Doodled this pic of Gisela today to get into a drawing mood.  I haven’t been feeling well this week because of working a lot and other things.  I’ll be so glad when I’m finally off work for the con.

Here’s a sketch!

It is taking me forever to sort this draft out.  I’m sure there are still field of depth issues and proportion problems.  Blarg.  I am attempting to consult my uber talented friends on it because I don’t want to mess it up.  I’m not sure the diagonal flow of the composition is very good either, but that may not be changeable.

I may have to wait until after the con to finish this one because it’s going to take a lot of time.  I had to get it out of my head, though.   Felicia’s costume is extra fabulous here isn’t it?  XD

Hey guys!

Revamped the style around here.  Hopefully this one won’t ferfuxerlate every time I upgrade wordpress.  I could just create my own theme, but that’s work, you know?  I have comics to draw.

Here’s another fanart that I will be selling at Megacon in Orlando in just a few weeks!  It’s so close now I’m super excited, but also really worried that I won’t have enough to sell.  If I can break even that would be marvelous.

This one is a mix of watercolor and Copic marker.  There’s a few proportion issues, and other things I’d like to fix, but working on actual paper means you have to stick with your original drawing once you start coloring, even if you realize something is wrong. That’s why it’s a lot harder for me to do!  But, you know, practice is everything.

You know, it really sucks that I haven’t been able to update very frequently lately.  At the same time, I think it is good to have ground work to finish the pages from rather than finishing one from start to finish at a time.  So, I think maybe taking a month to do a lot of rough drafts isn’t such a bad idea.

Here’s another fan art piece I’ve done for Megacon.

I think it looks fine, but really doesn’t do justice to the art and design work of the Metal Gear Solid franchise.   Someday I will have to study and do a suitable piece that actually reflects the style.  But for now, I’m sure there’s a fanboy somewhere who wants this piece.

I got Emerald Winter done pretty early in the day today.  The problem was that my host company was completely offline for a while so I didn’t get to update until about 8 PM.  Siiiigh.

I also got some sketch cards and a character design done today.  This character is Star.  She is from the dwarf race in Emerald Winter, although her mother is human.  So, being a half-breed, she is actually tall for a dwarf woman but still short in comparison to Rien and other characters.  I also tried to give her a proportional figure despite the fact she is short.

I decided to make the dwarves dark-skinned so that there will be some variety in the races of Emerald Winter’s world, and the main cast of characters.  I made this decision a long time ago (there’s another color picture with her in it floating around) but haven’t gotten around to drawing her since then.  So, I was really happy to draw her since it’s not often I get to draw characters with darker complexions.

This design isn’t her usual, though.  I have to figure out what she’ll wear in her special, before she dons heavier armor and goes on a quest.  Star’s story takes place simultaneously with the current story about Rien, but on another continent.  It’s very much stand-alone, but gives you the background needed to know why Star comes into the story later.  So, I hope I can start working on this story arc sometimes soon.  Maybe after the con!  I’m also thinking it should be in color.

Anyway, hope you had some nice holidays!  Mardi Gras is pretty much over now.

Ever since I started using SAI the inking of Lavender Legend looks way more polished and it’s faster, too.

I really like how this set of panels came out.  I am really trying to get across that Felicia cares for Lavender, although he never comes out and says so.  He probably doesn’t want to care for her, but can’t help it.

As for con preparation, I’m working on another watercolor pic (8.5 x 11 this time, I’m not crazy) this one with Terra, Celes, Relm, and Mog from Final Fantasy 6.

This painting is already sold, but it will be on display at Megacon and there will be prints available.

I am updating the comics regularly again.  My vow is for every week day I do not work my regular job, I will have a new page.  Of course, the Monday/Friday (LL) and Tuesday (EW) schedule will still be in effect until I can find the time to do four pages a week and shift EW’s schedule around. Right now I am hard up for some funds, so I am trying to get more hours at work.

As for this site, I am working on the style again.  I am tired of it randomly messing up, so I’m just going to start over from scratch.  So… you get to look at the Wordpress default for a little while.  -_-;;

Sorry, no art today.  Just thought I should update this so that everyone will know my status.

Today I am finishing up the edits for Lavender Legend book 1.  After this is done, I still have to come up with some extra content.  This will probably be a few pages of jokes, some character art, and things like that.  I have only two weeks left to get this in order, so that’s why I’m not updating my comics at the moment.

This is my first drawing in 2010.  Although this was supposed to be my warm-up sketch, I didn’t feel anymore like drawing anything after I finished it.  *facepalm*  It was supposed to be a villain from Emerald Winter, but I think it’s just a random guy now.

I haven’t been around for about two weeks.  We went to visit my family the day after Christmas, and then as soon as we got back, we had to drive all the way to Kentucky the next day to attend the services for a family member on Brandon’s side that recently passed away.  It was a very long, depressing, trip.

I am glad to be home now, and hopefully this year can be as productive if not more so than last year.