I also work on Youtube videos and blog posts in the evening, if my main activity for the day has been completed. In the evening, I hang out with Joseph-watch TV and Youtube, cook dinner, sometimes go out and run errands. This is an hour walk, and I usually call my mom on the walk over. Having Discord open helps me feel less lonely, although if the weather is nice, I'll usually take a break around 4 or 5 and walk over to the coffeeshop on Vanderbilt campus. The Ink Drop Cafe General chat usually has something going on, although I also chat individually with a few friends. My days are pretty solitary, so I leave Discord, a chat app, open all day. Today, I'll be cleaning up that rough digitally, redrawing a lot of things, and then printing it on watercolor paper. For me, it's a two-page comic spread, and so far I've designed, brainstormed, thumbnailed, and roughed. The SCBWI conference is coming up at the end of September, so I've been working on my illustrator's contest piece. My main activity varies from day to day- some days I'm batch painting pages of 7" Kara, some days I'm working on putting together portfolios, some days I'm recording tutorials and tests. These are done in color pencil, and quick- these are sketches after all, but some of them may end up getting refined into something nicer later on. After my warmup, I'll begin the day's work- for September, I'm doing a series of mori inspired witches as part of the #Sketchtember movement, and I find it's best to knock those out early in the day-otherwise there's a lingering feeling of something left undone. I did micro fashion warmups for the longest time, but I'm currently working on portraits of people from around the world. The first order of business is coffee- a shot of espresso, whole milk, and some syrup, then on to warmup sketches, almost always referenced from Pinterest. The first thing I do is hobble over from my bedroom into my studio- a small converted bedroom with loads of natural light lamps (no built in overhead lighting or fan), my computer, an anti-fatigue mat (for comfortable floor squatting), and a naggy gray cat. ![]() My day to day life just doesn't present one- I prefer to work in the afternoons and at night, and waking up later suits that. I'm really not a morning person, although I can be awake and functional at any time if there's a good reason. ![]() I'll try to remember to share my life more, even if it's just bits and pieces. So here's a little state of the studio update, a little day in the life. ![]() I couldn't think of a way to make that funny at the time. I probably figured no one wants to regularly read about a comic artist who spends most of her day sitting on the floor in a two bedroom apartment, painting, and sketching. Or maybe a little earlier, when I graduated in 2013 and stopped having as many adventures. I guess that started in 2015 when my depression reared its ugly head and I had difficulty talking about my life in a positive light. Somewhere along the way, I quit talking about my life here on this blog.
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