[090314]

Ok, here we are, materials for two updates. This first thing was supposed to go up on Monday, but I had work to do:

This is a BKS era installation (should look similar to the fort in the first couple pages of Reflection) that’s currently being used as some sort of living area. The right side of the installation looks like it’s been destroyed a long time ago, probably during the senatorial era. I was playing with the lighting again in this; the water was supposed to be moonlit, but it just looks radioactive or something. The lights turned out alright, though.

Ok, the next lot was supposed to go up today, cuz I’m still busy. Next week we should start comics again. Maybe.

Ok, these are actually sketches dating back to the beginning of the quarter (if you remember those highlighter-colored messes, these followed shortly after). There’s actually like another ten pages, but I just selected the ones I thought were worth posting. I actually really like the Yuri and Estelle walking doodle on the first page. Turned out better than I thought it would (which is really, quite rare).

The Wii in the last pic was due to the fact that I was playing ToS2 at the time. I’m actually almost done, but I’ve been almost done for a few weeks now; I’m stuck on like the third to last battle and I feel like all I can do is powerlevel my dudes, and I just haven’t felt like doing so since. I really should finish that game, though. Don’t want to just leave it undone forever like effin FF12.

I was listening to the Final Fantasy X “Official Soundtrack” (aka the Tokyopop version) whilst writing my paper (it’s eighty-three fuckin hundred words, just fyi) and it made me somewhat nostalgic, as that soundtrack was what I was listening to whilst drawing Starcrossed nearly five years ago now. That’s an awful long time; I still think Starcrossed is somewhat recent, but time really does fly. It’s terrible.

Nonsense Wars is coming up on its fifth anniversary for that matter (this fall, I believe). That’s also a really long time. I still remember drawing roughs on white paper and doing final drafts on tracing paper. That’s really a lololol now that I look back on it. I still have all these tracing paper drawings stashed away somewhere… But really, after the tracing paper fiasco, and then the draw frames separately and scan them in fiasco, I’ve been pretty consistent (whether that be good or bad).

Ok, this entry lost direction after the second paragraph. I’m out.

[3/09/2009] Ugh. I hate missing updates. I was actually going to have this done last week, but schoolwork interfered. Me and my lack of time management…

Lately, it sometimes seems that comics sometimes seem like something I have to do instead of something I want to do, and that’s just unacceptable. I’m not sure what’s causing it; maybe my general lack of enthusiasm for much of anything right now.

BUT

This should not be construed as any sort of “going on haitus kthxbai” comment. Rather, what this means is that I’m just somewhat out of my groove. I should be able to get back on it, but I’m not exactly positive when or how. So, what I’m saying is, over the next weeks, the exact nature of the update will be uncertain as I figure out what it is I want to draw. You might get colored sketches instead, but for those of you who want something to read I’ll try to give some sort of insightful comment attached to them, okay?

Also, this is a beautiful acoustic rendition of the song “Native Faith”:

See you next week!

[090301]

There’s no comic today. Like I said before, when I’m not working on the comics, I’m generally not in the mood to keep texting them, so while they’re still drawn, they’re not getting texted and not getting posted. There’ll be about three weeks of this unless I somehow feel different from normal and decide to text the coming strips.

So this is another 24 x 18 I’ve done for drawing; as you can see I’m following a theme here. What you’re not seeing are the wacked drawings going between these BKS doodads. At any rate, I was thinking about varying up the architecture in this one; usually all my buildings are more or less bricks with windows; I’m trying to get off that right now.

This is Confederate League 3 again, just north of the capital and probably one of the more densely populated cities in the League. Even then, it doesn’t actually look all that crowded… because it isn’t. I’d say there isn’t a Confederate world with a population even matching that of earth’s. The buildings in the foreground make up some sort of higher-end residential district (a suburb, I suppose) with rail connections into the city.

You look at the bridge, the bridge is a V. The two apartment builds in the left and right in the foreground are cylinders connected by Us. Further back on the right, you get a building that’s comprised of interations of a half circle, block, half circle kind of structure, and then further back you get some I shaped buildings, etc. There’s also a gatorade bottle, a recorder, the butt of my cell phone, a drill bit and a screw.

Also, space elevator.

It’s March! The quarter is somewhere near three-quarters over! Yay! Too bad the next two weeks are going to be repeats of suck week. I’m really, really starting to hate on school with a passion. That’s it for today. Hopefully more on some other day.