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Welcome...to senshuu's art blog! Sen posts here in-between artings

- when there's something nice to post
- when there's something so laughably bad it must be posted
- just 'cause

I only have a few requests of you:

- Make useful comments! Useful comments are anything from encouragement to critique. I admire sincerity!
- Critique when I ask! And critique when I don't! And anytime you feel the impulse to! And try not to be ass about it. I appreciate critique very much and am always open to it! On eeeverything!

Other than that... HAVE FUN~

Special Note: Everything I post here is mine unless I say otherwise. That's it!

My comment-to-post ratio is quite low. Which is odd, considering that I don't post much these days.

To remedy this, some art that is not crap - and that is, in fact, fanart.


The Count.

Texture and lighting practice ahoy!

( Cut for BEWBAGE )

I am sooo freaking excited for animation right now. O_O
Just SO excited.
So excited it doesn't hurt me to make mom spend over $600 on RAM and Maya at once...

I was going to save this to be an incentive, but I decided to show it. This will be a donation wallpaper for Millennium, I suppose. Drawing this reminded me of why I love Ronou - look at his expression. That's all him. <3
Meanwhile, Sab and Mune still tend to change when I draw them - but now, not so much. (Hee, I gave Sarn human ears in my 4 Years pic...but don't tell anyone.)

I drew this because I've been drawing a lot for LF lately, and I didn't want Mil to feel left out. (I was just drawing an epic Group Picture for LF, and I also think I should start doing both my comics completely by tablet now, since paper is just too much trouble, and it's so much easier for me now.) ( Here's an older donation WP concept. )

I launched LOVEFEAST a few days ago. See? I actually launched a second comic. Woo-hoo! I'm feeling really passionate about it, so at least give it a glance. This is my mature action/drama/BL thing. In general it's not very mature, but the mature parts are very mature, so.

I've been constantly fixing up the site since then. For instance, I finished a few small images for the Great Oni List today. See?


The second one is actually an Oni based off an old/dead character of a friend. <3 I finally found a way to use him again! He won't show up for years (IRL/in the comic), though.

College stuff:

My (final) schedule looks like this right now:

Monday - Business Law - 6-8:40. I don't know why we have to buy a $90 law book that I'll never actually read and only really generally covers anything.
Tuesday - Portfolio I, Portfolio II, and Senior Presentation - 1-2:40. This is a lump class taught by the chair of Visual Communications. I'm one of two people taking all three classes. Some are taking just I, and some just II and Presentation. The purpose of Presentation is to get us a working portfolio so we can get hired as soon as we're out. Evidently, it usually works for our school.
Thursday - Speech - 1-3:40. This is nice. I had a Speech class my senior year of high school, BUT it didn't do much. Harder when there's four people in the class.

The good: I go in three days a week and never have to wake up in the early mornings.
The bad: I'm doing doubletime portfolio work. It's not that bad though - of what I've already got, the usable stuff doesn't have to be radically reworked (for example, this). Now, coming up with new content - a package design, a logo, a CD cover - is a different story, but something I've been looking forward to.

Presentation eventually leads up to a show featuring us seniors and our talents somewhere downtown, to attract the talents of whoever the local design bigwigs are, along with a highly-promoted website. And I can't wait.


Other stuff (beware):

My mind's still an emotional rollercoaster! It affects my body, too. It won't really subside after I graduate, due to the fact that JOB JOB JOB LOAN PAYMENTS, so I can only hope for good and exciting things to happen so my mind will eventually calm itself and say all's good!
Sometimes I really question if I could handle a disaster, or if I'd just crack in two - with or without my parents' and friends' immediate love and support. I don't seem to move on from things quickly from the mere fact that I don't know everything, but continue thinking about things. I'm not a give-up type, though, so I guess I could get through anything. It's just, there's a nagging uncertaintly about me right now. e_e Happens when you're purposefully sheltered (and then realize everything in the space of a year?).

