Sabbatical report:
This week was crunch week on the calendar shirt project. At the beginning
of the week, when I started drawing the final artwork, I set myself an ambitious
schedule: get the job all done by this week's update. The first night went
well - I got the first 3 months fully drawn and inked. But by the end of
the second night, it was clear my fingers couldn't take that kind of pressure,
and I've had to slow down. Currently, I'm up to July, which is penciled;
I expect to have the artwork ready to drop off at the printers this Monday.
As for how it's looking, it's looking great. As a sneak preview, I'm
putting a little chunk of the finished art on this page - 6 days from the
middle of April.
Birthday report:
Last week was my birthday and Kristin and Robin threw me a party! Robin
had this incredible cake made, a recreation of the Aquarius
postcard artwork, and it was so cool everyone said I had to put a picture
of it up on the web. And it was good cake, too.
I got a variety of cool gifts (thanks everyone!) 2 of which I will recommend
here: A playstation game called Devil Dice and a little square graphic novel
comic book sort of thing called Quit Your Job, by James Kochalka. If you've
got a PSX or you shop in comic book stores, pick these up, they're winners. |