so yeah, I moved the two buildings in the background, and where the main characters are sitting on the fountain/statue. you can't see everything here yet, but I think it'll be good.

The statue wing (yes, it's a bitch to draw, and I need some of a second one) takes a lot of focus now. But I'm gonna lower the contrast a bit on it before I start colouring and shading (dear god, what have I've gotten myself into), and the colour will be gray. So the end result shouldn't be as chaotic and absorbing as it is now. I hope it will pull the eye from the almost empty sky in the finnished result, though. And the characters should be framed nice under both statue and church.

Large plans, we'll see if anything turns out the way I hope. I think it's worth a shot.

I was bored.

So here's my webcomic!


Can't read it? Too bad. You're not supposed to. (serriously, if you can read this, tell me)

9 pieces broken down to 6 or 7 parts. As I might have mentioned, I did this for pacing. There's really not much story in this, and nothing written in stone. It's just the main plotpoints, places where I want certain development in story or characters, and some of the nifty details I want included in the story. Also, you might notice some underlined text right next to the "Chapter numbers". It's the main theme, message or feel I want for that part of the story.

The only thing I suspect you guys can read, is the 5th line in part 9. A bit corny, I know, but it's a fantasy story. Although not an fantasy epic, I still want a decent finale.

Right now I'm trying to convert an old scetch of mine, from the same project, into a finnished piece.


FYI: convertion have not begun yet. this is pretty much the original scetch. Its only objective was to figure out just how much background detail I wanted in the comic. As you can see, I'm aiming high. (And here are the characters: http://www.simensasylum.com/ithos/the3.jpg )

I love the angle, never been the kind of artist that worries to much about correct perspective. But that only makes a lot of stuff more hard to draw. I'm gonna try not to worry too much about anatomy (I'll have to develop a personal standard for this project anyways). I'm still a bit uncertain about the composition. Should I move the fountain a bit? The church? I'm really found of my 2:3 canvas, but should I make it wider so that the fountain ends up more between the buildings?

Bah, I'll never get it right anyways. I'm a angsty, angsty artist. I just have to do my best.

IT'S A GOOD DAY TO DIIIEE!!!

And lo! He returned to the dark corners of the internets!

Yes, I'm home. Managed to survive my trip to denmark. Got home early this morning.
Been browsing the internets after that. And animooting.

http://www.simensasylum.com/ithos/warlockwalkfin.swf


It's supposed to be 400x300ish but it will show whatever the size your browser is. make it smaller for smoother run and less vomitworthy visuals.

So I really, REALLY need to learn the ToonBoom software properly. Need to find my tweening tools. As you can see I made an halfassed attempt to do the floortiles and torchholder-thingies on my own. What a mess. A workheavy, uneeded and ugly mess.

Character is my good ol' OC, "The Little Warlock" (who is still female, despite the title...)Old drawring is oooooold =^_^=
I have missed drawing something with her. True, after drawing her 20 times in a row now, it dampens the urge, but I think I'm gonna use her a bit during animationpractice, so you'll probably see more.

I'm in Denmark. The hotel computer is really old, and slower than darwinistic evolution. Gotta love the sounds of old keyboard-keys tho. Creates some nostalgia and brings back memories of old PC games. Miles away from my Wacom, and no scanner in sight, there's no scetches for you anytime soon. Haven't drawn anything on the trip anyways. Drawring and reading while driving is generally a bad idea. Only scribbled down some notes on my comic-project. I'm trying to set the pacing of the plot before writing it. Should apprehend long and angsty storyarcs, and make editing the plot later, easier. Or that's the theory, anyways.

Thus far, it's been mostly radiolistening, daydreaming, stopping here and there to be tourist or doing some reading. I got hold of the fat book collecting the Rainbow Six serries (or most of them methinks). So far, it seems alright. Got a Warhammer 40k novel and plenty of paper to draw on, should the spooks get boring.

Sweedish Radio Bandit was awesome. Or at least, from the Norwegian boarder and to Göteborg. They played some good stuff, ACDC, Metallica, some old classics of Guns & Roses, Iron Maiden, the good rock from the 80's, and a less whimpy title from Nickleback that renewed my view of the artist. I even heard some Disturbed before the signal gave out. Once in Göteborg however, Bandit radiowaves was changed with the local flavour of the same company. They still called themselves Bandit, but was clearly hit by a pussyfication-ray at some point. Angsty emo-rock, female artist who call their music rock because of daddy-issiues or because no other genre will claim them, mixes of the two and downhill from there. True, still no rap and such nonsense, but despite Dream Evils lyrics in "No Way", rock and roll DID die. Or at least, it felt like it. "Fairytale" by Rybakk is NOT, under ANY curcomstances, Rock. My father claim we have a Bandit radio-channel at home too, but from what I can remember from Norwegian radio, they must have the Göteborg-syndrome.

Finaly got some much needed e-mails from Teesside, regarding accomodation. Should have a chance to fiddle a bit with that stuph while I'm here. Tomorrow, perhaps. Sooner than later.

I miss my girlfriend. All the way over in Thailand, she be. Danish beach-girls and blond sweedish jailbait just isn't a fraction as interesting when you got someone you like. Miss you a lot, kitteh.


Will write more later-ish.
Happy surfing.