Lady T. is a versatile 2D visual artist specializing in digital art, illustration, & mixed media (watercolor painting, acrylic + India ink, colored pencils, and alcohol markers). Skills extend to graphic design, themed events, and cosplay.
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Like woah! Itās here and just wow. What is time even!? Iāve been networking, posting and promoting so much over the last few months leasing you to this point and woah here we are. I just want to get back to creating though bc that stuff is exhausting when paired with trying to make posting schedule across multiple sites. I know Iāll get ahold of it soon, but itās way more time consuming than youād think haha.
Iām thankful for my friends and fam for encouraging me to get to this point and I know Iām just starting in my comic making journey, so look forward for whatās to come!
Check my comic out yāall if you like my work ;)!
So now that I have a release date for the comic, it feel like time is just flying by. Like Nov 1st is right around the corner and though there is still tons to do, itās important to breathe.
Not only am I trying to complete my backlog, Iām also working on promo illustrations and formatting all my main social media sites to reflect that I want to drive attention to my comic. Iām very much planning my wedding (and loving it) and looking to boost my income (without doing a second job). I wish overtime was a thing at my current job, but oh well. Gotta work with whY I got. So that means taking on some. Commissions. Do I have time for them? Haha no, but Iāve found that min maxing my time by planing accordingly will make the time.
I still have to be careful and only do a bit at a time, but I feel like working under these constraints (though they add pressure) help provide structured use of my time. I love gaming, but when I could be working on the comic, making a little side change, improving my skills, or working on the wedding, it really puts the way I use my time into perspective.
Now itās important to enjoy your you time for sure, but structuring it so that it balances with self enrichment and productivity is where itās at.
11.2.2020 will kick off my first Magicalmashup! Monday!! Thatās when Iām going to do the thing and begin releasing my comic woot! Iām so excited to finally start posting it. Leading up to the date Iāll be posting some goodies on my social media sites to introduce the characters and maybe a bit of the world :).
If you want to be their for when the first pages drop jump up on this hype train and check out magicalmashup.com or follow on Tapas at https://m.tapas.io/series/MagicalMashup/info yay!
To see all the behind the scenes art, and previews, checkout Instagram.com/lady.t.musings or twitter.com/lady_toyano
I thought I posted about the books Iāve been reading during the Pandemic to brush up on my knowledge and skills as an artist already, but turns out I forgot to actually que them up so yeah, let me back track real quick and talk about some of them :}!
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter by James Gurney, he also has a blog and YouTube channel with lots of fantastic information and art. His book combines a lot of lessons and more from his blog and compiled into a beautiful book filled with color theory explanations and examples anyone from a novice to expert can gain something from.
Reading this book gave me everything I wanted from the studio art classes I took in college. They were good classes, but I didnāt get the understanding I thought I would from the on portraying light and color…or figure drawing. Iām still haunted by cow skulls :/.
Anyway, each chapter is broken up to a two page spread or less with all the key points youād need to understand the concepts James is talking about. Not just talking, but also showing examples of!!
Idk about you, but nothing makes my eyes roll harder than a book about art techniques or color thatās is all text with small examples. I need to see what you are talking about, and I never had a problem grasping anything James talked about because he creates fantastic examples. All art or photos that he has created or taken himself (often from his Dinotopia series) Thatās hella baller and makes this book a most have for any artist.
I got so into reading this book I had to crack open a fresh notebook to take notes in bc the highlighters werenāt enough! For each new topic I created an exercise for practicing what Iāve read. Itās actually something Iāve carried over to any reading regarded art improvement. Itās pretty nifty when Iām trying to decide where to start. Just open the lesson planner and pick something.
Donāt strain your eyes trying to read my handwriting hahah, Iāmma probably type this up for reasons later though
He has another book as well thatās called Imaginative Realism that focuses on bringing your imagination to life that I also picked up too. Itās also pretty good, but I found not nearly as practical as much of the advice would then say, āmake a maquetteā and Iām like….I aināt got the time, clay, or space for all them figures (as cool as thatād be). Buutt when thinking about it, I can translate it into making 3D models for reference so not a complete bust.
I really love a lot of the fun sketches in this book and models (even if Iām not going to be making them).
The next books are geared towards watercolorist.
The New Encyclopedia of Watercolor Techniques is an incredibly helpful book for exploring watercolors. Everything is laid out neatly with ample examples for each technique discussed. This book has a nice balance of text and art that illustrates each point clearly.
