A Peek Behind the Lines

Art Dump!

2011-03-13T15:18:00.000-04:00

All the stuff I've been doing for the past month and a half, which is why I've also not posted anything. Busy busy busy. Credits and descriptions can be found on my DA page because I don't really feel like typing it all again here right now. http://chrisshields.deviantart.com

Mark Robinson is awesome

2011-01-28T13:47:00.000-05:00

Here's a few things to make up for my awful blog updating skills. All pencils were by Mark Robinson. All inks and colors by me.

Kara

2010-12-07T00:37:00.000-05:00

Another piece by the amazing Joelle Jones. Cel-shading practice, trying not to over-do it as well. Colors by me.

Molly, Jean and Harleen

2010-11-28T23:28:00.000-05:00

I've been a bad blogger :'(

Here's some images to make up for that. The Molly is by Joelle Jones, and the Phoenix and Harley Quinn are by Eric Canete. Colors on all of them by me.

Amazonian Hellfire

2010-11-07T20:36:00.000-05:00

I know it's been a while. I took a much needed break from doing anything after NYCC, I was so beat. Ithen took longer than I had planned because I couldn't motivate myself to want to do anything again. I think I'm back in the saddle now, having completed both these pieces this weekend. Lines on both are by the awesome Mark Robinson, though I inked the Emma Frost as well.

Another Danger Girl: Body Shots Sequential

2010-09-28T01:07:00.000-04:00

BOOM! Lines by Nick Bradshaw.

Danger Girl: Body Shots Sequential

2010-09-26T00:23:00.001-04:00

More portfolio stuff. Lines by Nick Bradshaw.

Tweaks

2010-09-19T00:19:00.000-04:00

Tweaked all these a bit today. Was never totally satisfied with them, but I think I am now. Lines by Casey Jones.

Danger Girl: Back in Black Opening Splash

2010-09-13T20:39:00.000-04:00

More Practice/Portfolio work. Lines by the incredible Nick Bradshaw.

Danger Girl: Back in Black Sequential

2010-09-05T18:02:00.000-04:00

Done! It's been a long week and REALLY slow going. This piece took much longer than I wanted and working on it was inconsistent and drawn out, but I'm a lot happier with the results than I thought I'd be. Lines by Nick Bradshaw.

Danger Girl: Back in Black Sequential

2010-08-29T23:30:00.000-04:00

More practice. I'm really digging this one, couldn't wait to finish it before posting. Everything's done except the large panel, only the sky and sun are finished there. Lines by the masterful Nick Bradshaw.

Nightmare by Chris Sanders

2010-08-21T17:21:00.000-04:00

I saw this on Chris' deviantART page and I couldn't resist. For those of you who don't know, Chris Sanders is the creator & co-director of Lilo & Stitch, as well as the Voice of Stitch in pretty much all of his appearances. He is also a tremendously talented artist, who makes me jealous of his insane skills. :D

Spider-Man Unlimited Pg11

2010-08-17T01:30:00.004-04:00

FIN.

Sequential page practice I've been meaning to get to FOREVER. Page 11 of 11 (a whole story for me to color!). Lines by the spectacular Casey Jones.

Spider-Man Unlimited Pg10

2010-08-15T21:08:00.003-04:00

Sequential page practice I've been meaning to get to FOREVER. Page 10 of 11 (a whole story for me to color!). Lines by the spectacular Casey Jones.

Spider-Man Unlimited Pg9

2010-08-14T23:24:00.003-04:00

Sequential page practice I've been meaning to get to FOREVER. Page 9 of 11 (a whole story for me to color!). Lines by the spectacular Casey Jones.

Spider-Man Unlimited Pg8

2010-08-13T00:19:00.003-04:00

Sequential page practice I've been meaning to get to FOREVER. Page 8 of 11 (a whole story for me to color!). Lines by the spectacular Casey Jones.

Spider-Man Unlimited Pg7

2010-08-11T19:09:00.003-04:00

Sequential page practice I've been meaning to get to FOREVER. Page 7 of 11 (a whole story for me to color!). Lines by the spectacular Casey Jones.

Spider-Man Unlimited Pg6

2010-08-08T15:36:00.001-04:00

Sequential page practice I've been meaning to get to FOREVER. Page 6 of 11 (a whole story for me to color!). Lines by the spectacular Casey Jones.

