Bleh

Heya Folks

We've finally got everything back in order, and now I'm standing on a precarious edge at work. To be honest I had a sinking feeling that something like this was happening, just didn't realize it'd be as bad as it was...

And well, if I don't improve, I'll probably be looking for another job at some point...
Bit of an eye opening really...

Sayonara folks

Pages 27-28

Heya folks

Next two pages of Sandhurst Acdemy are up and ready for viewing, so feel free, to go check them out.

http://www.guardianuniverse.com/comics/SHAc/SHAC_027.html

Sayonara folks

Good news everyone!

Heya folks

I've sorted out the technical issues so there will be a double update of Sandhurst Academy this weekend, to make up for missing last week.

Sayonara folks!

BWAG!

Heya Folks

Got some bad news on the comic front, due to some technical difficulties I'm having trouble getting the next page up :(, stupid old computer thingy, in desperate need of upgrade...Anywho, blah, actually a little frustrating as the next page is ready to go up, but gah...

SAD FACE :(

Sayonara Folks

And so we march on

Heya Folks

Page 26 of my comic is up now, so if you're interested you can go check, its apparantly not to bad, or so I've been told, much to my own surprise.

An update on Captain Tylor the Abridged Series, I screened it in front of a couple friends, and recieved something of a lukewarm reception(to say it lightly), so I'm redoing the first episode from scratch, I'm not planning to take nearly as long with it(probably a month so halfway through June), but its gonna be like twenty times betterer or something. Not that I have anything to show just yet, maybe I'll put up some sound tests for the different characters, or a meet the character thing.

So in other words regular weekly updates of my comic has started again, at the moment it will only be 1 a week, but eventually I'll move up to two a week, and hopefully eventually five a week. the pages on the whole aren't that complex and if I get my act into gear I can easily get a fair few done in a short period of time(maybe).

Anywhoisitanyway, I bought a new DS last week, and well haven't really done much with it yet, and I went and visited the old Melbourne Zoo, saw a bunch of animals, looked like a hippy nerd thing...or something and uh complained a lot about only having four hours of sleep. Then paid for everyone's tea at an expensive(maybe average priced) restaurant, which I do want to paid back on guys, $158 ain't anything to sniff at, *sniff, I would be less annoyed if we weren't only a short walk from McDonalds(cheap food FTW), but I digress.

I also bought a bunch of mangas and anime while visiting Borders.

I have to say my manga collection has effectively ballooned out into a massive monstrosity since I got my job, my Anime collection now includes
Complete Series:
Gundam Wing/Endless Waltz
Gundam Seed/Destiny
Big O
Claymore(may have a 2nd season out yet)
Ouran High School(same for this one)
.hack/sign
Sayuiki(haven't actually watched it yet
Disagea
Excel Saga
FMP/Fumoffu
Captain Tylor/OVA(this is what my abridged series will be based on)
Devil May Cry
School Rumble
Samurai Deeper Kyo(watched the first episode and haven't bothered with the rest)
Gundam 0083
Gundam 08th Team

As you can see I'm a bit of a Gundam Fan, when I was tossing up ideas when trying to decide what show to do an abridged Series on, I thought about doing Gundam Seed, or Wing, but people had already beat me to the punch, i settled for FMP, but just as I had finished a third of the first episode, I found someone had again beaten me to the punch, a little sad I switched to Captain Tylor, a series that I really do love, but I had lost my steam for a while, and work started tiring me out a heck of a lot. So nothing happened for a while, then I finally started work on it, and well yeah the result was less then stella, so back to the drawing board. I'm going to tightly script this one unlike my last attempt, where I was sorta coming up with it on the fly, and basically forgot the whole parody part of the concept of abridging.

Anywho that's enough from me...

Sayonara folks!

The Realm

Heya folks

Just thought I'd lay some ground work for what will be my next comic work after Sandhurst Academy comes to a close(when I get myself back into gear of course and Sandhurst Academy will actually have an end to it)

Anywho this work is one I've been working on for several years now, which Sandhurst Academy is meant mainly to be practice before I start this one.
The world of the Realm is located in a sort of mirrored Medieval Europe(so all the countries are back to front on the map) and is centered on the Chandrillan Empire, which was directly inspired by the late Byzantine Empire, which I started doing some reading on after I played Medieval Total War and found them to be my favorite team.
It focuses on the adventures of an atypical Knight and his idealistic squire as they journey across this vast country, encountering foes and allies as they go.

