do you still think about it, page 11

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it turns out there's actually a huge chunk of script my brain wrote that i didn't remember, so it's actually 2 more pages (including this one) before we jump to the car!
i'm trying not to gut the script as i go in general, but these pages are also useful to take the edge off for the audience, because the last few have been... unpleasant. i do my best to keep the emotional stress a reader might experience in mind when making comics -- both the stress of reading update-to-update and reading the entire comic in one go -- and take the kettle off the heat when i feel like it's reaching that point.

drawing spaces that feel lived in but not messy is very difficult for me. every person has a sense of what messy is and isn't. i don't want to use my own standards, though, because then mine are the standard that'll be judged. it's a little easier to keep their apartment less messy because sugar seems like the kind of person who cleans up in her abundant boredom and need to feel useful.

other things, i guess... the single pill dropped in the third panel is sugar deciding to not take her ADHD medication today. the shirt on the couch is a suspected lesbians shirt. the trash can next to the desk is full of junk mail. taking out the trash is written on sugar's bullet journal for today. the previous day she was probably more frustrated than usual and crossed out the entire item instead of filling in a box. sugar is filling out a mood journal based on T2 mood tracker -- it's an app that allows your therapist to see your reported moods and symptoms. the painting in front of sugar's desk is one lola was painting as a joke in a sketch page i did with her. sugar is again deliberately not making eye contact with the mirror in the bathroom. the couch, desk, rolling chair, and desk lamp are all from drop-out. lola took the pillow sugar was sleeping on.

that's it, i think! there are simultaneously many and few details. i had to keep track of her right-handedness in so many panels this page... even the pen cup she uses to write is on the right side of the table.