/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Mine looked like this.
Covid ate it. And now I have a long commute and little time to draw. It was a story that spanned 180+ strips and was only two thirds told when it went away. I may continue it someday, but for now I need to refocus my time to projects that I can accomplish.

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Not at all.

My job is a physical one:stocking shelves in a supermarket at night, one that I have been doing for 40 years. The 2 year depression came from Covid making my domain name and website disappear,and although marijuana reignited my passion for art, I chugged along without it for years. I view its use as a tool:both to keep my joints lubricated and my soul tolerant of my circumstances. My commute is long,waking up at 5:15pm to be at work at 10pm because the 2-3 buses are often unreliable and I usually get to work around 8pm,just enough time for breakfast and a bad nap in the breakroom with my headphones blotting out the rest of the crowd while I am face down at a far table. When I was able to walk to the job in a half hour,then I had time to unwind and draw. Now,I have to maximize my time and marijuana is not mandatory but damn useful for making the aches and pains from my night disappear. I could go out and get some now,but I want to see life without it for a while. Over the counter pain relievers thin the blood,and are less effective in the long run.

Not an addiction, not a death spiral, nor my savior,really. A choice,and I am choosing not to just to discover how my body is adjusting without it.

I find myself constantly explaining these strips.

Not for sexuality, but because of that they were originally storyboards that found their way online when I couldn't produce the kind of content that I intended. Made when the target market were people sitting in front of their desktops with flat-screen monitors, not now with smartphones. That,and using Comic Sans for the lettering, not having the ground in horror from seeing it too often at school. The story intrigued me, and I kept to format through its 180+ strips,never receiving feedback from the 3800 unique visitors per month. And every time I try discovering how "good" this was here,I never get a satisfactory answer.