MOSTLY SERIOUS POST AHOY, PROCEED WITH CAUTION

So I've eliminated most of the detritus in this blog and I'm starting again. It is sad to see the Saladin Watch go, but that creature has renounced its dark over-large signature ways so its Watch has been retired.

...Permanently.

You are perhaps wondering what the title means by now as that last paragraph had absolutely nothing to do with it. Well here you go, you impatient philistine: I was testing out a tweaked pressure setting on my tablet and this mess, this sideburn scientist, is the inevitably dodgy five-minute result:

I'm also planning on trying my hand at what I think is called digital painting (which I totally suck at; you can tell because I'm not even 100% sure what it's called) so I fiddled around with several techniques and came up with this something-or-other:

Is it a drainpipe? A mechanical snout? Perhaps even some sort of control wheel attached to an ominous system of questionable goodwill? The world may never know, unless I actually get around to fashioning a complete picture out of it. Whatever it is, it sure does suck. I suppose it's ironic that after over four years of drawing cartoons I've become far more interested in this sort of thing.

As an aside, I saw The Wrong Man today, known as Lucky Number Slevin elsewhere. It's quite a film, and I'm glad I went: by the end it had turned into something entirely contrary to the sort of film I'd been expecting. In a good sense.