Only one day to go now… I do feel a slight fatigue, but it’s been a fun exercise! First up is today’s comic, though: New pen tip, crisper lines!
Day 29 – #30dayscomics
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Day 27 – #30dayscomics
Today’s entry is in reply to a Twitter conversation I had yesterday with @FrauLizling. She got so frustrated with her work that she deleted the majority of her blog posts and burned her sketchbooks:
@haverholm Everyone says to keep working, but that shit is hard! xD How the bloody hell do you do it?
@FrauLizling
Lizling Claire
My reply was rather glib (“It’s all I know how to do”) but sitting down with my sketchbook this morning, the question was still churning in my mind. How do you keep working and improving yourself, especially when the world seems to be struggling against you? My answer:
Day 26 – #30dayscomics
Presenting today, in comic form, one reason I don’t promote myself enough, and as a result time and again find myself without a paying job:
And let’s just follow that up with a motivational video:
And I don’t want to hear any crap about Rollins, okay?
Day 24 – #30dayscomics
After yesterday’s mammoth entry, here’s a little pastel rehearsal for you. That’s all right, you can thank me anytime.
Day 23 – #30dayscomics
This is something different from my previous 30 Days of Comics posts in that I was able to collect a 36-page book of yesterday’s sketchbook comics; and in that everything is drawn from visuals in the TV show Lost.
It is also entirely same-old, same-old in the abstractions, the panel grids. Just a bit more rushed, as I didn’t want to cheat and freeze frames!
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Day 19 #30dayscomics
Yesterday was Friday night in front of the TV with the kids. Couple that information with the above comic and you should have a good idea what we were stuffing our heads with.
Day 12 of #30dayscomics
I agree today’s entry isn’t much of a comic to look at, but I’m still in the throes of last month’s teaching, and the Deep Thoughts About Comics that always come to the surface when I teach.
The above is an attempt to outline the field definition of (what I, whithin my courses, accept as) comics, and I think it fits as well into its own definition as any graphic representation of information. But yeah, even I think I’m pushing the 30 Days envelope a bit with this one.
Next maybe I should try and define “story”? I’m always getting vague and mumbly when I teach narrative.
Day 11 of #30dayscomics
I have mixed feelings about this one. It might take the price for Most Teenage-y Prose in all of the 30 Days of Comics challenge… I was stuck for ideas though, and as soon as I had more than one sentence here, I ran with it.
Day 9 of #30dayscomics
– which is really a catch-up entry on day 10. I didn’t get anything done worth publishing yesterday, so I’m making up by doing 2 today. First:
I dunno, maybe I should have called it Ghost in the Shelf instead.
Check back for today’s actual entry later today!