Jessie of the Day: 9/8/2024
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idletry september update #2
this is scene 4 of the comic. and some other stuff. i know it's probably a pain to read through these with a bunch of files in between the pages; the completed digital pages will be posted all together in separate posts, with a separate tag, to make reading through them easier... still thinking o...
2024-09-07 02:41:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Jessie of the Day: 9/5/2024
hi. it turns out that i've been really happy with a good amount of the expressions jessie has made so far in the comic. i will post one from any given page if i'm happy with one or think it's particularly humorous/jessie-esque. they may have dialogue redacted or erased in the panel.
this is fr...
idletry september update #1
i wanted to make an individual post about these edits because i do want to disable comments on it. there were a couple of significant changes sketched out for the first and third scenes. i posted the original, then the edit.
the edits for the first scene were because initially, i intended f...
2024-09-01 19:56:59 +0000 UTC View Postidletry: august 2024 update #2
hi again, everyone. i finished sketching scene 3. additionally, i finished lining and coloring the test page to figure out how i wanted to go about drawing this for print... i also reviewed scenes 1 and 2 and wrote a lot of notes about what i thought was good and bad, for revisions to the sketche...
2024-08-23 07:37:34 +0000 UTC View Postidletry: august 2024 update
hi everyone. it's nice to be posting again relatively soon after the last post i made. this is a sketch of scene 2. i haven't gone back to line scene 1 or anything because i want more time to think on the compositions of some of these earlier scenes -- and my hand has been achey. lining is the wo...
2024-08-08 05:18:16 +0000 UTC View Postidletry: july 2024 update #2
hi again. you've probably seen a lot of these panels before, because i posted them in the last update. i wanted to post the entirety of scene 1's sketch, along with some other things. partially, it's because i want to make it obvious that i AM working on idletry -- the only days i don't work on i...
2024-07-30 20:46:46 +0000 UTC View Postidletry: july 2024 update
hi again everyone. i've sketched 10 pages of idletry -- it's looking like the first scene will be 11 or 12 pages. i'm not super happy about it... i'm currently sketching at 25% of the size that the print files need to be, which means i will almost certainly need to reline the entire comic for pri...
2024-07-20 09:08:28 +0000 UTC View Postidletry thumbnails: scene 16 ("far above your level")
I doubt that I will post all of the thumbnails for Idletry. For now, this is my first attempt at thumbnailing a scene from Idletry. It was selected by a random number generator, from the first act, excluding the first and last scenes of the act. This is the third-to-last scene of act 1. I've been...
2024-07-02 22:58:05 +0000 UTC View Postidletry: june 2024 update
Hi again, everyone. I've finally finished the first draft of the script in earnest this time; it's been sent out to a few beta readers, but I am not going to wait 3 months to continue onward at this point. Maybe I will slow down for 3 months, but not stop entirely.
The document sent to the bet...
scene 79: it's all the same forever
[NOTE: scene will be described in a loose panel-to-panel manner. Some sequences which will undoubtedly be more than one panel will still be described as a singular panel. The amount of panels in the sequence is not set in stone, and can vary in the final product. These sequenc...
2024-05-30 05:37:47 +0000 UTC View Post
idletry: may update
hi everyone. i was hoping to finish the script last month, but it didn't happen. it would be done by now, but there were a lot -- A LOT -- of structural issues in act 3, which resulted in adding a few scenes, but a slower work pace as well.
all of act 1 and about half of act ...
2024-05-25 05:26:57 +0000 UTC View Postpick a scene: second half of act 3
this will be the last "pick a scene" poll... to note: scene 84 is not the end of the comic. there are 4 scenes after it.
2024-05-24 21:21:26 +0000 UTC View Postscene 65: I'll show you bad
I'm so sorry... I forgot about the poll, lmfao. This is the first scene of act 3.
Samwich: and we are here to worship our Lord. Not for power. Not for love.
[Jessie sits in one of the back rows of pews, as a supervisor shadowing a classroom to determine if it's up to snuff...
