As an artist there are always days where you shake your fists at the art Gods and wonder if you’ve veered of the right track entirely. I feel like I’m having one of those days. I glanced back over some past pages today and as I finished this week’s page I couldn’t help but feel that Subterfuge just isn’t my best work. I know my main focus with this is to actually finish a story, instead of constantly planning one, and to find my weaknesses as an artist and find ways to improve. I’m not aiming for polished work here and if I tried to make the pages to the level of my finished illustrations, I’d get a page done a month. Of these things I must constantly remind myself.

I’m heading to Indianapolis for GenCon this Wednesday, so there will not be a new page next week. I know, I’ve said I’m going to start really putting my nose to the grindstone on Subterfuge but thus is life. I will take some time while there to sketch some future pages so that I am getting a bit ahead. I also have some freelance work coming up with a tight deadline, so pages over the next month may be spotty, but I’ll keep everybody up to date in the shout box.

Still reading the second Dark Tower book. At some point in the early to mid 80s Stephen King must have decided that vomiting out enormous amounts of backstory for every character, regardless of their significance to the story, was a good idea. Well, I don’t happen to agree with that philosophy. I keep reading this book because the world and main character he created in the first book, when he wasn’t so vomitous, are just so damn good. But half of the second book so far has to be fluff. I mean there’s one page where he uses parentheses for an aside, and it goes on for the length of a paragraph. That’s just uncalled for. But alas, I read on.