Saturday, June 30, 2007

Transformers is AWESOME!

That was easily the best film I've seen in years, sorta of how the first X-Men came across, and maybe the matrix...
But anyways I was a fan of the original cartoon, and have watched just about every single series they have put out recently.
The action scenes were awesome, Optimus Prime marched on stage and dominated the screen, and he has his original voice actor from the orginal series. The music is pumping and powerful when the Autobots are at it, and the deceptacons are all sharp and pointy, watch it and you will understand.
Bumblebee is not a VW, but then if you watch the latest series Bumblebee was replaced by HotRod, so it comes across as awesome still the car he emulates.
And who ever said humans can't defend themselves, from giant robots. Throughout the film you get a glimpse of what America could be capable of doing in a full war, and just how useless a tank could be versus a giant walking machine.
Anyways I just thought I better post this up, since the film was just so god dammed awesome!
Sayonara folks, and if you only go to the cinema once this year, go for transformers!

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

BAH!

Artists block, combined with laziness, and an ddiction to webcomics, makes me not very good at holding to a schedule...
Anyways My website will be properly ssetup on Friday, the new setup will look aawesome! And professional to...though I wish my drawing skills were a little better.
Anyways holidays are coming up for me, and I'll try and get a lot of practise over that period so that when I come back from Torquee or however you spell it I'll be able to impress with better art skills. Though drawing skills are not improved overnight...wish they were, would make my life so much easier...
ANYWAYS I'll try to get a strip done today, and see what I can find for inspiration for my next one on friday.
On a more serious note, I'm brilliant...brain power wise, if given a bit of instruction and an assignment to do I rpoduce quite high quality work, however over the years I have developed a very lazy attitude, I'm still freakishly intelligent but I'm too lazy to use it...I could've got up in the ninties for an enter score if I had tried but I just coasted and got a smooth 74, and when I did teaching I could've got A's and really astonished my teachers if I had've put more effort into everything, admittedly I wasn't in the best condition for doing hard work, after my brother got diagnosed with a brain tumor, and was operated on, and for periods of time after he got better I just sat when I should've been going to lectures, mindlessly surfing the internet for obscure facts I didn't need to know. I know I'm smart but if I don't use it can I really say that I am?
Anyways enough from me Sayonara folks and have a great week!

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Huzzah Have at thee!

Hi folks, 12 comic strips and I am showing a slight improvement in my drawing capabilities, though my backgrounds still need a lot of work, doesn't help that I get lazy with them...
Anyways I've been handed my new site in all its glory, now I just have to familarise myself with all the coding...About ten or more pages worth in fact, and then I've gotta learn how to actually use it and then upload it so that it works properly without confusalising me or anything.
Update schedule is as follows, Tue-Wed-Fri for now, I might up the anti at some point but I try to give what spare time I have on thursdays to working on Newstory character art, and trying out different attempts at drawing backgrounds, with characters in them, maily using Eledor as I'm the most familiar to drawing him, afterall I've drawn him for nigh on six years now...
My friend's having his sixth massive LAN party soon, and that looks like it will be fun...as long as my brother doesn't get angry, nothing good ever comes of that...
Anyways other then that I may try and write a story, nothing to do with the Guardian Universe I think but something different, I feel like doing that...
Anyways we have now thrown out our script for our filming, as we realised we need all ten people on the ball to do it, and unfortunately we in reality only have six regulars, so now its Unreal Tornament the film! And yes I'm one of the four guys acting in it, though I would like to help with placing the camera and all that jazz.
After all that I'm bushed anyways Sayonara and check the Guardian Universe, for the next TFtLP update!

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

WHOO!

Right anyways, TFtLP comic will be up some time tonight, and I think this one is currently my best looking comic strip OF ALL TIME, well for now anyway.
We did some filming today, spent 2 hours to get 2 and 1/2 minutes of actual footage. Others annoyed the teacher, while I got a chance to act!
Of cource next week I'll look at it and go, "WHO's that idiot in the green jacket?" then everyone will point at me... :(
Anyways I'm Christian but not a serious Christian, I don't go to church, haven't in ages, I find it too boring.
If anyone read any of my earlier stories I frequently had angels as main characters in my fantasy stories, even Eledor at one point was an angel, when he was a lot more kid like and far less mature.
And the Saudes Saga has angels in it to, though they only appear in it irregularily, and you'll have to look for them, if I ever write that one up.
Anyways I figured I might write a little about what Tale from the Lettuce Patch is supposed to be, a semi autobiographical look at my current life, and those around me. And if any friends ask I may put them in at certain points, you're all funny in your own ways!
Anyways other then that enjoy my latest strip, now to get two more done this week!
Sayonara

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Whining time!

