DRAWINGS?!

Maaaaan... I am trying not to overface myself with work, but I just can't stop drawing characters related to Felicity Jone. These two beauties are Lord Erian Mox and the Regent of Rue, Cineraria Alium (Both written by two awesome women over at Rue). I really have to concentrate on getting the proportions for the bodies right, but I have faces pretty much like, down. Unless you want me to draw them from some other angle, in which case it will take me about eight hours.

Anyway. I want to try doing at least a page a week for this comic, and since I am lazy and really don't understand why my nice shiny new program isn't working, I am going to be drawing in MS Paint. Oh yes. I said it.

So stay tuned for more craptastic quality.

Trilingial Time:
- I should be doing other things.
- Que debería estar haciendo otras cosas.
- Watashi wa ta no koto o yatte iru hitsuyō ga arimasu (私は他の事をやっている必要があります)

- SR

Drawing 4: Rego Jone

Except I filed it in the wrong catagory. Rego on Amarillo from Rue :O

Line in the Sand

Soooooo... where have I been? Man. I am not even sure. I always let my projects suffer everytime I go through some sort of emotional conflict, and its about time I grew out of that.

Blazes and I broke up, after lots of issues mainly revolving about the fact that he freaks out and acts like a dick sometimes. I can say that because even when I was trying to break into comics, he never read this blog even once. Meh. Maybe that should have been a sign? You know. The total lack of interest thing. Or something.

Anyway, despite the breakup I am not actually all that bitter, but all the stuff that happened before it is why everything stopped updating. It started with the comics, and then spread through everything and now... well Its not a problem anymore.

However, I can't just pick up where I left off with all of the things I was doing, because to be honest, I have a pretty crap methodology and the threads are much harder to trace than you would think given the final product. Anyway, heres my plan reguarding the the comics.

My Thingie: I tried to take this in too many directions when I should have just kept it as I intended it, just a cute little journal to capture the funny things that happen sometimes and maybe ask a few serious questions about stuff. I felt pressured to make it into more of a thing after a huge fight about money. My Thingie will go back to being cute stories that happen, three times a week. With maybe some topical content but nothing live action. I will be making lots of these in advance and posting them up.

Felicity Jone: I got really into the planning stages and was let down by my crash-prone image editor. I know they say a poor workman blames his tools, but even Michealangelo would have given up on David if his hammer and chisel kept deleting all his work every time his assistant popped up to see if he had any viruses. I want to tell the story as I have spent a lot of time on it, and will be working on pages using a new editor which is kinda laggy sometimes but thats probably just because I am doing too much on my computer. I do not know when I will be able to start uploading FJ comics, but it probably wont be on Drunk Duck.

Nuffink Doin: Another casualty of the money argument, but also I found it hard to draw and write about people who had lives when I was under pressure not to have one at all. So chah. I will redraw and revive Nuffink Doin and start posting comics up on Drunk Duck after I have revived My Thingie.

Other Stuff: I am part of the Manga Team for my gaming guild, we will be producing comics based on our characters from various games and posting them up online someplace. I will be the main penciller and organiser, but it wont distract me from my other comics.

Exercise is Really Boring: I will continue with my workout diary from day 1 attempt 2 starting soon. I really didn't feel like working out when we were arguing all the time, so I ate chocolate and cakes instead and now I am paying the unhealthy-out-of-breath price. Also we got a puppy. They like to try and eat you when you use a skipping rope or do pressups.

Contextualise Meh: My studies have been suffering but that will not continue! Contextualise Meh will be updated at a rate of one per day starting soon, and I will start sending off a bajillion and one emails to all of the people I feature in the blog, and informing you of any replies.

My Website: Nooooooooooooot gonna happen this year. At least not in this capacity.

And Elsewhere: I am persuing a few options for earning muhlah, and whilst prostitution isn't one of them, its something similar. I will be cagy about it until I know if I can do it or not, but yeah, expect youtube videos and stuff when I start that one.

If you're wondering how I will achieve all this... well I waste a loooot of time doing stupid stuff that just gets me depressed anyway, so this should distract me nicely. Luff and Stuff - Ree aka SR.