Itās hella comprehensives on the many techniques and tools that can be used when painting and discusses terminology native to watercolor as a medium.
Glazing is a pretty baller technique that Iād like to play with more in future pieces.
The last book Iām going to highlight is actually from a series of how to books by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law that details how she creates her dreamy fantasy watercolor paintings.
Stephanie has created books on making fantasy worlds and the creatures that reside within them. Each book serves as a how to guide for creating fantastical creations in her style. Itās a beautiful style filled with wispy and elegant lines, and soft colors that make a splash on the page.
A lot of my line work tends to lean on the bolder side, but I definitely appreciate studying different kinds of artistic styles since you never know what you may pick up. Iām still reading through the Dreamscapes series, but Iām loving the step by step Stephanie takes from sketch to completed painting and the techniques and tools she used to get there!
When I have more recommendations, Iāll be sure to let yāall know :).
Sat down with my paints and got to swatching! Check out my charts woot!
Swatch chart made from my studio palette
These are the colors I have in my Studio Palette. Iāll break them down by brand, but they are all mixed up on my palette. All the brands Iāve chosen have fantastic colors, but as I was being very picky, some do have colors that just spoke to me more during my comparisons.
From Daniel Smith I have the most colors from Buff Titanium, Burnt Sienna, Quinacradone Gold, Quinacradone Coral, Neutral taint, and Cascade Green. Daniel smith has a huge line of beautiful colors and a ton of fun colors I just wanted to try out, Cascade Green is one I look forward to playing with more. Daniel Smith makes beautiful earthy colors, but also vibrant jewel tones too. Quin Coral is just a gorgeous color and so I had to have it. Buff titanium is a convenience color I like for mixing skin and pastels. Neutral tint is for darkening without black and more convenience.
Da Vinci: Raw Umber. I want to try out more Da Vinci colors, but many of the colors I picked out for them lost to M. Graham when I compared my swatches before buying. Now that I have it in my palette I really want to try more colors of this brand bc they set up solid and re-wet so nice and creamy! Not to mention that bang for our buck!
Sennelier: Lemon Yellow, Indian Yellow, and Ultramarine Deep. Sennelier swatched some of the loveliest light colors Iād seen, so I knew I wanted to get my yellows from them. The Ultramarine was a last minute swap, but I dig it as It works well as a softer blue.
M. Graham: Quinacradone Rose, Phthalo Green and Blue. M. Graham has some of the move vibrant colors around. They donāt set up as nice in palettes, but so long as I donāt leave them in the heat and then put them in my bag, they set up enough to travel with. Iām totally in love with the vibrant colors I get with these colors alone, and when mixed, chefs kiss!!
Holbien: Terre Verte. This was a last minute addition. I needed something that would be able to create earthy colors and decided on Terre Verte. I wanted the one from Sennelier, but was sold out so went with Holbein. I wanted to play with some Holbein colors anyway since they arenāt as granulating and offered more control when painting, but again, most of the colors I had picked out for them lost in the color comparisons to M. Graham and Daniel Smith. Now that Iāve played with this color, I also enjoy how it sets hard and re-wets well. Much like the Da Vinci, so Iād like to explore them some more in the future.
QOR: Dioxazine Purple. I was afraid to get to many QOR colors as I do enjoy having control over my paints as opposed to letting them fly around the page, but the more I practice with watercolors the less I fear that. I mean watercolor paint only goes where there is water so control where the water is and that settles that ha! This purple is such a fantastic color to mix with and a nice convince purple as purple is my favorite color. Iād be down to try more primaries from QOR for sure, specifically reds!
The colors in my Portable Paint Palette are Quin Rose and Coral, Buff Titanium, Dioxazine purple, Phtalo blue and green, Indian and lemon yellow, Burnt Sienna and Raw Umber. This palette is the one Iāll be using mostly for World Watercolor month.
Portable painting palette
These are my swatch cards for my portable palette. I just used some practice Bee Watercolor paper and then cut and laminated the swatches once dry so I could tuck them into the palette when on the go. They are front and back FYI.
I’f you are reading this live, I should have a few paintings up on the right where my Insta feed is. Im particularly proud of this one below though :3c.
