I just got my gift in the mail all the way from the UK, courtesy of TheBombadillo. I was giddy as my box showed up and I raced inside to see what surprise lay in the box!

Slice! Slice! And the box was open.... to reveal... the MOST KICK ASS SKETCHBOOK EVER!

Somehow TheBombabillo was able to get a customized sketchbook made, complete with my name on the cover, and a quote by Rome's most loquacious layer... Cicero!

"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature"

Awesome. Simply awesome.

To say thanks to TheBombadillo, the very first picture I drew in the sketchbook is a thank you. I have added a picture to it here. Please please pleeeeaasse excuse my Vogon-ish attempt at Tolkien poetry .