The Artist and the Engineer

The last couple weeks I've been going through a book called "The Artist's Way", which is supposed to help people to unlock/regain their creativity. Its for anyone who wants to be creative in any field, not just visual artists.

Anyway, one of the things it has you do is make a list of "other lives" you'd like to have. Like, in another life I'd be a novelist, or a monk, or a marathon runner--just anything else you'd want to do/be. Well, one of the "other lives" I listed was to be a webcomic artist.

So you list these "other lives", and then you're supposed to take time once in awhile to do things from your "other lives". So I made a little comic.

It has been so long since I've just sat down and drawn something for fun... I need to do this more often! I did a lot of doodles and brainstorming until I had the idea for this little comic.

So here it is, pretty much just as it appears in my sketchbook: