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So, D-san inked and shaded frames 3 and 4 today. Different, isn’t it?

When I was partway through assembling the comic, I realized that I had forgotten to put the badge on the new character’s jacket before I scanned (the badge says “Chess”, for the few of you interested). So, I had to spend some time using Macromedia Flash’s vector-art tools making one.

I was originally planning to write a longer rant about D-san inking and shading frames 3 and 4, but I decided that the artwork spoke for itself. Plus, I’m tired. So, rant stops here.

No rant for this update.

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Oh my gosh! A new character? We’ll see…

In other news, “Toaster Pastry” is the first mini-arc I’ve done if you don’t count “Anime Swiss-Army Knife”.

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Eh heh, this is a really nice work, IMO, so I’m gonna have one of my life’s stories accompany it. (BTW, all pictures hosted offsite, so they might be a bit slow)

SO. Let’s rewind to two years ago, when I was *OMG* in eighth grade. I was a YGO noob at this time, and as addicted to the game as a crack addict is to crack. It was in the third thing of Beckett YGO Collector that I first came across the Dark Magician Girl; the P4 version. (Believe it or not, I still have this issue)

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And of course, as the legend goes, I was mildly obssessed with this card for almost a year; I bought all five of the Japanese versions on Ebay, AND I pulled an English one in my first pack of MFC almost a year later. So either way, it would only be obvious that I tried to draw the card. Of course, the first time I attempted this was way back in winter of 2002, the first of two golden years of YGO. It was for an Art project, and to be honest, I copied it. Horribly, in restrospect. I knew nothing about anatomy, nothing about CGing, and nothing about drawing people at all. (Lower right hand corner – D.Lim (That’s me) 2002)

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I did do another two DMG and an IFL drawing (The latter two which you have probably seen if you were here long long ago, if not, you can find the threads in this forum) in this same manner, pencil drawing, ink overlay, pencil color, before stopping. Then came Starcrossed, and Reflection. In that year and a half, I finally developed a sense of how the human body is put together (And I’m still working on this), and just this Spring, I did my odd freehand DMG series. The anatomy was far from perfect, but it was freehanded, and a definite improvement from the works of 2002. Some of you have seen that series as well.

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And now we jump forward another three months. All we get is a style change. The anatomy is still a bit screwed up, but this early NWars era sketch is a bit nicer than the past few.

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Then, there was this one guy on MT forums (And I owe a lot to this person, though he probably doesn’t care) who pused my facial anatomy to were it was correct. Or close to it at least, without the pointy chins and stuff. At that point, I was on the last page of a 100 page sketchbook (200, since I use front and back) which I had been using since the beginning of the year (Alright, March, maybe). So, of course, I had to do something special. And that, was another version of DMG.

So now, I present; 45 minutes of lineart, a bit under 3 hours of coloring, and 15 minutes of compilation (For the final, the first compilation is fscked).

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Lazy day today. D-san and I have a bunch of things to work out about N-wars before next year…sigh.

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You know that stockpile I was priding myself on when we started the the site? It’s down to one comic. Well, one comic that I WANT to post. There are two more but they are absolute BS, SO, we’ll say there’s only one.

Now, how DID that come about?

Well, you know, once I started eating up the stockpile, I just wanted to draw other things more and more, and do less and less on the comics. Apparently I’m just not extremely fond of this whole single gag thing, as Justin is. So I drew other stuff, and drew fewer comics and eventually ended up with only one extra comic. Yay.

So what now? Just do crappy fillers? Heck no. Hopefully I can draw the three comics I need before Thanksgiving Break and then replenish the stockpile during that time. Then I only need to keep up for a month before Christmas break.

Either way, I STILL have not missed an update, and I intend to keep it that way… Alright, that’s all for today, I’ll talk more later.

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Continuing the semi-RAOS…

Oog. In the 2nd panel, J-san is a bit squashed, but other than that, I think this one turned out OK.

Oh, yeah, if you are wondering what J-san is doing in the 3rd and 4th panels, he’s dusting himself off.

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Well, I finally retired the old computer I had been using for almost five years.

So as you may have figured from this topic sentence I’m going to rant about this old computer. It was a Dell Laititude Cpt C-Series my dad bought way back in Christmas of 1998 with a 400mhz Pentium II processor, 128MB of RAM and about 4-5GB of hardrive space, which was pretty good for a laptop at that time. I believe it was actually the first or second laptop my dad had ever bought, and probably only the 4 or 5th computer he had ever bought period. But that’s besides the point.

We left it in Hong Kong for my great grand aunt’s (Who’s now dead) secretary (Or I think she’s a secretary or something like that) to use, and bought a second laptop that spring.

When we went back to Hong Kong the following summer, the computer had corrupted its hardrive (Though we didn’t figure this out for a while), and was no longer being used. It was then that my dad sent for a new 20GB hardrive (Which was above industry standard that year) nto replace the old HD and the thing was working like new by end of January (I’m guessing these dates here).

You know, I did not start using this computer until the end of 1999 when Starcraft was a really big hit at my school, though the game was already several years old by that time. I’m not sure why I alternated between this laptop and my dad’s ’98 desktop, but nonetheless, I was using both comps about the same amount. Not to mention my sister and brother were also using both comps.

Anyhow, I finally stopped using the old desktop sometime between 6th and 9th grade (Yeah, so much for guessing dates), and stayed on the laptop. It’s just that a laptop is so much more convenient than a desktop, mainly because of portability; I took this thing everywhere. Ans so, I had been using the old machine since then. So why the change?

To make a long story short, my sister spilled Ginger Ale on this computer a month ago. We sent it into Dell to get it fixed, and during that time, she bought a newer (And somehow cheaper) laptop. So my dad let me use this new machine after it came back from the shop.