Below are the 13 most recent journal entries recorded in Icegaze's LiveJournal:

Monday, February 19th, 2007
11:45 pm	Light At The End of The Tunnel So I've been flopping around for an online comic idea that I can stick with for a long time. Like, YEARS. I've came up with five GREAT ideas that have good potential to get me SOME fame if not fortune. But when it comes CREATING it, I hiccup and stall. It's like when you're riding on a horse that will just NOT jump over a hurdle. It's so determined to remain on the one side you nearly get unseated from the jolt. No. Not jumping. You can jump if you want to - have fun, but you'll have to do it without me. My hand just goes out to lunch. The part that connects the creativity sizzling in my brain shorts out and I'm left staring at a blank page, hand poised, feeling so restless and frustrated because nothing's happening, and nothing WILL, no matter how long I sit there. But I think I've seriously found it this time. It's simple. It's romantic. It's one of my favorite themes. The plot is fairly simple but still interesting. And there is a distinct ending - a slice in time in the life of the main character, not huge, weighty social commentary through example that'll take ten years just to tell. It's light and fluffy withought being powdered sugar coated twinkie. It's like Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Gargoyles meets Monsters Inc. meets Ushio and Tora meets Beauty and the Beast. I've been doodling for the past two weeks, drawing a few pictures here and there, designing characters and outfits and plotting. I've got a start written down and things are very very promising. I've gotten so much farther on this project in two weeks than anything else so far. I think the difference between all of the other stories and this one is a) I know I won't end up spending my life telling it, and b) I'm... actually obsessing. I'm obsessing! Over my own creation! Le gasp! So yeah - here's to hoping that this desire to create will continue. Here's to hoping that I can put a flame under all of my other ideas when this one is done! Here's to hoping this is the dam breaking on my hesitations, fears, and artist/writer/creator block! Boo-ya! Current Mood: hopeful (Comment on this)
Friday, November 10th, 2006
7:21 pm	Ahhhhhh life. So a lot of crap has been going on. It seems like every day I wake up there is something else to do. Which doesn't help at ALL at work since I'm already on a short fuse. I want to YELLOMG at people when they follow me around. When they stand there just on the edge of my peripheral vision, THERE, WAITING, I want to yell at them "WHAT?!" And when they say "HEY! Where's this book?" while I'm trying to zip past any and all people on a mission looking for a book or working on a project I know my face looks sour. I can't help it. I hate mall people. Mall people suck. Cees is here to stay. Been here to stay for about a month. Woot. We just got his social security card and so we can go about getting things like a drivers liscence, a bank account, a credit card, and the marriage certificate. Though we've pretty much been told by nearly everyone we don't need a social security number for any of those. Ah well. I've got my dress 50% made, I've got the invitations 25% made, and I've got about 20% of the adresses I need to send to people on my invite list. Of that list about 75% are going to come. Mostly those who won't come live in another state and don't have the funds to come. The only family from Mom's side that is coming is my Aunt Sheri and Uncle Dennis, but that's proving to be iffy since Gramma's health is declining. Oh my cousin (Aunt Sheri's daughter) and her boy might come too, but that's about it. All of Dad's side of the family is coming, but they won't stay longer than the ceremony since the lot of them are going on a cruise to Mexico the next day... Then there are the invited friends. You know your life is kinda lame when the majority of the friends you invite work with you. Laaaaammmeeee. But that's definitely not something I've ever complained about - I usually like the people I work with. I've gained a nice set of friends because of working at B&N. I'm just.... really ready to start working somewhere else. A fatter paycheck being the major reason, but I've learned all I can from the job, and they're not willing to promote me as is, and I'm not willing to give any more than I'm currently giving which would then GET me a raise... They just can't motivate me to. Work like a dog and be stressed out 100% because of work and THEN they'll think about giving me a lead position? I'm better off quitting and applying to a new bookstore with an eye on the lead position. That way I go in working like a dog and they pay me for my time and effort. Anyway. Creative acheivements - I'm the artist for this here comic: http://www.cyantian.net/noangel/ Which is incredibly ironic considering I mention the author of it