Okay I've actually started doing the roughs for the first chapter of "Sandhurst Academy" though I'm thinking of changing the name to better reflect the story of the comic, I have fifteen days to get the comic ready for a proper launch, I still need to sort out my new site design for the Sandhurst Academy section, Probably something more traditional for webcomics, I still haven't decided on how many pages a week, or any of that stuff.
But yeah the start date for the comic is definitely the 1st of January which just also happens to be the time of my 21ist birthday, so I guess what better way to start the next stage of my life then with a serious attempt at a new comic, one which won't be going the way of my earlier failed attempts, Newstory, Tales, and what not.
Anywho expect some updates on my main website as I get closer to the launch date.
Sayonara folks
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Progress of sorts
Okay, I've been working on getting my drawing skills of late by drawing the main characters and drawing some locales.
So in other words I'm preparing for Sandhurst Academy to start hopefully sometime in Jabuary, I'll be creating a buffer, so I won't have horribly interrupted updates and I should hopefully be working by then so I'll have cash and some spare time away from worrying about Tafe to start improving the website.
I've got 2 1/2 weeks to go before Tafe ends, and like last year, I left a lot of work till the last minute...yes I never learn lessons...
Anywho I've begun plotting Sandhurst Academy, I'm finally heading towards a main character design I'm happy with, and then I need to work on the other character designs as well, and for a large cast as this one will soon have it'll take a bit of effort.
I'm planning maybe 28 chapters, with about 20 pages per chapter, sounds a lot, but I'm not planning on doing it in colour, and I'm planning on a consistant update flow, with having the weeks pages done on the weekend or something. I'm not going reveal to much about the plot but it will be containing humour, adult themes, action, maybe some romance, drama and will be geared towards people 15 and above at the very least.
Anywho at the moment I'm just doing some practise, some refinement of the setting and research(of sorts) into how other manga go about handling themes, by research I mean occcaisionally missing a night of sleep to finish a particularily good manga.
Manga I'm currently reading
Naruto
Bleach
Vagabond
Addicted to Curry
Ichigo 100%
Family Compo(its very strange)
Angel Heart
Claymore
Manga I really enjoyed
Mx0(ended suddenly though)
Pretty Face(also ended suddenly, same author to)
Inuyasha
Suzuka
II's
IO
Unbalance x Unbalance(actually a manwha)
I've gone off webcomics almost altogether at the moment, guess its cause I'm more interested in how professionals go about a lot of story themes at the moment, rather then the slow progression webcomics have, where they can spend a year on a single story arc, I've also gone of games to a degree, I spend most of my time reading manga, thinking about Sandhurst Academy and how to avoid doing homework...yeah not the best plan when I've got only two weeks left...
Anywho Sayonara Folks!
So in other words I'm preparing for Sandhurst Academy to start hopefully sometime in Jabuary, I'll be creating a buffer, so I won't have horribly interrupted updates and I should hopefully be working by then so I'll have cash and some spare time away from worrying about Tafe to start improving the website.
I've got 2 1/2 weeks to go before Tafe ends, and like last year, I left a lot of work till the last minute...yes I never learn lessons...
Anywho I've begun plotting Sandhurst Academy, I'm finally heading towards a main character design I'm happy with, and then I need to work on the other character designs as well, and for a large cast as this one will soon have it'll take a bit of effort.
I'm planning maybe 28 chapters, with about 20 pages per chapter, sounds a lot, but I'm not planning on doing it in colour, and I'm planning on a consistant update flow, with having the weeks pages done on the weekend or something. I'm not going reveal to much about the plot but it will be containing humour, adult themes, action, maybe some romance, drama and will be geared towards people 15 and above at the very least.
Anywho at the moment I'm just doing some practise, some refinement of the setting and research(of sorts) into how other manga go about handling themes, by research I mean occcaisionally missing a night of sleep to finish a particularily good manga.
Manga I'm currently reading
Naruto
Bleach
Vagabond
Addicted to Curry
Ichigo 100%
Family Compo(its very strange)
Angel Heart
Claymore
Manga I really enjoyed
Mx0(ended suddenly though)
Pretty Face(also ended suddenly, same author to)
Inuyasha
Suzuka
II's
IO
Unbalance x Unbalance(actually a manwha)
I've gone off webcomics almost altogether at the moment, guess its cause I'm more interested in how professionals go about a lot of story themes at the moment, rather then the slow progression webcomics have, where they can spend a year on a single story arc, I've also gone of games to a degree, I spend most of my time reading manga, thinking about Sandhurst Academy and how to avoid doing homework...yeah not the best plan when I've got only two weeks left...
Anywho Sayonara Folks!
Monday, October 13, 2008
Navigating on the seas of life
Hiya, haven't done much in the way of updating my site lately, been a bit busy all over the place, coming up with characters and deciding on character designs and storylines, while also taking the time to attempt to improve my drawing ability, while also pretending to do Tafe work, that I really should be doing...especially if I plan on getting a job, in web design or something similar.
So currently my focus is on getting Sandhurst academy...may need a different name, seems (noun) academy is quite frequently used on the interwebs.
The cast has already grown to close to twenty characters, though for the first chapter I'm only really focusing on three characters and I've started plotting out how I want to do the first chapter. I'm hoping I won't do a repeat of this year with Newstory, take so long to get new pages out that I lose the feel of the story and get sick of it, and when I do get it started, maybe in two months I'll keep to a fairly regular schedule per say. Not sure how much I want to do a week, probably will have a go at a couple of practice pages to see what speed I can produce them at.
Anywho the main character of the new comic, is named Kayden Yamada, an Australian born japanese boy, set in the fictional town of Sandhurst, which if you go look on maps, shouldn't really exist, and won't be given any firm geographic location, it's just an inland city near several lakes, though I'm gonna base it a little off my home town.
And that's it for revelations for the plot, as I draw satisfactory sketches I'll put them up on the website, at the moment I'm working on a group shot, which will feature five or more characters, needs plenty of work though still...
Anywhoist Inuyasha's quite a good manga!
Sayonara folks!
So currently my focus is on getting Sandhurst academy...may need a different name, seems (noun) academy is quite frequently used on the interwebs.
The cast has already grown to close to twenty characters, though for the first chapter I'm only really focusing on three characters and I've started plotting out how I want to do the first chapter. I'm hoping I won't do a repeat of this year with Newstory, take so long to get new pages out that I lose the feel of the story and get sick of it, and when I do get it started, maybe in two months I'll keep to a fairly regular schedule per say. Not sure how much I want to do a week, probably will have a go at a couple of practice pages to see what speed I can produce them at.
Anywho the main character of the new comic, is named Kayden Yamada, an Australian born japanese boy, set in the fictional town of Sandhurst, which if you go look on maps, shouldn't really exist, and won't be given any firm geographic location, it's just an inland city near several lakes, though I'm gonna base it a little off my home town.
And that's it for revelations for the plot, as I draw satisfactory sketches I'll put them up on the website, at the moment I'm working on a group shot, which will feature five or more characters, needs plenty of work though still...
Anywhoist Inuyasha's quite a good manga!
Sayonara folks!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Heyho
Right couple things to say about my webcomicing,
All three current comics are being ended for a variety of reasons, loss of interest, never was able to get myself motivated to do them, and what not.
At the moment I'm planning on doing a school based manga styled thing, as a tri-weekly thing, but I still have some bugs to work out and such with it so won't be starting till Wednesday with it.
What I'm looking at is incorporating my large list of characters, from my writings into it, so the cast certainly won't be limited by the setting, the setting will be fairly realistic, with moments of over the top action, with plenty of attempts at humour throughout(I hope)
Its gonna be full page but I'm gonna try for larger panels, still debating whether pencils or penning is the way to go at the moment, and it won't be in colour cause all I do is paint bucket it anyway...
Anywho I'm thinking I'm gonna take a break from roleplaying for a while, it was fun but I'm starting to feel the joy of creating my own worlds again without it being a game, plus I've been reading several manga's online Bleach is quite good, Naruto not as good, but it got a bit of laughter and tears from me.
And now I really need to catch up in Tafe...
yeah I've said that before...
Sayonara folks!
All three current comics are being ended for a variety of reasons, loss of interest, never was able to get myself motivated to do them, and what not.
At the moment I'm planning on doing a school based manga styled thing, as a tri-weekly thing, but I still have some bugs to work out and such with it so won't be starting till Wednesday with it.
What I'm looking at is incorporating my large list of characters, from my writings into it, so the cast certainly won't be limited by the setting, the setting will be fairly realistic, with moments of over the top action, with plenty of attempts at humour throughout(I hope)
Its gonna be full page but I'm gonna try for larger panels, still debating whether pencils or penning is the way to go at the moment, and it won't be in colour cause all I do is paint bucket it anyway...
