Strip 2 up

This is one I just thought of today and put up…you could say katie was a part of inspiration for this one.

I’m alittle happier with how this one looks. And by happier, I mean, less embarrassed.

FIRST COMIC, OH SHI-

yeah…so here it is already :3

It’s not really got a style or anything, i just threw it together and put it up. I’ll sort style out later.

Hooray!

looks like i’m getting back into it. Got 4 more ideas drawn up last night. Drawing is sloooowly improving, but still uncertain as to a style to stick to. I reeeeeally don’t want to touch the ‘weeaboo’ anime style at all. It’s cliche’d, and even thinking about doing that makes me die inside, non literally of course.

Exams fast approaching now, 29th, 4th and 6th. I hereby promise, that i will upload something by the eighth. I’ve been doing too much dancing around worrying about how i’m going to do this, rather than justuploading something fun and getting on with it. Breaking that initial barrier of embarrasment i guess is the main thing i worry about, but im not going to get around that.

so, if i dont put something up on/before the 8th, harry and phill will drag me away with ski masks, and leave my mangled corpse in a hole somewhere, from which i’ll return after a thousand years to creep the fuck out of local residents and cast a shadow of evil over the world. except, i wont. nor will i be killed. but the (slight) determination is back!

Not dead before it’s begun. Just busy.

yeah, I know I said I’d get stuff up soon, and I still intend to. I did say the first week or so back at uni might be a bit empty. I was so busy with the webaud coursework, and now python, that other that the few hours I get to spend with friends I’m packed. And that god-forsaken fire alarm, at 3:30. Twice this week. Seriously guys, what the hell. I’m pretty sure whoevers doing that, half of magaret rule hall wants you dead now. Although according to what becca said last year, I think we’ve been pretty good for fire alarms. Oh, I have managed to squeeze in a little practice at drawing, and I know its a little better than before but, I’ve kinda lost that confidence I had before. Comic drawing has ground to a total halt, I’m out of ideas already. This is the reason I didn’t start posting them right from the word go… I’m pretty certain that this is by no means a permanent thing, and once i start getting some free time and decent sleep, it will return to me, but I still feel ashamed to call my crappy-5-year-old-like-paper-spasms any kind of ‘drawing’. I originally wasn’t even bothered with drawing, I just wanted stick people. Now that looks really empty on the screen. On the other hand, I will never ever EVER upload anything more than simple stick images.

Delay

weeell, the tablet arrived this morning, and its rather awesome. Unfortunately, its all a bit harder than I’d anticipated. I could trace what I already have, but that would mean removing pages. It might come to that. CURSE MY LACK OF DRAWING SKILLS, CURSE THEM! Anyway, here’s a shot of the thing:

The drawing area is slightly overA4, so including border it’s rather large.

I promise I’ll get something up soon!

anyway, away I go. For sleeps.

Just to say

Happy new year to all! A bit late I know, but better late than never. Also, the graphics tablet has been ordered and should arrive in a few days. I won’t be able to start right off, too much uni work to do, but within a week I should push one or two strips onto here. I guess thats when this really*DRAMATIC PAUSE*… begins.

I’ve also been given a suggestion to make this a mini-comunity thing, involve my friends, have us alternate between making the content. Thats all well and good, but I’d like to keep to my own theme, and maybe have them post their own stuff under a seperate section. anyway, that’s something to think about another time

All the best for 2008!

Settling In

Some of you know this already, but coming back home from university after spending roughly 2-3 months living independantly is a mind numbing experience. Not in the EXTREME way, but in the “what?…wait, where am I? whats going on?” way. I’m happy to have some time with the house to myself for a day or so now, as parents have gone their seperate ways until Thursday. But seriously, when I came back on Saturday, everything was driving me nuts. People wanting to talk, cramped space, dogs and cats wanting in and out and feeding…I snapped a few times. It takes some real getting used to being around people again. On top of that, coming back has made me appreciate the luxuries of my uni room. There, I have a bigger bed, a shower, HOT RUNNING WATER, and is an introverts dreamland in terms of rarely needing to leave the room (not including lectures). We really need a new boiler here. I know theres people out there in a situation FAR worse than this house, and I’m not calling for sympathy by any means, but you’d think a parent made incapable of most kinds of work, and with proof, would be capable of getting help with having a boiler replaced (y’know, maybe one that actually heats water, and doesn’t leak CO). There we go, thats my complaints on returning over.

As for the goings on with the comic, well it looks like I’ll be getting a nice big (but suprisingly cheap) graphics tablet for christmas. it’s wireless, which is kinda good and kinda bad. Batteries being the bad. It’s made byTrust, so I wouldn’t have touched it with a 20ft barge pole if it wasn’t for the 3×5Star review that had been left for it (and before someone pipes up, I’m well aware of companies ‘bumping’ their less succesfull products. I trust MicroDirect enough for now to think they haven’t sunk that low). Actual comic production however, has ground to a halt. Inspiration is actually rife in Portsmouth, what with the working on computers every day, mental stimulation, and talking to likeminded people. Here, sitting around, I’m not picking much up. I still have those 4 from before to draw, but thats really it.I’m blank for ideas and unless I spend a nice long time focusing on it I can’t see more popping out of the woodwork for now. Rest assured, I’m by no means giving up, it’s just that there is another factor of the environment change that I hadn’t thought of.

DAMMIT. Somehow I lost an entire paragraph in posting. I’m not up to typing all of that again, sorry. I’ll do the key points.

Something I’ve been watching is ‘Cromartie High’. It’s an anime. It’s funny, surreal, and has a relatively fast pace, but it’s not that hyperactive epilepsy inducing stuff that you might be currently thinking of. It involves a school of delinquents, one normal guy, a robot student, a gorrilla, and Freddie Mercury. This should be more than enough awesome to make you google to see the intro or something. If you’re looking for something light hearted and amusing, but not silly, I recommend taking a quick look.

Aaaaaand thats about it.