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Watch me play Don’t Starve in my new Let’s Play series NoRights Plays…!

This morning I roughed out a few ideas for a project I’ll be starting. Then I inked about half the Halloween page. I’m just going to focus on getting that one done since there’s lots of details and I’d rather get it out of the way to avoid bottleneck. Had lunch this afternoon with dad and this evening he wanted to check out my old cellphone to see if he was interested in it. It wouldn’t verify properly at his place so we’ll try later at mine.

I keep feeling like I’m only doing half the work I’m capable of in a day. I suspect it’s from working too long on the same project. Not exactly sure how to change things up and still get the main thing done. I’m going to try doing some more gestures/studies/drawings for fun since I got Mischief. Hopefully I can pick the Daily Doodle habit back up and record some WIP videos. Taking a break from drawing to do more drawing might not be the easiest thing but I’ll see what happens.

Remember the discovery of the RMS Titanic? Check out this week’s Billy Badass!

Watch me play Don’t Starve in my new Let’s Play series NoRights Plays…!

Woke up tired this morning. Thought I’d sleep in a bit to see if I could get over it. Went for dinner and some errands with mom in the afternoon. Got a wired Xbox 360 controller to see if it handled better on some games than my wireless PS3 controller. (If I’d done wireless I’d have needed a separate dongle.) So far the answer is no. The games that detected the old controller recognized the new one but having one for a 360 didn’t help with the games I had to use a key mapper for. My feelings about controller support are the same as porting to Mac – if players are doing it on their own developers have no excuse.

I got some frappuccino to wake up and was going to see what I could work on in the evening. I fiddled around with my green screen setup to try and improve the let’s play videos for a bit. The studio’s cramped and I need better lighting. Then Frank video called me because he wanted to try Minecraft on the server I set up. I thought he wanted to do that Saturday after the podcast but whatever. Spent a good deal of time just getting his account set up. I recorded it but my mic input was selected properly so we’ll need to play some more later. This is also why I’m writing this at 1 in the morning on Saturday.

So yeah, not the most productive day though I stayed busy. Tomorrow’s going to be busy, too, as I try to upgrade my phone and some other stuff before the podcast.

Remember the discovery of the RMS Titanic? Check out this week’s Billy Badass!

Watch me play Don’t Starve in my new Let’s Play series NoRights Plays…!

This morning I penciled two more pages so I should start inking those tomorrow. I took a nap and tried to start laying out an animation project I’m putting together. By then the decision making part of my brain was outta juice so maybe I should open with that in the morning. Treat it as a warm up exercise and get some ideas out before the precision of inking. Then my dad wanted to do some running around.

I’m still trying to make the second half of my day as productive as the first. Since I’m napping anyway I might as well treat it as a second day and freshen up in the shower. That does seem to wake me up in the morning. I’ll sort out the hours and routine after I figure out how to get that second wind.

Remember the discovery of the RMS Titanic? Check out this week’s Billy Badass!

Watch me play Don’t Starve in my new Let’s Play series NoRights Plays…!

I basically took today off. I slept in hoping my anxiety would clear up after some rest. After I showered and everything my dad wanted to grab lunch and run some errands. When I got home my mom wanted to go grocery shopping. When I don’t get up early to work in the studio my time has a habit of disappearing.

I think my anxiety came on from being tired. I might try mid-day naps or something since going to bed early tends to lead to waking up before my alarm. I’m usually in bed by 9 or 10 but I don’t know. When I started the meds I had to get used to not having the anxiety. Then yesterday when it came back I didn’t know how to handle it. It’s like when you get a headache or feel nauseous. Just waiting for this feeling to go away to allow clear thought. People try to reassure me or tell me to stop feeling that way but I can’t. I know rationally there’s nothing to get worked up over but that doesn’t help. So far the meds have leveled me out, more or less. I can talk about it and not feel terrified or embarrassed. I’m making progress.

Remember the discovery of the RMS Titanic? Check out this week’s Billy Badass!

Watch me play Don’t Starve in my new Let’s Play series NoRights Plays…!

I penciled two pages this morning. I was hoping to work on some more after lunch but while I was helping my dad with his trail cams my anxiety started to perk up. It was one of those, “Am I really feeling this or am I bringing it on by thinking about it?” I’m not sure what brought it on but I decided work can wait until tomorrow.

Work-wise I’m enjoying the art I’m making but feel I could be working harder. Being alone in the studio my attention starts to wander. I’ve used work playlists to keep focused in the past but I probably need to make some more. The ones I have now tend to feel monotonous after awhile.

Remember the discovery of the RMS Titanic? Check out this week’s Billy Badass!

Watch me play Don’t Starve in my new Let’s Play series NoRights Plays…!

Today I penciled two pages. My goal has been to finish two pages a day but maybe I should scale back. I’ll try working on two a day and see if I can at least get a stage of production done. I’m also going to try working on another project in the afternoons to break it up. There’s one I’ve been thinking about but haven’t let myself work on as I’ve been trying to grow the buffer. I’ll see if that helps keep my head in the game. If not there’s always video editing, recording, and writing to do.

Remember Somewhere in Time? Check out this week’s Billy Badass!

Watch me play Don’t Starve in my new Let’s Play series NoRights Plays…!

Spent the morning researching/writing/roughing out six pages today. Didn’t originally intend to work on that many at once, just sorta happened as I was picking topics and seeing what I could do for each one. I’ll probably split them up when I get back to them. I think two a day is a nice number assuming I can stay on target with it.

At noon my dad wanted me to come over and order a pizza. That was nice, save my cellphone deciding to show low battery, even though I know it had a good charge. When I docked it back home it still had over 50% so I’m blaming iOS 9. Last time it did that I was browsing Facebook and it was at 87% before going off like that. I’m going in next week to see if I can upgrade it.

Remember Somewhere in Time? Check out this week’s Billy Badass!

Watch me play Don’t Starve in my new Let’s Play series NoRights Plays…!

I felt better today so I started cutting together a video of the various stages of my entry for the Animation Challenge. I’ll probably have that up next week. For now you can check out the compilation video of all the entries here:

My evening’s been pretty busy since then. My dad came over and we went for dinner, then I had a haircut, then my dad wanted me to ride along and check his trail cams. We only saw one deer this time, but it was in the middle of a night shot where you could only see the eyes looking creepy.

Remember Somewhere in Time? Check out this week’s Billy Badass!

Watch me play Don’t Starve in my new Let’s Play series NoRights Plays…!

Today was a slow, rainy day. I got those comic pages shaded, fixed an error on an old page, and watermarked the new ones. Did some running around with my dad this afternoon and then I put together preview images for each page. I need to figure out a way to push previews and links out automatically. Most things set to share updates just embed the article which isn’t what I want. Of course I could post the previews and links on each update day manually but it’s a better use of my time to set all that in bulk so I don’t worry about forgetting something.