May 2023 New York City Travel Journal
In May 2023 I returned to one of my favorite places: New York City. I haven't visited my friends there since before the pandemic, and it was such a monumental occasion for me, I wanted to keep a visual journal. I'm still catching up with the last 1/3 of the pages, but I worked at a pretty good clip while I was there. I worked in a Kokuyo campus grid notebook, with a Zebra fine brush pen and a red marker for accents. I documented who I saw (people AND pets,) places I went, food I ate and stuff I bought. I also made a point to keep journalling when I got high in the evening, which resulted in, I think, some of the best drawings I've ever made. Hee hee hee... It felt really good to document my trip this way. Especially since the friend I stayed with didn't get up until late-- I'm an early riser so I had the whole morning each day to peacefully scribble away at my comics. The current pages I'm working on (now months later while I catch up between other projects) ...