in my previous entry. Tiffany Ross writes it, colors, and letters it. But the line art is alllll mine. Since september, even. I've come up with a prequel to Hue's story which is, for some bizzare yet happy reason, is making Hue's story all make sense. I'm hoping to ACTUALLY turn it into an online comic, though it is, just like ABC, a daunting task. Damn me and my long-winded stories that have a beginning, an ending, and a wandering, aimless middle. How am I supposed to get anything done if the middle of the story is as insubstantial as cotton candy? Otherwise things have been pretty dead. I don't draw stuff beyond workshops at B&N once a month, and No Angel. Which is sad. But I blame that on my now soul-sucking job. So blah. Life goes on. Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 19th, 2006
8:20 pm	PoOOOop AH SAY!! And now Adventures In... is dead again. *sigh* This time for good. However that doesn't mean that I've given up on doing an online comic, no! There are too many reasons why I should make an online comic to NOT. I think, however, knowing just how much time and effort making and maintaining one is hurting what little of the meager motivation I already have. I jealously guard my personal happy-time. Time when I do absolutely nothing for my selfish enjoyment. An online comic will be a second job, one I don't get paid for. How some people live off of their online comics boggles my mind. I know of two people (technically four.... but that's a non-related tangent) who do and it seems they rely on the kindness of strangers (via donations) to pay bills and put food in their stomach. And while I admire them for their determination, I am a wuss who likes food, a healthy bank account, and trusts strangers about as far as I can throw a refrigerator. I don't want to be a starving artist (who DOES?) but at the rate I'm going I'll end up not being an artist to save myself from starving. But I don't want that. I don't want to be on the negative part of the statistic that says only 5% of the people with art degrees actually work in the field. All through college I was determined to be part of that 5%. It's possible to make a good living as an artist. But not like I'm doing it. Hah. How can you get your foot in The Door when you're so scared of hurting your foot and all the mutitude of closed doors intimidates you? Anyway! This time around my online comic is going to be something like a bunch of short stories dealing with a single world. I'll get to tell a billion stories with a billion different plots, a billion differnt characters, AND I'll be able to bounce from one plot to another in the timeline since it's the story of an entire people: how they came to be, their trials and tribulations as a whole through and yet tell it through the eyes of a zillion differnt characters. It's fascinating to me (the idea) and I consider it one of my BIGs. ABC, Hue's Story, Vampire/Ghost, and now this online comic that is on the cusp of being created. I've written the plot of the first part of one of the stories, a handful of 'summary' strips that are 'prologues' of each new era of the people the story is about, have character designs for the first story, have designed a huge character that won't get his own story until much later (he's important, but in the 'past'). Yet... I can't come up with a neat title. It's about Earth, but Not Earth. A sister planet gets named Eden (yes, lame, but until I can come up with a better word that embodies that feeling, Eden it stays), a people are scientifically created, and there's prejudice, raceism, speciesim (that's.... not a word), hate, joy, life, revenge, war, love. A time of peace after a great time of war and everything in between. There are so many stories to tell... but how I can I name something so huge? It'll be a collection of a bunch of stories, a bunch of lives, a bunch of situations. It's not one thing. Argh. Yet I don't want it to be a lame lofty title like *BARF* Eternal Journey. It sounded great at the time when we named our story that back in high school, but now it's just lame. It's so lofty that it could be attached to a zillion stories. Hell, even this one. ARGH. TITLES SUCK. Title or no title, hopefully I'll get this one off of the ground. It's going to be a challenge in more than one way: the story isn't about humans. Well... they're half human. Either way they look like animals so they are pretty much furries. So not only will I have the challenge of drawing animals (typically I draw people, not animals, no matter my affection for furries) but actually maintaining an online comic. And I'm thinking about either turning THIS into the online comic. Or getting another livejournal account and making that the online comic... website. Whatever. And despite my utter confusion about how a body can make a living out of doing an online comic, if I can, I will. If it is at all possible I want to be like Tiffany Ross who runs Akaelae Studios. Essentially she's got... nine? comics running at once. Some get cycled so at one time she's really only working on three. I'd do eight - one hour per comic, eight hours a day. Ideally. A small voice inside of my head is SCREAMING that working one hour per comic won't be enough, but honestly, if that's how I earn my living it won't matter that I'm not working EXACTLY eight hours a day on them. Lots of people work overtime. Blar. Updates in the future as to the status... Current Mood: stressed (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 15th, 2005
