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I’m doing the ‘Quarantober’ art challenge on Facebook , and here’s what I have for day 10: “Unite”.
The gang’s all here, in blurry, indistinct pseudo-paint.
(Corel Painter 2019)
Okay. A post. Five Comic is taking a break until the start of May.
I’m going to need to take a break from the comic for a little bit. Often when I do this it’s because a spanner has been thrown in the works by my migraines and other health problems but this time…
Well, the main plotline of Five is about a catastrophic plague sweeping the nation, and right now…well, aside from the comparativemy trivial bit where my own mental health was in the toilet anyway, that feels a bit too close to home and I’m just sat here going “…ya know what, I really dont feel like drawing this right now.” I know one of the many purposes of art is holding a mirror up to the real world but I never thought this little comic I work on from a makeshift studio in my house would accidentally become topical.
I’m not stopping writing Five…in fact I fully expect to return to updating the story later. But right now I think I need a bit of distance from this project for sanity reasons. I’ll be putting together a “taking a break” placeholder page later tonight, and I’ll keep both this page and the website updated with regular character art, apocalypse scenery, pin-ups, cars and God-knows what else, and mostly hope to spend my time isolating working on commissions, my second project (a historical graphic novel I’m illustrating), and “fun” art and trades to keep me sane.
Stay safe, lovely readers. I’m still here…hell, it’s not like I can go anywhere 
and the comic itself will be back in May.
This past week has been an absolute pain in the arse and there’s been a shortage of art generally…life, illness, and friends needing my help all happened so the comic had to go on hold a bit.
Still, having rescued Vivienne from Kitsuka seems a fairly natural place for a break…
I’d been considering the idea for a while but I’ve now got around to setting up a Patreon page!
Check it out for various artistic goings-on 😀 https://www.patreon.com/user?u=28098189
Hey readers. My trusty art PC is suffering from an unknown problem at the moment and currently languishes in the repair shop until further notice. I’m borrowing my husband’s computer in the meantime, which I’ve installed Manga Studio on and connected my tablet up to, but a lot of the custom layouts, backgrounds, and the like which I use for Five Comic…are on the hard drive of my computer so I don’t have them to hand right now. Consequently, we’re missing our nice red distressed Chapter 9 border and a few other things that prevent today’s page from looking quite how I wanted it to.
Still…as Indy says here, we. Move. On.
Here’s to hoping Art PC is easily fixable, whatever’s wrong with it.