For your pleasure, here are thoughts and notes that occurred to me as I worked on this piece, taken in real time--past the point I marked down as actually starting the work, anyway. Everything before that is synopsis.

SATURDAY: Yeah, I'll just do the basic sketches, pick out the colour palettes, find some references, and then do the rest tomorrow.
SUNDAY MORNING: Alright, I didn't do any of that stuff yet, but I'll do it later, after watching this movie with my friend.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON: Yeah, I'll do all that stuff later, I've gotta make this Blingee image of Penny Ling lusting after Russell's ass.
SUNDAY EVENING @ APPROX. 17:00 (maybe?): [ACTUALLY STARTS WORK]
	~21:20: IF I LISTEN TO ANY MORE OF THE BEACH BOYS MY BRAIN IS GOING TO CURDLE AND DRIBBLE OUT OF MY SKULL. I CAN'T BELIEVE I TOOK ON THE SUGGESTION TO LISTEN TO THREE BEACH BOYS ALBUMS IN A ROW.
	~21:40: Dude, grass.
	21:59: TO RIDE A LONELY BIRD OVER THE BONES OF THE LAWS OF THIS WORLD, RIDE AN ANIMAL DOWN TO THE KINGDOM OF STONES, BUILD A WALL AROUND MANKIND Brick him in. Brick us in. https://youtu.be/q9eJrB3bUhY
	22:26: All the trees on the left side are done? Heck yeah, dude. Let's go. I'm gonna be up until 2AM and I'm going to want to die on Monday due to fatigue.
	22:44: That is maybe the worst tree I've ever drawn in my entire life. You're damn right that's going in there! Drawing badly and drawing faster and trying to draw better with the envisioned goal of drawing okay looking things quickly. Not good looking, but okay. Draw the distinction within yourself of spending large amounts of time on something to make it look good and spending low amounts of time to visualize an idea. Or something. Oh my God, is that a fucking pine tree I have to draw? UUUUGGGHHHHH.
	22:57: Nobody's ever drawn a pine tree before. That's the silliest thing I've ever said. It's pretty funny.
	23:20: We put a little building in there. A little beeling. It's Oingo Boingo hours.
	23:36: I swear I had a transcendantal experience while drawing this tree trunk. I don't have the luxury of thinking about how to draw things, I just gotta draw the things or else the future misery will be greater vis a vis sleep dep. This is the beauty of leaving the whole drawing until Sunday and I simultaneously want to do it again and want to never do it again and will definitely absolutely wind up doing it again regardless of how my opinion on the matter finalizes.
	23:40: THINKING OF YOUR WARM SKIN WHILE I TOUCH COLD STEEL, THE DAYS GO BY TO THE POUNDING BEAT!!!!!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa7myYXm8k
	23:35: Oh my God, dude, it's tire swing time! And then it'll be Braixen time! Oh God, we're so close! She's gonna be on the swing! Euuugughhhghgh!
	23:54: For a few minutes, I was ascending to a divine state of being, and then I just became a guy drawing a tire. Don't you hate when that happens?
	MONDAY MORNING: 00:39: Wow, Braixen, you're only just evolving from a rough gestural drawing into vague blobs of colour. Sure hope you evolve into a finished state more quickly! Hmm. If I were to draw LPS characters getting bullied, I could upload that alongside NHE, because it would fit the theme of the Dark Age.
	00:52: If I can't get this face down pat in under ~15 minutes, at least from a sketch point of view, this image is pretty much guaranteed not to be done tonight. Because I can fuck with faces for ages if I don't like them. But sometimes they gel immediately.
	01:17: We're good. It's there. The face. But it must all be rendered up to at least some passable standard.
	01:27: Does it hurt? Oh, it really doesn't matter. Does it burn? Oh, I don't feel a thing. Does it sting? Oh yeah! It really doesn't matter. Does it hurt? I don't give a damn! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLyzMoLfbpg
	01:34: I mean, how else than this are you supposed to get that same thrill you got from finishing an essay for school at midnight outside of the education system? I did an essay like that for art class once, an analysis of a Jackson Pollack. You can just say whatever the fuck you want and the teacher can't fault you because it's all up to interpretation. You get an A for coaching things in fanciful language, not for insight.
	01:55: Oh my God the ears the ears the ears we're doing the ears I don't care about the ears let's ggoooooooo.
	02:18: We're done here, folks. That's a wrap. Approved by the friend I asked for review.