Holiday Option - Christmas 2008
Dan on Dec. 24, 2008
Christmas picture 2008.
“Come on, try it. I dare you.”
Astounding, considering how I managed to whip this up in two days, and go as far as inking it. Happy Holidays, and here's my Christmas picture for 2007, showing Danta Claus beheading the naughty, now beheading anyone he sees because there's not a single person who has not committed any naughtiness. But on the lighter note, here's a musical lyric to go with it:
You better watch out
You better watch out
Danta is fuckin comin to town…
And he's gonna find out who's naughty and nice…
Who's naughty… and nice…
Also, I've made yet another concept for the story, this time showing the former fortified wall of Lafilla, with Rangard not too far away on the other side. Built shortly before the Artificial War (2021 - late-2027, 8 years prior to the beginning), all that remains are several segments of walls and forts under decay and their reminder of the two country's yet another part of bloody feud.
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"Time…? Is it that time already? It only appears it has just arrived. You have done a great deal in such a short timespan… that I've got some interesting offers for your services. Instead of giving you the illusion of free choice, I shall choose it for you… In any case, this- is where I get off."
Dan at 7:36PM, April 20, 2009
Cut down on the spriting? Never. That would defeat the purpose of this comic, but it would be selfish of me to think of this comic in such a way. I really wanted to go much more in-depth than a mere purpose. Lately I've been thinking over what I did over the days. I drew, I sprited, I read, played games (Note to self: STOP playing Team Fortress 2- I should've learned to stay out of it after 19-losing streak but I never learn), but I never could never find where I actually belonged. I always thought I was born to be an artist, and so did others. But lately certain strain of events forced me to make second-thoughts about it. Not surprisingly I was never execptional in any of the categories as I hoped I would be. I wished I'd find someplace to be, but so far nothing's come up. Maybe I need to look harder. Maybe I need to look back. In any case, I'm hoping for an update this week or the end of so. I can't promise anything due to school (Oh who am I kidding- fucking school. Fucking school and my lousy course decisions). But I [i]will[/i] break the silence even if it means I have to skimp down on school assignments. As a matter of fact, I'd [b]love[/b] to skimp down on school assignments. I just need proper justification and maybe courage.
Arc at 9:52AM, April 5, 2009
lol, they're better than nothing. Maybe you could cut down on the spriting to have more time to make the comic. Unless, that's what you need to make the next strip. :O
Dan at 4:19PM, March 31, 2009
Oh Gods, tutorials. Where oh where do I begin? The day when I decided to make this 4-panels is when I decide to shoot myself. But it's taking me so long to sprite stuff.
Arc at 4:22AM, March 29, 2009
I'd love some tutorials actually. :D Just try to update this every so often. Even if it's four panels or something...
Dan at 7:50PM, March 22, 2009
"[i]This is not looking good here- uhhhh...[/i]" And here I am, with yet another lousy blog imitation. I'm starting to grow tired of it, but there's not much else I can do. Things have lightened up a bit (Oh God, I said it again) and managed to make a weee tiny bit on comic progress. Unfortunately, I decided to redo my main character from [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Z-Ace/Sprites/Mahincustomwip01.png]scratch[/url] (A bit old. Eyes just look plain stupid at 400x, but oh well) since I've grown rather sick of having edits be my main characters (Supporting and minor roles/redshirts are fine as edits/recolors). Maybe I should turn this comic into a blog-art hybrid and post what I've been up to while I look more and more like a lazy donkey? Of course I'll have to make a separate comic... but unless I can change the title, there's going to be a bit of confusion in the matter. Sure, I can probably create a separate one instead of changing this, but then it'd have some very bad early impressions. Huh, I guess it doesn't matter either way. In any case, the "blog" will have some concept arts I have thrown around, maybe scrapped story ideas, sprite rips, nerdy accomplishments in video games, tutorials, whinings, and [b]opinions[/b] [Cue evil music]. I'm probably overshooting myself with this idea, but the fanciness wouldn't be complete without some responses. I normally don't ask for comments unless I ask a question, but I would definately like your thoughts on this. For one, I doubt blog would not necessarily slow down the comic (I know, shoot me), and I'd like to throw something else other than just the comic. So uh, any thoughts would be appreciated.
Dan at 6:18PM, Feb. 15, 2009
Ay, it's been a disastrous week, but after 2 days of rest, I'm somewhat better now, although I need to do something about the growing frequency of venting over frustration. But thanks for your offers. I really appreciate it.
opdisk225 at 3:55AM, Feb. 15, 2009
Anything I can do to help?
Arc at 6:27PM, Feb. 14, 2009
:S Anything I can do to help?
Dan at 6:41PM, Feb. 11, 2009
It hurts... just seeing this gather dust. I just don't know what to do anymore. Nothing's going the way I want them to- even the things I expect to go wrong.
Dan at 6:42PM, Jan. 16, 2009
Well, it appears that the school isn't going to let up anytime soon, and I just can't find any... well, "desire" (Can't quite say motivation) to work on the next page. But I do confess, there's virtually nothing to justify the continued inactivity anymore (To top it off, I've fallen in love with Team Fortress 2), so you could pretty much consider it utter laziness on my part. Not sure if ripping sprites for Sprite Database and Spriter's Resource deducts my laziness, but that has stalled, too. At least this way I can explain what's been going on rather than a curious silence. Oh, I really wish I could pull off comics (And art) as quickly as others do instead of being a sloth.
Dan at 1:24PM, Jan. 8, 2009
I just love how almost 1/2 of my total pages consist of filters. But I, once again, should have put more thought into maintaining the pace in the first place. The thing is: I can't figure out what's worse- putting up more filters than actual comic pages or pulling out constant rantings of recent events in hopes of turning them into excuses. That or I can stop biting off more than I can chew. In any case, these filters will disappear eventually.