I like my creature comforts. That is something I become extremely aware of in the months surrounding a move. Since neither my partner nor I enjoy staring down piles of cardboard boxes, we decided we’d get the house put together and feeling cozy as quickly as possible. Our plan worked well. Everything felt better once we had a functional living space again. I spent a week painting my new craft room a deep purple color and getting art hung up on the walls around the house.

I’m proud to have finished a major creative project this year. We Leapt Into the Sky is my first science fiction novel, and I decided to share it as an illustrated serial. I’ve enjoyed improving my landscape drawing skills over the past few years, and I wanted to use this project to teach myself how to create better sci-fi illustrations…

Last year was a year of creative experimentation for me. A lot of drafting new stories and trying out new art techniques. This year has been about bringing creative projects into reality, or at least closer to reality than they were before.