So, what have I been up to?

Well, after I finished decompressing from the Comics Fest in october, I took a couple months to just kind of drift aimlessly. I find sometimes that that's the easiest way for me to find my focus. It's like being in a creativity deprivation chamber - once it's all off my mind, I can more easily feel which project is calling to me most to finish it.

I was surprised to discover that the project that was calling me most wasn't the Tarot set, or the Ellie Connelly story, or anything else that I've talked about here so far, but was actually a completely different story, or rather a series of character sketches that I've been developing in notes and sketchbooks for over a year. I didn't know where I wanted to take it before, but the overall vision is coming into view lately, so I'd really like to capitalize on that interest before I lose it again.

That's not to say that I'm going to let Ellie go, in fact I've recently been doing some structural work on the story and revisiting the plot to make it fit. I'd like to plan to have the story done by the end of 2007, but we'll see about that. It's only 128 pages, I'd like to think I can manage that. I should at least have some more art from it to show pretty soon.

And the Tarot. Well, that one's suffered the most lately, as I haven't finished any new cards in a couple months now. Death is about half-done and waiting for me to get around to it again. The sample cards I had at my table at Stumptown pretty much disappeared, and it sounded like I got a lot of positive feedback on them (I wasn't at my table most of the time, so I can't say for sure). I do want to finish them, and am also hoping to have them done by halloween 2007.

So, 2007 will, I hope, be a very productive year for me.

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