3:27 pm	Online Comic Well, Adventures In... is getting up against. Knocked down for a while, but I'm revamping it. Scratching the whole project (even the two new tries) and doing Bear's story (only 6 or so people are going to know who the hell he is) in a humorous 4-panel comic strip format. Wish me luck! I just gotta figure out all of these hoops I gotta jump through to actually get it up and functioning... THAT's where I need the luck. Lots of it. Current Mood: busy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 7th, 2005
3:47 am	Another year, Another update I barely write in this silly thing. I forget I have it, mostly. I have other places to post my opinions, it's rare I come here to do it... mostly becuase this is my Project Journal. Projects come and go. Die, go to the backburner, are revived, die some more... All in all it's not helped me to have a project journal. Ugly Dorkling is in the 'drawing' stage. The page measurements, panels, and thumbnails are all done. I just have to put pretty pictures in the panels. That's IT... and yet I haven't touched it in two years. I don't plan on picking it up any time soon. Sad. But true. I created a small, short story I call In The Mirror. It's only ten pages long, has no script and is horror. Not hard core horror, but about as horrific as I do. It's been drawn, some inked, some markered. I'm planning on submitting it to a publisher that does anthologies. Just to get published by someone and my name out there. Adventures In... died. I tried to revive it twice and both times - though good ideas - it died. So I'm scrapping it and going to do something completely different. I've got it planned out, a script written and it's all ready to start on. I've figured out the measurements, I just have to move from script to thumbnails and get a nice batch going before I approach Keenspot again to publish it. I don't want a repeat of Adventures In... I came up with an idea to approach Tokyopop with the intent to get it published with them, but since the only way they'll know I exist is if I impress them with a submission to Rising Stars of Manga I tweaked it so the major climax makes sense, yet fits into 15-20 pages. If they like me enough to want to publish me, I'll submit the full length, proper story to them. I also kind of want to do a fanmanga of Tengu and Ronin, Gargoyle fanfics written by Spike (AKA CSHayden), but the only way that's going to happen is if she gives me permission... Full plate. Lets see what's alive and what's dead next year! Current Mood: amused (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 11th, 2004
5:20 pm	half a year's gone by... Wow, when I wrote that, Cees was in the U.S.A for x-mas, now I'm in the Netherlands for a summer visit... yeah I've been ignoring this thing... So! Vejiita Prostitue Fan Idea - two of tweleve parts drawn. Page one of three of the third part has been drawn but the whole project was put down so I could concentrate on graduating and hasn't been picked back up yet. No fanfics in my horizon, only small little blurbs of ideas jotted down here and there when the inspiration hits me. I got a journal that I'm writting them all down in (har, like I'm post original stuff here. Sorry Mr. Internet, but I don't trust you THAT much) so there aren't any more LOOSE LEAF papers gunking up my room. I should have done that six, seven years ago. Sigh. I got mad at myself recently for how long I've been planning ABC and yet haven't DONE anything with it. Sure I've tried to draw the first page three times, but I've got at least five chapters plotted out, why not just figure out the other chapters LATER. Why do I have to plot the whole damn thing? Why do I have to make it more complicated than it needs to be? Oh, yeah. I submitted a comic to Tokyopop's Rising Stars of Manga contest (the third one) with a Nutcracker-like story called Nutcracker Curse. It didn't get in. I was way so proud of my first rejection letter, you'd think I got in. I see it as my first step to what is the rest of my life and it was monumental. I'm doing another submission for the fourth contest and this one everyone, including me seems to like more called Ugly Dorkling. The goal is to get in the top ten and published. It is be ninteen pages long, so far it's been planned, scripted, boxed out, word bubbles drawn in and two pages are drawn, a third