Thawing Out

…oh.

Hi there.

It’s been a while.

You know, I came into 2025 thinking, “Oh yeah, I’m gonna totally make up for 2024 and just draw everyday!  I’m just gonna produce so much ART.”

And, well.

That very clearly didn’t happen, judging from the ONE COMIC I drew in January.

One.

And I’m really not happy about it.

It feels like I was frozen in place all through January.  Just unable to get anything done beyond “get up and deal.”

Especially with, uh, certain things going on in the world right now that are making everything seem very bleak, at the moment.  And of course I was not helping myself at all through it by feeling as if I needed to constantly be on top of things, which kept changing waaaay too fast.

Basically I burnt myself out on bad news, which paradoxically froze me in place.

And I feel like all I did was waste time.  To the point where I found myself asking, “Did I actually run out of time?”

I’m trying to give myself some grace.  Again, these are rough times right now, with more rough times ahead.

But I don’t want to be frozen in place anymore.

I’m going to try and thaw out.  Hopefully get things back on track and pull myself together mentally.

We’ll get through this.  I have to believe that we will.  And I can’t do that stuck in a block of ice.