Tally-ho! Onward we ride towards our final goal! It has been very stressful these past few weeks. My deadlines are coming up and I have less than a week to finish my manga as well as the video game. I am happy to say I have made tons of progress towards my manga! It will now be in colour instead of using screen tone. I’ll be using watercolour which yes, means I am drawing traditionally. I actually had a little paper crisis earlier today but all is well. Mme Albrecht brought me to Michaels to restock. Currently I am sketching out page 11, I’m so excited to see my book when it’s finished! My manga will be about 24 pages, not long but I promise it’s worth the read! It’s drawn in a cute chibi style. I can draw much better believe me but I just don’t have the time.

Kage recently finished the map of our video game! He will be taking it easy while Nick now has to work his butt off. There’s so much programming yet to be done. I hope we can manage it all. Since there is still so much to be done I’ve been working at home a lot. Luckily I have a very special desk at home. I work outside when the weather allows. The scenery of backing onto a park is very inspiring. I love to just take a glance around when I’m running out of ideas. Some times I even get to see a rabbit or bird. They never stick around long enough for me to sketch them though. With all this nice weather I just can’t wait till summer. I mean since we don’t have exams I can look forward to it carefree! I just need to make it through these last few weeks.

Can’t touch this! I’m on fire! In the span of two weeks I’ve accomplished so much! I’ve gone Sprite crazy. With at least 20 Sprite characters made in the past two weeks I’m unstoppable. I even spent my weekend just working. I’m not kidding when I say Propel is a full time job. At least that’s the way it is for me. I’m somewhat of an overachiever heh heh. I have created and named all my characters for my Manga. Thumbnails for the beginning of my book have been completed. Know what that means? I finally gets to start! I’m a little behind schedule because of our video game. However I found an amazing program for my IPad Pro! The main problem was that I couldn’t find a program that had screen tone (small black dots that give the expression of grey). Just last weekend I stumbled upon a perfect program that I can even use on my IPad Pro, which is lucky because it’s so new.

Last week we had our buddies from Samuel Burland come visit us at Nelson Mac. That was a busy day. They came around lunch and we all ate together in the class. Once finished our lunch we had two choices, go outside or go to the gym. Since I haven’t had recess in years I vouched for going outside, which wasn’t an issue since my kids agreed. We ran round the field, played some frisbee and enjoyed the sunshine.

Once the kids had wasted a decent amount of energy we returned to class. All our buddies had brought their projects with them so we could work. Sadie, Nay, Ella and I did some research on memories. We found an amazing website that was super helpful. We wrote down everything we found was important so we could write it on our tri-fold. After that it was hard to keep them focused so we moved to drawing instead. We need some images and drawings on our display so we worked on that. Then it was time to say goodbye to our buddies as they headed back to school. Everyone practically collapsed from exhaustion after they left.

With only a few more weeks of propel left I am feeling the pressure. I have a lot to accomplish in these next few weeks. That’s why I’ll be drawing all way to Chicago. I leave Wednesday and I couldn’t be more excited. I’ve always wanted to go see Chicago, more importantly THE CHICAGO BEAN!!!! It’s literally on my bucket list.