DravenXero

Soooo...yeah. It's been a WHILE since I posted anything here, but I'm not sure if anybody's readin' it anyway, so I don't think it really matters. What matterrs right now is the idea that I'm back after the comicing, and I'm actually feeliing productive again.

And then comes the thought: what if I'm feeling better than I actually am? It ain't really something that's ever occured to me, because most of the time I don't feel like my art's really going anywhere, other than being something entertaining to do. Now I feel like my stuff's pretty good, but what if I'm deluding myself? Eh...who knows?

What I CAN say is that I'm ready to get my arse back to work on this thing. It's the longest running project I've ever done, sad as that sounds, and I ain't gonna give up on it on the second friggin' chapter! I got a general storyline worked out for at least five! Time for me to finish a project for a change!

WOW! That journal entry was considerably more upbeat than I thought it was gonna be....

                                                                                           -Draven

This is kinda sad...I'm having to teach myself to draw one of my characters all over again. Her name is Luna Lamont, and after restarting the comic I seem to have forgotten how to make her look like Luna. I've been drawing for hours trying to get the muscle memory of my hands to remember her curves...
     Okay, that sounds wrong. Let me try it this way: The idea is that while Ash is supposed to be a little (okay, a LOT) stripperiffic (since she actually IS a stripper), Luna's supposed to be considerably better built for that occupation. She's thicker in the hips, as well as considerably bigger...*ahem*...up top. Body differences aside, every time I try and draw her, she looks too much like Ash. Different hair, but the face is too close.
     The rough part is that I'm not sure I can fix this issue before time for the next page's release. Now, I know this is something that most comic artists run into, and that it pretty much doesn't matter to most people, but dammit, I don't want to run into the same rut as most of the other comic artists out there. I just want to be a competent artist and writer...I can be happy with that. Even if I never am able to be a professional, I can be cool with my efforts as long as I give it an HONEST effort.
      But, like so many other times, I'm overanalyzing myself...yet AGAIN. I should stop doing that, maybe, but every time I overanalyze, I come out of it ever more determined to improve some factor of my art, so maybe it's a good thing. Time will tell, I suppose...

Well, it's been a couple weeks since my last official post for Strange Haze, and to be honest, I've had a hell of a time getting anything done. The reason I named my efforts Haphazard Comics is because of my haphazard method, but, of course, sometimes things go badly. The last two or three weeks are definitely a case of that.

It wouldn't be so bad if I could constantly churn out art that I'm proud of, but for every page that gets shown online, there are anywhere from 20 to 50 pages that I had to scrap due to substandard art or layout, or just flat out mistakes that cause me to erase straight through the page because I made so many.

Anyway, hopefully I've managed to work through it. Pages 11 and 12 are lookin' okay right now, even if I DO have to post the pencilwork version. Once I get em inked and colored, I'll update the posts, but for now, this'll have to work. Sooooo...cheers!

Okay, it's been quite a while since I've posted on deviantart, but it's been mostly because of my reworking of Strange Haze from the ground up. I've got a decent backlog of material worked up, the first five pages and cover are already in my gallery, and I've got the storyline for the first 3 chapters almost complete.
I would've updated alot sooner, but procrastination combined with a new 360 ended up eating alot of my time up. That said, though, I'm alot happier with the way the comic's turning out this time around. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to doing a print run to sell at KH concerts. Probably even send em out to folks willing to pay the shipping costs...haven't thought that far ahead, though.
Anyway, Wes is back, and ready to keep this thing rollin'. For now, Strange Haze updates on sundays here, on KH's myspace, as well as my own, and on drunkduck. I'll probably pick up a second weekly update as the backlog gets bigger...haven't really decided yet.

Okay, I hit a wall when it came time to do today's update. I mean, yeah, I know what I wanna do, but the execution's a bit of a pain. I guess it just wasn't meant to be...for today.
     Anyway, I was diggin through the massive pile of papers and notebooks and junk that sits next to my bed and I came across an old strip I did back in highschool for a series called either "Adventures in Gameland", or "Our Adventures". The series was technically a gaming comic in which my group of friends got sucked into a video game, but then somebody kept switchin the game in the console. I can't remember the whole premise, but it was...interesting.
     The one I found was from the timeframe when I was actually into wrestling. See, on the old N64 we totally ATE UP the THQ wrestling games. WCW was the popular wrestling organization at the time we did this, what with its NWO group...
     Actually...now that I think of it, the one I found may have actually come out after highschool...not sure. Either way, though, it's old, and the art's laughable, so yeah....