I've Noticed That I'm Quite Abysmal At Keeping Up Drawing Whenever I Have A New Partner In My Life.

Taking a break on comic making to work on a crime drama novel for NaNoWriMo feels strange, but there’s only so much I can do in a single day, so eh.

I’ll hopefully bang out this novel quickly and then get back to comic making..and I’ll probably make a book design this month as a result.

I am constantly annoyed with DuoLingo gaffes like this, so I shall start making a chronicle of the various screwups that DuoLingo makes in the DuoLingo Japanese course, as well as silly sentences, because why not?

I can’t begin to express how happy I am to make a composition where I can line up a sword with the italics of a font just right, pretty much immediately in the concept sketch stage, but I am.

I’m also pleased with sketching out a late-30s/early-40s-ish high elf with a demonic looking sword and a lot of swagger...(and the two unfortunate saps he’s dragging along for his mission.) I’m coming to like this guy’s character design.

Also, I can’t draw furries to save my life. Help me.

I’m more or less satisfied with this, but this ultimately demonstrated a huge problem in graphic design. Specifically, when you find a really good font, but you have to either pay money or contact someone to use it for commercial use.

I say this because the left one is completely freeware fonts (Milkshake + Ostrich Sans), but the right one uses Blacksword, which is only free for personal use. I COULD do my own handlettering, but that’s time consuming on my end, and I want to turn this into a card ASAP...so in terms of my time, that’s not an option.

I’m kinda sad that I can’t commercially use the right one at this time. At least I have a cute corgi in a bowtie staring at me to reassure me that it’s all gonna be ok.

(And for the record, I am aware that you cannot actually give alcohol to doggos. Truffles had no wine, and the wine is only there as a photoshoot prop. My roommate drank the wine later. Truffles got to have a couple of crackers, though.)

I wrote the thing. I wrote a slice-of-life Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusader’s fanfic involving stupid parlor tricks. All in three hours.

You’re welcome, but also, why do I feel like this is a mistake? It’s safe for work and relatively innocuous, but still.

Also, the title is a slight modification of the first lyric in Cherry by Chromatics. Go listen to that—it’s a really good song, I promise.

I am super happy to call this finished. It’s not perfect, but it’s at the point where my personal standards are satisfied at this time.

I can finally go on to another page, and probably try to learn how to do things faster, I suppose.

I have learned that watching Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure all over again when you already know the exact flow of the story yields some interesting tidbits—particularly, bits of dialogue and animation are really beautiful examples of foreshadowing, and I’m just like “Ah! That’s so cool!”

Unfortunately, me and my spoiler hound attitude has screwed up one of my roommates. The other one is new to Jojo, and I have to reign in the first roommate so that the second one isn’t spoiled when he doesn’t want to be, and it’s weird to be vaguely told “well, I got used to you being ok with spoilers!”, and it’s like...

...ay, even spoiler hounds gotta have manners around others who aren’t.

Current lessons in DuoLingo land; being specific about translating 写真 as “photo” as opposed to “picture” because it’s already a pet peeve of yours to call photographs “pictures” in ENGLISH, and that’s technically what’s going on here already…is apparently a penalty in Japanese.

Also, taking a more literal translation with 良い is also a penalty.

(I’m concerned about this happening with Mandarin soon, too, even if I’ve yet to encounter that at this time.)

I’ve been on a roll for the past day or so.

Anyway, have some gothic angel amputation as done by a demon.

So, I got hit with a clopening the first day at my new job, and I feel sick from sleep deprivation.

I'm considering sleeping and moving the stream to tomorrow afternoon after running a few errands that matter a whole lot to me.