Character Portrait

I saw some lizards today. I frustrated my little brothers because I'm incapable of waking before noon. But I didn't do anything that I think would make a good blog post. So here's a portrait I sketched back in high school of one of my novel's characters. He's younger in this picture than I currently imagine him, but that may have something to do with me having been younger at the time. He looks about the age in this picture that I probably was when I drew him (I'm guessing about 16). Now I see him as being around 21. Otherwise the expression of his face is very accurate to what I imagine if not all the features (his lips are a bit fuller than I see them in my head and a few other lines on his face don't quite match up). There's also definitely some artistic flaws that bug me in this picture, but I won't go into them because I've always been of the philosophy that pointing out a flaw in your own work to someone either forces them to comment on something they already saw or (far worse) brings something they didn't see to their attention. This way it only bugs me.

I already emailed this to some of the people reading my novel, but I messed up on the email with the picture attached, so after some deliberation, decided these are friends who loved me enough to read my novel and therefore probably wouldn't bite me if I sent them a follow-up email with the correct subject. The trouble was I forgot to attach the picture to the second email but it IS attached to the FIRST email with the WRONG subject. I decided NOT to send a third email. And now it's pictured above for people who don't like confusing emails.

Just so everyone understands the full scope of my incompetence.