It has often been said that if you hold an Ortega brand taco shell to one ear that you can hear New Jersey. I do not think that is true; I have been to new jersey and it does not sound like taco shells, but nemitz is ignorant and inclined to hold fanciful beliefs.

I have received word, late, and vaguely, so that I had to directly inquire about it, and so learn yet later, that the art shows I attended in person that were cancelled Cuz Covid for three years is returning in person this year. I am absolutely not prepared for that. I spent those three years jumping between various matters that are unrelated to in-person art shows, and eventually assumed this one simply never was coming back. I didn’t regret its loss at all and didn’t investigate other art shows. But feel like I MUST attend, even though I am not ready, lack time and resources to become ready, and even though I have to pay money for the right to do it. My life is silly. Consequently I have little patience for imps with BIG SMILES that listen to taco shells.

I worked on a few cheap commission drawings this week. “commission drawings” being pictures that other people paid me money to produce.

this is not one of them


I am still not impressed but I am content to use more civilized text entry to say so. I need not reduce myself to this imbecile’s level.
I will however unfortunately need to widen this picture if I want to put it on instagram. I do not want to do that. This moron does not deserve more space.
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an addendumb: I did widen the picture. it was still not wide enough to not have the upper and lowest edges obliterated by the instagram machine, but i decided it deserved to have harm come to it, even if the affected portions of the image were relatively innocent.

yes that is all it is. and it took me a week! Or possibly more than that. When did I update this last?

corresponding with the part at this location

it needs more work but it has also taken more work since I have a terrible habit of increasing how much work something I have done before takes. Incorporating a chair piece that the creature’s left arm goes both in front of and behind necessitates a surprising amount of that. In the second beet video, the hand stays behind the chair arm, even when it shouldn’t, and if anyone noticed, I apparently didn’t, until I checked on it this week or last week.

the flash animation program not allowing me to change the cursor to an “eyedropper” tool with the alt key nor of lifting colors off of inactive layers is also a problem.

i only today thought to make a palette-only layer that doesn’t intersect with anything else and is always active. I hope i remember that in the future.

with regard to use of those colors, should the whiskers be orange? and out-lineless? Uncertain. I drew the first frame like that as a placeholder, then wondered if they needed outlines or to match the skin.

the voice needs to be re-recorded also, plainly. oh so much to do. I thought I might have the voice redone tomorrow, but I am concerned I would find a way to make that also take a week.

page 3-56 of the bimshwellian comicoid. a classic, overstuffed page, whose backgrounds are inexplicably vague despite the visual excess. the next part, for the lizard, at least, I wrote out over 12 years ago and will probably need to be amended considerably. I still do not know precisely the visual nature of what it will encounter, or if there is a way to avoid showing it.
I do also need to tend to the gnomes that infiltrated the lizard’s apartment, but those pages can be made later and possibly pushed up in number if it seems like they should be mixed in with or before this part. but that part cannot conclude until after this part does. Does that make sense? It shouldn’t!
I also do not know if I will attempt to sort out the next sections right away or other unrelated un-out-sorted matters, as the beet cartoon has gone un-fiddled-with for longer than this had up until last week.