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Sketch A Day 026- Sundry
I’ve been keeping text fairly minimal on here lately, mostly I just don’t feel like I have a lot to say, partly I kind of feel like it wouldn’t matter if it did. These days, I coast along on sort of a combination of minimal sleep, caffeine and a sort of numbness to failure that’s bizarrely inspirational. I find myself falling into funks where I just sit around and stare at the monitor or the wall, then beat myself up for not getting more I want to do, done. That’s really why I started doing this ‘post a thing daily’ routine; if I make myself do *something* each day, I can usually stir up a bit of momentum and get even more stuff going. I can only blame so much on fatigue from the day job, but today was definitely one of those days that left my body worn out and my brain racing. It was hard to work up the nerve to sketch, but once I did, I was glad I did. I may not be the most skilled, or popular. Crickets chirp whenever I mention I’m open for comissions. But still, drawing reminds me I like drawing (usually) and I have no intention of giving it up.
Also just by the way, I’m not giving up writing about gaming stuff, I just haven’t really felt the urge to lately. Although I gotta say, I’m appreciating Black Rock Shooter a lot more on the second run through than I probably ought to…
Sketch-A-Day 019- Progress In General
I’ve been working on a new [+/-] strip for reals. Man, it’s easier to sketch things out in SAI. It behaves a bit more like ‘real’ tools which is good and bad since I’ve never been great with actual paint. The only drag is it seems to have a harder limit on max file size, so I’ll probably still have to patchwork the individual ‘pages’ together into one long strip. Hopefully I can finish that up this week and make my ‘at least monthly’ guideline for that series.
Here, have a warm up sketch of a character in a game I don’t actually play.
A Day Of Rest
Well, sorta anyway. Going to try and pencil in a bit so I have *something* to share on Xmas Eve.
This year has really flown by on me, and I do wish I’d been better about sticking to my guns on having more content to share. Here I was with big Halloween plans, and next thing I know I have tubes of Christmas wrapping paper propped up against my workstation. It hasn’t really been the worst year, looking back on it, but it wasn’t really one of my happiest and I only have myself to blame for it since it’s mostly attitude problems that kept me down in the dumps. It comes and goes a lot lately, fortunately it’s relenting a bit as the holiday running around sets in.
I haven’t been totally idle though! I pitched in for a Slayers Secret Santa Sexchange, er, Exchange and like the result pretty well.
I have some other one off drawing ideas I’ll hopefully toss up soon, but I want to get a +/- related something ready by Christmas since I haven’t done any since the belated finale of the Creepypasta saga. And yes, I mean in Good Art Mode.