The atypical knight is named Eledor, a white haired somewhat mercenary, gruff, and distant veteran of a number of battles and wars. And his squire is named Aeries, who is a red haired idealistic individual who strives to change Eledor's attitude for the better and to help those in need around them whenever they can.

I'm not really going to reveal to much about them as of yet, as it could spoil the story, and we can't have that :)

Anywho other then that Sandhurst Academy will resume updating on Sunday the 16th of May I have got a number of pages done in advance, and should be able to produce them at a more steady rate, for now I will be sticking to one a week, but that number will go up as I do have some things I want to try in this odd and fairly quirky story I'm doing with it, and I don't plan on spending five years working on the one thing.

Captain Tylor the Abridgination, will be up by the end of this week, and if I don't get it done...I'll....uh...promise to get it done next week or something...yeah...

Other then that I'll possibly be posting up some character pictures I've been working on. And I've been racking up a few as I go along.

Anywhoisit that's enough from me, and stuff

Sayonara folks!

Well Hey and Stuff

Heya folks,

Well life continues on and stuff, jut did Relay for Life, and walked for about two or so hours straight, even managed to run 400 metres, before I fell over and died...





Well as you can see I got better, though my knees are going "OH MY GOD WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO US, NOW YOU WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO SIT CROSS-LEGGED WITHOUT IT HURTING!" and I'm like, "ow".

Anywho, I'm am gonna aim for getting the first episode of Captain Tylor the Abridged Series up by the end of April, what with it being the eighteenth that leaves me a few days to get it done, I just have the last two minutes to do, and it should hopefully be done! YAY done.
Once I get past that small hurdle I'll be on to the next couple of episodes, which are less introducing characters and background plot, and more me with a tonne of ideas to get them done. And maybe just maybe I'll be able to get these out faster then the first episode(ahem 1 year+)
On the Sandhurst Academy front, which also translates to website front, updates will be resuming soon, probably mid may, at the latest, and hopefully I'll be able to shell pages out a bit faster, then what I have been currently(ahem 4 months for 1 page)
Anywho other then that, hmm, my brother moved out, my sister is getting stressed at university, and I'm doing rather well at my job, I assume I am as they don't yell at me.
Other then that, um...uh...hmmm....ah....well this is awkward, oh wait, exchange student is now staying at the house I live in again, and I cleaned up my room, so its not so much a battlefield and mroe of a living area, though my bed is a little uninhabitable at the moment, what with junk piled up on it.
Uhrm, yeah...

Sayonara folks!

Klicking along

Hey People(If anyone still bothers to look here occasionally at any rate)

I'm alive and stuff, my computer decided to have something resembling a heart attack, just as my website may have been hacked at some point, which was intersting, as I wasn't sure if I could recover the entirety of my website for a little bit there. Oh well in the past now.
So long story short I'm now running Windows 7 off my old beast, I recovered most of the software I had initially on the machine, but still need to organise myself to install Microsoft Office back on it, from one of the old copies my Dad has lying around,(he has something like 3 or 4 copies, all apparantly legit with watermarks and fancy coloured discs and what not)
My abridged series thing has actually seen progress finally after a long period of stagnation, the first episode is looking at 6:35 atm, and will probably be extended another 2 or three minutes, but its very close, I just need to sort out why my voice recordings atm are coming across very quiet(could just because I'm trying not to be overheard while sounding like an idiot, I'm easily embarrassed)
Comic wise, I've been drawing pages, just not putting them up, as I'm trying to get back in the swing of things, and get a better handle on my character drawingness, and I think I've seem some improvement, plus I'm also working on including backgrounds into my drawings and stuff as for a while I was avoiding drawing them as much as possible.

Anywhosit Sayonara Folks!

Merry Christmas and Stuff!

Hi people who may or may not read this thing that is known as a blog type thing, hmmm.
I recently updated my website, SHOCK! yes I updated my website finally after five months of waiting and guess what you get! A holiday themed colour picture done by yours truly, and two other picture things. WHOOOT!
Or not.