I have spent a good bit of this pandemic reading and getting lost in the YouTube art scene. Seeing so many talented people create beautiful and dreamy compositions really got me excited and gave me the inspiration I needed to get serious about getting on track with improving my skills with physical media again. Deciding to focus on one medium at a time for now, Iāve gotten serious about refreshing what I know, or thought I knew, about these mediums. Iām going with watercolors first as the challenge month is upon us and Iāve been itching to make my own color palette based on all the notes Iāve made thus far. I talked about the book I found most rejuvenating by James Gurney, Color and Light in an older post.
I’ve been meaning to improve my watercolor game for a few years now. I first explored the medium in high school and totally fell for how the colors looked like they were glowing when applied to paper. I tried to play more with the medium after high school, but could never achieve the same results I had in class, so I moved away form it. A few years ago I got back into wanting to use the medium again and looked into buying a decent premade set. I found the 24 pan White Nights set and used that for a bit, and even though it’s a beautiful set, I still didn’t feel as attached to it and wound up going to Gauche when my local art supply shop closed down and had a massive sale on everything in stock.
I have since left Gauche alone as the ones I had did not re-wet all too well and I rotate mediums, so ones that expire fast are off the table, but hey, play and learn.
The mediums that I come back to repeatedly and have this considered my stickers are Alcohol markers, Watercolors, Acrylic Ink, and of course digital painting (Procreate and Clip Studio Paint). I know that sounds like a lot, but trust me, this is the narrowed focus list. I LOVE customizing and that extends to every part of my life. From what I wear, to what I eat, and of course what I create. I can never just follow a recipe without throwing my own spin on it and the same goes for picking my supplies. The mediums that I actually stick with are ones that I invested the time to create my own custom sets of. It took me a second to really think about that (even though it’s totally obvious).
I spent months comparing colors for my Copic collection before ordering each marker individually. I spent weeks looking into ink properties and color combinations for my Acrylic Ink sets, I spent years looking into individual pens and pencils for drawing. When it came to watercolors, I just found a decent set and wondered why I wasn’t as excited to create with it. Even if it was a fantastic set. Open Stock is truly the way to go for me. The study, comparisons, and care that go into selecting each color makes it meaningful and gives me that much more reason to want create. That’s what was missing from my watercolor selections. Not the quality of paints, but the journey of customizing my own palette.
Painting is such a unique medium. You can make new colors from just having a small selection of colors available to you and thatās pretty neat, some knowledge on color theory will helps to avoid a ton of repeated color mixes, or over mixing in general when building a custom limited palette. Limited color choices in painting palettes are a fantastic way to see color theory in action too. My style is definitely more illustrative so I knew that I would need the ability to mix bold colors and a range of skin tones.
I studied swatches from Jane Blundellās blog, if itās worth a dang in the watercolor world, sheās swatched it. I then would check out Denise, of In Liquid Color to see the paints in action as she has extensive color spot light videos, reviews, and tutorials on color mixing. I also enjoyed checking out Sadie Saves the Day for more examples on beautiful illustrations and helpful reviews and information on the medium too!
For anyone that wants a quick cheat sheet to putting together a legit color palette, I’d recommend this really neat post On the Jacksonās Art blog. It’s a short and sweet entry about choosing colors for a limited pallets and its fantastic advice for crafting a limited pallet that will create a wide array of lovely mixes. Definitely worth a read if you are trying to figure out what colors to use and why when youāre starting in watercolor.
There are more resources that I used, but these are the ones I found myself going back to repeatedly when crafting my palette. Once I had my list of colors together, I was ready to shop! Of course the pandemic has art supplies in short supply, but I was fortunate enough to find what I needed through three store: Dickblick, Jerrys Artarama, and Jacksonās Art in the UK, sadly my local art supply shop packed up shop last year, so Iāve had to move supply hunting all online now since they only things left in town are Michaelās and Hobby Lobby, so yeahā¦nah.
The other supplies I purchased were a palette that Iād be able to add more to later for my studio, the MITJELLO 18 well palette and the Portable Paint Palette for on the go. It has 12 wells and I love its design! I had all the other tools already, but did up my brush game as I realized of all the brushes I have, the only ones I use are the Jacksonās brand Quill Brushes, I have this brush in a variety of sizes. The only brush I use that isnāt in this quill family is a 00 round for detail. They are such lovely and cheap brushes. They feel good, have a variety of sizes, go thin to thick, hold a good amount of water, and they are forgiving if I leave them in water by accident. I KKKNOOOWWW thatās a terrible habit, but I have short term memory problems that crop up at funny times and finding my brushes in good health after one of these bouts feels good.
