{"id":15041,"date":"2017-08-04T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2017\/08\/04\/sketchbook-stuff\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:33","slug":"sketchbook-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2017\/08\/04\/sketchbook-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t express how much I love going to Comics Club<\/a> every Thursday night. I love the crazy banter, the generous sharing of resources and help, and the really diverse talent among the group.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Lately we’ve been starting off with an exercise in which we pick a random phrase on a slip of paper, then draw a four-panel comic based on it in just half an hour.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I love my work-work, but I find this exercise such a good challenge — and really liberating, too, because the result doesn’t matter. There’s room to be goofy, weird, or rude.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

(After the exercise, we get on with whatever personal projects we’re working on, chatting all the while — which you can do while drawing. I couldn’t do that when I was writing copy!)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Here are my random comix from the last two weeks:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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And this was just me purging something that had been in my head:
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And today, this — following my gut instinct that I need to start writing more about stuff that happens instead of constantly barfing out my feelings in comic form.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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