Anywho I'm thinking I'm gonna take a break from roleplaying for a while, it was fun but I'm starting to feel the joy of creating my own worlds again without it being a game, plus I've been reading several manga's online Bleach is quite good, Naruto not as good, but it got a bit of laughter and tears from me.
And now I really need to catch up in Tafe...
yeah I've said that before...
Sayonara folks!
Sunday, September 07, 2008
Taking a shortish break
Right, well if people have visited my site, they would be aware I decided to take a month off from not drawing comics...wait...anyway yeah so, during this month I'm trying to catch up on a lot of work that I've gotten really far behind on. I may also try to improve my drawing somewhat(actually have a go at dare I say, practise), and maybe even build up a buffer of strips.
Also I've suddenly lost a lot of interest in Tales of the Old World, mainly because I realized one main fact, a lot of the main characters will be dying in it quite brutally as the adventure progresses. Plus I may stop colouring it and may stick to pencil for now with drawing it, I feel I'm not getting the desired look for the comic, it needs to be a lot darker, and I really need to work on my colouring skills...they kinda suck(as in paint bucket suck).
I may also get a few Newstory pages done, in the intervening time, but till November 27th I'm thinking my productivity will be going down the toilet when it comes to my comics, I've got less then three months till Tafe finishes and I'm way behind, to the point I have basically a years worth of classes to catch up on, pretty bad really, just so I can get a diploma...which will be good to have, if I can get that much work done in what time I have left.
Anywho so even once hiatus status will be revoked on September 29th, updates will likely remain fairly sporadic, I'll try to keep to three updates a week but I guess we'll see.
Thought I'd tell ya guys who do visit my site a bit more of the reason. I'll try to have one update a week in the gallery, usually two skteches.
Also on another note, I found Yugioh the abridged series, Naruto the abridged series, Yu Yuhakusho the abridged series, Lupin III the abridged series and currently my absolutely favorite one DBZ the abridged series, which is done by most of the makers of the other abridged series.
What they are is someone removes all the sound, splices together several episodes or single episodes, and add a new dub to it, acting as a parody. The scary thing is how close some of them sound to the original english voice actors and how many voices they can produce. Blah anyway, check youtube if you wanna see for yourself some of these abridged series. DragonBall Z is the best so far, as the others start of a bit shoddy before the quality starts picking up, while the DBZ one incorporates the previously learned lessons of some fairly experienced abridgers, and so goes from strength to strength. If you watched the original series and aren't afraid to laugh at them, have a gander.
If no one reads this, I'll still have a gander for when they put out new episodes.
Anywho sayonara folks!
Also I've suddenly lost a lot of interest in Tales of the Old World, mainly because I realized one main fact, a lot of the main characters will be dying in it quite brutally as the adventure progresses. Plus I may stop colouring it and may stick to pencil for now with drawing it, I feel I'm not getting the desired look for the comic, it needs to be a lot darker, and I really need to work on my colouring skills...they kinda suck(as in paint bucket suck).
I may also get a few Newstory pages done, in the intervening time, but till November 27th I'm thinking my productivity will be going down the toilet when it comes to my comics, I've got less then three months till Tafe finishes and I'm way behind, to the point I have basically a years worth of classes to catch up on, pretty bad really, just so I can get a diploma...which will be good to have, if I can get that much work done in what time I have left.
Anywho so even once hiatus status will be revoked on September 29th, updates will likely remain fairly sporadic, I'll try to keep to three updates a week but I guess we'll see.
Thought I'd tell ya guys who do visit my site a bit more of the reason. I'll try to have one update a week in the gallery, usually two skteches.
Also on another note, I found Yugioh the abridged series, Naruto the abridged series, Yu Yuhakusho the abridged series, Lupin III the abridged series and currently my absolutely favorite one DBZ the abridged series, which is done by most of the makers of the other abridged series.
What they are is someone removes all the sound, splices together several episodes or single episodes, and add a new dub to it, acting as a parody. The scary thing is how close some of them sound to the original english voice actors and how many voices they can produce. Blah anyway, check youtube if you wanna see for yourself some of these abridged series. DragonBall Z is the best so far, as the others start of a bit shoddy before the quality starts picking up, while the DBZ one incorporates the previously learned lessons of some fairly experienced abridgers, and so goes from strength to strength. If you watched the original series and aren't afraid to laugh at them, have a gander.
If no one reads this, I'll still have a gander for when they put out new episodes.
Anywho sayonara folks!
Saturday, August 23, 2008
WHAAbalance
It may take me a while but I plan to end Newstory, at some point, and I was having a hard time on settling on what I would do after it. The Tales styled comics are largely meant to be easy to draw and colour, restricting them to three panels helps with that, though Tales of the Old World is proving to be fairly complicated.
Well anywho I finally settled on a sci-fi one, using a fairly large group of characters that I know fairly well due to me having written a few stories with them in it. Also the books of backstory I wrote changed and edit continuosly.
It's kinda a sequal to another story, but they also work as independent works, due to a huge time gap between them, (3000 years).
And I'm going to go about the development of it better then Newstory, which I kinda jumped into after coming up with a fairly rough outline, and what stock characters I would have appearing in it.
I love Gundam Seed, started watching it again for some reason. I just love how there is no true bad side in the whole affair, and most characters are inherently good. Though Rau Le Crueset is truly a magnificent bastard for how he does stuff...yeah I don't really wanna spoil it for anyone who hasn't watched it yet.
I also got an anime sample dvd from a friend and watched three out of the four epsidoes on it, urhm, Basilisk, an anime which appears to be based off the same book as a movie I watched, where two ninja clans go to war, romeo and juliet style.
Mushi-shi, a really strange looking, serious yet funny at the same time anime, that has a focus on Japanese spirituality. It seems like a talky thinking, slow paced one, with little to no action, if the first episode is one to go by.
And School Rumble, one I was looking forward to watching after reading the first five manga books in the series. And it lived up to my epxectations and had me laughing for most of the 30(closer to 23) minutes of its viewing. One I'm definitely interested in getting at some point in the future.
Games are great and all, but I often find they get flat to me after a while, and if they don't have a story it get's tiresome to go back and play them, also they take a lot of time to play, the good ones at any rate(though Halo 3 wasn't half bad). Medieval II is a prime example, technology develops way to slowly for me, I wanna run around with German Zweihanders and stuff from the start, and I wish they had a story of sorts to it, other then, conquer the world to win, I mean that's been done before...(in every game in the series no less)
What I would love to see is a game on the scale of Medieval II, with levelable hero characters, with the capacity to control said characters in a battle, while also allowing for you to issue orders to your armies, and not a dynasty warrior type affair in that regard, more a soul calibur or something except against multiple opponents. With an awesome story tying it all together, I mean with how computers are advancing, this should be possible eventually...
The other problem with games, is how they demand you to play them, there's very little passivity to playing a typical American game, also sci-fi is nearly a dead genre with western games, meaning space based games, and they all end up being clones of star trek and star wars to some degree, where's a damn gundam strategy game in english!
Bah...something something, as one of my friends now annoying says, someone needs to call the WHAAAbalance for me...
anywho sayonara folks
Well anywho I finally settled on a sci-fi one, using a fairly large group of characters that I know fairly well due to me having written a few stories with them in it. Also the books of backstory I wrote changed and edit continuosly.
It's kinda a sequal to another story, but they also work as independent works, due to a huge time gap between them, (3000 years).
And I'm going to go about the development of it better then Newstory, which I kinda jumped into after coming up with a fairly rough outline, and what stock characters I would have appearing in it.
I love Gundam Seed, started watching it again for some reason. I just love how there is no true bad side in the whole affair, and most characters are inherently good. Though Rau Le Crueset is truly a magnificent bastard for how he does stuff...yeah I don't really wanna spoil it for anyone who hasn't watched it yet.
I also got an anime sample dvd from a friend and watched three out of the four epsidoes on it, urhm, Basilisk, an anime which appears to be based off the same book as a movie I watched, where two ninja clans go to war, romeo and juliet style.
Mushi-shi, a really strange looking, serious yet funny at the same time anime, that has a focus on Japanese spirituality. It seems like a talky thinking, slow paced one, with little to no action, if the first episode is one to go by.
And School Rumble, one I was looking forward to watching after reading the first five manga books in the series. And it lived up to my epxectations and had me laughing for most of the 30(closer to 23) minutes of its viewing. One I'm definitely interested in getting at some point in the future.
