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[Shanny8]

Went & saw Coyote Vs ACME- it was really good, really fun...I enjoyed it.

Finished most of my grocery shopping; still just wanna get some chips to snack on, especially since football season is "officially" starting next weekend...still haven't tended to [finishing] the art yet because my back started hurting yesterday evening so I fired up my heating pad and ended up knocking out for the night- it might go down tonight after I go mow this front yard.

Gonna take my sketchbook [to work] with me this week & start working on scribbles for the "power couple" piece...also came across one of the games that I've been trying to get for my Switch- has dropped in price, so I think I'm gonna green light getting it(coz the price may go back up by the holidays); I think I'll hold off on the Final Fantasy 12 version for Switch until the holidays- most likely that may be the last Switch game(unless I decide on getting one of the Harvest Moon games)

[Shanny8]

So my SD card for the Switch 2 delivery got pushed back to this Friday(also getting the blu-ray trilogy of Jurassic Park since it was a cheap find); sent the LED hex lights back & used the credit to buy another set from a different seller(I hope they work)- picked up the Switch game as well...no more small [frivolous] purchases until the holiday season- gotta get the yard blower

Sat down and started reading my library book again- patting myself on the back coz I read 50 pages and I'm almost halfway through the book...until this year, I hadn't read an actual book in almost 30 yrs(read magazine articles, online articles, and some short stories online but no actual books); current book is a little over 400 pages and I'm at page 150-ish.

[PeteLensing]

I´ll have to think about my creative life. I´m doing a lot of things at the time.
I play in 4 bands. I write songs and will record a solo album with 20 self written
songs + I´m on tour all the time. Then I´m doing commissions / illustrations.

I really would like to publish a comic but I don´t see that happening. My story
writing is way too chaotic and I´m always distracted by new ideas. That´s why
I thought working with someone else would work or a team because I work better
under the pressure of a team relying on me. But I don´t find people I can connect
with in a creative way, not even close.

In the end this means that I´ll come up with a good idea and pull it through or I just
give up on that dream, because it will get frustrating at some point.

[Shanny8]

Got in the Switch 2 SD card today- gonna pop it in tomorrow before I go to work; also got my Jurassic Park trilogy blu-ray...the LED light and the video game has shipped.

Did a sketch of a character from my next piece, which is getting me hyped...gonna do the other character tomorrow- and then try to start on the actual piece over this weekend.

Taking a break on reading my book; I've read 256 pages and have about 2 weeks to finish the rest.

[PeteLensing]

Did a sketch of a character from my next piece, which is getting me hyped...

one of the best feelings in the world
I sometimes have to be careful not get too hyped and
remember to sleep

[PeteLensing]

I was really depressed about my art journey, like I wrote above
and thought about things a lot. I´m not getting forward with
my comic journey and I´m already old.

I feel like I´m at the art skill level I want to be. I trained over 10 years
and relearned fundamentals, did a lot of figure drawing and so
on. I´m happy with that, far from perfect but good enough for me.
This means, I would like my own drawings if I would see them as
a reader.

Then I found out that I´m really lousy at storytelling, even though
I have more ideas than I can ever draw. I talked to hundreds of
writers and couldn´t find one to work with.

I set myself a crazy deadline now with radical consequences.
If I fail to upload my book cover and then the first episode then
I´ll quit. I will still continue drawing, I have customers and I´ll make
illustrations. I currently have a customer who wants a giant comic
page. But I´ll quit chasing to create my personal project because
I just don´t get it done and it starts to make me unhappy.

[abigaillmartin]

Today was really chill. I have never felt more relaxed in so long which is really good ️

[Shanny8]

Bounce around some story ideas...if you find one that sticks with you for days on end then maybe try expanding on it

Not every story is gonna be "gold standard" material; you want something that continues to resonate with you- that you're gonna wanna come back to even if you take time away from your project; I havent worked on my webcomic in some years but when I think about the story, it makes me excited and I want to get back to it.

[abigaillmartin]

Listening to my instrumental Christmas playlist. It has a lot of jazz arrangements of Christmas songs

[Shanny8]

Grilled some stuffs(food) yesterday...started working on the art piece and watching stuffs on TV; slid into bed a little earlier than I wanted because my back started hurting.

So up this afternoon and about to continue working on the piece...

[feuersichel]

Uff, that sounds depressing. But keep on doing, what you love. It doesn't have to be perfect at all. Even if you have a story, just to be able to draw ^^. Heck, my own story, I'm tinkering with since 10years, is a hot mess story wise... But it's MINE! My precious, with all it's flaws! and no AI

But jeah... It's way easyer said than done.

[feuersichel]

I have to find my way back into art. Life has been hectic. At least I drew a mermaid yesterday... Better than nothing at all ^^'

[abigaillmartin]

Drew a lot of Abbdini art today. Probably a little too much, but it turned out cute.

Got pretty errrm spicy too but cute. I also did other cute ones. I think about 3 pages of sketchbook paper worth.

Mostly on expressions as I always do. I don’t see the point of it anymore. But it makes me happy.

[abigaillmartin]

I love mermaids hehe ️

[abigaillmartin]

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[PeteLensing]

Thanks a lot for the encouraging words. It was good that I set myself a
strict deadline for the webtoon and also changed my routine + also
thought about what I really want to make and put them all in my comic
now. My webtoon is finally online

[feuersichel]

Ooh congrats on uploading! Link pls

[PeteLensing]

that would make you my first viewer, it´s just the cover page so far and the thumbnail,
but I´ll upload the first episode on friday

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[feuersichel]

Cool, I'm looking forward to it ^^

[feuersichel]

Hehe, jeah I also have some... Stuff thats for my eyes only