Back in the Groove

I spent last night lounging on my new sectional, watching Severance and completing my first piece of art since November, whaaat??!

I’m so psyched to have the time and space (mental, emotional, and physical) to be creating again. I’m very proud of the illustration I finished last night, and equally proud of another one that I made significant progress on this weekend (though I haven’t quite finished it yet). I hit a massive roadblock in November when we both started prepping for the move and my digital pen mysteriously disappeared. I started a few sketches in late December and early January that I then had to sit on (scanner was packed away, and I start most of my drawings as traditional pencil sketches that I then scan), and the last few weeks I’ve barely had time or energy to think, let alone work.

But this weekend ushered in the start of my Winter Break, as well as the first weekend where I could look around the house and call it, in some respects, done. I mean, are there still things to be done? I mean, yeah — but there will always be things to be done, you know? Still, he house is furnished, it has a system of organization, and everything is unpacked. Do I still have to finish setting up the studio? Do we still need to haul all our packing trash and empty bins out to the shed/curbside? Yes. Does my wife still have to install all her custom bookshelves? Oh, hell yes.

But overall, the house is beginning to look like a home. It looks put together and cohesive and lived in and comfortable. Which means I can start being creative again.

I’ve started being active on Cara, and am in the process of moving a (slightly more curated) archive of my work over there, and all new art going forward will likewise be posted to Cara. I follow a lot of trans, disabled, and POC creators on Instagram, so I will retain a passive presence there in order to support them, as I know that for several of them, it is a primary (or sole) source of income. But I myself will not be posting new art there going forward.

I hope all is going well for all of you. I am excited and motivated and actually enjoying the process of creating art again. I hope you all are finding your motivation and passion.

Take care of yourselves, and each other.