Making, Creating, and Improvisation

There have been steps towards doing stuff and making things. Or making stuff and doing things. I have bent my new Wacom tablet to my will, with the help of Adorable for some of the jiggery-pokery. I had to figure out my own way of making it go, and it seems to be working.

So my next step is getting used to how it works and how to properly use my art program.

I'm going to practice with character designs, then digital painting, and maybe even move on to creating mock-ups of book covers for A Devil's Tale. I'll see how I go.

I'll also be looking into importing instruments and loop samples into Zrythm since the extant selection options are kind of spare. Various efforts at varying times because I have all sorts of other commitments.

Baby steps.

And also attempting to put off burnout because too many expectations and too much rushing ends up burning me out. I gotta remember to be gentle with myself.

All to get back to making art in an age where everyone and their kid brothers' dog is throwing their whole hat into AI. Which means I need to learn how to use poisoning software before I post anything I'm proud of.

I'm also going to attempt recording my process. I do need B-roll for other ideas to get my stories out into the wider world. An attempt to defeat Tik-Tok Brain(tm) and get the shorter attention spans interested in longer stories. I can hope. I can dream. After all, a blatantly racist TERF got little kids reading thick tomes and enjoying the process. Someone like me could plausibly get Tik-Tokkers wondering what happens to various characters next. And then sticking to one story for times up to an hour.

Possibly.

There's a lot to put into it before I launch that nonsense.

But I can see a path forward. That's something, and I can at least have a go at it.

...in between all my other other side-projects.