I think it’s important to recognize there are people in this world all too inclined to have opinions on things they have no business having opinions on, and they know it and that’s precisely why they do it. They’re assholes.
Pluto - Naoki Urasawa
When you’re immobilized in bed reading Brian Eno’s Diary and get to the part about how he got immobilized in bed
Finally drawing
Although it’s not always possible, I strongly recommend working one page at a time. There’s just about nothing worse than having more than four partially completed pages, it can utterly destroy your sense of progress and momentum.
Progress update: Have successfully relearned going to the bathroom, delighted everything works.
Still not yet able to draw. iPad would sit almost exactly on my incisions, just a bit too much.
Three painkillers left, saving them for sleep the next few days
Hernia Surgery update: I don’t really consider myself to be someone with an improper ego or overly judgmental of others, but nevertheless…this is SUCH a lesson in humility, when the smallest non-events of your life become almost impossible on your own, and all you can really do is accept the help
Basically, if I want to get an accurate sense of how old I appear to be I check up on Macaulay Culkin.
Life in the sickbay
When you’re listening to a really well made Elden Ring lore video and recognize the voice is also the guy behind Esoterica
I am definitely taking it easy. I’ve never had surgery before, I’m abundantly aware that things are not as they were, and are likely to remain so until I can walk like I did before
It feels like I’m smuggling aluminum foil in my pelvis. Apparently it’s just internal bruising that will fade over time, I’m really getting ready for that fade to start happening.
Update: My big daily physical activity is walking to the bathroom, which takes about three times longer than it should. I brush my teeth. I have not shaved since Monday, which would normally be driving me crazy by now, but it’s simply a hill I can’t pretend to climb
This will obviously work, they don’t even have to worry about giant rope bridges
I’m just…laying about feeling my body reconfiguring its internals after surgery. Better than yesterday, but it’s gonna take a while, as an adult I’ve never felt more fragile or more at risk for injuring myself
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But I have an incredible capacity for sleep and I really really really do not want to even attempt anything approaching a solid food, I’m an injured hummingbird and all conventional food is a battleship steak in my tiny eyes
Not much I can realistically do beyond that, other than sleep. And some phone stuff
Hernia surgery completed, I’ve been home for…five hours? Turns out comics will need to wait, at 44 I’m getting to re-learn how to pee
“They say he carved it from a larger spoon.”
It wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect the possibility, especially in 80’s New York, that at least some real estate agents have Seen Some Shit and know how to get it out of the way so they themselves can survive in a competitive cutthroat environment
There are so many lessons when making digital comics that must be painfully relearned again and again. I thought I had developed a good system but got carried away, but I will work it out, probably while on painkillers recovering from surgery, this is a good plan
I was supposed to be designing a vitruvian wicker man, I don’t have time for this, oh well
Of course attempting to brute force this will be demoralizing and involve lots of hunting for white pixels and I need to consider my options. I am also very tired and tomorrow is a work day. It’s not as though I’m swimming in free time to focus on my art, I need to be smart about this.
I thought I had my process locked in but it turns out I have a bunch of pages I need to fix, this is frustrating and depressing and I get to have the ‘fun’ of doing the least artistic art for an unclear amount of time going forward until I get this all acceptable.
This is almost like a magic eye where you can’t look directly at it because several aspects and details are plain wrong so studying it closely doesn’t help.
Based on the collar and general hair shape I’m saying it’s Doctor Strange, just very poorly realized in Oreo form.
My partner is so awesome, she pointed out the Go To Hell Kid is also the same one who always complains on the field trips, which I completely forgot about ever happening
it’s not for us to know, and that’s okay
