Nanemae

This is one of those situations where I think I'm actually in the position to start putting stuff up finally, although for now a good portion of it is in the "working rough" stages. Some of this stuff isn't anywhere near "presentation-ready," and in fact most of it I tend to consider sub-par in general.

However! This is probably something I should be doing if I ever plan to get past the you-aren't-good-enough inner voice thing, so hopefully people might like what I'm putting out more than I do sometimes.

I was actually feeling pretty proud of one thing, until I realized I'd done it at the wrong resolution; I'd scanned in something and it saved as 72ppi when I wanted it at 300! Whoops!

I'm still planning on putting it up, but I need to retrace what I did and finish up some spots before I'll be satisfied with it personally. I'd do it now but my fingers went numb from holding the pen poorly and I don't really want to throw them at that again for tonight.

For anyone who reads this, thanks for doing that and I hope you can give me advice soon!

I'd been intending to release the second page almost a month ago at this point, but a recent issue with a friend's made it a bit difficult to set time for myself aside (it's not on them, I just suck at doing this when it's not something other people expect).

It's uh.. ..not exactly something I'm happy with, to be frank. I do know what I want to do with the second page (I'm planning on changing up the fifth panel, it was exhausting just getting the rough page down and I think my other idea would look better anyway), but I haven't given myself any actual time to sit down and do it.

In other news, I'm trying to figure out if I can scrounge up the money to get a drawing tablet with a screen! The current setup is my sitting with the tablet on my lap and the laptop about a foot away, and after an hour of drawing my hand's started going numb. Being able to just look and draw on the screen directly would solve most of that, so right now I'm seeing what I can get done about that.

As the title says, I'm sorry it's been so long (and so dang long since I actually put up anything), and I'm trying to see what I can do to make this something that doesn't hurt my wrists long-term.

So something I've already learned from doing even one page is that I'm gonna need to do some work on figuring out what details to include. As it is it did a number on my hand and my mind to get this one done, but I've got some more ideas about what to do to lessen the suffering it brings about! Hooray!

Due to a series of flub-ups on my part and ill-timed matters I needed to attend to (as well as a couple ill-timed headaches), I wasn't able to get it quite finished. I did get the final linework done for the last panel though, so I'm stupidly close. I'd try to push through tonight, but I've been so tired the last few days that I know that what would be put up would be less than I can do right now, especially now that I know a bit more about lighting than I knew a few days ago.

It's not something I'm super happy about, but I think it would be better for the comic overall if what got put up as the first page was better than what I'm capable of in this state. Still, as long as I get decent sleep tonight and rest my hand better (the last few days it's gotten numb from me being foolish about how I'm angled while drawing) I think I'll have the endurance needed to power through what's left tomorrow.

I'm taking it a bit slow on this because I want to get things down properly, so as of right now the page is halfway done. I took a break for a couple days because doing this on top of what I've been doing for the past month was breaking my hand steadily, but right now it's actually looking pretty good. In any case, it's going fine, and I'm still learning more about what I'm doing as I'm doing it (small shortcuts for example), so I'm feeling fine right now! Whenever I close my eyes I keep seeing images of different places and people, so my imagination seems to be in full swing.

I might need to keep working on my sleep though, I only got about 4-5 hours of sleep and it's definitely taking a toll on my eyes (they're so dry right now).