Games are great and all, but I often find they get flat to me after a while, and if they don't have a story it get's tiresome to go back and play them, also they take a lot of time to play, the good ones at any rate(though Halo 3 wasn't half bad). Medieval II is a prime example, technology develops way to slowly for me, I wanna run around with German Zweihanders and stuff from the start, and I wish they had a story of sorts to it, other then, conquer the world to win, I mean that's been done before...(in every game in the series no less)
What I would love to see is a game on the scale of Medieval II, with levelable hero characters, with the capacity to control said characters in a battle, while also allowing for you to issue orders to your armies, and not a dynasty warrior type affair in that regard, more a soul calibur or something except against multiple opponents. With an awesome story tying it all together, I mean with how computers are advancing, this should be possible eventually...
The other problem with games, is how they demand you to play them, there's very little passivity to playing a typical American game, also sci-fi is nearly a dead genre with western games, meaning space based games, and they all end up being clones of star trek and star wars to some degree, where's a damn gundam strategy game in english!
Bah...something something, as one of my friends now annoying says, someone needs to call the WHAAAbalance for me...
anywho sayonara folks
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Tales of the Old World
I mayn't have said much about this new comic I've started.
Basically it is based off a roleplaying game I am playing with friends, based in the Old World, or rather the Warhammer world. It follows the adventures of our characters as we do whatever it is we do.
As of yet I have yet to introduce the main character(not one of mine) who gets that title through sheer lack of dying. (I have gone through five character since the start of the game, being a heroish character in warhammer doesn't always work)
We as a group generally roleplay a bit more then the average roleplayer, but we have annoyed our GM at times, which is always fun.
Anywho, I'm gonna be glossy over some parts in the hopes of catching up to where we are as of now. I'm sticking to three panels a strip for as long as possible, but may throw in the odd larger strip if I feel it needs to be done.
I'm still working on the next Newstory page, and am hoping to have it done sometime either this week or the next, I'm eventually gonna get to some more action, and may focus on it for a little in the future.
I've also been doing some drawing, outside of comicking and one of them is one of the best pictures I have ever drawn. I will be putting it up in the gallery on Guardian universe dot com at some point this week, as well as a couple of other pictures.
Anywhoisit, I'm off
Sayonara folks!
Basically it is based off a roleplaying game I am playing with friends, based in the Old World, or rather the Warhammer world. It follows the adventures of our characters as we do whatever it is we do.
As of yet I have yet to introduce the main character(not one of mine) who gets that title through sheer lack of dying. (I have gone through five character since the start of the game, being a heroish character in warhammer doesn't always work)
We as a group generally roleplay a bit more then the average roleplayer, but we have annoyed our GM at times, which is always fun.
Anywho, I'm gonna be glossy over some parts in the hopes of catching up to where we are as of now. I'm sticking to three panels a strip for as long as possible, but may throw in the odd larger strip if I feel it needs to be done.
I'm still working on the next Newstory page, and am hoping to have it done sometime either this week or the next, I'm eventually gonna get to some more action, and may focus on it for a little in the future.
I've also been doing some drawing, outside of comicking and one of them is one of the best pictures I have ever drawn. I will be putting it up in the gallery on Guardian universe dot com at some point this week, as well as a couple of other pictures.
Anywhoisit, I'm off
Sayonara folks!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
What's happening
Okay I've started a new comic of sorts, Tales of the Old World, which will follow the extensive and exciting adventures that me and my friends have had in our warhammer roleplaying game.
It's going to be seperate from the Tales comic, due to some quite heavy violence that occurs in it and Tales is meant to be family friendlyish.
SO I'm going to be doing a little redesign to the Tales page
(http://www.guardianuniverse.com/comics/TFtLP/tftlp_home.html)
Not much redesigning I ain't prepared to tear everything down and replace it yet.
While doing TOW I will still do the occasional Tales comic as well.
And hopefully I should have a new page of Newstory up on the weekend, I may be shortening that one a little bit so it concludes quicker and I can start on the Realm or Saudes Saga, or Oda eventually.
I'm also thinking about doing some reviews of comics, though how and when is still up in the air for now(and if they would be any good)
blah blah blah...
Other then that, ...got nothing
Sayonara folks!
It's going to be seperate from the Tales comic, due to some quite heavy violence that occurs in it and Tales is meant to be family friendlyish.
SO I'm going to be doing a little redesign to the Tales page
(http://www.guardianuniverse.com/comics/TFtLP/tftlp_home.html)
Not much redesigning I ain't prepared to tear everything down and replace it yet.
While doing TOW I will still do the occasional Tales comic as well.
And hopefully I should have a new page of Newstory up on the weekend, I may be shortening that one a little bit so it concludes quicker and I can start on the Realm or Saudes Saga, or Oda eventually.
I'm also thinking about doing some reviews of comics, though how and when is still up in the air for now(and if they would be any good)
blah blah blah...
Other then that, ...got nothing
Sayonara folks!
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Heya
Okay status on Newstory, I'm gonna spend a bit more time on each page, so they won't be coming out weekly at the moment, however every wednesday if I don't have a Newstory page ready I'll have a Tales comic raring to go. That's the plan anyway.
I'm kinda a semi employed computer guy for my boss, its a bit odd coming in only to fix up his computer and not slaving out on the farm. Still everytime I go to fix up his computer, from the description they give over the phone I think it's gonna be easy, then I get there and find their computer on the verge of dying.
I should really stop thinking that...
I'm still living off my parents while I'm at Tafe though so I'm not making much money the other way, what I borrow of my parents I'm gonna have to pay back at the end of the year, when I'm hopefully employed and working for someone, as a computer guy to some capacity. Preferably computer support, I could live with that for now. Though I need to expand my knowledge base on computers and problems that can occur.
Aside from that, I may eventually attempt to make some money from my drawings, but only once I'm satisfied with what I can do as an artist. So that's still a long ways off yet(couple of years probably).
Still I'm broke as a broke guy, I've been living off around $30 a week sometimes $20, which basically allows you to buy a cheap caffeine drink(pepsi max) and bread or a small amount of something warm from gillies.
I'm in thinking of starting a story to put up in the story section, that subpar work there at the moment looks very lonely every time I go onto that page. But I wanna do it right, so it will probably take me a while to get organized.
Sayonara folks
I'm kinda a semi employed computer guy for my boss, its a bit odd coming in only to fix up his computer and not slaving out on the farm. Still everytime I go to fix up his computer, from the description they give over the phone I think it's gonna be easy, then I get there and find their computer on the verge of dying.
I should really stop thinking that...
I'm still living off my parents while I'm at Tafe though so I'm not making much money the other way, what I borrow of my parents I'm gonna have to pay back at the end of the year, when I'm hopefully employed and working for someone, as a computer guy to some capacity. Preferably computer support, I could live with that for now. Though I need to expand my knowledge base on computers and problems that can occur.
Aside from that, I may eventually attempt to make some money from my drawings, but only once I'm satisfied with what I can do as an artist. So that's still a long ways off yet(couple of years probably).
Still I'm broke as a broke guy, I've been living off around $30 a week sometimes $20, which basically allows you to buy a cheap caffeine drink(pepsi max) and bread or a small amount of something warm from gillies.
I'm in thinking of starting a story to put up in the story section, that subpar work there at the moment looks very lonely every time I go onto that page. But I wanna do it right, so it will probably take me a while to get organized.
Sayonara folks
Sunday, June 22, 2008
So long Old buddy
We lost a family member on Friday.
Our cat Milo, a member of our family for 14 years, was killed by a stupid person driving a stupid car, who failed to stop and remove the animal he or she had killed from the road. In Australia you are supposed to do that, and who ever hit him should have noticed, Milo was not a small cat, at 7+ kg he was in the upper echelon of size for cats.
But enough on that, we buried him shortly after discovering he was dead, due to what has happened to other animals we had lost. I broke down about fifteen minutes after the burial, in my room, I was not in a good shape for the rest of the night. I drew that picture of the old guy from a photo I had taken of him, it was a practice he routinely did, where he sat outside a door and surveyed the yard, a yard he had defended from other cats diligently for something close to 12 years. He bore many scars across his face, and had only recently lost part of his ear in another fight he got into.
He had also gone deaf, as I discovered when I was able to walk up behind him, while not being the least bit quiet and scare him. He always showed up around 4 to 6 pm for food. He occasionally interacted with our two kittens, who were quite simply in awe of this giant cat, to them at least, what with Monty being about 3.5kg, and Jazz being 2.2kg. He was also a friend of our dog Sally, though he was never fond of her way of showing affection, being licked in the face.
He also had a way of showing up when I needed a friend the most, when I was feeling especially down, or angry about something, he'd pop in and sit beside me.
Milo has been a constant in my life for more then 14 years, I have no friend who can say the same(seeing as most of my current friends were made in secondary college)
I've always been proud of this tiger of a house cat, who proudly stalked his way across his domain(our yard) uncontested, till we let Sally out of course.
