The blog for Keely Claire's website https://keelyclaire.net/Blog.html Sun, 16 Oct 2022 08:44:17 -0800 20000 For anyone unfamiliar, hourly comics day is a tradition in the webcomics community where you draw a short comic about each hour of your day. I've been participating in these intermittently for a long time because it's a fun tradition, though I'll be the first to admit I never do particularly polished panels... ]]> https://keelyclaire.net/Blog/2023/Hourly-Comics-Day-23 https://keelyclaire.net/Blog/2023/Hourly-Comics-Day-23 Welcome to 2023! It's been a busy start to the year. Way more social events than normal and too much biking to the movies (though I DO love biking to the movies). I'm not out to jinx anything, but I've managed to do some consistent plunking at the keyboard this week. I'm also still doing a volunteer gig two days a week that I started in November, so I would say things are looking pretty good for the ol' Keel... ]]> https://keelyclaire.net/Blog/2023/Art-Updates-Jan-23 https://keelyclaire.net/Blog/2023/Art-Updates-Jan-23 Hello! December's update is very small! I spent most of my creative time this month working on gifts for the holidays, starting a painting on canvas (which, it turns out, I kind of hate using?), and picking up embroidery for the first time. I did three practice hoops, and I am working on a fourth going into January. I'm not going to post photos of those because none of them are my designs, but maybe I'll have some original embroidery to show in 2023... https://keelyclaire.net/Blog/2022/Art-Updates-December-22 https://keelyclaire.net/Blog/2022/Art-Updates-December-22 I just finished the last session of a charcoal class I was taking, so I thought I'd share the progression for posterity. ("What posterity is reading this blog, Keely?" It's me. I'm the posterity.) I have never drawn in charcoal before, and my last art class was in middle school, which means I lack a lot of the fundamentals that I think any artist should probably have. I know I have made similar comments on some of my past art posts about trying to play... https://keelyclaire.net/Blog/2022/trad-drawing-class-22.html https://keelyclaire.net/Blog/2022/trad-drawing-class-22.html This month started with a trip down to Texas to see my partner's parents, which was a lot of fun! We ate so many tacos and... https://keelyclaire.net/Blog/2022/Art-Updates-Nov-22.html https://keelyclaire.net/Blog/2022/Art-Updates-Nov-22.html