Self Portrait As A Gift For My Dad

Dreamed that I was on a road trip with some friends. The car was very full, so I had to sit crouched on the shoulder of the passenger seat. The person seated in the passenger seat looked like Benedict Cumberbatch and I think we were dating. We drove through a small southern town, and I could tell where the queer kids hung out. A bar and a hair salon and a gas station, with 80's goth queer kids hanging out in front, smoking and drinking. On one hand, I was envious that these queers knew just where to go to meet people like themselves, but on the other hand I recognized how few of them were in that small town and how isolated they must feel. We drove along a high way at night. The person shifted from looking like Benedict Cumberbatch, to looking like W., to looking like A., and then finally looking like a combination of all three of them. I told him that I wasn't good at dancing. When a song came on the radio, he pulled over on the side of the highway and left the car door open so that the music could be heard outside. On the side of the road at night, he rested his hands on the small of my back and we danced slowly. The roadtrip (and the dream) ended with us sitting in a forest clearing, dressed in togas, watching a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

Hey, is there any chance you'll be restocking 778 Days? I wanted to grab a copy when I got paid but now it's showing sold out.

Yes! I just restocked 778 Days and Therapist R. J. Hill. (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Horrible dream. Dreamed that a woman's body was pulled out of freezing cold water, wrapped in chains, lifted out by a crane. Her skin was grey-blue and water sluiced out of her yellow hair. Suddenly, her body began to jerk and spasm -- she was still alive. The crane dunked her back into the freezing water. The chains shook as she struggled under the water. But they went still eventually. Dreamed that I had started a relationship with a man that I met online. We were texting eachother. It started out flirty and kinky but it got darker and scarier until he was threatening and abusing me. Someone tells me that I should have known better. Dreamed that a fox was napping on a turbine on the roof. The turbine spun around slowly, revealing the fox. It blinked sleepily before getting up and walking across the roof. Dreamed that I had long, fine, bright yellow hair with red-pink ends. My hair was pulled into pigtails with elastic bands that had big red plastic balls on them. I looked like an anime magical girl.

Well, clearly, I’ve peaked as an artist.

*gets that one comic where bart simpson and chris griffin are in relationship counseling and their counselor is bobby hill tattooed on my back*

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So, previously I had all pages set to 90 lpi at 45 degrees, but suddenly CSP has decided it won't go higher than 85 lpi and the materials downloads that I'd gotten for higher lpi aren't working. I had to reconfigure the lpi and degree for the screentones, so these and subsequent pages may look slightly different.

I like CSP, but some of the functions remain a mystery to me. Either the available translated instructions/English guides aren’t detailed enough for me, or I’m trying to do things in such a weird, sideways approach, there aren’t instructions applicable to my problems.

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“original illustration - a kiss 2″

sold!

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Experimenting with putting down color before line.

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copying pages from comix/manga that I like. kind of like master studies. trying to get the pacing and composition down in my own head.

pages after “Shadow Star” by Mohiro Kitoh, and “Akira” by Katsuhiro Otomo

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How to Practice Drawing Hands

- have two essays due

- work on the essays until you're frustrated

- draw hands instead

- draw hands until you're frustrated

- go back to working on your essays

- repeat

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WIP for a series of comics about things I’ve learned after 2 years on testosterone

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