Anonymous asked: so can you go back to drawing right handed? :O
Not straight away, I’m afraid- while we’ve located the reason my arm has been hurt in the first place, that doesn’t mean it’s magically better! I still have to recover from the RSI that I have in my right arm, and I have to recover my overall muscle strength very gradually- I was so afraid of making the situation worse I basically stopped doing all exercise. It sounds pathetic, but I really was terrified to do anything, and I am still a bit scared! I made light of it in yesterday’s post but this is a serious life-long condition. Pain is going to be a regular, largely unavoidable thing for me forever and that’s nothing to look forward to; I just have to find ways to deal with it and avoid making it worse.
So yeah, I will still be learning to draw left handed and doing most of the work left handed until I am sure my right has recovered enough, and then I will try to balance the work out 50/50 between both hands. Maybe I’ll try drawing with my feet on the side idk
BACK FROM THE JOINT SPECIALIST! So, I always knew I was double jointed, but it turns out I am super hyper mobile! In ALL of my joints! Wowza!
Oh boy, doesn’t that sound great?! Sadly it’s not- it means I am much more vulnerable when it comes to muscle fatigue, strains and sprains. Dang. However if I do toning exercises carefully and constantly, keep up my health and generally treat myself gently I should manage alright, and measuring out the work between my right and left hands will help me avoid repeating the repetitive strain that I have atm. It’s a chronic case, so I’ll have it my whole life, and pain is going to be a part of the norm from now on, but at least I know what’s wrong with me now so I can take steps to deal with it.
Anyway, the Doc said I was the floppiest out of all the floppy people she’s met and she even has hyper mobile joints herself, so… in short this is me;
skippercifer asked: Have you heard of the animated French film Le Tableau? It's on Netflix at the mo and it's FANTASTIC- I think you would like it very much.
kittiedear asked: The ComicMix thing right now is just a seeding round. The top 128 from the seeding round go into a round-robin sort of deal from here. You're gonna have to keep voting for TPOH vs every comic it goes up against from here on out if you wanna make it to the end. :)
gee that sounds complicated! ah well I’m just pleased someone put TPoH in there :’D
