It’s been a minute since I’ve written a blog post here! I wanted to share some notes with you on wrapping up 2023 and looking ahead to 2024. ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ This year I tried to setup better habits for my dried husk of a mortal coil – I had been dealing with some real gnarly back pain in spring and decided I was (begrudgingly) going to have to start incorporating some full body movement to counteract all the hunching over my desk I do on a regular basis. I started out with some yoga poses, and later in the year, an arm workout to build upper body strength. It turned out I really enjoyed it (who knew!?) so now it’s just part of my regular routine. I tend to have less pain in my drawing arm now too, so that’s a nice bonus!

Last year I had given myself a break in December to work on thumbnails for upcoming pages and I’ll do the same this year! Believe it or not, there’s just 23 pages left of the Exorcism Academy script, and while that sounds like it should be quick, there’s quite a few comic pages for every one page of script. My intention for December is to sketch as many of the remaining rough layouts as I can to be prepared for 2024! I’ll be sketching the rough pages in a sketchbook and scanning those to do the ink and colors digitally. I missed the feel of pencil and paper and thought this would be a nice way to incorporate it back into the process! (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑

And if you thought I was going to leave you high and dry on any comics here for this month, I’ll be posting my 14 page Lupin the Third fan comic in the gallery starting next week! It’s a “porn with a crumb of plot” story and I hope you enjoy it! I plan on resuming Exorcism Academy updates on 1/12. If you wanna get notified of new pages, you can follow the RSS feed here or follow me on my socials listed in the links page. Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season to close out 2023! (｡´∀｀)ﾉ