I had a pretty exhausting week, so I didn't actually get to do any work on this until yesterday, and I haven't been feeling great, so it took me a little longer than I wanted to.

Spider-Man Unlimited Pg5

2010-08-02T01:41:00.004-04:00

Sequential page practice I've been meaning to get to FOREVER. Page 5 of 11 (a whole story for me to color!). Lines by the spectacular Casey Jones.

Spider-Man Unlimited Pg4

2010-08-01T19:52:00.002-04:00

Sequential page practice I've been meaning to get to FOREVER. Page 4 of 11 (a whole story for me to color!). Lines by the spectacular Casey Jones.

Spider-Man Unlimited Pg3

2010-07-31T03:20:00.003-04:00

Sequential page practice I've been meaning to get to FOREVER. Page 3 of 11 (a whole story for me to color!). Lines by the spectacular Casey Jones.

Spider-Man Unlimited Pg2

2010-07-30T12:59:00.004-04:00

Sequential page practice I've been meaning to get to FOREVER. Page 2 of 11 (a whole story for me to color!). Lines by the spectacular Casey Jones.

Spider-Man Unlimited Pg1

2010-07-29T16:48:00.000-04:00

Sequential page practice I've been meaning to get to FOREVER. Page 1 of 11 (a whole story for me to color!). Lines by the spectacular Casey Jones.

2010-07-28T13:45:00.002-04:00

HUSSSSSSSH, It's a secret.

This was a good bit different for me, as I've never painted in grayscale before. I think it came out alright, didn't it?

Lines by Adam Hicks

Lilo & Stitch

2010-07-24T03:35:00.000-04:00

Lines by Fooray

2010-07-18T22:42:00.000-04:00

Finished this up the other day, just getting to posting it. Lines by the ever awesome Ted Naifeh.

2010-07-13T01:13:00.000-04:00

My entry for the Zombies vs. Cheerleaders coloring contest being held by http://5finity.deviantart.com

Lines by Luke Smarto, Colors by me.

Updated with Polish!

2010-07-07T00:02:00.002-04:00

Now more prettier!

2010-07-03T17:43:00.000-04:00

This was done for the Master Digital Coloring Contest being held over at HueDoo.com

Lines by Tommy Patterson, colors by me

2010-06-28T23:14:00.000-04:00

Done for a coloring contest being held by Carlos Gomez. I really enjoyed this one. It's a bit chaotic, but the line art sort of called for that, so I didn't want to lose that too much. Also, the only thing this pic was missing was hot chicks, which given how many of them he draws, are kinda necessary, so I added his Power Girl and She-Hulk to the monitor there. XD

2010-06-17T00:25:00.001-04:00

One of two pages by Ted Naifeh which I'm doing as color exercises. This page is from his book, "Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things" I'll be posting the other one sometime in the next two weeks or so, I've got a pretty full schedule the next week. I had a lot of fun coloring this one. He gave me some slight direction on what he'd like to see, so I'm trying some new things. I hope it turned out ok.

After these, I've got 11 pages from a Spider-Man story drawn by Casey Jones, which I'm really excited to work on too.

2010-06-09T04:22:00.000-04:00

Quick piece I did tonight, to warm me up for some stuff I'm doing tomorrow. Lines by Fooray. No lines version by me. I'm pretty happy with this one.

2010-05-29T00:09:00.000-04:00

Finally, another post! And a version without the lines for comparison! It's been a WHILE since I've done that :/

Lines by Matthew Humphreys, Colors by me

2010-04-27T22:53:00.002-04:00

Just something for fun before I get going on a project. I'm not familiar with the character and didn't have any references, so the hair and skin and stuff might be off.

Pencils by Micah Gunnell
Inks by Rob Stull
Colors by me

2010-04-24T19:29:00.000-04:00

A piece I started Thursday night. Will finish up probably Tuesday/Wednesday. Next few days are pretty loaded up for me. Lines by Micah Gunnell.

Getting out of the funk

2010-04-18T18:43:00.000-04:00

Finally starting to get out of the slump I've been in. Lines by Matthew Humphreys.

It's so Pink!

2010-03-06T22:14:00.000-05:00

Fin.

2010-03-05T17:59:00.000-05:00

Quick update before I go to dinner and go see Alice in Wonderland.

