It’s Friday Afternoon!
Welcome to the first Weekly Quittin’ Time! This will be a short weekly newsletter summarizing all the stuff I worked on this week, along with some commentary I don’t have room to add on the microblogging sites. I figured it's also a good way to keep people who really care about my work updated in a platform agnostic way, because I can take this mailing list anywhere and email is probably not going to die out any time soon. Just looking towards the future, you know?
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Published this week:
Endless Monday Monthly Issue 3
Published the monthly zine this week! Yeah, it’s the main reason why this email distro even exists! I had a lot of fun making it, and spent most of this week packing orders for the really cool people who have been buying a physical copy every month. Honestly, I can’t believe how cool they are. Anyway, click below to read:
Sundowner Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (request)
A commission. I had fun with it, if you can tell. If I can just make goofy faces all the time, all commissions would be fun.
Tiger-chan
After her appearance in Issue 3, I just wanted to draw her again. Tiger-chan! Rawr!
This newsletter
Pretty meta, huh. I’m putting effort into it, I swear!
Other things I’m working on
I’m working on some new stickers for the shop. I’ve found from selling physical copies of the zines that people also like to buy other stuff with them too, but I don’t have anything new for this third issue! So for the next one I’ll have a bunch of new stickers for the returning fans ;)
I’m working on finishing up my commissions. Once I’m done, I’ll probably be focusing purely on my original works (with some fanarts for stuff I like sprinkled here and there, of course). Drawing other peoples’ characters for money, while fun, feels suspiciously like a job, and I want to explore doing other creative things before I have to resume my “real” career in a couple months. Unless something magical happens, which I’m not counting on…
I have more shop orders to pack, and I’ll probably be shipping them all out tomorrow. I went to the post office today to ship the first batch, and found that it was closed for a holiday. I don’t know when holidays are anymore!
Stuff I cared about
Serif released “version 2” of their Affinity creative suite this week. After dropping my Adobe Photoshop subscription I’ve been using Affinity Photo almost every day for editing and adjustments for exporting my artwork and zine scans, and it works really well. They’re having a 40% off sale right now for all apps in the suite (I should start using Affinity Publisher to fancify the zine a bit, too…)
Ghibli x Star Wars? A Baby Yoda short by Studio Ghibli releasing tomorrow on Disney+… That reminds me, I still have to watch Star Wars: Visions. And Andor. I don’t know, I used to be super into Star Wars before the new trilogy made me stop caring, but I did like the Mandalorian series and the Obi-Wan series, too. Maybe it’s a good time to catch up again.
I randomly logged into Battle.net for the first time in like 5 years, and I was surprised by a gift of 150 free Hearthstone packs. I don’t know if I have the patience to climb the Hearthstone ladder again, but I do like the dopamine hit of opening those packs… and hey, it’s free…
Mob Psycho 100 is probably my favorite anime that’s been released in the past 10 years. I only add that qualifier because Nichijou was released 11 years ago (wow), and that’s my favorite anime of all time. Anyway, every season has been so good, and Season 3 is no exception. Go watch it if you haven’t!!!!! (Also watching this season: Spy x Family, Pop Team Epic 2, and on my watch list still: DIY, Bocchi the Rock)
Pikmin Bloom is having its first anniversary Community Week event this week. I’ve been dutifully walking and planting flowers to find all the first anniversary special Pikmin and grab all the Community Day badges I missed over the past year (just 4 of them!). I love my Pikmin. I will keep them happy by walking many steps and planting lots of flowers.
And lastly, yeah, yeah, Twitter is going down in flames, and I had a really long and cranky rant all typed up for the bonus ramble below, but I ended up deleting it because it’s not interesting and everyone already knows what a train wreck this week has been. Now I don’t have anything to post in the bonus section except a new Tiger-chan comic. So I typed up some words about how much I dislike going to the mall. Such is life.
Bonus words and Tiger-chan Interlude comic below!
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