Work is progressing slower that would be reasonable, as I haven't been drawing and coloring for at least eight hours a day, like it's my second job, like I should be doing when I have days off from work.

I've finished Iono, at least, and have the line art for Penny just about finished, to start coloring soon. I do, however, have three questions to ask of you all:

First, would you like me to at least release teaser images of each drawing as I finish them?

Second, and perhaps most prevalent, do you want all ten drawings to be released on the same day, or over the course of ten days, one after the other?

(I don't want to give an advantage of time to any one over the others, as the winner will be determined by favorites and shares, but I don't want to overload my audience with too many pictures at once.)

And third... does anyone have an idea for a name for this series of pictures? I haven't thought of one myself.

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In other news, this year, particularly this day, is a very special day this Juicy July. Twenty years ago, on this day, July 20th, 2005, Tim Burton's adaptation of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory was first released to theaters in the United States of America.

I'm tipping my hand a bit to my age here, but I remember seeing this film in theaters either the first or second week to its opening. I never felt an attraction to 05 Violet, but when [i]that scene[/i] happened, I still vividly remember gripping the rests of my seat with white knuckles, covered in a film of cold sweat, thinking to myself: "Just keep looking ahead. Don't do anything to draw attention to yourself. No one around you knows; they can't POSSIBLY know..." I remember seeing the shot of Violet's butt surge out, and half wondering if the special effects department or Burton himself had any idea what they'd done with what they thought was just a comedic shot, as another half was thinking: "Oh yeah, THAT'S going to be a thing going forward..."

And even though I still thing the !971 film is superior in just about ever way except for how advanced the special effects were, one thing I'm still ever grateful to the 2005 film for was unlocking the meta of just how big a girl could get when she inflated into a blueberry. If you can find any extremely old blueberry inflation artwork that predates the 2005 film (it's exceedingly rare and sometimes hard to find, but not impossible), almost none of it has the subject blow up into a blueberry any larger than her original height, but the 05 film changed that, further adding to the implications of the thoroughness of the process; by having Violet, and all subsequent characters based off her inflation, blow up into a blueberry bigger than her skeletal structure would allow, it implies she has just swollen up with juice, but actually turned into a giant, living, sentient blueberry, down to the cellular level.

Hell, the sizes and shapes of 05 Violet's inflation is still one of the biggest influences on my own work, as there are traces and inspirations visible in almost every single character I've drawn as a giant, busty blueberry.

Do any of you have any memories of seeing Charlie and The Chocolate Factory for the first time?

Have a happy Juicy Jule, and if any of you need an excuse to rewatch CaTCF, today is probably as good an excuse as any that you could ever ask for. I might even watch it later today, either with a friend, or by myself, as I continue to work on Penny inflating into a giant blueberry.