Next Iām going to paint out my watercolor mixing chart for my large palette and then make some smaller swatch sheets for the portable pallet to use for reference. Iāve studied for this and know the colors I have will make some cool colors, but being able to see the nuance of each color in person has me excited.
Itās time for another art challenge!! This time itās World Watercolor Month! Another month long art challenge and you bet Iām participating and excited to reach that finish line. Amongst all the other things, Iām working on with the comic, and now planning a wedding amidst this pandemic, Iāve added this extra art exercise to my schedule as well.
Why? Well to be honest, I love the steady growth and experimentation that art challenges provide. Iām not as rigid when I participate in them, and they let me explore whatever pops into my mind. Iām not harping on myself about being consistent or trying to be a perfectionist. I take it for the learning experience it is and just create. In times like these, that kind of energy is exactly what I need to keep my creativity and self in a healthy state of existing. I also get a lot of filler characters done during these challenges for the comic too. I mean Iām going full in on the fantasy, so gotta bring the people and beings of the world to life too. Productivity all around!
Iāve wanted to dedicate time to improve my watercolor game for a few years now. Heck I even thought it would be a great idea to color all backgrounds or architectural references for MagicalMashup! in watercolor (and even did a few) before realizing that the amount of work would still be the same.
I still have to get over myself about backgrounds and just draw them more ( not only that, but mixing the palettes necessary for each nation would consume a ton of time bc Iād be trying to match the digital swatches by hand and just woof. I mean just making the digital coloring palettes took weeks alone :V).
In the end, I just kept back-burning dedicating the time needed to up my watercolor game. Often to focus on getting my digital art together, figuring out what do with acrylic inks, or learning how to use Alcohol Markers adequately.
Art is a never ending journey of learning, so I figure alternating between the mediums that Iām invested in while giving each one its own dedicated study time is the best way to satisfy my itch to use a variety of mediums. This way I can develop all four while giving them the attention they require to see improvement and get a better understanding of each medium. I love creating in all four mediums for different reasons, so logically Iād love to combine all four and see what happens. A lofty dream that will end in something amazing or terrible. Either way, Iām going for itā¦ but not just yet. There is still only so many hours in a day. Iām still developing a comic after all and that comes first, so I get my physical media practice in usually on weekends with a few acceptations.
One BIG acceptation is an ART CHALLENGE!! What better way to start the practical part of the learning cycle then with an art challenge! It just so happened that when I was deciding when to start taking all my color theory and light studies into practice I heard about World Watercolor Month (the universe has spoken)! Iām looking forward to seeing what comes of this month long journey and sharing the results, but first I want to talk about my prep!
Just a quickie with the Kuretake gansai tambi set of watercolors that I havenāt use. I want to at least use them for use more quick sketches if nothing else.
I come from a long line of Fat black women. Form my grans on both sides, to my aunts, and mother (who only became fat once she had me) I have seen and been a part of being Fat and Black (I get the added bonus of being tall lol) my whole life. Luckily, I was raised feeling normal for my size, well at least until I went outside.
That is when I started to see just how different I was. Going shopping with friends and other family members was often dreaded bc I knew my clothing options were going to be abysmal or just inappropriate and ranging between looking like a bag of Skittles Tropical Burst, or a burlap sack MooMoo, oh or lingerie. I could not fit anything displayed in girls or women for that matter, and trying to find a visual que on where I should look based on models was pointless (thankfully, that has changed a ton!).
Age appropriate clothes for a Fat gal that were affordable and could be washed and wouldn’t fall apart was hard to come by for me, so I just became a tomboy. I could at least get appropriate coverage and the clothes were affordable for my size and they fit!
Menās clothing also made me feel more secure about myself too when I went out in public, Iām pretty sure this had more to do with the fear of being sexually assaulted than anything else, though when it comes to that, clothing doesnāt really matterā¦ How my blackness impacts my weight is a whole other can of worms that deals a lot with opportunities available, fear, and doing what you know vs what you should know.
I remember growing up in public housing and my mom being deathly afraid of not being able to feed us, so when there was a program for food or food bank, she signed up and went out to get what she could. She never wanted her kids to have to deal with anything she did growing up, so we always had plenty to eat. Was it the best stuff we could be eating? No, frankly most of it was incredibly unbalanced nutritionally and loaded with salt, but as a single mother working with kids to feed she did what she could as best she could with her resources being what they were.
