I’m not at home. I won’t be at home for a while. Not being at home means I can’t use my Wacom tablet or Clip Studio Paint. So you’re getting words from me.
You’ll also continue to get my daily sketch posts (mostly daily – as long as my website posts posts as I have scheduled them (and as long as I’ve scheduled them correctly)) because I’ve got posts prescheduled until sometime in early July.
I’m visiting with family in California. A family member is in hospice. We’re expecting that he will be passing soon.
This is the third time I’ve come down this year. This house has a lot of books so I’ve gotten some reading done. That’s been really nice. I feel like I don’t read much these days. I do read but mostly online stuff and, for whatever reason, that doesn’t have the same feel as reading a book.
The second time I was here I was reminded that I’d been working on an expansion of Daughter of Spiders. I got a little bit of writing on that done then. I’ve done some more since I got here.
I am missing being able to work on the art projects I had going. I finally figured out a method of sketching in CSP that would allow me to produce approval sketches for the Oz illustrations I’ve been commissioned for. And I was working on another short comic for David Mann. (I previously collaborated with him on a short comic about OCD.) And I think I’d figured out the coloring style I want to use on Sunk Cost Elegy.
I still don’t know how Sunk Cost Elegy ends. I would consider that a problem if I weren’t now the writer of the thing. I give myself a lot more latitude than I would if someone else were giving me a script. It’s my fault if I have to redraw, or draw new a bunch of pages. I have half a dozen potential endings and I’m now willing and expecting to do a lot of expanding of the original art. All the practice I’ve done with CSP has made me comfortable with redrawing anything and everything. I make mistakes faster. I make corrections and edits faster. I suspect that, ultimately, I take almost long to finish a drawing as I did when I worked on paper but I am cutting out the time it took to scan and prep the art so that’s something?
But that’s when I get back home. For now, I read. I write. I try to be useful. And I wait.
David, my heartfelt concern for you and your family in this time of grief & imminent parting.
Please let me know if I can be of any assistance. Or if you need a shoulder attached to open ears. I’m just a stone’s catapult away from “home”. Mark sends his best and shares my concern, as well.
Love & Prayers ~R.
Thank you Rhonda. I will let you know if we need anything. So far, at least, we are doing well. And, unfortunately or fortunately, I have had recent experience with this sort of experience.
David, I’m sorry to hear about your family member – This was the first I’d heard about it..
Thank you Doug. It was my brother’s husband, Kent Mannis. They’d mostly been private about his medical issues so I’d been private as well.