He always has been an independent cat, disappearing especially in his youth for up to a couple of weeks, but as he got older he spent most of his time in our yard, sleeping in a bush somewhere, as the snake man discovered while hunting around for the snake that killed Sandro.
He even was able to say my sister's name at one point, which was possibly the weirdest thing I have ever heard.
Milo was the last remnant of my life in Mildura, all my friends I made there I've long forgotten, except for Milo. I wish a car hadn't ended his life, he could've easily lived for four or more years.
Milo was named for the film Milo and Otus, him being fairly similar in appearance to Milo the cat from that film(though our Milo was a much bigger cat). And he had a twin brother, who we named Scruffy, who was stolen from us while we lived in Mildura, by someone down the street from us.
In his youth Milo was an aggressive cat, but as he got older, he mellowed out and became a nice old cat.
I'm gonna miss the old guy.
Sayonara folks
Our cat Milo, a member of our family for 14 years, was killed by a stupid person driving a stupid car, who failed to stop and remove the animal he or she had killed from the road. In Australia you are supposed to do that, and who ever hit him should have noticed, Milo was not a small cat, at 7+ kg he was in the upper echelon of size for cats.
But enough on that, we buried him shortly after discovering he was dead, due to what has happened to other animals we had lost. I broke down about fifteen minutes after the burial, in my room, I was not in a good shape for the rest of the night. I drew that picture of the old guy from a photo I had taken of him, it was a practice he routinely did, where he sat outside a door and surveyed the yard, a yard he had defended from other cats diligently for something close to 12 years. He bore many scars across his face, and had only recently lost part of his ear in another fight he got into.
He had also gone deaf, as I discovered when I was able to walk up behind him, while not being the least bit quiet and scare him. He always showed up around 4 to 6 pm for food. He occasionally interacted with our two kittens, who were quite simply in awe of this giant cat, to them at least, what with Monty being about 3.5kg, and Jazz being 2.2kg. He was also a friend of our dog Sally, though he was never fond of her way of showing affection, being licked in the face.
He also had a way of showing up when I needed a friend the most, when I was feeling especially down, or angry about something, he'd pop in and sit beside me.
Milo has been a constant in my life for more then 14 years, I have no friend who can say the same(seeing as most of my current friends were made in secondary college)
I've always been proud of this tiger of a house cat, who proudly stalked his way across his domain(our yard) uncontested, till we let Sally out of course.
He always has been an independent cat, disappearing especially in his youth for up to a couple of weeks, but as he got older he spent most of his time in our yard, sleeping in a bush somewhere, as the snake man discovered while hunting around for the snake that killed Sandro.
He even was able to say my sister's name at one point, which was possibly the weirdest thing I have ever heard.
Milo was the last remnant of my life in Mildura, all my friends I made there I've long forgotten, except for Milo. I wish a car hadn't ended his life, he could've easily lived for four or more years.
Milo was named for the film Milo and Otus, him being fairly similar in appearance to Milo the cat from that film(though our Milo was a much bigger cat). And he had a twin brother, who we named Scruffy, who was stolen from us while we lived in Mildura, by someone down the street from us.
In his youth Milo was an aggressive cat, but as he got older, he mellowed out and became a nice old cat.
I'm gonna miss the old guy.
Sayonara folks
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Running through dustclouds and barren wastes
Bleh,
I'm now debating whether to stop colouring Newstory, just as I start, and use pencil instead. To be frank my pencilling skills are much better then my finelining, I can do shading and others things with pencil that I can't with fineliner, and more often then not the draft can look superior to the finished copy, which is kinda frustrating.
Page nine for example, as it stands it looks great, (compared to earlier pages at any rate) it needs a little cleaning up, getting rid of messy lines and what not but as it stands already it looks superior to past pages and past pictures.
I'll decide what to do by wednesday, and you will be able to see what i decide to go with.
Sayonara folks!
I'm now debating whether to stop colouring Newstory, just as I start, and use pencil instead. To be frank my pencilling skills are much better then my finelining, I can do shading and others things with pencil that I can't with fineliner, and more often then not the draft can look superior to the finished copy, which is kinda frustrating.
Page nine for example, as it stands it looks great, (compared to earlier pages at any rate) it needs a little cleaning up, getting rid of messy lines and what not but as it stands already it looks superior to past pages and past pictures.
I'll decide what to do by wednesday, and you will be able to see what i decide to go with.
Sayonara folks!
Friday, June 13, 2008
Give me a sense to wonder
I'm back to thinking I should do some altering to the current look of Guardian Universe dot com, its looked its current way for about a year, and change is always good. Also I've decided to try for a weekly update for Newstory for the forseeable future, or I need a break, and twice week update for Tales.
A typical Newstory page takes me up to 6 hours to complete, Tales on the other hand take about 1 to 2 hours to do, I can sometimes finish one like yesterday's in under 30 mins.
So we'll see if I can maintain a thrice weekly update schedule, I currently don't work so I have plenty of free time to get it done in as well.
Okay formalising the update times
Newstory, will be updated each Wednesday, full colour at around 8 o'clock east australia time.
Tales will be updated every monday and friday, full colour, and also at 8 o'clock.
If I'm late for a deadline feel free to flame me till I get it done.
Other then that I've got nothing
Sayonara folks!
A typical Newstory page takes me up to 6 hours to complete, Tales on the other hand take about 1 to 2 hours to do, I can sometimes finish one like yesterday's in under 30 mins.
So we'll see if I can maintain a thrice weekly update schedule, I currently don't work so I have plenty of free time to get it done in as well.
Okay formalising the update times
Newstory, will be updated each Wednesday, full colour at around 8 o'clock east australia time.
Tales will be updated every monday and friday, full colour, and also at 8 o'clock.
If I'm late for a deadline feel free to flame me till I get it done.
Other then that I've got nothing
Sayonara folks!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
So far beyond reality
Woot, or summit liek thert, page 8 of Newstory is up, I"ma actually planning on some dialogue for once in the next page coming up or not, it depends on how it goes, I'm gonna try and get back into the swing of things now that I've got page 8 done, which was a doozy cause I changed my mind about introducing a certain character who appears on the chapter page, instead focusing on the girls, I'll leave it to your imagination to figure out what happened to the two, agent...goon...guy...people...things, right I'm also going have to warn that there may be a bit of skin showing in the next page, not nudity but to be blunt Aeries will be only wearing a sheet in it.
Another thing I did while writing Newstory, was change the age of the girl Aeries's rescued, she was orginally going to be you know about six years old or something, but I changed my mind at some point, and now shes older then Aeries.
And Aeries fainting, gimmicky perhaps, but I wanted to them out of the streets and that was the fastest way I could think of doing it.
Hmmmm...aside from that I may actually get to around to putting up a new story in the story section. Also if you've got free time and nothing better to do, check out Nexus, we need more peoples, as of at the moment we have only three active posterers, myself included, the admin and a mod, so I'm the only non administration member who regularly posts once or twice a week.
Oh and everyone should read Emergency Exit one of the bestest comics I've read in a while, kept me entertained for two days, as I voraciously shot through its extensive archive. Very funny, with some action, childishness and a wide variety of characters, some you know kinda stereotypical at first till they get some character development, though one of the main leads is as a webcomic reviewer put it, batshit insane. Quite appropriate as well.
Anywhoisit, other then that check out the new page on over at guardian universe dot com, maybe have someone give me some constructive feedback, or advice or something, and I'll seeyas again, maybe on the weekend or sometime next week!
Sayonara folks!
Another thing I did while writing Newstory, was change the age of the girl Aeries's rescued, she was orginally going to be you know about six years old or something, but I changed my mind at some point, and now shes older then Aeries.
And Aeries fainting, gimmicky perhaps, but I wanted to them out of the streets and that was the fastest way I could think of doing it.
Hmmmm...aside from that I may actually get to around to putting up a new story in the story section. Also if you've got free time and nothing better to do, check out Nexus, we need more peoples, as of at the moment we have only three active posterers, myself included, the admin and a mod, so I'm the only non administration member who regularly posts once or twice a week.
Oh and everyone should read Emergency Exit one of the bestest comics I've read in a while, kept me entertained for two days, as I voraciously shot through its extensive archive. Very funny, with some action, childishness and a wide variety of characters, some you know kinda stereotypical at first till they get some character development, though one of the main leads is as a webcomic reviewer put it, batshit insane. Quite appropriate as well.
Anywhoisit, other then that check out the new page on over at guardian universe dot com, maybe have someone give me some constructive feedback, or advice or something, and I'll seeyas again, maybe on the weekend or sometime next week!
Sayonara folks!
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Sands and stuff
Just as I get into another world, I lose focus and concentrate on another, I think I have at least five different story worlds. And with that five different Eledor's and Aeries.