sketched. Long way to go. Due in september. AFTER Ugly Dorkling, whether I get in or not, I'm taking a break to work on ABC. Also, I need to work on my portfolio and make it shine so people will actually HIRE me and all of that's going to be done in time in between, so chances are ABC's going to be slowly worked on. But I HAVE set my foot down and I know for SURE what the first chapter is going to be, the second as well and I will draw those no matter what. Adventures In... tried to start up again, but was set down for reasons I can't remember. I'm going to try to update more seriously. I DO enjoy Thor and think he's got internet popularity potential. Whether or not he will depends on me. It's a sad thing that my characters depend on me (ME!!) to become known and have their story told. Really, they're better off hitting someone else up. (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 27th, 2003
2:47 am	It's late and I'm still deeply involved with the slutty soap opera that my newest fan idea has turned into. I was surfing Vega's site and came upon V.I.A.G (Vegeta is a Gigolo) by Polly E. and it put an idea into my head which has been boiling since then. Which is to say all day. I don't know if it'll get done in the end but I have tweleve sections scripted so far and it has potential to be much much more than that. It was supposed to be funny and fun, like the harem manga but it's turned into an odd fanmanga that is reminiscent of the fanfics I try to write. Very serious. And something that isn't normal either is it's rather bitter. You'd think, reading it, that I don't believe in love, marriage, or happily ever afters. Which isn't true at all. And a complaint I have is Vejiita is so OOC! Everyone is OOC, but he's the worst. I want to go back and fix it, but if I do, I change the lines and I like the lines. The whole concept is OOC though so I guess that's my defense... lame, perhaps, but I can get away with it, I think. Excerpts: Vejiita: I can't hlep what I am. Bulma: An asshole homewrecker? Vejiita: A very attractive Saiyajin prince. Our shared blood seduces him alone. He'd be willing to fuck Radditz if he was still alive. Bulma: Ew! Incest! [she digests this while they eat in silence] That doesn't say much about you, then, does it? Vejiita: You want to know? You really want to know? Yamucha: Yes, damn you. Vejiita: I warn you - once you've had a taste of me, it may not be enough. You may find yourself craving me as the others do. Yamucha: I doubt it. Vejiita: Don't say I didn't warn you. Bulma: [turns to Vejiita mutely, holding out the stick] Yamucha: [gets there first and looks at it. Then throws it away like it's on fire] Vejiita: [picks it up. It's a positive pregnancy wand] What is this? Bulma: I'm pregnant. Vejiita: Congratulations, then, woman. You've now got the heir to a dead race incubating in you. Bulma: [slides to the floor crying] I hate you. Bulma: Would you stop whoring yourself if I asked you to? Vejiita: [placid face] No. Bulma: If I demanded you to? Vejiita: [hard face] No. Bulma: What would you say if I told you I loved you? Vejiita: "Don't." Bulma: [she stares at him] Too late. Vejiita: Fool. See? It's fun. I even scripted a scene I really didn't want to, I was so on a roll and that is RARE for me. I don't want to stop but it's so insanely late (for me), I should. But I'm afraid that if I do, I'm going to lose the flow. Granted I've got tweleve sections to draw already, so I really should quit now. But I know me, and I might lose momentum if I stop the brainstorming/scripting process to start drawing, and then I won't want to draw it anymore, and it'll lie in wait for me to get ambitious like all the rest of my stuff. Rar. I'm planning on drawing it like I do the harem manga, and if I do it while I'm still possessed by whatever it is that makes me creative then it'll go faster and I'm more likely to create more. S'why I love the harem manga so much. Though I don't think the SD-like characters will fit with the serious real-life-mirroring dialouge. Eh, we'll see. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 27th, 2003
7:18 am	Update Yes, I actually done stuff, imagine that. I'm just incredibly, horribly, monsterously bad at keeping things up to date. My brain is elsewhere - my whole existence is elsewhere. Which is mainly why my journal (not the online one, the handheld, paper and ink one) has entries skipping years and important things like puberty. But it's fun to go back and look at the old entries. You think I'm a shitty speller now? AHAHAHAHA you should have seen me at ten, I was like a friggin five year old!! Not that it's all that flattering to mineself, but I have no pride and do not care to uphold dignity. Both take too much time an effort for something only I benifit quietly in. Noooooo thanks. Sooooo, what have I done since I last posted? Surprisingly I drew three more pages to Project Crossover Manga. Since I have this problem