Shit, this is a struggle. I've been spinning my wheels in the sketchbook for days. Nothing of substance is appearing yet. I'm doubting my technique.

But the funny thing is this is such a predictable pattern for me. First I doodle. Then I tear up some pages. Then I whip out the Wacom Tablet and try to see if that's the new new me. (It never is.) Then I go back to the sketchbook and fight with how to make the inks as expressive as the pencils. (It never is.) Then I decide the only way to give meaning to my sketches is to frame them in a comic. And so on, and so on, and so on.

2008 was all about counter pointing focus on comic with focus on the career. I'd say it was a huge success in that regard. Made me a rather dull person though. 2009 is going to be about balancing. Put another way: I gots to start drawing more. I miss it.



A tally of sketches in Flickr over the last 3 years:

2006: 105 sketches (Not counting comics.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabricari/sets/72157594511753360/

2007: 161 sketches (Not counting even more comics.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabricari/sets/72157594511030598/

2008: 38 sketches (No comics. Pathetic.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabricari/sets/72157603606993937/

A few Christmas Ales and I think anything is clever.