Articles Written By: Ben

Remembering Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in this week’s Billy Badass!

Minecraft and Chill 6.

Planned to work on the comic over the weekend. Friday night I was up late with Frank watching the MST3K Kickstarter bring in over $6,000,000. Spent Saturday with my dad and that evening recording the podcast. Eventually got to drawing and inking Sunday while trying to explain MultiMC to Frank over skype. Colored and shaded the page this morning and got the post scheduled while I was ripping, tagging, and uploading the podcast. Scheduled the blog for that with an hour to go and then I started checking my backups as I prepped for reverting my NAS back into a proper RAID. It’s currently verifying RAID parity.

There’s non-art stuff I have to be responsible for tomorrow but here’s hoping it doesn’t eat up too much time. I’ve written out a list of what I need to do this week and I’m looking forward to the allotted art time.

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Minecraft and Chill 6.

Spent today working on my Patreon page. I still have more work to do before I launch but it felt good to have the main copy written out. It also helped me figure out the basic setup of my campaign. Now I can just tweak the rewards based on feedback. I’ll have some eyes look at it and see what they think. Also need to work on graphics and the pitch video. I’ll be diving into that next week as I need to spend the weekend working on Monday’s comic.

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Minecraft and Chill 5.

Recorded M&C last night, went to bed at 11, woke up to my alarm at 5. I’ve been irritable and prickly today. Felt similar to November when I wasn’t sleeping enough. Tried script writing, felt like that was squeezing off my visualization, went to make an animatic file and it wouldn’t save to my NAS. (I really need to clear out local space and keep the NAS more for backup.)

My dad called, said he was having trouble texting a guy about some dogs. He came over, I sent the guy a message for him, and we went out to see the one the guy had left. Was a cute little beagle pup. I held onto her until we got back to his place and cleared the kennel for her. Don’t think my cat liked that she could smell a strange dog on me when I got home but I’ve had worse reactions.

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Minecraft and Chill 5.

Today’s been one of those days where it feels like every time I sit down to do something I’m taking one step forward and two steps back. For an example, the podcast finally finished processing and I managed to download it. Then I ran out of space on the drive I was saving it so I started moving the podcast directory to my NAS and the network dropped. Then I got the network running again but my computer wouldn’t connect to it. So yeah, I’ve been fussing with things back and forth all day.

Recorded the next M&C with the guys this evening. I don’t mind getting to bed later tonight since the last few times I’ve tried going to bed early I wake up before midnight. I’d really like to just work on art tomorrow. Let’s see how that goes.

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Minecraft and Chill 5.

Got up a bit late today but at least I wasn’t exhausted like yesterday. Went for breakfast with my dad and helped him order something online. Found an old picture of my brother and me while I was at his place, posted it to FB. Came home, spent the evening sorting music for my Patreon video. I have an outline in mind, I just need to script and produce it. I’m going to use the time before bed to dig up some references for tomorrow. I really need to take a day alone to draw and design. There’s always so many fiddly bits to fuss with. If the podcast isn’t finished processing tomorrow I’ll post what’s available.

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Minecraft and Chill 5.

Went to bed several times last night. Didn’t manage to fall asleep until about 7:30 this morning. Then I woke up to my dad calling at 10:30. I’ve spent most of my insomnia looking up Patreon information so I can set my campaign up properly. I’m going to tinker with it before launch and get some people to give me feedback. I’m looking forward to putting together graphics and a pitch video. I’m going to take a sleep aid tonight before bed, see if that helps me any.

We recorded this week’s podcast Saturday night but YouTube says it’s still processing. It says it’s over 3 hours but when I hit play it’s half that. The tools I’ve tried ripping it with kick back an error so something’s up. Most stuff I’ve found online says give it time and it should resolve itself so I’ll try waiting it out. If that doesn’t work I’ll dub something up front saying it’s lost. I’ve got the links in the blog post typed out I’m just waiting for the actual recording to upload.

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Minecraft and Chill 5.

Had trouble falling asleep last night. Took some sleep aids but was still up until around 3 this morning. I think the root of the problem is feeling like I’m not in control of my time during the day so I stay up at night to rebel. That’s no good because people expect to interact with me during the day. It makes my sleep time erratic and it doesn’t deal with the actual problems. When I’m tired I get frustrated and my anxiety comes back. So I’m going to be doing what I can to empower myself.

Spent today penciling and inking page 22. My hand’s been cramping so I’ll save the color and the shading for tomorrow.

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Minecraft and Chill 5.

Finished recording M&C last night and then stayed up until 4 watching Spike’s art stream. Had a headache most of the day after dad woke me up in the morning wanting to go eat. Took a nap when I got home, had some dinner, wondering what borked my sleeping schedule so hard. I’m not going to lie, this has messed me up. I’m going to work on comics and try going to bed about 10, see if I can right this boat.

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Minecraft and Chill 5.

Went to bed early last night, woke up before midnight. Spent some time collecting music for a thing. Stayed up until 4-something in the morning watching CartoonCyborg stream. Went back to bed for awhile, sorted the music I’d collected into possible sections for the thing. Went to dinner and bought groceries. Came home and recorded M&C with the guys.

I’ve decided to do something of a concentration shift. The comics are important to me and I’m going to keep on top of them the best I can. But I really need to start thinking of myself as an animator first. Whenever I try to build up a buffer it gets eaten away before I can progress on other things. So animating is going to be my primary focus on days when I’m in the studio.

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Minecraft and Chill 4.

After my nap yesterday I was going to work on that profile background. I got some very bare scribbles started then stayed up until 3:30 watching other artists stream. I was very slow getting up this morning, then dad wanted to grab lunch and visit a friend of his. Then I spent the afternoon watching a stream about Adobe’s rebranding of Flash to Animate. I’m going to try getting a better sleep tonight so I can be up early again.