A balanced meal wasnāt something I learned about how to make until after high school, and even then I wasnāt actually using what I had learned until I got a better job and could afford to buy good ingredients to make better food (well into my 20s). My food habits have improved a ton, but it has definitely been an experience adapting recipes to my pallet and health while accruing new tastes. I have taken to writing recipes that I have adapted and altered so that I have options that I know work for me when I go to cook and donāt know what to make to keep from falling back into bad food habits (Top Shelf Ramen, talking about you). Iām still not as well off to do as Iād like in regards to my health, but my reality is Iāve always been fat. Even when I lost a ton of weight due to cancer, I was still fat. Is it possible I wonāt be fat in the future? Maybe, but thatās not what Iām focused on or care about.
My being Fat and Black is just another part of who I am. With being black impacting so many parts of my life on a micro and macro scale, I was at least ignorant to a lot of that in my youth as I didnāt quite understand how my being black affected me in ways I could word. I mean I knew there was something different, but I just could not put my finger on it. At least until I moved down South (story for another day). I spent a lot of time in my life being insecure of my stretchmarks and wanting to cover myself, but having a woman as confident and big as my Aunty living un-apologetically got me to reevaluate how I presented myselfā¦.well once I got to college anyway (life is a journey you know).
Itās one thing to hear you are beautiful or worthy, but it can be hard to believe it when you donāt see it when you look around you. Form the media I consumed to the people in my community that I would observe how they carried themselves to see how I should. The message was clear that my Fat Black ass did not fit in. I tried hard to fit in at first, but then I just was exhausted and decided to be ok with being the other.
Thankfully, I did have amazing people in my life that nurtured my passions and talents which did wonders for my ability to get lost in creating, but even that was impacted by my views on myself. Here I was this fat black gal, but I never drew fat people. I drew black people as dark skinned versions of characters that already existed, but as I ventured into making art for myself more, fat people were not included in anything I made and original black characters were not exactly abundant either.
It wasnāt until my Aunty invited me to visit her in Pittsburgh right as I was about to go to college that I had the big Ah-HAAA moment. My aunty was very proud of me and wanted to spend time together before I started College. I had a blast seeing the other half of my family and enjoyed the shopping trips where she showed me where I could find clothes for my body that fit. That makeover that she did for me really did wonders for my confidence. When we got back to her place she told me to go wild in her closet and I could take whatever I wanted. Yaāll I got on the Greyhound back to Alabama with 2 garbage bags filled with clothing and my carry on. I clutched those clothes to my body as if they were gold bars.
That summer changed something in me and from that point forward, I started giving more of a damn in how I presented myself when I went out. Putting care into how I dressed myself got me into makeup and built my confidence even more. The last time I visited Pittsburgh when she was alive, I brought my makeup kit with all the makeup I had tested and scoured for that complimented dark skin and gave all the women and guys in the house that wanted one, a makeover. It was a truly beautiful and inspiring moment to see their faces light up at how makeup can be used to highlight whatās already there and that there are options, but it does take some digging to find them.
My Aunty Towanda may be gone now, but she was one of the most empathetic, strong willed, and soft hearted people I ever knew. She was hard on the outside, but she truly cared hard. Iām thankful for having her in my life when I did because she helped me to fill comfortable in my own fat skin which then added to the growing pile of self worth that got me to start being more inclusive of the characters I created and the stories I wanted to tell.
I want to talk about being Black I want to talk about being Fat I want to talk about being a Lady I want to talk about Art
All four of the taglines in that header represent my points of view and what you can expect to find highlighted in my art and writing. Is that all of me? Of course not, but it sums up my identity in a nice and easy to identify package. Itās taken a long time for me to be able to be ok and shoot, PROUD to even describe myself as any of those qualities, let alone all of those together as each one carries its own bias and prejudices attached to it. Through my blog post I mainly talk about the steps Iām taking towards making my comic, but I also talk about my experiences, inspirations, and motivations. This is me sharing my life and experiences. Iām breaking down these tags that I use to describe myself and how they relate/impact the other over the next few post and want to discuss what they mean to me.
