Post Turkey Day, Home Stretch!

Hello all! It's been another small writing hiatus. Mostly because of this guy.

Lil poop monster. 

It's also been due to health reasons. Woo, health.

I am honestly surprised (but mostly pleased) that slowly, locally at least, word has been getting around about the comic. I got a DM from an old professor of mine (probably one of the reasons I still thought doing a comic was viable even though I seemed to pass the phase that a lot of folks got into it at.) He asked me what the message in my twitter "about me" meant.

To be fair, it used to say "Webcomic: Jan 2014." Hard to believe I'm the byproduct of two English teachers.

I shot a little bit back and forth with him where he offered his help with building my site. While I do have a site up, I honestly am not one to say no to help. I've wanted to talk to him about it for the longest time, but somewhere between my anxiety, worried about bothering him because it's been a few years, and everything else under the sun, I wanted to wait until he mentioned it to me.

Sound logic, I know. (If you're reading this, oh man, I'm sorry. ((It'd also be awesome to just hang and chatup webcomic stuff if you're ever in the mood for it.)))

Despite everything, I have been working on the comic still - trying a full all-out with inking and sketching up pages while I'm getting used to a dog in the house. I also have a late WIP that I've been testing my blending skills on because I got hit with a little nostalgia. Though...I suppose it's not quite nostalgia if I've never watched him before.

Paul McGaan, Night of the Doctor

Mailing Lists, updates, or Why I Haven't Posted In Almost A Month.

Alright, lesson learned. I've started marking days to update the blog in my google calendar. I love the ability to schedule things and have my phone shriek at me.

So, what I've been up to lately: so, right after the (re)launch of my personal portfolio site, I got sick for a few weeks. That meant that instead of working on the comic pages, I was regulated back to working on scripts for future chapters. I'm up to chapter three at this point, probably about halfway through. Writing has a way of biting my expectations in the ass, though, so we'll see where that goes. After I got healthier the bf's birthday rolled around, so I felt the need to quickly put together a picture for him based on the game that both of us have been playing to death lately.

Yep, that one.

We've also had some wonderful news: in late November, the BF and I will be experiencing a whole new adventure in our relationship: I'm talking of course about having a pet together. We finally found a breeder (admittedly very late in the year) and have a wonderful, fuzzy baby corgi puppy coming to live with us. We decided to name him Puck, and we get to see him in two weeks.

I don't know who's been making more high-pitched noises, myself, or my bf.

What's down the road? More comic pages, and a review of a new program that I recently discovered thanks to the internet. It's called Mischief, and it's a vector-based program that supposedly will save your art at any size. I'll be writing something on it by the end of the week, just downloaded the trial today. 

One more thing before I go: I recently put together an advertisement for a friend's online magazine called Beautiful Monstrosity. It's for the comic's site, and the subscription/mailing list is wide open now that I fixed it (durrhurr me.) If you're interested at all in being told when the site itself is completely live, skip on over here and fill it out. Leave a post on my FB page if something's messed up.

That's all I got time for. Til next time~

I know I said I would get back to updating.

And I've meant to. I really have. But you know how the holidays are. Plus I wanted to show you guys something actually worthwhile. You'll have to stick with this for the time being.

Recently between tutoring and the part-time seasonality, I mentioned working on a comic. At the moment I've got one chapter scripted and thumbed out, so now it's down to actually making the characters on the page. I decided to help myself out with different issues I've had, I'd work on doing a character turnaround. For easy costume reference, and because once I end up getting into newer items, the clothing might change. I've got another piece for this character I haven't even started yet. I'm still trying to figure out the seams.

Anyway, thanks for staying patient, and here's something to (slightly) hold you over in the meantime.

Weekend Warm-Up

Trying to do more with color, I just started sketching this over the weekend after I'd been sick.

Commission: Black Canary