As the school year wraps up, I’m trying to work my way through the list of ‘do videos about this topic’, and SPORTS was a fun one. Soccer balls are deceptively difficult to draw. It’s almost summer break, which means kids will be out of school, which means LET’S DRAW will be on pause!

I made a few comics this week:

On top of the comics, I also made a few shorts on my ReMarkable2 art video:

Not gonna lie, I 100% made these because I discovered the ‘research’ tab on my youtube creator studio, and it turns out the general public wants MORE ReMARKABLE2 TABLET VIDEOS! bahaha. Ahh youtube! That being said, I actually really enjoy drawing on that weird e-ink tablet, so it wasn’t really too much of a burden to point a camera at it while I draw. It’s super relaxing drawing on that thing and you have to take it slow as you go if you want stuff to turn out well- it’s like anti-digital art, whilst simultaneously remaining digital art. It looks really good on the screen because of the nature of how e-ink displays work, but when you export it digitally, the resolution is unfortunately unadjustable and a bit low. You can export vectors and raise the resolution of the drawing after-the-fact, but the art loses the texture of the pen and it doesn’t look good anymore. Here are some other drawings I made on it this week:

It’s REALLY fun drawing stuff in an isometric style, in case you can’t tell that I’m enjoying it. One of my part time jobs is doing animation for research papers and I think the next one I do, I might put forward doing it like a video game in an isometric style.

Ingrained in my DNA is a double-sided desire: to make stuff that is creatively satisfying, and to make stuff that people enjoy. In the format of a comic strip, that usually leads to the jokes. Even the comics I would have previously considered to be somewhat autobiographical are mostly humourous retellings of stuff that somewhat happens to me- they don’t end up being TRUE autobiographies, because they aren’t actually me writing about my life… It’s more like me writing jokes about stuff that happens. There’s probably room to debate if it’s autobio or not- that doesn’t really matter. There’s nothing wrong with that- they’re creatively satisfying and people seem to enjoy them. And I’ll make whatever I want whenever I want- that’s the beautiful thing about comics. But, having read my friend’s autobio comic, I am reminded that there are some things I’d like to write about and create that fall firmly outside of the “I’m going to be writing a joke about this so we can all laugh at my life” category, which is a category I am quite unfamiliar with (at least when it comes to writing comics). Why is that? Oh, probably for other reasons that seem ingrained in my DNA. One way or the other, I would like to try and articulate some of those things in comic form. They won’t really work well on social media, so keep your eyes peeled HERE for those comics!

Thanks so much for reading my comics and this blog!