Gibson Girls Page 14 + Art talk rant (Patreon)

Still as yet working on getting the roughs for pages 1-2, but I do have them thumbnailed in a way that feels like it has a bit more room for dialog but is also more fun and gives me some room to homage a classic Gibson drawing by putting Eileen on a bicycle! :)

I might add one more page to the end but I feel like I have to mock up the dialog in order to see if it needs it or not, still we're inching ever closer to completion!

I had to take a breather at the early part of this week, there's a stress level that I try not to cross if I can manage because it hurts my productivity and also just is generally miserable to work through, and I let that happen back in March, unfortunately I think there's kind of a delay on the physical/emotional currency you spend to deal with that and the bill came due over this past week and I was soooooo tiiiiiiiired.

My challenge for myself this year is finding a better balance between the work I enjoy and the work I do for a paycheck and unfortunately I think a lot of the imbalance comes from me, not from external forces. I've always struggled with managing my time but it's only been in recent years that I've seen how it boils down to my ability (or lack thereof) to say "no."

I'm going to be cutting down on the amount of SFW freelance I do over the summer to help with this and I'm going to take a little vacation trip (probably hiking) next month. Ironically putting more boundaries around my time often makes me more productive because I spend less time worrying and more time enjoying my work.

That's a lot of babbling attached to a single page so I'll leave this topic for now 😂 Thanks for indulging and more importantly for supporting this work!

♥ Winton