I tried using the pen tool as another experiment in trying to mix it with normal drawing on this one and I'm not really sure it worked. I think it's another technique that's going to have to be shelved a for a while so I can figure out how to use it better before I start putting it into comics again. But you never learn anything if you don't occasionally screw up, and I've made a policy of not trying to hide every mistake I make.
For a while over the last couple days I've been considering going on hiatus until life calms down for me ( A full-time job, design work, finding money for school, helping raise a nephew and full-time comic can do a number on you. ), but while I was working on this one, I was flipping through the archive, just musing on the experiments I've tried in the past and the things I've changed and played with over the course of doing the strip and it occurred to me just how much of a learning experience this has been for me and how much it's come to be a part of my life. It's definitely become my number one method of driving people nuts as they try to figure out what the heck it is exactly that I'm doing with my shoe off my foot on the table in front of me or why I'm sitting on the floor with crayons scribbling away and comparing drawings with my year-old nephew ( I may be in trouble if he figures out a wacom as fast as he's gotten his mind wrapped around crayons. ). This comic was even my excuse for why we were drawing on the wall with those crayons ( It's impossible to teach cartooning to someone lacking motor skills without a big enough canvas. ) So, after flipping through the archive and thinking about all that and why I decided to do something so dumb as start a daily comic in the first place, I decided that I don't want to take a break from this. I'm enjoying it too much.
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