VM update...Page 35

And here we go, another page updated! And on TIME!!! I hate being tardy, and last week was unusual, because I got engaged, AND the sever was down. I'm so dumb too, because our Webmaster and all around magic person that handles the Modern Tales sites TOLD us that would happen. But we artist's never pay attention to those important memos. Only the ones regarding trivial information and gossip.

Ahhh, it's so late now. I think I need to go to bed, as my neck and back are stiff from doing this page.

I'm glad people are reading it and tolerating the extremely painful facts that:
a. It only updates once a week.
b. I'm really slow at getting to the point.
c. I'm not a strong writer, and therefore a lot of things that could be handled more gracefully aren't.
d. I'm not sure I know what I'm doing.

ANYWAYS! Tomorrow-Sunday. More artwork, more artwork must be made!!!!

No VM update...it's filler...

Oi. So I've just been so busy redesigning my website, I couldn't do a VM page this week. So much to do, so little time. So for your (general amusement, I suppose)-is a little VM behind the scenes peek, and a little something for my fellow GAM creators.

I feel bad-but I think since next week won't be a regular update as well, I will have some time to think about where the story is going and start making some changes, and draw a couple of pages ahead. Because right now, I'm terribly behind.

I'm hoping my general flash skills will allow me to put the stupid new website up. I always have a lingering issue with flash. I REALLY hope this works.

Party on.

Page Update!

Here's the latest page from my webcomic. This one took me a little longer to finish again...look it's 2:12 AM! Whooo!!!! I was distracted watching Project A-Ko whilst I was working on this. I'd forgotten about how confusing that anime was. And the gratutious panty flashing. And how annoying C-ko is. But A-ko rocks. I wish they had just made a whole series about her and B-ko battling it out constantly. (A-ko has superhuman strength, and b-ko is her arch-nemesis who builds robots to try to destroy A-ko. C-ko is the one they both fight over because she's cute and a nice friend-but personally, if she were my friend, I would slap her silly all the time.)

It's weird, I got tired around midnight, and now I'm wide awake. But my hand is tired from coloring.
Maybe I'll look online for more stuff to buy.

And henceforth, it is updated

Latest page for my webcomic is up...and this page probably took the longest conceptually to come up with. I redid this page over, and over, but I'm relatively pleased with the results. Voyage Moyen is on the Girlamatic site under the links column.

I wish I could say that coloring pages is easy-but it's not for me. I sometimes will color a whole layer, only to end up dumping it later. I may put up the processes of how a page is colored-but in general-I tend to color as I feel-and I think that's why it changes so rapidly. I may put up some examples at some point-some base things that I do consistently between pages-but a lot of it is still trial and error. I'm still figuring it out. Yes, it's all done in Photoshop.

On another note, I saw the movie Pan's Labyrinth this weekend. I have to say, I wasn't wholly prepared for how utterly devestatingly sad and depressing the movie turned out to be. I was kind of torn about it, because I was really prepared to see something amazing, and I felt a little let down by it. I could see what Guillermo Del Toro was trying to do-and it's beautifully acted throughout, just there was a certain something about it that just didn't flow for me. It seemed to push everything at you-like here's this dark fantasy intertwined with the brutality of war-that just made it slightly theatrical-like a stage play or something. I honestly wish it were a little more fantasy than war. But, it is a beautiful looking movie, and it paces rather well.

In any event, I can understand the idea of life being cruel. That the cruelest act can never halt the freedom of fantasy and imagination. That the beauty of a fantastical world within the mind can be the only thing beautiful in the world. Sometimes fantasy is an escape from reality. And whether that's healthy, or not, who would be the judge?