Guns, Bells and Whistles

I'm back! Did you miss me?

Okay so I’ve been working on this for a while and it’s the reason that my posting has been so quite over here. On the 24^th of June, the first My Thingie of the new My Thingie was posted on Drunk Duck. This will be the start of the archive for my website (when I eventually get it) and it will also be the FIRST BOOK. The story will follow me from the last two years of High School (briefly) all the way through to my very sudden bumrush though the doors of Art School.

There will be japes, jinxes and also lots of jokes about bottoms. Oh and of course, the entire reason behind why I want a t-shirt that says “its all about my vagina”.

You can read it by clicking here for the Drunk Duck archive.

I have also submitted My Thingie to several search engines, and the traffic has increased nicely, I am now on my way to actually getting a website. I have decided on a URL, and if it isn’t available when I can afford it, I am actually going to eat someone. And not in the fun way. I’m talking full on, knife and fork, inna pie, Hannibal lector shiz.

You know it.

Man I really need to get writing on the scripts for My Thingie.

In other news:

Felicity Jone will be delayed until after the first 200 pages of My Thingie are done.

Nuffink Doin will continue to be sporadic for the full length of its 1000 pages.

Protanking has been delayed until the first 200 pages of My Thingie are done.

Ask Artery is looking for your advice! Email to ask.artery@googlemail.com

Video for your Pleasure:

Linkage for this post:

All About My Vagina

My Thingie

Felicity Jone

Nuffink Doin

Ask Artery

Belfry Webcomics List

The Webcomics List

WebcomicsZ

Mah Feather List

My feather list is getting bigger:

Nuffink doin: All unshaded pages, plus a some minor work on earlier pages.

Felicity Jone:
Pages 2, 3, 6, 7, 8

My new work schedule means I work only on weekdays, with any extra touch up work to be done at the weekends if I have time. Page 7 of FJ is so utterly hideous that I will definately be working on it this weekend.

As soon as I get back into the flow of this, I will not need a feather list at all.

...

Okay so thats probably not true.

I am so lazy =_="

I need to do some life studies but lack motivation. If I did some rude ones would people flock to view them? Would you link them if'n I did?

Hrmmhrmmhrmm...

Wootwoot!

There is a very important symbol in this image>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

That feather means that a page will be redrawn in the future. This will mean that the FJ archive will be full of constant suprises and special stuff and wow and yeah.

It has nothing to do with the fact that I am not yet back into the habit of drawing in high detail.

So yeah.

Today I did everything I wanted to do, and later I think I might do a bit more work on some of it. Which is lush. But right now I am going to get a coffee.

Luffs it.

In the meantimes I suggest that you go and read London Underworld, which is a beautiful depiction of 19th Century London and the criminal world. Though not as dark as reality, its just dark enough to still be enjoyable.

- x0x0x- Ree

Super Crisis Ends!

I need to cut my hair. I have been curling it to keep it out of the way but now thats too much bother to do every single day (for no-one to see how amazing it looks) so I am just going to get some scissors and-

Snip.

My boyfriend wants to do it, but given that everytime he asks me if he can he gets a crazed look and starts to dribble from his mouth: that is not going to happen. Still it will give me something to blog about! AHA.

-_-!"

Anyway!!

Important news first!

My crisis is over, the FJ pages will be ready for next saturday and updates will be constant every monday wednesday friday for the next two weeks, then I am switching to monday-friday for four weeks so that I can get a buffer going, THEN it will be back to monday-wednesday-friday.

And because that probably didn't make any sense, here's a schedule:

FJ Updates:
Monday 13th April
Wednesday 15th April
Friday 17th April

Monday 20th April (Plus some extras)
Wednesday 22nd April
Friday 24th April

Monday 27th April
Friday 1st of May (Plus some extras)

Monday 4th May
Friday 8th May

Monday 11th May
Friday 15th May

Monday 18th May
Friday 22nd May

Then after this updates Monday-Wednesday-Friday.

