Good morning! It’s great to see you again. Without glasses! I hope the week has been treating you well. I hope you’ve been treating yourself well when the week has been poorly behaved.

These Days …

I’ve had the last week off from the USPS to let my right eye recover from cataract surgery. The surgery was on the 24th and I was not supposed to bend over or lift heavy things for at least seven days afterward. My eyesight is greatly improved. Having both eyes done feels less dramatic than when I’d first had the left eye done. I had a few weeks to get used to better eyesight with one eye before I got better better eyesight overall. My brain has just shrugged and accepted the new normal and is quickly forgetting how blurry and dull things looked just back in May. I’m finding myself a little disappointed in my own shortage of wonder. This is modern medicine! This is great!

I’m expecting to get new glasses so I can see better at distances but I’m not yet feeling a rush to get them. I’ve been getting used to reading and drawing with the new peepers. Reading is pretty easy. Drawing requires a little more work. Things line up, the images are clear but something still feels a little off. The more I practice the more I train my brain to understand the new now. Practice, practice.

My jaw is still recovering from last week’s dental surgery. Less pain over all but the right side, where I had two molars removed, is still protesting.

Mugshots

This week’s process GIF is for an abstract design. I mostly do illustrations of specific events, critters or places but I’ve been challenging myself to do create designs that … are different? I’m not sure how to put it. All art appeals to emotions. Abstract art does that differently than representational art. It also looks good on products in ways that illustrations can’t.

This design is available on a mug in my Zazzle store
and all sorts of other schtuff in my Redbubble store.

The Weather Report

Another concept/promo illustration for Kaiju Weather my in-development graphic novel featuring giant monsters. I’ll be doing (and publishing) comics that feature the Mighty Nizz before much of this one sees light but progress is being made. This design can be purchased on schtuff in my Redbubble store.

May your next week be better than this one. (Even if this one was already greater. There are no limits on good.)

See you in seven!