Little iPad doodle this morning. I'm enjoying that device more and more, when I get a chance to use it. The holidays always knock me out in one way or another. This year, I've been sick...twice. Damned tired of it now. Barely had enough voice to do the podcast this week. We just recorded our 31st episode, though we've only released 22 because of scheduling reasons. Part of me wants to do more painting. I kind of miss it.

Been sick too much lately. That being said, when I have energy, I've been sketching on the iPad just to do SOMEthing. This is one of the weirdnesses that came out the other day. No idea what I was trying to accomplish. So what? It's digital and takes no space. There are also lots of character design things because the lads I was doing the comic, "The Party Line" with have decided to resurrect that when the new year starts, so I wanted to get something more steady than I had before. Might post those later.

Another page down, finally. And with this post, I do something I've been wanting to do for awhile; I've reached a new maximum of posts in a year. I've been keeping this blog for twelve years. Almost no one does these any more but I still feel value in them. At the very least, it helps keep me making art. City Silent needs a boost. I want to see this thing done before I'm dead.

WIP of the next page of City Silent. It's been a month since the last because I've been busy. This page, so far, doesn't use any real media at all. The pencils and inks were done in the iPad, sent through SuperVecotrizer and, so far pulled into Affinity Designer. Seems I could make a transition and do the whole comic digitally. More to come.

Oops, forgot one. Quickie sketches of Benny from Delve Deep, that rabbit comic I never did.

Did a lot more sketching today on the iPad. As I said, stuff just kind of flowed out. Doesn't mean I made anything amazing, just that what did came, came easily which is a nice change. Today, I actually felt like a cartoonist.

Did a lot of sketching on the iPad today. This is one of the things I made. For whatever reason, cartooning came easily to me today. I'd been looking at some of the old Delve Deep stuff and kind of missed the rabbits. I think Ghiroy was still the better decision but I put a lot of work into those rabbits for them to come to nothing. I don't blame them for being cranky.

Sketch today while home sick. I like the clunkiness of this. Raccoon might benefit from not being very precise at all, and possibly lifting the pencil as little as possible from the iPad. Holiday sweaters.

Been awhile. Went away to a convention in Chicago which was fun. Also got to finally go to the Art Institute of Chicago which has a fantastic collection, one which I have to admit makes the one of the MFA a little pale. Still love my hometown museum and am mostly glad that there are such collections around. Didn't do any drawing while away, which is pretty much the usual. Brought some sickness home with me and stayed home today, mostly sketching between naps. For some reason, decided to draw raccoons. All the penciled images were done on the iPad. The inked drawing was the first furry image I made, sometime back in the late 80s before I knew what furry was. Why I drew a raccoon playing a lute, I'll never know. Haven't drawn trash pandas since then. Think I made up for it today.