But I suddenly decided to have a look back at Saudes Saga, my first main story, also the only one with a definite start and end, important plot point, and a large cast of characters. This is one where I am more then a little cruel to Eledor, and the first part finishes on a low note.
I once tried to draw this in comic form, got three pages into it then realized my art sucked and needed work, so it led to me starting Newstory, as a means of creating a throw away storyline to practice my art. I may have jumped to soon into Newstory though, as I keep hitting walls when I go to draw it, also its hard to get back into the swing of things having taken a break for a month from drawing at all, well kinda. Anywho in that time period I believe I have actually improved somewhat, I may get rid of the Realm section on my website as well as I don't think anything will be happening there for several years at least. I've started doing something I should have done from the start, character illustrations. Basically I'm trying to organize myself better, as I've been falling off the band wagon lately, also at Tafe, possibly sleep related, as I manage most nights to only get around 6-7 hours of sleep, which means I'm usually functioning at only half capacity most of the time, although I do try to sleep in to make up for it.
I've restarted the Tales comic, to make it less focused on the farm, as I'm trying to distance myself from it and will be introducing a few characters based off friends, I'm also committed to colouring it, as it only really takes me a short time to do that. But I'm keeping all the old comics up anyway, as a reminder of some of my most early work.
Now I gotta goes, so sayonara folks!
But I suddenly decided to have a look back at Saudes Saga, my first main story, also the only one with a definite start and end, important plot point, and a large cast of characters. This is one where I am more then a little cruel to Eledor, and the first part finishes on a low note.
I once tried to draw this in comic form, got three pages into it then realized my art sucked and needed work, so it led to me starting Newstory, as a means of creating a throw away storyline to practice my art. I may have jumped to soon into Newstory though, as I keep hitting walls when I go to draw it, also its hard to get back into the swing of things having taken a break for a month from drawing at all, well kinda. Anywho in that time period I believe I have actually improved somewhat, I may get rid of the Realm section on my website as well as I don't think anything will be happening there for several years at least. I've started doing something I should have done from the start, character illustrations. Basically I'm trying to organize myself better, as I've been falling off the band wagon lately, also at Tafe, possibly sleep related, as I manage most nights to only get around 6-7 hours of sleep, which means I'm usually functioning at only half capacity most of the time, although I do try to sleep in to make up for it.
I've restarted the Tales comic, to make it less focused on the farm, as I'm trying to distance myself from it and will be introducing a few characters based off friends, I'm also committed to colouring it, as it only really takes me a short time to do that. But I'm keeping all the old comics up anyway, as a reminder of some of my most early work.
Now I gotta goes, so sayonara folks!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Excuses, exsmooses
Man I've been having a very unproductive month in terms of Newstory, or Tales, maybe its because of my increased focus on the Oda world, I even started writing again, which is actually a bid deal seeing as the only writing I have done recently is the stuff on Nexus.
Lately I've been feeling very bored with my current games, I've been playing Medieval II as the Russians, as they are the closest I can get to having an Asiatic team, without downloading mods that kinda ruin the balance. I don't play the Russians much as they have a bit of a hard start location, plus money troubles up to the whazoo. Basically I'm desperate for an Asian themed total war, I haven't played Shogun, but I'm dubious it'll work on my computer, as the original medieval carked it before I could even play it, just kept exiting, when I tried to make a new game, and its newer then Shogun.
Basically I'm bored of European themed strategy games, I really enjoy the total war series, and I basically want, either Shogun total war 2, or Asia total war to make an appearance.
But bah, page 8 for Newstory is giving me some problems due to me not liking how the character keeps turning out, and I'm now even debating whether I should show him, and instead keep following along with the girls. I've beenlistening to the soundtrack of Last samurai nearly non stop for the past couple of days, as its my only decent Asian orchestral music.
Another ramble was as I was coming up with some ideas for Oda, I came across an easy and good way to display the information for it, rather then put it into a lengthy word document as I was first intending to, I could make it into a website, combine it with some pictures(my own work of course), some maps, and a variety of other stuff, if get around to doing it I may add it to guardian universe.
Also I may stop the Realm for now, as a possible future comic, I haven't had much reason to work on it, and it needs a decent amount of research to come out looking good, as the main empire in it will based of the Byzantine Empire, a much more progressive Empire, but the armour and the weapons, and the general look of everything in it would be Byzantine. The current Emperor of the Realm is known as Constantine, which is a common name for Byzantine Emperors.
But I'm no history guy, just a guy who likes surfing wikipedia to much, maybe I should take up history at some point...
Anywho, my drawing hand has still been doing some drawing, though mainly character sketches for Oda, I may get then finelined and coloured, and put up in the gallery as they ain't half bad for my drawinging.
But bah bah, I'm outta things to say right now, so sayonara folks!
Lately I've been feeling very bored with my current games, I've been playing Medieval II as the Russians, as they are the closest I can get to having an Asiatic team, without downloading mods that kinda ruin the balance. I don't play the Russians much as they have a bit of a hard start location, plus money troubles up to the whazoo. Basically I'm desperate for an Asian themed total war, I haven't played Shogun, but I'm dubious it'll work on my computer, as the original medieval carked it before I could even play it, just kept exiting, when I tried to make a new game, and its newer then Shogun.
Basically I'm bored of European themed strategy games, I really enjoy the total war series, and I basically want, either Shogun total war 2, or Asia total war to make an appearance.
But bah, page 8 for Newstory is giving me some problems due to me not liking how the character keeps turning out, and I'm now even debating whether I should show him, and instead keep following along with the girls. I've beenlistening to the soundtrack of Last samurai nearly non stop for the past couple of days, as its my only decent Asian orchestral music.
Another ramble was as I was coming up with some ideas for Oda, I came across an easy and good way to display the information for it, rather then put it into a lengthy word document as I was first intending to, I could make it into a website, combine it with some pictures(my own work of course), some maps, and a variety of other stuff, if get around to doing it I may add it to guardian universe.
Also I may stop the Realm for now, as a possible future comic, I haven't had much reason to work on it, and it needs a decent amount of research to come out looking good, as the main empire in it will based of the Byzantine Empire, a much more progressive Empire, but the armour and the weapons, and the general look of everything in it would be Byzantine. The current Emperor of the Realm is known as Constantine, which is a common name for Byzantine Emperors.
But I'm no history guy, just a guy who likes surfing wikipedia to much, maybe I should take up history at some point...
Anywho, my drawing hand has still been doing some drawing, though mainly character sketches for Oda, I may get then finelined and coloured, and put up in the gallery as they ain't half bad for my drawinging.
But bah bah, I'm outta things to say right now, so sayonara folks!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
That's not a post that's a Ginormpost
Whoa haven't blogged in a while....
Well stuff has happened I guess, I got a job interview, which I am of the opinion that I screwed up. Hmm whatelse, my driving test is arriving fast, two more weeks and it is upon me.
I have actually completed page 7 of Newstory, I've just taken an exceedingly long time to upload it, should be putting it up tonight, I'm nearly broke, but a couple jobs offered by my parents should see me through as long as I spend wisely.
And I've started planning a new DnD campaign type thing, asian based, instead of the traditional western european setting, which I have been getting tired of.
Also I really wish Creative Assemble would release a sequal to Shogun Total War, they've had four games focusing on europe time for a change.
It's set in my DnD campaign world of Ovaleen, upon the largest continent. This place has had little to no contact with the rest of Ovaleen, and those who visit named it the plains of Endless battle, due to the rapidly shifting political climate, that quite quickly led to wars that would humble any of the great wars fought in the rest of Ovaleen.
The Continent itself is a vast place, and is home to the single greatest concentration of humans on the planet, to the point that there is no other civilised race present on the continent, which is named Zhou Wei by its people. Its people are seperated into several different cultures.
The Zao the primary people of Zhou Wei, live in a collection of kingdoms, that routinely go to war with each other, some disappear, new ones form, it is a very unstable political landscape, all great lords seek to become the Emperor of the Zao. To the east are the vast steppes home to a nomadic and warlike people known as the Yuan, split into tribes, they greatly respect strong warriors and frequently invite strong warriors they face to join their ranks. They are the best horsemen of the steppes, and many fear their raiding parties. Tribes may occaisionally fight each other but not to the same extent as the Zao and Gian.
To the east the Gian, are a highland culture who are skilled sailors, they are like the Zao divided and frequently fight amongst themselves, fighting for the right to rule Gian. They live on a large mountainous outcropping from Zhou Wei, that extends out into the ocean.
To the north are the greatest mountains, and a culture very different from the warlike attitudes of those they consider lowlanders. The Quang live in a peaceful monastic society, where they seek spiritual perfection, without the worry of war, thanks to the unique defence of the very area they live in.