2024-05-24 21:16:24 +0000 UTC View Post
pick a scene: first half of act 3
hello everyone. i am 30 now. and i'm about halfway done with act 3 of idletry's script. i'd like to wait until i'm totally done with act 3 before posting another development update. i'm hoping to finish the script before the project becomes a year old (which is about a month from now).
plea...
2024-03-17 06:35:46 +0000 UTC View Postidletry: january 2024 update
hi everyone. i haven't done much art, but i have done writing... act 2 is scripted. currently, i'm working on the... structural integrity of act 3. it has a lot of them due to the nature of time travel, lol. insert screenshot of emily saying she hates stories with time fuckery here. that's what i...
2024-01-19 08:19:50 +0000 UTC View Postscene 55: playing with dolls
[The scene starts at the water tower where Jessie usually sits. She rises into view from below with Shiloh in her arms. Her tail is wagging with levity. She seems excited to show Shiloh this place that means something to her.]
Jessie: ... 2024-01-01 05:33:04 +0000 UTC View Post
pick a scene: second half of act 2
as a note, scene 64 is the LAST scene of act 2, so it is possibly the largest spoiler, and may not make as much sense without the context or build-up.
2023-12-29 00:32:14 +0000 UTC View Postscene 48: punishing is fun
[The scene opens up to a glowing white orb — Jessie's favorite snow globe, turned upside down, being used as a scrying orb. Her paws surround it on either side.]
Jessie: Stabbings.
scene 13: lurked and got my feelings hurt
[the scene starts with jessie walking home, in a pretty good mood. She should do something nice (or several things) — better if it's funny — like revive roadkill or unwilt flowers or unsteal candy from a baby or get someone out of a burning building. Coul... 2023-12-01 23:13:58 +0000 UTC View Post
spoiler vote: pick a scene, act 1
hiii, i haven't posted in a while and i don't have a lot of comics to show for it. the second act stretches from scene 22 to scene 64, but sometimes i delete scenes or rewrite them and label them "scene x.5" rather than renumbering every single scene after it, so it may be a little more or less t...
2023-11-21 22:37:52 +0000 UTC View Postidletry: august/september update
hi everyone. not a lot of sketch comics got done -- mostly because i've been focusing on writing. i just really want the first draft done... there are 23 scenes left in act 2 to finish. but script-writing is very delicate, and i don't always have the mental clarity for the nuance of dialogue, so ...
2023-09-05 08:14:11 +0000 UTC View Postidletry color style thoughts
hi. i did another run through color tests for idletry. i'm really happy with how the style is coming along, but it needs a lot of work, still. the other comic i posted with this is the previous test and how they looked printed out.
the main issues i had while doing this strip's colors were....
2023-08-05 09:07:02 +0000 UTC View Postidletry: july update
hi everyone, i wanted to make another update about idletry this month. i've been kind of a huge mess and really unmotivated and tired. half the time i've cried about mawkish and half the time i've just grasped at anything that will hold my attention with minimal thinking, then another half of my ...
2023-07-26 23:01:38 +0000 UTC View Postlife update
hi everyone. it's unorthodox to post on shabbat, but i would rather just write out the subject matter now for anyone who doesn't use tumblr much.
i had to euthanize my dog Mawkish today after her seizures broke through the medication she was on and escalated over the course of three days.
catharsis, page 29
these pages are so shorttt it's kind of killing me... and this one took forever because i've been focusing on idletry, against all better judgments.
not much happens on this page plot-wise, but something very important is established: felix is not into charlotte in That Way. many lines are ...
2023-06-06 02:05:59 +0000 UTC View Postidletry: june update happy pride everybody
hi again everyone. this comic has consumed my attention span. simultaneously, it's getting harder to write now that i'm in the thick of it. the beginning and end of a story -- easy to write. the middle, which holds it all together -- less easy. it's getting there, though.
some snippets of a...
2023-06-05 00:14:43 +0000 UTC View Postidletry: mid-may dev and doodle dump
i've been thinking about and working on this comic A Lot. probably pushed a lot of important work off in favor of it because my work ethic is Like That.
then my shoulder and neck have been screwed up. i'm supposed to start physical therapy within the week, but i'm just tired. unless i'm thinki...