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The Workaround- Moratoria Development Journal #2

I’ve been extremely busy with school and my internship recently, and since both those locations are in a different city, that means I’ve been driving an hour and a half there and back at least three times a week. Which is a horrible way to spend the few precious waking hours I have in the day, but oh, well. Nothing I can do but bear it and pray that next year’s internship is closer to my house. I had an interview with one that went very well, and I visit their building next week for a follow-up. Please, please God, please, I don’t want to keep having to wake up at five in the morning…

On the bright side, since I’ve spent so much time sitting in traffic, I’ve had a lot of time to think about future drawings, specifically in the Moratoria Alphabet series, but unfortunately they’ve been put on the back burner for now because my tablet is broken and I have no money. My hope is that I’ll be able to buy a new one sometime this summer, but until then, updates are going to be a bit slower.

Anyway, here’s a sketch of a possible future drawing in the series!

I’m thinking this one would be “R is for Retrospect,” or something similar. You can’t tell from the drawing, but the idea is that Enrique on the right would be cut off on that vertical line, and the colors would be smudged across the left side of the image like the broken screen of an old monitor, with the sketch of young Enrique and his aunt messily drawn on top of it. I’m not sure if this is actually what I’m going to go with, but it’s an idea!

Although my tablet is broken, I’ve still been trying to find workarounds to keep drawing. I’ve been doing stuff with just my finger on my laptop trackpad, which has been an interesting experiment but unfortunately far, far too unsustainable for me to want to do it any more than I have to. So here’s a little drawing of Miriam that served as an experiment.

I like how it turned out! I’m happy with it. Especially her hands. Usually when drawing hands, I start by taking pictures of my own hands in whatever pose they need to be in, and then I insert that photo into the Clip Studio file and trace over it. I remember when I first started taking art seriously this kind of thing was very frowned upon, but now it seems to be more of an accepted practice as long as the artist has permission to trace the photo. I don’t personally see a problem with it, because they’re my own pictures taken by me of my own hands, and hey, photography is an art form too, right?

There are so many little details in this design for Miriam that I had so much fun including. One advantage of a messier, looser rendering style like this is that I don’t have to be as precise when adding all the smaller lines and shapes! I do wish I had the opportunity to draw more of her tattoos, but since she dresses more modest and most of them are on her back, they aren’t visible in everyday life except for the one.

Technically her pose was taken from Orthodox iconography, not Catholic. But shhhhh.

I’ve been listening to lots of new music on my long drives. Currently on repeat are “Perfect Celebrity” from Lady Gaga’s new album, which I first saw in a Twitter edit using footage from the movie The Substance, and “One Day Robots Will Cry” by Cobra Starship, a song which I only began to like after listening to it about ten times. Side note, I hate how Spotify always recommends me a “Punk Mix” every day and then when I open it it’s just Cobra Starship and Fall Out Boy. Neither of them are punk! And besides, I only like one or two Cobra Starship songs! Please don’t build a playlist for me around that…

Here’s hoping that the next few months will be full of artistic progress, even if I do have to brave the spring without my tablet! 

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“Well, the Minotaur was trapped in there, too. That’s why the labyrinth was created, as a prison to hold him. Keep him from hurting anyone.” 

“Well, I mean… he ate people, didn’t he?” “Right.”

This labyrinth has two destinations. Find the Center or Exit the way you came.

Moratoria is a multimedia art project created by Tina Hozdic, a Cincinnati-based independent artist. It consists of drawings, writing, music, and anything else that serves the story.

The narrative is presented in a non-linear format, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask!

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The Main Character (not really)

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This was just kind of like, my on-repeat playlist during the first half of my senior year of college...

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It was Very Difficult to find religious songs that are both unflinchingly honest about personal struggles with faith and still express a desire to seek the divine through traditional religious methods... I'm not putting hymns on here

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I feel the need to clarify here that all of these playlists are of the "songs that remind me of this character" variety and not the "songs this character would listen to" variety. Because his taste is somehow even worse than this

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On most of these playlists, there's one or two songs that don't quite fit but I include them anyway. This is not one of those playlists I think every song on here fits her prefectly

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Okay this playlist is another one of my favorites... what is wrong with this guy (a lot) (a lot is wrong with him)

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This one was truly truly TRULY difficult to put together. As a result it's a bit disjointed, but it's quite literally a playlist for me to listen to while drawing an OC so it's allowed to be disjointed!!

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Out of everyone's playlists I think this one is the one I'm most proud of (to the extent that someone can be proud of putting together a playlist)!! It's also the most on the nose when it comes to the story's themes but shhhhh that's not a crime–

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It's just now hitting me that all of these playlists are around the same length, because they all have the same number of songs. Guys I'm sooooooooo good at staying organized and consistent...

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I've had these character playlists saved to my Spotify for a while, but I'm only now getting around to posting them since all of them have reached twenty songs!! If you're at all interested in getting the vibe of the characters, especially since I haven't posted much about them yet, these are as good a place to start as any.

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"first and final girl"

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Nulla.

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offer up a toast for my love I couldn’t save

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come home

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"starchild"