I'm still experimenting with Dreamwidth, so I'm going to post this reply twice, once here (on DW) and a second time on LJ — I'll mark the LJ entry with an asterisk, and I hope you'll let me know if you get a notitification for this reply to yours, or only for the one from LJ. (I hope I'm being clear.)

Back to front, though I am not utterly surprised you said "yes", I am bloody thrilled that you did. As you know I think you're best work is brilliant and having a novel of mine fronted with a jade-noire cover would not only please me aesthetically, I'm convinced it would be good for business.

And I think one of the reasons I am so enthusiastic about your work is that you would make a brilliant comic book illustrator. Your paintings usually suggest movement, suggest there's a story going on, even when you're painting a portrait of someone who is really posing for you.

An artist — one of my favourites — whose work your sketches sometimes remind me of is an Australian dude called Eddie Campbell, who manages to marry impressionistic sketches with a real sense of narrative, making beautiful drawings while never forgetting he's telling a story.

Yes, it's bloody hard work (or so I suppose), but I think you might find it very rewarding, too.