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.
Late last week, some great friends of mine lost their house in an electrical fire. They lost everything, and they need as much help and support as anyone can give.
If you’d like to help out, please check out this link. Even a small donation will add up to something big. Thank you all.
Sorry I haven’t updated for a while. A long list of offline issues has kept me away from the computer for most of the past two weeks. With any luck, that’ll clear up soon, and I can get back to adding comics and updating my blog and such.
And for people that log onto the Ralynkei forums on any kind of a regular basis, I’m trying to fix the smilies that exploded. I got about half of them back up, and I’ll work on adding more when I get more time.
Eventually, things will get back together, and I can get back to procrastinating in peace. Okay, I’m somewhat kidding on that last part.
I know it’s been a while since I’ve done anything to this site…I have one of those life things that tend to get in the way. But I haven’t stopped working on comics, and I hope to get some new ones up in the very near future.
And I’m seeing about getting my laptop fixed. If I can, that means I get to update more often with better quality comics! Yay!
Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the first Ralynkei comic ever posted! We haven’t gotten all that far since then( ), but this is a new year with new opportunities! Let’s see how well I can do the second time around!