You may have noticed that I did not post a Panda Thursday last week.

I have a deadline on a paying project coming up, so my usual time for Panda Thursday was taken up by that, and I ate through my buffer. But my real problem appears to be that, once I’ve filled up the whole front page of my blog with pandas by posting every Thursday and no other time, I just get sick and tired of drawing pandas.

So what do I do?

Panda Thursday was meant to be an exercise in making sure I’m drawing and posting to my blog at least once a week. I think I can still do that, but be more flexible about it by adding more creatures to more days, and mandating an update of at least one. That’ll keep me from feeling so stagnant after a million pandas.

So, I need some help coming up with creatures. I want to do Monster Monday, Panda Thursday (natch), Fish Friday ( because we used to be Catholic). But what about Tuesday and Wednesday? If you have a suggestion, leave me a comment. The creature doesn’t have to be an alliteration of the day of the week, unless it’s too awesome to pass up.

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It’s not all that warm here just yet. And it’s still raining a lot. Hard to remember it’s spring.

I haven’t been feeling terribly enthusiastic about anything lately. Trying to shake myself out of it, and force something to happen, kind of like all the flowering trees around here in spite of the cold wind and rain.

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Readers of my livejournal might remember this from a few months ago, which, I suppose is cheating. I always intended to post this comic over here when I started the comic in earnest, so it seems like now is as good a time as any. Also, I seem to be on a theme lately of Art Block and procrastination.

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I get all these ideas for things when it’s the most inconvenient to write them down. Most of the time I get good ideas when I’m in the shower, and I can’t seem to hold on to them until I get out in order to write them down. Worse yet, I seem to lose my momentum as soon as I get myself in front of a blank piece of paper or new Photoshop file.

I need to get into a good “force and filter” rhythm, where I force something to come out whether I feel it or not, every day, maybe multiple times, and then choose the good stuff out of that.
This drawing is part of that, but it’s also that I seem to get ideas that might be brilliant in my pre-coffee state, but as I wake up they seem less so. I wonder what that means…

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