StarBomber109

You ever draw a thing that you drew before?  And go "Man, was I really that bad back then?"  Well, I just re-drew the first thing I ever submitted to DA, and it made me realize some things, like, how little I knew about DRAWING back then.  I donno if I'm 'better' than I was back then, but I certainly know more stuff, like the basics of perspective, anatomy, light and shadow.  I know how to shade, how to use different mediums (but I still prefer regular pencils and paper, never tried using markers though, I might try that soon)  I've come a long way, I'm not sure if I'm exactly where I wanted to be artwork wise, but at the same time, I'm not sure where I even wanted to be when I started using DA all those years ago.  My goal was to learn and I've certainly learned a lot.  I can learn more.

My world right now is pretty intense.  I have bouts of free time followed by very intense work.  But hey, I'm living one of my dreams.  I wanted to be military and work on Aircraft, and well, here I am.  Dream two, start a webcomic, someday I have no doubt I'll do it.  I have technically, started three, but I never got past a few pages on any of them.  I have a lot of stories written about various ideas, but in the end even writing this journal reminds me how much I've changed over the past three years.

First of all I'd like to apologize for not doing updates more often.  I did get Omega Ruby.  For those of you who remember Ruby Race, well, I started a nuzlocke of Omega Ruby.  I've been keeping a log of what's happened so far in the game, I intend fully to do some kind of nuzlocke relating to the events, I started playing on Monday, and I'm already to Wallace.  Once I finish the game, expect some kind of comicy thing to come out of me.

I've been doing a lot of stuff and I've been neglecting DA.

Not too much to say really, only that I've started yet another distraction, yet again set in the PMDE world (I just can't steer my brain away from that setting)  At least this one only involves my own characters, not any of the ones created by the mods.

In other news, I've started uploading videos to youtube again, though these have nothing to do with art, they have to do with a card game that I play.  I've taken a bit of a break to draw this thing, though doing the videos required me to clear my desk, so now I have space to work!

If you haven't noticed, I haven't been drawing much as of late, in fact I haven't really drawn too much this year.  What I have been doing a lot of, is writing.  I have some stories in my brain that I felt the need to physically and digitally write.  These are the stories that have been in my mind for a long while (A LONG WHILE, like back when Steel Nation was going on those characters were all from one of these stories).  These are characters that I've casually RP'd with friends, but now I'm getting to the actual plots that they are involved in.  There's at least two stories I want to turn into comics, and I'm finding myself wanting to finish Foxwar first, which is surprising to me, because the central character of Foxwar, Kit, started out as a joke character.  Kit has gradually become one of my favorite characters, and I think I'll end up writing her story before I go back to the story of Walter and Erin (again  I keep rethinking the opening scene to that story, but I always wanted it to start out with a clash between those two)

So as I have been writing more, I have been drawing less (and other things have been distracting me.)  Don't get me wrong though, I do plan to submit more artwork this year, I just don't know when it will be.

UNTIL NEXT MONTH O.O or until the next journal entry

I've been considering a great many things, including the question I ask myself every year, Have I Improved.  I always try to have this retrospective, and I'm never really sure of the answer.  I continue to be blown away by the artwork I see others do, and I continue to slack off on my own creations.  I have a story written though, that I will commit to a comic soon enough.  I don't know when I will begin, or how long it will run, but I need to begin, I have had this story in my brain for too long, and I need to put it out there.