Dave Davenport (dogspunk)

Self portrait with Covid

Added 2023-08-24 02:36:22 +0000 UTC

Hey all I needed to post something about why I haven’t posted in a few days… Sunday I started feeling very ill and took one of the covid home tests we have laying around and wham! I got a positive result. 3 and a half years of managing to avoid it but now I get it, well after the “official” end if the pandemic. At least now it’s not as life-threatening. I figured I’d be able to draw read but man, it fucks your concentration. Watching tv was challenging, lol. I think I’m past the worst of it, my temperature is back to normal, so I did some drawing today and ended up wanting to draw a self portrait based solely on how gross I feel. I don’t draw a lot of self portraits, mainly because of not liking how I look, a feeling only magnifying as time goes on, and self portraits need you to confront these things*. I decided to lean into it today. Maybe I will do more so in the future, but I doubt that is something my patrons want to see.

*I have a cartoon version of myself I draw that helps to remove myself a bit from the honesty of the process, but I think I feel dishonest in doing so… idk, it’s all I can do sometimes.

Am I coherent? Lol. I’m not well.

Anyway, I hope to be able to keep posting now! These comix don’t draw themselves.