How to Replace the Sky, a comic by Matt Hyunh
At the end of 2020, the painting software I’d used my entire professional life updated itself with a new button.I made my living as a commercial illustrator, making pictures for advertising agencies, book publishers, and magazines.I usually painted with ink and brushes, but I also used drawing tablets and apps for jobs that needed flexibility for changes and a quick turnaround.I was up-to-date with the latest tools, but I couldn’t imagine why I would need to replace the sky.
Imperceptibly patching bugs and installing performance fixes until one day it proposed something that I never thought to ask for.I taught myself to draw by tracing comics against my living room window, following the brush strokes coming through the other side of the page until their paths became predictable.An open comic book appears over the sky, with tracing paper over a superhero character mid-flight.
I was never afraid of going too far, because my hand hovered over UNDO and I could save infinite copies with minute variations.After years of contorting myself to the glow of countless screens and bending to the quirks and kinks of the latest devices, a tingling sensation appeared in my knuckles.My wrists pinched, palms tightened, nerves shooting between my shoulder blades to shock my neck.I was a useless lump. For the first time since moving to New York, I had to stop drawing.
The outline of the house, the colors now inverted, with birds and the outline of a comic book superhero added to the sky.A pop-up window: Are you sure you want to replace the sky? Buttons that read “CANCEL” and “OK.”My habits and instincts have been shaped too much by what the gadgets need me to do.I could make black walnut ink.
Four panels: Matt laying a walnut in the sun, Matt holding a bucket of walnuts, a close-up of a dried walnut, the bucket drying out in front of a shed. I could strain the sediment through cheesecloth and run the remainder through a coffee filter in an oil funnel.
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