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...with the posting of Satin Steele - 30-day OC Challenge 30.
This was fun in most cases; not so much in others. I've already received comments to the effect that I should do another challenge featuring Dyna or Charlotte; to that I say two things: 1) I need some time away from that kind of grind. There were times when I felt more obligated to do the drawing when in other circumstances I'd have simply ignored it and done something else. And 2) If I do another similar challenge, it own't be with this list of prompts. As I've detailed in the descriptions of the relevant pieces, I felt some of the themes were getting stale and repetitive (running, bicycling, and listening to music especially). I'll be on the lookout for other lists of similar themes for drawing challenges, and if I find one that suits my fancy, I'll give it a go.
In the meantime, thank you all very much for your views, your faves, and (especially) your comments!
This was fun in most cases; not so much in others. I've already received comments to the effect that I should do another challenge featuring Dyna or Charlotte; to that I say two things: 1) I need some time away from that kind of grind. There were times when I felt more obligated to do the drawing when in other circumstances I'd have simply ignored it and done something else. And 2) If I do another similar challenge, it own't be with this list of prompts. As I've detailed in the descriptions of the relevant pieces, I felt some of the themes were getting stale and repetitive (running, bicycling, and listening to music especially). I'll be on the lookout for other lists of similar themes for drawing challenges, and if I find one that suits my fancy, I'll give it a go.
In the meantime, thank you all very much for your views, your faves, and (especially) your comments!
Forgotten OC
I was searching through my old sketchbooks and notebooks last night, looking for drawings and notes I made about one of my earliest creations, the belly dancer Sayyina. (She might have actually been the first OC I created, since she was inspired by the belly dancers at Busch Gardens Tampa, where my wife Janet and I worked for a couple of year in the very early 1980s.) And I came across some drawings of a character that I'd completely forgotten that I'd even thought of! I don't remember doing the drawings, and I didn't write down many notes about the character. But I did create about six or seven pages of sketches, and even a couple of logo ideas. The series would have been entitled "Muscle" Shoals, PI. The title character, Patricia Shoals, is a private investigator whose nickname is "Muscle" because of her physique; bodybuilding is her hobby. I chose six pages of sketches - well, five pages of sketches and one good sketch from a sixth - to give you an idea of what was running
I've been away...
...but now I'm back! My wife and I took a road trip to visit a friend (fellow DA member Jimmy Dimples) in NC, two of my brothers in VA and a third brother in SC. I hadn't seen my brothers in ten years (ever since my father's funeral), so it was fun being able to visit them. What wasn't so fun was having to deal with an overheating car in Charlotte NC that took $700 in repairs to make drivable again. Thankfully, Jimmy was willing to drive down from Mt. Airy (two hours each way) to pick us up and bring us to our hotel, then drive us back down to Charlotte to pick up the car two days later. Other than that, it was a fun trip. But despite my best intentions, I wasn't able to work on as much art as I hoped, so I'm way behind in creating and posting artwork. So I've got some catching up to do! So if you've left messages for me, and you're pissed I haven't replied to them yet... this is why. (Plus my apologies for not answering before now.)
''Contest Jitters'' update
Don't get too excited: there aren't any new finished pages. Yet. What there are, though, are newly reworked versions of some existing pages. This is something I've wanted to do for awhile, because one of the reasons I haven't been enthusiastic about finishing "Contest Jitters" is that there were parts in which I couldn't stand to look at some of the work I did. So I've spent most of the time since the New Year finishing the reworking of the pages. I also wanted to re-paginate the story so that they all fit into standard comics size, for eventual publication as digital as well as (I hope) print publication. During that process, I also found opportunities for expanding a few scenes, and laying (I think) a better framework for the events to come. (And I worked in a cameo appearance by yerz trooly.) The repagination process also lengthened the story, from 16 to 23 pages. Some of the original long-scrolling pages had material that easily took up one and a half to two print pages. (It's
F*CK IAN!
I haven't been checking in here as often as I should (my apologies for that), so unless you're also a member of my Patreon page, you probably don't know about the big road trip my wife and were taking this past week. The plan was: up to NC to visit friend and fellow DA member @JimmyDimples, and my cousin Susan in Laurel Springs; over to Tennessee to visit another cousin (Julie); over to Richmond VA to see two of my three brothers; then down to Myrtle Beach SC to visit my third brother. (It's been years since I've seen my brothers, and literally decades since I've seen my cousins Susan and Julie.) The most ambitious trip my wife and I have ever planned (and most likely never will again). And it was going well, until the middle of our visit with Julie in Tennessee. That's when we found out about Ian. A tropical storm which suddenly formed in the Caribbean, and was forecast to come up the Gulf Coast of Florida, and possibly over Orlando as Hurricane Ian*. So we felt we needed to cut
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I certainly hope there is a challenge that is far less repetitive than the one you have been working on. Don't get me wrong. The month of Satin was great but those themes had been stretched to their limits. If I find one that is far more interesting, I will send it your way.