Fair enough. I assume you mean when I started Dresden Codak? I’ll break down the honest-to-goodness process of the early comics:
Draw comics in mechanical pencil on the back of my statistics homework (never turned in) and then ink on top of that with a micron pen.
Sneak into the Honors College study room (from which I was expelled for poor grades) and use their scanner.
Use a mouse and a bootleg copy of Photoshop 7 to color the pages.
Upload it to my site, which at the time was flat HTML that I’d written from scratch.
And that’s it!
real hardcore bitches color with mice, yo
represent
I’m having flashbacks to drawing comics on my biology homework and scanning it by sneaking into the newspaper room. This is basically my same formula.
Thank you very, very, very much for your wonderful illustration paralleling a time-bomb to the type of cancer Ms. Jolie carries the gene for! It's a perfect metaphor, and executed wonderfully. As one with a grandmother who's passed away from breast cancer, and has a cousin who is scheduled for a double mastectomy Thursday for cancer - KUDOS! And Thank you again!
This makes all the exhausting attention from the fedora squad completely worth it. Completely. I hope everything goes well with your family’s health.
Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.
…that you can use to lock your browser from being opened between certain hours of the day, or for a certain set amount of time, to encourage you to do more work and browse less. As a freelancer who has had a hard time concentrating lately, I NEED this. Does anyone know of the name of this program? Which one do you use and prefer?
Thanks!
~Drew
I’m not sure of that program, but there’s one called Self Control for Mac and a similar one called Cold Turkey for windows that allow you to block specific domains for whatever time limit you set to keep you off sites that waste your time if you don’t want to lose access to things like google.
I use a combination of StayFocusd and Strict Pomodoro, plugins for Chrome. I like Pomodoro best. Essentially, it blocks distracting sites for 25 minutes, then lets you have a five minute break to do whatever you want, then it starts over again and blocks the problem sites. I need those breaks! It helps keep me from getting too antsy, knowing I’ll get a break.
I’m constantly yelling at people for not having a sense of scale when pondering their relative insignificance in the grand scheme of things. Maybe this will help.
I’ve been doing this in my head whenever I get stressed, but having it all laid out visually is wonderful. I also sometimes do this with space instead of time.
I usually don’t reblog stuff like this because this is my art blog but this hit close to home and reminded me of so many conversations that made me feel like garbage.
It always makes me see red when I see lesbians (and gay men) treating bisexuals this way. I don’t think I can even type too much more without quickly reaching a point where I just smash my head into the keyboard.
I have some art up at the Ice Cream Gallery in Grand Rapids. Can you believe this is my first *local* show? I might have to do more of this sort of thing.
