And it Begins

The ABC Project kicked off today...

I sprang out of bed this morning.

Well, “sprang” is more like “groaned and rolled over like a legless zombie” and “this morning” is more like noon. To be fair, I couldn’t sleep last night and ended up being awake until about eight this morning, so noon really IS morning for me.

Time is a construct.

ANYWAY…THIS BEGAN ONCE I ZOMBIED TO THE STUDIO.

All kinds of useless trivia and interesting historical tales of derring-do or whatever, drawn in modern technicolor (or monochrome, same diff) by me.

As you can see, The ABC Project started off with a bang.

For me. Nobody else knows it exists. Other than y’all, I mean. Nobody but us, here in this secret club¹.

I decided to start off with the zine bits, since I have a fair bit of experience there. I’m hoping to do about ten pages for each volume, and putting them altogether in a few months as larger, perfect-bound compilations.

Off camera right now, I’m drawing airships. This may be the most fun I’ve had since at least Monday.

As a break, I started sketching up potential stickers.

I need to go in digitally and clean it up/add color/put the hat on the ant’s actual head, etc. But anthropomorphic ants are exactly what I needed today.

The plan is to do a handful of these for every volume, too, and pick the best of them to order as actual physical stickers. I’m not sure how many times I can say “stickers” in a row before “stickers” stops having meaning as a word, but I have a weird sticker fetish and seem to collect stickers like I’m a ten year old in 1981, with my Lisa Frank album and scratch-and-sniff collection wafting chemical pizza smells all over my lap². If you were there, you know exactly the smell I’m talking about, too.

I digress. The long and the short of it is that I luuurve stickers and kinda can’t wait to see what the collection will look like when I hit that Volume Z-ZZ (20).

My abecedarian project is evolving, even this early.

I made some time estimates about how long everything would take, if I steadily worked on it four hours a day. I seem to have forgotten that a) I must pay the Scritch Tax to ensure Oliver’s silence and well-being, and b) weekends exist.

Even with what I thought was a reasonable schedule, it’s going to go longer than I thought it would. Probably 4-6 weeks per volume. I’m okay with that. It’s fun, and already varied enough that I don’t see myself getting bored.

Granted, it’s only the first day. I still have the game, oracle, illustrated print, and physical Magpie Book to do. But I’m making headway, and will adjust time schedules as necessary³.

Just wanted to check in and make a little Accountability Post for the project.

Have a great weekend!

And if you’re bored, GO MAKE SOMETHING.

1. “secret club” which is both open to the public and teased on various social media platforms. We’ll get a secret handshake later.

2. Just me…? Okay, then. But it’s a pretty specific scent, trust me. Not a GOOD one, but a specific one.

3. the joy of doing a thing for funsies rather than deadlines. I get to be the project manager. Or mismanager, as the case may be. YKWIM.