COMIC: Space Camp, Day Six (Patreon)

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It took me a long time to make this chapter.

There was a solid month where I just. Uhg. I didn't want to touch it. I was bored. I was bored of another chapter saying almost exactly the same thing as the previous ones. I didn't feel this way about the first five chapters, not at all. All the information was still new, it was exciting to translate those days into comics. But here comes Day Six and -wham- I just absolutely hit a wall. So, I left it alone. I did other work. I sat on it.

And then.

I woke up at 2am.

And I knew.

I knew what to do.

I didn't want to document Day Six? Fine. Skip it. Skip it and dive into something I did want to draw, which was this conversation I had the day after Day Six on my way to work.

So, there. I knew what to do! BLOCK SOLVED.

...

And then I avoided it for another couple weeks after that.

After some lazy armchair psychoanalyzing (which is a productive way to procrastinate!), I think it has something to do with me being scared about the future of my career in comics and subconsciously pinning all my hopes on this potential book doing "well" and making "enough" money and shepherding me into another decade of building my career in this absolutely insane and unstable Professional Comics field- or NOT, and then what do I do?

That's a lot of pressure  to put on one little stick figure memoir.

It would be cool if I could say that I had another 2am breakthrough and that's how I got this chapter done, but the reality is I just forced myself to sit in my chair and work on it for a set period of time each day until it was finished.

Now, on to Day Seven.

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Since I couldn't show off my collage in the comic itself...

Our prompt in Expressive Therapy  that day was "Collage your mood with nature to represent your mood." (Which is a pretty awkward way to word a sentence, if you ask me)

I did a tidal pool- lush and colorful when tide is in, barren and gross when the tide is out.