So I was going to photograph this in stages as I inked it but it all happened so fast (and loose) that all that went out of the window.

i missed that clip studio added this in the settings, and it seems to make quite a big difference in regular use -- i.e. less redrawing the same line. you can use much higher stabilization settings while still feeling responsive and natural (their own preview video advertises it very poorly)

back to regular programming for a minute / it's really a double-edged sword how much my sense of well-being depends on not just being able to make pictures, but pictures in a row (pages)

I'm beginning to suspect it may be christmas today

wednesday plan: pictures

i forgot i should post everything twice, so since the process I used lent itself to it: a pretty lengthy post about the making of this GI Joe cover, over on the blog, using all the space and features that don't fit on here-- tozo.today (760 words, 14 pictures, one video, four footnotes)

ran into the Paus book on the shelf and absent-mindedly opened it, forgetting that it should really be kept in some sort of weapons safe

thursday plan: moving the pen

(good timing to open the other box of comps)

EVERYTHING DEAD & DYING #4 is out today from @imagecomics.com with this beautiful @tozo.today cover!

still running on fumes so rookie mistakes today, like drawing too much because i didn't erase the pencils soon enough (or i would have noticed the pictures were finished)

i have again been informed that being incapacitated doesn't actually count as rest, but i remain impervious to that information

the solution to today's pictures was, as usual, less of everything (except black-- 80% more black)

every time I come up with a great idea like "there should be 25 guys in this single picture" I somehow fail to anticipate it will involve drawing at least 25 guys (probably closer to a hundred guys)

monday plan: as stuart immonen once put it, building a beach one grain of sand at a time

if you have adhd, i recommend not getting anything that lets you see all network traffic from every device in your home in granular detail

speaking of-- comps! and the bright near-yellow lime green printed perfectly, hooray

(still here, still pictures; i just get tired of only having dispatches from uphill country to share)

somehow i always learn from fedex that i am currently not at home, which is news to me every time

this has to be a prank

friday so far: medium

hey, new picture. variant cover for carmen red claw #3, out sometime next year from dark horse (visual pun intended)

only up for the coffee today

after drawing everything in minute detail, finally on to my favorite part of the process: deleting things

difficult week again, but today I could both get back to drawing a bit and managed to take a short walk, so let's count the week as medium / one from today #fotozozo

The way this woman was treated is horrific and it's actually quite heartening to see so many boycott in solidarity. A comics festival is not more important than what happened to her.

back to pictures now

thursday: it's the most brutal drawing contest there is, but participation is mandatory for all practicing cartoonists, like jury duty

really not setting myself up for success here, i should name my layers with inspirational quotes instead

a minute outside, at night #fotozozo

Anzuelo's (re)release as a softcover is today 🪸🪝 I think the only reprint I ever had was at the beginning of Pretty Deadly so it means a lot. Moreover considering this one, precisely, is embarrassingly personal and not that easy to read. Thank you for reading and caring, and talking about it!

now on to the evening program (the entire Hong Sang-Soo filmography)

digital allows for a lot of elaborate and fancy things (and making everything a 400-step process), but in the end the fastest method over here is still basically the same setup as paper circa 2008

going to the cinema (nov 19/20) to see this one big would be a very nice time. can't go, but just seeing the 4K restauration poster made me happy

i was already worried i wouldn't get to click this six to eight times today

a beautiful thread

one from today #fotozozo

there should be an additional tick box at the end to double the score if your first thought is "i only got 60/66"

hey, comps. this turned out appropriately disorientating as a physical object

i knew that if they allowed videos on here, things would soon get out of hand, but this seems really excessive

whenever i see "running time revealed" as a promotional thing, i'm reminded how immediately goofy and pointless it would sound to us all for any other medium-- a musician 'unveiling' the next single is three minutes and twenty-two seconds long; a scoop that a comic will have 109 panels

nobody at all: my brain: "yes, you should add a horse"

one like old times #fotozozo

one from today #fotozozo

i still have no idea why threads show on here in the way they do. replying to someone within a thread collapses things, puts it on the main timeline, and makes it seem like i just had random cranky extra statements about the first post at some later point

the blizzard outside was 100% caused by me thinking "maybe i could go to the comics store on sunday"; apologies

i have spent the last six days only thinking about how to physically make it to the comics store to get my copy

this whole "deceptively simple / making it look easy" approach sure takes a lot of work, and when successful, makes even yourself think it could have been drawn off the cuff instead of taking ten hours

no wonder things haven't been going well, my talent prescription ran out

It's 20 years since @seanphillips.bsky.social and I exchanged a sketchbook back and forth in the mail, a drawn &painted call and response. INTERSECTIONS may be out of print but here is a flip through that sketchbook. You can still find the book out there :)