I have enough confidence in where the plot for Blackbird would go, and enough details so far for up to about 20 chapters (lol..), and all this has been established for a while since I didn’t have time to work on it in the last while… now I looked back to the summaries I wrote down (so i don’t forget like I did last time), I realized that I have really uneven character involvement. I tried to make sure everyone that’s supposed to be important are always involved, but so far at least Keri and Weirin aren’t involved enough until the third or fourth book (9th chapter and on). I had to change so much stuff about individual events in the second book just so they don’t seem neglected, but they are still portrayed as pretty much useless next to Visrin.

Also I kind of realized that the amount of details–as in event details, such as making sure that I illustrate every move done in a fight sequence and sutff like that–is almost as bad as Lord of the Rings for a manga. The first book spans 3-4 days, the second book spans 1 day, (lol…) the third a few days, the fourth a week etc. I didn’t want to cut anything out; everything has to take time to be explained little by little so no one would bore the hell out of themselves reading a whole book of Maesltrom theory, but I probably wouldn’t get anywhere far in the next few years if I keep to my plan. I made the story too big for a first timer (again my last manga DOESN’T COUNT ]: cus it’s horrible and I stopped after the first chapter) hobby-manga artist, but this is also what made it so uncontrollably fun and addicting.

I’m colouring the last showable commission for a bit… Ilana’s professor in iro Chaos, the same person who commissioned the crusader pic I did a while ago as well as the assassin cross I just finished. I can’t believe I JUST found out that both her and Whacko Jacko are in Aureus… Remi messaged me yesterday and I found out. We chatted for a bit and I missed RO again >> Aureus rulz0rz!

I think right now it looks kinda scary though, cus it has so much exposed skin, and I STILL don’t know how to colour skin or muscles. I need to study some basic anatomy for my own good… the way I do hair and skin doesn’t match the way I do clothes at all.

On other news, I found the perfect solution to my drawing boredom. I drew so much that drawing has become something like knitting for girls; I get super bored when I am cging a picture, because I have nothing to think about and it annoys me so much. One day I told a friend that I wish there’s something that would read me stuff while drawing so I can be more productive. The radio reads me things of very little importance and has too much ads. Then yesterday I finally decided and downloaded a text-to-speech program, and found composer biographies for it to read. It worked like magic! It was so cool that I can do 2 things at once, and most of all, I can finally justify myself spending hours drawing, cus I’m learning at the same time ;) (not really) I wish I can find documents of books online though, then I can finish reading that Harry Potter book that I should give back to my friend before the holiday ends… and many other books that I did not have a chance to read because I am too lazy.

3 weeks of xmas break ends in 4 days. boohoo. Perhaps my opinion differs from that of my parents, but it was a great one. I drew a lot huahuahuahauhauua :D