Forgetting

I have been absolutely terrible at updating this blog lately, because of studies and Metroid Prime.

But I have some news:

The draft for chapter 1 of It's Complicated is now finished, and I'll start on the actual drawings in a few days.

An Apple a Day now has the big buffer I promised myself I'd make for it before I starting to post. Unfortunately, I've used up nearly all of my researched materials for it already, and I want to at least have another batch of jokes before I get it online. I'm currently looking into the possibility of making my own website for it for now, but it's likely the comic will start out as a tumblr blog before I have things figured out. It will probably be at least another week before I start posting.

And lastly, I have finished two chapter drafts for the story I've been writing. It's going slow, but it's getting there, and I figure I'm about 10% done with the first draft. This is my least priority, however, and it's going to take a lot longer than my comic projects.

That's it for today! Just showing that I'm alive and being somewhat productive.

The Night

Again, I've been bad at updating. I have plenty of stuff though, but it's tiring to keep posting everything three times or more. For quicker updates, if you don't mind a flood of random other things, you might want to consider visiting my tumblr.

One thing I might have neglected to mention before is that my external harddrive, where I kept a lot of my art and photos (including the ones from this summer's exhibition) is failing. I don't dare to use it anymore until I can afford getting it looked at and possibly repaired or transferring the stuff on it to a new one.

But here's some of the stuff I've been working on:

• I'm re-working the script of chapter one for OOPS, now re-named "It's Complicated", which you might remember from this post . Now, it's rather important that I get on with the comic making instead of perfecting the same chapter over and over again, but I've realised from looking at the first chapter after months of being too stressed to draw that I have a lot to learn. And I want to make a good first impression at the very least, because that part is critical when people decide if they want to stick with it or not. And, I've also decided that I am going to put this comic online. After all, what's the point of comicking if people can't read what you make? I was never a fan of hoarding stuff in the first place, even if I seem to do it exceedingly often these days. It might take some time before it gets online, but it will happen. I've learned my lessons from online comicking in the past, and having a buffer is vital, or you will face deadline after deadline, each pressuring you more than before. The horrible thing about that is that it saps away both the quality and the joy of comicking. Instead of feeling satisfaction for having made something good, you feel relieved that you've gotten it over with. And believe me, that's not a good thing if you have to keep drawing weekly updates. So again, a buffer is vital.
• As a nice break from drawing constant quality, I'm drawing another comic project on the side. It's called An Apple A Day, and will probably contain some of the lamest humour you've ever seen, penis jokes and more generally bad stuff... in the form of comic strips. I feel like I should probably be shy about it, because it's not exactly the type of thing you'd show your parents. But I can't be bothered! 8D ...The art style is completely different from what I've been doing before, and it's a huge relief. I do it all completely freestyle, no sketch lineart, no pressure. It feels great! There'll be a sneak-a-peak next time I post, for sure. But it's the same thing there. I'm building a buffer. And my ambition is to be able to produce these things daily, but until I'm sure I can do that, I don't want to get in over my head. This is a very new way of comicking for me, and it requires a lot of brainstorming.
• I've taken up writing again. (When did I ever write? ...you might wonder. A long time ago, but it was mostly bad fanfiction.) I've found that after moving to London, I feel a lot more confident with written English. And writing just stories instead of slightly robotic scripts is a very nice exercise in thinking about the feel of a story, as well as a good release for when my head is too crammed with ideas to draw. If things go well, I just might post these stories somewhere as well, but I'm not making any promises as they're not my highest priority. There will likely be plenty of concept art though, if I can manage not to hoard stuff.

And that's all for today. I'm going to work ar finding someone to kick my ass for when I'm incapable of doing it myself, because some asskickings are in order for me to actually do stuff.

(The right kind, mind you. The art of motivating someone else is a hard one. I feel I might save this topic for later.)

Okay, that's really all for today. Cheers!

Diver and Mermaid

I think I'm reaching a happy compromise between the style I'm drawing my comics in and the style I usually do CGs in.
Obviously, I haven't been updating as much as I've intended to do.
Life has been hectic in a number of different ways, and my external harddrive has sadly passed away, but here goes! Here's to 2012 being a much more inspired year than the last.

Hope you all will have a fantastic year.

Oops - Book 1 Cover

Technically I should probably not post this since I am going to try to get it published at some point, but ehh. It's not completely finished yet. (Needs lots of refining!)
I haven't posted anything in ages and thought it was about time.

A lot of things have happened, the biggest one being that I've moved to another country. Hopefully I can post a lot more from now on!

Tank and Glass

Original title was "Tank in a Glass House", but I'm obiously too lazy to actually draw that at the moment. I figured it was time for a new ID on my deviantArt page, so...

References were obviously used for the tank.

...

I apologize in case anyone takes offence from the harsh language.
(Though I doubt anyone would, and this isn't exactly harsh by my standards.)

The quote on top is from some k-drama called Don't ask me about the past.

Call me a heartless, but it bothered me. A lot.

Mindblown

Speedpaint, sort of. Might go back and correct some things later since I like the concept. =)

CYHMV page 2

Let's test my boredom and stupidity, Part Two. (Can you Hear my Voice? page two.)

The first spread can be found here.