I've had it good! And I still will! So don't worry about anything, Sen! And pray for your hands!

OKAY I should really stop staying up like this, even if all my classes are in the afternoon and I have none for three more days (or four, when's MLK Day?).

I did character sketches for new concept LOVEFEAST today, in a new larger-than-my-scanner sketchbook. All my other sketchbooks are only half-filled or 3/4ths filled, but I like this one. I'll go back to them later.
Excuse the bad photos:


First the warm up to remember I can draw


I've developed Eustace more than Hibi, which is a not-good thing right now...


Kusari's old hair didn't cut it. So I cut it.

Then this came out of nowhere:


This deserves scanning and fixing up. I think I'll try Funny Pages' scanner when I meet with them next. Small head Huge body syndrome!!

So, this new thing.
NAME: LOVEFEAST
CONCEPT: Institute for various people to become various gods of death
TAGLINE: "Eat, drink, and be merry...for tomorrow, you die."
I have a lot of promo pictures in mind for it already. Now if only my current love of 11x14 paper didn't make scanning the more difficult.

Warning: blab below.

Business and Advertising classes are eating my soul.
B: On the good hand: business isn't hard to get at all. On the other hand: business is so much to write/read. I guess once you've done it it becomes of much greater ease.
A: I'm bad at advertising for some reason - or, I should say, it doesn't come naturally to me, not that great stuff you see in Communication Arts (or any lesser levels of things). Heck, Mom is better at that than me. But I have less than a week to cream my next project, because I'm actually presenting it to people and it actually might get used. (I'm also presenting a commission of mine in Business next week on the same day. Yay for both class-simulated, then real-world presentations!)

For Design Studio the class is working with Saving Little Hearts nonprofit and is in the process of overhauling print and web. I'm in the web team. I like what we've all come up with so far. So far it's the least stressful class, but I still can't seem to put aside time to get things done timely for it.

Then there's Literature and Philosophy, both taught by the same guy, and apparently with more subject matter than most classes of the sorts in other places, and a lot more to consider. As a writer, I'm infatuated with some things in our Lit book (the only book I own other than the Bible that is actually over 1,300 pages) as they give me things to consider that people don't tell me (effective characters, defining things like POV and how they can be used, so on; things that just help to read over). I'm rereading Scarlet Letter since I don't remember its every detail and thus can't deliver a critical analysis on it yet. I didn't like it at all in highschool, but I also was missing a quarter of my brain back then. Humanities book is interesting too, 'cause it had great insight on the early world and its ways (I heart Sumer), and looks at some things in an artistic approach. Also apparently covers more of the Hebraic side of history, which we haven't gotten to yet.
By the way, has it already been six weeks since classes started?!

Well, anyway, I've got an immense amount of classwork to be doing at any moment, and I've mostly been writing short stories and developing this new concept. ~_~ Did my first Ad suffer? ...Maybe... Could my designs to toss my legal text into have been better? Yes, because I came up with them earlier this year. I've got almost all of the writing urges out of my system, but it keeps coming, like a blissful state. I don't want to deny my urges, but this is my next-to-last semester; next semester will be spent revising or recreating a bunch of things I already did, which might be easier, but this one I need to focus. And, well, next semester too...graduation go-time!! So, like my Senior year of high school, it's not a good idea to be starting and restarting comics, but I will manage... after all, some people do college and jobs... I do college and art...art and more art.

-I found out that tiny sketchbooks aren't conducive to gesture sketching. Especially at the zoo.
-I am still undaunted by the blank page/word document/InDesign file.
-I am still excessively bad at Tetris.

