progress report: 34.1

This page is about halfway drawn.

The crappy scanner doesn't pick up pencil very well.

I keep waiting for days (like I was used to have when I began this project) where I have nothing to do for entire day but draw. I'm beginning to realize I'm not going to have any of those anymore. Especially not with my super crappy work schedule- where my time goes to either sleeping now because I'm not going to be able to sleep for the next 24 hours, or, sleeping now because I haven't slept in almost 24 hours.

I'm gonna try to get used to working an hour or two here and there. Otherwise, as about the last two years have revealed (less than a page a month, I think), I'm not going to get anything done.

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