Since Ink N’ Dishes is not an interactive Comic series.
Also Ink N’ Dishes is going to be full of mysteries YOU THE VIEWERS WELL HAVE TO SOLVE AND FIND THE ANSWER! so I want you guys asking and piecing the puzzle pieces together, by asking questions from what the comic will show by learning each character and lore.
SO I’m going to add my own feature where you can send asks about the characters about anything with in the comics current events. That well not be shown in the comic.
[And] ask the characters questions to get to know each character more!
[Or] ask @an0maly-err0r [Me] for fun facts about each character or hints!
Example : [1]
Ask - Hey “xxx” what are your favourite hobbies?
“xxx” - “My favourite hobby is “So and so”.
Example : [2]
Ask - What is “xxx” favourite “so and so”?
[Me] - “xxx” favourite is “so and so”!
[Etc…]
This we’ll help YOU THE VIEWERS to get to know the characters more and ask questions!
[edit] @an0maly-err0r “apologies if it doesn’t make sense to some, it was somewhat rushed. Ok byee”
A New Year's Eve Tradition: One drawing from each month of the year
Below the break: the other New Year's Tradition where I go over my art goals from last year and reorient myself for the new one.
Another big year. Mixed results regarding my plans from last year.
Successes/Positives:
-Been doing art full-time for a full year now and haven't even come close to running out of paid work to do. Haven't had a slow week since I started so it's encouraging to know people are still interested in my drawings and willing to pay for them. Hopefully an indication that this is still a viable career path for me.
-Got a website and a newsletter up and running which turned out to be a pretty good investment of time what with the mess that twitter has become and how boring and unreliable instagram is.
Finished two comics this year! One for me, one for Spacewalk Comics, publisher of Holy West. Right now you can see them both on Patreon (and I'll throw in my book Coelum for good measure if you sign up). In total only ten pages, but comics have always daunted me so it feels good to finally have finished some. And I found that I actually really really like doing them, even more than I though that I would, so I want to build off that momentum in 2023.
-Got to meet and interact with so many great artists this year and that's always a pleasure.
Failures/Negatives:
-I was going pretty strong with teaching myself Blender for the first couple months and then completely dropped it some time in spring and have hardly touched it since.
-Likewise with some other experiments in painting and different media- was inconsistent in practicing them and became even less consistent as the year progressed.
-Aside from the two short comics, I barely worked on any big personal projects.
-Although I finished all my commissions on time I fell behind on some unpaid but important collaborative work that I still have yet to catch up on.
-In general, as the year progressed I found myself spending all my time trying to deliver commissions as quickly as possible at the expense of investing in my own artistic development or in completing any major works of my own.
-Although I haven't run out of paid work to do, I'm still struggling to bring in enough money to even make minimum wage and I'm only able to continue drawing thanks to the hard work and patience of my wife and I don't want all that pressure on her.
-In general, feel like I haven't made significant progress towards any long-term goal for the last half-year
-My poor musical instruments have hardly been touched this year :,(
-Lots of non-art things I wanted to do that I didn't even get close to
Goals for 2023:
-Get organized and stay organized. I do better when I divide my day into chunks and I lost track of that recently. Get back into that habit. Try to start each morning by going over goals for the day.
-Found that larger illustration commissions eat up a ton of my time and even with price increases have only recently started to bring in a decent amount of money. Will probably prioritize smaller commissions, be more strict about charging for revisions, and in general try to allocate more time for personal projects rather than spending weeks on other peoples' and not getting paid a lot.
-Spend more time drawing away from a computer. I feel like being in front of a screen with internet access all day for the last couple years has really eviscerated my attention span. I'm constantly pulling up new tabs of stuff to listen to or reference to look at it. I need to be able to focus. Probably draw some stuff that I can see around my room in the morning before even turning computer on.
-Finished up undisclosed, ongoing collaborative projects
-Work on a book. Got two ideas that I think are achievable, should narrow in on one by the end of January.
-Gonna try to make some woodblock prints this year. I got a printmaking kit for Christmas. We'll see how it goes. Whatever happens I expect to have fun with it :)
-Be more consistent about assessing and re-assessing goals. Try at the end of the week and end of the month. I think neglecting to do this is what got me so off-track this year
-Keep desk clean, room organzied
-Do more artist interviews. If you're reading this and have an idea for someone I should interview or we're mutuals and I haven't asked you yet, get at me.