You know what's been really cheesing me off this past week.
My course, its not the teachers, its not the actual subject matters of the course...its the other students. I can respect that some have work and other unaviodables...BUT...there are limits.
On wednesday, in the morning we had around ten or eight students in the class, I keep losing count. By the afternoon we were down to two, me and another guy. It wasn't the teacher she was just trying to treat us students like responsible adults. I mean when half the class is over 20 you'd expect them to be responsible. BUT...again this class has serious problems when it comes to maturity. Also more then half are FPS gamers. This may not seem important, but I consider myself an RPG and RTS gamer, more cerebral generally, requiring a lot more thought, then twitch actions, and generally having far less graphic violence involved in them. One guy blatantly posts up wallpapers of his favourite death metal band, with such memorable quotes as "leading the war against Christianity" I consider myself a Christian even if I'm not the most devout of followers, and I can respect other peoples decisions to believe in different things, but that kind of message really irritates me, and makes athiest look like violent religion hating fanatics, who can't respect other people's rights to believe in what they choose.
Buh almost dug myself a hole there anyway, that's just one guy who annoys me...I just don't like his wallpaper or his choice in music. Anyways enough on that and I wrote a pretty good ending for the film we are doing...but they decided to condence it, throw away 90% of what I wrote and not even look at how difficult some of these things would be to film...
We have a car chase in our film, we have never used a blue screen before, I don't know, we may be just digging a hole to make a crap film run virtually by one guy who isn't me, who will be doing 75% of all the acting, wrote the script. I'll do my best to make sure we do well, but now I have at least six lines in this film, when I only intended myself to have one line...(might try and fight that on tuesday)
Anyways that's enough about my course...
Onto my Website.
My good friend Brendan has been busy down in panda ville, (the foods good this time of year) making a very cool and professional looking website for me for free!
It will be up soemtime next weekend for your viewing pleasure, but I can tell you it looks fifty times better then my current setup(Not that that's not hard)
Anyways I will endeavour to do three strips this week, there's tonnes of stuff I could do, and may get a couple of good ideas at the farm tomorrow, by gods i have to work with the new guy tomorrow...I don't like him much, a standard hoon if ver there was one...
Okays if you got through all of that, you're crazier then I thought,
Sayonara folks! Till next I post!

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Hiya

Alright I've hit five comics, my next one is about 1/3 finished, I'll have to set up a proper archive for Tale of the Lettuce Patch soon, scrolling down can be a bit cumbersome...
Anyways, big changes will be happening to my website on the weekend and here's the new address...I fixed up that problem I was having finally.
www.guardianuniverse.com
Anyways take a gander, I'll be doing my best to setup the new story section on the weekend so people can have a look at what I've been spending a bit of my time planning.
And I've nearly hit fifty visits, to my website, though I guess I can take off about 12 as my own visits to it, just to make sure it works.
Anyways I do listen to suggestions even if I'm a bit slack with the replying part, and I really do appreciate them. Can't wait to have Jake's little adventure put up on my website, it was written in my year ten writing for publication class(though I only got a poem posted in the school magazine thingy) and it got me an A, so even if it has aged a little since then I'm still very proud of it. Very proud of it!
Anyways I've updated the sit a little already so go and have a peak!
Sayonara!

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Hello Peoples

Hey guys, Fourth strip is done, well actually I had it done on Thursday but I was too distracted too put it up, and do all the text adding stuff, which really only takes a couple of minies.
Anyways, almost reached 5 done, then once that's done, I can look at getting ten done, then twenty, then fifty, then one hundred and whoboy don't get ahead of yourself.
Alrighty,I've decided to start writing the first chapter of Saudes Saga so far I have a page and a bit written, I could say I have actually written it before but never a proper long version, I'm working on it generally each night before I go to bed.
And just so you know here's all my different story world's at the moment...
Saudes Saga- Science Fiction and fantasy elements type story, very anime styled
The Realm- Realistic setting with some supernatural elements added, Medieval world based
Chronicle of Ovaleen- Created for a DND campiagn, very straight forward High Fantasy type setting, big armies a few heroes to save the world that kind of thing
Newstory- Superhero based and will be the subject of my first attempt at a manga stylised book thing.
Anyways, then I also have that project I'm working on with a couple of friends, and TFtLP.
I probably will be creating a section on my website soon where I'll be able to post up some of my writing, after I get it proof read by my friends(if they want to read it of course...) And I may put up some of my old past stories which my friend Brendan recently found and gave back to me!
Good old Jake's little adventure, it'll give you a strange alternative look at a lot of my characters from the Guardian Universe, and yes Eledor is in it too, and he is unfortunatel ccol... :)
Anyways other then that another long week ahead of me...
Sayonara folks and have fun!

