We've reached the halfway point through the new chapter of Hana Road! Unfortunately, it means I'll have to play catch-up to complete the entire chapter by March, but I'm a fast learner and adapt quickly. What used to take me weeks now takes me a few days. Except for page 8, but there were some unique problems on that particular page that took a while to work out. (I created three cars out of screentone...that alone took me a day for each car) But the more I work, the better I get at it. The Lord is really guiding me in this endeavour.

But speaking of improvements, I really need to put some new art over on Unfettered, or at least rework the ones already there. My work's improved almost 100% since then, or at least enough that I look back on what's there and wince at how bad it is. All those were done years ago before I got my hands on Photoshop, and let me tell you, Corel Photo-Paint 8 and Micrografx Picture Publisher 7 do not cut it. Sanford Green told me I should work on more with watercolour because of the many subtle values I can draw out, so when I'm not working on the manga, I'll have to crank out some artbook pictures in the meantime. I'm going to be busy for a while.

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