UV 10th Anniversary comic

I shall preface with this post by saying: I have not gotten enough sleep. Part of me wishes I had made more of an effort to do something special for the 1st decade birthday of my blog/UV story, but honestly? the irony of "10 symbolizing completion" feels correct because none of this is complete and I feel less pressure because of it.

SO. on that note, allow me to present my out-of-context thoughts in the form of Aeron giving me emotional support or whatever I was thinking of when I drew this last week XD

Feeling exhausted and bitter about sleeplessness is not the energy I wanted when I planned to post this, but you know what? It's fine and I think the vibes still work.

Completed and perfect UV is not. However, a delight and treasure it is because I still love these dorks an unreasonable amount.

Let's see where the next 10 years take us!

Rewind and crush your Enemies into the floor

 To the surprise of everyone (including myself) I did not draw once this week, except in my notebook which I don't intend to share with anyone.

I instead wrote a short fanfiction about Star Wars (of all the possible things I could've written about???) and even finished it. Didn't edit or spellcheck it much, but I finished it! And that's somehow more of a miracle than me finishing a short comic.

So yeah. No new art to share this weekend. But I can offer the comic I finished weeks ago instead.

 

Since it still makes me laugh I think that means I did something right, but for the most part it was just a silly idea that I wanted to get down on paper.

We'll see if I draw anything next week. Or if I just write more fanfiction instead.
Only time will tell!

"What do you mean tomatoes aren't supposed to stab you like this"

Howdy everyone! Nice to see you all here again this week.
I could talk about  a few things I did during the last few days, but honestly the most interesting thing I did was finding out I've been allergic to tomatoes for most of my life and didn't realize it until someone said "and if you ever eat something that makes your mouth numb or tingly, it's probably an allergic reaction!" XD

Okay, so 'allergy' is probably an overreaction XD I don't get sick when I eat tomatoes, and the worst thing that happens to me is my tongue feels like a pincushion, but I'm still amused that it took me this long to figure out I had an allergy to one of my favorite savory fruits

And to make things even better, I made a quick comic about this truly riveting and exciting discovery (and I'm not even being sarcastic about it! XD)

I'm now hyper aware of this new thing that's in my life, but I expect the novelty will wear off after a little while.
Until then I'm still chuckling at myself because good grief it's very funny learning this kind of thing about yourself, and it WOULD take me this long to figure out something so obvious and I love it

Tiger Twins comic panels

Busy week! Interesting week. Pretty good week. I've finished sketching (and coloring) all the Hamtaro comic panels I've been working on since early June (despite my initial fears of burnout), Art Fight has officially started, and lots of other shenanigans have happened since I've last uploaded.
I'm tired, but content.
Mostly tired, tho. XD

 

I still can't believe I managed to color all 14 panels (not counting sketches) in a week. Especially these four. Backgrounds have never been my forte, and definitely not perspective! yet I'm reasonably proud of how these came out. Not perfect, but they'll do, and that's all I need from them.
Gonna start posting these on Instagram tomorrow.

I'll be too busy with Art Fight to sketch any new comics for a while, but I'm actually hyped to continue this lil' story if I can. Ah, but we'll see.

A Christmas Miracle in the form of a Competely Finished Comic from AppleStorm

At the end of 2020, one of my New Year's resolutions was to draw and complete one long-term comic project before January 2022.
Beginning as a side-gig (just something I did in the background while I tried to brainstorm my Purity comic... cuz my brain needs variety) this ended up becoming my full-time focus when I realized I wanted experience and endurance before I put my whole heart into the thing I really wanted to look good.

And I took the advice of other comic artists to start off with something that was 20 pages or less.
This was 20 pages exactly.
And Purity was going to be over 20. Maybe even over 40 or 50.

So yeah.

Began drawing the thumbnails in mid June. Kicked and screamed and cried through the challenges until December 24. Then promptly praised God for blessing me and for giving me strength and courage for seeing this through to the very end. Despite everything.

Is it perfect? I wish it was. It is not.
But would I do it all over again? Absolutely.
I learnt A LOT about perspective, anatomy, paneling, writing, perseverance, patience, and self-discipline. Amongst other things.

 And overall I am pretty content.
I'm looking forward to doing it aaaaall over again when I next have the energy to spare. XD

And now whenever I go back to look at my old art, I shall probably cringe and hastily scroll past and pretend I never drew any of this. XD
Ah. Such is the life of an artist.