You know, the popular thing to do nowadays among artists seems to be blaming Japanese animation and comics for their own art discrepancies. Kind of like how people, once science was actually utilized, completely threw aside spirituality and religion like it was a huge sack of crap, like OMG I WAS BLIND NOW I SEE just because they didn't think enough to pay attention in the first place (yet another indication of how life should be taken in little steps, not huge steps where you completely miss the in-between), once artists who have spent all their high school time copying Clamp or Sailor Moon or (does anybody do this:) Dragon Ball Z realize that they need to actually develop their own style, with foundations in life and the actual structures of things instead of looking at other pictures (that most manga-ka and artists spent their own time and energy studying life to come up with), they go OMG ANNI MAE IS CRAP, ANNIE MAY HELD ME BACK!!1
(Longest sentence ever.)

When in truth they could have been growing the whole time and drawing their beloved big eyes (that are, in truth, no bigger than most cartoons', while they are a lot more emphasized). Of course, if you spent about five years copying The Simpsons or Futurama, you bet that'd be the only thing you'd be able to draw. And it'd be no one's fault but your own.

But at this point a lot of the people I spent years watching or chatting it up with are like "yeah, I need to grow away from anime..." now that they're reaching the age where they need to hurry and actually be able to do something marketable with their art. Being flexible is key in the first place. Getting my internship, anime almost put me in the hole (and it's sad, how anything even relatively anime-looking, whether it be an underdeveloped person's style or someone who's actually invested time into the overall look, composition, colors of their style, gets pidgeonholed almost into the same thing, where in truth someone who draws anime should be able to draw fairly realistically and diversify). But I grabbed the internship with the former Disney guys because I had other abilities - I could do a lot. I did it by coloring, and I did it by being open and accepting of critique. In turn, they've helped me come a long way in a matter of two months, and while I've hardly had time to show it, it's showing itself bit by bit.

So, nothing limits you but yourself. It comes down to being able to do more than one thing regardless, styles, abilities, as long as you do them well. You should be able to, anyway. I'm schooling for Visual Communications (which I <3) but my passion is in characters and concepts, and having a wide range of skills in design alone just strenghtens my passion further!

Anyway, now that that's out of me, I'm going to post some stuff I made physically a long time ago. :O Some of it a very long time ago.



( Behold! )

I don't get it when people join a lot of art places. That's a lot of different places to mind that your art's been uploaded. Exposure? Wha? Not really.

For art, scroll.

* It's very important to have fresh eyes look at your work. In my case, I think it would be more important (and nice) for someone to give fresh eye to my writing, since I have trouble visualizing things in the first place (I need to take in more of that hilly/mountainy land between home and college) and want to know if I'm actually conveying anything. And it should be easy to draw grassy expanses (IE: a lot of the setting for Millennium's in-between kind of scenes, and between Arc I and II), but nooo...~_~;

* I wrote a short, fun story for future use in Rising Stars of Manga. Why RSOM? Well, I want to enter it someday. At least for fun. I think I can at least get halfway there, but it'd be nice to do this little 20-page short. I did a lot of research the other day (so much my head started hurting...forgot to take breaks again) on Kanji for names as well as onomatopoeia. I was going to first practice with Japanese onomatopoeia in Sora wo Sasuru (good lord that came out blah), but it turned out two weeks (and Photoshop lineart) didn't afford me enough time to do that, too. Also, SWS wasn't very sound-effect-y (although a lot of Japanese sfx are more states of being, which SWS had plenty of... Prince Henryk's several layers of silent angst). It actually took me a bit to find the equivalent of certain sounds that seem more prevalent in American comics.

ANYWAY, the story is called Devil's Deli, and it's about a human and a demon who swap bodies for a day. The human bosses everyone in Hell around, and the demon ends up pwned by deli-work. You'll be interested to know that I drew off of pandaman_dan's own personal deli misery, like all good artistic friends do! :D
The script (and all its interjected sfx notes) came out luckily how I wanted, so I really want to work on it now, lol. However, I'm waiting until after I graduate, as once college starts again I won't have another moment for things like this until then. However~ I can always play around with character and place designs~ which you will be seeing soon.

