It’s a really hot summer. Really. Hot. There hasn’t been much to write about, and too little energy to do anything, but in between the vast load of nothing, I have managed to squeeze in a little commission.
Boris and Natasha, for knit1pug2 on Ravelry!
Watercolours don’t scan so well, but I’ve adjusted the colours as best as I could.
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I went to the pulmonologist (or whatever the English word for the doctor who specialises in lungs is) yesterday for my checkup. Thursdays tend to be emergency walk-in post-hospitalisation days, so I was warned that I might wait a little. So I came armed with sketchbook + pencil, and some crochet just in case.
And then I waited
And waited
That television wasn’t on mute like they usually do in waiting rooms. Urgh. It was horrid. The crap that is vomited into the air during morning talk shows is just incredible!
I had to wait some more
I was tired after the panoramic view, and the shoe guy got up and left, so I switched to crochet. I found that I had a really bad cable crossing error right in the 2nd repeat of the pattern, but I was closing on the 4th, so it’ll just have to stay.
All in all, over 2 hours of waiting, only to make small talk with the doctor and be told things are ok and to come back in two months. Hurray!
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After I got my ass in gear and got back to working on Kissing Carrion #2, I motivated myself by buying the two books on the right – Making Comics by Scott McCloud (which frankly, makes me feel slightly inadequate, but damnit, it’s my first full length comic AND I’ve been battling various issues while drawing it) and under that is How to Make Webcomics by a gaggle of successful webcomic artists (It has such a can-do positive tone I don’t think I can read more than a few paragraphs at a time without wanting to slit my wrists. Baby steps, yes?).
As for the comic itself, I always am amused when I look back to the first page, to see how much confidence I’ve gained in using lines and just winging it when my reference is less than adequate.
I’ve drawn the two panels on the page on the right today, pencils to inks. I have rough layouts up to page 30 now, so I’m good to just draw without too much thinking until then.
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I’m in a blogging mood. Quick, writing a post before the mood passes.
I got sick about… two weeks ago. A blitz-style cold, runny nose, slight fever, the works. It only lasted two days, thankfully. However, I could feel it then, the germs working their way down, down into my bronchial tubes. The doctor I saw was an Intern from the local hospital, doing a shift as GP, and sent me home with some pseudoephedrine. As predicted, however, I started coughing, and the other doctor I saw put me on antibiotics and all that, explaining that the intern-type doctors tend to dismiss anyone who isn’t half-dead as perfectly fine.
Thing is, I’ve finished my course of antibiotics and I’m still coughing. Constantly. Coughing. It doesn’t stop.
Apart from that, I’ve finished a couple of commissions:
Wedding illustration. Took me a while, but I got over the performance anxiety.
Aaand the bunny you saw a wip of a while back.
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It seems that the wonderful New Curator who had posted a sketch of mine on his tumblr a while back just like that has struck again!
“Something that a lot of comic illustrators lack is the balance between substance with style and any sense of subtlety, often going for demonstrative gestures or epic amount of photoshopping in order to make their image more interesting. I’m glad to say, Rotem’s skills lay in using her style as a medium to convey the greater purpose of the image.” – source
I think I might be having an ego Moment here…
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Guess who was featured there on May 19th? I am flabbergasted and really flattered. Amongst all the art, a work of mine, but not just any piece, one of my simpler, quicker sketches…
He called me “incredibly talented”! o.o
I guess I need to put some more life into this site now, instead of being stuck due to WordPress template trouble…
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I haven’t been updating much, I know. Been drawing some, I will probably be scanning this evening, then I’ll post things up on redbubble and to show here.
The rat cards are available, btw.
It’s passover soon. We’re all under siege, a week-long holiday. Oy.
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Most for my own reference, I guess, my list of projects:
School:
Musicals paper (for thursday)
Study for makeup exam in China
Figure out if I have enough credits to graduate. (That’s a phone call thing)
Visual communication class assignments: Tree comic strip, Tree concept poster
Figurative drawing: 3-4 oil paintings making up a series
Comics:
Kissing Carrion #2 (I will finish it!)
Journal comic – I have more pages pencilled! Need to ink, scan, upload.
Couple of Hamlet pages, for shits and giggles
Illustration:
Pass the Parcel illos
Rat cards
Fibre stuff:
Knitting: Socks
Crochet: Floral lace belt
Spinning: Bulky Corriedale, Bling-bling wool (finish and ply), spindle whorls (polymer clay yay!)
Note that this list does not include anything that would actually bring me some stuff like… money… in. It also does not include drawing random fanart, or knitting baby stuff for my friends’ babies.
Maybe I should make a sort of program-timeline-thingie to help me plan out stuff, allocating time to the important things, but without forgetting the REALLY important stuff, such as occasional lunch at Street Food with yberry, and Stitch n Bitch night.
Did I take on too much stuff or do I just really suck at managing my productivity?
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