I made a comic for #makeaterribleComicDay2026 !

The "Make a Terrible Comic Day" website (https://makeaterriblecomicday.com/) linked to this post https://www.sophieyanow.com/a-gentle-comics-habit/ about making MOAR terrible comics

Okay no it's about making quick comics and getting in the habit.

The first comic is supposed to take 1 minute. I failed to make a 1-minute comic; I spent like 8 minutes on this one. I think that means I should make tomorrow's comic take less time instead of more, so maybe 7 minutes tomorrow? idk how this works.

So this one took 16m39s. I only got slower from yesterday, oh no 😅

Also, I forgot Zhenshay's tail and went back to add it, so let's say 17 min.

In the spirit of "gentle", I'm not stopping just because I hit the time limit, tho. I'll try to be faster tomorrow?

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This one was 24 minutes, I gotta rein it in time-wise.

Also, Voice1 here looks like a cartoon version of Cassie from my Apothecaria journal, so maybe I'll draw her differently next time.

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I made a page on my website for these because I believe in the theory behind "control your own work instead of having it all on social media."

even though I feel like the practice of it is WAY MORE WORK than the people advocating it want you to think.

It's not linked to from anywhere else on the site so you have to use the direct link. Maybe if I keep it up for a while, I'll give it a top level link, idk.
https://ladyrowyn.com/comicshabit.html

25 minutes.

I realized I was putting off doing this because 'I don't do them fast enough to meet the goal'

and, like, the point of the time limit is to KEEP you from avoiding it.

So I'll still try to keep to simple ideas that I can finish quickly-by-my-standards. Like, an hour or less? But I won't worry about taking 'too long'.

Also, I keep forgetting Moon has a black blaze. It wouldn't really show in the other cartoons, but I re-opened this image file to add it.

This one was like 25 minutes to draw and then 15 minutes moving the figures around and getting all the dialogue to fit. 😅

I am amused that the only character named so far in the actual text is the cat. Priorities.

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19 minutes! At last, one that was faster instead of slower.

Me: wait wasn't I going to do a close-up of Zhenshay for this one?
Also me: too late now, I'm almost done with it.

29 minutes

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8th one! 35 minutes.

Starting to feel like a habit at this point.

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I broke my thread yesterday, oops. Link to yesterday's: https://mastodon.art/@rowyn/116857906742477145

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