* Wednesday I went on down to Big Idea, single studio where all things Veggietales happens! I don't know what I expected to see, but it didn't surprise me. It was nice. Cozy, too. And not-boring. And they gots figurine collectors. :O
I met people and saw little clips of in-progress movie scenes and renderings, and all the departments and such. I also explored The Factory afterwards, which the studio is a part of, and some of the Interior classes at my college are there (lawl, lack of space). Ate with one of the producers(/awholelotofotherstuff) and Tom there... Nice.
My internship (which this little excursion was a part of) is over now, and already I miss the daily structure (and regular incentive to draw/develop/help). But! This allows me to get more stuff done, while I'm not tired, too! Before college!

Wha? Art? Oh...uh. ( Here -2- )

* I have an awesome lavender art pen I borrowed from the guys at my internship that I'm drawing everything with now. Makes it somehow a ton easier. But I don't think my Jerry's Artarama has them. D: Has EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD EVER except those, lol. Col-erase, Prismacolor and Stanford and a few other brands I wrote down.

* Everything I draw literally turns fugly a week later. Not a month anymore, not two weeks, a week. But I haven't finished anything since I started getting these better ideas about anatomy and flow... (I have a list of things to work on tacked up where I can't miss it, now.) Nothing's refined yet. I'm going nuts.
Did I mention I finished the Kitsune picture, although I need to go back and darken the outline of the white areas (it's bugging me)?

* I decided that next year I want to go to SDCC. Except I might be going to New York post-graduation, in which case I'd want to go to NYCC, except I think that's earlier in the year.
Going to nice-and-local MTAC will be complicated since its date might fall exactly on Senior Presentation day, but since Dan is coming I should try very hard. At the very least I'd have Sunday?!

* I found the perfect scanning resolution. :O 320. For some reason, it works out so well for most of what I do. Hmm!

* This blog needs new icons.

So I'm totally redesigning the artsite again. This time, less cute, more something people can stare at long term. (Not that cute is bad. Just the way I've gone about it.)

After the next week, when all this internship business is done, I have two weeks to finish some fanart, some of my own art, have some (read: a lot) redone Mil pages teh finished (at least four, gaw), and redesign this site. And Millennium too, I guess. Gotta think.

At least I know pretty much what I want to do with Ai, anyway.

I have a lot of art to scan, but I'm thinking of waiting until I sleep, a week from now.
See, I started using the little sketchbook I bought back in January, and all the books I borrowed from Rob, and I'm going to have some intimate time with those delicious books before I return them the end of next week. With every little exercise my art looks better, and everything I drew last year/in January looks shitty. (I have a binder of loose sketches from 2006 that I'm thinking of throwing into Ye Olde Shoebox now to make room for all these Cornand sketches flying around...) Now I just need to actually finish some art, and we'll be rolling! I have very little representative of what I do/like...as I've mentioned, it's irksome. There're four pictures and one more commission I want to spend my time on before college starts again (for the final year, as the mail keeps reminding me*), and I'm starting now because I'm wide awake for no reason. What I like about these pictures, too, is that they all look different. There're many styles I want to try (one thing that slows me for some reason), but it all looks like it belongs together when put next to each other, and many people end up drawing the exact same thing (characters, characters, characters) over and over. I'm heading down that road too, charas are just easier >_> but that Sands picture I posted last was to kind of break the habit. I have a lot of piture concepts, too...argh need to draw.

A fun thing is, a day after someone online mentioned what should be included in a portfolio you'd show to development companies (which to my uninformed surprise actually includes more raw life sketching than anything), I was given two portfolios to study, one that Rob received from Disney as their guidelines and what they look for (makes it seem that much more obtainable), and one of another Disney animator using the same guidelines, the paper size and even the casing (unless that was something added later). It's admirable. It also occured to me that TV could be used for life drawing (for the lazy - er, in the meantime) while going over these. Revolution!

