Pencil Shavings

Preparing to Re-boot.

The school term is essentially over for me now and I am focusing on my goals for the winter break.  First of course is the gift buying for my kids’ birthdays and for Christmas - because  no matter what else happens if you screw up birthdays for your kids they will never let you forget it.

 But, along with that is the launch of my new website and the launch of my webcomic, My Gratitudes....  I’m insanely excited about this new project and I am really loving working with Alison Meeks at AM-Graphix in getting all my vague (and perhaps unreasonable ) ideas into a form that will work online and not just in my imagination.

On top of that I have some art work that I need to get started for a show at the University in February.  So many fun and exciting things to do in the next month.... can I get it all done?  Place you bets here!

Productivity is Productive

Before I say anything I would like to wish my American friends a happy July 4th.  Be careful out there.

Yesterday I did turn off my internet for two hours.  I cleaned the house for the first bit because knowing that I had shut off my connection made me feel weird.  Then I sat down and did some work that I had been putting off.  

Alas, it wasn’t art work, it was a tonne of paperwork that I had to mow through for the company.  I had been procrastinating with it and because I had it hanging over me I couldn’t focus on what I wanted to do either.  So putting a big dent in it gave me some breathing room to play around with some character sketches for the Webcomic that I’ve been wanting to start for a long time.

My husband, who does read a lot of comics, didn’t seem to get it. “They don’t look like us.”  Of course not.  “They aren’t supposed to look exactly like us,” I explained, "I don’t have time todo fully rendered portraits for all us every week for a webcomic that probably four people are going to read.”  It’s a comic..... ya know?

Then he seemed to get it. The idea right now is to come up with lots of drawings to refine the characters and give them some life before I start making the actual comic.   The comic will be loosely based on our family life, but also will have lots of fictional situations in it that the kids are already making up for me.  So hopefully it will be a lot of ridiculous fun.

As a side note I’m trying every hard to remember to reduce the resolution of the artwork that I put up here and on my other sites.  Seems that there are unscrupulous people out there in the world who like to steal art work.... I know, I’m shocked too.