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

And I have a newer website...!

Mortigi Tempo has generously allowed me to make a website on his server. So now my website has a new home at http://www.guardianuniverse.com/index.html.
Anyways the third TFtLP is up, I gotta start picking up the quality again, comparing the first one to the other two I can only go...gah!
Anyways, have a visit, if you want...I won't force ya...ah who am I kidding, go or I'll throw a spoon, at something resembling a pillow or something! That's right fear for the pillow's safety...FEAR!
Others then that I may start setting up the Newstory side of the comic thingy, soon...I mean I've got the basic outline of what I want to happen for 100 pages, and the primary characters all sorted out, just need to work on actual character designs, get my drawing skills up enough to make a passable manga, then I've got it ready to go, oh and possible write up a written version first. Be my first real attempt at writing porperly in a while, and in chronological order as well...
Anyways that's enough from me folks, sayonara! :)

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Gah tired!


My entire weekend just flew by, I drove for seven hours in two days, and god I'm buggered.
My websites decided to go stuff it self up, I can't access the file manager where I store all my files and I'm almost ready to give up on it. The damn server automatically puts a delayer into the code, which is what the loading screen is a direct result of...
Gah!
I tried up dating it on Friday but the damn thing refused to work, Hopefully it fixes itself up soon, cause I can't do anything to fix things at the moment...
Haven't had the time to really get the next three Tales from the lettuce patch strips ready though they are already pretty much planned out, just have to draw the good copies.
I've started finelining my pictures now, and several of them have come out great, well except this one, I used blue fineliner, so I don't think it turned out all that great once I started adding colour to it.
Anyways that's the main character from my up coming comic Newstory, that I'm working my skill up to draw properly, still gots some way to go methinks...
Anyways I think I'll post the next couple of Tales from the lettuce patch on my blog, until I can get my site working again... :(
Well sayonara folks till maybe monday night!

Monday, May 14, 2007

Hi Guys

You may have noticed that the server my site is currently on is a little slow, but its free. 100mb with an attached email account of 100mb.
Also several sections of the site aren't complete, and in the comics section there is a Newstory thingy, that's going to be my main comic for the site other then Tales from the lettuce patch, got some great ideas for a couple more strips from work today as well.
Anyways Newstory is going to be a Superhero styled attempt at a manga constructed thingy. That I've decided on a maximun of 100 pages for the primary story arch of it. Split into 4 chapters of 25 pages at most.
Other information will be revealed when I actually start the thingy.
Anyways I think I really need to work on my backgrounds for my pictures, and how to fit the characters into them a bit betterm but then Tales is a quick strip to draw, and the most cleaning up I do is replacing the written talking bits with computer text.
Other then that hope you guys can keep managing to have a look now and then at my website, I've got things planned for it, including adding writing for people to read, and other random junk.
Anyways I'll may blog tomorrow or sometime during the wekk so until then Sayonara folks, keep safe, drive safe and uh...eat safe?

Saturday, May 12, 2007

And I have a website!

Go check it out at:

Here

FRUSTRATED!

I never ealised how bloody hard it was to get a simple site working on the internet!

Anyway I've done my first comic, and have set up my site, only its offline...and not quite finished, but bloody hell its a mess!
Maybe I should try doing it their way...

Anyways here's my comic for those who want to see it, just a three Comic strip thing
If you can't tell I'm meant to be the long haired lad with the hat...poor guy
It's not to good but Rome wasn't built in a day I guess... :(
Anyways I'm off to bed.
Sayonara folks, maybe tomorrow I'll have http://eledor.infinites.net up and running, hopefully...

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Webcomics as far as the eye can see!

And now for something I found extremely hilarious
http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/killroyandtina.php?name=killroyandtina&view=single&ID=4095
Visit that link and prepare to laugh at the flying giraffe!

