Car insurance woe. One of the drawbacks of being a proper adult is dealing with insurance. There’s so much insurance admin – car insurance, house insurance, TEETH INSURANCE! I PAY FOR TEETH INSURANCE! (I mean it’s not really teeth insurance it’s a thing called Dentaplan, you pay monthly because the NHS dentists have all decided to quiet quit and now all NI dentists are largely private, and sure private dentists are for rich people, but they’re also for poor people now!)
Car insurance renewal came through, at least it lacked the insulting “great news this year we’ve added even more savings to your car insurance” and then proceeded to quote something twice as expensive as previous years.
My insurance should be going down, been driving without1 accident for nearly 30 years, and yet somehow my quote this year was £860 (up from £550 last year). So no thanks tesco insurance – I went elsewhere.
One of the most blissful fortnights I ever had was when my car packed it in and I couldn’t drive, for two happy weeks I had no responsibilities. I drive because I have to. I do not enjoy it.
Like running.
PJ’s Progress
Running today, we’re back at coach to 5k, week 5 day 3 – 8 minute run, 2 minute walk, 10 minute run. I couldn’t do it. Couple of walks in the middle of the run, for a minute or two. So Friday I might go back to week 4 day 1.
Work – Got Terran Omega Page 23 finished, inks, greens and letters. Took longer than it should have. But it’s a fun looking page with a striking visual. I’ve tried my best to write this with an eye to cool striking visual imagery, I think I’ve largely succeeded. I will forever think someone else could draw this better, but then no one else would and then it wouldn’t exist. And it does now. Because I made it.
Also inked a page of Fargo & McBane for 2000ad. Didn’t get it finished. Backgrounds are my kryponite, but will get it finished today.
That means Tuesday I earned $0. Quak quak.
Today planning on finishing that and getting two more pages inked. They might be fast. They might be slow. I will not know until I give them a go. POMODORO TIME!
Drawing Bits and Pieces
In which I will occasionally post some art. Yesterday one of the (many) things I struggled drawing was man on a chair from a high angle. I knew what I want, but I couldn’t quite get there. So I quickly threw a 3d model together to get it. Look at that models pert little cheeks. The saucy minx.
Yesterday in Social Media
John Allison, the epitome of everything great about the English (honestly, 800 years of oppression aside, the ones I’ve known have all been decent spuds) is serialising one of his many very funny strips on Tapas
tapas.io/series/solver Solver is now on Tapas! Enjoy it all over again, every Monday, on your telephone screen.
Mark Sweeny over on bluesky is a font of knowledge on Clip Studio Paint
I suddenly remembered I did a bunch of fun one pagers that I uploaded to patreon on my birthday.
Hey on my birthday this recently[sic - I'm pretty sure I meant "this year" then edited it because it wasn't this year, but also last year suggests it was a long time ago, any way I'm spiraling - back to the post] I posted a bunch of fun one page comic strips over on my patreon - they're free, you might enjoy them www.pauljholden.com/patreon.php?via=bs&post=one-page-146865644&campaign=onepagers
Look at the things science can do!
Simon Roy remains a big inspiration for me for his mad science fiction stories
Chapter 4 of "THE ANCHORESS" is now up for your reading pleasure - Junior Scribe Jibrael digs deeper into the mysteries of the Santo Elisabeto Abbey... www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/griz-grobus-and-other-stories/the-anchoress-chapter-4/viewer?title_no=741329&episode_no=96
Via Matt Highton
And I think that’s everything, right? Right. See you tomorrow!
- Edited to entirely change the meaning of this, originally I wrote
’with’ and not “without”. I once accidentally ignited a flame war on alt.comics.2000ad when I accidentally omitted the word “not” from the sentance “america should not invade Iraq”. The worst thing though is because of the slightly vague and angry responses I vigorously defended my position even though I hadn’t noticed the typo. Idiot. ↩︎
