Month: March 2025
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Sketchbook Crystal Island WIP
Just playing around between work and comics and life. Neocolor iis and watercolours!
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one year of arm stuff – part 12 –ambidexterity – writing
For six months I had no nerve connection whatsoever to my lower right radial nerve. This meant that all of the muscles it powered were completely switched off, paralyzed, leaving me unable to uncurl my fingers, lift my wrist, tilt my wrist, or open my thumb, and leaving me much weaker at gripping, rotating my…
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Oil Pastel Castle Ruins
After a few weeks away it was great to get home to the oil pastels! I painted this one on canson mi-teintes paper, with sennelier oil pastels, and was reminded that when used on paper, even the greasiest oil pastels do set somewhat! Between days, the pastels set up enough it wasn’t blendable with my…
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one year of arm stuff – part 11 –left hand life
When all this was ramping up, I tried to do a lot of research into what tools I would need to navigate the world with my left hand, and there were two things flooding my search results: things for parents to buy for their left-handed kindergarteners, and mensa nerds looking to minmax their IQ by…
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one year of arm stuff – part 10 – frustration
After surgery, I had planned to take two weeks off of work. The actual surgery itself didn’t sound as intense as some prior ones I’ve had, but I had at least some sense that it would take some time to readjust. In the end I took four weeks off, and I’m hugely grateful to my…