I'm almost done reading Eldest.  There is one thing that surprised me in its reading, it's the placement of a bad and oversused joke.  This won't spoil things for those who haven't read it yet.  But it has villagers trying to get a boat to sail and all they can get was some bardges and one guy said "bardges? Bardges! We don't need some stinking bardges!!"  It was funny but I wonder how many readers will get the reference.  I preordered the next book. I found out over the weekend that the trilogy is now a cycle because the last book was getting so long it had to be cut in half.  Others probably kept up with the news about the books but I'm a 31 year old mother of two young kids and no computer at home so I don't get to keep up with things and I had only just visited that alagaesia web site. 

I'm struggling on working on my art. I bought a book on Fantasy Illustration focusing on human anatomy and I'm working on female arms.  I'm working on my weak points and people are tricky but I ended up doing some sketches for future paintings.  I wished I had a DVD of Red Sonia though, I need something of a action reference and being able to still a pose to catch the muscles in action as it wields a sword.  The book I'm using has a few good pictures of fairies by the way.  I may not write for a while since I have little time to devote time to sketch and fix things in my drawing skills blogging will have to lay low for a bit.