For lack of anything better to do, I digitally inked my 1-hour comic from last week. I made a few minor adjustments for the sake of clarity.

Could describe me, could describe this guy who was napping while waiting for our teacher to arrive on Thursday.

Hey, not all my creativity goes into sketching. Today I put together a portable podcast setup for a friend of mine. All audio is recorded from a tiny mixer board into my iPad. I’ll use my iPhone to play intro music, sound effects, etc.

I’m still figuring out the board, but here’s an unedited example of how it sounds. Music was mixed in live.

Do I really sound that high-pitched these days? Yikes.

So, let me explain this comic. Today I started my class in creating graphic novels (comic books, essentially). I was running on fumes, and felt like I could barely speak when introducing myself to the class. But then, the teacher gave us a challenge: spend one hour creating a one-page comic with the topic of “time.” My mind blanked at first, but after five minutes or so I was sketching out the comic you see above, which surprised me, since I generally struggle to come up with ideas. But, given a tight deadline, I’m able to whip something out. I’ve made note of this in the past, but I rarely have enough discipline to force deadlines upon myself. Gotta work on that.

Given that this cartoon is essentially a first-draft, there are a few things I didn’t make totally clear, so I’ll lay out the basic premise. The guy in panel 2 is watching a YouTube video–one of those “watch people age” videos. But instead of being a time-lapse, the video is literally 15 years long. The video’s subject ages to 35, and the viewer into old age. The viewer is jolted into realizing that he’s wasted his life in front of the computer.

Like they say, write what you know!

My friend was kind enough to invite me to a rock concert, resulting in my only sketch of the day, on the iPhone.