resuming the Great Work

[egypturnash]

I haven't had a chance to work on Absinthe these past few weeks.

I was looking through back LJ entries and realized the initial story discussions were held in the beginning of February. The project's visual scope sprawled past my initial intentions, but honestly, I feel like the launch should have happened already. I've been moving in fits and starts at best.

18 more pages to pencil before Chapter 1 is all pencilled, and there's still the AI phase to go. About 10 more pages to run through Illustrator and I'll feel like I'm ready to fill up the queue and set it loose. If I can pencil two pages a day I'll have the pencils done next Sunday. Only five more pages to pencil that I have to fill with Wormwood's wild detail. Pencilling the last of those will be an event; Illustratoring the last will pretty much mean it's time to launch.

I dug out the 2007 Hello Kitty calendar that's been lying around and got diverted by looking for a suitable nail to hang it over my drawing board. Wrote that off when it became obvious we haven't any suitable small nails in the apartment; I don't want to get caught yak-shaving by going to the hardware store. So I grabbed some post-its and put them up in a fragment of a grid. With numbers written on them.

If I draw two pages of Absinthe, I get to put a big black X on that day's post-it. If I don't... I dunno. A red zero? Let's not have to decide, huh?

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[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Just a random stab in the dark, but maybe on days you don't finish any Absinthe, you have to doodle something in the calendar box that you really don't like to draw? And you have to do it off the top of your head, all perfection and artistic quality aside. Then, it's aversive enough that you'll want to avoid it and it won't become fun in its own right... but you'll still get some kind of artistic exercise regardless? Something you'll want to avoid doing. And if you don't even do that... hmm... five minutes of foot-tickling? A spoonful of my signature rosemary-banana-artichoke tofutti cream? Five random books in the library deliberately taken out of alphabetical order? :)