...WEEE, I'M LIKE TOTALLY DRAWING STUFF

... when I should be DRAWING stuff and LOOKING FOR A JOB.

Hattifatteners

Miyun's adorable Moomin gijinkas!
I almost think I had way too much fun with this. C=

Pub Brawl Irma

A sketch of Irma, from my idea of an rp/art challenge which doesn't really consist of much. Just action, brawling and insulting in a pub setting. Right now nothing's happening with it, but I figure I'll have the rules ready by summer.
But until then I'm only recruiting and having fun with Irma's design and background story. Hoping to get as many people to join as possible

I'm taking a break from comicking until I get new materials as I spilled my last ink in my panic right before the London trip. It's kind of nice now actually.
And the result is that I've been painting insanely much lately. I'm working on stupidly complicated things though, so nothing's finished yet. But I'm having fun! And that's awesome.

I don't know what went wrong here

Speedpainting. Fanart of Kyuubey from Madoka Magica.
...
...
Apparently Kyuubey's mated with a tarsier.
Oops?
This is stupid.

Broken Clock

... Another speedpainting. I'm on a roll. =)
I think this speaks for itself. But out of curiousity, I'd love to hear your interpretations.

No Face

A birthday gift for my dad! =)

As a friend of mine pointed out, this is eerily similar to Slenderman. Which makes it really creepy, because I didn't even know what that was when I sketched this in early november.
(Only got around to painting it today - took around an hour, I think.)

No Tears in the Sea

It's been a while since I painted. =') I kind of missed drawing pretty things.
Being up to my neck in comics is wonderful, but I miss playing around too.

Picture Diary #1 and giftarts

Sorry 'bout the language, just in case. (I don't think it's that bad, but I'm me after all.)

An attempt to get myself to practise drawing more even while script writing.
So when I'm not doing that and I'm trying to distract myself from wanting to repeatedly bash my head against the wall, this is what I do:
Play video games! And this is a pretty accurate description of the feeling I had today after first beating the old DK arcade game twice and then beating the entire DK 64 today.
(That took hours.)


... And lastly, here are two giftarts I've been too lazy to post here before. ^^;

I can't draw muscle-y men. Yet.

An art dump (last post of 2010)

Old art. Some crap and some stuff I personally am really proud of. I don't know if I'll ever finish these though. I wanted to post these before 2011, but it's not very likely I'll get an other chance to do so.


I don't have many expectations for 2011, but I'll start over with a clean slate, learn how to say no and stop worrying about every single little thing.

I'll remember 2010 as the year when I:



*First sold my paintings

*Spent a lot of time thinking I was sick

*Got into my first actual relationship

*Flew on my own for the first time and got stuck in Munich for the night because of the snow chaos

*Visited awesome people in the UK

*Rediscovered my N64 and my love for it

*First cosplayed

*Baked more than ten kinds of pie in one go with a friend - one with more than half a kilo chocolate in it

*Learned how to walk in heels properly

*Stopped caring about gifts

*Got over a crush of many years

*Wrote my first proper comic script

*Started hating being alone

*Started hating snow

*Got obsessed with Vinland Saga

*Mourned Ace's death in One Piece

*Went on my second hiking trip with friends and got lost in a marsh again. Wonderful, adventurous times!

*Got into my first real bitch fight since 2nd grade

*Rediscovered friendships and made new, surprising friendships

*Got internet shy

*Grew a spine

*Stopped caring so much about my pride

It's been an eventful year. It's had its ups and downs, but I don't regret anything
(aside from not updating my webcomic more.) All in all, I'd say it's been an amazing time.

How has your year been?

Hatsune Miku - Tea Time

There we go. First CG in a while.

I've always loved the vocaloid designs, especially Miku's.

... The reason for this though? I wanted some artwork for my costume at the Grand Cosplay Ball. XD;;
(Again, thank you for letting me borrow a wig, Pandarosi! ... And for helping me with my make-up. And for letting me free-load at your place... and... and...just being so nice! ;___; )
And also, obviously, a gigantic thanks to Louise for sewing that dress for me! (I swear you'll get pictures of it! XD;; )

Speedpaint

Haha, I have the feeling this is exactly what I should not be doing at the moment, considering I've been feeling woozy, tired and need new glasses. But who cares?! 8D Speedpaint, around 25 minutes, maybe.

Other than this, I'm on a short break from all things related comics and drawing.

CYHMV comic

Let's test the limits of my boredom and stupidity, shall we? =D
Actually I shouldn't have time to be bored. But nevermind that.

... Is that a comic... in full colour?
Yes. Yes, it is.
Let's see how far I get with this.
The comic is called "Can you hear my voice?"

And also, ink bottles are probably my mortal enemies. I spilled half the contents of one over my book with layout thumbs. Luckily, nothing except one thumb got too damaged, and as a result I have actually started drawing the comic now, so I suppose it brought something good with it.

New Stuff! =D

Good thing I went to visit my friend in another town for a bit, otherwise I'd have been too distracted to ever finish these. XD But they were fun, fun, fun!

I had so unbelievably much fun composing this. And then colouring it. No references were used.

And this? Also so much fun! Still no references used.

In other words, I enjoy drawing again. I really missed the feeling. =)