Back in Alaska, back doing normal 8-hour days of physical labour, back to fighting for time to work on comics. I’m experimenting with a new system which i hope will help me be persistently productive in my readings at least – situation-specific reading —> I have a specific book that i read in the morning (while pooping), another that i read during breaks at work, aother before bed (sciency stuff ’cause info-retention is highest if absorbed shortly before sleeping), and another for general, leisure-time reading. Oh, and one audio-book for the road, and another for the more mindless phases of drawing. Stuff yer brainz.
As for the visual component of today’s post, I’m on a difficult little linux netbook, which is at the root of most of the nefarious technical problems preventing me from posting my first, second, and third choices of what to post here (the fourth, fifth, and onward for a few leagues, is due instead to temporal constraints). However, i do have this little doodle exercise comic i put together in an attempt to win a free copy of Mastering Comics, Matt Madden and Jessica Able‘s swell sequel to their swoomy first comixtextbook. The premise of the exercise was that one draw six panels, fill them with expressive abratract brush-strokes, and then after the fact attempt to make said said marks into a comics narrative.
Oh, and a new page of undermind has been posted. checkitout!
