Journal: November 26: Salmon (2014/11/28)

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I didn't feel like doing the coloring on this one, for a variety of reasons. Sorry. But here's the sketch version if you care about that sort of thing.

News

2014/11/28: The obligatory apology/whining post

Hi, it's been a while. I suck, I know, I'm sorry.

I still have a lot of comic-making that I want to do but I've been pretty well engaged in my day job and so I haven't had as much of a drive to work on stuff that isn't my day job.

Also, all of the stuff I want to do comic-wise is feeling too forced right now, and I just can't work very well when it isn't coming naturally. I want to do the best job possible for book 3 of Unity, and that paradoxically makes it difficult for me to do any job at all.

I should at least start posting sketchbook pages again though, since I'm generating a lot of those (at my Thursday drawing group meetings). What do people think about regular sketchdumps? I never like doing those because they just feel like filler to me but maybe that's something other people actually like seeing. I dunno.

2014/10/10: My usual whining

I've been too busy with my new job and too wrist-sore to work on comics. But it'd been well over a month since the last one so I figured I owed you folks one at least. September 2014 is the first time I've missed a month in the archives in a long time and I feel bad about that for some reason.

After going through another round of dissatisfaction with Photoshop I came back around and decided it's still the least-bad software for my work style. One result of this is that I decided to increase my work resolution again, and also adjusted my templates to try to maximize space and clarity, as well as widening the aspect ratio a little bit. Hopefully these slight adjustments will improve the look and feel of new comics going forward.

I've also been experimenting with some different art techniques. Nothing's really stood out to me as an improvement over what I've been doing, but having more tools in my proverbial belt isn't a bad thing.

I still want to get back to Unity at some point, and I'm quite excited about what I have planned for book 3, but I just don't have it physically in me to do things right now.

2014/07/24: There is still work to be done!

The queue only appeared empty. OhNoRobot was giving Jukka a break, but now it's started to point out a bunch of comics that are still untranscribed. The horrors!

Everyone, help SuperDeer Jukka me out and get the remaining comics transcribed! The future of the world depends upon it!

Statistics

  • 828 total comics published (including 65 sketchbook pages, not counting 18 guest arts)