back

Resident Evil

2022-09-22

2 minute read

I went out for a drink with Ashleigh last night and I feel really groggy today! 28 years old is beating my ass. I've got some birthday drinks for a friend tonight, will be sure to drink plenty of water in between pots of beer. Slow start to the day, didn't do yoga and slept in.

I did a good hour and a half of portuguese practice yesterday. I watched a video about how to practice listening effectively and took notes -

Pratica de ouvir

Ums dicas, depois de assistir o video aqui: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr2AIXN4a1k

Then read an article about travelling in Bali and started writing my homework piece which is, no surprises, a piece about Bali.

Apples for the Pit

I did another 3 hours on the zine, it's taking longer that I expected (the usual case). I'm doing it on the whiteboard, for now, to encourage looseness in the drawing, but today I will also try just paper too. I've already decided, in writing that, that I don't want to do it like that. Pencil underlines will be useful for composition. I can achieve a looseness with a pen. I could even try an ink wash for grey and run the final thing through a dither. The most important thing, as before, is to draw and draw as much as I can.

The story has changed a little - it's not linear, and I'm cutting out a hole in the bottom of the zine - it will unfold open to reveal more of the scene as a whole, not discrete moments in time divided by panels. It's a host of different pigs, carrying apples of different shapes and sizes, and talking about how they're going to throw them into the pit.

a white board with a rough zine layout drawn on it a bed with a whiteboard and some other bits of paper on it, all with different pictures of pigs on them A pig carrying 2 bags of apples A pig on a bike with a big apple in the backpack

I got hooked into Ronin, a common problem I have with coding tools and losing time. I was happy with the level of image retouching I managed though: Ronin image editor screenshot Ronin image editor screenshot Ronin image editor screenshot Ronin image editor screenshot Ronin image editor screenshot

It's frustrating how long it takes me to put this together and get it out, but I guess that's the nature of practice and if you don't do it you don't get better. I've spent great chunks of time learning a lot of other things, it's easy to lose sight of that when I'm struggling to draw a bunch of cartoon pigs.

I still get a little stressy thinking about it. Not sure exactly how to get around it, but I'd like to have a full draft ready for sunday.

what else

I think it's time to wrap up for today, I'm getting distracted.

listening to

Resident Evil by Tomu Dj from my soundcloud new uploads discovery playlist

questions