It Lives!

Wow. It’s been far longer than I realized since the last time I posted, probably a result of having been unemployed for nearly a year. Motivation to do anything that doesn’t help find one a job feels dirty; brewing guilt for not doing something immediately productive.

Ironically, I’ve been sketcking far more often than I ever did while I was working; an act that doesn’t require me to verbally vent about the state of things. As a result, my art overall has improved and evolved in ways I thought I had already solidified; the facial style of my characters has changed, as have bodily shape and proportions. I even feel confident with a pencil again, as I had been doing everything purely digital for so long. In fact, I hardly did any digital work during the past year – while my sketchbooks have gotten plump and full. This is a good thing.

Consequently, this habitual shift has sparked a desire to start keeping a sketchblog. I want to begin just posting up my raw sketches on here, as a way to more easily chronicle my progress and to get my ideas out to people I know and trust for some honest evaluation or just simple moral support. If anything, it’d be just another way to keep a focal lens on my art.

This will all be culminating into a new comic idea, as well. My fascination with the atmospheric aesthetic of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories and hourglassy femme-fatales have inspired me to delve into a kind of eldritch art-deco clockwork flavor of science fiction. The project is currently called ‘Cryptohuntress.’

Another factor leading me in this direction is that I’ve been gaming regularly with a group of close friends in things like Arkham Horror and Trail of Cthulhu – the latter of which is something new we just got into, and I’m the Keeper. It’s a great opportunity to start workshopping how to create investigative horror fiction, and keep it compelling.

Other than all that, I’m going to try to stay on top of this blog. I’m looking forward to firing up the scanner!