Today I Moved Two Inches Forward

Today I put in a solid six hours of work and finished two pictures. I feel that working with the Cintiq is many times more productive than working with the Huion pen display or with the Wacom Intuos tablet. Really! I used to scoff when artists claimed they worked twice as fast with their Cintiq’s as they did with the Intuos tablets. I’m a believer now.

By the way, I use the word “finished” cautiously. I’m painfully aware that, in my case at least, a picture is finished only when I can no longer bear to look at it, or when I realize the every “improvement” I make is pulling the picture further off track.

I started page 23 yesterday and completed it today. I started and completed page 24 today. I’m giving myself an encuraging pat on the back. There are 50 pages in this book, so I’m about half way there. “There” is June 30, the deadline I’ve set to get this book published.