Tonight in class I started in on my penciling for the final product. And I think I’ve decided that I’d rather do most of my penciling on the computer; it’s much easier to revise, and less carpal tunnel-y. However, I still want to ink by hand. So once I’ve “penciled” on the computer, I can print it out and then use my handy LightPad to ink. To that end, I’ve ordered and fallen in love with yet another pen.

Hey look, it’s my impulse purchase of the week! Looking ahead to my finished comic book, I decided I wanted to do pencil art which I then trace with ink. That’s where this very evenly lit LED panel, the Artograph LightPad, comes in. As you can see here, my pencil drawing shows up very well through a thick piece of bristol paper. Back in the stone ages, people might use a warm, bulky box with a fluorescent bulb for this purpose, but this thing stays cool to the touch and is about as thick as a modern laptop.

Clearly I’m swamped with work while awaiting election results!

One of our anchors is recording “Google Hangouts” (video chats) with a voter from every state in the Union. Since my only job was to make sure they were recorded OK, I spent most of my time trying to caricature each person. If you see yourself here, I truly apologize!

After over a week of downtime I finally got back to the rough draft of my graphic novel today. Hey, if your school was underwater, would you do your homework?