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Qynce B. Chumley

01/15/2022 studio update

Posted by qynceb on Jan 15, 2022

Hello again! happy saturday!

An ink and pencil sketch of two anthro racoon characters. On the left, Buddy (Cramsey's brother) looks surprised and is holding an armful of onions and peppers. On the right, Cramsey has their arms crossed and their eyebrows furrowed. The sketches are simple and cartoonish.

I went back to work this week after about a month off and am having a bit of a difficult time transitioning back into the swing of thing while keeping on top of comic book. That said, I did keep making progress! here's to next week being even better!

A penciled page labeled 13. All the word balloons are empty. Buddy is following Cramsey around as they walk from the top of the page to the bottom. The panel gutters separate Cramsey and Buddy from each other and split the page down the middle like a broken piece of glass. They both look annoyed at each other, until Cramsey turns around and shouts something at Buddy, and he looks startled. Then Cramsey looks deflated as they mutter something.Page 14 pencils. Cramsey looks annoyed, and Buddy looks amused as he rolls his eyes. Then he says something that makes Cramsey look very angry, and they shout 'NO, I'M NOT' at him. Then Buddy is shown in front of a large pad of paper, and is gesturing to it like a teacher. The paper says '1. Laugh at their jokes. 2. Go to Borger King. Instant bros.' The last panel shows Cramsey from behind as they stare at a wall full of pictures.Page 22 pencils. Cramsey appears very, very small sitting in a chair. An anthro cat (Ben) is sitting at the table with them and looks at them with a caring but confused expression. Then, Cramsey appears in the next panel to be very large, looking away from Ben as if they are pretending he's not there. Then in the next panel, Cramsey is normal sized again, and Ben is asking them a question. A close up shot of a box of donuts, and then of Ben reaching into his shirt pocket to grab a small pad of paper.Page 25 pencils. Cramsey looks off to the side nervously as an anthro dog character (Paul) says something to them while looking very amused. Cramsey says something while looking off at a thought bubble, in which they're picturing themself hanging upside down half off a couch and watching something on a laptop while eating pizza. They finish what they are saying and look unsure of what they've said.Page 26 pencils. Cramsey looks over at an anthro snake character (Johnson) who is saying something to them with a completely unreadable expression. Cramsey starts to answer, but is interrupted by Paul saying 'SO CRAMSEY.' He says something to them while smiling and slightly furrowing his brows. He is standing next to the chair Cramsey is sitting in, and leans in close to them, causing them to lean away, looking uncomfortable.

now let's get mushy for a second here...

Consistently throughout my life I've had a pattern of procrastinating on projects until I get very close to the deadline. And, every single time I've always managed to meet the deadline regardless. I feel proud of a lot of the things I've managed to do in my life! and at the same time I have a lot of pretty bad feelings about having not been able to do my best work because of this pattern. I tend to set myself up for failure when I take on new projects, because I get pre-emptively guilty about all the time I know I'm going to waste, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I think that that happened in the case of this project -- AND I did ALSO have two very big, disruptive crisises in my personal life, which I am still recovering from, and I have continued to be living through a pandemic amid other societal crisises, so like; don't worry, I'm cutting myself some slack over here -- and now I'm working on pushing through the cycle of guilt and shame that can make me avoid a project like the plague, and just keep working on the damn thing. Part of me definitely wants to just give up and wallow in my failure, or fall back on my trust in myself that I WILL always meet a deadline, even when it kills me, and make things incredibly harder on my future self. But so far, I'm doing a pretty good job of ignoring that part! Which is uh, kind of new for me, in some ways.

So, anyways... working on stuff, especially big, long-term projects, is fuckin hard y'all. Thanks for supporting me in doing this wildly difficult thing.

In cooperation and solidarity,

Qynce

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