Magical Lady + Health Update (Patreon)

A month ago I was coming off a big crash, after my body couldn’t hold on after my treatments had fallen into disarray. Things were finally lining up again, and I was in line for my best month in a while!

And then I disappeared for that month. Why? The new med that was to give me hope also carried a BAD SIDE EFFECT, and I was never able to adjust to it. Now I’m on another med. It’s not as beneficial, muscle-relaxing-wise, but I no longer have brain-scrambling headaches, so I guess it’s better overall.

I’m trying to draw again, tho I’m awfully rusty. My big achievement is I’m starting to organize my references for practice. It’s something! My sketchbook is being sketched in again, tho the results are all over the place. I’ve had some “good enough for Twitter” results, but Patreon quality is still PENDING.

But, hey, I drew a friend in my sketchbook! This is a patron’s character named Feina, who I last drew so long ago that I get whiplash looking at my old sketches of her.

I vowed to color. While my chances for a proper watercolor or marker piece were dashed by a dry needling miscalculation (don’t save the most important muscle for last, cuz it won’t get treated if you run out of time) that meant eating meals kicked my butt, I liked the sketch I made enough to throw some colored pencils at it! (It’s finished with lining via a thin fude pen.)

If you’re a patron, you can send me your characters - or pics of your pets - and I’ll use them for practice challenges as I get back to being human. (Go look through my other posts for the details.)

Next week I have dry needling again, which will hopefully not leave a spasming jerk behind this time, and a dentist appointment where I’m putting my foot down over fixing a problem that’s been harming me for an entire year. Not sure it’ll work, but if it doesn’t then I’ll know I have to do a root canal.

That tooth used to be something I paid no attention to, because the rest of me was so broken it didn’t chance my overall pain level. If I’m noticing it, it means we’re starting to nail down issues and clear them out. It also shows how far I have to go. THERE WAS A HOLE IN MY TOOTH FOR A YEAR AND IT DIDN’T BREAK INTO THE TOP TEN PAIN-RELATED PRIORITIES!

How the heck did I update my comic for so long through all this junk? I should have died sometime in 2015, but I was too dang stubborn to do it.