Off the western coast of Zhou Wei lies a large island archipelagos named Oda, made up of four large islands. The Odan a society that developed from pirate colonies into a complex and isolationistic society, that can vary from unparalleled peace to brutal violence. It's people are unique in that they have an emperor, thus making them seem a united country unlike the rest of Zhou Wei. However the emperor is merely a figure head of a country ruled by the Daimyo, various powerful clans that claim territories across the four islands, the symbol of these clans are the elite samurai. The Daimyo make war on each other frequently, with borders changing very frequently, though most of the Daimyo are of near equivalent strength.
Still needs a lot of work, and if you couldn't tell is based off real world asia.
But I've had a lot of fun working on it so far. ...I know I'm a nerd.
I gotta say programming ain't that hard...when I can concentrate on it, I think I spent nearly 3 hours today out of a six hour class, chatting to friends on Gmail, I'm also really enjoying doing php, as first of all, it gets immediate results, the book is much more structured then the java book, with easier to follow questions.
I think I'm falling behind a little with the networks subject, mainly due to the hardware lab, getting messed around with by Cert IIIs, before we go in, and then we have to figure why all our connections need to be redone...GAH!
Then we have project management, which is okay, but mostly consists of us sitting around and listening to our teacher tell us stories from his vast repertoire of experience, surprisingly I feel that I learn a lot from these classes.
Anywho I'll probably update Newstory tonight, and get a couple of Tales comics up, sometime later this week, fully coloured of course.
Anywho thanks folks for reading if ya did, if ya didn't well you didn't read this part so NAH NAH NAH NAH
Sayonara folks!
Well stuff has happened I guess, I got a job interview, which I am of the opinion that I screwed up. Hmm whatelse, my driving test is arriving fast, two more weeks and it is upon me.
I have actually completed page 7 of Newstory, I've just taken an exceedingly long time to upload it, should be putting it up tonight, I'm nearly broke, but a couple jobs offered by my parents should see me through as long as I spend wisely.
And I've started planning a new DnD campaign type thing, asian based, instead of the traditional western european setting, which I have been getting tired of.
Also I really wish Creative Assemble would release a sequal to Shogun Total War, they've had four games focusing on europe time for a change.
It's set in my DnD campaign world of Ovaleen, upon the largest continent. This place has had little to no contact with the rest of Ovaleen, and those who visit named it the plains of Endless battle, due to the rapidly shifting political climate, that quite quickly led to wars that would humble any of the great wars fought in the rest of Ovaleen.
The Continent itself is a vast place, and is home to the single greatest concentration of humans on the planet, to the point that there is no other civilised race present on the continent, which is named Zhou Wei by its people. Its people are seperated into several different cultures.
The Zao the primary people of Zhou Wei, live in a collection of kingdoms, that routinely go to war with each other, some disappear, new ones form, it is a very unstable political landscape, all great lords seek to become the Emperor of the Zao. To the east are the vast steppes home to a nomadic and warlike people known as the Yuan, split into tribes, they greatly respect strong warriors and frequently invite strong warriors they face to join their ranks. They are the best horsemen of the steppes, and many fear their raiding parties. Tribes may occaisionally fight each other but not to the same extent as the Zao and Gian.
To the east the Gian, are a highland culture who are skilled sailors, they are like the Zao divided and frequently fight amongst themselves, fighting for the right to rule Gian. They live on a large mountainous outcropping from Zhou Wei, that extends out into the ocean.
To the north are the greatest mountains, and a culture very different from the warlike attitudes of those they consider lowlanders. The Quang live in a peaceful monastic society, where they seek spiritual perfection, without the worry of war, thanks to the unique defence of the very area they live in.
Off the western coast of Zhou Wei lies a large island archipelagos named Oda, made up of four large islands. The Odan a society that developed from pirate colonies into a complex and isolationistic society, that can vary from unparalleled peace to brutal violence. It's people are unique in that they have an emperor, thus making them seem a united country unlike the rest of Zhou Wei. However the emperor is merely a figure head of a country ruled by the Daimyo, various powerful clans that claim territories across the four islands, the symbol of these clans are the elite samurai. The Daimyo make war on each other frequently, with borders changing very frequently, though most of the Daimyo are of near equivalent strength.
Still needs a lot of work, and if you couldn't tell is based off real world asia.
But I've had a lot of fun working on it so far. ...I know I'm a nerd.
I gotta say programming ain't that hard...when I can concentrate on it, I think I spent nearly 3 hours today out of a six hour class, chatting to friends on Gmail, I'm also really enjoying doing php, as first of all, it gets immediate results, the book is much more structured then the java book, with easier to follow questions.
I think I'm falling behind a little with the networks subject, mainly due to the hardware lab, getting messed around with by Cert IIIs, before we go in, and then we have to figure why all our connections need to be redone...GAH!
Then we have project management, which is okay, but mostly consists of us sitting around and listening to our teacher tell us stories from his vast repertoire of experience, surprisingly I feel that I learn a lot from these classes.
Anywho I'll probably update Newstory tonight, and get a couple of Tales comics up, sometime later this week, fully coloured of course.
Anywho thanks folks for reading if ya did, if ya didn't well you didn't read this part so NAH NAH NAH NAH
Sayonara folks!
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Bagh!
Slightly frustrated yes I am...
Anywho page six of Newstory has been pushing my drawing skills, and writing skills, the main problem is I always gloss over the points where the fighting ends, so I have one sentence that in practice turns into a full page on its own, or at least half a page. So yeah that part where I said several pages done, hasn't quite happened. But but, this page doesn't look too shabby so far, so I am getting better, which is a good sign, and me facing these problems now is better then later on when the story gets a whole lot more complicated.
I have at least three major fights planned in this comic, and this one ain't one, so better now that I face problems with how I write the script now then later on when things can quickly become a mess.
Anywho page six may be done sunday, I've come to the conclusion that I'll put the update times of Newstory, when it's done, rather then trying to set up a time and then failing miserably. What's it been now a month since an update?
Other then I'm gonna eventually start advertising my website on Nexus, but also at the moment Nexus is looking dead, so if people wanna join and write up a storm with others then please go do so. We need people who are more active then me!
Anyways, I've spent that last two weeks being remarkably unproductive, seriously I think I've done less then a rock.
My room is still an ungodly mess, currently without curtains...and its cold...and bright in the mornings. I have been pretty good concerning the pets, but I think I need to take a break from my computer...actually tomorrow will be a non-computer day...we'll see how long I last..I may even get page six done finally, and start on page seven, and then eight, now that would be a sight to behold!
May even get some of the fence done for Mum and Dad, I'm supposed to be getting paid for it so why not, I don't have work at the moment, and I'm not sure I want to go back to the farm, I think five years is enough.
Anywho I've rambled long enough,
Sayonara and all that jazz...stuff...thingie...
Anywho page six of Newstory has been pushing my drawing skills, and writing skills, the main problem is I always gloss over the points where the fighting ends, so I have one sentence that in practice turns into a full page on its own, or at least half a page. So yeah that part where I said several pages done, hasn't quite happened. But but, this page doesn't look too shabby so far, so I am getting better, which is a good sign, and me facing these problems now is better then later on when the story gets a whole lot more complicated.
I have at least three major fights planned in this comic, and this one ain't one, so better now that I face problems with how I write the script now then later on when things can quickly become a mess.
Anywho page six may be done sunday, I've come to the conclusion that I'll put the update times of Newstory, when it's done, rather then trying to set up a time and then failing miserably. What's it been now a month since an update?
Other then I'm gonna eventually start advertising my website on Nexus, but also at the moment Nexus is looking dead, so if people wanna join and write up a storm with others then please go do so. We need people who are more active then me!
Anyways, I've spent that last two weeks being remarkably unproductive, seriously I think I've done less then a rock.
My room is still an ungodly mess, currently without curtains...and its cold...and bright in the mornings. I have been pretty good concerning the pets, but I think I need to take a break from my computer...actually tomorrow will be a non-computer day...we'll see how long I last..I may even get page six done finally, and start on page seven, and then eight, now that would be a sight to behold!
May even get some of the fence done for Mum and Dad, I'm supposed to be getting paid for it so why not, I don't have work at the moment, and I'm not sure I want to go back to the farm, I think five years is enough.
Anywho I've rambled long enough,
Sayonara and all that jazz...stuff...thingie...
Thursday, March 20, 2008
A month!?
Whoa I haven't blogged in a month!
Anywho I've been taking a bit of time off of drawing Newstory, to practice a little bit, and finalize another character's design who will be entering the comic soonish. You can see some examples of what I've been doing with my new profile image.
Anywho I'm now on holidays, and if all goes well I might try and get several pages drawn over the the coming fortnight, I said several there, not just a couple. As long as I don't allow myself to get to distracted.
Other then that I'm also posting on a Role Playing forum, which the link is above Guardian Universe, so if you want to check out some of my writing, I'm going by the same name I use for most things there, so it shouldn't be to hard to find me.
