So, a few sketches for Devil's Deli, my short comic story that I mentioned last post.
But first, this.


For Inverloch's second contest. Not sure why I'm entering, but making an original Da'kor is simple enough, you know? Still gonna clean this up.

( And now... -8- )

I bought this little battery-powered speed-eraser that helps me deeply erase small areas. Its erasers chips away pretty fast (since it's so...fast) but it helps me clean up my stuff so much. O_O

I edited this picture and submitted it as a small print, lawl. Stuff about it keeps bugging me (like the completely cracked-out "anatomy") but I need to leave it eventually.

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.