I feel that I have failed lately, I know this not to be true, but by my standards I have failed. I have big plans and expectations for myself, but my past instances of depression from highschool have caught up to me. I'm applying fo rmany schools anad instead of some international schools taking my college grades into consideration, theyd rather me apply as a freshman and THEN credit transfer approval later, and although I got my IB diploma, I very barely scraped by. I'm going to apply anyway, and hoping that I will get in. However, it's looking more and more like I will stay in the U.S at the artschool I'm currently attending, as I'm halfway through my junior year. Anyways, I want to give some updates on what I'm working on rather than just life updates. So: For my unnamed Homestuck comic that uses disability allegory: I have been working faithfully on it bit by bit. I made the mistake of doing it on procreate as it has very limited tools for ensuring that lines are straight and level to the canvas. I'm in the process of lining right now, but I haven't had a whole lot of time to do so between finals and comission work that I probably should be doing right now. The main struggles that I've been dealing with are ensuring that background proportions match the character proportions, and how to clarify feeling and meaning in the scene via linework movement and thickness. Its a lot harder than it looks! Sequential artists are truely the bravest for doing this but I suppose it's an acquired skill, so it's hard for most at first. I'll include some pictures of my progress below, but I'm still planning on adding some pages that were in my script, I just haven't gotten to drafting those quite yet. The entire process is really reminicent of storyboarding in my opinion, with a lot more care being afforded to each shot. Next, I want to talk about another one of my upcomoing projects that has a shorter timeline than the comic in the background: I'm going to do a 50 second animation, or series of animations, based on the concept of dereality and fantasy inspired "psychosis". I'm sure the idea has been done before but, imagine that you can see monsters that no one else can, that relentlessly pursure you, but there are real life consequences to something that you know to be real. I feel like it turns the idea of the traditional monster on it's head and also integrates the real life experiences of people who have been in the American mental health system, with the fantasy aspect allowing for more audience sympathy of what it's like living with a mental illness than a traditional representation of psychosis. I have around 20 or 30 seconds done so far, and I can't want to share them! This post is kinda formatted like doodie but I've had this post sitting inside of my computer for months at this point, and I really just want to get it out T_T