Weekly Recap (and #MOTUMonday) #4

MOTUMonday again, and this time dedicated to more characters of 80-90s hypermasculine comic characters. Especially Conan the Adventurer, a cartoon featuring a more family-friendly version of the Barbarian created by E.R. Howard. It was still very suggestive, and I don't get why everybody forgot it.

No, I get it. The drawing is awful. His abdomen looked more like a chessboard than a 8-pack.

Anyway, I made it! A lunar month of blogging, just after my three-days-long existential crisis on what to do with my skills. The response is... I still do not fucking know.

The book I'm still reading (yep, I didn't put much time on reading this week, shame on me) Real Artist Don't Starve, is quite similar to other neo-Stoic and post-Positive Thinking that I consumed:

A fucklot of examples of successful people, so variegated and different, that you cannot find a common thread.

Where does grit become stubbornness?

Can creativity careers that relate exclusively to mind labor (writing, coding, acting) be discussed at the same level of careers involving manual ability like drawing or playing the piano?

Fuck not!

So, being not sure, I'll try to cope with a Dr. Jackill and Mr. Hyde double nature, producing both homoerotic and artsy material. Nesskain is pretty good at it.

(But I guess that having a graphic tablet wide as a dinner table helps him a lot.)

And that's my first experiment with the "artsy stuff." A minicomic based on one of the most mesmerizing scenes of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. It's settled at the Thermal Death of the Universe. and nothing, except Death itself, is here to observe the fading of Creation.

Why a paperclip? And all that clutter coming out of nothing? Because it is junk the first form of newborn matter. That's why our drawers are stuffed with it.

It is a very funny and imaginative series of fantasy stories, I really recommend it.

And I'm very proud of having pushed my borders and tweaked my mind to obtain a different outcome, where the lineart is not clearly distinguishable from the colors and the values.

The continue conscious effort to evolve is that what makes an artist.

And talking about evolving, I've created an account on WorldAnvil, a community on WorldBuilding, where I can put in order all the pieces of information about the setting of The Hunter, the Epic Fantasy comic I'm working on.

I just started. New elements coming soon. And they will be sexy in more than a way.