With this and many other things, I've been inspired but have spent most of my days sleeping because I really can't function well on less than 9 hours. Poor me. Actually, a solution to this is eating and drinking plenty... but anyway, Daryl Stevens (my former illustration and Flash teacher, one year each) offered me to work for him 4 days last week on some web stuff. Easy things I did that he would have had trouble with on his own, with deadlines. The tedious work which I've done myself before - for an art site. Resave each page, change the filename and the titles and the prices, bwee. Downloading images, fwee. With that an an on-the-spot commission I took I was able to buy Phoenix Wright 2, Jump Ultimate Stars (stole my week... I am weak), and still have a lot to save (more money than before, which was almost none). But my point is, he's willing to keep asking me for help like that and work in his home office (really nice) or from my own home (also nice) during the semester, during which I actually have Fridays off for the first time in over a year... yes!
What's better, I'm going to help Funny Pages with its website, which hasn't been updated in 4 years. Dear lord. That's sad too, because they have absolutely superb stuff but not much of it is on the website. Anyway, that's also for pay, and during the semester, which shouldn't be so project-heavy since this year is Whatever I Still Haven't Taken (literature/philosophy/advertizing) and some other things that probably involve mostly in-class work or fixing up my crap portfolio. (Man I wish I had more design things that I liked. I mean, I sort of do, since I really spruced up everything from Publication... but still, bleh.)

Psst...>> Look out for Karito Kids soon. I did the cleanup and flat coloring on some spot illustrations. You...won't be able to tell. %D

Now...off to study RPG menus. *whips out Symphonia and Dragon Quest VIII*

PS: DANCE*MAN FUNKCOVERLIC album, courtesy of pandaman_dan. In the Space = instant favorite.

PSS: I'll love anyone who spreads the word about this sketchblog. Because... I like word-spreading. <3

* I also found out today that I've only made four Bs my entire college career. Yay! Two of them could have been evaded. Yay, subjective teachers in not-so-subjective fields!

I totally just completed a commission in a day (well, maybe 4 hours, longer than it should have taken) to have enough money to buy Jump Ultimate Stars while it's on sale... :O Awesome.
That's the last of my free-to-spend money, though (aside from the lagging Wii Reserve). Next splurge is uhh, next Christmas graduation.
I believe money should be put aside for influential/relevant things like games and nice things like vacations. I want to do something like that when I start making supportive money. (Or any money.)

So, Tom Bancroft (who designed Mulan's Mushu! I had not realized) gave me notes on some of my new Millennium drawings because I spent all my Friday drawing there, 'cause there was nothing else I could do at the time!

( It's like this! )

I love how precise Tom and Rob are. They are because they have to be! They're animators! It's craaayzy! (It's like getting better at changing lanes while driving because you have to...a lot. Yay analogies!)

I'd post more, but I'm saving it for the website.
It's funny how art progresses. I was looking at stuff in Mil's development folder, the ones marked "last modified 2005", and it was like throwing salt into my eyes. My old art was charming in a way...but oh so insubstantial. It's funny. (Oh, but it's making me want to change Arti back into a Drakken Elf...)

Sometimes I think I'm much more into writing than art (I'd rather write 1000 words than a picture? I do it much more often), but I do love art too much. I need to put as much effort in both.
I got off Monday and Tuesday. They will be my Art Days/Comic Days. Friday was also an Art Day since I didn't have anything I could immediately do at intern-work.

Also: I fixed this picture of Kkioh...

...Much better now. Also, have some random crap lawl, and did I ever post this? (Len the talking lynx from Cornand, wheeee)

And: pandaman_dan's browsers have the best errors!


EFF YEAH!

You know, I think I could be a cleanup artist at an animation company, yes, definitely a good one...
...except I wouldn't want to. I found out a year or so ago that I'm all about design. Let someone else do the tedious work!
Not that it isn't enjoyable. I enjoy doing things like that from time to time, because I certainly can't design all the time. >_> (Though I should be able to. I hate having to wake up during short nights to draw something that popped into my head, but maybe I should just start anyway?) I could definitely get by on it.