2010-03-03T23:31:00.000-05:00

I decided to forego the 5th page for now, because it's the start of a new scene and not connected to the previous pages. I really dig this cover by Chris Bachalo/Tim Townsend and wanted to try and make it prettier with colors. Whether that happens still remains to be seen, but here's the progress so far.

2010-03-02T17:25:00.000-05:00

pages 1-4 of the humberto run. starting #5 probably tomorrow, then 2 covers after.

goddamn job.

2010-03-02T00:27:00.000-05:00

If I could afford to stay up for another 30 mins to finish this, it'd be............well, finished.

page 4

2010-02-28T23:57:00.000-05:00

i STARTED on this page today, so it's a surprise how much I got done considering how often I took breaks. work in the morning, so i must stop now :(

2010-02-28T02:06:00.000-05:00

pg 3 done.

2010-02-27T03:18:00.000-05:00

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN. I want to keep working, but my body doesn't, so it's bed time :(

pg 3 begins...

2010-02-25T23:40:00.002-05:00

...and stops here for now. time for bed. at least tomorrow's friday, so I won't have to stop when I hit my late night stride. damn this need for money!

no rest for the wicked

2010-02-25T21:45:00.001-05:00

tweaked page 1 a little, added clouds to the first panel too. finished up page 2, made a few edit to some stuff there too. time to start page 3!

another late night

2010-02-25T00:52:00.000-05:00

i'm pretty sure my body is not handling this "stay up late to do something I want to, then wake up early to go to a job I don't want to" thing well. It might just stop functioning soon, then I won't be able to do either.

2010-02-24T00:30:00.000-05:00

Adjusted Karolina's face a good bit to flow better with the others, colored Victor. My energy is being stolen from me. I don't like it. Time to get it back. I sleep now.

Lines by Humberto Ramos.

2010-02-23T00:08:00.000-05:00

Not much to say, bed time. Lines by Humberto Ramos.

2010-02-22T00:22:00.000-05:00

Uno mas update before bed. Didn't get much more done after the last post, got caught up in some errands and dinner and whatnot. Lines by Humberto Ramos.

twas up all night!

2010-02-21T17:50:00.000-05:00

I'm not big on energy drinks at all. I was working on a commission (which I can't show yet, if at all), and started getting tired right around the time I was hitting a nice groove. I took a 10 minute break and ran down to 7-11 and picked up some snackies and grabbed a couple 5-Hour Energy drinks. It worked REALLY well, I managed to get about 6 and a half more hours before needing to finally go to bed. I got going on this page about halfway through the session, after finishing the commission, then did some more when I woke up. Time for another break though, I think it's gonna be pizza time. No more energy shots though, I've got work tomorrow, so I'll have to get to bed at a reasonable hour. :'(

and done.

2010-02-18T17:45:00.002-05:00

Lines by Humberto Ramos. Colors by ME!

crap

2010-02-18T00:22:00.000-05:00

I am WAAYYYY too tired to finish this tonight. shit. shouldn't have taken as many breaks as I did. :-/

BEHOLD!!!!!!!!!

2010-02-16T20:49:00.002-05:00

PROGRESS!!!!!

Lines by Humberto Ramos.

Runaways!

2010-02-15T22:15:00.002-05:00

I love this series. More sequential practice, I decided to take a break from Sara's pages for a bit, just because Megacon's coming up fast and I'd like to have some variety. Lines by Humberto Ramos.

2010-02-14T22:23:00.000-05:00

Page 5. Lines by Sara Pichelli. I might move on to some Humberto Ramos pages next. I haven't decided yet.

Comic Girl

2010-02-11T00:52:00.003-05:00

A commission for a friend. Figuring out what to do with the background was fun, I like how it turned out.

Lines by Cal Slayton.

Back into things!

2010-02-08T19:45:00.001-05:00

Now I've officially finished two playthroughs of the greatest game i've ever played. Mass Effect 2. I'll get at least 2 more playthroughs out of it, but I've gotten to a point where I can not let it consume me anymore. So it's back to coloring! I tweaked the first 3 pages and i'm happier with them now, and I finished up page 4 too. I'll get started on page 5 tonight sometime. Lines by the gorgeous Sara Pichelli. XD

Mystique

2010-02-03T13:16:00.000-05:00

I love Mystique. I recently acquired this piece drawn by Steven Sanchez and wanted to color it. I've been slacking on coloring lately because Mass Effect 2 has pretty much consumed my life. I hope I'll be finished with it soon so I can focus on coloring again. :P

MOAR!!!

