Happy New Year! (Patreon)

A lot of stuff on my workbench, and on my mind, starting with a visit to the optician on Monday and telling him that my new glasses aren't really good for reading or for drawing; and him replying, "With your eyes, you shouldn't really be doing either of these two."

That was a shock all right. It doesn't change anything though. If my personal worst case scenario is never being able to draw again, but if I still CAN, why on earth should I stop doing it now while it's still possible (though difficult) and wait for drawing to become impossible?

I really have no idea what the new year, or decade, will bring, but darker moments aside, it just doesn't do to ponder worst-case scenarios, so I'll just keep doing this. As this stuff is not degenerative, here I am.

So here. 

I spent three hours fixing my graphics tablet settings today and then was just about done with it all, but in the end, I did sit down to design the first two pins: "Going on an adventure" and "Tinfang Warble". I'll still do some tweaking before I think about colours, and I hope to do the Three Rings tomorrow. 

I finally dove into the Prancing Pony Podcast while doing these, and I'm absolutely loving these! Why haven't I given it a shot before? I can't wait to listen to hours and hours of meta-Silmarillion. <3 

We also went to see Star Wars again yesterday (some minor spoilers may follow), and I spent a lot of the movie memorising Rey's and Ben's costumes to sketch them later. (Contrary to what I threatened on Twitter yesterday, I didn't bring my sketchbook to the theatre. I did think of it.)