Anyways, gave up on trying to fix p the other comic, it was too far gone to truly save, unfortunately would've made a nice introduction to the Saudes Saga. but I digress.

Officially I'm the script writer for the video we are making in CERT IV, but to hit a nail in the coffin of this project, people keep dropping out of the course, and I'm quite sick of it!
We had 16 people at first, yesterday we had 5 people in the actual class.

Anyways its extremely late and I shoulda posted this ages ago

Sayonara and thanks for all the fish!

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Greetings from the deep black space under my desk

Anyways, I've been playing WOW for the past two days, made a character and got them up to lvl 11, now that took me something close to 12 hours of playing, usually I can get a character up to 10 in two hours, but this time I was invited into my brother's guild, and I spent more time chatting with the guildies then playing, shocking that, I even died a few times because I was so busy chatting.
I made people laugh, not through doing stupid stuff by saying witty things to, well writing funny things, I always have said I'm a different person when writing then when I'm speaking. For one I can't mumble.
I bet tonnes of people have noticed how I mumble...
Anyways I also managed to fit some drawing practise in as well, gotta keep at it if I want to get better, and I've done two pages of what amounts to a shoddy comic, but again that's also practise, I might post them after I spend some time cleaning them up a lot, they might burn out your retina if I don't with just how horrible they are....
But I figured the art mightn't be great but good art can't carry a crap story, so if I get the writing right I can let the quality slip at first, once I get much more comfortable drawing the quality will improve...
And i have work tomorrow, its a blessing and a curse that my boss has injured his ankles, as now I have to work instead of him. At least the latest loads have been relatively small...though 3 hours for 50 kilos of turnips was extreme...
Anyways, if I fix up the comic pages I've done by tomorrow I'll put them up for you guys to have a gander, if I'm talking to anyone that is... :(
Sayonara folks and have a good week!

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Heya folks!


I'm back again, anyways I redid one of the pictures I put up last time, it's only a slight fix up butI think it improves the look of the picture...
Anyways also today in DV documentary we had to come up with a storyline for our video we had to do...
Of course everyone started throwing ideas around, but not helpful ideas, these were ideas that would completely change what we had originally planned on and quite frankly were a little crappy, anyways our deadline was coming up to have something written down and I got sick of all the procrastinating everyone was doing, and took charge, I forced them to agree on something despite their strange way of looking at things, wrote an outline for the storyline which is very generic and crappy I will admit but we can iron out the kinks later, anyway and wrote a summary everyone could take home with them, I also got help from another guy who went over what I had written and helped make it sound better, and less crappy. Still crap, but with a budget of next to nothing (as in whatever we ourselves can donate to the project) we had to go with something that would be simple to execute, though we did manage to have a rather complicated car chase scene planned out by the end of the day, where every henchman happens to be played by the same guy, who just so happens to have been the only guy to really help sought out what the group was doing. I love Tafe I get to do things I normally wouldn't...

Anyways Tell me what ya think of the relatively more symmetrical picture above, its not fine art hell I wouldn't class it as good art, just okay for me...anyways don't qoute me on this but I plan to have a site and at least a couple pages of comic up by June 28th
Sayonara folks and dolphins

Ps. here's another picture I drew but forgot to post

Friday, April 20, 2007

Hey its been a little while but I'm backish


I got lazy over the holidays so I decided not to do anymore posts during that time...anyways back at Tafe again...on the comic front I've deciuded to do my trial comic based in Chronicles of Ovaleen, set 24 years before the events of the campaign.
Main characters are Kira Davis and Vladimir Von Von.

I based Vladimir's look off one of the heads you can use in KOTOR, the character I made with that head by chance happened to also be called Vladimir Von Von.
And I guess I'll chuck on another picture of Kira as well.

Anyways tell me what ya'll think of my two new characters I invented for this trial comic
Who knows maybe I'll continue the comic to the druid saga
Anyways sayanara folks, and please tell me what ya think!

ps. I'll see if I can get my site up on the weekend.

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Kinda tired

Relay for life from 22:00 to 06:00 I think I was up for something like 24 hours straight...

