This month did not see a huge amount of art, but I'm proud of what I did accomplish, especially the "cold on the beach" and "daydreaming about reading while reading" ones.
In other news, I picked up an iPad and Apple Pencil, so I hope to play around a bit with Procreate and see how that can fit into my workflow. Hopefully the coming months will see more art and more "finished" art posted here.
When I started writing this post, I wrote "January" in the title. That about sums up how it's going. I've been working a lot of overtime lately, which you think would be good for making art since I do almost all my drawing at work. Except I've also been doing a lot of training lately which throws off my schedule and makes drawing less likely.
Still, I managed a reasonable array of art for this slightly longer than usual shortest month, including a rare fanart of Senshi. Delicious in Dungeon is good. I recommend it.
Well I set out to draw at least twice as much art as I did in November and December of last year, and by all accounts that is what I did. Is it mostly just Natasha looking cute and awkward? Yes. I have my limits. When the going gets tough, the tough draw comforting things. I'm sorry that this is all I have to offer you, but stay tuned because perhaps I will have something more to give soon.
Please note among the various cute Natashas I have included Friend Allison's David, teaching us all how to say "bullshit" in American Sign Language.
Happy Holidays! Let's open the present, what is it? A handful of artwork!
We've got Ramona Flowers, present thanks to that excellent new Scott Pilgrim anime. Natasha, Natasha and Virginia, Natasha and Mr. E, and a mysterious young girl with suspiciously Natashaesque bangs.
So. what happened?
Well, we're coming into the holidays. I do most of my art during breaks at work, so when I'm off for things like Thanksgiving that means I'm less likely to put pen to paper. I've also been in a bit of a funk, earlier this year I made some concrete progress toward the comic I've been stewing for ages, but then hit another roadblock, and it's hard to shift off that and back to drawing for fun. Anyway, it's a meager offering but it's better than nothing at all. Despite everything, Natasha is still cute. Maylea has gained some foxlike characteristics, and that girl with the magic staff? Don't worry about it. She's fine.
As we approach the end of the year, we enter a twilight art period. The problem is, these roundups bring together all the physical art I've made in the month, but they don't reflect the behind the scenes work I'm doing updating ComicControl and writing and, I dunno, Graphic Design.