Somehow I’ve managed to keep to my schedule, though this week should be interesting due to ensuing construction and a trip out of town. Still, keepin’ to the schedule! Yosh!

Also, I haven’t decided when or how to debut the comic. Nor have I decided on if I should give each strip it’s own title or not. And if I do, should it be at the top or bottom? Resolution? Fun fact: this is the third strip in a row to feature absolutely no dialog. Wasn’t intentional, but it helps establish Daisy’s character. So…maybe it was intentional. I’m a genius!

Wait, where’s the first strip? And what’s this crap? No shading? No tones? Is this some sort of web comic? There’s no text! I don’t get the punchline! Where’s the color?!

Though I haven’t posted anything yet, I’m actually still sticking to my new schedule pretty well. Completed the inks for a new strip today. Next comes the bit with the scanning and cleanup. Then adding tone. Then…onto the next!

I can’t remember if Drew or Moses had hollow eyes. I think it was Drew…

There’s a character we haven’t seen in a while. I’ve been doing a lot of sensitive artist-style soul searching over the past few days. I’ve got all of these great ideas in my head or written down but it never seems like I have the time to actually do them. To say they’re ambitious would be an understatement.

Which got me thinking–why does it have to be so ambitious. I think I became so obsessed with doing something new and exciting and different and big enough to impress some hiring manager somewhere that I ended up not enjoying my work. I mean, the doodles I post are fine, but there’s always this feeling that I should be doing something more. That I need to be doing something more. And something I love doing suddenly becomes a chore.

Take the eVOL Corp for example. I can’t tell you how many different versions of the eVOL corp have been floating around. The sad thing is I have a story. The story has been painstakingly written out and detailed and yet it sits there in my pile of ideas just waiting. Waiting for what? I don’t know.

In addition to Yotsuba&!, I’ve been reading Azumanga Daioh and falling in love with the 3 to 4 panel comic strip again. It’s late and it could be the fatigue talking, but I’d like to see the eVOL corp return to 4 panel vertical strip. Nothing fancy, nothing revolutionary, and nothing bogged down by research and detail…just something fun and absurd.

Lately my top earrings have been bothering me a lot at night. No matter how gently I try to lay my head on the pillow I can’t escape the horrible stabbing pain. So last night I thought it would be okay if I took them out while I slept. They’ve been in for quite some time–surely they wouldn’t close up over night?

Apparently I forgot to take into account my mutant healing  ability because when I attempted to replace them this morning I couldn’t even find the holes! What’s worse is that when I did find them I apparently hit a stray artery because my ear just exploded in blood.

I did finally managed to plug the leak with my earrings. Tonight I think I’ll just try to fluff up my pillows a bit more.

It’s been a while since I’ve come across a new comic that I really, really enjoy. I mean, I go to the bookstore and it’s loaded with titles but none of them ever jump out at me. So I picked up Yotsuba&! at random and that was that. So yeah, here’s a quick doodle of Fuuka based off of reference.

Now I’m-a go eat!

This image pretty much turned out the way I wanted it, which is kind of scary. Lum’s pose comes from model reference and I kept the stray pencil marks in on purpose. The coloring was inspired by a random piece of Morrigan fanart I had tucked away in a folder labled “inspiration.” Ultimately mine came out looking a bit different, but that’s what I wanted to happen. As I said, scary. I did, however, want to zoom in more, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I think a full-size version might help, though. I’m not entirely sure what I’m talking about.

She’s actually not quite complete, but it’s late. Like, really late. This old man’s going to need a nap tomorrow. Or today, I suppose.

A preview of Page 2 (told you I’d get around to it). More or less true, by the way.

There’s method to that scribble madness. It started off as a practice reference sketch, then I had an idea, then another, and before I had another I figured I’d outline the plan so I had at least some sort of visual record of my original idea if I ever decide to get back to this one. Kind of interesting seeing it this way. Poses look kind of fun. This requires further study (you hear that me? That means play around with more multi-character poses. Yeah, you heard me. Don’t make me come over there!).

Yep. Pretty much.