I think I might switch to Wordpress soon.
Blogger is nice, but I find it a little too limiting. And I find it friggin hilarious a friend and I have the same background setup. Plus my comic blog is being run by Wordpress and I guess I like the malleability and cleanliness of the layout more. It's more in my control. And there are TONs of templates for the lazy people (like me) to mess with.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Just Playing....
It's been awhile since I just drew something digitally for fun.
I decided to play with pattersn out of laziness. It was fun, and I liked the outcome. Actually, what I don't like is the face. I thought I'd draw something anime-ish, just for ole-time's sake. But I dislike it. :\
Paper Texture [Link]
Cloth Texture [Link]
I decided to play with pattersn out of laziness. It was fun, and I liked the outcome. Actually, what I don't like is the face. I thought I'd draw something anime-ish, just for ole-time's sake. But I dislike it. :\
Paper Texture [Link]
Cloth Texture [Link]
Monday, January 10, 2011
Hello again.
Working on a comic has made me start to read more webcomics as of late.
I found one that really interested me the other day on Deviant Art (Yes, I have an account. No, I'm not very active) that really impressed me enough to share.
Knite: Chapter 1 by `yuumei on deviantART
It's called Knite, a Flash-based webmanga about a boy who flies kites with christmas lights attached to create stars in a polluted sky. I thought the idea of it very romantic. What's interesting though, is the little blurbs after each chapter, where the author, Yuumei, explains how these things in her story relate to situations in China, where the story takes place.
Even the title is a mixture of words in both Chinese and English. It mixes the English words, "knight" and "kite", and the Simplified Chinese word (the form of Chinese used in mainland China) for "wind".
It's really well thought-out and poetically put together, it seems. The characters have an interesting relationship and I really hope this writer finishes this comic and doesn't let it simply fade away, as most web-comics tend to do.
Working on a comic has made me start to read more webcomics as of late.
I found one that really interested me the other day on Deviant Art (Yes, I have an account. No, I'm not very active) that really impressed me enough to share.
Knite: Chapter 1 by `yuumei on deviantART
It's called Knite, a Flash-based webmanga about a boy who flies kites with christmas lights attached to create stars in a polluted sky. I thought the idea of it very romantic. What's interesting though, is the little blurbs after each chapter, where the author, Yuumei, explains how these things in her story relate to situations in China, where the story takes place.
Even the title is a mixture of words in both Chinese and English. It mixes the English words, "knight" and "kite", and the Simplified Chinese word (the form of Chinese used in mainland China) for "wind".
It's really well thought-out and poetically put together, it seems. The characters have an interesting relationship and I really hope this writer finishes this comic and doesn't let it simply fade away, as most web-comics tend to do.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Comic is Starting Up
Haha. Delayed post. I'm clearly not consistent with this thing, but I bet it's partially because I work on other things instead.
My contract is coming to an end, much sooner than it seems (January 11, 2011) because of the holiday season (although, I am not sure how holidays work in my company since our outsourced team doesn't share the same holidays). But I'm going home for Christmas, so I will be taking a well-deserved break then.
I've learned if you work too hard too consistently, burnout becomes a continual state. Which is not healthy. I think I started to lose the reasons I was doing anything related to games or California, but going home for Thanksgiving really helped clear my head and get away from the work stress. Going back on Monday should be better, even if there is already a line of meetings waiting for me. :-P
In the meantime, I am hunting for my next job. Anyone need a game producer with experience working in web and with outsourcing teams?
I started making a comic as a hobby/side project. Right now I'm in the planning phase, writing out the plot, making sure I get the story flow correct and the characters defined. Next step is figuring out how I want to display this, draw, and update. Maybe it seems weird to be planning out so much, but something frequent with web comics that I dislike is people going on haitus or deciding somewhere in the middle of the comic that they don't like where it's going so decide to start over. I'm sure there are many varying reasons to this, some of which can't be avoided, but I'd like my comic to have a completion date and a consistent update of pages at regular intervals. So for now, I am making sure the story is solid enough for me to start drawing pages for web viewing. Having a plan helps me stay committed to this too, instead of letting my changing life get in the way.
As a producer too, planning suits me well, anyways. :-P
Truth be told it feels kinda funny writing this comic. I don't usually let others know I like writing fantasy (oh yeah, this is going to be a fantasy comic. It's an idea that has floated in my brain for awhile now so I figured, why not? Let's do it ^_^) so it feels silly thinking I'm going to be sharing it online in public soon.
Anyways, updates later.
^_^
My contract is coming to an end, much sooner than it seems (January 11, 2011) because of the holiday season (although, I am not sure how holidays work in my company since our outsourced team doesn't share the same holidays). But I'm going home for Christmas, so I will be taking a well-deserved break then.
I've learned if you work too hard too consistently, burnout becomes a continual state. Which is not healthy. I think I started to lose the reasons I was doing anything related to games or California, but going home for Thanksgiving really helped clear my head and get away from the work stress. Going back on Monday should be better, even if there is already a line of meetings waiting for me. :-P
In the meantime, I am hunting for my next job. Anyone need a game producer with experience working in web and with outsourcing teams?
I started making a comic as a hobby/side project. Right now I'm in the planning phase, writing out the plot, making sure I get the story flow correct and the characters defined. Next step is figuring out how I want to display this, draw, and update. Maybe it seems weird to be planning out so much, but something frequent with web comics that I dislike is people going on haitus or deciding somewhere in the middle of the comic that they don't like where it's going so decide to start over. I'm sure there are many varying reasons to this, some of which can't be avoided, but I'd like my comic to have a completion date and a consistent update of pages at regular intervals. So for now, I am making sure the story is solid enough for me to start drawing pages for web viewing. Having a plan helps me stay committed to this too, instead of letting my changing life get in the way.
As a producer too, planning suits me well, anyways. :-P
Truth be told it feels kinda funny writing this comic. I don't usually let others know I like writing fantasy (oh yeah, this is going to be a fantasy comic. It's an idea that has floated in my brain for awhile now so I figured, why not? Let's do it ^_^) so it feels silly thinking I'm going to be sharing it online in public soon.
Anyways, updates later.
^_^
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