Side Projects

 I don't know what happened to March, but I found myself pursuing some different side passion projects so I didn't get burned out on my main passion projects.

It's funny being an artist. Things can draw you in different directions, and then you come back and complete something huge and beautiful. I'm not sure how I would function under a professional deadline when it comes to my writing and art. Would it make me more productive, or less? Would my quality go up or go down?

I'm pretty confident in my productivity. I continue to revise E'lsra and Incarnate Duty, but during the times when I felt burnt out working on those, I've had a few other projects so I'm consistent with my creativity.

One of them was a comic based on Book V of The Legacy Incarnate: Incarnate Truth. I wanted to create some panels and art inspired by the style of Hayao Miyazaki and his Nausicaa manga epic. It's a lot of work, but I managed to get a few pages done!

Sabra is all washed up.

Sabra fights off hypothermia.

A mysterious stranger drags
Sabra from a cave.

Sabra listens to the delightful sounds
of the night forest.

Here, have some nightmare fuel.

As you can see, page 5 isn't completed, but I wanted to show it anyway so you could get an idea of how I ink the contours first before doing the shading.

I'm not sure if I'll complete this comic, but maybe I will one day. I have it planned out for 13 pages! By the time I get it done, though, I may have revised this part of Incarnate Truth  to the point that the comic may not even be totally accurate.

Another side project I've been working on is a TTRPG based on the Chronicles of Libera. It's a project I've tinkered with off an on for about a year now. The last few weeks I dove back into it to get my creative juices flowing. I'm pretty sure I have the basic mechanics figured out, I just need to test it some more. It's possible it will be published in the future, but I can't say for sure when.

Thanks for reading. Maybe just sharing this stuff with any readers will help inspire me to complete these side projects.