But in all seriousness, this was probably the hardest thing I had to do all year. And 100% self-imposed to boot.

The last time I completed a comic completely was in 2016. Five years ago.
I've tried and failed drawing comics dozens of times since then, so the fact that I am here now - despite ALL the temptations to give up and the burnouts - surprises me a lot.

Man. What a good Christmas gift for myself. And what a way to end the year!
Never going to top this, that's for sure.

Anyway. That's all from me for now.
I've got some shenanigans to do with my family now, so I'll see you dudes in 2022.

*raises glass of apple&mango juice*
Here's to this year finally being over, and let's hope the next year will be a little better than we dare hope!
Or in the very least not quite as bad.

Cheers. And a very Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all. And thanks for reading.
*Drinks up*

Pep Talk (Sketch Comic)

Not much tonight, guys. Ended up taking a break from any serious drawing this week. Focused mostly on my mental and emotional health. I'm a little more stable now, I've got a lot of ground to cover.

Did sketch this out yesterday, though. Self-indulgent, but therapeutic.

Been playing around with the Inside Out concept a lot lately. Trying to use it as a means to explore my Anxiety and ADD brain, as well as some other things.

Mostly stuff I've only recently been allowing myself to acknowledge or accept.

With any luck these guys will help me sort some confusing brain nonsense. Or at least all my suppressed emotions... *thumbs up*

Eyes refuse to focus. I'mma leave now.

Bye-bye! Enjoy your little scruffy Disgust and ever-worried Fear. :)

UV Rough Comic

 IT'S BEEN SEVEN MONTHS AND I'VE ALREADY MADE ANOTHER COMIC, WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT???

I was just playing Pokemon Shield at around midnight last Saturday and was just starting to wind down and prepare to think about going to bed when I had this urge to draw something. Didn't have a clear picture of what, just... SOMETHING. So I whipped out my tablet, fired up CSP and started sketching. About 20 minutes later I had 10 little thumbnails as a base idea and 10 very rough sketches I planned to expand on later the next morning.

About 2 days in I had finished the outline I wanted, and another two days I had all the colours down (would've finished it sooner but preparing for a trip to New Zealand certainly took some time). 

Oh yeah! Going to New Zealand tomorrow. Catching a flight at around 7 in the morning I think? Which means we'll have to be leaving at around 4-5ish. Looking forward to that.

But I'm not that stressed currently... And I'm a actually excited in some ways. Once we're through the whole "get past Sydney Security to get on an airplane", bit... 

*Thumbs up* 

UV Comic sketches

HI! Oh boy. Remember a little while ago about me saying something about trying to make a comic and maybe even posting it on here? WELL! I've finally done it!

(Anyone who keeps a close eye on my Instagram would have already seen this stuff ages ago, but whatever.)

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Basically the context for this little strip is that Midnight is in desperate need of money to pay the bills and to look after all the kids and animals under his care, and to maybe try and avoid starting a war with Reginald's brother.

Midnight is in his early 40's or something in this; he's been running the kingdom for a good while now [about 20 years], and he's established the 'accidentally adopting anything and everything that needs a home' routine... And other stuff I can't be bothered spelling out...

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You may have noticed that there isn't much dialog, but considering I didn't have a script for this when I started, I think you'll agree it's not too badly off. (I had a lot more dialog sketched out but most of it didn't make it to the final cut, for better or worse) A few frames may be missing too, but not enough so that it needs explaining, so I'm just gonna leave it like it is.

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I am... WAY to tired to be dealing with this any longer, so I'm just gonna go back to fun drawing things and finally post this. After 3 weeks of it just sitting there.

If you want any more detail on this just ask (obviously), and Happy April 1st! I didn't know it was that date until just a few hours ago. Hah. 

I can't tell if this is good timing or bad. 

Anyway! See you guys later! Enjoy this little weird comic I did. :)

An Undercover Christmas comic Page3

... Don't worry. Those girls should theoretically appear in the main story at one point or another. Hopefully. If they don't, well... No tears will be shed for them. Except the otter. I actually kinda like her.

Again, if you see any typo's, let me know! :)

An Undercover Christmas comic Page2

Koala? Qualified? Koala-fied?

Yes, I made Ruby asked about Santa just so I could make that horrible pun!

... I'm not sorry.

And who recognizes the red cameo in panel three? Anyone?