March 2nd is MY day! I don’t have any specific customs or anything for it and sometimes I forget it entirely. But not this year! Happy birthday, Eishi!
SAD-II 061: Happy 3/2 Day!
Posts tagged eishi dennou
Hello, Cruel World
So, I’ve decided that I’m going to start building up some more art/comic work and restructure the site around that, possibly ditching WordPress or looking into other plugins for content management. I’d apologize yet again for going *forever* without an update, but I fell into a habit of posting everything I draw or feel like blurting out in bite sized pieces on Twitter or live on my Twitch page then forgetting to come back and collect/repost the work. (I’ve also developed the probably not great habit of using a screencapping tool and pasting it into the tweet box instead of actually saving a properly optimized file locally. Ahem.)
It came to my attention last week though that the site had gone down as a result of some backend meddling on my part that I misinterpreted at a security issue, which lead to me opening a help line and being grilled for the better part of a half hour about my content, what I intend to do with it, and what I’d do if it all just vanished one day. Which did make me think a bit, but not about coughing up a monthly fee I can’t afford to protect my disorganized stash of hobby works. In all seriousness, I’ve been doing pretty okay the past few years on the art front, even if I hit a serious burnout point midway through last year I’m only kind of rebounding from now. So, I’ve made backups of pretty much everything of importance, and I have something of an idea of what I want to do going forward.
Portfolio and commission info need updated and fleshed out as I find myself occasionally stumped by things that are kind of outside my illustration wheelhouse but still want to lend a hand. I want to get a system going that will let me run multiple comic storylines as separate archives a la Clone Manga circa… when did I read that site last? And I still want to be able to write and ramble about games when I feel like, of course. Beefier projects like board/card games will likely get their own site and format to make them easier to track and expand on. And now that I mention that, I suddenly feel kind of bad I’ve been away from here so long my plane-girl game concept hasn’t been mentioned yet. I’d better gather my pics and fix that soon…
Like A Phoenix But Not As Impressive, 3/2 Lives Again
Howdy all, been a spell, hasn’t it?
I’m gonna try and do more frequent art streams soon, if anyone’s interested in dropping by my Twitch sometime. I’m feeling a bit better now from “stuff†before, and while I’m not probably going to be “over†it for a while, I know I have people to go to and things to take my mind off of it.
I actually started writing a new draft of my card game the other day, though I think I may have lost a chunk of my art assets and stuff. I guess it won’t hurt too much to do them over! I was pretty thoroughly demoralized after the 2nd edition tests flopped and I realized the original edition was much easier to play (fast and easy is my goal, which is kind of challenging when the project in question is ‘make a dungeon crawler that requires as little as possible other than the card deck’) Once I get something substantial together I’ll likely relaunch the project-irrgarten blog.
Comics? Not in a massive hurry, want to sharpen myself up a bit more first. I haven’t done anything more elaborate than Twitch emotes in a while. I did do some comic pages for… someone a while back but MyPaint (while great for painting) kind of stinks for page layouts and things that need to be a specific size when they’re done. I honestly may go back to scanning in penciled pages because that seemed to work best for me as far as comics.
Maybe it’s time I gave Eishi n’ Dixie something to do again…
New Year, New Sketch Dump
I’m making another attempt to draw a thing a day! Hopefully it improves my moods even if my skills don’t level up as much as I’d like. I’d like to try and get more ideas out of my head and on to ‘paper’ this year since there’s tons of junk I spend time brainstorming but never ends up leaving my head.
Happy Holidays!
