Redrawing page 60

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Jimmy Jay is unrecognizable on page 60. That’s him on the left. He’s cute in an ugly way, but it takes a stretch of the imagination to accept him as the real Jimmy Jay. I don’t want the reader to start wondering who this new character is. The corrected Jimmy is on the right.

When I drew this page, I was going through “rough inking madness” and now I have to redo the linework, at least for Jimmy and Dylan. The background can remain rough. I have several more pages that use heavy outlines.

The Art School of Hard Knocks, or The Plight of a Self-taught Artist

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Two days ago I created the storyboard for the final pages of my third book. I can post the pictures now that I’ve finally figured out how to use the Mac Screenshot tool. My frustration level is now so low that I’ve stopped quivering and whining about macOS.

My job as a part-time, temporary substitute project manager will be ending on May 31. It won’t start up again for three months. During the hiatus I’ll be free to finish the book I started writing and drawing 18 months ago. Hardly a day has passed that I haven’t given it some time, my daily inch of progress. In those 18 months I’ve created a monumental number of sketches, experiments, and failures. I’m hoping those failures have been my Art School of Hard Knocks. I’m optimistically believing that I’ve learned something that will help me work more efficiently on my next Jimmy Jay book — Jimmy Jay and the Dolphin Who Took on the Robots. That’s going to be the working title that will inspire me for the next year.

I Screwed Up My Clip Studio Paint Installation

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After work I got this idea to simplify my Clip Studio Paint Brush collection. I set the brushes to default, and lo and behold, all of my previous CSP brushes disappeared. Wow!

So, I’m in the process of trying to restore my Clip Studio Paint installation. I wish myself luck!