It's finally here! Test day! I got crap sleep despite my best efforts so I'm just going to have to crash afterwards. At least I have some time to review before heading out.

I've set up my ko-fi and am officially taking commissions, if that's something you're interested in! I'm keeping it quite limited for now, but I'm excited! Once I finish my sets of badges, I will be opening up the shop portion alongside the commissions! ko-fi.com/justherefort...

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Rewards 🐸 (commissions are open??)@rewards.bsky.social · 6d ago

It feels weird making an announcement of an announcement, and I don't even know when I'm making the announcement, but I have a (for me) big announcement and it's making me feel like I wanna announce my announcement, but it'll have to wait for my next stream which... I'll announce once it happens.

What could my art be if I wasn't studying for a class or preparing for an exam? Or if I wasn't trying to make so much at once?

"Tonight" turned into the week. My exam is next Saturday. Pardon me while a freak out and panic because my quant skills are still not as strong as I want them to be T_T

I am, in fact, going to take tonight off. Going to study and rest.

Yeah. Issue 2 starting in January. Done!

I don't know if it'll happen, but I want to start getting pages up for issue 2 starting in January.

I actually did some page work tonight! And on stream no less? I like the shape of this week so far, and I really needed tonight. <3

No stream today. Can't brain, just want sleep.

Even when it's hard, and I'm quitting the night in frustration because I can't get my fingers and body to cooperate to make the thing happen, sometimes all I want to do is pick up my flute and go back to that measure or that phrase and master it. #flutevibe

Definitely going to just hang out off-line tonight, quietly. Sunday's also going to be by-ear because of the holiday and potential family activities. Tuesday, however, we have a date with a patch...

Fuck yeah.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last mo.

AND ITS CALLED IN THE FIRST FEW MINUTES! Ed Markey, incumbent, beats the anti-trans Democrat Seth Moulton in the primary race for Massachusetts Senate. Congressman Moulton had made targeting trans people part of his repertoire in the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election. He goes down.

May I be sentimental for a moment? Whenever I think of the arts, I am shaken in awe of this powerful energy of creation that drives people to draw and paint, to get on stage and sing, scream, and pretend, to MAKE something and share that with anyone and everyone.

Please make sure that your "championing of free speech" is in service to people who regularly have their speech and existence attacked judiciously, economically, and socially, not just you enjoying yours (or someone else's) "right" to be a bigot and to say slurs at folks.

I genuinely am begging people not to watch the new HP show. Like, also don't buy any branded stuff - she makes money off all that. But especially don't watch the damn show.

Welp. Twitch is twitching so until that issue is fixed, there might not be any "going live" today. :/

Okay, so yesterday, I wrote my little 8-bar study in C Major. Today, I'm going to write one in G Major.

I did it while freaking out, at least! Nice little Saturday music stream. I hope folks enjoyed a disassembled, jumbled, "watch me practice flute and clarinet" stream. Work on these nerves. Next week will be "Do it while tired."

Okay. To get me back on track, I'm going to spend this week (month?) working on my scripts. I can't keep fighting for my life every week to put out a single page of work. I'm a lot behind on where I thought I'd be, but at least I see where *a* bottleneck is. #makingcomics

I remember moving to Columbus and starting up my comics making seriously. There was one time I was at the Laundromat with a pile of pages to sketch out. #makingcomics

As much as I wanted to stream today, I'm laying in bed just worn out, and with no motivation.

We're baaaAAAaack!!!

ICv2@icv2.com · 2mo ago

Okay, I'm trying to do this 1-page and 4-page story thing again. Kinda playing catch-up from last month and trying to brainstorm some stuff for this month. #makingcomics

Hey. If you get the urge to play devil's advocate for gen AI, or be a "gen AI apologist" or to tell someone, "well you need to specify what type of AI you mean because...", stop yourself. No one's asking that of you. Companies pay folks to do that and if you're not getting that check, let it go.

The last day dawns on the kingdom of this comic... If you've been waiting until it's ALL up to read it, today's the day!! #webcomic www.illustratoroffantasies.com/espermarch/e...

Eyes Of Heaven No. 1 - Page 32 — Illustrator Of Fantasies

The world's only fate-reader has left, and no one knew enough to mourn what was to come except those who were there.

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Listen, if one of my friends told me they were forming a band, and they wanted me to join, I'd simply ask them, "Which of the seven instruments that I have would you want me on?"

It's me, forgetting to have posted this earlier this morning. Enjoy page 31, the penultimate page of this issue 1!! #webccomics www.illustratoroffantasies.com/espermarch/e...

Eyes Of Heaven No. 1 - Page 31 — Illustrator Of Fantasies

“Destroying the evidence?” More like making sure the job is done.

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So last night, I finished up Espermarch: Eyes Of Heaven #1 (the penultimate page posts in an hour). Got an emote out of it, as I do, and felt really accomplished. That's a whole 32-page story that is as done as it's going to be this year and I'm ready to move on. #makingcomics

Naturally, after the stream is over, the captions decided they wanted to work T_T My streaming life is a bit of a nightmare right now. Thank you for your patience, pardon the inconvenience.

We are now in August. The year marches ever forward.