I'm also planning on doing some Tales comics at some point.
Other then that, I'm gonna start redesigning the Newstory and Tales pages to be better organised, currently they are a bit of a mess.
Anywho Sayonara folks and thanks for all the fish!
Anywho I've been taking a bit of time off of drawing Newstory, to practice a little bit, and finalize another character's design who will be entering the comic soonish. You can see some examples of what I've been doing with my new profile image.
Anywho I'm now on holidays, and if all goes well I might try and get several pages drawn over the the coming fortnight, I said several there, not just a couple. As long as I don't allow myself to get to distracted.
Other then that I'm also posting on a Role Playing forum, which the link is above Guardian Universe, so if you want to check out some of my writing, I'm going by the same name I use for most things there, so it shouldn't be to hard to find me.
I'm also planning on doing some Tales comics at some point.
Other then that, I'm gonna start redesigning the Newstory and Tales pages to be better organised, currently they are a bit of a mess.
Anywho Sayonara folks and thanks for all the fish!
Friday, February 15, 2008
Huzzah...or something...
So's I passed my hazard perception test, got told I suck at perceiving threats even though the video I was forced to watch was only at like 200pixels for an entire 16 inch screen, shadows were like black ominous holes you couldn't see under, and motorbikes were able to hide behind vans with relative ease(though I guessed that one)
Meh crappy quality tests aside I got Wednesday off this week due to a teacher phoning in sick, unfortunately I didn't find out till I was sitting out side the room in the morning with limited to no means of getting out of town and back home.
I gotta say my teachers are all good, though I still haven't met one of them, my programming teacher. Also my course focuses on web design, networking, programming and more project management(*sigh), also I have a friend this time in this class who more then knows a lot of computer stuff being a completed 2nd year computing university student and all that.
Comic news, page four will be up on Saturday, probably as soon as I finish it, and I will start doing page five shortly after. Page five is fairly action heavy so I'll see how I go with that page, I'm very certain as I start to get a little better I'll get faster as well, also I'm planning on updating the main character's look soon as I work on it, as I was able to finally borrow out the books that helped inspire me to start drawing Newstory, and well start drawing as it had some of the best example pictures I could possibly ask for. I've also borrowed out a how to draw martial arts in manga type book thing, so it will hopefully help as well.
When I get more proficient at web design I will work on making the proper Newstory page rather then what I currently have.
Computer news, I finally upgraded my old 17' LCD monitor for a brand spanking new 20' widescreen, only problem is my graphics card seems to only support up to 1280 by 800 resolution, when the monitor itself can go up to 1680 by 1050, so a little annoying.
Car news(geez I got a bit of this news ting), I agreed to purchase my parents 2005 holden commodore equip at the end of year, when I will hopefully have a job(better then the farm) somewhere and be earning money of some sort.
So I currently owe my parents for the new monitor and I will be owing them for the car. I don't have any money and I'm already agreed to be in debt for $14000 by the end of year, add onto that my $6000 HECs fee, and well 20K is a great figure to be owing by the end of the year.
whoa more figures...um fix that with some random nonsense of some...damn got nothing
Oh and Mortigi what's the maximum bandwidth that's allowed for the server?(not that I even dent it)
sayonara folks!
Meh crappy quality tests aside I got Wednesday off this week due to a teacher phoning in sick, unfortunately I didn't find out till I was sitting out side the room in the morning with limited to no means of getting out of town and back home.
I gotta say my teachers are all good, though I still haven't met one of them, my programming teacher. Also my course focuses on web design, networking, programming and more project management(*sigh), also I have a friend this time in this class who more then knows a lot of computer stuff being a completed 2nd year computing university student and all that.
Comic news, page four will be up on Saturday, probably as soon as I finish it, and I will start doing page five shortly after. Page five is fairly action heavy so I'll see how I go with that page, I'm very certain as I start to get a little better I'll get faster as well, also I'm planning on updating the main character's look soon as I work on it, as I was able to finally borrow out the books that helped inspire me to start drawing Newstory, and well start drawing as it had some of the best example pictures I could possibly ask for. I've also borrowed out a how to draw martial arts in manga type book thing, so it will hopefully help as well.
When I get more proficient at web design I will work on making the proper Newstory page rather then what I currently have.
Computer news, I finally upgraded my old 17' LCD monitor for a brand spanking new 20' widescreen, only problem is my graphics card seems to only support up to 1280 by 800 resolution, when the monitor itself can go up to 1680 by 1050, so a little annoying.
Car news(geez I got a bit of this news ting), I agreed to purchase my parents 2005 holden commodore equip at the end of year, when I will hopefully have a job(better then the farm) somewhere and be earning money of some sort.
So I currently owe my parents for the new monitor and I will be owing them for the car. I don't have any money and I'm already agreed to be in debt for $14000 by the end of year, add onto that my $6000 HECs fee, and well 20K is a great figure to be owing by the end of the year.
whoa more figures...um fix that with some random nonsense of some...damn got nothing
Oh and Mortigi what's the maximum bandwidth that's allowed for the server?(not that I even dent it)
sayonara folks!
Monday, February 11, 2008
And sumthing!
I missed another update time thingy, its annoying, but I really have had a bit of trouble with the latest page (and its only page four) but anywhos, I'm hoping I don't make a trend of these fortnights to do one comic in, I vwanna get better at the drawing, better at the pacing, better at the narrative so I'm bound to hit a few hurdles and stuff as I start, and I really wanna hit about a page a week or even two, I know I could if I put more effort in and spent more time on my drawing, but yeah real life sucks.
I started my course today, and so far it looks like it's either going to be very fun, or mind numbing in its complexity, but hey that's how I like it...I guess, and doing well in this course may well allow myself to get a decent job out of it.
Also I have organised my hazard perception test, so I can start working towards getting my license, and hopefully get it before they bring in the dreaded green P. Here's hoping!
Other then that hmm...nup haven't got much to say, so
sayonara folks!
I started my course today, and so far it looks like it's either going to be very fun, or mind numbing in its complexity, but hey that's how I like it...I guess, and doing well in this course may well allow myself to get a decent job out of it.
Also I have organised my hazard perception test, so I can start working towards getting my license, and hopefully get it before they bring in the dreaded green P. Here's hoping!
Other then that hmm...nup haven't got much to say, so
sayonara folks!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Hooray!
I got into my course, one wave of my cert IV results and they basically went right where's the money...or something like that anyway. So long story short I still have to enroll but I'm in the course!
On other news I've decided to wait till Saturday to update Newstory, sorry if anyone was waiting for it, I made a couple of things saying yeah it'd be up, but never got round to it. My sister's leaving for University soon and my brother is planning on moving out sometime this year, so I may be home alone...with the folks...it'll mean less to distract me I guess, but gee it's going to be boring without them here...
Also works about ready to finish for the season, which means I'll become broke pretty soon if I don't fix my spending habits, and due to the schedule for my course i won't be able to work even if I want to at the farm(right...like that will ever happen) so hopefully I'll be able to get a job after finishing this course, I mean a diploma has to count for something towards getting a job, and I do have a cert IV in project management as well.
I'm seriously considering adding a review section to my website as well, so I can properly recommend visiting some webcomics and playing some games, and avoiding others, though I might not start reviewing webcomics till Newstory is a bit more established, ie. more then 2 or three pages more like 30 or something.
Other then that well I've got nothing so visit my website if you haven't already and have a quick glance around.
For some reason I feel quite sad now...
Sayonara folks!
On other news I've decided to wait till Saturday to update Newstory, sorry if anyone was waiting for it, I made a couple of things saying yeah it'd be up, but never got round to it. My sister's leaving for University soon and my brother is planning on moving out sometime this year, so I may be home alone...with the folks...it'll mean less to distract me I guess, but gee it's going to be boring without them here...
Also works about ready to finish for the season, which means I'll become broke pretty soon if I don't fix my spending habits, and due to the schedule for my course i won't be able to work even if I want to at the farm(right...like that will ever happen) so hopefully I'll be able to get a job after finishing this course, I mean a diploma has to count for something towards getting a job, and I do have a cert IV in project management as well.
I'm seriously considering adding a review section to my website as well, so I can properly recommend visiting some webcomics and playing some games, and avoiding others, though I might not start reviewing webcomics till Newstory is a bit more established, ie. more then 2 or three pages more like 30 or something.
Other then that well I've got nothing so visit my website if you haven't already and have a quick glance around.
For some reason I feel quite sad now...
Sayonara folks!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Newstory
My main comic has now been started and put up, Newstory.
The purpose for this comic, is really to act as an experiment and as a way for me to learn a bit about what works and what doesn't. Also to challenge myself artistically with each page. With each page I'll try to do something different, different camera angle, different posture for a character to be in and hopefully a general refinement of character looks and appearances.
