Summer Update/Easy 5.74 Sketch Preview (Patreon)

Hello!

It’s been a busy summer and this a long overdue post apologizing for my absence. Going forward I think I’ll start taking the summer off because even though I always have big art ideas I usually end up being too busy to see them through. So now here we are on the edge of September and here I am with another head full of plans.

The main plan is Easy. I’ve just about finished the sketches on a third new page but I hit a bit of a snag in the process and realized once again that I needed to reevaluate some things.

I’m usually too embarrassed to share things so early in the process but I actually streamed drawing the first version. I was struggling throughout to make it work and ultimately I came away unhappy with the results.

After a bit of reflecting (I do that a lot) I realized that I was still getting stuck on the same bad habits that have always tripped me up: an over reliance on references which led to weak construction of my figures, exacerbated by an unshakable tendency to overthink and over complicate everything I do.

So instead of struggling and overworking and hopefully eventually whittling it down into something I at least didn’t hate, I decided instead to start over but to keep the aforementioned issues in mind as I worked.

The differences might look negligible but I’m personally much happier with the second version, especially because I got there with considerably less difficulty. I could break down the reasons behind this at length but I’ll talk more about it when I post the finished sketches.

The main point is that this is finally starting to get me back on track with making comics regularly. There was a lot of stuff about the process that was still scaring me away but I think the work I’ve done on this page has already gone a long way towards correcting it.