Happy 2024! First Friday Dailies of the year!! (Patreon)

I still made it to my parents' house last week for a post-Christmas celebration! And came home to this post-Christmas "celebration."

Fennel has started love-biting the tender part of my arm in my sleep! Just to add to the list of telltale signs. Thanks, Fennel, merry Christmas.

I spent two hours on the first daily of the year, just to kick the year off right! (It's marked 12/31, but I draw each day's comic the next morning, so this was my first one of 2024.)

Pip didn't actually puke. He can hold his liquor.

And I did like the year I started for me.

For starters, Monday fell on the first of the year, and we decided to have Art Night as we always do on Mondays! No one was hungover. Being responsible-ish early-middle-age people is great.

I switched using one and two fingers on this comic! It's wild, that middle finger gets in the way and swoops my lines in unwanted directions sometimes. But lettering and drawing straight lines requires the support of that middle finger, and unfortunately, using just my first finger made my wrist hurt by the end. I've been mindfully switching to one finger when I need to get an expression right that I'm not quite getting with two fingers, but I anticipate I'll mostly stick to the two-finger method.

This has been Overthinking Your Drawing Process with Danielle Corsetto. Thank you for reading.

I dunno what I was expecting, but I was definitely expecting it to be BETTER.

Here's a petty comic about not getting what you absolutely do not want:

In case you missed it, the list of artists that Midjourney uses to train its "AI" on* was released, and it's a real roller coaster! It is VERY WEIRD (but not surprising) to see so many of my webcomics peers on there, but then also weird because of who they didn't include. Randall  Munroe of XKCD is on there, but Lar deSouza isn't. For that matter, Andrew Wyeth (one of my favorite artists) is on there, but his father NC Wyeth (who I would've guessed was on there, based on the vibrance of the colors that Midjourney spits out) is not.

Anyway, nobody WANTS to be on this list, but nobody wants to be catcalled either, and in short I'm glad I'm not on the list, but pissed that Jamie is. If you wanna support Jamie's work elsewhere, he's on Patreon and you can follow him on Instagram! He also puts out some really high-quality YouTube videos.

*I'm pretty sure this is still not ACTUALLY "AI," we just keep calling it that because it's scary-powerful. It's not actually intelligent. Intelligence is what made the people on that list worth being trained on.

The internet says surimi (imitation crab meat/crab stick) is the "hot dog of the sea," but I beg to differ. Luke is spot-on.

Speaking of fishballs, do you know Fishball? Her comics are some of my favorite on the Internet, if you've never read them!

One of my 2024 resolutions is to share one of my dailies on Instagram every week, just to let people know I'm still alive. It's a real cobweb show over there right now.

I'm gonna make this first-of-the-year post public, as well; if you're visiting and you're not a patron of mine, but you want to be, you can join as low as $2/month and keep seeing my dailies every week! I'm on hiatus from Elephant Town until sometime in February, but you'll start seeing those pages as soon as I start making them again. :)

And to anyone who joined just recently, thanks for hopping in! I hope you like cats.