Tuesday, December 12, 2006

FINISHED!!!
Yes, my friends, I am now done until January 8th! Say it with me: DONE!!! Can you tell I'm excited? Of course it's obvious! For a really good reason too...
See, that college comic I was working on a while back? Yeah, I'm sure I posted about it. Well, thing is, I wanna get Chapter one finished, but I've had a real stumbling block... namely the confrontation between Tabi and Maya. I have it scripted, but I haven't got it drawn. I couldn't think of poses until...
I got a mannequin. So now I can be assured that I won't be drawing something physically impossible for a human, and now on to the last problem:
Lack of time. I haven't had a chance to work on that comic, I surf the net at school (love/hate relationship with the faster net, believe me) and some parts of the comic contain ideas that may be offensive to some of the pig-headed jackasses that I have the misfortune to go to college with. I know some of them from high school, believe me when I say many of them are just what I describe them as. So in the interest of keeping myself from getting hassled (because no one ever grows out of that. That little thing they tell you about in almost every class? That thing called 'maturity'? Yeah, it hits the bricks about the time you get into college and returns from an extended vacay about the time of graduation), I don't work on it up there. Besides, how do you explain carrying 30 sheets of printer paper, ten inking pens (six for greytone, four for inking in pencil lines), three erasers, multiple artist-style pencils, a pencil sharpener, a mannequin, and colored pencils in case you want a color page right then and there to anyone? Yeah, only if you're an art major. And I'm not that good. Plus there were research papers to be researched for, homework to be finished, math to dream about burning while working on it in the computer lab so I didn't have more problems than the other students to work so I could actually go to bed before midnight, finals to study for... who has time to draw with all that? Not me. So what I have planned is...
I get all of chapter one done, post pages periodically to the net (once a week if I get maybe twenty or thirty pages of manga... I did 16 in two weeks before, I'll just have to really step it up!, and script over the next semester while you enjoy chapter one! So I think that might work...
Basically chapter one will center around Angel, a gothic girl stuck living at home, and she really wants out. Her key to escape could be in the hands of a flower-child, a too-cool-to-care actress, a hyper bi girl who thinks hitting on her is a fun pastime, and a shy political science major. So, yeah, if that strikes your fancy, think about the five of them sharing a house on campus, with a sporty 'big sister' wannabe (nope, not sorority, I don't do sorority). It makes for a fun story, if I say so myself. Plus, this is pretty much based off of campus life and basic human relationships. (Maya's character is semi-based off of some girl I knew in high school who always shoots me 'why the hell are you here, dumbass?' looks if I see her in the hall... I am really trying not to say 'die, bitch'... too late.) So, yeah, hopefully this turns out.
Ack! Sorry! Didn't mean to ramble about this comic thing! I'm going to shut up and end this post now! Laters, minna-san! Solaris out!
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