Momentum. Far more than creativity, talent, skill, or anything else, I think the key to comics is momentum. Digger 9 Today was busy. In addition to this evening’s comic, I worked on a commission, did a half-dozen acute perspective drawings of various objects, because perspective is one of those boring, troublesome, tedious things that you […]
Since I ranted and now feel slightly guilty for venting my spleen on an unsuspecting and by and large, non-guilty audience, allow me to present–back by popular demand (okay, three people who said “We want more!”)–Digger 8! I missed that little wombat.
Now this is cool… Another subspecies of Homo sapiens added in, one apparently not descended from neandertalis. But it strongly supports the “Out of Africa” theory, rather than the “genetic drift” theory. This pains me not at all, since some of the “genetic drift” theory of multiple origins of modern humans is A) a thinly […]
It occurs to me that my Livejournal makes it sound as if all I do is visit zoos. I assure you, this is not the case. I actually do work. Sometimes. However, since things have been slow lately, and having just moved to a new place (and thus, new zoos!) I’ve been doing a lot […]
I spent most of yesterday doing this. (Nudity!) I’d been wanting an excuse to paint a turtle. Then I colored it. I hate the color, however. Hate it. Wandered around the room and hated it. Laid awake in the night thinking “God, I hate that.” Wondered how to fix it. I like the black and […]
Was still feeling malaised, so I went to the zoo again for inspiration. I feel a little guilty pampering my psyche in such a manner–once upon a time, I worked a crap job day in, and day out, and if I was depressed, it didn’t matter! I feel as if I’m guilty of that whole […]
Well, I’ve got…I dunno. Not artist’s block, per se–I can think of any number of things to draw–but sort’ve artist’s malaise. Everything I start seems to be either uninspired or a dumb idea, so I get it roughed in, and then wander on to something else. I hate that. I want to do a Really […]
Well, the first Gothbat sketch auction closed at a nice figure, so I posted the second. And I also took the plunge, bit the bullet, admitted to myself that this thing had lived in a box for three years and I never so much as glanced at it, and put up a sketchbook from 2000, […]
Well, the mailings are starting to bear fruit…a couple “We’ll call you as soon as we need more art” (which do me no immediate good, but are nice to have lined up, assuming they’re serious!) and two more promising ones of the “I’d like to put you on our next project, lemmee figure out what […]
Finally got out and saw the Matrix Reloaded. Virtually every review I’ve heard of this has panned it, so I went in warily, half-expecting the worst follow-up since Phantom Menace.