And now for something completely different. I've been thinking about finally selling some of my old Japanese toys. As much as I love them for their design and fun, they're mostly sitting in a cabinet where I can't even see them. This tells me that it's time that they went to someone else. They also might be able to fund other things, possibly other toys. I made a quick and dirty set-up for this: just a piece of bent drawing board and the lights I used for my old Movie Wrench episodes. What amazed me was how close I could get with my phone and get not only some really good focus but, in some cases, some good bokeh as well. Now all I have to do is work up the courage to actually offer them up for sale.

 

Another page down. It's going to be a long song. We're 2/3 the way through. 

 

Two more pages in this sequence down. Lots of curves. It's almost too bad that they won't be seen this way except on  my Flickr site.

It's killing me not to post this series, but it's not like I get a lot of feedback anyway. Finished another page today and did some adjustments on previous pages to get composition tighter. I really think this is the strongest track of the comic so far and I've been having a lot of fun warping and distorting the figures. My camera seems to do some of it on its own. The more I LOOK at photography, the more I realize that even phone lenses distort like crazy. So, in a way, these aren't distorted, they're realistic because we're used to looking at distorted reality and we don't even know it. Or something. Regardless, though no one will ever see these pages in this configuration, there seems to be a lot more movement and flow than usual. I'll try to keep doing that.

I have been working on stuff but I've changed the process around a little. Since getting a second monitor, I've found that I can much better compose the comic's "tracks" as a whole, not just single pages. Sure, the pros thumbnail out everything but that just makes the repetition more boring for me. Likely, I'm wrong but there you go. So I am still working on this, just not posting as I go along. I'll likely put it up when this track is done. I'm about a third of the way through.

Penciling is still a thing here and there. Two of the figures of these six pages are penciled, the rest are just digital. Somehow, I tend to be looser in pencil. Either way, it's drawing and that nearly always feels good.