#every gif has a different colouring 🤪

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HOUSE, M.D. 5.07 | "The Itch"

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THREE (so hard to do things in order on tumblr)

We haven’t put Halloween stuff out yet really. Just a few random bits. I have that to look forward to which is nice! Li popped this fucker in the stairs and me nerves. His name is Harold/Gregory or whatever name I think of when I get a fright. Every time. Every fuckin time I pass him. 🤪👻😱

Anyways this is all I’m posting here I’ll get rid of the tumblr tomorrow I just wanted to say -

I feel yuk and the hallway has changed!

But also I have hope and I am making moves to soothe my self.

Fatigued but still thriving messily 13:15 Saturday 12/10/24 xxx

Edit: I bought a back to the future poster this one time and brought it rhome and hung it and then realised it was a back to the future two poster. Obviously one is my favourite. Great poster still.

Boring fact. But also you love me so much that any aule shite I find important to share you think is fantastic? Yes? No!!! Rude. Love Anna 💋

Edit:17:48

Felt crap. Decided to watch this tarot reader. I love the decks she has and she makes fun spreads/boards. Her knowledge is awesome on meanings of obscure decks.

Went to her channel and scanned the most recent uploads. Saw a Penguin and clicked!! It’s pile number one, no need to watch the intro. Reem is the name of this card reader and she is a gentle soul, I like how she interprets cards. I don’t always agree but that is because we have lived different lives. However this reading I feel is pretty spot on for me vs u2/Dad/and co

So inacse you want a shared experience I sat with coffee and watched this. I love her voice she talks fuckin slow which is a vibe for today.

I just love her decks. I had stopped watching cos she was using a Winnie the Pooh deck too often and I was just not vibing.

Anyways that’s that. I had fun. ❤️

One minute long explanation of the 7 of swords.

I love the seven of swords I have studied it a lot. Many people see it as a basic betray card I see it as using your mind to disarm a bigger baddie. which comes up in the Penguin YouTube link.

The image of the news story about the man with the dino grabber made me think of the seven of swords too. So I shared it cos it’s funny. Cos I have a dino grabber.

Okay so x ♥️

Edit:

I was saying about Li earlier and it’s just that she is a forceful person and I was raised a doormat.

When I bought the couch we have I chose this green. I love green. Wanted a dark academia type room. This isn’t the couch cos it doesn’t have the extra leg bit but it’s the first one of the one we got that came up so you get the jist. Anyways I show li that I have order this couch (huge deal cos I got it on finance over three years.) she hates the green. I call and change it to cinnamon- the one we have now. She also hates this. But it’s less bad than the green and also a colour I do like.

It’s not her fault. But she was raised in a home till she was 8 seeing me he destroyed with every interaction.

Séamus would interrupt every single sentence and say I was wrong. Even if it was my own experience or a fact from the news.

Even if he agreed with me.

I was Dobby the elf to him.

I made myself small. Around the couch buying time the last of my friendships ended.

And it was a gift, I had a similar dynamic with one of them as I had with Séamus. I became a helpful friendly ghost who existed enough to keep up appearances of interacting but truly I was steamrolled every second.

I am so blessed to now have answers.

To understand Séamus was not kind because I am a bastard.

Then everything changed, knowledge truly is power.

Anyways I think the couch example is a good one.

I learned to adapt to please.

I don’t want to do that anymore Colin.

I want to choose.

And follow through.

So that is partly why it is so important for me to follow my heart and listen to it with regards to you. Mine. I feel that in my gut.

I’m not changing course for anyone.

❤️

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This Week In "Time & Again" #2: Gettin' Technical Here! 😁

Now, since all the vector prep is done, it's finally time for me to start actually drawing every single frame for Chapter 5!.. Just like that! 👇😁

Oddly, as I started drawing the frames for Chapter 5, I feel extra hyper but also very relaxed and blissful at the same time. Maybe it's nostalgia, for as far as I remember, in winter days I liked to enjoy drawing at home, in the warmth, watching the snow outside. Seems like the work on the artworks is going exceptionally well - much better than when I worked on Chapter 4. I'm excited to go forward with my crazy undertaking; but on the side, I have a lot of non-"Time & Again" ideas, and I revisit my old writings, hoping to find extra spark for the other universes and timelines I have in mind, and all of that powers me up. I feel very active and positive. Aaaah, dis is the season, innit?.. Here, on this side of the globe, winter is halfway on. In the end of the last week it snowed in neatly and almost evenly, and the birds on our balcony look all fluffed up and fidgety, waddling from one little foot to another to keep themselves warm while trying to unbury the birdy omnomnommies from under the not-so-giant-yet heaps of snow. The snow has melted a bit by now; I watch them through the balcony window, sipping on my Earl Grey tea every morning and throughout the day, and it makes me feel at peace, and yet a little sad at the same time. For if I had knitting skills, I would've supplied all those cute little sparrows and the peanut-hungry blue jay family with some nice sets of hand-made sweaters, hats, scarves, and socks. But alas, I can only do that in the form of artworks for now. But I digress. Back to my graphic novel now.