Anywho Updates a plenty will be occurring on the 1st of January, which just so happens to be my birthday, SHHHHH don't tell anyone ITS A SECRET! or not, anywho by updates, I mean my comic will return to its regular update schedule(a new page every weekend), at the moment I'm saying one page a week, however, if I can get my speed up well, it may be two to three pages per week.
Just gotta get back in the swing of things and all will be good. I've finally taken the effort to throw out a tonne of old books, both writing and school stuff, which I've kept for no apparently good reason, still got a tonne to get through, including a bunch of old toys and other things, but once I get all that done, MY CUPBOARD WILL BE MINE AGAIN!

In other more somber news, my dog has hit the 91 year mark, although I guess that could be seen as happy news, and my cat let a few off...and has a bad habit of missing a litter tray bigger then herself, which is sad for me cause I have to clean up the mess....

Hmmmm, on another note, my anime collection has grown so much that I can now make a massive line on the ground with it, and my manga collection occupies two shelves of my bookcase, cough* plus I bought some cough* deadpool comics(not really a fan of marvel stuff anymore) and some really expensive x-men comics, which all kinda sucked. Either were gory for the sake of gory, or just so over the top as to be ridiculous, in a way that wasn't funny or cool, or way too serious, without any real fun to it. American comics really seem to have gone the way of darker and edgier is better, way, and I'm frankly not a fan of that whole thing. Give me the variety manga and manwha gives and I'm a happy camper.

On another, not Captain Tylor the abridged series episode 1, is still in the works, its about 75% complete, sadly it took me almost a year to get a 9 minute piece of thing to 75% completion. Anyway, I may or maynot have it complete before the 1st as well, we'll see ultimately.

Anywho that's enough of my annoying drivel and prattle, go have fun and stuff!

Sayonara Folks!

BLARG! This is a random blurg.

I wake up in the morning, I go through the normal wake up cycle, then I get in my car and drive to work. I sit in front of my computer(broken laptop screen, and wireless keyboard and mouse, it adds character damnit!) and go through my email. I catch up on any work that came in while I was at home, sleeping or pretending to be awake, and then attempt to catch up on my over jobs. I go through two 1.25 litre bottles of pepsi max a day to keep me awake. If I'm lucky at lunch and the weather isn't wet, or too hot, I have a go at doing a short ten minute session on my current comic page or whatever else is on my mind. That or I just sit and rest, cause for the last forty minutes of my lunch I have been walking non-stop..., then I go back to work finish up the days work and go home. Then I come home sit kind of half awake half asleep and somehow in this state manage to stay up to twelve. Rinse and repeat.
That is pretty much a summary of my working week, the work's not hard it's not all that tiring and its only eight hours a day, but my habit of not being able to go to sleep till 12, thanks to bad habits, ingrained in me from Tafe, I'm trying to fix. I'm starting to get a bit more energy, and I will return soonish to weekly comicing, of course I owe close to ten or more comics, which will take me a while to catchup, but first I just gotta get this one page done, after that hurdle the rest will be easier as I get back into a routine. Same can be said for my adbridged pilot episode I've been half working on and off for the last couple of months. Inching my way along. Once I get the first one out, and see if people think I'm a weird sounding idiot guy, or actually have the occasionaly glimmer of humor, I'll see about putting out the next couple of ones. It's always hardest starting again, especially if you've taken a large break from doing something. My hobbies are the same, especially as I have more money then I am used to(I recently got a 20% raise too!), which I've been spending on manga and anime...
Man I haven't done one of these in ages! Whoo!

As proof I am still doing the drawingness, though to be fair this one is not as awesome as another one I did with Eledor center stage, with black fire around him(Unfortunately it's too big for my scanner... :(
Anywhoisit, I'm off, I guess I'll try updating here a bit more often, maybe with some new drawings and stuff, though I could always put them into my Gallery...meh anyway...

Sayonara folks!

Hi

I now have a video up on my youtube account(EledorEldurn), of what was originally going to be my first abridged series, or rather the first 2 mins and a half of what was going to be my abridged series, which I also tacked on the end a trailer to what I'm currently planning on doing.