2010-01-19T01:36:00.002-05:00

This has gotta be the fastest I've worked on a sequential page yet! 1 more panel. Schedule's pretty full tomorrow, so probably Wednesday.

2010-01-17T19:29:00.000-05:00

Finished up this commission yesterday (not sure who did the lines, the client said the artist goes by AvatarArt, but i'm pretty sure that's not what the signature says), and I started on another Sara Pichelli page (#4) from the Dazzler Manifest Destiny solo issue.

I'm back!

2010-01-14T22:32:00.001-05:00

So, like 2 days after my last post, my tablet died. More specifically, the pen somehow got de-magnetized, so it didn't work anymore. Fortunately, it was still covered under warranty, so I didn't have to pay anything to get it fixed, but I did have to wait 3 weeks to get it back. But I'm back up and running now, and it's working fantastically! Here's the 3rd page in this series. Next on my plate is a commission which the client has been very patiently waiting for. I'll be getting started on that tomorrow.

2009-12-20T17:58:00.000-05:00

Quick speed paint I did based off a sketch by Rodolphe Guenoden. I wasn't going for a polished look at all, just trying to see how fast I could assemble something coherent, without actually incorporating the line art. Took a little less than an hour and a half from start to finish.

2009-12-19T22:51:00.001-05:00

Quick piece, meant to be a warm up, family and holiday prep distractions made this an all day thing though, and I didn't get what I meant to done. Lines by Rodolphe Guenoden.

Made some changes to this one, I think the flashbacks have a bit more focus now, and pop a little more. Lines by Sara Pichelli.

Sequential/Canary

2009-12-15T23:56:00.000-05:00

Just finished up this page tonight. Pretty quick turn around on this page too (for me), I THINK it only took about 10 hours or so. Getting faster, but still not quite there yet. At least i'm managing to stay consistent with my quality now. Lines by the lovely and talented Sara Pichelli.

Finished up this Black Canary over the weekend. I inked and colored a blueline print of the original pencils by MC Wyman. The scan picked up a little more detail than you can actually notice in person, the colors are blended a bit smoother on the actual piece. I'll be selling the original and my colored version together at some point.

Have A Drink On Me...

2009-12-05T21:29:00.002-05:00

Done. I'm really proud of this one. Lines by Nick Bradshaw.

2009-12-04T00:18:00.000-05:00

I got started late, and forgot Fringe was on tonight XD

2009-12-03T00:09:00.000-05:00

COLA?!?!

2009-12-02T00:12:00.000-05:00

I get the family friendly angle Nick, but there's shot glasses right there! I never drink shots with soda. Mixed drinks come in one glass, and I'll be damned if Bats is drinking a cola instead of a beer after all that crime fighting. Wonder Woman's obviously drunk, and trying to get straight arrow Supes to join her, lol. :p

it's the little things......like details.

2009-12-01T00:21:00.000-05:00

detailed and tightened up most of what was done already. I had a work meeting, so I lost about 2 hours that I could have used for this. :'(

That's a lotta characters...

2009-11-30T00:18:00.000-05:00

Started this today around 2-3ish, been working on it most of the day. I sleep now. Lines by the incredible Nick Bradshaw.

Pryde of the X-Men

2009-11-23T01:08:00.001-05:00

Lines No Lines

Quick piece done tonight. Lines by Jamie Fey. More sequential work tomorrow!

Sara Claus

2009-11-22T15:47:00.000-05:00

Lines No Lines

Lines by Randy Green, colors by me. This was fun. I <3 skimpy Mrs. Claus costumes, mucho thanks go out to whoever invented them.

Why Mrs. Claus....you lookin mighty fine....

2009-11-22T09:21:00.002-05:00

Time for Christmas!

2009-11-21T16:40:00.000-05:00

I CANNOT believe I haven't colored any of Randy Green's stuff yet! I'm fixing that problem right now.

Page one done.

