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Dec11
by Jared on December 11, 2022 at 11:07 pm
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It’s hard for me to keep track of who I keep in the loop, in terms of comic updates. Patrons and anyone on my Discord are regularly updated, followed by Twitter. Any other sites – including this one – tend to get lost in the shuffle. “I’ll post an update later”, except I’ll forget once it’s later.

So, what have I been up to since the last page was posted in August? Working.

Contract work had been sparse for much of the year, to the point that I’d grown acquainted with – and disdainful of – LinkedIn recruiters. So, when a job came along that I didn’t have to fight for, and was pretty much exactly what I’d been waiting for for a few years now, I jumped at the chance. It was only a 3-month gig, but it paid well, so surely I could shelve the comic for 3 months?

…Barely 2 months in, the contract was extended to 6 months. And now there’s talk of another potential 6-month job after that.

If this other contract does happen, I may need to find a realistic way to continue the comic, without burning myself out. One approach would be to cut the chapter short, but there are some ideas that I don’t want to cut. Another approach I’d considered before, is doing the rest in black & white. Re-using backgrounds could also be a huge time-saver.

All told, the joke in my mind is that Daisy’s long weekend away from the diner may easily take over a year to play out. The key thing is it will play out, it’ll just take a bit longer than I’d originally anticipated.

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Apr26
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by Jared on April 26, 2022 at 1:51 pm
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When you’re burned out, drawing a comic – already an exhausting task – about a character being burned out is nowhere near as therapeutic as you might think. It ends up being a constant reminder that you’re burned out, and can make it all so much worse. So of course I’ve been hesitant to resume the “Just Five More Minutes” story, after being away from it for a few months.

Realistically, I could have left the story as it was, and just started a new chapter. But I have some fun bits planned that won’t fit anywhere else, as well as some character cameos. To make things easier, I’m breaking it all into chunks. Most will only be 2-3 pages. One, however, currently clocks in at 7 pages, which I may just cut because I doubt I’ll have the time or the energy to draw it, once I get there.

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Nov27
by Jared on November 27, 2018 at 3:42 pm
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Recently Tumblr has been become unreliable, with many artists having their NSFW art and/or blogs deleted. Many artists are migrating to other sites, like Newgrounds and Pixiv, and while I have made a Newgrounds page, I figure this was also a good excuse to start getting more use out of my site!

First and foremost, I’m slowly moving all of my old art to my new gallery here. It’s a slow process, which might go faster if some files didn’t appear to be missing, or if Windows permissions weren’t such a pain when sharing hard drives between computers…

I’ve also added a Behind the Scenes section, for more in-depth posts about my characters and projects.

Finally, my recent hiatus – I’ve been busy with back-to-back contracts for most of the year, leaving little time for art or other personal projects. Over the past couple of months, I have been drawing a new comic chapter – one that at this point I’ve put off for more than a year – and while several pages are already drawn & assembled, unfortunately it may still be at least a couple of months before I can ink, color, and post them. Please be patient!

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Feb27
by Jared on February 27, 2016 at 1:33 pm
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The next comic chapter will be delayed for a little longer – over the past month I’ve been working on my 3D Daisy model, to get her ready for animation.  She’s still not there yet, so I’m going to continue working on her through March.  I don’t have any grand plans for her once she is finished, though – for a long time I wanted to make a short film, but that’s not a very realistic goal.  Mainly she’ll be something for me to animate when I’m between contracts, so I can stay sharp.

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Feb01
by Jared on February 1, 2016 at 8:50 pm
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So I’d planned on taking a break from comics back in December, mainly because December is always too hectic.  Only instead of that, I ended up doing a 3-page comic.  And then after that was finished, I added another page to it.  So now almost two months after I’d originally planned on taking a break, I’m definitely taking a break!  Kinda, sort, maybe.

My plan for February – at the moment, anyway – is to work on my 3D Daisy model.  I’ll also still be drawing pinups and commissions for my patrons.

Dec05
by Jared on December 5, 2015 at 5:33 pm
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After finally getting some new comic pages done – and in color, no less – in October and November, I’ll be taking a break from the comic at least until January.  More or less.  I am planning a comic that I may work on this month, but it’s an ad for my Patreon campaign, rather than a actual chapter.

In the meantime, I’ll also be drawing more pinups, which will be available to my patrons first!

May28
by Jared on May 28, 2015 at 11:33 pm
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The comic’s finally been updated, and with only one more page to go, I just might be able to finish the chapter sometime this decade!  After this I’ve got a couple simpler ones planned, about 1-2 pages each.  For future chapters, I won’t start posting pages until the entire chapter is fully scripted and thumbnailed, to avoid the problems I had with the current chapter.  Of course, even then it’s dependent on my work schedule.

Dec08
by Jared on December 8, 2014 at 9:14 pm
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The current comic chapter continues to live up with its name, and may for a little while longer.  A number of things have robbed me of my motivation over the past several months, the most recent being a bout with depression.

Depending on my work schedule, my hope is to have the remaining two pages complete in January, and then I can finally move on.  Afterwards there may be an intentional delay – I don’t want to start posting the next chapter, until a good portion of the pages are already done.

In the meantime, I’ll still be posting images on my DeviantArt, Patreon, and Tumblr pages.

Sep02
by Jared on September 2, 2014 at 10:26 pm
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Today’s been a bit of a “head” day – I’ve spent most of the day thinking about how best to move forward an animation I’ve posted on my Patreon, Tumblr, and DeviantArt pages.  If you don’t follow me on those sites, I have two words for you – animated Daisy!  I won’t link to it here, because it’s not exactly work- or kid-safe.

I don’t know how long it might take for me to finish that Daisy animation, either rough or full color, but I do have an idea of what it would take to do so in 3D.  I’d estimated that it would take at least a month of full-time work for me to model and rig Daisy for this sort of motion.  But that’s not the model I currently have in the works – the current model will be waitress-only.  Nude/bikini Daisy would be a whole separate character, from a production standpoint, and since that model would be mostly for fan-service, it’d have to be a lower priority than my other characters.  Unless, of course, I knew for certain that producing and animating that version of her would draw in a massive amount of new patrons…  That’s a lot of work for a “maybe”, though.

One of my goals now is to have waitress Daisy modeled and textured by November – if not October – and her unicorn speech animated by Christmas.  We’ll see if my schedule actually allows me to pull that off.  I may continue to refine this 2D animation on the side, but it may be too much to hope to have it finished by Christmas as well.  That might be a hell of a gift, though!

Jul03
by Jared on July 3, 2014 at 3:27 pm
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The current comic is taking forever for me to finish, for a couple of reasons. For starters, I spent much of the past month out of town visiting family and friends. I took my gear with me so that I could work, but found it difficult to do anything more than finish pieces I’d started before I left. But that’s not the real reason the comic is running late.

The real reason the comic is late, is poor planning. I had a rough idea for this chapter – the second page would be mostly tightly-framed close-ups, so that the difference in height between Daisy & Rose on the third/final page might be a surprise. One problem with this idea, is that most of my audience already knows that Rose is roughly twice Daisy’s height. The other problem was that that plan for page 2 was uninteresting. To fix this, I’m basically rewriting everything after the first page.

At first I thought I would only be doing a visual rewrite, but the dialogue needed some punching-up as well. Where the original plan called for three, maybe four pages, now it may be at least six.

So when well the next page be finished? As soon as I have the remaining pages clearly mapped out.

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