It's Magical Girls all the way down

Haha, I feel so bad about this blog. I've long since migrated over to Tumblr [art blog here]

But for the sake of getting you all to follow me! Here's a ton of stuff I've done since the last time I've updated!

Between portfolio stuff, I decided to take my hand at coming up with a comic idea. By some strange grace, it's actually been coming about quite well. I've been trying to do it the proper way, with scripting (it actually has a beginning, middle and end, oh my!), and coming up with designs prior and working on keeping everything cohesive.

This started as a semi-joke because I am experiencing a very intense withdrawal from Sailor Moon, and soon developed into something that I am taking rather seriously. I'm going to start working on it in the new year with publishing beginning some time in March/April. Because of how it's written, it'll be chapter by chapter release instead of page(s) by page(s), so I have a lot of hard work ahead of me. Hopefully with my proper planning and not flying by the seat of my pants with this, I'll be able to keep thins thing going, yeah?

I hope y'all had a happy Thanksgiving and the rest of the holiday season treats you just as well!

staying busy and productive go go go

Man.

I'm going to be honest. I have been struggling. I have been struggling for a really really long time with all of my portfolio stuff. It's been terrible. It's just been feeling like a constant upward battle with myself and it's been driving me nuts, forcing me to stop working on it for long stretches of time. I've been trying to get myself into the habit of still drawing, trying to stay loose and relax, not put so much pressure on myself (hence the 30 day challenge which I have a bunch to upload on here) but my portfolio stuff? It has been giving me a run for my money.

The good thing is that the fact I keep coming back to it, not out of a necessity to stick to any sense of responsibility, but rather because I just... want to do this has been a good eye opener! Making me feel a lot more like I am actually following on a path that I am fully committing myself to. The down side is that it's definitely been a bit of a killer on my artistic identity because of how hard of a time I've been having with it.

But you know what? This past week it's been quitting. I've been getting into such a good groove, suddenly all these things that were giving me huge problems before aren't giving me issues anymore, primarily because I've started to realize that I was definitely making things way harder and way more complicated on myself than I needed to be.

I've cut some things out of my initial list for my portfolio because they needed to be to give myself a bit more time to breath between now and the deadline and I'm glad I did. This project's taken a form of itself so I definitely won't stop working on it past the deadline, but to be realistic and to make things more clear, it was definitely for the better.

At any rate! The first set of designs that I'm almost done with. I'm feeling pretty proud of myself, guys. These were stuck at no more than 40% for so long because I just couldn't figure so much out and I am! And that's awesome, and it's making me more excited for when this is done and over with.

Day 2. Draw a figure using a reference - link to reference

Reference Here. Be back on Monday! Happy Weekend guys!

1. Self-Portrait

30 day art challenge starts today.

Little preview of the piece I did for the coming Light Grey Art Lab's Rolemodels show! Had a lot of fun with this!!

Yap, more reworking/cleaning up staff