Yesterday, I stumbled on ankewehner from Livejournal, who was taking art requests. I requested a picture of Raenur and Ferim, gave some refs, and left the rest up to the artist. I must say, I’m very pleased with what I got:
This captures the two of them perfectly, especially since I’m always imagining the two of them dancing in some way. =3 And seeing someone else’s rendition of characters that I’ve created inspired me to pick up the pencils and get back to comic-drawing all over again! =D
Now, if I can get my scanner to work with my new computer, I can actually upload those comics…
So, I was playing around with this Anime Character Creator, and just for the hell of it, I decided to see what Arjur would look like as an anime character. The result:
I added the collar just because I felt like it. Also the sparkles.
Apparently, I never updated about the fact that I sprained my wrist several weeks back. (Story here if you want the deets.) But, I did, and now it’s healed to the point that I can get back to drawing. I’m still having some issues with the tendon in my thumb, but I can at least hold the effin’ pencil now.
Of course, that doesn’t help the fact that I’m now three weeks out of practice, and therefore everything I draw right now is coming up like crap. So I’m working on a bunch of practice drawings before going back to comic art, not only because it helps me re-train myself to draw, but it also acts like a physical therapy for the afore-mentioned tendon issue. =P But worry not, my dear readers, for there are arts being made, and comics being plotted out! I just gotta get them to actually look right…
I guess I should start this off by saying that despite comments left in my previous blog and on my forum (and on my Wikifur article, for that matter), I am not dead. Nor do I plan to be any time in the near future. I’m not going into details, but the situation was taken care of, and hopefully, we won’t have any more scares like that in the future.
But now let’s talk about site updating. As I type this, I’m planning and working on new comics. Okay, it’s more like *types a little* *stops to work on comic* *types a little more* *stops to work on comic more*, but you get the idea. I think my motivation to do this went way up today when I logged into my Zazzle store and discovered that someone bought the Arjur’s Epic Quote Mug that I made way back after the first comic and almost forgot about. Funny how the first product I make becomes the first product I sell. ^_^ After discovering this, I promptly did the following:
1) Fell over 2) Died 3) Came back to life 4) Was happy that I have a full $1.82 credited to my Zazzle account =3
I must celebrate this success somehow. I’ll find a way.
Speaking of updates and my store, I really have to give the store link on this site a major overhaul. It needs to be more organized, and I have to update the new stuff I’ve since added, like the variety of items featuring a cute pictureofRaenurandFerim. (Yes, each word is a different link.) I’ll be working on that, so don’t be surprised if the appearance of the store page looks dramatically different all of a sudden.
Now that about 90% of my offline dilemmas are taken care of (including getting my truck repaired and legalized ), I can start devoting more time to this site, the blog, and of course, the comics. I’m still in the process of fixing the mangled comics #3 and #4, as well as working on new ones to post.
For some unexplainable reason, comics 3 and 4 got messed up and barely readable out of nowhere. They were perfectly fine and clear when I posted them originally (at least by my handwriting standards… ), but now they’re all blocky and whatnot.
It’s a good thing I keep the paper copies neatly filed away–as my work space is usually horribly cluttered –because I might just have to re-scan and re-upload.
I’m sorry for the current mess that they are. I’ll get it fixed ASAP.
Yeah, I know I’m a week late and wrong with this. Prolly one of the reasons that I’m still single. But these things happen when you work three jobs to pay the bills. I even had everything done the Thursday before Valentine’s Day, but then I ended up working constant double shifts from then until now. Work already shot my chances at the Thanksgiving and Christmas specials, and I refuse to let work take away another Holiday comic!
Usually, I take some time to fix any inking mistakes before posting comics, but until I can save up the $200 required to fix my laptop, I just don’t have the time and resorces to do that. So what you see is the rough inking of this comic.
I meant to post this a while ago, but I never got around to it…Because I’m a dork like that. Anyway, here’s a short video I made for Ralynkei. The music in the background is “Between Us, You & I” by The Crash Motive. (I’ll miss those guys… )
And in case you were curious, yes, that really is my hand you see in the video. And those really are my cats. Now share the video greatness! ;)
By the way, I know I’m way behind in comic writing as of late. Unfortunately, my hard drive crashed. Until that can be replaced, the site’s gonna slow down a little more. Patience, my dear friends…I’ll be back in business soon!