The illustrating of First Kid in Space goes on a pace!
In this illustration, Glenn is walking across the gangway to his space capsule.
He takes a moment to look across the bay, taking in the scene of camper vans and people who have come to witness his historic launch.
How on Earth has he come to be here?
Is he dreaming?
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I’m illustrating book two of Generation Moon at the moment.
The latest illustration has Glenn, our hero, at the BBC Breakfast show, being interviewed as the potential “First Kid in Space”. It’s his last interview in a whirlwind, worldwide media tour.
When asked an awkward question, Glenn is rescued by Brad, acting as his minder, and out of shot in this illustration.
This is page 68 and 69 of 144. I’m getting there – day by day, illustration by illustration.
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You may remember how pleased I was with myself recently, to have found the cause of my website’s low performance – A huge file that was slowing everything down?
Well, I seem to have sorted out the back end too, the admin area, that is!
When everything was running slow, I installed a system that should make everything run really quickly – just how Google likes it when ranking a website.
It seems I made a hopeful tweak, before I had my breakthrough, that slowed down the back end. But, as everything was still slow, I din’t notice any change, and didn’t switch off the tweak.
Every now and then, I get frustrated and search for solutions.
Something new came up today. It didn’t help but it did lead me to a back-end page I’d not taken much notice of before. There was a tab called “Debug”. I knew it would be gobbledygook to me, but I clicked it anyway.
It told me it couldn’t connect to a cache server – in fact it told me frequently. In fact it was trying to connect every few seconds and failing.
I’d turned on all sorts of things hoping to speed things up – maybe they weren’t necessary? Maybe if I turned them off…
POW!
My back end – if you’ll excuse the phrase – was being slowed-down by processes that I had hoped would speed things up!
Sometimes it’s possible to be too clever by half!