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 3: Drawn with words.

Ahhh I don't think I'll be able to do one per hour after all. Hrrm I think I'll aim for 6 drawings today. I have too much stuff to do so I can't just sit here at the computer DX.

Drawing Day 2! Girlymanface

Ahaha! My cousin and I were talking about how the boys in our family all start out really femenine and then somehow turn into manly men when they hit their 20s. I'm still waiting, though I guess the metamorphasis must be starting because I can actually build muscle now.

Drawing for the hour of 9am, drawing day.

Drawing Day 1! Earth Elemental

For the hour of 8am, the first hourly drawing today :D

TAXXXX

Okay, so no tag or image for this one, and it will be suprisingly brief.

The rules on tax have changed since the recession got serious, and these changes have been snuck under the radar due to the current "OMG EXPENSES" row and my personal favourite "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE OF PIGFLU".

You do not have to register as self employed until you turn your comic into a business, as opposed to a source of extra income as this guide suggests. I will deal with the whole business aspect of it here when it comes to it, I don't want to scare off my readers.

Basically you can apply to exempt yourself from paying National Insurance tax if your earnings are below five thousand pounds in a financial year. You may also get TAX RELIEF for earnings in the same bracket, and even though you will still have to send of a check every april to cover your income tax, you will get some if not all of it back. If this confuses you as much as it did me, then you need to go to your local Citizen's Advice Beaureu and ask for more information and some help on the matter. There should be a financial adviser there to talk you through it, primarily because they want to get their hands on your tax cash as fairly and as quickly as possible.

If you are on benefits, you definately need to go to Citizen's advice before earning a single goddess blasted penny. You can now go to jail for a very long time for benefit fraud and trust me: modern jails are just as bad as the old time ones, except now there is more to make a shiv from thanks to the Home Office.

I will update here as to my own personal adventures with the Inland Revenue and some tips learned the hard way.

Luff and stuff - Ree

PS: the credit you earn from advertisers cannot be taxed, but they do have limits on how much you can store on their system and how much you can buy out at a time. So my advice is: if you cant cash it, spend it on advertising campaigns so when you can cash it, you can cash more.

I posted this before I gave it a title.

ZOMG I drew blazes in a tag O_O Truly this is the intimacy that I have craved all my life. Anyway!

I am updating step-by-step pages over at My Thingie all week this week, also I may or may have not mentioned that said comic is also now on daily updates due to the fact that I need to push my traffic up just a smidgeon more.

It is actually working quite well.

Also I had to stop reading Heather's blog temporarily as the strength of her observational artwork is truly depressing. I will never be able to draw like that purely and simply because my concentration span is way too short.

My sex drive is so high that concentrating for more than an hour on anything other than sex is really taxing. Mah guys will know what I mean ^_~.

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Okay maybe not.

O¬O

Anyway!

Have sum videoh:




At first he was saying "my Jescules" and I was like WOAH Frez, this is youtube. But I totally didn't stop watching.

Ree-Turn?

So its been about a century since I updated here, and thats mostly because I've been very unwell. (full saga avaliable over at My Thingie).

I delayed the launch of Felicity Jone until I know what I am doing, and I have procrastinated on sorting out my bank details for reasons unknown, and so far have earned a grand total of diddley squat from these comics. HOWEVER, there is light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, and I may have some good news soon.

Being featured really helped ^^ my hits shot up... but have since come back down, however I now have 44 confirmed favouriters and totally faithful readers at Drunk Duck, for which I am insanely greatful. I am not going to do the usual artist's plea for referrals to friends, but you know, it wouldn't hurt.

Anyway, next weeks' comics are going to be MMO themed, and I promise you that the quality will be much better than seen here >

In the meantime heres something funny:


If I was hetero I'd totally marry her. But she'd probably stab me in my sleep.

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.

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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

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

Totally Demotivated?

Well, not totally, but pretty close to it. I don't know why, but I just feel so stressed right now, its like, someone is sat on my chest. But they are not because that would be wierd. And make it really hard to draw. Like, seriously.

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Yes I do not know.

Well I suppose I am not totally demotivated, but when I read things like "Oh I am ONLY getting TEN THOUSAND HITS A DAY" or "OH MY ADS ARE ONLY WORTH LIKE FIVE BUCKS" it starts to irritate me into inaction. Personally I would literally LOVE to have ten thousand hits per day, and five bucks a day? Dude thats schweet. My annual income is currently less then a homeless person, no joke. I am probably going to be living here for the next TEN YEARS. I would flash your mom for five bucks a day. Well not really. If I haven't made any money by christmas then maybe.

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How would that work? I mean, would you pay for that on paypal, or would that be like a pay-per-view or a subscription or what? Is it porn if its flashing? Or just tongue-in-cheek sillyness.

Is anyone actually aroused by that anymore?

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Comment me up! I'm sure enquiring minds want to know O.o

Projeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeect.

So I finally did something about Project Wonderful.

In four days I will know how that went.

Ossum.

In the meantime, I have decided to include an image in every blog post which best illustrates both my mood and it's content. Because that seems like the way to go, and also because my eyes have started to skip over my own writing, which cannot ever be a good thing.

Lush.

Also hi, this is the first year I have not given anything to Comic Relief. I do not even feel a little bit guilty.

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

You can be as loud as the hell you want...

Its true. Unless you are at your parents house.

o.o

I have become a pokemon widow. Blazes got a DS, and he got pokemon, and he is playin it a lot. If I didn't know how addictive that game can be, I'd be worried that I wasn't entertaining enough for him. As it is, I know I am not, and I am perfectly okay with that. Ahh romance.

Maria's Character Page went up today at FJ. Its the one I am most happy with. Lush.

Take her home! She's wasted! Yaaaaaaaay!

Manuel Carrasco.

His voice is just so pretty, and he is pretty, and the lyrics are pretty, and just... pretty.





My favourite song found here because they won't let me embed because they suck.

He ticks all the boxes: dark hair, brown eyes, designer stubble, voice that melts me...

*swoon*

His voice is just... man.

Lush.

In related news, I just put up the FELICITY JONE PAGES over on drunkduck. Imma link and blog about it tomorrow. Love and stuff.