Category: Teaser

What I’m Up To

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These are some of the things keeping me busy these days:

The Work in Progress

Every day I’m drawing more panels for my work in progress, seen sporadically in my “Teaser Fragments” posts. Here’s a couple more glimpses:

drawing of a woman seen from a slight distance as she assembles a floor lamp with a desk on one side of her and a window with blinds pulled up on the other side; a lampshade sits on the floor

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Updates to Not a Cat Lady

I’m modifying multiple pages of Not a Cat Lady. Much of the work is mere tweaking and still more polishing, but I’ve also been fixing a number of panels that made me cringe every time I saw them. 

While doing that I’m revising the posts for the entire novella, doing away with the gallery interface and presenting the art pages directly. It’s not something I can do all at once, so the Not a Cat Lady posts will transition gradually.

a drawing of a close-up profile view of a woman, eyes closed, leaning her head back against a tiled wall with steam effects around her
a drawing of a woman in low light seen directly from above as she lies in bed with her eyes wide open; one arm is bent with a hand beside her pillow, and the other arm stretches along her side with the hand on top of the sheet

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Movies and TV Shows

My self-indulgent reviews of shows I watch have dragged to a halt because right now I’m working my way through the original Thundercats series (130 episodes), and I can’t resist writing an in-depth commentary on nearly every episode. I’m struggling to figure out how much of that content to post here. I don’t mean for this to become a Thundercats fan site, and I know I’m going off the deep end analyzing it all.

I focus a lot on the “proper” order in which to watch the episodes—neither broadcast order nor production order fully works for season one, even accounting for how multi-part stories were divided—so that brings up the question of how to arrange whatever entries I do post.

At this point I’m still in season two, with about fifty episodes to go, although I might get started posting something even before I’ve finished rewatching everything.

detail of a photo of the inner cover of the Thundercats complete series DVD set, focused on the circular Thundercats symbol

Teaser Fragments 2

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More little bits from my work in progress, context-free.

These drawings were all done by hand, pencil on paper, and are finished except for digital editing . . . and cropping . . . and composition on pages with other panels . . . maybe a spot or two of color . . . and the addition of captions and dialogue.

a woman sits on the edge of a bed facing right with a phone in her left hand; a chair is beside her
a woman in sweatpants and long-sleeved shirt lies curled on her side in bed, gripping the side of the mattress; she is on top of messy covers
an empty, unmade bed with skewed pillow; a chair is beside the bed
a woman in an old-fashioned dark dress looks aghast, staring wide-eyed at a bearded, balding gentleman with one arm casually raised
a woman, masked, stands in a store aisle holding up a bottle to read the label; the shelves in front of her are packed with various bottles
lower-floor interior of a house with stairs in the background and a recliner and couch in the foreground
two ponytailed women, standing, seen from behind
one woman, masked, faces right; another woman, facing forward but with her head turned to the right, holds up her phone parallel to the ground; a third woman, masked, faces left with one hand on her hip