[061112]

I forgot. The reason I don’t say anything about J’s work is that he never listens to me. So I’ll just keep my smartass mouth shut from now on.

Anyways, I wasn’t going to write something long and rambly, but J’s comment and another comment elsewhere in a galaxy far far away prompts yet another long rambling. Now, if you will, ignore whatever you might consider arrogance in what I’m about to say, as it is certainly not my intent.

A buddy of mine online commented as to why I didn’t think my work was well, for lack of a better term, “able to be commercialized upon”. Apparently this person holds me drawing in reasonably high regard. So how you look at a drawing depends largely on how much drawing you do and how much drawing you’re exposed to, and how you make use of the two. If I were to look at the picture in this update three years ago, I would have said the same thing as this person – that is, that the illustration is “print worthy”.

Hell, three years ago, I tried to print Starcrossed thinking the that material was “print worthy”.

I’m getting at is that in order to improve, you need to train yourself to be able to step back, take a look, and say “This is what is wrong with my drawing and this is what I need to work on”. Eventually, with each generation of work, you can see what’s wrong with the current generation, and make amends with the next generation, and so on and so forth. Being able to improve in that sense is being able to, in a sense, “enlighten” your perception.

Eventually you start seeing errors in works of yourself and of others that you previously couldn’t see, again, how “good” you are at drawing could almost be considered as “who can see the most flaws in a work”.

Well, that was actually a pretty retarded and disjointed rambling now that I think of it – but hey, something’s better than nothing.

[11/6/2006]

Hello there! Plot is interrupted once again by … the FIFTH anniversary of Crummy Radio News! What is Crummy Radio News, you might ask? Well, CRN was created on 11-7-2001, when I had to write a journal entry for class and couldn’t think of what to do. So, I wrote up a transcript of a fake radio broadcast. That’s how CRN got started. I kept writing “transcripts” for it all through that year. Two years later, I started drawing manga for it. That year I even made T-shirts.

In the image, the guy in the center with the implausible hair is Mr. Reporter. He’s the anchor for CRN. To his left is Traf Ikjam, the traffic lady (great names, huh?). Sitting above them in the green polo shirt and khaki shorts is Prob Bice, the financial guy. At far right is Incor Rect, the weatherwoman. The guy with the wrench is the Technician. I’ll try to post the old transcripts and manga scans so you can get an idea of what I’m talking about (problem is, they’re still on my dead desktop). Oh, and tomorrow, tune in again, because I’ll post a brand-new transcript to commemerate CRN’s fifth anniversary. See ya~!

Crummy news for all!

EDIT [11/7/2006]: Here is the completed transcript:

EDIT [11/7/2006, some time later]: D, I did it weird on purpose. Clearly. This is CRN, after all. And how did you know I was thinking to try coloring like that once I got my tablet set up?

[061104]

Well, here we are, another week, another update.

I’m stuck with the NWars storyline, and there’s one extra comic left, so I’m refraining from posting it until I have absolutely nothing else. It gives me a false sense of security, I’m sure. Ok, so it’s not that I don’t know where I’m going with the storyline, I just don’t really know how to get there. Like, if point A and B and D are points on a line, with D between A and B, and segment AD = 1 and segment DB = 9, I know that I’m going to D from A, but I don’t really know whether to draw a straight line, or a curved line, or a hyperbolic one, and so forth.

Wow, that was a lame analogy.

But, onto the update (More like we’re just uploading stuff rather than “updating” anything), here is the first of several ToTA fanarts [100613: Dead link]. Nothing terribly special there; I need more ideas for more complex poses to practice. I’ve been keeping up with the clean lines, though. Yay.

This and this are in color [100613: Two dead links]. Considering my “usual” way of coloring (Refer to something like this), this is a deviation. My general thought is that J’ll give it try just because it’s such a lazy-ass way to do things.

WELL, this is a tack on to this rant. J isn’t online much these days, even with his own comp… that bum.

I’d like to point out, that not only is Mr. Reporter’s hair implausible, so is his foot. I usually don’t say much about J’s anatomical skills, cuz they usually are pretty good, but wtf man. Try standing like that. I’m also concerned about his hand. Is he supposed to be pointing sideways?