Feb 12, 2025
I didn't like Hal's new uniform until I made this connection.
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I didn't like Hal's new uniform until I made this connection.
what's the deal with pop art? it does absolutely nothing for me
I don't find the pieces particularly striking in color, subject matter, or composition, and I'm also at this point tired of the whole "merging of low art and high art" business. I guess that's not their fault, but at this point I've got a feeling of "it's been done" about it.
idk, is the historical context really that important to appreciate it? I got a lot of satisfaction out of abstract expressionist paintings even without reading paragraphs of context.
April Project Updates
Hiya! I hope you've had a good April. Me, not so much. The month started still heavy with artblock and outside of art I've also not been feeling great. At the very least I've kept up with regular life drawing but I decided pretty early on to focus on making progress on things I needed to get done unrelated to art. It's possible I did just need that time to rest as in the last couple of weeks the artblock has been going away! I've been able to slowly make progress on my art pieces without hating every step :) In other positive news the tree outside my kitchen window has fully regrown its leaves & there are lots of beautiful flowers growing on my regular walking path to the pool.
2023 Sketchbook
The finish your project jam helped give me that last boost I needed to finish putting together my 2023 sketchbook pdf, which is a mix of my physical sketchbooks & misc digital art from last year. You can get a copy on itch.io.
2024 Hourly Comics Day
Same as above, I did the last couple of steps I needed to finish my hourly comics day pdf, also up on itch.io.
There's very little new there, I just wanted to have all the hourly strips together in one easy to read place + share the printable booklet version that I made for myself in case anyone else was interested in printing themselves a copy.
Impractical but Cool Fantasy Swords
I've been chipping away at this zine in my off time for a while, now I just have these last 6 swords to finish shading and then finalizing the layout for the whole zine.
Hopefully marking this as done will help push the last bit of artblock out of my system and I can get back to drawing new things rather than just finishing old art!
Life Drawing
I don't normally share day to day life drawing in these updates but since it's pretty much all the art I've got to show this month here are a few of my fav sketches from April:
Plans for May:
Zines
I currently have 4 small-medium zine ideas bouncing around my head, I'd like to finish two of them this month but I'm undecided which two.
Don't Wake the Sleeping Dragon
There's a lot to rework with DWSD mechanics based on feedback from the first playtest, the biggest change will be that I'm no longer trying to keep it to two pages max. That was an ambitious goal for my first ever ttrpg, and letting go of it will give me a lot more freedom to explain the rules a little better and add mechanics to facilitate rp. I'm aiming to get a second playtest draft out this month & to start on some art for it.
i'm so out of art shape. no damn stamina for it anymore. i color for ten minutes and i'm like "ughhhhh are we done yet"
I have a long and kinda scary team meeting today so here have some dumb oranges I drew up to possibly float as our library system’s mascot