I'm also aiming to create a buffer for this comic, so that I shouldn't have any trouble updating it from now on. Also one friend has offered to colour it in with pencils, so I may have coloured versions going up as well.
I'm still planning on going back to Tales From the Lettuce Patch, with as I believe I have previously mentioned a story me and a friend wrote together, that sorta takes the path of one person the other writes something, and is basically an extended conversation similar to what me and my friend did during secondary college, though we never wrote those down.
The advantage of this and the problem I faced with the original Tales, is that it gives me a ready made script that I have to adapt to comic form, rather then my original practise of trying to come up with something remotely funny on the spot while in the middle of drawing the strip.
I do storyboards for newstory and have a basic summary of what happens in each chapter, though I am currently thinking of expanding it to 6 chapters long (150 pages)to stop it from going to fast for a reader to follow.
I'll get around to finishing the Newstory homepage at some point.
On other news I have a second round interview for my course now, so I still will most likely get into it, as long as I present well during the interview. Though with a Cert IV under my belt I should be able to get in easily. Oh and I am now a Certificate IV IT multimedia specialist, and a certificate IV project manager. I may have to cut my hair for this interview, or at least get it trimmed. I'm rather fond of having my hair long well at least longish, as you can tell if you read Tales From the lettuce patch, most of the time I portray myself with long hair.
Anyways other then that, work is really starting to hurt, you have four people doing spring onions over a period of 3 hours.
If they can mange 40 an hour each that's 160 an hour, over three hours they should have done, 480. Instead they had done 250 after me and my sister had spent 3 to 4 hours cutting zucchini, we were pretty much ready to go home and be done with work for the day. Instead we ended up slaving away for another four hours on the bastard plants, I can deal with Zucchini or Spring Onions, not both at once, thats pushing me too far...however with zucchini an average load gets back on average maybe $300 but costs in employee costs around $250
Each spring onion costs around 90c to $1.10 if a worker can churn out 40 an hour they are more then covering their own employment costs.
Then you bring lettuce into the equation.
Ten bins of lettuce is about $1000, that can take up to two hours to do with eight workers depending on the crop being harvested, some times can take an hour, each employee costs about $12 an hour (this is an average due to large age gaps in some workers) thats $96 to $182 in labor for a $1000 dollar deal, add into that the costs of planting and maintaing said plants, say around $400 and you still have a net profit of $400 to $500 dollars.
With the math in place lettuce are obviously the best vegetable to harvest money wise, and kids as young as fourteen can be taught how to pick them, which saves a huge amount in employee costs.
Well I went off topic there, five years on the job and you think I've learnt nothing? Bah to that, I also end up being the leader when FC or the great boss isn't around, due to having five years of experience and a bit of an idea how to manage other people. I've also had some limited teaching experience.(around 20 days)
Anyways that is more then enough from me...
Sayonara folks check out my site if you want!
The purpose for this comic, is really to act as an experiment and as a way for me to learn a bit about what works and what doesn't. Also to challenge myself artistically with each page. With each page I'll try to do something different, different camera angle, different posture for a character to be in and hopefully a general refinement of character looks and appearances.
I'm also aiming to create a buffer for this comic, so that I shouldn't have any trouble updating it from now on. Also one friend has offered to colour it in with pencils, so I may have coloured versions going up as well.
I'm still planning on going back to Tales From the Lettuce Patch, with as I believe I have previously mentioned a story me and a friend wrote together, that sorta takes the path of one person the other writes something, and is basically an extended conversation similar to what me and my friend did during secondary college, though we never wrote those down.
The advantage of this and the problem I faced with the original Tales, is that it gives me a ready made script that I have to adapt to comic form, rather then my original practise of trying to come up with something remotely funny on the spot while in the middle of drawing the strip.
I do storyboards for newstory and have a basic summary of what happens in each chapter, though I am currently thinking of expanding it to 6 chapters long (150 pages)to stop it from going to fast for a reader to follow.
I'll get around to finishing the Newstory homepage at some point.
On other news I have a second round interview for my course now, so I still will most likely get into it, as long as I present well during the interview. Though with a Cert IV under my belt I should be able to get in easily. Oh and I am now a Certificate IV IT multimedia specialist, and a certificate IV project manager. I may have to cut my hair for this interview, or at least get it trimmed. I'm rather fond of having my hair long well at least longish, as you can tell if you read Tales From the lettuce patch, most of the time I portray myself with long hair.
Anyways other then that, work is really starting to hurt, you have four people doing spring onions over a period of 3 hours.
If they can mange 40 an hour each that's 160 an hour, over three hours they should have done, 480. Instead they had done 250 after me and my sister had spent 3 to 4 hours cutting zucchini, we were pretty much ready to go home and be done with work for the day. Instead we ended up slaving away for another four hours on the bastard plants, I can deal with Zucchini or Spring Onions, not both at once, thats pushing me too far...however with zucchini an average load gets back on average maybe $300 but costs in employee costs around $250
Each spring onion costs around 90c to $1.10 if a worker can churn out 40 an hour they are more then covering their own employment costs.
Then you bring lettuce into the equation.
Ten bins of lettuce is about $1000, that can take up to two hours to do with eight workers depending on the crop being harvested, some times can take an hour, each employee costs about $12 an hour (this is an average due to large age gaps in some workers) thats $96 to $182 in labor for a $1000 dollar deal, add into that the costs of planting and maintaing said plants, say around $400 and you still have a net profit of $400 to $500 dollars.
With the math in place lettuce are obviously the best vegetable to harvest money wise, and kids as young as fourteen can be taught how to pick them, which saves a huge amount in employee costs.
Well I went off topic there, five years on the job and you think I've learnt nothing? Bah to that, I also end up being the leader when FC or the great boss isn't around, due to having five years of experience and a bit of an idea how to manage other people. I've also had some limited teaching experience.(around 20 days)
Anyways that is more then enough from me...
Sayonara folks check out my site if you want!
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Crap
Great I just found out I missed entry into the course I wanted by a month...
So either I find another course I can do, or I go out and get a job...
Well maybe I needed this break from education and stuff...
Means I can concentrate on getting my drivers license, I guess, and getting a better job maybe.
And can focus on getting my comicing skills up
I'm supposed to have a cert IV in IT multimedia and Project Management so I'm hoping that actually means something...
Anyways the only trouble I'm having with Newstory at the moment is actually sitting down and working on it, I've planned out the next ten or so pages and have planned out the main storyline. Its supposed to go for about 100 or so pages, and I'm thinking of putting it into chapters.
The first chapter won't look to great but I'm hoping by the final chapter (4) that it will look reasonable, after which I will be starting the Realm, which has a much more developed storyline and a much larger cast.
Newstory is meant as a way for me to practice and develop my skills.
Anywho I'm going to try and see if I can still get into the course, though enrollments for it closed a month ago, I mean its Tafe not some university, I may get lucky, if that doesn't work guess I'm looking for a part time job, something to do with computers hopefully, IT support or something would be good.
Now to see how my dad reacts to this piece of news...
Oh well life goes on, the bright side is I may be getting my license soon and a new job, down side...um I'm getting a part time job and won't be a student anymore...
And just so you know I've been heavily distracted from doing much by reading other webcomics and playing a couple of games I got recently and World of Warcraft as well...
Anywho that's enough from me folks, sayonara!
So either I find another course I can do, or I go out and get a job...
Well maybe I needed this break from education and stuff...
Means I can concentrate on getting my drivers license, I guess, and getting a better job maybe.
And can focus on getting my comicing skills up
I'm supposed to have a cert IV in IT multimedia and Project Management so I'm hoping that actually means something...
Anyways the only trouble I'm having with Newstory at the moment is actually sitting down and working on it, I've planned out the next ten or so pages and have planned out the main storyline. Its supposed to go for about 100 or so pages, and I'm thinking of putting it into chapters.
The first chapter won't look to great but I'm hoping by the final chapter (4) that it will look reasonable, after which I will be starting the Realm, which has a much more developed storyline and a much larger cast.
Newstory is meant as a way for me to practice and develop my skills.
Anywho I'm going to try and see if I can still get into the course, though enrollments for it closed a month ago, I mean its Tafe not some university, I may get lucky, if that doesn't work guess I'm looking for a part time job, something to do with computers hopefully, IT support or something would be good.
Now to see how my dad reacts to this piece of news...
Oh well life goes on, the bright side is I may be getting my license soon and a new job, down side...um I'm getting a part time job and won't be a student anymore...
And just so you know I've been heavily distracted from doing much by reading other webcomics and playing a couple of games I got recently and World of Warcraft as well...
Anywho that's enough from me folks, sayonara!
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