Something I drew last week while not thinking. Could have been cleaner. This is Kkioh from Cornand (again), drawn during my brief argghhh gotta draw a decent tiger phase. I feel better now. There're some things wrong with it that jump out at me, but they're easily fixed. If I want to fix 'em, that is. Maybe I'll just draw more.
This time I tried drawing his stripes in a way I can replicate panel after panel. It's really not that bad.

Interning with FPP has taught me you can make pretty hot lineart with a good 2B pencil and a nice col-erase blue! That's where I wasn't thinking with the above pic: made his face too sketchy starting off. Could have made it lineart! Oh well, again, again.
I need to buy some supplies.

I have a lot of Mil stuff floating around now... it's actually getting kind of chaotic. Luckily I have two huge paper clips! (A third is being used for Cornand. I have no storage for this kind of stuff...)
I keep forgetting what I'm going to write here. Wait, I know! A day later!

Millennium is the only comic I've written fairly completely that I haven't ditched, and that I have no desire to. Moon Puma was completely scripted, and LDLK got about 90% there, but then I just didn't want to do them anymore. Something about the rigid solidarity, which is not what the point of having those stories and putting effort forth were (they were supposed to feel looser, especially LDLK). This is why I'm only loosely scripting Cornand, but I think Cornand will be a lot more desirable for me to keep working with the way it's set up. It's got a lot of characters but really only focuses on two, where I can diverge from them from time to time and have fun with all these other wacky racers.* I guess I've made the characters a lot more likable to work with, too - MP didn't have enough, and LDLK had too many that felt essentially the same. On the other hand, Millennium (especially now, with character redesigns) is loaded with fun, action and things that amuse me and seemingly others. I looked back over the second half of Arc II today, and it's loaded with comedy (comedy I like, because it was inspired by friends - even if it was 3 years ago, it still flows), amongst "epic" events. I made dynamic changes to that arc recently, and while parts of it are drawn out they're just interesting enough for me to want to go through, and if I can others can, and I just adore it.

I seriously need to get back in the groove of making completed comic pages (or any kind of art), though.

* I decided for some reason that I wanted to have 20 teams of races, 10 of which were the "main" racers and 10 who would end up getting lost (or killed?) in the dangerous Great World Race. A lot of those "extra" 10 I'm starting to grow fond enough to swap them out with the "main" ones, but I had trouble filling 20 slots. So besides asking for idea-boosters from the guys I work with, I decided I would use characters from dead projects of mine, lol. I'd hate for them to stick around while not in their own worlds, so as extras they would have to be offed eventually.
I decided to take...
- Alpha and Koushoku from Improbable Probability, which I'm glad I never started, although I still like them both. (It's the kind of series I'd only do now if I were getting paid, but it still wouldn't come out as well as my devoted work on Millennium unpaid!)
- Azki and his dragon Nasiyas from Lost Dream, Last Kiss. I like them. They'll probably get lost.
- Nectir and Moon Puma/Shiroku. These two can't actually work together! Not in something THIS big! Before it was a simple stroll through a split mountain...

Anyway, that was a simple solution for three slots I don't have random characters for. But I keep thinking of more. The designs for the extras are kind of ridiculous, and that makes working on C:TGWR more fun.

Also, I am taking a bit of inspiration from Wacky Races (in that it's wacky)... but not much, as this is fantasy, letting me go waaay out there lol. Also, a few other racing tales that I've always been curious about. Yay! Research! /blab

Sappy New Year!

...I sure wish I had drawn anything for this event. XD But I got to see Animal Crossing WW's fireworks.
I'd work on that drawing/comic updating NOW, but I have to get my JanNo novel started and compensate for the next few days of frantic commission finishing/comic preparing.

Let all acquaintance be forgot, something something.