Onbeing Black. I remember there was a time where I wanted nothing more, but to be seen as just another person over being seen as my race. It seems silly to me now bc I am a person, I am also Black. I used to think it was such a great thing to hear someone say, āI donāt see race, I only see people.ā In theory, thatās a beautiful statement, but in reality itās actually erasure. Donāt you see, I am a person, I am also Black. Ignoring my skin color also ignores my history and what having my skin color means. I would love to say that being Black
hasnāt changed anything about my journey as a human being, but that would be truly indulging fiction when the reality is my art, media consumption, hair, skincare, makeup, food, and the list goes on, have all been impacted by being Black. My art from the subjects I primarily chose to focus on (a journey I have discussed on this blog and still have many words to say about). My media consumption through trying to find and latch onto anything with portrayals of black people with my life experiences that made me feel represented and seen in the shows I loved (as representation does matter believe it or not, it does). Through my hair just existing in its natural state and being viewed as inferior or unprofessional. Through my skincare trying to take care of it without having to lighten it, but also deal with hyper-pigmentation in spots and shaving while black and what trauma to the skin looks like (big YIKES). From trying to find makeup that does not make me look like a clown because the color matching systems in makeup have been known to get real funny once you are darker than a light suntan. To the foods, I have had available to me growing up Black and in poverty that I am still leaning to adjust to accommodate my pallet and well being. The list goes on and I could go on, but I think this should help with understanding how saying things like, āI donāt see color.ā can be hurtful. You could instead say, āI see you as you are and I love you.ā In saying those words instead, you validate my existence as I am and show that you care. That means so much more to me.
Over the last (psha when was the last time I posted…hmmnn) year a ton has happened to the world we live in from a societal view. Things are and will be different due to this Pandemic. I find myself thinking how sci-fi this should seem, but it’s reality. I was out of work for 6 weeks and while at home the anxiety, nerves, fear and worry were a constant nag on my sanity (still are as we are still in the midst of the Pandemic as I write this), but I have been back at work since May 1st, so yeah… Staying sanatised, busy, and masked up.
During the whole 6 weeks away from work, I put a lot of my anxiety and nerves at ease by staying busy. It’s true I spent a ton of time playing video games like Death Stranding, Plants vs Zombies, Borderlands and ahhh that’s not important lol, I mean a gal needs to decompress and get lost in some fictional immersion when it’s at the point where hearing someone cough gets folks jumpy. That’s not all I did, I also spent a lot of time reading and researching about color, light, form, storytelling, and making comics in general AND making my CODEX for my comic. All things that I have been doing, but during this time at home, I really got the time to dive deep into these areas and make some good headway on all fronts.
My pent up energy flowed through my fingertips most afternoons (bc ya’ll know I slept in every day!) and into connecting the lore of my fantasy world Magos to the characters that reside in it. Having my darling as a sounding board, and asker of questions I never would have thought about (extremely helpful when trying to figure out character reactions and motivations fyi) made the days fly by. Finally my reference notes and musings on my Fantasy world, it’s customs, and people is done. Something I had been meaning to refine for years completed within the 6 weeks of staying home and trying to stay safe.
It’s not perfect, but it’s a lot easier for me to understand and see more clearly what I am trying to create in this New Adult Fantasy comic about a fat and black mage gal with a unique ability leaving her hidden home in Faiewood for the first time and making her way to the Institute of Magical, Mystical and Mythical Arts (IMMMA) where here story truly begins in the Heart of Lufiriya; a nation filled with a multitude of beings of magic and technology working and living side by side. It’s a lot to take in for Junah, our protagonist, but it’s also the start of an exciting new chapter in her life (One I look forward to sharing).
Though I don’t think this is something necessary to do for all comic creators or even story tellers, it defiantly is a helpful resource to have as reference if you are working in sci-fi or fantasy. This probably would have been more helpful to hear during the height of the stay at home business, but here I am now and this info still holds true for anyone who wishes to work on getting their story out their, but have idle hands and don’t know where to direct that energy. Gather your resources into a binder, book, word doc, whatever. Just get it together. It may not be what you think you should be doing but hey, starting somewhere is better than not starting at all.
Now that I am back to work and having to manage my time a lot more efficiently, I’m working to figure out the best approach to maximizing my creative output each day. I’ve started doing 1hr in the studio each weekday save Mondays, as Mondays are MagicalMashup! Mondays and is reserved specifically for working on the comic. I’m also breaking all my notebooks up because having all my notes and markings in one book is to confusing to refer back to late. This is working for me, but also means I have like 3 notebooks I carry around daily. Though I also carry a large purse so HA, I’m game.
Next post I would like to share some of the reading materials That I have found *super effective* and how I plan to use what I’ve picked up!
Stay safe.
A friend of mine that is an excellent photographer allowed me to use her work for ref. She takes excellent fantasy mood photos from real life. @freodywn on Instagram
