August Goals

The first week of August is behind us and I’m just now getting around to posting my goals for August. Usually, I do a wrap up of the month before but I only had one goal for July and that was to create five comics. I didn’t make that goal but not too worried about it since I had planned on taking off the whole summer from creating comics anyway. It would have been nice to create some just to have more ‘in the bag’ but isn’t that always the case?

For August, I’m getting back to my 15 comics a month plus other content. I want to work on more content for the website specifically coloring pages, greeting cards, and games. My goal is to go live each week with at least one new coloring page and greeting card.

For art in general, I want to practice with drawing hands and gestures as well as lettering that will be reproducible. For that to happen, I really want to create a style guide so I can use it as a reference.

That’s the plan for August. Biggest goal is the comics. I loved having a surplus of comics ready to go but that was depleted to take off the summer. No regrets though but now it is time to get to work.

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Board Game Rules

Jazz is holding a large board game and says to Magenta, "Let's play a new game." To which Magenta asks, "Sure. Do you know hot to play?"
The picture shows a close up of the game board rules book that reads, "Epic Quest Rulebook. Volume one of four." Jazz says, "Just need to read the rules."
Magenta has a shocked looked on her face as she stares are the very thick rule book.
Jazz noticing the look says, "Not liking that idea? It is a rather large rulebook. We could just read the quick start guide them." A slightly smaller book that reads, "Epic Quest Rulebook"Quick Start" Guide."
Magenta says, "You know we were only planning to play games for two hours. It may take that long to read the "quick start."
Jazz says, "I'll watch a video on how to play the game. That should help us read the rulebook faster." To which Magenta says, "I love your optimism that watching a game play video will lessen the intimidation of learning this game."

Let me say that I love board games. I’m just not a fan of reading pages and pages of text just to learn how to play. Our relationship dynamic has always been that Jazz first reads and learns how to play then teaches me. We do have a fairly new rule that if you bought the game then you have to learn how to play and teach it. Still have so many games that we have never played. Sad that the rules are a barrier to playing just because there is so much to comprehend beforehand.

Magenta Sketches Comic