Hello there. Have you come here to read a blog? How fortunate for you that this is a blog!
I wrote last week’s blog and totally spaced that the next day was going to mark the website’s fifth anniversary. Five years of Age of Animus. Wow! To be honest, I didn’t think I’d ever get this far. I think I say that every year, but it’s more true every time I say it.
My approach to drawing has changed since I started. It used to be that once I started drawing a strip or a picture I wouldn’t stop until I’d finished the piece. Even when the pieces started taking longer to do I stuck to this general idea. Sometimes the art would suffer for it as I’d get tired and rush things to finish faster. I take little breaks after each step (penciling, inking, colouring and shading).
There are days where I don’t feel like drawing at all. I have to push myself to get started. I’m always happy that I did when I’m done. I know that if I start skipping, it’ll lead to me skipping even more and I don’t want that to happen to the main strip. It doesn’t look like I’ll be getting back to Bandit Baby any time soon.
I just reread Year 5 of the strip as I was supposed to be writing this blog and I think it turned out well. There are some gags I’m really pleased with. I’m still working on story pacing.
So that’s the year in a nutshell. Thanks for sticking around all this time. Here’s to a great sixth year coming up!