shortissimus

I don't know what it is with me lately but nothing I've been drawing has been turning out even halfway decent. It's really bumming me out. Best I can manage is some stuff from a few months ago that I don't totally hate.

I've been playing around with some new brushes in photoshop that look a lot like pencil. It's made drawing with the tablet itself a little bit more natural (instead of using it to just ink or colour like I have been). Hopefully I'll have something new from that to show soon. Unfortunately I made this discovery while in this phase of "Aaagh everything looks like crap!"

I've also been contemplating my manga-inspired art style lately and it's bugged me some. Not sure what to do about that just yet.

Finally got around to updating my dA gallery a little bit. Added a couple new submissions (nothing fancy) but also removed a few. Just some stuff that I didn't like anymore, or whatever. I know I'll probably get some flack for removing that naga picture I had because I think it might have been my most favourited piece.

But you know what? I hated it. I liked it for a very brief period around the time I originally posted it, but I've hated it ever since. The composition was bad and while, yes, it was pretty highly detailed it just...was bad! I cringed every time a new person fav'd it because it was the weakest part of my gallery as far as I was concerned!

So now it's gone. And good riddance, I say. I half suspect people were merely fav'ing it because the subject matter was a naga (which is oddly popular on dA I can't help but notice) and not because it was particularly good in any way. I may draw up a replacement piece for it at some point. I haven't quite made up my mind yet.

I'm just glad it's gone, so I can stop cringing.

Okay, I understand that for some bizarre reason the internet needs to celebrate the world's most annoying public holiday, but really dA? Twilight? I love werewolves as much as the next horror fangirl, but really? You really had to pollute my gallery with this douchebaggery?

I think I'm going to go hide from dA in SHAME until tomorrow. wtf.

Sorry about the lack of activity here. I blame World of Warcraft mostly. Seeing as I lost my job recently and wanted a bit of a vacation, I decided that it was a pretty good way to spend my time. Seeing as how just about everyone blames my lack of productivity on anything on the game and not my own sorry sense of procrastination, y'all can feel free to blame it too.

Not sure if anyone cares about the comic anymore or what I have to say about it, but I still care about the comic. I may be the only one, but what can you do. I've been working on it. Specifically, I've been working on the new site layout that is remarkably more functional/easy to update/easier overall for everyone involved. Unfortunately it took a lot of work and my aforementioned procrastination didn't help, but it's pretty much finished. All I have left to do now is finish the newest page (I got a new computer and lost all my fonts/brushes/etc so it took some work to gather it all back up) and I can post everything that's new and hopefully get the schedule back on. Rather, hopefully I can get the schedule back to better than it was (I was less than reliable with updates, I will admit this).

Anyway. Now that I've lost everyone's faith in my ability to keep a commitment, I'm just saying it'll be soon. Even if nobody believes me.