Space Camp: Making Page 4
Let's look at some more of the edits I made between the two drafts of a chapter from my Letters From Space Camp book! For reference:
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COLLAGE: I feel embodied when...
What She Knows is an art practice which prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collec... 2023-09-07 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Space Camp: Making Page 3
My agent sent me back a bundle of editorial notes on my first draft and, irritatingly, they all were spot-on and would make the story stronger 😤
For reference:
- Day Two: First Draft (16 pages) 🔒 Comics Tier Patrons
- 2023-09-02 07:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
COLLAGE: I Feel Held When
What She Knows is an art practice which prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collec... 2023-08-31 07:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post
COLLAGE: I want to dress like...
What She Knows is a workshop which prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. The prompt on our second day was:
I want to dress like...
I like the way I dress. My two default outfit settings are a pretty good ...
2023-08-29 18:43:08 +0000 UTC View PostSpot the Difference - Space Camp Pages
So! I made both a lot of changes and also kept a lot of things exactly the same between my two drafts of the Day Two chapter from my Letters From Space Camp book! Let's dive in to that, eh? For reference:
PROJECT: What She Knows
My brilliant, beautiful, bootylicious friend Lucy Bellwood is running a kind of workshop (although she does not call it that) which centers on answering a question about your core beliefs and senses over the course of 100 days. It is called 2023-08-19 22:53:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Digital Downloads - Public View
Bookworm tier patrons get 11 digital book files!
These titles would retail for $62 if bought individually (some are not available publicly at all), but are exclusively on Patreon for a
COMIC: Space Camp: Complete Revised Day 2 Chapter
Alright, alright! I'm done enough with this revised chapter of Space Camp to post it as one long read! But first...
- The original rough draft of Day 2 (16 pages)
- The expanded and inked page... 2023-08-17 07:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
COMIC: Quarterly Tradition
Welding: Metal Flowers? Botanical Illustration? 2023-08-16 17:06:06 +0000 UTC View Post
July Art Round-Up
Now that we’re halfway through August, let’s catch up on all the shit I made in July!
After spending hours and hours...
2023-08-15 01:34:23 +0000 UTC View PostCOMIC: Space Camp Revised pages 19-22
Final batch of pages!
I edited and inked the Day Two chapter from Letters From Space Camp. You can compare the first draft of the chapter with these finished-ish pages below! Catch up on the previous batches of revised pages: 2023-08-12 03:28:51 +0000 UTC View Post
COMIC: Space Camp Revised, pages 16-18
I'm editing and inking the Day Two chapter from Letters From Space Camp. You can compare the first draft of the chapter with these finished-ish pages below! Catch up on the previous batches of revised pages: 2023-08-09 02:18:54 +0000 UTC View Post
SPACE CAMP: Inked Pages 11-15
I'm editing and inking the Day Two chapter from Letters From Space Camp. You can compare the first draft of the chapter with these finished-ish pages below! Catch up on the previous batches of revised pages: 2023-07-29 03:24:15 +0000 UTC View Post
A Touch of Cloth (Historical Costuming Project)
Matt gave me a glass with a faint yellow-y tinged transparent drink and a straw so of course I took a big ol' slurp from it, assuming it was a fruity-flavored water, but NO.
NO.
IT WAS NOT.
It was a canned mojito? I actually shrieked when my taste buds spiked on that weirdo fermented off-taste. I mean, it's not bad. It's actually nice! But I drink...
2023-07-24 05:43:04 +0000 UTC View PostSPACE CAMP: Inked Pages 6 - 10
As explained in the last post, I'm editing and inking the Day Two chapter from Letters From Space Camp. For fun, compare the first draft of the chapter with these finished-ish pages below...
2023-07-22 06:30:47 +0000 UTC View PostSPACE CAMP: Inked Pages 1 - 5 (Day Two)
My last post shared some of my progress on revising the Day Two chapter of Letters From Space Camp and now I have the first batch of inked pages to share with you! For fun, you can open up the 2023-07-15 03:03:25 +0000 UTC View Post
SPACE CAMP: The Revisoning
Matt and I had a check-in with our book agent and I kinda-sorta out-of-my-ass estimated I'd be done revising the sample chapter of Space Camp in the next few months and she was like 'Great, I'll start shopping the pitch around to publishers in the fall then." which means I.................
