SatsugaiKaze

So uh still studying for an exam I need to repeat lololo

Does anyone have any idea where I can find decent dry brush effect... brushes? For Photoshooping? I have a bajillion concepts in my head, every day I practice I get better, but the things I want to put out are still kinda... off.

I'll upload something while I'm here. I don't intend to entirely abandon this place.

~Bluh v9.001

I shouldn't have come here now my impulse to draw is hngh

I have semester exams

Wacom Intuos2, 9x12! It's everything I was looking for for the past... 6 years.

squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee





















That is all.

Jack v2.0

DURF



(no I haven't been hacked)

That said, if any artwork comes up in the next month or two that's actually decent to look at, assume the worst.


Over and out!

~Jack v2.0

I feel guilty about a lot of things these days: work, study, friends, hobbies.

I guess this extends to all this art I've been doing and not uploading onto deviantART, because to be honest I've grown out of exhibiting my own artwork without being entirely satisfied with it.
That said, things need to change, and with the amount of people who still check out my freakin' fanart of Problem Sleuth and all the freakin' kind and awesome things they say about it, I realise there are some things I've been neglecting, some real personal internet hobbies that I haven't indulged in.

So I guess the main thing that has happened between my last entry/deviation was editing the script for a manga project that one of my friends wanted to co-op with me on. It has the sort of plot that would require either a giant flowchart scribbled on an entire brick wall, or would require Hideo Kojima's brain. Heck, I don't really know half of what the plot points were off the top of my head anymore, except for the fact that it all worked out and clicked perfectly together when we thought of them. It is just that massive.

So a lot of artwork I've been doing recently is going through the process of scripting, drawing, and editing a comic. There's a lot of progress made between those early few sketches and reference arts, bold moves made through amateurish frames, to now, where everything is gone through a cycle of script to storyboard to frame layout to actual drawing. In the past year, I've taught myself one of the more proper ways to go through comic book design. It isn't just drawing crap helter-skelter into some jumbled form of letterbox squares  and speech bubbles.
For me, it's about getting every line of dialogue and making every frame and box crystal clear, coherent and well-planned. It's not even drawn yet at that stage; personally a poorly written story and layout will never be redeemed no matter how beautiful the artist draws. So me and my mate backpedalled, took ourselves and our egos down a notch, and did the hard yards.

So in the end, we have nearly an entire volume of our own original manga now, or as I like to think of it, a volume of carefully-written manhua, edited by yours truly.

Only it hasn't been drawn yet and the story has gone through only its first editing sequence. There'll be miles to go before we even structure our pages, and years before it all comes together as a finished product.

I only hope there'll be enough motivation to get us across the line.

So I guess what I'm saying is that I should just get some comic book practice under my belt. Problem Sleuth fancomic? Sure, why not.



Keep the La-li-lu-le-lo alive,
~Jack v2.0