After this I will not need to do any more schedule changes, because I will have like four weeks of buffer ahead of me at all times. Which will be nice. OH also, Viceroy came back from his haitus, there is a link to his blog here.

But its rude, so don't go there if you're in work.

- Ree

B LEH

I have not been practicing my drawing skills every day. I have not done any life drawing since I left college, because my model is my boyfriend and I keep having sex with him when he is naked: not drawing.

However there is a reason for this.

I have been kicked back so many times in the last year that I now have no idea where I am going, what I am doing, or how I am going to get there. All my motivation has vanished, most recently due to being kicked by an advertiser and then again by some listings and then again by the banks and just BLEH. The real world sucks, why did I want to be a part of this so badly?

I mean aside from the fact that I actually cannot stand the "Student Lifestyle". Heather and Sophie were awesome in college, serious props to my two favourite ladies, Sam the Duke was pretty awesome too... but they were the only people there that I could stand for more than a minute.

Most of the people I know that have gone to university I no longer talk to because I get sick of hearing about how much they drank or who they want to do or why they are unable to hold a relationship or what they want to do in their gap year. I just. Don't. Care.

That aside.

I just need a break man, you know?

Just ONE leg up.

Or maybe even a toe up.

Tch.

Anyway. Felicity Jone will update on the eleventh though I haven't even started drawing the pages that I am supposed to yet, so its going to be a struggle for the first few months. I need to redo one of the pages for My Thingie next week as its dirrrteh and needs a cleanup, also I have not done much work on Nuffink Doin because I have too much work to do on the others: but would rather waste time. Welcome to my life.

Its hilarious is it not?

Well I find it funny - xoxox Ree

LOOMING

The eleventh is looming, and I have made a resolution!

After I get to level 25 on Florensia I am staying off the game until I have finished all the pages I need to upload on the eleventh and in the two weeks afterwards.

Felicity Jone will start updating on the 11th of April.

There will be five pages (the remainder of the prologue) two additions to the double page spread, and six additions to the extras section.

Lush.

Okay?

Okay!

-__-"

Now I'm going to level like the shameless addict that I am.

FLORENSIA

If I am late uploading FJ pages, that is probably because of this. I have a major weakness, and that weakness comes in the form of cute japanese games. Florensia is one such game.

My character is now level 22, but I am now so very badly behind on drawing that if even if I started now and worked solidly through till tomorrow, I would not be able to finish everything on time. Plus I can feel my knowledge of Spanish leaking from my brain at the same time, which sucks as apparently thats where Blazes wants to move to.

We're probably going to live in Marbella with everyone else from working class backgrounds. A sore thumb; I shall stick out like it. But at least this shows a degree of change in my usually stubborn and ornery other half. Ahh well. Babysteps, thats what I keep telling myself. Babysteps.

ANYWAY, I have decided that tonight I am going to draw at least ten strips for Nuffink Doin, then at least three pages of Felicity Jone. Then after that if I am still conscious and without a migraine, I will probably be skulking back to Florensia.

(If you just keep clicking the top option on the login screen you'll find the world I am at. My character name is Essar. Lush.)

Right: Coffee > Crackers > Emails > Drawing :: ACTION GO!

(Yeah I don't know either... - Ree)
PPS: I can find out how to merge letters with the tilde key in word, but I cant make it happen on the intornets! Grnar!

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I've decided to do some more preparation work before I start drawing the bulk of Felicity Jone has Ruined My Life. Mostly this includes lots of life drawing, but I am also going to be doing a huge number of worldsetting illustrations. Everything from clothing to magic and from buildings to critturs has to be drawn out before I draw it in the comic. This is a lot of work but I will be able to get through it well before I can even SMELL April appoaching.

That said, this week is the week I sort out my finances. Starting with my bank, then paypal, then a second attempt at Project Wonderful and as an additional THEN a jaunt with Google Ads. During this I am also going to be trying to increase hits on all my stuff, and try not to curl up into a ball and die.

Also today an expert said that the recession is likely to last ten years. I would like very much for that man to be shot right in the face.

