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Jessie of the Day: 9/8/2024

idletry september update #2

this is scene 4 of the comic. and some other stuff. i know it's probably a pain to read through these with a bunch of files in between the pages; the completed digital pages will be posted all together in separate posts, with a separate tag, to make reading through them easier... still thinking on the tag to be used just for reading.

randall is jessie's best friend from high school. she i...

Jessie of the Day: 9/6/2024

Jessie of the Day: 9/5/2024

hi. it turns out that i've been really happy with a good amount of the expressions jessie has made so far in the comic. i will post one from any given page if i'm happy with one or think it's particularly humorous/jessie-esque. they may have dialogue redacted or erased in the panel.
this is from the page i sketched today.

idletry september update #1

i wanted to make an individual post about these edits because i do want to disable comments on it. there were a couple of significant changes sketched out for the first and third scenes. i posted the original, then the edit.

the edits for the first scene were because initially, i intended for jessie to point out some of the inconsistencies in the visuals of the story much more directly i ...

idletry: august 2024 update #2

hi again, everyone. i finished sketching scene 3. additionally, i finished lining and coloring the test page to figure out how i wanted to go about drawing this for print... i also reviewed scenes 1 and 2 and wrote a lot of notes about what i thought was good and bad, for revisions to the sketches. so there's, like, a lot here all at once.

first is all of scene 3's sketch. i ended up endi...

idletry: august 2024 update

hi everyone. it's nice to be posting again relatively soon after the last post i made. this is a sketch of scene 2. i haven't gone back to line scene 1 or anything because i want more time to think on the compositions of some of these earlier scenes -- and my hand has been achey. lining is the worst part for my hand, which is why i was really hoping to avoid it.
i don't expect to upload the ...

idletry: july 2024 update #2

hi again. you've probably seen a lot of these panels before, because i posted them in the last update. i wanted to post the entirety of scene 1's sketch, along with some other things. partially, it's because i want to make it obvious that i AM working on idletry -- the only days i don't work on it are when my hand aches too much -- and to write down a lot of the process of learning in this begi...

idletry: july 2024 update

hi again everyone. i've sketched 10 pages of idletry -- it's looking like the first scene will be 11 or 12 pages. i'm not super happy about it... i'm currently sketching at 25% of the size that the print files need to be, which means i will almost certainly need to reline the entire comic for print. i tried drawing at larger sizes, and it felt incredibly unpleasant.
i'm still not fully commi...

idletry thumbnails: scene 16 ("far above your level")

I doubt that I will post all of the thumbnails for Idletry. For now, this is my first attempt at thumbnailing a scene from Idletry. It was selected by a random number generator, from the first act, excluding the first and last scenes of the act. This is the third-to-last scene of act 1. I've been using the pansy hand...

idletry: june 2024 update

Hi again, everyone. I've finally finished the first draft of the script in earnest this time; it's been sent out to a few beta readers, but I am not going to wait 3 months to continue onward at this point. Maybe I will slow down for 3 months, but not stop entirely.
The document sent to the beta readers was over 1,000 pages in length, and the script itself clocked in at just under 200,000 wor...

scene 79: it's all the same forever

[NOTE: scene will be described in a loose panel-to-panel manner. Some sequences which will undoubtedly be more than one panel will still be described as a singular panel. The amount of panels in the sequence is not set in stone, and can vary in the final product. These sequence-panels will be marked with a *.]

[Panel 1]

[Jessie ex...

2024-05-30 05:37:47 +0000 UTC View Post

idletry: may update

hi everyone. i was hoping to finish the script last month, but it didn't happen. it would be done by now, but there were a lot -- A LOT -- of structural issues in act 3, which resulted in adding a few scenes, but a slower work pace as well.

all of act 1 and about half of act 2 is edited in a "1.5" draft for beta readers. these fixed some continuity errors, rough the big thi...

pick a scene: second half of act 3

this will be the last "pick a scene" poll... to note: scene 84 is not the end of the comic. there are 4 scenes after it.

scene 65: I'll show you bad

I'm so sorry... I forgot about the poll, lmfao. This is the first scene of act 3.

Samwich: and we are here to worship our Lord. Not for power. Not for love.

[Jessie sits in one of the back rows of pews, as a supervisor shadowing a classroom to determine if it's up to snuff might, only briefly after strangling Shiloh — though no one is any the wiser aside from her. On t...

