The ongoing board game saga continues; tonight’s lineup was Tiny Epic Quest, Santorini and Sushi Go! Party.
It was literally down to a tie-breaker scoring in the tie-breaking third game, but I came out in second place this time. I don’t mind; it was a fun time with my fiancée, and that’s all that matters.
The weather was inhumanly warm today, and I wasn’t feeling all that up to drawing, but the work must continue:
I’m going to be lettering the rest of this first issue before I do any more refinement on the artwork, so that I can get all my sketches properly laid out with the captions and dialogue. I want these pages to look as good as possible.
There’s only so many hours in the day that I can devote to scouring the job market before I get up in my own head; how fortunate that my habit building is paying off:
I’ve been able to spend several hours a day on my upcoming comics, but I want to keep this habit going at least every other day, especially if a day comes when I’m too worn out to work on the other comics. It may get to the point where I use this habit slot to specifically work on smaller stuff like Magic Beans; I’d likely use it as my cut-off point for the day.
Last night, my tabletop group met for the first time in nearly seven months; life just kept getting in the way, and we haven’t been able to meet consistently since then.
I’d almost forgotten how much I enjoy taking on the role of Dungeon Master for my friends, especially ones with such great chemistry. Barely a session goes by where we don’t get some new kind of in-joke forming from their crazy antics, which I’m am only too happy to facilitate.
One of the silver linings of being unemployed is that when my fiancée has a day off, we can spend it together, and we were in luck that Valentine’s Day is one of them.
We’re both good-naturedly competitive when it comes to board games, but after 8 years together, we can laugh whether we win or lose.
Today was the first day that I could not complete my daily workout; I got about 2/3rds through the first set and my knee felt ready to pop out.
As much as I don’t want to break my streak, I’m paying attention to my body when it says “Nope.” I can always get back to it tomorrow with something hopefully less impactful on my knees.
One of the blocks on my Art Bingo card for this year is a redraw of an art piece from 10 years ago or more. Looking back at some of my art from 2015 and before was really a great indication of how far I’ve come since then.
This isn’t the artwork I’ve been redrawing; if I’d simply pasted the actual art in this comic, it wouldn’t have taken 14 minutes, so in order to keep with the spirit of the exercise, this is just an allegory.
Something that I resolved to keep in mind this year, is to always acknowledge when I’ve accomplished something, even if it’s something small; whether it’s a piece of art, a particularly grueling workout, or a household chore, I take note of when I’ve done well.
In my current state of mind, those are the kind of things that keep me going when I feel like the world is out to get me.
It happened again, just when everything seemed to be going well…
I’ll figure out my next step over the weekend. Right now, I don’t want to think about anything.
I tend to have trouble writing full scripts for my comics; because I tend to think visually, I often struggle when I have to write out all the beats instead of just leaping into the artwork.
No joke, that’s like 90% of my writing process right there. One of the many reasons my current comics are taking so long is that I’m trying to be meticulous and get everything down in the scripting phase, to avoid mishaps or continuity errors down the line.
