GH ch04 / progress part 2 // 17/24

 Listening to: LAKIM x Mr. Carmack - Kahala ♫♪

(Can you believe that within a week, I listened to LAKIM a little over 200 times? That should explain everything.)

 It's been a week and one day since the first batch was done: not bad, not bad. I also discovered how to actually tile the windows in the main Photoshop window in CS6 finally. It's been interesting and helpful.

 Another different thing with this chapter is I decided to draw some speech bubbles by hand. And I think it'll become a standard from this chapter forward. I wanted to make them more expressive like in my sketches and my previous method restricted that.

 I loved this face so much that I screencapped it three times. Also that LAKIM white label cover is great, yeah? I've been making a ton of my own tiled patterns, and I've been getting better at it. It used to be a mystery as to how tiled patterns worked, so I feel very satisfied.

There are 7 more pages to the chapter in the last and third batch. Cross your fingers that'll get done either this weekend or sometime next week! And then I'll get right to chapter 5! I'm very excited to do that chapter since 1) more character introductions, 2) a certain important thing that happens, and 3) last chapter planned for volume 1 (!!!).

I will also post this chapter's illustration in the next post - so look forward to that too! I've been very happy with it.

//sketch log 009

It's time for a massive sketch log. Are y'all lady ready?

Practicing drawing Megumi Aino from Happiness Charge! Precure. More like practicing in general because I got so rusty late December.

GH ch04 / progress part 1 // 09/24

Listening to: Young Dro - FDB (LAKIM Remix) ♫♪

(I recently discovered this remix in a mix KAYTRANADA did in London that iD put up online. It's really really really good. One of the best mixes I've listened to in a very long time. This remix is one of the highlights of said mix. This is one of those cases when the remix > the original.)

 Long time no blog, yeah? Sorry about that. For most of January, I was dealing with some things unrelated to art, and also just feeling tired from chapter 3. Towards the end of that month, I did manage to thumbnail chapters 4 and 5 (it's a two-parter) - so it wasn't completely unproductive.

 Anyways, chapter 4! Actually for most of this month, I didn't start this chapter. I still felt really tired or something. Winter blues? Maybe. That and the snow hit HARD over here. And I had to shovel. And it was awful and then I'd only sketch on paper for a little bit. That might also be a part of January: I don't remember to be honest. I just want spring already.

 I actually started drawing chapter 4 five days ago. So yeah, 9 pages in five days isn't too bad. But still not to my standards, but I digress!

As you can tell, I've taken a fancy towards a thicker brush. I did so by the end of chapter 3, so this is me continuing that trend. I've forced myself to not get super intense into perspective and just draw the backgrounds. I get really precise with my lines if I use accurately mapped perspective and that's the one thing I don't want. My style is really expressive, and I want my backgrounds to match up with that. So yeah, this chapter will experiment with that too.

Uh, I'll be making a sketch log post soon. For those who follow the Tumblr version, you've already seen all of the sketches. But yeah - look forward to that post tomorrow! And I'll be working super super hard to finish chapter 4 ASAP! And then going right to chapter 5!

Oh yeah, the webcomic is now at chapter 2! Not only did the layout get updated, but the cast page is finally up and running, and the about page looks a lot better. So check that stuff out too!

GH ch03 / progress part 3 // 34/34 pages

 Listening to: FaltyDL - Dionysos (Long Edit) ♫♪

(It's been 4 years since this guy's debut album, and I barely remember it. But he recently posted this slightly longer version of this song on Soundcloud and I remembered how much I loved it.)

 Somehow I managed the willpower to finish this chapter before 2013 ends. The last eight pages were done within the past 4 days, with Sunday night having four pages. College has slowed me down considerably, so I'm happy to be speeding up a bit now that I'm no longer tied down to many things at the same time.

 My birthday (the 17th) and Christmas hit me pretty hard. One of my friends gave me Starbound, and I've been horribly addicted to that. The random generation of planets and items to discover and dungeons to go through really panders to my unrelenting curiosity.

 But geez, I got horribly, horribly rusty. So I forced myself to draw to the point where I was okay again. The screenshots below are after this point.

I am so happy to finish this before 2014 though! I didn't know this, but it's going to be the year of the horse! I was born on the year of the horse, and I bought a horse head mask this year. This has to be a sign of good things to happen! Looking forward to making some changes in 2014 and making lots of chapters of Glass Hearts!

Happy New Year!

//sketch log 008

Listening to: Beyoncé - Mine (feat. Drake) ♫♪

(Because…obvious new album reasons. It's quite good. Check it out.)

First of all, thank you all for 2k views! Second of all, it's been a while since the last sketch log. And I have a ton of sketches. So let's go!

For the first time, I'm going to try using the jump break aka it's-totally-an-LJ-cut. I'm serious when I say there are A TON OF SKETCHES.