Ever wish you could be a kid again? Check out this week’s Billy Badass!
Watch me play Rogue Legacy in my new Let’s Play series NoRights Plays…!
Last night I went to bed early and then couldn’t fall asleep. I killed some time online watching tutorials and eventually tuckered out around 12:30. Today I got up at 6 because my mom had an appointment in Columbus and needed me to man the GPS as navigator.
I’ve been exhausted lately. I want to get back to work in the studio but first I need a break.
Ever wish you could be a kid again? Check out this week’s Billy Badass!
Watch me play Rogue Legacy in my new Let’s Play series NoRights Plays…!
Family went home this morning. It was nice having them up to visit though I do appreciate being able to sleep in my own bed again. Speaking of sleep, I’ve been seeing spots and getting headaches lately, probably from sleep deprivation. I tried to lay back down after they left but couldn’t fall asleep. So we did grocery shopping and some other errands. Tomorrow looks to be a busy day outside of the studio, too.
I’ve been concentrating on my YouTube channel. I’m cleaning it up with playlists to all the things I put on there. Of course the NoRights Podcast is there, along with Crafting Mines, but I’m also rolling out other series such as my let’s play NoRights Plays… as well as some other shows I have in the works. Right now I’ll be posting videos on Tuesdays with the goal to update more regularly once I front load some content. I need to tweak the homepage and rest of the site a bit so folks can navigate each series properly. I want to keep posts about new episodes contained to their own pages so they don’t flood the blog.
Ever wish you could be a kid again? Check out this week’s Billy Badass!
Check out the fourth episode of Crafting Mines: A Minecraft Adventure.
We’ve had family staying over all weekend. It’s been fun visiting though this house is tight quarters for so many people. Today I let them all take off without me while I showered and played some Minecraft until we had lunch.
I picked up Logic and I spent the afternoon trying out the guitar amps. It’s been awhile since I’ve recorded any music and I’m looking forward to seeing what I can do. My studio’s a little cramped for instruments but I’ll be fine. I’m thinking I’ll probably have to pick up some hardware if I want to make full use of my midi keyboard up in my bedroom. Eventually I want to record that album I’ve been conceptualizing for like a year now but I’ll start off with some single tracks. Best to experiment and figure out the proper way to set up projects.
Remember summer when you were a kid? Come relive some memories at Billy Badass!
Check out the fourth episode of Crafting Mines: A Minecraft Adventure.
Today was spent at my dad’s again trying to get rid of the noise in my rear passenger wheel. He finally got it to stop grinding this evening. I don’t like losing days to non-creative stuff but I need my car in running order.
I also need to properly line up my sleep cycle. I have no real desire to stay up late anymore, I just end up doing it because it’s the only time I can get some peace and quiet to myself. Either that or I’m waiting to talk to people online – a wait that makes less sense the more I do it. I just need to relax, rest up, and get ready to focus on work again.
Remember summer when you were a kid? Come relive some memories at Billy Badass!
Check out the fourth episode of Crafting Mines: A Minecraft Adventure.
Today was spent fussing with my car. It’s mostly been sitting and I needed to check the fluids in it. Then my dad decided to change out the brake pads so we picked a set of those up. Take the wheel off and decide they don’t need changed, let’s try replacing the brake shoes on the back. Take the new ones out and hey, the old ones don’t look as bad as we thought, either. Still need to change the oil and replace one of the tires though I’m a little more concerned about the noise it was making when I drove it home than anything else.
So yeah, no creative work done today, but at least I’m taking better care of my car.
Remember summer when you were a kid? Come relive some memories at Billy Badass!
Check out the fourth episode of Crafting Mines: A Minecraft Adventure.
Took a nap yesterday and stayed up to watch a webinar. Eventually I got tired again and went back to bed where I listened to the latest Dirty Old Ladies podcast. Today was spent recording. I’m working on a review series and today I realized I need to make more notes. I also did some filming for Crafting Mines, which was a lot of technical hassle for how much I actually got done.
I’m trying to divvy my work time up between drawing/animating and recording/editing. The hardest part right now seems to be getting into the work zone and knocking things out. I’d really like to spend the first bit of time in the studio doodling and practicing gestures. I probably need to put together some more playlists to work to. I think it’ll help to have something recreational I only do once I’m done for the day so I can get out of work mode.
Remember summer when you were a kid? Come relive some memories at Billy Badass!
Check out the fourth episode of Crafting Mines: A Minecraft Adventure.
Today I worked on pages 13 and 14. Finished the inks on 13, word ballooned and panel bordered 14. Also spent time setting stuff up for later episodes of Crafting Mines.
Went to bed around 8, not counting the time I spent listening to a podcast before falling asleep. Woke up at 3:30 this morning to thumping around in the kitchen. Stayed in bed another hour without sleeping. Kept yawning while I was working but drowsiness really set in after I took some sinus meds because my head was full of all kinds of pressure. I’ve got stuff planned for later tonight so I’m probably going to try and squeeze in a nap.
Remember summer when you were a kid? Come relive some memories at Billy Badass!
Check out the third episode of Crafting Mines: A Minecraft Adventure.
Today was spent tightening pencils on two pages. I inked most of the first one and added panel borders.
I think right now I need to get my sleep schedule straightened up. Last night I couldn’t fall asleep and last week I woke up way too early. Some of it is due to adjusting to my meds but I also know I’m spending too much time online waiting to chat with people in other time zones. If I want to get to work early in the morning, which I do, then I’m just going to have to be a grownup.
It’s somebody’s birthday in Billy Badass! Come help us blow out the candles!
Check out the third episode of Crafting Mines: A Minecraft Adventure.
Today was spent editing videos and fixing things. The format I’d been rendering them to was too large and they were taking like two days to upload. I fiddled with Final Cut Pro X’s settings and decided to just use the YouTube sharing option, which I’m still a little suspicious of, personally. Making sure a project renders correctly is a pretty important step and relegating it to a background task is just asking for things to go wrong. Not to mention the share settings are obfuscated by presets.
“Share to Apple Devices looks promising, I’ll try that. Oh, it’s done – where the hell is it? I bet it stuck it in iTunes, oh let me just find my way through the various screens and ways it displays things in iTunes, ok, yeah, there it is…”
I like Final Cut, it just assumes it can run smoother than it does so glitches happen. Like I bumped my mic in the recording and wanted to section off that part of the audio to lower. I click the little razor icon in the place I want to mark and… nothing. I try the other side of the bump and… nothing. Apparently it was wanting me to select along snap points in the time line or something like that? I honestly couldn’t tell. I just did the best I could with the bugs it was throwing at me. Then I tried to do it again in the next project and it worked fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Today was my first day on the prescription the doc gave me. I was up late so I slept in and woke up feeling better than most mornings when I do that. I’m not sure how much is the meds vs me wanting them to work along with getting rest after a stressful day but I’m going to say they’re helping. The constant hum of anxiety was quieted and I could decide to not think about things if I didn’t want to.
It’s somebody’s birthday in Billy Badass! Come help us blow out the candles!
Check out the third episode of Crafting Mines: A Minecraft Adventure.
Today was spent writing/rough penciling comic pages. I got three done but the fourth one is going to require a little research to fit all together properly. If I was doing more than one a week I could probably spread it out but I think it’s best to get way ahead before adding update days.
I had a doctor’s appointment today for a physical and to check into anything ongoing. I described my anxiety issues and they gave me a prescription to try. I’m hoping it makes things more manageable.