...Finished.

Getting one foot in front of the other.

Hi y'all!

Thanks so much to everyone who's reached out and checked in on me. I know I've been absent for a good while. We've had a lot going on. I don't care to get into it. It's all just been piling up, and I wouldn't even know where to begin at this point. But recently Ady and I had a really good talk that led to some actual motivation, and more importantly strategies, to just start piecing away at some normalcy again. So here I am...piecing.

I have drawn and created embarrassingly little, for one reason or another. But during this stretch, in one of my attempts to dig myself out of it, I found myself writing about these two little guys. A little wizard named Fitz and his friend Brutus, a dragon.

Their voices felt very different from other similar characters I'd written for comic strips. Beorn, Z, Ping...they all have something different and unique about them. And now I've gotten to know Fitz and Brutus a little better. I don't think it would have happened if I hadn't been in the emotional and mental state I've been in of late, so it's a sort of silver lining. So these two will always be special to me for that. I've written a chunk of little comic strips with the two of them. Most are one panel, but some of them might have to actually be taken into a strip format. I'd find myself grabbing my phone in the middle of sleepless nights, or popping awake with something in my head and just had to get it down. So I have a number of strips. We'll see if I get to them. I'm going to try and put some down as I can. It felt incredibly good to get a picture finished. I used some different tools for this one than my usual brushes. I was trying to give myself things outside my routine so it was easier to break any sort of blocks I might have run into. I used the dip nib that was already loaded up in my pen (I don't know what number/type it is), and I made a point of hand lettering with whatever lettering nib is already loaded in my other dip pen. My hand lettering always feels like it needs work...because I never work on it. So maybe this will be a good excuse to practice a bit more of that.

Anyway! Hope you dig this. I'll definitely have more to share soon. Getting some ink on paper, and now sharing it here with y'all is definitely helping me feel a bit of lightness in my chest that I've been needing!

Much love!

B