It’s almost already not July anymore. Having jobs sure does make time rocket by super fast. I’m not complaining, but it does feel a bit like I’m running late, brushing my teeth while heading out the door. Every time I remove something from my schedule to free up time for The Otherwalls, it seems instantly fill with more projects.
Projects like making birthday hats for my 16-year-old brother. (Modeled here by me)
I’ve been attempting to snatch drawing time as I can find it. This has resulted in a small set of images I’ve been tagging #morningSUSHIsketch. It’s quite an excellent constraint to see what I can come up with during my morning coffee.
See the rest of the set here.
Projects keep piling up. I’m helping start the Midori Sushi Facebook page, which is a new and exciting challenge. I’m working on running manga classes for high school students. There’s amigurumi and knitting and preparations for craft 2.0. I keep having ideas for short one-off comics which makes me feel I should begin making and collecting them together somewhere. Probably here.
Characters like this one are showing up and quietly demanding small stories of their own. They are very clear that they’re most definitely not Otherwalls characters, thank-you very much.
And then there’s The Otherwalls itself. My sleeping behemoth of a story. I have scripted chapter 5 and am currently working on the thumbnails. I’m not sure exactly how I’ll go about producing these pages, every chapter seems to like to be a bit different from the previous ones. I’m excited to find out. And since time doesn’t seem to magically be freeing up anytime soon, I guess I’ll just have to force Otherwalls in.