It’s that time of the year again!! ✨ Work has been especially exhausting this summer, so I was really grateful that Hourly Comic Day fell on a Saturday this time. HOWEVER, I also decided to try adding watercolor washes because IDK I LIKE MAKING THINGS DIFFICULT….!!!
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Another year, another Hourly Comics Day! This year caught me doing summer classes just like last year, it was a busy day but I still managed to finish these on time 🌟
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An old comic from the sketchbook! You’ll never guess which book it is, but we still have it at home 😛
I’ve been avoiding the word “burnout” for months, because saying it out loud feels almost like an admission of defeat. How can I be burnt out if I’m still moving and getting things done?? but I’ve been tired for way too long, so something is definitely off.
I’m trying my best to take things more slowly this year—keeping boundaries, gaming every now and then, seeing friends…it’s really hard to stop when you’ve been an overachiever for so long, but I’m sure I can find some sort of balance eventually. We’ll see…!!
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(the sticker on the cover is a drawing of my D&D characters from my friend Kat!)
For some reason I never share much from my sketchbooks, despite really enjoying looking at other people’s… I feel like “sketchbook tours” and the like weren’t really a thing until very recently, so it doesn’t come naturally to me (plus conflicted feelings re: being online, but that’s a conversation for another day). Anyway, I finished this pocket sketchbook recently and thought it’d be fun to share a bit of it!
I posted the whole sketchbook as a PDF on our Patreon, but here’s a little selection of pages:
