Wooofff.... So I always drew as a kid (2006, or 2007 maybe?), and at one point I made my own comic strips/funny pages, and I would share those with the other kids who went to the church my family went to. Then I stopped drawing for a looonnng time. In 2011 I discovered Homestuck and other webcomics, and that inspired me to get back into drawing again. The goal was always to make my own webcomic at some point. I did a couple things that I never shared and I'm pretty sure are lost forever.
In 2014 some artists I followed on tumblr did "January Comics Month" where they challenged themselves and other to make a 15 page comic in a month. I did this (God that hurt to re-read).
Later that year I started the first version of my current comic, Skeletons in the Closet. It was supposed to be a side project, I figured since I could make 15 pages in one month, that I would be able to do 75 pages in 4 months. I got 15 pages in, got too busy with school, and then went on permanent hiatus.
Fast forward another year, and I feel like I've improved too much to just continue where I left off, so I decided to start from scratch. I could paint now, badly, but I could do it!
I did 6 pages before getting busy with school again and giving up on it. I never posted this version. Here's a page from it.
Also worth noting I was doing this static-2x3-panel thing, that was probably because I was trying to be cool like Luke Howard, and also because I was being lazy.
Fast forward another year, I graduated highschool (and finished most of my AA degree through a do-college-classes-while-in-highschool thing), took a gap year, learned how to actually paint, rewrote a bunch of junk that was bad in the first two versions, got my life together, taught a weekly art class at a community center, and started doing thumbnails for the third, and hopefully final version of Skeletons in the Closet in August 2016.
In February of this year I also did another trippy dreamlike minicomic, Compared to that first minicomic I've improved A LOT, as a writer and an artist.
Then in June I finally started sharing the current version of Skeletons in the Closet. Comparing this version to that first version that I did in 2014 is completely bonkers. At the point of writing this I have ~40 pages ready to go, and some scribblings for a Christmas special.
Also, I did a guest comic for @dojo's Paisley Brickstone.
I'm going back to school at the end of the month, but this time it's not going to stop me.
So yeah, there's the last 4 years of my comic career in a nutshell.