with my website being on the computer at home and me at the dorm, updating my website allll depends on if I remember to or not. I have no clue how the Crossover is now going to end. I mean, I know how, but with what I drew I added about two more things I need to make happen before I can scribble down the last page and go on to the harem manga Vega started. Project ABC: Ummmm, and this is where we see a pattern developing. Eh, I put it on the back burner. There is so much invovled with the plotting and schemeing of an entire new dimension for the supernaturals to live in that I put it down so I could do something simpler. ABC is turning into my baby - The Baby. The one I want to be good at, that I want to tell correctly so that I don't mess it up and have to do the beginning over again because it went and got more complicated (and good) on me while I was in the middle of drawing it. I had a thought - I thought, where would the supernaturals GO so they wouldn't be detected by the humans for so many years? The answer: another dimension was much better than my original idea of underground. If underground were the answer than the Earth would be swiss cheese by now, just like they say Paris or Venice is, I can't remember which one. So then I tried to figure out what would be the portal to this fabled dimension, and I realized that something so small as changing one word changes everything. The supernaturals no longer have to interact or worry about humans on a day to day basis. They don't even have to shun the sun so the humans won't see them. They've got a whole new world to them where they can spread out and never see anyone but their own kind. No more cramped quarters, no more neccissary cooperation so that everyone lives in harmony. And what would their world look like? I thought of Neverland - a place reached in the dreams of a child, and it hit me - that's my other dimension. It's not litterally Neverland, but it's LIKE that. So the supernaturals live in this other dimension, now I have to figure out how technology-savy they are, how in the world they come together for council meetings, and how important the other species of supernaturals are because I couldn't represent every single one in a council with alphabets. Needles to say that's when I gave up and left the story to boil. However the yen in me was still strong to create a story that I could take and put into manga format and be strict with it, yet have fun with it and get it DONE. I love the harem manga because it's so easy to write the next page. I only have a general idea of what comes next so what DOES happen is a pleasant surprise to me. Which is THE WAY to keep me interested. I hate surprises, but I love it when I'm in control of them. Like turning over a rock. You know there's going to be something underneath, but oh! hey! look! It's the caramel-filled eggs you planted there from last easter and forgot about until now! Instead of turning around to see the rock is turned over (you didn't do it) and there's a big fat rotting carcass of a hyena that is being devoured by insects and crows and rats. Yeah, I don't like surprises much. Only because I'm not in control of them, that I'm not in the know. Love surprising people, but it's because I got the powah! Iiiiiieeee hoooooldd the pooooooowwwwaaaahhhhhh! Oh the beautiful power, it glistens and gleans and whispers to me. It speaks of the great things we can do together, of all the wonderous things... *cackles insanely* Um... yeah so on to my fun happy idea. http://adventuresin.keenspace.com And there you go. I won't go into detail about it because frankly... there's no detail. I purposefully kept it light and fluffy so I didn't have a lot of things to plan and the plot will hit me upside the head as I go along. It feels like a harem manga to me, which is something I've moaned that I'll never be able to achieve with something original. It was depressing. Then came along Thor, my journeyman from a nudist colony. Yes, you heard me right. The main character's butt naked. We're talking some serious fanservice here. There is an equal amount of males to females - six core characters though at the moment there's only one who is on the page. However where he is right this moment is going to offbalanace the male/female ratio but only for a little while. Well... however long it takes him to return to traveling. Okay so there are some details, but I've got to have some general idea to where I'm going, I'm not steering blind here! Thor has stumbled upon a village of Amazons. I've told this story already - it can be found on Kim's site, but for the sake of originality (though it was my story when she drew it...) I twisted things up a bit. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, June 6th, 2003
