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summercomfort) wrote2020-07-13 03:36 pm
summercomfort) wrote2020-07-13 03:36 pm
New week, new tasks
aw crap, how am I on week 4 of my 8 weeks of summer already???
Week 1 was pretty much all Chinese School stuff
Week 2 was half Chinese School and half July 4th comic
Week 3 was working on 2 fandom comics. One, I'd posted on Thursday (and got a most amazing gift fic! I love fandom!) The other, I've inked to ~90% (just crowd scenes). Have sent to the FTH recipient for comments/final tweaks before coloring and posting.
So basically I've taken a week+ break from errands of all sorts to just draw, which has been great. I've watched The Witcher (very yes to Geralt/Yen/Jaskier, and Geralt is adorable), and am now working my way through the Untamed (mostly as drawing background fodder -- thus far kind of meh about all the main characters.)
I really need to do a bunch of shopping (Ranch, Target, drop off Amazon returns at Kohls, plus the basic Safeway stuff), but I'm... resistant to do doing that during my 3 hours in the afternoon? It feels like I shouldn't do errands during "my time". But also, food needs to be got.
Now that my fandom obligations are (mostly) done, I have a bunch of non-fandom stuff to do. A lot of it involves inking, which is tedious, which, coupled with the lack of the fandom feedback loop, makes it much less exciting to do. Which then leads to procrastination. I think what I need to do is actually list out all the original work that I want to do, and figure out what I would most like to work on.
- Inking Rutabaga is the most boring, but after I finish, I get to have a complete work that is a collection of the first 3 years of Rutabaga
- Inking the last 20 pages of Tisquantum is less boring, but is also Hard, since I'm basically picking up something from 6 years ago, and I barely remember anything. Finishing it will make me feel good, but I feel awkward about the work to begin with (telling a story that isn't mine to tell, not feeling like I've done enough research, not feeling like the first chapters are any good, etc etc)
- Drafting something for Wong Kim Ark would be nice. The research would be fun, it'll be something focused, and will make my Yick Wo one not feel like a standalone anymore. But I don't quite know how to start the research. I think I'd just have to dive in.
- I kind of want to do a couple more climate-change related comics? Or ones about work? (Kind of along the lines of Future Vision.) I dunno. I have things that I want to discuss/share with other people, and for me, that involves drawing a comic about it. Maybe ... I should just blog about it instead??? It falls in the same category as the Rutabaga comics, which is "personal observations made slightly more universal through comic form", but it feels more relevant than the Rutabaga comics right now. So the question then becomes, should I drop the Rutabaga comics and do this instead?
- I could also work on something for the Drop anthology for our comickers group.
Recently, by doing the July 4th comic followed by the Laundry comic, it was very obvious that I work in 2 modes -- the "explanatory" mode and the "emotions" mode. I feel like right now my docket is too loaded with explanatory things, and that may be why a part of me is resisting it? Or at least, I feel like I *should* be doing more explanatory things like Rutabaga or social commentary, but instead I *want* to actually use the comic panels to express emotions and tell a story.
But I'm also working on a TTRPG with Hoosband for the actual storytelling stuff.
oh! I need to do the kids book pics for Cat.
Tomorrow afternoon I should go into the office again so that I can do some focused work:
- processing checks
- figure our the EV charging thing
- look at all my project desires and figure out what I should work on next, and start doing some of the groundwork for that project.
Week 1 was pretty much all Chinese School stuff
Week 2 was half Chinese School and half July 4th comic
Week 3 was working on 2 fandom comics. One, I'd posted on Thursday (and got a most amazing gift fic! I love fandom!) The other, I've inked to ~90% (just crowd scenes). Have sent to the FTH recipient for comments/final tweaks before coloring and posting.
So basically I've taken a week+ break from errands of all sorts to just draw, which has been great. I've watched The Witcher (very yes to Geralt/Yen/Jaskier, and Geralt is adorable), and am now working my way through the Untamed (mostly as drawing background fodder -- thus far kind of meh about all the main characters.)
I really need to do a bunch of shopping (Ranch, Target, drop off Amazon returns at Kohls, plus the basic Safeway stuff), but I'm... resistant to do doing that during my 3 hours in the afternoon? It feels like I shouldn't do errands during "my time". But also, food needs to be got.
Now that my fandom obligations are (mostly) done, I have a bunch of non-fandom stuff to do. A lot of it involves inking, which is tedious, which, coupled with the lack of the fandom feedback loop, makes it much less exciting to do. Which then leads to procrastination. I think what I need to do is actually list out all the original work that I want to do, and figure out what I would most like to work on.
- Inking Rutabaga is the most boring, but after I finish, I get to have a complete work that is a collection of the first 3 years of Rutabaga
- Inking the last 20 pages of Tisquantum is less boring, but is also Hard, since I'm basically picking up something from 6 years ago, and I barely remember anything. Finishing it will make me feel good, but I feel awkward about the work to begin with (telling a story that isn't mine to tell, not feeling like I've done enough research, not feeling like the first chapters are any good, etc etc)
- Drafting something for Wong Kim Ark would be nice. The research would be fun, it'll be something focused, and will make my Yick Wo one not feel like a standalone anymore. But I don't quite know how to start the research. I think I'd just have to dive in.
- I kind of want to do a couple more climate-change related comics? Or ones about work? (Kind of along the lines of Future Vision.) I dunno. I have things that I want to discuss/share with other people, and for me, that involves drawing a comic about it. Maybe ... I should just blog about it instead??? It falls in the same category as the Rutabaga comics, which is "personal observations made slightly more universal through comic form", but it feels more relevant than the Rutabaga comics right now. So the question then becomes, should I drop the Rutabaga comics and do this instead?
- I could also work on something for the Drop anthology for our comickers group.
Recently, by doing the July 4th comic followed by the Laundry comic, it was very obvious that I work in 2 modes -- the "explanatory" mode and the "emotions" mode. I feel like right now my docket is too loaded with explanatory things, and that may be why a part of me is resisting it? Or at least, I feel like I *should* be doing more explanatory things like Rutabaga or social commentary, but instead I *want* to actually use the comic panels to express emotions and tell a story.
But I'm also working on a TTRPG with Hoosband for the actual storytelling stuff.
oh! I need to do the kids book pics for Cat.
Tomorrow afternoon I should go into the office again so that I can do some focused work:
- processing checks
- figure our the EV charging thing
- look at all my project desires and figure out what I should work on next, and start doing some of the groundwork for that project.
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Well, I just looked through my Rutabaga folder and apparently I'd inked a couple that I hadn't posted? So I'll probably post them tomorrow afternoon. :) I also just did a test, and it looks like it takes ~1.5 hours (or: 2 episodes) to do 1 page. I have ~10 pages left.