For those who don't know how I usually work on "Time & Again" - and I presume, that's what I'll keep doing for the rest of my comic-type projects, that is, if there's ever gonna be any more - I do everything consecutively, starting from the lineart (including the backgrounds, especially if the frame requires very specific placement of the character on the background, or they interact with it in any way), then I do the flat colouring, and then I go for the shading. And by that, I mean that I do all the lineart for all the pages first, then, once that is done, I switch to colouring of all the pages, and then, once that is done as well, I finally get to do the shading on all the pages. Told you, there's definitely a certain system in the way I work on my stories. This is also a reason why I never ever post updates page by page: because there's simply nothing to post, since they're all incomplete. Deal with it 😎 It seems that this manner of work suits me best. I'm not certain why, but I've never been keen on sharing the works that are half-done or something - although lately I'm going through a certain metamorphosis in this respect. Moreover, it is important to me to keep the same steady, precise, and classy art style throughout the chapter. Consistency is what I highly value in my creations. People, who also draw, have probably noticed that, at times, their art style might wiggle and be, let's say, all over the place - and sometimes this just happens on its own. I can't really explain this. This must be some sort of hidden mysterious consciousness of our pen/pencil that simply does things on its own 🤪. Sometimes our mood contributes to how the art style changes in tiny little details - at times to better, at times to worse comparing to what we strive to achieve. Through executing everything consecutively and finishing up the "chunks" of different types of work one after another, my goal is to avoid unnecessary and unwanted art style inconsistencies that might occur otherwise.

But enough of this lengthy preamble! Let's finally get technical, just as the post title announced it! I see you're getting bored... (no, wait, what do you mean it's just my neighbours snoring?.. I don't know what you're talking about)

This time, since I decided on making a regular page-by-page PDF version of the chapter as well as its scrollable webcomic doppelgänger, I needed to figure out how exactly to simplify my work in order to avoid accidental complications (here, almost a quote from a character's line from the current chapter, lol!). Of course there's no way I want to do the same amount of work twice just because I didn't anticipate the outcome correctly. Not to brag about it, but I must admit, as far as I remember myself - I've always been good at this. There's always a place for being extra technical when it comes down to the artworks. It's not as simple as it might seem to you. Deciding on the technical aspects of creating artworks is kind of a puzzle, in a sense. It's almost mathematical 😁

So, as you can see on the screenshot just a little above, that's a layout of a comic page (in the regular format for now). To make everything work out in a simple way in the end, I decided to create layer groups for every each separate frame (red markings) that will include everything I need for the frame: the lineart, the colouring, and the background. That will help me to just copy-paste a certain frame on the new canvas optimized for the webcomic format - and that is all! All done in a few clicks. Automation 100% 😁 (having Minecraft flashbacks now for some reason...)

All the text-related material (speech bubbles, the text lines themselves, and all the possible written sound effects such as "Swoosh!", etc.; the green markings on the screenshot) is currently included into one group above everything else. I've been importing these layers straight from Inkscape in PNG. But I started to think now that I need to separate those elements in the end, too, for further convenience and simplicity of arrangement on the webcomic format canvas. But that will be work for another day in the future.

In terms of memory usage, I'm not certain yet how it will go for me, for sometimes Krita would randomly crash on me without anything in the error log, and every additional layer adds to the memory usage even if it's near empty - finally, considering fairly large size of the artworks pixelwise, it all adds up pretty quickly. But I'm not exactly running Krita on a potato either (mmm, potaties 🥔🤤), so I think I should be fine.

Previously, perhaps counterintuitively - but again, it worked just fine for me back in the day - I used to create a giant layer with all the lineart for the current page, and then the flat colours for the entire page were stored on a separate "flats" layer, and all the shading for the entirety of the page was stored on its own separate "shading" layer, too. The same went for the backgrounds: depending on the pictures overlapping or not, I would've drawn all the backgrounds on a single layer called "BGs".

This approach would've not worked this time though.

In the lineart work, I'm currently finishing up page 9 already. ALREADY! 🥳🥳🥳 Which indeed sounds pretty awesome, because it just goes ahead steadily. That is, however, keeping in mind that there are frames that I just left out and skipped for now, for they require extra consideration. You see... Chapter 5 is going to have a peculiar scene - something that I've never ever tried drawing before just yet, and it's gonna be pretty long. It's fairly stretched out across a few pages and it's almost represented in a slower-than-real-life pace (surprise, surprise, isn't it what I usually do anyway tho?..). As I work on it, I wonder if it's going to be too boring for the readers. But I think the time will tell, for, once everything is done properly and in colour, it's gonna be much more of an eye-candy than it is now. I sometimes have difficulties approximating the end result in my head. But often it just turns out a little nicer than expected, which is a bonus. Because screw perfectionism; that's in the past for me 🤣 (true story! did NOT enjoy it! got out with minimal losses!)

... Since this post seems to be stretching out in time and space as well, just as the certain scenes I'm working on, I think it might be time to wrap it up for today.

Happy Halloween everybody! And I foresee significantly more sketches and screenshots in the upcoming posts! Take care! See ya sometime next week! 👋

P.S. And, of course, for a nice holiday treat, I made a Halloween artwork, again. And this time it's not that simple (and for a spoiler: this year it's not gonna have Cacodemons as pumpkins, nope): it also serves as the first teaser for Chapter 5 and the second half of "Time & Again"! So don't miss out on it 😉 You won't though, because it will soon appear in my blog!