2023-07-07 05:58:59 +0000 UTC View PostJune Round-Up
I fixed our ancient curtains! ……………………………………………...or did I.
I've Been Framed (Joy Project Update)
My one goal going in to Goodwill was to find a frame for this really pretty 12" x 18" print I bought at a craft fair and suspended in its flimsy plastic sleeve on my kitchen wall.
As you can see in my photo on the left, the plastic sleeve is not doing the 2023-07-05 22:50:12 +0000 UTC View Post
COMIC: #IsawU
Journey back with me, dear patron, to a time long, long ago. A time when Twitter was new and used almost exclusively to make silly jokes with your friends in 140 characters or fewer.
The year: 2012
The game: Tweet fake missed connections ads (The classic "I Saw You...
2023-06-29 23:59:23 +0000 UTC View PostWrap It Up In a Rainbow
For my 40th birthday, I flew across the country to spend it with some dear friends. At this moment I am on the return trip home, killing time until my connecting flight back home.
I had intended to write about Pride but…
I had a really good Pride. It’s the first one I’ve gone to in about 20 years. I associate Queer Spaces with identity gatekeeping and bullying so I stopped goi...
2023-06-28 22:15:23 +0000 UTC View PostStay(s) With Me (Historical Costuming Project)
Slowly but surely I am making progress on my 18th century outfit with my Historical Costuming sewing group! Having wrapped up my strap-on pockets, I now commenced on my very first set o...
2023-06-23 07:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis is How I Love You (A Jeans-Mending Project)
You wear your favorite jeans until they are shreds.
Your body rubs away denim, fiber by fiber, until the light shines through them.
It takes years, but all through the power of your body moving and living in these jeans, rubbing against them every day, grinding them away from th...
2023-06-20 01:51:57 +0000 UTC View PostMending my ancient curtain with a stranger's skirt
"You're the only person I know who would bring an entire CURTAIN to a hot springs." -Matt, after asking me what entertainment I was going to bring on our weekend retreat two hours away in the woods.
When we moved in to...
2023-06-14 02:03:19 +0000 UTC View PostMay Round-Up
Here's the stuff I made and/or posted last month! I got some art, I got some essays, I gotta lotta photos, man, I got a bit of everything for you!
COMIC: Coffee to Go (2001-ish?)
My senior year of high school, I took a comics class taught by Lin Lucas. His teaching was profoundly impactful on little teenage-me and it makes my heart so happy to still cross paths with him to this day in the not-so-tiny world of comics, now as peers and friends.
The following is the first long-form co...
2023-05-30 23:24:00 +0000 UTC View PostMarvel at the Cabbage Flower
My brassicas are flowering.
I grew them both from seed, my cabbage and kohlrabi (on the left and right, respectively). In fact, the current cabbage may have been a seed I harvested by hand from a previous cabbage that I grew some years ago. I’m not 100% sure, but I’m, like, 85% positive that ...
2023-05-24 05:44:20 +0000 UTC View PostNot to be nasty, but I'm digging my stink
I smell like sunblock and dirt and sweat.
Well, I smell like sunblock, except for those two patches over the bottoms of my shoulder blades, where my tiny t-rex arms can't reach. They're not sun-burnt yet, but they will be if I keep this up. "This", meaning "Biking to work in a sports bra and gardening in a halter top."
2023-05-19 19:16:27 +0000 UTC
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Space Camp - Revision
Ok.
Ok. Ok. Ok.
So I did the whole rough first draft of Letters From Space Camp, right? (My memoir about going through the Intensive Outpatient Program at the mental hospital in 2019)
Before my agent can pitch it to publishers, I need to actually draw up one of the chapters...
2023-05-18 05:13:41 +0000 UTC View Post