2009-11-19T00:21:00.002-05:00

Took a little longer than I thought, so I didn't get to start on page two tonight. Unfortunately, now I'm tied up until Saturday, so nothing until then. :(

EDIT: I didn't like the shadows I put on the face, so I fixed them this morning. Time to go to work! :'(

DOUBLE EDIT: The face was still bugging me, and the hair was a little too. I "fixed" it again.

2009-11-18T00:03:00.000-05:00

Little bit more done tonight. Wound up working late and playing some games with friends to unwind. Will finish this page up tomorrow and get started on page 2. Just Alison left to color here. Everything around her is pretty much done.

Sequential Practice......FINALLY!!!!!!!!!

2009-11-16T23:17:00.001-05:00

I've been yacking about doing some of this stuff for a while now, and even spending an enormous amount of time flatting some pages (not this one, or the ones that will immediately follow this though), but I'm finally getting to it! I just finished up this first panel, and i'm gonna stop and go to sleep so I can wake up for work tomorrow before I get going on the second. BUT, I finished pretty much this whole panel tonight, which means that my speed has picked up considerably, and I'm noticing much more confidence in my brush strokes (e.g., less brush strokes). That also means that I'd have finished the whole page and got a bit done on the next if I didn't have to go to work! I'm coming along, w00tz! Anyway, this is the beginning of an 8-page story that I'm coloring, and I've got some neato stuff in mind for it, so keep an eye out. Lines for this were by Sara Pichelli, which is also why I did that Emma pinup yesterday. I figured it'd be a good warm-up to color her pages. :D

The bear riding a shark was some random lines I found through a good image search, and colored up so at to make the shirt much more awesomer.

The High-Res by Sara lines were donated to me by a wonderful person who shall remain nameless because I'm just gonna assume they don't want to be outed as a source of awesomeness. They know who they are though, so thank you, Nameless Person.

Emma Frost.....AGAIN!

2009-11-16T01:03:00.000-05:00

It's been a regular White Queen Weekend over here. 2nd Emma piece in 2 days. Started this one early this morning, stopped to go to the movies and do some stuff, and didn't get back to it until late at night. I wanted to try a colored light source this time, hence all the purple going on. I started to adjust the skin and hair to reflect being under the purple light a big more, but really liked how they looked here, so I just left it (mostly) unaffected. I felt it made her pop a little bit more.

Lines by the lovely and talented Sara Pichelli

MOAR FROST 4 JOO

2009-11-14T23:58:00.003-05:00

David LaFuente posted this older sketch to his deviantART earlier today, and I forgot that I had wanted to color it until I saw it again. As you no doubt know, I love Emma, and I really dig David's take on her. I threw in the gold trim for just a little extra flair. I liked the way it looked. Lines and No Lines versions for you to oogle.

Done!

2009-11-06T20:36:00.001-05:00

DONE!

2009-11-06T17:23:00.002-05:00

This is pretty much done. I might tweak the background slightly before posting to DA, but this is pretty much done.

Almost done.

2009-11-04T23:27:00.003-05:00

Just a couple tweaks I'll do tomorrow, and I'll figure out what to do with the background.

BURFDAY PROGRESS

2009-11-04T18:56:00.002-05:00

I'm so flat.

2009-11-04T00:50:00.001-05:00

I SLEEP NOW.

Bonus points if you can identify that quote.

MAH BURFDAY PREZANT!!!!!!

2009-11-02T22:53:00.002-05:00

My awesome friends all chipped in and got me this commission for my birthday this past weekend, and so it got moved right to the top of my priority list to color. I don't think Cyclops is too happy about me stealing his girl, but she doesn't seem to mind :D

Lines by the awesome Matthew Fletcher.

2009-11-01T16:58:00.001-05:00

Fin. Lines by Alex Owens.

No lines.

Marvel Divas Pt. 5

2009-11-01T12:24:00.002-05:00

Almost done with Carol, a couple more little details, and It'll be done.

Marvel Divas Pt. 4

2009-10-31T20:51:00.002-04:00

Spider-Woman. Done. 3 down, one to go, then the BG details. :D

Marvel Divas Pt. 3

2009-10-30T01:19:00.002-04:00

Would have been damn near finished tonight, but a work meeting got in the way of that. :( My birthday is this weekend, so I probably won't get back to this until Sunday. I'm not sure about the highlights on Spider-Woman's costume. I might still edit them, or even remove them completely, what do you think?

