I learned a little more about Clip Studio Paint, making it easier to change brush sizes. I do know at some point I will need to start experimenting with brush sizes more. With backgrounds especially. The Characters… I don’t know when that will be. I keep telling myself to get some sort of art guide to teach me a style. I used to have them, but never really looked at them. Time was a problem. Back then I was sharing my time with gaming.
The games did teach me things, but I didn’t apply those lessons. Games are supposed to be tests. Fun, yes, but a test of skill, that is the way to improvement. Especially before a championship, of which I haven’t been to many in my past, to compete that is. Video gaming took a lot of my youth away. Now as I am understanding a bit more of the breadth of the material world, the trend allowed certain “demonic” activity to enter into my life. Not in the sense of Hollywood would deceive. It appears most of the demonic activity we encouter is unrecognizable as a soul hazard, worse yet we lose focus on Christ.
Time permitting, I do like the idea sketching on the weekdays, then on the weekend try to draw a comic. I have so much going on, I can only squeeze in what I can, where I can. It seems like I am constantly in a conversation with a person and never get any real work done! It’s not as bad as I make it out to be, but there are process improvements that always need to be make to be more efficient and effective at work.
Exercise is also important, and I let that slip from me. God Willing, I have another hike ahead of me. Being with a small group of brothers on such an adventure, it such a great time, lots of memory and bonding, especially when Christ is at the center of all of it.
It’s getting late, and tomorrow is going to be here before I know it. Lot’s to do, and time is moving too quickly. The year is soon to be half over. I think Great Lent plays a great deal in the passage of time. After this one, I finally understand a very base level understanding of “ecclesia” or being ‘called out’. We are being called out the Material World; into Reality, the Truth (Christ).
Thank you all for staying with me. I do know I had a bit of a dry spell. Again, I don’t like writing too many posts without having a Comic. How long have I been doing this? 22 or so years? I think it began in 2003 when I first started drawing Sans Merit. I had another comic afterwards a short lived Penny Arcade clone. I think Synthetic Wisdom started around 2009. 16 years. I thought I might have to stop, but it wasn’t the comic that needed to end, it was some mentality around it.
Here’s to 16 years of Synthetic Wisdom, and God Willing at least another 16!
May God Bless us all!