Never Playing it Cool

I'm almost finished on the first chapter of my comic book I'm working on. 38 pages and 114 panels in total. I started in February / March of this year. There was a period of a couple of months in the summer where I didn't touch it due to focusing on other things, but all in all its probably taken six months of work, maybe more, to  almost have chapter one complete. There's some revisions and touch ups I need to make to some of the earlier artwork where my skills with the pen & tablet weren't as good as they are now, so have to go back and ensure consistency throughout. I've been happy with the rate of work I was achieving, I don't have the means to do it full time and have to work around the day job, so completing 114 panels of artwork in six months is pretty decent going. But then I did that thing that my stupid brain makes me do, where I do a bit of maths and work out how long it will take me to finish the full thing at my current rate of work. Inev...

I've been playing about with other social media options other than Facebook. I do rely on Facebook quite a bit for my organising my social life and keeping in touch with people, and I do spend a lot of my time glued to my phone obsessively checking the FB app. I've found this is making me miserable as Facebook just gives you an unfiltered pouring of everything in the world to make you despair. I'm not saying I want to be apathetic and ignore the fact the world is crumbling around me, with Brexit and Trumps and Tories etc etc etc... but I don't want to be reminded of it every time I look at my phone. I've spent more time on Twitter than I used to, and although it allows me to follow some of my favourite people in the world of Magic: The Gathering, the cast and crew of Critical Role and many other people of varying levels of celebrity who's lives and activities I'd be interested in, it is full of horrible people! I find Twitter hard work and at times can dep...