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End of the Year Rambling: plans for 2017
9 years ago
To end the year off, I want to just ramble a little bit explain what I’m hoping to achieve for next year and all that and then tomorrow I’ll post the comic page schedule for 2017.
Short version: 2017 = the year of improvement. Prepare yourself for more artwork.
Sense now I have a working computer and can properly look up references so I can practice and see how things actually look instead of going by memory I plan on practicing. Mostly clothing and backgrounds, but also certain species types that I struggle with or can’t draw to save my life (like humans!)
My goal is to make this the year of improvement. Not just with skill level, but with mind set and equipment. I want to start saving up to replace things. A great example of something that needs to be replaced is my art table. It wobbles horribly and causes me wrist pains from it wobbling so bad and when erasing I’m always terrified of tipping it over and I am sick of it getting accidentally tipped over by clumsy visitors, because this has destroyed several things an electric sharpener falling victim, many many mmaannyyy pencils, which I cannot afford to be replacing. I also want a new floor lamp to reduce eye strain, because I’ve been getting horrible eye strain and migraines just from poor lighting.
I know most people it doesn’t seem like all that much of a goal just a table and a floor lamp, but I don’t get a lot of money so it takes me months to save for something that someone else could just go out and get easily. For what I want it’s going to be $179.99 for the desk and $89.99 for the floor lamp. That’s $269.98 not counting shipping. It’s going to take a long while. It’s probably not even possible to save during winter sense my gas bill (gas heating) has gone up A lot due to my roof not getting fixed in time for winter so most of my heat is escaping. An I still need to work off payment for my new computer. Enough on money though I could ramble and bitch about money for hours, I think most adults with little money can bitch about it forever though.
Oh one of the main things I want to work on learning is how to draw snowy landscapes, because I have a short story I’ve been wanting to do for years, but even if I learn how to draw them to an acceptable level for myself the short comic itself may have to wait it’s very special to me, because it’s Ula Zangrow related, and I want to make sure I have some good quality grayscale markers to do it how I want to. Also, yes Ula Zangrow isn’t dead <=_=> it will always be alive. I honestly stopped the planned start for the Ula Zangrow comic, because I wanted to start it with this specific short story that badly. I still really want to stick to my original plan of waiting till the Sen comic is past 100 pages to start the Ula Zangrow one, but judging how much work I proved to myself I can get done I may say fuck it and do whatever I want. Also, Ula Zangrow will never be one with planned update times, because of how much work will go into the pages I’m not holding myself to a schedule for those, sense some of the stories will be in full color which will take ages.
To many ideas not enough time, there will be more short comics this year I plan on trying to get to a few projects that I’ve wanted to do for a long time.
I’ve also been working on some random character art, because I felt like it. I already got five finished and 4 inked just need color which I am going to start uploading one every Tuesday. I’m going to work on not bulk uploading except for really short comics like 8 pages and less can get uploaded at once, but random character art is not getting uploaded all at once.
Another goal is I’m going to try and focus on doing more art of my female characters, I feel really bad on how much I tend to neglect them, just because there slightly more difficult for me to draw.
I think that’s everything. If you’re still reading I hope you have a great day and I’ll see you in 2017 my friend.
Short version: 2017 = the year of improvement. Prepare yourself for more artwork.
Sense now I have a working computer and can properly look up references so I can practice and see how things actually look instead of going by memory I plan on practicing. Mostly clothing and backgrounds, but also certain species types that I struggle with or can’t draw to save my life (like humans!)
My goal is to make this the year of improvement. Not just with skill level, but with mind set and equipment. I want to start saving up to replace things. A great example of something that needs to be replaced is my art table. It wobbles horribly and causes me wrist pains from it wobbling so bad and when erasing I’m always terrified of tipping it over and I am sick of it getting accidentally tipped over by clumsy visitors, because this has destroyed several things an electric sharpener falling victim, many many mmaannyyy pencils, which I cannot afford to be replacing. I also want a new floor lamp to reduce eye strain, because I’ve been getting horrible eye strain and migraines just from poor lighting.
I know most people it doesn’t seem like all that much of a goal just a table and a floor lamp, but I don’t get a lot of money so it takes me months to save for something that someone else could just go out and get easily. For what I want it’s going to be $179.99 for the desk and $89.99 for the floor lamp. That’s $269.98 not counting shipping. It’s going to take a long while. It’s probably not even possible to save during winter sense my gas bill (gas heating) has gone up A lot due to my roof not getting fixed in time for winter so most of my heat is escaping. An I still need to work off payment for my new computer. Enough on money though I could ramble and bitch about money for hours, I think most adults with little money can bitch about it forever though.
Oh one of the main things I want to work on learning is how to draw snowy landscapes, because I have a short story I’ve been wanting to do for years, but even if I learn how to draw them to an acceptable level for myself the short comic itself may have to wait it’s very special to me, because it’s Ula Zangrow related, and I want to make sure I have some good quality grayscale markers to do it how I want to. Also, yes Ula Zangrow isn’t dead <=_=> it will always be alive. I honestly stopped the planned start for the Ula Zangrow comic, because I wanted to start it with this specific short story that badly. I still really want to stick to my original plan of waiting till the Sen comic is past 100 pages to start the Ula Zangrow one, but judging how much work I proved to myself I can get done I may say fuck it and do whatever I want. Also, Ula Zangrow will never be one with planned update times, because of how much work will go into the pages I’m not holding myself to a schedule for those, sense some of the stories will be in full color which will take ages.
To many ideas not enough time, there will be more short comics this year I plan on trying to get to a few projects that I’ve wanted to do for a long time.
I’ve also been working on some random character art, because I felt like it. I already got five finished and 4 inked just need color which I am going to start uploading one every Tuesday. I’m going to work on not bulk uploading except for really short comics like 8 pages and less can get uploaded at once, but random character art is not getting uploaded all at once.
Another goal is I’m going to try and focus on doing more art of my female characters, I feel really bad on how much I tend to neglect them, just because there slightly more difficult for me to draw.
I think that’s everything. If you’re still reading I hope you have a great day and I’ll see you in 2017 my friend.
