page 20 of part 3 of this! Except it’s actually just part of page 19 again because I decided 19 was far too cramped, and there was one final frame I wanted to add in, which I was going to then have to put on the next page, which was already ludicrously cramped just in the layout stage, before I start adding in whatever has not even occurred to me yet. Notice how this still feels too cramped, and despite the copious amount of new drawing I have done, it still feels rushed and incomplete, if you want to thoroughly undermine my effort. It was terribly demoralizing to have fallen so far behind on redrawing old pages, so it seemed prudent to start redrawing new pages.
Also, I have been quite sick, my father has been in a hospital with an uncertain fate, and I have been futilely trying to get my service provider to fix my broken email but they inexplicably keep finding ways to prolong the “not reading what I say to them and repeatedly offering the same obvious and wrong solution” phase, while I am also sick and going to a horrible hospital that drains energy out of me that i don’t have because someone else is sicker than I am. I do not request or desire the sympathy of strangers, but I wanted to explain some of that somewhere, because I do not like submitting unsatisfactory work unless I also get to complain about it. However, this is a shorter negative portion than I usually accompany comic updates with, so I may be at last making real progress.
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Purplespace sez:
I do hope things go better for you! I know that really doesn’t do anything to help, but I don’t want bad things to happen to you.
Frimpinheap sez:
I do not expect to die. Everyone else might, with the ritualistic obligations and guilt they force on themselves and those around them, but I will get through it.
Indighost sez:
This version of the page is significantly clearer and easy to read.
Indighost sez:
Rando question here. Do you have a “muse” or, for lack of a better word, an inspiration that comes or goes or changes? Or do you draw what comes to mind?
Frimpinheap sez:
The main motivators at this point in time: How much free time I have, what I might be panicking about not having done, if I am trying to impress anybody and if anybody is paying me,
I had been panicking about that cartoon fragment, so until that was done I could not work on the comic strip.
Somebody who I have been trying to impress for much of the past year has lately become far less visible, so although I lose a bit of motivation, I worry less about coming across as inadequate.
Nobody pays me for the comic strip, but it is very important to me, even without having to panic about it. And I knew it was cramped despite never being able to get anybody to say so, and started tending to that, after far too long, And I hope to make a few more new pages before my panic resurfaces elsewhere or my father returns from the hospital and occupies as much of my time and his television choices consume as much of my thought as usual.