Hi. Update about the comic

So I was sitting around thinking when I should have been researching for a paper that is now a little late (thank god for kind and understanding teachers who are willing to give a little to help out stupid students like me) and I was looking at the information I have for the story. I realized that I have a full chapter done. One full chapter, 13 pages. Done. Now I can work on chapter two. Except I can't. Cause I'm busy with this paper that I need to do. Note to all of you out there who would like to do a web comic, don't unless you have very little else to concentrate on. Like school. Or friends. Or family. Or anything real life related. Of course if this is the case your webcomic is going to suck. In which case you might as well not write it.

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Never mind.

Anyways, to talk about something less depressing. I wanted to start a seperate site for the comic once I get around to drawing it out. I want to wait till I have at least 4 or 5 chapters written out, so you'll probably start seeing me advertising the site sometime over the summer. If I can get a job and a place to stay while I'm working on the comic of course.

I have given up a fun MMORPG to work on this comic and to spend more time doing things I must do, like updating this blog and stuff, so you guys had better appreciate it!!

So as for any new drawings, I have none scanned in (sorry) but I do have some information. I have added designs for some interesting weapons that Jack gets to use and their various modes and powers. Lots of fun stuff.

The Kid

(Today the Kid is watching Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and reading Shaman King)

Upd4t3s? L0L Wu7?

So here I am again, typing away while waiting for a class to go by. I'm only really writing this because I feel terrible about a test I royally botched and the fact that my next class I am supposed to turn in a paper that I'm not even half-way done on. So here I am waiting for my fate to eat me up like so many moray eels in the reef of life.

As far as the story goes, I've been working on writing the script for it as well as studying various things to give me an edge in drawing. Hopefully soon I'll be able to procure some .5 mechanical pencils for light sketching, some .9's for filling in big spaces and some .7 blues for initial stuff as well as a light source I can place under my drawing so I can ink them... and some decent pens for said inking. Lot's of work, but somehow, I'm kinda looking forward to it. This summer is going to be nothing but working at whatever restaurant or burger joint will hire me and drawing. I suppose that at some point I'll need to sleep, but I may not have time for that.

I feel over whelmed as usual whenever I start planning large things, and without a doubt, there's going to be lots of things that get in the way of my initial plan, but that's okay, because I'm at least good enough at life to roll with the punches.

Speaking of the future, I wanted to share my dream with those who read this (Susan and maybe Aunt Julie if she still checks this place for kicks and giggles). I imagine myself in 10 years being that guy you see at cheap coffee shops who chats with people while sucking on a cigarette and tapping away on a laptop, countless sketches and such littering the area, obscuring the stains on the table. Thicker goatee and mustache, longer hair, maybe a little less color in it, but eyes as green, blue, gray as ever, and just a mischievous as when I was 17. As you pass by the table, you might think, "That guy looks like an eccentric nut job who barely scrapes by in life... But I'll be darned if he doesn't look like he's enjoying himself at least." And hopefully you'll be right. I don't want to be rich, or famous necessarily. I want enough to get by, enough to live and continue doing what I really enjoy, putting ink and lead to paper.

Same Kangol slouch cap pushing my bangs over my eyes, of course. Can't ever forget the slouch cap.

Thanks to those who follow this barely updated, rather uninteresting blog. I find writing to be a great catharsis and knowing that at least one other person out there might read it and think something about it is nice.

The Kid.

"Heeeeee's Aliiiiiiiive!!"

Yeah. Unfortunately.

I'm still around, but I don't get to get on as much anymore for various reasons. For one thing, I'm a little depressed and I'm working through some college problems (Money being at the top of the list, which it wouldn't be if if I had actually worked to grab scholarships while the year was on, but I let myself get distracted by a stupid MMORPG). So here I am trying desperately to get as many points toward my grades as possible so I can at least pass. Go me.

In other news, I have been thinking about buying a site of my own instead of using blogspot. I would like to continue to work through blogspot as well but the main thing to me is working out the comic and pictures while attempting to pass so I can be one year closer to a bachelor's degree. So, yes this place will remain pretty dead for a while.

No new drawings right now, I've been too busy working on stuff for class, sleeping, and drawing for my "assignments."

The Kid

Guess Who?

Yeah, it's me. I've been out for a little while. I'm just here to post a few pics of what I'm working on right now. Basically, I've been working on an assignment for the Megatokyo people, while also doing various doodles to stretch out the idea for my story. I know which ones you people are more than likely interested in, so....

"Delays, delays..."

"Oh drat these computers: so naughty and complex. I could pinch them."
-Marvin the Martian.

So I'm going to be putting off the comic for a longer time. I have decided, partly thanks to the advice of the people at the MegaTokyo Forums, to put some (a lot) of time into learning how to draw better. I'll continue to put up some of my sketches as I work along, but don't expect any new pages for a while. In fact, expect for there to be a new attempt at the first couple of pages in some time in the future, but not any time soon. I need more work. I want to be the very best. Like no one ever was. And all that jazz.

Anyways, in other news, I am now 19!!! I had my birthday yesterday, and my good friends and roommates, Nick and Jacob took me out to a Chinese place for it, which was really nice. Later that night, the entire dorm hall came along and gave me some cake and sang happy birthday. They only did it because they had cake laying around that they needed to get rid of, but it was still nice. So I enjoyed my birthday far more than I thought I would. Squee, I guess.

I guess here's a little thing for you guys too look at. It's pretty lame.... just a doodle of characters from the story on some lined paper that got folded. I would have included the picture I drew on a napkin from a Chinese restaurant, but that got shredded in the dryer. So there you go.

Kyra

So if any of you have read my other highly neglected blog, deepsouthfriedthoughts.blogspot.com, you know that this is a character who is eventually going to show up in the story. Don't worry, though, it will be a long time yet. ^_^ Anyway, you can see that there is some Bleach influence here, especially in mask that she gets in some of the sketches. There is a special reason that she wears that mask sometimes, but no it's not because she has some kind of monster inside her. Well sort of, but it's more idelogical than that.
Anyway, I need more time to get the page done because I have a lot of work and reading and writing,etc to do.

Later,

The Kid

So... Yeah.

I know I've been gone for quite a while (not that too many people care) and you guys have been looking desperately for the next page of my awesome comic... (riiiiiight....) And now you see this awesome drawing and your like, "That's not a comic page, Kid."

Well.... Yeah.

See I drew the next page but by the time I got back to school, I decided that the page was so terrible that it needed to burn for all eternity in Hades. Put shortly, I'll be giving you some pictures for the next few days until I finish the page. Yeah, I know. You all will be forced to check out a bunch of sketches and long explanations about what I was thinking while I drew them. Oh well, too bad for you, oh nonexistent audience of nobody. ^_^