So, I’m Working On A New Page—lots Of Hands, I’ve Noticed. Also, Spending A Bunch Of Time Drawing

I wish I didn’t have to wear glasses because I think I look significantly better without them, but I’m still quite fond of how I wear a suit.

My hand slipped.

In all sincerity though, I’ve been trying to work on a website logo for the web design class I’m in, and decided to experiment with the geometric box I made, and this particular chromaa palette.

Dubtronic is one of my guilty pleasure typefaces, and it seems to have this odd geometric 80s thing going on. Also, from what I can recall from when I was younger and very nosy, my mom’s college textbooks tended to have a lot of geometric design on the covers, and she went during the late 80s/early 90s. So, after a few minutes of mulling over it, this came out.

Anyway, enjoy my late night rage experiment.

I wrote the thing. I wrote a slice-of-life Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusader’s fanfic involving stupid parlor tricks. All in three hours.

You’re welcome, but also, why do I feel like this is a mistake? It’s safe for work and relatively innocuous, but still.

Also, the title is a slight modification of the first lyric in Cherry by Chromatics. Go listen to that—it’s a really good song, I promise.

While fretting over what the bloody hell I’m doing for a freelance client I have on hand (because it’s teetering into Clients from Hell territory), I decided to go ahead and make this thing after working on a few tweaks to Truffle’s Instagram photos (because glowy eyes are not cool.)

I’ve been obsessed with Somebody That I Used To Know remixes. Particularly, I’ve been hooked on this 80s remix and the Tiesto remix.

I decided to go ahead and make a retro typgraphic thing for myself as a result.

Ok, so I was 7000 shy of winning NaNoWriMo until my left hand decided to cramp up and hate me. It really hurts. My knees are also aching.

I'm letting a few friends read the alpha draft of a story I have wanted to write for a long time. (Because hooray, Google Docs!). I also think I want to slam out the whole book's rough draft before 2018, and then edit next year.

And I have a job interview for a design production job tomorrow, and that's super cool.

I'm also gonna go back to doing comic live streams on Saturdays. I miss doing comic stuff.

Ok, I've been tagged

Even though I rarely use my main Tumblr for anything, but shhhh, it's what I like everything with.

Anyway, I was tagged by @asphodel-night-adder, and it's posting about five things that make you happy, and tagging the last ten people in your notifications (I'm not counting any bots, galleries, or people that Tumblr seems to refuse to let me tag, FYI)

So, in no particular order, five things that make me happy include

Time spent with my friends playing tabletop RPGs

Cooking with the boyfriend

Petting cute cats and dogs

Pokemon GO

Days off from work where I get art things done

Consequently, I'm tagging @loveisjustabloodsportson @arzeron @plaguenurse @scyllaxcharybdis @saikou0taku @galacticglaciers @violet-ks-garbagery @schreiliebe @goldenspaceoddity and @extinctgender because they meet this criteria.

So, I made a bit of progress on the first comic page, and I made a little bit of progress on the logo stuff for the comic.

Also, @plaguenurse had a comment on Twitch that basically made me laugh maniacally for a good minute or so while working on the architecture on the top panel.

Probably not the best work, but it’s more or less a second draft of a typographic quickdraw I made when I was irritated at another classmate over trying to lecture me about gender roles.

I decided to design business cards and a logo for my roommate’s corgi, because she’s absolutely precious, and I keep taking so many photos of that adorable corg that my roommate and I agreed to make her an Instagram and help run it in my spare time...because my design work doesn’t need to be clogged up by Truffles 24/7. (You can actually follow that corgi dog over here!)

While we haven’t bothered to print the cards yet (because Truffles the corgi isn’t popular enough to warrant printing business cards in the near future), I do have a print ready Adobe Illustrator file on hand for the event that her business cards ever get printed.

For now, I’m just going to keep the mockup version of her cards on hand. (BTW, I used a modified version of this mockup. After all, edge painted cards are a real thing, and that was something I modified myself.)

I have learned that watching Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure all over again when you already know the exact flow of the story yields some interesting tidbits—particularly, bits of dialogue and animation are really beautiful examples of foreshadowing, and I’m just like “Ah! That’s so cool!”

Unfortunately, me and my spoiler hound attitude has screwed up one of my roommates. The other one is new to Jojo, and I have to reign in the first roommate so that the second one isn’t spoiled when he doesn’t want to be, and it’s weird to be vaguely told “well, I got used to you being ok with spoilers!”, and it’s like...

...ay, even spoiler hounds gotta have manners around others who aren’t.