Hey, spent a good long day at Periscope again yesterday, and yes, I am now completely sure that creating/writing/drawing comics is what I want to do with my life.

I woke up pretty early, and went into the studio about 11. Finished pencilling the next page of Ellie, then took a lunch/phone meeting for my day job (from which I am otherwise on vacation). Returned to the studio to finish the pencils, then lettered and inked the whole page (more or less) before David Hahn gave me a ride home at 10:30pm or so. There's still some background stuff I need to do on page 6, and a little bit of detail stuff, but otherwise it's done, and I'm one page closer to being ready to show it to publishers.

But the most important thing for me yesterday was getting back into that zone that I'd too long let wither. Suddenly, I'm thinking again in ways I haven't in years - about texturing, and tools, and when I'm going to work on the next page, and what's going to be on it. And the page after that, and so on. It's really nice to be back.

Now I just hope I can hold onto that feeling for a while. I'm not planning on going out this weekend until the new year's party, so don't expect to hear from me at all until then! With any luck, I'll have two more pages to show for it come 2008.

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