Month: February 2016

oh man you guys are in for a real treat today

scanner warming up… get hype!

Slowly making progress… so tired… gonna work on something else before I fall asleep, will pick this up again tomorrow or something. Two goats, a child, a pile of fish bones, and a fire left! Well, and taking it into photoshop to fix all of the problems. 😀

To-do list for portfolio (for my reference, really):

  • Paint troll picture, jane, nellie, hedgehog
  • Scan unicorns, dogs, horses, nellie, robot
  • Scan & redo xander, monster (decided not to do this)
  • Sketch, paint, finish Daksh
  • Find a pair for Jane and Xander
  • Write title/short-desc for all
  • Write short bio for me
  • Figure out how to do a business card pocket (maybe)
  • Narrow down title & desc font from list of 25 Done!

…at least there’s only one that I need to do from scratch. The others are at LEAST sketched or partially inked. 

And hey, I think that’ll fill 15 pages nicely! Then all I’ll have to do is figure out what to do for my cover… if anything… I at least figured out that it’ll be 36 “pages” total and use 9 pieces of paper, which is cool. Deep breath. Slow exhale. I can totally do this. 

Oh, and Fishsticks is at 47,000 words now. Still not at 75k, obviously, but getting there. I’m traipsing through the murky middle and rethinking some of the timeline, which would involve a LOT of work… I may just finish it as-is and worry about that in the next round of revisions, AFTER the conference. Or, you know, ask their advice about it. 

bonzly-says:

ohyeahcomics:

Via Schatky with thanks to Lickal0lli for the translation

This is actually such an amazingly motivational post because it explains visually exactly what art block is. Do you know what art block is?

Art block is that moment when you realise your skills could be so much more then they currently are. It frustrates you to draw because you can finally see your drawings differently. You can see where they can be better and you want them to be better. 
It’s not a matter of “I can’t draw today”, it’s a matter of “I imagined this would turn out so much better” and “there’s something missing, I just know it. What technique did I miss.”
You’ve got past that temporary phase of analysing and researching and now you’re able to incorporate it in your own work, you just need to figure out how, and when you get past that art block. Well, you’ll see the improvement before you know it. Slowly, but it’s there. And once you get comfortable with using those new skills you’ll move on and start analysing again, and you’ll see where you can improve.

Stay experimental and open to learn, it’s the quickest way to get over art block.

Wearing both calf wraps seems to be working out very well. Thank goodness. I missed digital art so much…