Anyways I just got up about an hour ago, I've been practising my drawing quite frequently over the past week and now I'm on holidays!
Two weeks of playing computer and video games, and working, and drawing and writing.
I also have a web address now, though somehow I managed to spell my name for it wrong...anyways, http://eledor.infinties.net, which is where I'll start putting up my comic once I finish sorting out how to use html again.
Unlike other webcomics I intend to have a history page as well as a cast page, as my story is part of a larger world. I might even try the whole donation wallpapers and stuff like that eventually if I start getting regular visitors.
Anyways enough of what maybe, I think I might try to detox myself this holidays, the amount of pepsi I've been drinking over the past couple of weeks can't have been good for me, and it'll be good to cut back a lot, might save my money as well...
Anyways, my friend Tenderfoot is getting married soon, and I get to go to the wedding! YAY! Hope those two have a wonderful life together.

Anyways sayonara

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

I'm not broke anymore!

Well if $175 makes me not broke I ain't anyway. That's more money then what I've seen in nearly three months!
Man I feel like crap, limping around, barely able to use my right hand properly, stupid blisters from onion tieing...
Anyways I had fun today, I even bought a little toy ninja sword thingy. I'm so proud.
At Tafe today, this is for DV documentary, my class that focuses on camera work and lighting and such and such, we got to do some filming.
I've gotta say choreographing a fight scene is hard work, and I looked like an idiot today!
Anyways, I've come to the conclusion that I need to be able to matain a serious face while in front of a camera, especially if I'm meant to be a henchman of some description.
Anyways, we had the only girl in our group act as the heroine, who proceeded to walk through and kill all of us henchmen, there was about six to eight of us...I am proud to say I was the first to die!
We were protecting our leader a melodramtic guy who had a big sword and liked running away while sacrificing his henchmen to the heroine. Though trust me the girl in our group can be classed as a little butch.
Anyways, I respawned once and fought the first part of the final battle against the heroine again, with three others, though I was probably the only one on time.We died vainly protecting our leader, before he engaged her in a fierce slightly choregraphed duel, before she mortally wounded him against a large tree. He then with the last of his strength pulled out a gun and shot her in the heart killing her instantly...in the end we all died...YAY!
Anyways, it was fun, other then the fact that i was still hurting from yesterday and probably pulled some leg muscles.

Tomorrow working in the rain, oh happy day...that is if it rains though...

Anyways that's enough from me, if anyone reads this anymore...*sniff*

Sayonara peeps

Monday, March 26, 2007

So...tired

I just had work today, all 8 hours and 45 minutes of it...

175 cabbages, I cut on my own, and helped pack the last thirty.
830 onions of which I personally tied 50 bunches of ten, with string, tore some skin off my little finger in the process, and something like 2000+ lettuce, of which I cut a good percentage of them.
Most of it was done with just Gavin my boss and the new guy, who somehow managed to not have organised a shower for himself, breakfast or lunch, managed to put rotten lettuce in a processing bin, can't pack for the life of him, and had no money to buy himself lunch...
But I digress work stresses aside I've got now about 14 hours of work money owed to me, maybe 12 now that I think about it... $120 I hope...
Any who haven't had anytime to even think about practsing drawing or writing yet, but I'll porbably try to get some writing in before I go to bed...
And on a sadder note, my good work buddy friend Keith was at a funeral today for one of his better friends...
Anyhows I'm tired need to have a shower and need SO MUCH SLEEP...but can't have it yet, but I'll have money soon YAY!
I hate being broke...
So guys IS ANYONE STILL ALIVE OUT THERE!?
Ahem...till next I blog,
Sayonara

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Finally somethings going right!

Work started up for me last week, after two months of little to no work I'm back earning money!
Finally I can start paying debts off again, like that $220 I owe my brother...anyways I've started playing WOW again, but then I haven't played it in ages, its nice to come back to things occasionally. I read an awesome Manga, named Ruronni Kenshin, about the Meiji Period of Japan and a swordsman who was partially responsible for the overthrow of the Shogun.
I also got a weeks reprieve on that assignment I had to hand in! Phew...and here I was panicking...
My new favourite song is Overkill, played in scrubs.
And yes one of my new favourite shows is Scrubs, Dr Cox is awesome!
Anways might try and do some experimentation with backgrounds, and also do some work on my hands and feet. Maybe have them hold a sword or something...
Also with my webcomic I'll start it by having a few practise runs, with random stories and differing levels of humour and seriousness, helps me practise my story writing skills and willl teach me what its like to keep to a deadline for once...
Anyways that's enough from me, come on guys comment aways, I haven't heard nearly enough from you guys...
Sayonara folks