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ASTRO's Amazing ABC Post Mortem
4 years ago
Post Mortem for ASTRO’s Amazing ABC
This was a really fun project to make! And I kinda did it on a “spur of the moment” thing, I had this idea a couple months ago, tried writing a couple letters, it was fun, but very much theoretical at the time.
And when it was pride month I wanted to do something, wasn’t sure what but this sounded okay, and work went (mostly) super slow during June so I could afford to try.
As far as time management, I did 27 pages in 35 days. With my mandatory “one break a week”, I could have been done on the 1st of July, so I’m only 4 days late, which honestly I’m fine with, especially considering I got slowed/stunned by a cold (yeah I know, it’s summer, don’t rub it in). So that’s cool.
As far as motivation went, I started to dip around R, which was just before the cold, and explains the slowing down around that time. Some artistic doubts at some point, the usual “I’ll never do X good”, but I know it’s temporary, it just feels bad on the spot.
Anyway, as per tradition, my projects have a secret agenda: me practicing something specific. This time, I tried a couple things with lines, and the goal was to make stuff look good without cell-shading it. Before that, I usually found myself in a situation where I was desperately trying to apply shadows to my forms, in order to make the result look decent. But as the proverb says, you can put as many cool decorations in your house, if the base of the house is unstable, it’s gonna be shit. Not sure that’s verbatim, but it’s the idea. So this time, I was trying to make the base look good, without relying on shadows to make the result look convincing. Overall? I think it works, I feel like I’ve improved quite a lot.
Another thing I was working on was, well, work. I tend to work in terms of “tasks”, like “today I’m gonna do X, Y and Z tasks”. This system has its upsides, but also downsides when one of the tasks is harder than expected (you feel bad cause you didn’t succeed), and also created an environment where it was easy to go a bit lazy in between tasks, so if I had a lot of little tasks, it became super hard not to get distracted (cost of entry of an activity etc). This time, I just crammed as much as possible, and I’m pleased to say that I can do that now. The only problem was exhaustion, but that’s a normal problem, not a “I have trouble focusing” problem. So that’s good as well.
In terms of content, I went at the limit of what I enjoyed, especially for S (not THAT much into scent), and R, which is the closest to non-consent that I’ll ever do. I also don’t like BDSM that much and it’s the second time I drew Kinbaku SOMEHOW
Overall, super happy with this project, I don’t like everything the same amount, and I tended to go with longer texts as it went (looking at A it looks so short now lmao), but that’s because that’s how I work; even if I try to go small, I can’t help but overcomplexify stuff.
Also I really like some of the characters so I’ll probably re-use them, and some pages are technically canon in my settings already.
And thanks to everyone who liked, shared, or commented, that really meant a lot to me, more so than you can even imagine.
What’s next? Gonna focus on coding for a moment, I still want to release VRcade around the end of the year and I’m far from done. Also I miss drawing Rocket so I kinda want to work with him, no comics yet cause that’s a lot of work and I have to focus on the game.
This was a really fun project to make! And I kinda did it on a “spur of the moment” thing, I had this idea a couple months ago, tried writing a couple letters, it was fun, but very much theoretical at the time.
And when it was pride month I wanted to do something, wasn’t sure what but this sounded okay, and work went (mostly) super slow during June so I could afford to try.
As far as time management, I did 27 pages in 35 days. With my mandatory “one break a week”, I could have been done on the 1st of July, so I’m only 4 days late, which honestly I’m fine with, especially considering I got slowed/stunned by a cold (yeah I know, it’s summer, don’t rub it in). So that’s cool.
As far as motivation went, I started to dip around R, which was just before the cold, and explains the slowing down around that time. Some artistic doubts at some point, the usual “I’ll never do X good”, but I know it’s temporary, it just feels bad on the spot.
Anyway, as per tradition, my projects have a secret agenda: me practicing something specific. This time, I tried a couple things with lines, and the goal was to make stuff look good without cell-shading it. Before that, I usually found myself in a situation where I was desperately trying to apply shadows to my forms, in order to make the result look decent. But as the proverb says, you can put as many cool decorations in your house, if the base of the house is unstable, it’s gonna be shit. Not sure that’s verbatim, but it’s the idea. So this time, I was trying to make the base look good, without relying on shadows to make the result look convincing. Overall? I think it works, I feel like I’ve improved quite a lot.
Another thing I was working on was, well, work. I tend to work in terms of “tasks”, like “today I’m gonna do X, Y and Z tasks”. This system has its upsides, but also downsides when one of the tasks is harder than expected (you feel bad cause you didn’t succeed), and also created an environment where it was easy to go a bit lazy in between tasks, so if I had a lot of little tasks, it became super hard not to get distracted (cost of entry of an activity etc). This time, I just crammed as much as possible, and I’m pleased to say that I can do that now. The only problem was exhaustion, but that’s a normal problem, not a “I have trouble focusing” problem. So that’s good as well.
In terms of content, I went at the limit of what I enjoyed, especially for S (not THAT much into scent), and R, which is the closest to non-consent that I’ll ever do. I also don’t like BDSM that much and it’s the second time I drew Kinbaku SOMEHOW
Overall, super happy with this project, I don’t like everything the same amount, and I tended to go with longer texts as it went (looking at A it looks so short now lmao), but that’s because that’s how I work; even if I try to go small, I can’t help but overcomplexify stuff.
Also I really like some of the characters so I’ll probably re-use them, and some pages are technically canon in my settings already.
And thanks to everyone who liked, shared, or commented, that really meant a lot to me, more so than you can even imagine.
What’s next? Gonna focus on coding for a moment, I still want to release VRcade around the end of the year and I’m far from done. Also I miss drawing Rocket so I kinda want to work with him, no comics yet cause that’s a lot of work and I have to focus on the game.
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~eddyoshi
It was a really fun series, wouldn't be surprised if someone from seeing the series discovered something new they liked!
