is a little side-project that I just started up. Working on projects is my favorite stress-reliever, and it's a fun sort of thing that doesn't require very much from all involved.

Anyhow, ProjectWorld is a club/community that caters to artists (literary & visual) who like to make things up. If you like to invent creatures, plants, characters, species, continents... anything that involves world-building. Dark Crystal began as a collaboration between Jim Henson and Brian Froud and a few other folks who, as far as I gather, decided to start with a world and create the story after the world had been fleshed out.

So ProjectWorld is about creating from the ground up, beginning with the inhabitants, creatures and flavor of the world. From there, the project has its own mythology, then its important inhabitants, then maybe a couple storylines. Essentially it has three stages of development.

Anyhow, it would be nice if the project could get a little more exposure, so please post the icon (: iconprojectworld : without the spaces) if you feel so inclined.

If you want to join, just send a note to ~ProjectWorld and write a sentence or two on how you can or want to contribute.

Last semester of highschool!

... I just wanna draw. I did manage to finish a sketchbook this semester (usually I stop drawing in a sketchbook before I finish, for whatever reason) and I'm hankering to start another and get a bunch of pages for my comic done. I've never gotten near to started on the story, and am considering nixing on the ink lines that I'm so fond of in favor of getting something done before I'm in college and/or have a "real" job and am too busy to care.

Got two pages posted.

I'd like to get into LCAD. Considering that Laguna Beach is an insanely expensive place to live, there's a good chance that I'll end up in a state school and probably not to study art. Ah, well.

I was in Ohio for about three weeks. Got home last week (heh) and fell right into drawing again. Hopefully will be getting a driver's license soon, and going back to school in little more than a week.

Ohio's all right. Full of smokers, and I sort of react to smoke the way I react to spicy food. My eyes water up and my nose runs a bit and I cough. I didn't stop coughing so much until I got back home--where people also smoke, but where you'll see an occasional person on the sidewalk smoking, people seem to smoke absolutely everywhere and in great profusion in Ohio. Other than that, Columbus is a pretty city. Lots of brick buildings. It's like a cross of Texas and New Hampshire; big empty roads and buildings which are tall and old-fashioned, but nothing all that old. You can tell by the patches in the roads that there's some snow and ice in the winter. I bet it would be worth tolerating the smoke to see it in autumn.

I was in Ohio for a college preview program. This and this were both products of that program. It was sort of like art camp, I guess. It was fun; I'm glad I went.


Artists above were at the program with me. They're both awesome--go take a look.

I can't believe I'm going into my senior year. Scary.

Kwieskita

...Funny thing to say coming from the person who seldom gets through her message inbox, but I sort of find it depressing when someone (or something) disappears utterly from the 'Net.

One of the first webcomics I discovered was Natura Morta, written and drawn by Abril Espinosa at sublunaire.net. She often posted comic updates on her lj, which hasn't been updated in years. I don't know if she has a deviantart site (none that I've been able to find) and the only place I've been able to find her art again is on the eigoMANGA site, sakurapakk.com, where she was supposedly published. (There's a short preview, if you're willing to slog through the first volume.)

I guess it was back in '03, maybe earlier, when I found her comic. It has a somewhat Mucha feel; I love her work. That's partially why I think it's so sad, because I can't find any of her recent work--after four, five years, artists improve a lot.



On a happier note, I'm working on another project. If you've watched me for a while, you've probably noticed that I'll make a couple of comic pages.. take a few months' break, and not work on the thing again. This is partly because it takes a long time for me to make the pages, and by the time I'm done with one or two, I've changed my mind about a character, or maybe a line of dialogue, and I don't want anything to do with the story again.

So I have to figure out a way around this--to just work on something and finish something. I doubt at this point that I'll ever be able to do comics for a living, but that doesn't mean I can't keep a webcomic as a hobby.

Thus far, I'm nearly done with roughing the book. I'm about 479 little drawings into the story, and even after moments of feeling discouraged, I keep coming back to it. It's called Demon in a Jar at the moment, after the Genie in a Jar piece. The Mother's Day Gift also has characters in that world. It's pretty colorful, which is probably why I'm so gripped by this project.

All right. That's all. I figured I hadn't written anything in a while, and that I ought to.

And, sheesh, 13,000 pageviews. When did that happen? Whoever gets the 13,333 or 13,500th view gets a pic. :]