I Want to be William Hurt's Beard

The beard is gone.

Wait. Before you all have a cow. Let me explain....

I spoke with my editor and art director and it seems like we have to follow a certain protocol for graphic novel production over at Scholastic.

Sketches. Type. Then color. 

So all they need are tight sketches for the ARCs so they can place type. Stuff like this...

*Ahem*

So my final FINAL art for the graphic novel NOW isn't due until May. That gives me an extra two to three months to finish the art. That's a huge difference! My original reason for growing the beard was to inspire me to get the work done in an impossible amount of time. Now that the time is manageable I don't need to keep the beard around.

(Psst. Actually, my wife loathed the beard and wanted it gone ASAP!)

Now that the beard is gone I have to say I really started liking it. I kinda miss it.

I think it actually made me feel a bit more manly? Like I should be selling Brawny Paper Towels.

Then I watched the Golden Globes, and I realized EVERYONE had beards! I was in style!

I WANTED WILLIAM HURT'S BEARD!!!!

Look at me! I would have totally rocked it!

If I grew it out I would have named it 'The Hurt Locker'.

Awesome right?!

Hey, talk to my wife.

Comments

[lisa@magicpencil.com]

Listen to your wife. She's the one who knows best.

[ca_wadey@hotmail.com]

Congrats on the time extension. I was worried for you and your family - and it was more than just the beard that had me worried!!!