I've been getting more and more frustrated with my attempts to draw comics with paper and pencils. For some weird reason I'm finding it harder and harder. My pencils break, my proportions turn out wrong, my workspace becomes a barely navigable mess of pens, pencils, erasers and paper. I'm not sure what exactly has changed, but for some reason it's getting a lot harder to motivate myself to draw.

I'm starting to get serious about trying to gain some digital skills. I've bought a laptop, and a Monoprice drawing tablet that connects to it, and I'm going to start trying stuff out in Paint Tool Sai.

I will certainly still do colored pencil art... I seem to have less trouble with pencils when it's something separate from the comic. I like being able to sell my originals, and so I will continue using my pencils when I want to draw a one-off, independent scene that I can sell. But for installments of a regular series like The Tishen Transformation, where I have to draw the same characters over and over, fitting them into small panels... I may be switching to digital for a while.