Oops. Forgot. I should be updating this more.

I am still working on my own comic. I am laying everything out by hand, and it is taking me forever because-- well-- meh. Digitally I can layout like lightening. Measuring and lining panels by hand is slower.

Work has been work. Busy busy. I don't have a ton of time for art, and I am starting to fin more enjoyment out of doing little fan arts here and there. (Its a nice break from doing my own stuff.)

But meh. I am alive and I will try to keep myself form forgetting my blogspot.

Thinking of opening commissions for some extra money. Things have been getting tighter and tighter because of taxes and whatnot. I don't like second-guessing myself when I am doing normal things like-- you know-- buying food.

But rawr! Things are in motion. It'll get better.

It is August...

This summer has left me both mentally and physically exhausted.

Work has been steady, and when it hasn't I have had to spend my time working on the house. We recently finished re-roofing the house and that drained me financially. So I pretty much sat around doodling, but never focusing because I was worrying over how the bills were going to get paid.

I am trying to schedule my days out so that way I can take a little time to draw every day, unfortunately everything is an ASAP deadline right now so I am working from 7AM till 2 AM pretty much every day. (Sleep? What is this... sleep you speak of?)

Its okay. I'll catch up and things will be fantastic.

I am going to make Krystle get a blog on here too. It helps to have people around posting and whatnot. Its more encouraging. =)

Still around and drawing when I can.

Mostly livestreaming when I have something worth showing.

Danielle and Lania

Roughly an hour.

Done instead of comic pages. Because thats how I roll. Yo. Yo.

See what I did thar?

So I got bored while doing an upload and sketched Lania holding some Calla Lilies.

And from there I added a crappy background and whatnot. Yes, epic fail, but grassy hills are a bitch to color. I at least got the point across that it is a green hilly area. So

I followed the rule that I picked up somewhere about there being no pure white in nature. So everything is a tinge. The clouds are bluey, the shirt (which was supposed to be white but kinda looks tan so I suppose that was fail) and the lilies are greener.

Other than that, meh. Just a colored sketch.

Lana copyright me
Tainted copyright me

blah blah blah...

Mac Crash

I fried my harddrive.

I lost everything I was working on. All the re-worked Tainted art and stuff. I am kinda bummed about it, but I should just take it as a new opportunity to try something different for my first four pages.

So... chin up. Once I get things squared away and get these few deadlines out of the way I'll be back to working on Tainted. Sketches and whatnot will resume soon.

Old Tainted Pages

Okay, so lets take a moment to look back. These were my first four original pages for Tainted Book One. My art style was different back then and I had a different coloring style. I think. M'not sure. At any rate, I started these back in 2007, but because of changing circumstances I had to put the project on the back burner, and then I kinda lost interest.

I got nudged into looking at them again by my friend Star. So I pulled out my notes and spent an entire night reading over all the material I'd scribbled around various sketch books and note pads. I decided half of it was crap and threw it all out and started from the beginning.

I have already finished the first page. (Except lettering, I'll do that once I get the art done.) The layouts for the comic will be staying the same for these first four pages, but I made a decision to keep the panel count down because I am working on an 8.5x11 page. I don't have a large enough scanner for anything bigger, and I am pretty bad at piecing things together in photoshop. Even with a Cintiq, I still cannot seem to do it right. I am just lame.

I have glanced around at comic hosting, since I have decided that I'll make it a web comic. Comic Genesis looks the most promising since their only stipulation is no spite comics and their rating system goes up to NC-17. I have been going back and forth with uploading to dA. It would be great for exposure, but I'd have to completely cover it in copyright stuff. Meh, I suppose it wouldn't matter so much.

So, I think it'll be updated once a week. I am going to get 25 pages (at least) ahead before I start uploading, just so I can go ahead and take a week per page so it won't interfere with work.

First thing is first, get these pages re-done and whatnot. I have up to page 12 sketched, and I have been able to get several done over the last few days. The longest part will be coloring. My pencils are sloppy, but I can afford them to be since the Cintiq allows for inking to be a million times easier.

Alright, gotta get back to work. Moo/