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For the last couple months, Rachael Smith (creator of Flimsy and all around excellent illustrator) has been doing a daily comic called One Good Thing, where she reminds herself of the little things that make life good. It seems like the kind of daily therapy that would help me as well.
These are the sorts of things that can at least keep a buffer going. It’s worth a try, anyway.
The other good thing was I finally figured out another bug that looked like something completely different and was confusing everyone, and I also got rid of a major application performance problem, but those seemed less fun to draw.
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I’ve just been feeling burnt out for the last few months. I feel terrible about it but every time I try to draw a comic I just can’t.
I’m grateful for everyone who still checks my comic site regularly but really you’re a lot better off using an RSS reader.
Who knew forcing myself to do a journal comic could be a good source for positive daily inspiration? You just have to know where to look.
In case you’re interested in watching how I work, I’m streaming the comic right now (8:15 PM PDT), on my ustream channel. It will probably go until 10:15 or so.
Well, that was fun! I recorded the whole thing so you can watch it later, although I don’t know how long I’ll keep the recordings around. Next time I’ll try to give more notice.
This project seems to be helping in a lot of respects. Although if my life gets too thematically-repetitive I’ll just have to start doing fiction comics to fill in the gaps.