It has been a minute of minutes. Just shy of a month! Oof! I HAVE been busy. I moved, and I think it’s a little messed up that you didn’t ask me if you could help. I’d have known you were just being polite, and I would have said no. But it’s a little dance that people in a SOCIETY do. You really bailed on me.
I forgive you. And I made it through. It’s great. I love my new place. My studio/office is still a bit of a hellscape, but I’ll get it sorted. I’ve also had NO drawing energy lately. I’ve been hitting the clay studio a bunch (more on that in a minute) and I’ve been loooving my clown class. One of the best parts is when my teacher asks, “Are you breathing?” Oh. I wasn’t. Wow. I… wasn’t breathing. Thank you, clown teacher.
But yeah! I didn’t have any drawing energy until a couple of days ago, and then it hit me, so I put off organizing my studio (or, yeah, it was conveniently a way for me to procrastinate organizing my studio) and got to it.
Many months ago, I wrote Lin art show in my Cassidy ideas doc. I wanted it to be simple. Just a series of her paintings (the ones often hung on the walls in Chennifer’s store). I started sketching, and I realized that I needed a way in to showing some of Lin’s paintings, and that became a little intro… and an outro, and before I knew it, I had a dang ten-page story on my hands. WELP. But I didn’t want to pace it out for the next two stinking months (I already expressed that I grew weary of the last story - it just took sooooo looooong), so you know what? Here’s the whole dang thang.
Art, right? Say. TWO MORE THINGS about making this’n. I was thinking about spreads while composing this, but it would be too wee on your little phone. Like this.
See? Uggg if you’re on a laptop right now, you KNOW how much better that looks. I really wish Substack would let you two-up images in posts, and automatically drop it down to the mobile-friendly version if a reader was on their little screen. But alas.
ALSO, in a post last year about some of the behind-the-scenes stuff for Cassidy: Biggest Monster, Smallest Planet, I mentioned the custom globe I use for setting up shots. With such a small world, I wanted to make sure that buildings, bridges, bodies of water, etc. are always-ish properly-ish drawn where they are-ish in relation to each other. Ish. Otherwise, the tiny planet would seem too vague. It’s liiiiiiterally grounding, maaaaaan. I allow myself to fudge it here and there for composition, but I try to keep it close. Here’s an example from this story.
Speaking of tactile… er… planet… dirt… wait… trying to come up with a transition here. Um… ah, forget it. Hey. I just listed a new series of DooDaddies, the sort of vaguely useful ceramic tray thingies for your thingies. I made a few different shapes and weird alt versions of the ones I did before. I’m perhaaaps zeroing in on a couple of sizes/depths/versions that could scale up into a baby production situation if I’m so inclined. Or maybe I won’t do that… and I’ll keep not doing that? If it stops feeling good and rewarding, I’m gonna bail. I’ll do it!
Anyhoo, you can check ‘em all out at iamtravisnichols.com/clay. I hope you like them very much. Now, if you’ll excuse me, it’s time to go cry through the new Pee-Wee Herman doc. I hope you have a really, really, really great weekend. Truly.