Fly, Piano, Flyyyy!

Ok, this was all a bit of a mess, but I'll try to keep it succinct - Nomad Chronicle (which is where Red Moon Rising was hosted) got lolhaxed some time on Friday. After much poking of the debris along with adifferentdrum I decided it might be a good idea to finally get my own hosting sorted out, especially since it was a security gap on a statcounter on my site that brought the whole collective down.

Long story short, Red Moon Rising has moved permanently to redmoonrising.org and I spent my entire Saturday coding. Hoorayyyy

Heyyy livejournal! D: I thought this might happen, I ended up getting utterly overwhelmed by the whole page-a-day thing and stopped posting updates on my journal. I suppose you'll just have to believe me when I say I've done a majillionty eleven pages since I last updated. Site's over here if you want to see them, as per usual.

To sort of make up for it I'm posting the first piece of drawing I've done this month that isn't a comic page. I'm using it as a vote incentive over on the main site, but I thought posting it here would be a good idea too. It's pretty wide, so here's a cropped and shrunk version, with the full painting under the cut.



( Cliick! )
I've been gawking at lots of really cool black and white photography recently, and it hit me that early photography is totally the kind of thing they would have in Red Moon Rising, at least within Ashul. I decided to paint a younger version of Adrianna, before she went around punching hapless young officers in the face, and when she was actually in the military herself.

I think I've gotten better at painting faces, though there's still a ways to go, but I reckon the most interesting thing is that this was all done with a super soft fuzzy airbrush. I always thought those were really useless for painting, but I guess that shows what I know. It made the painting process really slick and easy, especially for the hair.

Who's rubbish at remembering to update their livejournal?

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I aammmm. The new schedule's going pretty well so far, though. I've just fallen a bit behind with the LJ notifications due to the sheer frequency of them, which I guess isn't such a bad reason.

Called it, I totally forgot to post yesterday. Have a twofer:

I think the tricky part about this weekdaily schedule isn't getting the pages done, it's remembering to post about it in all the places I normally do. :|

The start of chapter 3 and also the start of a new update schedule for June - new pages every week day! I assume I'm going to spend July passed out somewhere.



Considering how drastically increased the update frequency is going to be, I'm considering stopping these LJ update reminders, especially since I'll be posting pages over at nanomango too - anyone who's watching both me and nanomango will be getting like... double spam. Not sure yet.

Red Moon Rising has joined the Rampage Network, which is certainly exciting. :D Also, it's nanomango starting next Monday, June 1st, which is going to be good times.

Man, this has been a busy weekend. Ignoring some other stuff that isn't finalised yet, I did some guest art over at Hard Graft that went up on Friday, and Red Moon Rising was spotlighted over at TGT Webcomics which is all kinds of awesome. :D Also, things exploding:

I compleeeetely zoned on posting this entry up...



No more green for a while after this, hopefully.

Did I ever mention that green is my least favourite colour ever? Green is my least favourite colour ever.



I had to give a major presentation for university on Friday, the majority of which was me blethering on about my personal project (Red Moon Rising) and just generally proving what a terrible public speaker I am. On the plus side, that should be my last bit of uni work for the year, so I'm hoping to get some stuff that is not just comic page updates done starting this week. My journal is sooo boring.

Nearly forgot to post this, der.



Kinda stressing about a presentation for uni I have on Friday, public speaking makes me so nervous. After that, maybe... some drawing that isn't comic pages. Fingers crossed. I really need to do some concept art for the next scene anyway, I still have no idea how to draw airships.

Aw yeah, 30 pages. My back is killing me.

Aaaah, glowy stuff.



I think I'm at one of those annoying stages in this scene and the story in general where there's not quite enough context for anything to start slotting together, though there should be pretty soon. If this were a book or something the reader would just read on and find out, but as a webcomic that's not an option yet. Oh well. Just gotta keep on truckin'.

Page 28 is up, though no preview image since I'm not in Dundee right now, and am kind of lacking an image editor. Also, need sleep.

Deadlines = successfully navigated! Whoooo. Now to catch up comic stuff.



Guilty secret: I haven't had any time to do proper character designs for this scene yet. Good thing you can barely see them in this page. :|

A very late update, relatively speaking, though it's still early afternoon on Monday so I guess it's fine. It just feels a bit lame since I prefer to update at midnight sharp.



I'm still dealing with coursework deadlines and just barely keeping on top of both coursework and comic pages, but that's four deadlines down and one left to go for Wednesday. After that maybe I can actually draw some sketches for this sketch blog. :|

More deadlines, hooo! I think my sloppy lazy backgrounds are getting a bit better, at least in relation to the amount of time spent on them.



Unfortunately I lost the entire fourth panel background when my computer bluescreened and the new one just doesn't look as good, I was kinda grumpy and didn't want to spend too much time on it. Again. I might go back and fix it up once this latest flurry of uni deadlines has passed.

A couple of hours later than usual, but then, it's still freakin' Wednesday Sunday (oh good lord, my brain is fried) for most of the western hemisphere, so I don't feel especially bad.


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More coursework deadlines coming up on Friday, so naturally... working on the comic.



Also, I had a dream today that I built a one-person submarine and went around the world in it, saving drowning people and having wacky hijinks. Best dream I've had in ages - even though submarines seem like they should be horribly claustrophobic, mine wasn't. Kinda just like an underwater pedal boat.

Another day, another update:



I might tone down the blue a bit as it goes, we'll see. Ahhh, new colour schemes are yay.