12:31 pm	Project Crossover: Two more pages drawn. Five more things to make happen. Possibly three pages, maybe even six. It all depends on what I decide while it's being drawn. Project ABC: major planning burst. Fleshed out some characters, changed other characters, added some characters, drew Kirwin finally and Bo actually LIKED how he looked. And so the rest of the Dragon Council can hear what he hears and sees as well as communicate with him while he's in a Council meeting, Kirwin has their symbols on his body. Earth on his forehead, air on the bridge of his nose, and water on his jugular notch. The symbols are simple enough that I won't mind drawing them on him over and over again. Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 1st, 2003
4:09 pm	It's Been A While, Huh? Well the HP manga has still not been started. And the Well Timed Enchantment Fanfic was dropped for now. Yes, it is perfect that this is now my project journal because then EVERYONE will see just how much I don't do, don't finish, and don't even start. Decided that since I'm going to be in the Painting II class (I haven't taken Painting I though you're supposed to - my advisor put me in and she said to tell the teacher to yell at her if he has a problem with it) I might as well TRY to work on my inability to color things well. My Design teacher was brutal and said my coloring is 'elementary' Evil man. Stupid Design class. Damned C. SO! I'm going to work on that. Draw random things and try not to mess them up when I color them. Hopefully by the end of the summer I'll be better than I am now. Which is to say I'll be 'okay with the occassional cool' instead of 'colored' Also Kuni and I decided that we'll start up a sketch book that we pass back and forth and draw pictures for each other in. Like Tachiik and I did in high school only not on lined paper. It's a beeyahtch if you do a good drawing on lined paper. Kinda messes up the intergrity of a drawing if it's got blue lines streaking through it. Decided to get cracking with ABC. Right now that pretty much means start drawing the characters more often, at least until I'm as obsessed with them as I need to be to tell the story. I redesigned Brazier because every time I drew him he looked gay. Literally. And Brazier's not gay so I changed his look. He looks different and I'm trying to get it to where I draw him the same every time, but it's better than when he was gay. Not that there's anything wrong with gay, it's just that Brazier's not. For my website I'm working on finishing the Just-Ice/Harem crossover, and trying to finish fanfics I've had in the works for years and years. Mainly Mixed Feelings (DBZ) and Daddy Dearest (BtVS) ... more Daddy Dearest than Mixed Feelings... As much as I'd like to become reobsessed with DBZ, and as much as my fans would like the same thing, I don't think I can. Then again because it played such a large role in the development of my style and me, I really can't just abandon it and never come back. Then again that's pretty much what I've done with Ranma 1/2... Still, I'm trying to get the fanfics done because I do like the stories. And DBS is GOING to be finished if it's the last thing I do! Rar! Also, Vega wrote a poem called The Dark Lord and The Seamstress. It's really cute and like Beauty and the Beast only... really not. She wants me to illustrate each stanza and because it'll go well with me trying my hand at working on my coloring skills, I decided to take it on. Sooooooo: Project Crossover - 12 pages already done. Needs finishing, but there aren't many pages left. Maybe 5. Project Sketch Book - Don't even have a sketch book for it yet. Project ABC - Still in the planning stages. Begining the long process of moving from planning it to actually beginning it. Draw characters more, finish designing the rest of the Council members, make up some less-than-beautiful species because everyone right now is either human-looking or semi-human looking an no one is really a monster. Need monsters since this is dealing with all that is supernatural. Lots of drawing. Stop thinking so much and start drawing, dang it! Make it interesting. Make it involved. Make it addictive and vaccuum-like so people can't turn away and then are my life-long slaves and willing buy everything that I publish, bwaaaaahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. *ahem* Project Daddy Dearest - Three chapters done. Uknown amount of chapters in the whole, but if I were to make a guess perhaps another three chapters. Haven't started working on chapter four yet. Project Mixed Feelings - Uknown length, no chapters assigned to it. Yeah I have Chapter One written down but that's the longest chapter one I've ever written. It needs to be broken up into chapters and then worked on. Need to write the section that I write "Stuff. Important part – Bulma walks into the gravity room to find Vejiita crying." in because really that was very bad and lazy of me. Need to then rewrite the end of what is currently up (make it better, MAN is Vejiita a pansy for letting Bulma stop him from killing Yamucha so easily.) and then continue to 'the end'. Perhaps 20 more pages of work. Perhaps less. Current Mood: contemplative (Comment on this)