Yesterday felt like planets aligning.
I posted this on my main journal. I'll post it here, too.

This year was overall a very good year. I will write why it is so good, and also some things that could have made it bad but still don't even come close.

This year I...

- improved a vast amount at art, or in the very least my understanding of it. (I do cringe from stuff drawn earlier this year, though not so much)
- still have lots of things to reconcile with art-wise (as I see it and in relation to others).
- reconnected with a WHOLE lot of people, old friends, new friends, beautiful people.
- learned a thing or two about who to trust, and who to speak to/when to speak. Self-restraint is a doozy.
- also learned how to choose friends. Certain things can disillusion you with that.
- fell in love with Death Note.
- obtained two of the greatest games I've had the recent honor of owning (Shadow of the Colossus, Phoenix Wright).
- was made to think and feel like a pathetic puppy (and, no less, a thief) when all I wanted was a happy medium and the humanity of truth. Luckily, this forced me to actually think about what came out of my mouth so I don't give anyone the wrong impression (give them an inch...).
- self-published a novel I wrote, edited, typeset, and did the cover for.
- sold my first art commissions.
- learned Flash and a slightly higher level of web design.
- made "A"s in every single one of my classes.
- actually met black people on the internets!
- found out what it's like to literally have your blood boil, and - at one point - could literally hear my heart pounding without aural assistance.
- started way more than I can finish. I'll do it if I can before I die, anyway.
- found out my family is a lot weaker and more volatile than I thought. Then again, this is Menopause/Midlife Crisis central right now. What a great time for adults to have it, though, while their kids are trying to grow. I see why they're sometimes kicked out at 18.
- saw some of the best movies I've seen in recent memory (Fearless, Pirates).
- started going to church again, and hence connected more with my closest RL friends.
- fell in love with Last Fantasy.
- started reading again. LOVE reading.

In no particular order.

I don't know if this year was actually eventful, but it feels like it. The last of my genuinely free time to sit up on the internet and giggle is gone. (If I can at any time, it's procrastination or a "vacation".) Yet! There is freedom in restraint, and we all should know this.

Bring it on, Next Year!

ALSO: Art/design related. Millennium website SUPER MEGA overhaul. I like it now. I'm glad I made it work. Although I broke a few rules and hence have a lot of things still to fix. Also, I think Dreamweaver (which made doing this and fixing code a LOT easier - I'm sick of straight coding, but the Split is my friend <3) went about the most ass way of creating image rollovers.
I'm thinking of making a "Select your Character" template system. But I have no clue how to. Help on that would be great, though I think I'm going to wait for it, haha. Ronou and Sab in a layout like this would amuse me, though!

Now for LDLK...

Random: I totally cracked up a this Dinosaur Comic. I do at a lot of them, but every so often they make a lasting effect.

Here's a quick list of some really really awesome sites that have helped and inspired me lately!

http://www.pantheon.org For all your common and uncommon mythological needs!

http://csszengarden.com If this isn't the best web design site in the world, I don't know what is! Delicious!

http://mayang.com/textures/ Textures galore, all high-res! Best EVER. Thanks lemiru <3

I find myself visiting these on a regular basis lately. I'm building up more reference sites for my repertory, too!

Today it's been a year I've had this blog. Hooray! While I started out posting a lot more than I do now, I still draw just as much.

Let's see where I was then:

( Then )

And Now:


(Somethin' I'm workin' on)


(Somethin' you've already seen - which is still not officially finished)

I think I've come a ways, but I'll be more impressed next November.
Too bad I can never find any similar pics to compare year-to-year.

Millennium also turned 3 on the 3rd. Just think, 3 years I've had that comic. Some people have come farther in that time, but I'm glad to have just lasted.

( Then again, this is pretty far. )

I heart you, Millennium. Even if you're unfinished by the time I'm 35, I'll keep working on you.


Note to self: post last Flash project tomorrow.