Commentary from Published May 26, 2016
A Robin & Wren strip. Sometimes energy levels get so low that the only thing that’s remotely comfortable is silence and darkness. We talk about energy levels when we find ourselves unable to do activities that require motion, but I wanted to expand the conversation to passive activities too because that’s not so obvious or intuitive. Sometimes we get so sapped of energy that anything that requires our senses becomes even more tiring. I didn’t realize this myself until it happened, and it may be one reason why during our worst spells we look for the comfort of darkness and silence (STRIP IDEA!!).
Anyways, there really isn’t much to say about this one. A lot of strips recently just have a lot of dialogue so I pretty much use up all I want to say in the strip. I’m also currently going through a spell where I feel all the words I use are just crap.
As an aside, I’m dropping the spoons terminology. Whenever I mention it, I get questions as to what it is, and I have to admit it’s not an intuitive model. Everyone understands energy levels, but how something arbitrary like a spoon represents energy isn’t something that people who haven’t heard of it can figure it out for themselves.
A cool thing I found this week. The WordPress theme I use for the Clay Comix site is Oblique, and it’s a pretty cool theme. I’d love it better as a Genesis theme, but it has a very unique feel. But anyways, the makers of the Oblique theme linked to this site as an example of the theme. You have to go down to where it says “Some sample websites built with Oblique Pro” and click on the arrows until you see my site. This is what it said:
A funny and original way of making comics with Oblique. Clay Jonathan took the theme and turned it into an online comic book which actually looks really great. This is more like a portfolio of a guy in love with art and creative work. Everything seems nice, designed to look like the chapters of a story.
I love the part where it says “a guy in love with art and creative work.” I hope that’s true. After all these years I’m still doing webcomics, where most of the people I know way back when have either gone pro or given up. I’m still following my passion. There’s still hope for me yet.
Anyways, there really isn’t much to say about this one. A lot of strips recently just have a lot of dialogue so I pretty much use up all I want to say in the strip. I’m also currently going through a spell where I feel all the words I use are just crap.
As an aside, I’m dropping the spoons terminology. Whenever I mention it, I get questions as to what it is, and I have to admit it’s not an intuitive model. Everyone understands energy levels, but how something arbitrary like a spoon represents energy isn’t something that people who haven’t heard of it can figure it out for themselves.
A cool thing I found this week. The WordPress theme I use for the Clay Comix site is Oblique, and it’s a pretty cool theme. I’d love it better as a Genesis theme, but it has a very unique feel. But anyways, the makers of the Oblique theme linked to this site as an example of the theme. You have to go down to where it says “Some sample websites built with Oblique Pro” and click on the arrows until you see my site. This is what it said:
A funny and original way of making comics with Oblique. Clay Jonathan took the theme and turned it into an online comic book which actually looks really great. This is more like a portfolio of a guy in love with art and creative work. Everything seems nice, designed to look like the chapters of a story.
I love the part where it says “a guy in love with art and creative work.” I hope that’s true. After all these years I’m still doing webcomics, where most of the people I know way back when have either gone pro or given up. I’m still following my passion. There’s still hope for me yet.
yes! I used to like watching anime and films so much, but now even that’s too much of an emotional investment sometimes… I confine myself to refreshing my facebook feed when I’m in bed trying to tire myself out enough to sleep… I forget I can also listen to music, watch tv, films, play online mini games… I feel like this portrays exactly what my “hobbies” look like now.
I have spent so much of my life staring at nothing because I couldn’t muster the energy and enthusiasm even to do things I enjoyed.
Also too exhausting to focus D:
This is my new favorite.
my partner (depression, anxiety) and i (bipolar, PTSD, anxiety) are both prone to getting lost in the netflix browsing menu >_<
I hate that feeling, yet you used something as cute as getting the remote… STOP giving me so many feels for Robin
unfortunately every strip needs a punchline.
sadly Robin must be roasted for plot reasons =( weh… idk if its your drawing muscles on these but these are getting SO much better and nuanced
There are two reasons… one, I started using a bigger paper at the beginning of 2016, which allows me to draw in a lot more detail. I’ve also stopped using brush pens which I used initially to give a kind of “American newspaper comic” style to make it look different from other comics I did in the past. I’ve been slowly migrating to my own real drawing style. Since Robin was around from the beginning of the strip, you can really see the changes in her more than any other character.
BTW I am always happy when someone says something about the art
np its just REALLY showing. I cant wait for the next strips to come.
Paying attention to it is too much work sometimes.
Something about the art.
I just got in trouble again with my mom, and I’m sick of it. I wish that she would understand that I don’t have the energy sometimes to even leave my room, let alone clean up the entire house.
Yeah. I know I’m at my worse when I just lay down and do nothing at all.
Chris