I should warn you, strip #5 is actually the first strip to contain dialog. In other news, getting comfortable with the medium again. I’ve also decided to take a no-looking-back policy, which isn’t quite accurate by the sentiment is okay. Basically, I’m not going to let myself get hung up on a strip if I don’t like it. I do it all the time and I know it’s holding me back. So no more of that. Worse case scenario I can always go back and redraw bits of a strip I’m not pleased with. I’ll also release it as a special addition and charge twice as much for it!

It all works out.

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.