I've found so far I can actually manage a number of voices, and if you watch the youtube video, you will hear about six of them, and that wasn't including my normal voice, from my new series I have managed to find another six new voices, some which still need a bit of work before I can maintain them, as I have the problem, especially in long pieces of speech of dropping back into easier to do voices, or my normal voice.I really need to work on my process for editing the footage, of which I use windows movie maker to do it with, I have to import a video, add in sound effects(usually voices) and if I want to add in music I have to export the video, and then import it with the sound effects and add the music in, and if I wanted all of that to add in actual sound effects(like footsteps or a gun shot or something), I'd have to repeat the process again. This has a bad effect on the quality of the video, though it still comes out fairly reasonable, only picking up a few artifacts in the video normally. I think I need to upgrade to a better video editing program, or try and use flash(though I'm not to keen on that idea).

Page 14 of Sandhurst Academy is in the works and will be ready on Sunday, for viewing, as long as nothing bad happens(like some serious problem, arm breakage or stuck in bed illness). The new page will be introducing those who were talking in the last panel.

Works been going fine, though Thursday especially was a big pain, I was the only one out of our three person website team, in on the day, I had to take calls, one from an irate customer, I also took a call from a director, of the company I am subcontracted by, which was a little worrisome. And today, we had something like 30 to forty expression of interests come in, which I had to email out an info pack to, and also record that an expression of interest was put in, on our record keeping site thing. Also my speed for producing websites has slowed down considerably, mainly due to custom content, of which I am unfamiliar with becoming a bigger part of some of the sites I have worked on, its getting kind of frustrating compared to me first couple of weeks, I've only managed one or two websites a week. Can't wait when I get some customers who don't want tonnes of extras tacked onto their website. I prefer leaping into simpler websites, getting them done, as fast as I can, while maintaining a decent level of quality, and getting them out to the client, rather then spending hours on trying to figure out a simple way of implementing, what should be a simple gallery to set-up, may come from my inexperience with things like javascript(the most I do on my website, is alter a premade script which controls the buttons on my comic pages), but I believe once we have a couple of difficult ones we should be able to burn through the next lot more easily. As a group the team I'm a part of, is improving bit by bit. With me being added we have someone, who has a little knowledge(and surprisingly enough some experience) with how to make flash images and animations, though I have lost 80% of the knowledge I gained from my IT Multimedia course, due to a year of staying away from flash.

Another thing on the website front(my website not my job), I may be adding embedded youtube videos to a new section, these will be what I put up on my youtube account, but we'll see about that, also I'm planning on drawing and colouring one character portrait a week, but again, we'll see how that one pans out, the next character to be drawn will probably be Jessica(Kyosuke girl body). I really need to get a good reference picture for what will be the main character of my comic, for the next copuple of years.
Anywhoisit, that about covers it for now.

Sayonara folks!

Sleepless nights, and sleep filled days

Not really but anyway, two weeks in and I seem to be going pretty good at my job. My direct superior seems happy with my work output and the quality of my work. So far I've only been creating websites, and doing domain transfers and other complicated net type junk. Soon I'll be programming blackberry things, as in I follow a list of instructions to set one up, without actual programming involved.
Toughest thing is the last two hours of the day at the moment, I pull my school thing, where I start looking at the clock every five or so minutes, of course I've found the best way to eat up time is to busy myself with work.
I have a phone...that is still in its box, a laptop with a broken screen that took half of the first day to setup as we could only use one quarter of the screen, and somehow its ability to switch to another monitor had been switched off, plus I have a wireless keyboard and mouse. So far I think I've completely finished three websites, though one was more, "yeah, give it here and we'll finish it on our own"(meaning the client finished it themselves) The next required me to go through about eight or so minor changes that took several hours, until they were finally satisfied, and the latest one they took one look at it and went "yep, put er up!" which made me exceptionally pleased with myself.
I have another eight or so websites all waiting for feedback, and or more content, one wanted a six page website, and only gave me a single picture of their front page and a map of where their place is, not a lot to go on, unless they want me to start making things up about them :P.
On the comic and drawing front, I'm slowly moving to the main storyline of the comic, at the moment, its introducing the main character somewhat, and explaining the situation he finds himself in, for pretty much the rest of the comic. I've found I have some problems with proper pacing and the flow is somewhat off especially in the earlier pages, I think I'm starting to get more of a flow happening now, key word is think. This week I have something of a breather in that the next two pages don't require much in the way of my efforts for drawing them. I'm still planning eventually on fixing the Sandhurst Academy portion of the site to make it more user friendly, easier to navigate between pages that sort of thing. Plus a colour job I think suits the comic. I've also bought a bunch expensive colouring pens, and so far have coloured in three drawings, one a full body picture of an angry Dao wielding Eledor, another of a ninja girl named Motoko, and another of Emily, Eledor's daughter, a lot younger then what I normally write her as.
On the games front, I've bought World of Warcraft again...yeah I know, but to be fair, nothing else is all that interesting at the moment that my computer has any chance of running, i can't be bothered buying a PS3 or Xbox 360, and no new decent storyline games have come out recently on the Wii. I finally hit lvl 70 with my Pally though.
And I think that covers my lot in life at the moment, if you got through all that, good for you, help yourself to the non-existent buffet or something :P