Marvel Divas Pt. 2

2009-10-28T23:53:00.002-04:00

Got to work on Allison a little bit tonight.

Marvel Divas

2009-10-28T00:31:00.002-04:00

Alex Owens asked me to clean up the line-art to this piece he did and flat it for him. I decided I wanted to color it too. He's doing his version, but I got inspired by all the pretty ladies. Plus it was a chance to take a break from all the sequential pages I've been flatting for practice pages. Flatting is no fun at all.

Alice on Shrooms...

2009-10-28T00:21:00.003-04:00

This was a thank you gift for my friend Lan who helped me in scoring a few awesome pieces of art. He had this drawn by Ted Naifeh and gave me a loose idea on the feeling he wanted. First is the finished piece, then the holds only, then all the lines hidden. I had a lot of fun coloring this piece. Didn't really take that long either, surprisingly.

Damn zombies stole my shoes...

2009-10-28T00:12:00.003-04:00

This is a commission I finished up a couple weeks ago, drawn by Marcus To. The lines were pretty open, so I had a lot of room to play. I wanted something very atmospheric and dreary (the dude is surrounded by zombies after all), and I had time to experiment, so I implemented the fog and rain. I like how it came out. The watermark is on the final because it's a commission, and the other version has the line-art hidden, only the holds are showing.

STREET FIGHTER

2009-09-29T19:33:00.002-04:00

This is my submission piece for the Alvin Lee Street Fighter Tribute Digital Coloring Contest. I came up with the idea of having the piece on weathered parchment about halfway through coloring this. I really felt like Chun-Li and Ken were the main focal points of this piece, so I wanted them to stand out more. Kind of like they were coming to life off of a dirty old drawing on a scroll. I originally had an actual scroll under it, but ditched that because it looked weird, and just went with a weathered piece of paper. I don't know that I actually achieved the feel of them coming off of the page, but I still think it looks cool. :D

There are only 2 versions here, with and without the lines, because I pretty much did color holds over every single line, except Chun-Li's. So there's not a big difference with just the color holds on vs. all the lines on.

2009-09-17T16:36:00.006-04:00

So here's a bunch of stuff I did recently, but with a twist! It's a peek behind all the line art, so you can see what I actually did. All the finished pieces are on my deviantART page, and there are two versions for you to check out here. The first is my colors, with all the lines completely removed. The second is my colors, with the parts of the lines that I colored over to help the flow of the final piece (this process is called color holds). First up is a commission I recently finished for Justin:

No Lines:
Color Holds added:

Next up we have a piece by Al Rio that I colored, first with No Lines:
And now with the Color Holds added:
Next up is the result of a brutal battle between Batgirl and Catwoman, first with No Lines:
and next with the Color Holds added:
And Last we have a quick sketch that I colored as a warm up, of Poison Ivy in her outfit from the new Batman: Arkham Asylum game. There were no color holds on this piece, so here's the version with no lines. You can see how rough it is, especially compared to the others.

Red Sonja Redux - Copics

2009-08-04T07:43:00.003-04:00

I finished up the markers late last night. I was starting to doze off as I was putting on the finishing touches at 1:30 am. I'm actually lucky I didn't drop my hand with an uncapped marker on the board. There's no undo button in the traditional media world. I'm thinking of stencilling in her name at the top of the page. I'm browsing through some fonts and I'm gonna play around with how it looks digitally first to see if it's something I want to do or not. Other than that, I can file this one under done. :D

I'll be posting this for sale on eBay soon with the original line art by Mike S. Miller, so keep an eye out for a link.

Red Sonja - Warrior Hottie

2009-08-02T00:35:00.002-04:00

I decided to have another go at this piece using my copics again. I'm doing it bigger this time (11x14, same size as the original), and i'm using some new colors since I actually have them to color it with this time.

I did this as a very quick prelim for my color/lighting scheme, so I have an idea/guideline to follow. This here is not meant to be a finished piece, hence all the rough and hard edges.

2009-07-30T17:09:00.001-04:00

Made a slight tweak to the fridge's lighting and fixed my signature. File this one under done. I sent it off to the owner and I'm posting it on deviantART now.

2009-07-30T00:55:00.001-04:00

I think it's done. Finally. I'm gonna sit on it a day and see if it needs anything else when I can look at it with fresh eyes. Now....time to sleep.