Friday, March 14th, 2003
11:52 am	Got the Motivation Problem Solved! I foisted it off onto someone else! Seveal someone elses! Well, so that the HP manga actually gets done we've turned it into a imporfanmanga/fic. Almost all of the people who have characters based on them are going to participate and add their two cents. The list goes like so: me, Justice, Dar, Kunika, Sculli, Vega, Kim, Tachiik, Morgan I think... don't quote me on that because I left the list in Commerce where I am currently not... Vega has a condition where she's not supposed to type or draw so she'll be skipped until she's better or until she's at least able to participate. I'm currently trying to write a page that only the participants can access for notes on what are the guidlines. There aren't very many. Couples, time period, and character restrictions. Otherwise there really isn't much of a plot. I'm really glad that Sculli is participating because with her the ... thing will be so much more interesting and plot-twisty. Aaaannnd eventually I'll draw the first couple of pages. I'm aiming for about five - hopefully in that amount of time I can establish a direction that it *could* go in. We'll see. This is going to be so much fun! Like the manga wars only less death! ... I hope... Current Mood: happy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 16th, 2003
3:59 pm	This Is What I Get For Putting My Cart Before My Paard Well, lots of planning of Project One has been done mere moments before and now I have to change the outfits. Not alot, but enough. Now it's set fifty years after the founding of Hogwarts. Not only do I get to deal with the Weasley/Malfoy thing, but I get to deal with the founding wizards and witches of the place for surely fifty years later they're still alive. Salazar has already left Hogwarts and built the chamber of Secrets so that his legacy will live on even if he cannot do his will on his own. Also the hair has to change. Whereas it was once okay to cut your hair, a thousand years ago, methinks not... though you've got to admit that if Hogwarts was founded 1000 years ago for both male and female magic-users, they were a whole lot more forward thinking than the muggles. Yay magic users! So now all the chicks have long hair. Everything else stays the same because that took long enough to figure out as is. I don't plan on altering everything. Just the appearance of the ... you know what I just realized? When was Quidditch founded? *looks it up* Apparently 1050 is right around the time that Quidditch was developing, but not Quidditch yet. Poofyluffers. Hrm... Well, this changes some things. Some big ones. Rar. *thinkplotquestionnix* Current Mood: working (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 15th, 2003
4:22 pm	Ah, The Quandry That is Posting When You Don't Know What To Post... First post. I thought what I'd do was a bunch of surveys taken from Morgan's LJ, but nooooo, I had to leave those on the other computer. The computer I'm not going to get access to until two days from now. If I was a more patient person, perhaps that wouldn't be a very big deal, but I'm not. So instead, you'll get a lousy, short little blurb about how this is first post ever. Yay! Yes, it's finally happened. I don't know why, but I broke down and got an LJ. The only person who knows about it? Kuni. Why? I'm a lazy butt I and keep forgetting that I got one (why it's taken me so long to acutally post. I've had this for about two weeks now) I really don't know what to delegate to this journal. Quizzes? Dreams? Sketchblog like Morgan has? Ugh. That'd be about as updated as my site... Maybe the recent projects that I'm working on. Non-school projects, I mean. Like right now I'm working on a HP manga. It's, so far, pretty slow, but it's got a bunch of cool stuff planned and several people who really want to see it done. I've got a spiral filled with thoughts and plot pieces. Also, I'm trying to get a fanfic for A Well-Timed Enchantment started. So far it's got "Chapter One: ..." Pretty far, huh? I had to reread the book in order to remember the characters. It's decided! This shall be my Project Journal. Project 1: Harry Potter Fanmanga Title: Of the series = no clue yet Of the first 'year' = Tawny Barton and the Sorting Hat Planning Stage: Satisfactory, though not complete Sketching Stage: 9 of the 15 characters based off of friends done. No teachers, nor Weasley, Malfoy, or Potter are designed yet (WARNING: not Ron, Draco, or Harry! It's their ancestors!) ... or have first names either Drawing Stage: First page penciled Project 2: A Well-Timed Enchantment Fanfic Planning Stage: Remembering the Universe and characters, but nothing planned for the fanfic, yet Writing Stage: Disclaimer, Summary, and Rating written. Title: No clue yet Current Mood: content (Comment on this)