2024-05-24 21:16:24 +0000 UTC View Post

pick a scene: first half of act 3

hello everyone. i am 30 now. and i'm about halfway done with act 3 of idletry's script. i'd like to wait until i'm totally done with act 3 before posting another development update. i'm hoping to finish the script before the project becomes a year old (which is about a month from now).

please note that because it is incredibly late into the story, all scenes will be spoiler-heavy.  2024-03-17 06:35:46 +0000 UTC View Post

idletry: january 2024 update

hi everyone. i haven't done much art, but i have done writing... act 2 is scripted. currently, i'm working on the... structural integrity of act 3. it has a lot of them due to the nature of time travel, lol. insert screenshot of emily saying she hates stories with time fuckery here. that's what i worked on today.
part of the benefit or rereading scenes over and over in my spare time is that ...

scene 55: playing with dolls

[The scene starts at the water tower where Jessie usually sits. She rises into view from below with Shiloh in her arms. Her tail is wagging with levity. She seems excited to show Shiloh this place that means something to her.]

Jessie: see? It's cool. You can see a lot of stuff just sitting up here. There's a big park that direction, ...

2024-01-01 05:33:04 +0000 UTC View Post

pick a scene: second half of act 2

as a note, scene 64 is the LAST scene of act 2, so it is possibly the largest spoiler, and may not make as much sense without the context or build-up.

scene 48: punishing is fun

[The scene opens up to a glowing white orb — Jessie's favorite snow globe, turned upside down, being used as a scrying orb. Her paws surround it on either side.]

Jessie: Stabbings.

[The orb remains white. Jessie frowns with disappointment and concern.]

2023-12-29 00:27:08 +0000 UTC View Post

spoiler vote: pick a scene, act 2

scene 13: lurked and got my feelings hurt

[the scene starts with jessie walking home, in a pretty good mood. She should do something nice (or several things) — better if it's funny — like revive roadkill or unwilt flowers or unsteal candy from a baby or get someone out of a burning building. Could go really over the top and have her rescue a bunch of clowns from a burning pie factory or somethi...

2023-12-01 23:13:58 +0000 UTC View Post

spoiler vote: pick a scene, act 1

hiii, i haven't posted in a while and i don't have a lot of comics to show for it. the second act stretches from scene 22 to scene 64, but sometimes i delete scenes or rewrite them and label them "scene x.5" rather than renumbering every single scene after it, so it may be a little more or less than 42 scenes.

of the 64 scenes, 8 are "red" -- not even outlined beat by beat, or just Not Do...

idletry: august/september update

hi everyone. not a lot of sketch comics got done -- mostly because i've been focusing on writing. i just really want the first draft done... there are 23 scenes left in act 2 to finish. but script-writing is very delicate, and i don't always have the mental clarity for the nuance of dialogue, so i will frequently write out scenes beat by beat, with the dialogue being written as a "gist" rather ...

idletry color style thoughts

hi. i did another run through color tests for idletry. i'm really happy with how the style is coming along, but it needs a lot of work, still. the other comic i posted with this is the previous test and how they looked printed out.

the main issues i had while doing this strip's colors were... well, first of all, the fact that this was not drawn to accommodate speech bubbles or colors in s...

idletry: july update

hi everyone, i wanted to make another update about idletry this month. i've been kind of a huge mess and really unmotivated and tired. half the time i've cried about mawkish and half the time i've just grasped at anything that will hold my attention with minimal thinking, then another half of my time i'm given responsibility of the puppies that my mom got somehow even though there are only supp...

life update

hi everyone. it's unorthodox to post on shabbat, but i would rather just write out the subject matter now for anyone who doesn't use tumblr much.

i had to euthanize my dog Mawkish today after her seizures broke through the medication she was on and escalated over the course of three days.
i have barely had any sleep over those days, with a couple of hours here or there interrupted by b...

catharsis, page 29

these pages are so shorttt it's kind of killing me... and this one took forever because i've been focusing on idletry, against all better judgments.

not much happens on this page plot-wise, but something very important is established: felix is not into charlotte in That Way. many lines are less important than the one establishing het will not enter the storyline.

that's it! that's a...

idletry: june update happy pride everybody

hi again everyone. this comic has consumed my attention span. simultaneously, it's getting harder to write now that i'm in the thick of it. the beginning and end of a story -- easy to write. the middle, which holds it all together -- less easy. it's getting there, though.

some snippets of act 1, act 2, and act 3 writing in progress here, and a bunch of random comics... reuploaded in this ...

idletry: mid-may dev and doodle dump

i've been thinking about and working on this comic A Lot. probably pushed a lot of important work off in favor of it because my work ethic is Like That.
then my shoulder and neck have been screwed up. i'm supposed to start physical therapy within the week, but i'm just tired. unless i'm thinking about this badger.

regardless, wanted to talk about it so far just a little. the colored co...