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“Sleep Tossing” | #34 – January 13, 2025

Posted on January 17, 2025

MON JAN 13th, 2025

I’m one of those people who has always needed to stretch into all sorts of sprawling positions to become comfortable enough to fall asleep. My partner is the opposite – he can slip into bed, lay on his back, unmoving, and fall asleep that way – which is such a foreign concept to me, haha. I would never be able to fall asleep if I couldn’t move!

I finished this at the start of this week (hence the date above), but just had a chance to post it today.

Early access January 17 2025; published publicly January 20, 2025.

“Food Poisoning” | #33 – January 6, 2025

Posted on January 6, 2025

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MON JAN 6th, 2025

I believe this was partially based on when I had a small bout of food poisoning last September – but mainly based on how it reminded me of the two or three times in my life when I had severe food poisoning. I remember the first time I had it, it was remarkable how it really felt like I was dying – even when I obviously knew I was not. But knowing you are not about to die doesn’t make that intense pain any less excruciating.

I changed my desk setup recently and have been looking for ways to practice the new setup – this page was originally drawn back in early October, and was 95% completed, but I hadn’t gone back and added that 5% polish step. Testing the desk setup was a good excuse to do so, and I was glad to have the excuse to finish this page – as I had honestly forgotten I’d drawn it, but I remember I did like it back when I drew most of it in October.

One of my aims this year is to finish more projects, instead of having the mountain of in-progress work continue to climb all around me – so here’s to hoping this is a harbinger for more finished pages this year. :)

Early access January 6, 2025; published publicly January 13, 2025.

“Staring Into Space” | #32 – January 3, 2025

Posted on January 6, 2025

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Fri JAN 3rd, 2025

In retrospect, maybe I should have titled this page “Mindfulness” haha.

Happy New Year! Though I started a bunch of new projects since the last Duskbirds page that have been occupying my time, I have many idle ideas for this project written down that I’d like to see as pages sometime. This is one of them, which I managed to finish up shortly after the new year.

I really liked the style of the previously finished page (Duskbirds #31, “Stardust”). I’m going to aim to have pages going forward have that style/aesthetic. This page was started a while after that one, and was partly me trying to remember the workflow I used. I think I’ve mostly figured out a good workflow for it now, though this one still looks a little less consistent that I’d like – but that should improve with practice!

I should probably put all the various WIP’s of the Duskbirds pages I have drafted and not yet finished on Patreon or Ko-fi – I haven’t managed to do that in a while simply because of the time involved, and other things have been taking priority. If there’s demand for it I’ll consider being more consistent with those, otherwise I will probably have to prioritize other tasks, at least for now!