On a related topic, I am about to go and waste an irresponsible amount of time playing computer games. Tatafahnao - Ree

Neowrneowrneowr

I think there is a bubble in my brain. No joke. I am working with paper and pens for the first time in ages, though I have decided not to use any of the nice liners and markers that I acquired last year, and have gone with EL BIRO. I have to wait for the splodges of typing ink to dry before I can fill in parts of it, and then I have to wait till tomorrow to erase the pencil and scans it in.

I am doing three weeks of these style of drawins for My Thingie and then deciding afterwards if it is easier to do it that way, or the way that I am doin it nao.

Also I have done nothing on FJ. At all.

Happy birthing day to Robyn.

I'm going to go and find out what happened to my social skills now.

- Ree

PAGES

FJ is now massively behind on pages and MY THINGIE's buffer is so thin its barely even a smear. AGG. How did this happen, you may ask, well... I have no idea. I have been drawing, but also procrastinating on it, because other things were more important. Plus when I did get time to draw, that little adventure in retail banking completely took the wind out of my sails.

Still, I am working today and although it is not as fast or as thorough as I had hoped it would be by this stage, its still work. I think I will be able to get most of the launch pages up in time for tomorrow, but I am having to push actual updates back by about a month, which really makes me feel sick to the stomach but ah well.

The reasons and goings on in my life that lead to this will be fully documented in MY THINGIE over the next few weeks.

Annyhu.

I am going back to drawding nao. Luff and stuff - Ree

FINALLY

I have finally started working on pages for FJ again and MAN it feels so good.

I have decided to work in three steps. Step one is the roughwork straight from the script, step two is the neat lineart and framing, then step three is the final linework and shading. At step two the pages are readable enough to go online, which is when I shrink them and put them up so I can meet my upload dates.

When I have uploaded a year's worth of pages, then I will start working back over them and getting them up to a higher standard for print. Its a lengthy process but at least it works. I just found that one of the pages from my script, a short passage of text not even a paragraph long just translated into SEVEN pages worth of comic strippery. Theres a lot of scenery work in the first ten pages, and I am not really happy with them yet, but if I can finish them to a high standard with the print lineart then I think they will be stunning.

I have added some more links to the My Thingie Links Page. In closing have a RETRO COMIC from three months before I started ART SCHOOL.

Doodles was just that, doodlins, which I don't really count as drawing as there isn't really any improvement over the course of it, and it wasn't to express anything through artwork. It was just a meme passed back and forth between me and some friends.

If I can find someone who still has some of them I will dig them out and put them up somewhere, maybe.

EXTRAS!

Wootwoot! Extras and stuff now avaliable over on Felicity Jone has Ruined My Life. Well AN extra anyway, the rest of those files will be worked on and uploaded over the next few days. I really need to get started on the pages for the launch, so far I am still not even done with page 2, so I really need to get a move on.

You can start at the beginning of FJHRML here.

I also need to get a whole buncha pages done for MY THINGIE which is almost at the end of the buffer. Why am I procrastinating? I have no idea. At least I don't have any scripts to write, as they are all done and dusted.

Oh, and because I didn't mention it. Blazes came to stay for the weekend and we had gudd times and he alleviated some of the emo that I had been suffering from in the past two weeks. Which was good. I miss him already though. Cusses to falling in love with a guy too far aways T_T. Then again, I don't really like the guys in this area, so it was bound to happen eventually o.o.

I am off to draw'd nao. Will spam with updates later, kay? xx - Ree

I AM SO EXCITED I COULD LITERALLY PEEE

Thats the PREVIEW of the cover for my new graphic novel, the name of which is very very barely visible in the bottom corner. This is the main character, Felicity Jone, doing stuff. She is kick ass awesome.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Christ. Theres no hope of ever regaining my street cred after so many spontaneous fits of giggling, I am really excited about starting this project and cannot wait to get stuck in; though I have to at least till tomorrow or else I'm gonna do myself perminant damage. Anyyvey, this is lush.

I like it.

The finished one is even better. I am so happy right now.