....Semmi különös!

Still working things out. Can you see that I am serious?!

By the by, my scraps are way more amusing than the stuff out front.

Cheers.

Okay. So. I've got my stylus back, and I've chained it to my tablet so that no monsters get the wrong idea and.. y'know, eat it. It's not going anywhere.

Meanwhile, I feel like I don't know how to use digital coloring software at all, which makes me make the :/ face. I've more or less just been experimenting all the time-- sometimes it works well, sometimes it really looks busted and messy. Also, everything I try to do takes forever. Now I sort of miss the days when I could just kick out the jams with my markers and have a finished product in a couple hours.. But I'm trying hard to feel my way around and stop sucking at all of this. Soon, I imagine, I shall have conquered the art world.

I think I finally have my story down. Character design is going pretty well. As usual that'll probably be what shows up most here in my modest little gallery.

yes.

I seem to have lost my second tablet pen. This is something that makes me sad.

Where do they keep going? Is there something living under my bed for whom tablet pens make a nutritious breakfast? Is there a black hole in my room somewhere, about which I was not previously informed?

Either way, frustrating and disappointing. For the time being it's back to regular ol' pencils and stuff.

To recap, I am mostly working on making people up for a comic story I'd like to write. They're going to show up a lot, because I like them. That sounds a little strange because they're not real, but.... meh.

meh.

Et voila, tablet achieved.

It's not the most super first-rate premium kind, but it works pretty well for what I want to do with it. Excepting the time when I so conveniently lost the pen, I've been messing around with it pretty much all the time-- especially when I'm supposed to be doing something else. It makes me very happy to have all kinds of colors and brushes and options (like "undo") right in front of me without having to buy anything or worry about anything drying out.

Now I have lots of little nonsensey computer drawings, many unfinished things (what is new), tests, gesture sketches...

For a while this here gallery can just be my online sketchbook, I'm thinking. I originally wanted to put together a sort of portfolio of my big serious stuff that took lots of time and technique and skillz, but that just left me with a huge gallery of scraps and barely anything else to show for all the time I've spent. Not that any of it looks finished anyhow, but I'm just sayin'.

Wha'eva.

I'll just have to get better and start kickin' out the jams, so to speak... But until I do? Oh my goodness dear me, do not recommend me to your friends!

Thank you and goodnight.

I NEED A TABLET. ALL THE COOL KIDS HAVE THEM.

That's what I keep telling myself, at least.

I sort of feel like it will make me miraculously better at this, to be able to work with a tablet. I never have gotten to, but I have recently seen how it could really simplify and expedite the drawing process..
Whether or not it really will live up to all the expectations I have, I fully expect to be able to do more with than without, so I've been shopping around.