots before long.  The first (and so far only) of my jalapenos is also starting to poke above the surface, but it's not particularly interesting to look at yet so no picture of it.  There's a few other things in the works, but they were planted a bit later than the tomatoes and jalapenos so nothing to show of them yet.

It's all kind of exciting, really, and I'm looking forward to having some home-grown stuff this summer.  If all the tomatoes turn out, then I think I may be making some salsa...

Freak Out,
-TFitC