I’m a doctor, not a- well, hold on.

So I do most (okay, 99%) of my drawing on my Motion LE1600 tablet pc. I have Sketchbook Pro, Sai, and Corel Painter 11 on it, but I’ve only been able to get the full range of pressure sensitivity on Sketchbook Pro. I’m a comic artist, not a techie. I leave that sort of thing in the usually capable hands of my significant other, but even those capable hands don’t know much (stay with me) about tablets.

BUT I DID IT. I FIGURED IT OUT. I now have pressure sensitivity in Corel.

Yes. Yes. It is better than sex, thank you for asking.

(If you’re here because you searched on those keywords, the answer is this driver right here. You don’t have to restart your computer or anything. It’ll ask you to, but I selected Restart Later to play with it and it woooorks omfg.)

Wedding Invitations

For those of you who don’t know (are there any? not among my followers yet, I don’t think) I am getting married.* As an artiste, this means I have all kinds of super fun chores to do, up to and including designing and creating the invitations. But I find myself at something of an impasse - what the heck kind of invitations do I make?

My first thought was honestly just something pretty simple, as the person I’m marrying is so laid back and, despite my high-strung tendencies, I am as well. One piece of heavy paper with the relevant information and maybe a line drawing of a bumblebee, or a flower, or some design TBD. Simple! Concise! Inexpensive! Extremely boring for me!

Then I thought: “well, hold on. I’m a cartoonist. Why don’t I draw a mini comic book invitation?” At which point I got very excited and things got away from me, and I sort of forgot what the idea was and then things sort of flopped around until I got worried and realized I had no idea what I was doing. It was very exciting for everyone.

My next thought was: an infographic of facts from our relationship! I was very pleased with this and began frenetically collecting trivial statistics from our life together, like the various elevations at which meaningful parts of our relationship at taken place. (I proposed at 650 feet above sea level. Who else knows that about themselves? I ask you.) Then I bumped up against the knowledge that at a certain point there are only so many facts you really want to print onto a piece of nice paper (with accompanying diagram!) and send to all of your closest friends and family. Does my grandmother really need, let alone want, to know an estimate of the number of condoms we have burned through (metaphorically speaking)? No. Not really at all. In any possible way.

Right now I’m still working it out, with a little help from my friends fiance. The latest incarnation is sort of a combination of all three: an infographic comic of sorts, with comic versions of the two of us illustrating and/or talking about our facts, printed on one side of a piece of nice card stock in just the right size and shape for a #10 envelope.

I am welcoming any and all suggestions. Also: money.

* AAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHH!!!!