I am trying to just move my pen these days. This is a sketchbook thing I did to warm up a little. Wait. How are you? I like that new dystopian mask and that we can talk here like regular humans, ten feet apart. What a hellscape. Wait. This is our imagination. Nice to run into you at this fine coffee shop full of beautiful people, orcs and wizards. Normally they hang at haunted taverns but here we all are together at a hipster vegan coffee shop. That orc over there? Used to date my friend Tina. Weird dude. Hey you look good. I like this new glitter sparkle princess thing you have going on. It matches your beard nicely. The crown is siiiiiick.
Me? I’m aight. I had a solid week at work and colored some pages of MONUMENT. I am so goddamn close to done. I’m at the stage of the work where I hate it and me and want us both to die falling into a pit of fire like The Mountain and Hound in Game of Thrones. I do little side drawings like the above and I feel guilty. I wrestle a lot with “permission”. Do I have permission to draw for fun? Not because of the Kickstarter and being hopelessly behind schedule (well, a little) but am I good enough? Am I allowed? I always say the greatest asset an artist can have is bravado. I’ll take irrational compulsion, I suppose. Still waiting on bravado.
A decent week for me. I managed to lose only like 35-42% of my time to despair. I was useful at my job. Dadded shit up like a boss and hacked out 4 colored pages of MONUMENT #2. I’m not really able to consume narrative art these days. I’m waiting for some comics to arrive from my local comic book shop. I’ve tried re-reading some but it I haven’t been able to really lose myself. I can’t sit through any tv shows other than Tiger King (which I have no idea what THAT says about me as a person). I’m literally putting shows to watch in my calendar this week like they’re actual fucking things. “Watch Bojack Horseman” Gonna check that fucker off the ole To Do List! What a weird time.
Thanks for your support. It means so much to me. Hope you’re okay in all this mess.
Issue 2 of MONUMENT is due out this summer. You can buy Issue 1 of MONUMENT on Comixology.