Well, no reason to just sit on my ass now, is there? Started work on 192 before calling it a night. I wanted some more figure work, and not just 2s or 3s. Also went for some more dramatic poses here to help convey what's going on with the lyrics. Speaking of which, I hope I left room for them. The drawing is based on four photos I took for reference tonight, warped a little to fit the space. A good start, I think.

 I liked this page too much to just toss it aside. So I repurposed it to fit in later. Cheap add to the page count, though I guess the work had been done, just earlier. Moving on.

 This is not a great view of what I've been working on but it's hard to get it in view any other way. So the whole opening sequence of this track was out of whack. Silas' progression through the city made no sense as the image in the second page above was a close-up of his hand spray painting and then the next is him in the subway. While I liked the page, I had to drop it and draw something else. After that, I was ok for a couple pages but when Tamino's image shows up, for some dumb reason, I didn't see the flow was backwards as the first image was of his head, then his torso then his feet, which not only 'reads' backwards, the images have no flow at all. So, I had to redo the text on the third to last and last pages, which wasn't so bad, considering how I work. Mentally, I kept trying to shuffle things around until I finally had to fill both monitors with the pages so I could make sure they were now going to be in the right order and no text would be missing. Here's a larger version of the new page:

So now I can move on, which will require a complete re-draw of the four panel spread that was originally at the end of Tamino, something I really need to get a print of one of these days.

 It won't seem like it but I did a bunch of new work on this today. It's very subtle things. It mostly works, but there's still, to me, some little something that isn't working. Or it's working better than I think it is and I need to step away for a bit. I think it almost looks like Stanley Kubrick instead. We'll see.

 We now interrupt your usual comics progress with another diversion into portraiture. I've been wanting to do another portrait for awhile but hadn't found anyone that inspired me. Was watching some video of British comedian Joe Wilkinson, who I've done before, and I saw a moment that felt like utterly typical Joe to me. The struggle with this one is to keep it as simple as possible while retaining the likeness. I think I'm a good way there but there's a subtlety that's eluding me so far. That's ok, these things should require work and observation. They look simple yet it takes a lot of editing to get to where I want.

 Houston, we have a problem. I've been looking at the pages for this track and it's been slowly dawning on me that the images are just in the wrong order. The flow doesn't make sense. At first, I thought I could fix this by simply changing the what text was on which page. But that won't work as it turns out I was too clever for my own boots and did visual representations of some of the lyrics so they can't be so easily divorced from their page. The last two pages, which have Tamino in them, make no sense in the order they're being shown in. This whole track has been a mess, though I like it visually. After messing about with text, I finally realized that the best move would be to make a new page to shove between the existing 184 and 185. Which are:

BUT...the page of spray cans makes no visual sense as is, so will have to be moved to the end of the sequence just before Tamino shows up as, well, it makes sense to show Silas painting and then WHAT he's painting. So the track has been a mess. And I'm fixing it so I can move on. When done, I think it will flow a hell of a lot better, so it's worth it. My process doesn't always work which is why I highly recommend no one use it but me.

 This page came together very quickly indeed. Which makes me suspicious. Then again, isn't this what artists work for and towards? So we can get to the point where we don't have to think and struggle but can just MAKE? And still we don't trust ourselves or our process. But I declare this done and am happy I got a page out while listening to some cool music. It helps that I'm using an image from a previous comic, sure. Not every page has to be some complex thing. And this particular track is meant to feel very loose, new and different. So. Finished. Because I said so.

 Haven't had time to do much of anything lately. Always seems to be something else in the way. But before work, after having mown the lawn, done the laundry and assembled the new vacuum cleaner (not as involved as it sounds), I managed to get this colored. Finally. Soon, off to work. Too. Damned. Busy.

 Thursdays are always busy. Besides it being podcast day, there's the grocery shopping to be done and the laundry. When my partner comes home we like to watch an episode of something together (currently it's "The Expanse," which is really, really good). And then there's time for this. I got some drawing done, realized what it was I wanted Silas to be painting, did the lettering. No color tonight. That being said, I think it's ok and won't be too hard to finish. Famous last words. Just not sure WHEN. Because work, which I hate.

 Did a quick and dirty portrait of the other host of "Taskmaster," Alex Horne. His character on the show, if that can be said to be a character, is one of abused toady. So I thought to draw him diminished, almost as if he's popping up from below the screen. I think it makes a nice pairing with the Greg Davies I did. Just a bit of fun.