Anywho Sayonara folks!

Growing up one step at a time

I am now employed, full time as a web developer, thingy, And my first day is tomorrow...gonna be a huge change of pace, hope I'm up to it.
I've managed to maintain a steady output of comic pages so far, we'll see how working affects my usually fairly slack lifestyle, but I'm hoping it'll focus me somewhat, and encourage me to get into drawing more, rather then just reading other people's work.
It's interesting this idea that starting tomorrow, I'll be a professional worker, working fulltime at a job for the first time in my life, strangely so soon after I turned 21 on the 1st of January. In Australia at any rate, at the age of eighteen you have all the rights of an adult, but its still customary to treat turning 21 as a big deal, in my case it kinda was.
Of course to go with this, just before I start work, my left elbow decides to get infected, get filled with fluid and become all but unusable for the week just before I start work. Its starting to get under control, but the strangest thing about the whole thing is, I don't remember banging it, or doing anything that would cause it to get infected in the way it did...
Another thing I've been struggling to change is my sleeping habits, which since I finished Tafe spiralled ever worse and worse, to the point I didn't feel right going to bed till 3 am, and getting up at 12, on the surface it looks like I was just being lazy, but in reality I was fairly sleep deprived despite this, with occasional alnighters reading manga online. I must say its pretty much to a normal, bed by 11, though I force myself to get up at 6:30 to make sure I can have a shower before I go. So maybe I'll soon be going to be bed at 10:30 from now on.
I still owe my dad a website, but I'm hoping after I get some professional experience, ie make a website at work, that I'll be to able leap into and get it done.
So basically, starting soon, I'm gonna be a relatively independent adult, which is a strange concept, when you've spent most of your life living in a house where most things are provided for you.
Oh and I'm still a massive pepsi max addict, can't really drink tea in this heat...blurg....
And now I've started doing some short roleplaying again, this time using the gurps system, of course my cool character, got hit by a spell which makes him smell like fecal matter for the next month or so...damn you Lewis :P
Anyways, its bloody hot here, I think we've had something like 40 degree Celsius days for the last week, which is so much fun...not..
Well that's it from me, sayonara folks!

A pale moon rises

Heya folks
Okay the first two pages have gone up with nary a hitch, though the image quality for page 2 is admittedly a bit poor, I'll try and get a better version up at some point. Just gotta make sure I don't get lazy when it comes to drawing or my art will drop in quality.
At the moment I'm aiming at one page a week, until I get a decent buffer up, then I'll start putting more up a week. I've done some rearranging of the website, and am in the process of creating a new look for the Sandhurst Academy section of the website, including a bio section and a gallery.
So at the moment, I'm lagging a bit behind in my comic making, but I should be able to keep up with the current rate, until I start getting the hang of budgeting my time, and drawing faster.
As for getting a job, well let's say I have no drive, or am too scared to make the jump into job applying I'm 21 and never seriously went for job interviews in my life, plus I'm shy, which you know "really" helps when it comes to showing myself as a confident and capable individual.
At the moment I'm hoping for a web development job, but I'll settle for retail, just gotta get that old resume written up, and my hair...cut...*sniff*
Blarg!
Anywho go check out my website, and keep coming back each Sunday evening to read Sandhurst Academy!

Sayonara Folks!

Floating along at the speed of glue

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

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!

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!

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!

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!

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