I've signed up to participate in NaNoMangO this season, meaning that during the month of November, I will be drawing 30 comic pages (or more). So far, I'm in good shape and having lots of sleep-deprived, caffeinated fun.

In this first week, I managed to complete the first scene of the story (which I used to call the prologue until I realized it'd be 13 pages long and thought that felt too long for a prologue. ^_^) Since these are only sketch pages, I'm posting them to my scraps. At the end of each week, I'll post a journal entry with the week's pages.

The story: Ludwig the Rock
Summary: the story of a wayward rock and the girl who befriends him -- a girl who, in a purely technological world, dreams of growing a garden.

Characters Sketch Dump:


This Week's Pages -- Scene 1: "A Second Chance"


Today's random thought: Winter is the best, because it makes ferrets double in size.

I'm trying to catch up on the artwork of all my favorite deviants, but it'll take a little while. Sorry! Feel free to poke me if you have a picture you really want me to look at quick.

So what's been up? Well, been developing a crapload of collectibles at my job as a product developer/art director. And I've been examining my approach to artwork as a whole, and how I'm going to steer my portfolio. I've finally found my direction, which will be revealed in my next illustrations after the sort of brainless one I'm struggling to complete at the moment...

I've also renewed my efforts to make progress on Unholy. During November I'll be working on a different comic, though. It's not technically a nanomango thing because I'm not limiting myself to 30 pages, but I'm using the month as an excuse to do a complete story. Just a sketch comic, but it'll be super cute! Maybe I'll post some process work for it this month.

Also, from now on I will try to include a completely random comment in each of my journal entries. Why? Eh... Just because.

Today's random comment: I miss back when episodes of The Office were about, well, the office. I'm not to big on super-traditional standard romance.

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After canceling my prints account on DA a long time ago, I didn't have my artwork available for purchase for a long time. Well, now they're back! Check out the link below:

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My job is sucking the life out of me... It's been hard to work on Unholy at all, because it's such an intensive project. I spent June and July on a large commission; I haven't decided if I'll post it here yet...

I am working on some personal art, and I hope to post at least *something* in September. Sorry I haven't been looking at deviations and commenting and stuff. It's been so frustrating not being able to do more personal work, and looking at everyone else's awesome stuff was making it even harder, so I've been avoiding it. Again, sorry! Just trying to keep my sanity...

It'll be a few more months before I can *really* be productive again. Starting in September, I'll be taking a couple of classes on top of working full time, but I'm expecting happy changes in my schedule come 2010. Until then, I'll try to post the random piece of art here and there. I hope some of you will stick around until then!

The internet moves too fast for me!

I've been pretty much non-existent on the internet for a good month, or maybe a month and a half. If there's such a thing as crunch time at my job, this is definitely the time for it (though honestly, I think our crunch time is actually more like January to November). There are so many deviations and journal entries I really want to catch up on... I'm just not sure when I'll be able to. I'm hoping things will ease up at work after 7/15.

Anyway, I just thought I'd let people know I didn't die. I'm really trying to finish the next scene of Unholy, but it's been sloooooow. On the bright side, though, I'm devoting this weekend to the development of the comic as a whole (mostly research, but I'll probably work a bit on the colors, too). Hopefully that'll do something to renew my motivation.