Misc:
-Get sewing machine back in working order, sew some stuff. Need a case for my banjo, could try that...
-Read more books
-Spend more time outside
-Take train into city, draw at museums
-Be realistic about whether art is a viable career. Wouldn't kill me to go back into engineering and I do miss some aspects of it sometimes. The trick would be either to find a STEM job I actually enjoy or a low-stress part-time job...
Conclusions:
Thanks for sticking around, you guys are the best. No matter what happens I'll keep drawing this year and the next and on and on until my hands don't work anymore or I die. Happy New Year. Peace out. Best of luck.
This is one of those sticky situations that seems to come up a lot, but no one really wants to talk about.
Let's go over some things that may be causing the issue, and some solutions to try.
Issue number one: Reply imbalance. The situation? You're RPing with someone, who, of course, has other RP partners, and your partner is replying to everyone else's threads well before yours. Sometimes several times over. It can leave you wondering whether there's an issue with your writing; or maybe feeling like that person is just RPing with you out of a sense of obligation and maybe now they're regretting it.
This can be painful and frustrating. Before you let it get to too far, take a step back and take a few deep breaths.
The most important thing you need to remember is to NOT act on these feelings. Don't lash out or get angry. You will only hurt yourself in the long run.
I promise you, literally everyone experiences these feelings. They're just part of being human. It's okay, and it's okay to deal with them in a constructive manner. Take a walk, take a break from the forum/server, watch some movies or read a book or play a video game.
Also, in case you're wondering, it's absolutely okay to sit down and have a good cry about it. Maybe write in a journal or make some art.
Another thing to do is to to branch out, expand your horizons. Join other forums/servers, or start RPs with other people where you're at so that you aren't left sitting on your hands.
And try not to worry about whether a writing partner likes your writing. If you've been writing creatively for any length of time, you understand that sometimes, muse can be fickle. Sometimes, a certain plot can fire up the writing juices, and you just have to run with it, or, for whatever reason, a certain character dynamic grabs your focus and won't let go. And sometimes, you're just not feeling it, and trying to force a reply when muse is uncooperative is often like being pecked to death by ducks.
I don't say this flippantly, but don't take it personally. 99.9% of the time, it's not about you.
Issue number 2: Other characters being liked better/more sought after than yours.
We've all been there. Just hanging out in the server/forum, and someone talks about creating a new character, and before any details are known, people are jumping on the character, debating who will get to ship with them. Or a player leaves, for whatever reason, dropping ships on their way out, and again, there's a debate for who's going to pick up those characters. Meanwhile, maybe it seems like your characters are ignored, left to be on their own, pushed to the side when the "popular" characters come in.
It happens to everyone, I promise.
And again, take a step back, take a deep breath, and don't lash out, even when you're frustrated. I am part of the modmin teams for several Discord servers, and we've had people who have complained about it, and all it does is make everyone uncomfortable.
Not to mention, I promise that when you lash out like that, it's a huge turn-off for potential writing partners.
When you get right down to it, RP is a hobby, not a job. Every individual player has the right to choose which characters they play with, or don't. It isn't your right to harass or berate or browbeat them, to force them play with you or pay attention to you.
I'm a few followers away from 300! I know that's not a lot but for a personal blog that posts no original content, I'm pretty happy. I love so many of you, even if we've never personally interacted, so many of your URL's make me smile when I see them!
Anyways, to celebrate I was thinking of doing something I haven't done before. Maybe answer personal asks individually if any of you have questions or do a multiple question thing. Let me know if anyone would be interested in something like that?
Okay, it’s official. I have failed in keeping myself interested in just one story. ~chuckles~ Here’s what I am now working on.
Irish Eyes
An Old West Dragon Age AU, featuring my OC, Erin MacNamara, and Cullen Rutherford. A straight-forward romance that should be gloriously predictable and hopefully not boring.
Ena’Vun
A canon-divergent retelling of Inquisition, featuring Bryland Cousland as the Inquisitor, and a romance with Eralen Calmar, another of my OCs.
