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It's been awhile, but a few days ago I finally got my envelope from the NaNoMango Artist Card Exchange! Thanks to everybody who sent me cards, and especially thanks to del_chan for being the distributor (not a simple task!).

And, now that I've received them, I feel like I can show off the ones I made for others, too, so lots of images under the cut!

( Mango Artist Cards! (touches of NSFW) )

( Pages under the cut )


And that makes thirty! I did it!! ^___^ ...You know, I never thought to ask if there was a badge or a prize or anything for winning.

But it doesn't really matter. Before Mango, I had long wanted to do comics but suffered from all manner of writers/artist's block. I had dreamed of putting my CV universe into comics form, but it seemed like a pipe dream. But now, I got to 30 pages (by far the longest I've ever sustained a comics project); it's taught me I could do it. That's the best possible prize.

Now I need to do my Artist Cards, and figure out how I'm going to finish my pages. I'm thinking analog ink if only because I love my brush pens so much, and then some sort of digital tone in black and white with occasional color for effect...

In which I spend an entire page on someone seeing... something.

( Under the Cut )

Only three pages to go!

It's hen-scratch again today. Home stretch... Must get it together...

( Under the cut... )

Yesterday went badly* and I flaked out again. As of this morning that left me three pages behind with nine days to make it up, so I figured it was time to get serious, and got two pages today (I can do it! I know I can!!).

( Under the cut... )


DW/LJ-only NOTES:

*Art Guild Days have been rough the last couple of weeks, although I still really like the people. Still, it's gonna take more than people saying "Oh, no, that's cool," (or worse "I don't see why we couldn't hang that on the wall") to make me as an aspiring/budding comics artist feel like I fit in with all these painters.

I also wanted to mention this, despite some fear that my dwircle/f-list would just polarize on it, but... What do you do when your artistic motivation is undermined by feeling like a bad feminist? It's the "OMG, I stuffed (or am planning to stuff) a woman in a refrigerator!" thing, and yeah, when big name writers whine about people silencing them by complaining, I don't have any sympathy, but perhaps hypocritically, for myself I think if I really can't think of a good story-alternative, creating flawed art is better than creating no art (and at least in my version Lisa gets to do something besides die, even if I am tempted, when I get Trevor's mom in here, to send them off on a tangent for no other reason than to squeak through the Bechdel test; it might be my last chance for awhile...).

Okay, after all that silly stuff, finally thinking about getting back to the story...

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Yesterday was kind of a mess and I only got half a page done, but today I did a page and a half and made it up, so now I'm back to being only two pages behind (I'm actually pretty excited; this is the first time I've managed to do any catching up).

To make it easier on myself, I decided to jump the gun and do the promised "next Map Screen," which is three pages long.

( The first two of those three under the cut... )

( And behind the cut, another Map Screen mini-comic. )

Every time I think I'm going to catch up one of the two pages I'm behind, it ends up not happening, but I haven't fallen any further behind yet...

There was some interest over there about the Artist Cards, but I won't crosspost that stuff...

( Today's page under the cut... )