June 29, 2006
Section 1.7 continues
KWAAAAA Anime Expo is this weekend! See me there in the Artist Alley! Sitting with Dina Situ of Pandect!
If you're a fan of Directions of Destiny and you're reading this and you plan on going to Anime Expo, feel free to ask for a sketch if you see me!! I'll only be doing free sketches for people who ask and mention that they read this note! If you don't ask, I'm keeping my mouth shut! XD
AAHH gotta get back to work on art to display and sell at the table @_@!
TWC Vote Incentive: Child Ryan
Buzzcomix Vote Incentive: Child Mei
June 22, 2006
Section 1.7 continues
So like. Tuesday morning, after staying up the entire night working. I finally did it.
I FINISHED THE BOOK!
Wooo!!
Y-yes, I know, it's kind of late. I kept pushing the deadline! It was supposed to originally be in to the printer on the 5th. But then I told them I'd have it in a week later and just pay extra for faster shipping. And then it got complicated. And then I hated myself really hard. But it's done! And life is PERFECT. And I got to sleep!
Furthermore, I got to draw new vote incentives for the week! Gasp.
So, like, Rachel, AKA Silla, is pretty much the sexiest person alive. No joke. She happens to live in the same city that the printer's located, and has helped me tremen~dously with getting my pages to them and fetching the proof they printed, and basically being Super Great in general. ...Although. I can't help but reminisce of a time, probably three months ago, when I was fooling around and being lame or something, and she said something to the effect of, "Ha ha ha. You're going to die the week before your pages are due." And I was like, "Aheheh, yeaaaaah." But really, I had thought to myself, "Pshaw, no way man, I'll get the pages done, and they'll even be EARLY! So whateever." ...Of course we now know how that story turned out. And then this past week she had made three trips to the printer in addition to all the proof-reading and corrections I had her help me with. Furthermore, I had to resort to calling her (by phone! WTF!) Tuesday and waking her up (OHSHI--) to do one last favor for me in regards to my incompetency and stupidity. Basically, I-. I think I may have upset her a little.
Ahh the point of THAT story is that, uh, Libelle is loosely based off of Rachel, and ummmm. Here's this week's TWC incentive! ILY BABY.
AND on Tuesday I saw Tina (who originally conceptualised Mei Yu Huang!) and we played frisbee with her boyfriend and here's this week Buzzcomix incentive yay!
...Now, an announcement! Niko (of Fantasy Realms and I had always wanted to have some sort of community of webcomic artists--WirePop didn't really turn out so great for us in that regards, so we both felt some sort of lack of webcomic artist love. :( So about two weeks ago, I had an idea! And I IMed Niko about it, and ah, long story short~
MECHAPENGUIN!
Mechanical Penguin. It is a LiveJournal community and Art Blog. Myself and Niko, along with other fantabulous, fantasy webcomic artists such as Sarah Ellerton of Inverloch, Jamie Jennings of Emerald Winter, Keiiii of Haru-Sari, Shilin of Blackbird, and Andrea L. Peterson of No Rest for the Wicked--TAKES A BREATH!!--will be collectively posting here our sketches, doodles, conceptual designs, completed illustrations, etc. etc., and UNNGHGGH I'M FREAKING EXCITED AND SO SHOULD YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ohcrap I had a convulsion excuse me.
And I just posted a picture related to Directions of Destiny, in case you were curious about something relevant to your interests.
Aahhh so yeah. Finished book means I've got time now! Time to do stuff like finish old commissions, send out those prints everybody ordered, work on illustrations for Anime Expo, fix up and update this site, revamp my personal site, get the Alatus Institute website started, etc. etc. OH MAN YOU GUYS I LOVE LIFE :D!!!
Oh yeah. Pre-ordering will change to regular ordering starting 0:00, June 23rd, Friday. Last day to pre-order the book for bonus sketch and autograph, guys~ :> Regular ordering of the book begins!
June 15, 2006
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Boooo, Tina's on vacation this week so I have to update the comic MYSELF this time. Geez! Just can't get any good help these days.
First of all, I should mention that this week is the LAST WEEK for you to pre-order Unit 1! Orders received (or postmarked) after Thursday, June 22, will be counted as a regular order, and will not include a bonus sketch, nor an autograph in the book. If you would like these extras to come with your book, you have to pre-order Unit 1 this week! Go, go, go! :D
Anyway, as mentioned last week, I am intensely busy finishing everything for the book, so I didn't get the chance to update the vote incentives yet again, but please find it in your hearts to spare a look at Younger-Xin at Topwebcomics and Younger-Libelle at Buzzcomix for another week, if you would like. :x
I'm also sorry for everyone who ordered prints this past month; since I've been so busy with the book I haven't gotten around to doing the bonus sketches included with the prints. I plan on having everything done by Monday though, so hopefully you will all get your prints and sketches some time next week. Again, sincerest apologies!
Ahhh back to work now!
June 8, 2006
Section 1.7 continues
The last chapter of Unit 1 continues with four more pages!
My name is Hans and I'm so busy slaving over comic pages that I can't even spare time to update my comic. Therefore, my name is actually Tina and I'm bringing you this week's pages and update. :D
Do you ever wonder how it is that Hans is so busy cranking out comic pages, yet there's only been 3-4 pages a week recently? What are these rumors about something in the book Hans intends as a surprise? Where did you hear that? O_O How is it that the book will be complete and available by at least Anime Expo July 1-4 but projected to be finished (at the current rate it's going) online by late late July or early August?
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TAP DANCING CHRIST ON A CRACKER~! If you pre-order Unit 1 you get to see it all before it shows up on the net. Oh my! 248 pages of awesome and a free bonus sketch for the price of one cheap dinner. You can't go wrong. There are only two weeks left to pre-order!
Um, I was going to do some joke vote incentive, but then no one would visit the pages again. So I. Didn't. Anyway, please check out the old incentives again in their incredible cuteness.
Younger-Xin at Topwebcomics
Younger-Libelle at Buzzcomix
Big hugs,
Tina
June 1, 2006
Section 1.7 commences
Hey, did I mention that school's over? Time to crank up the comic page output! Hurray!
The last chapter of Unit 1 officially starts with the title page and the first three pages.
It's the beginning of the month, which means vote counts reset! So please enter your votes at Topwebcomics and Buzzcomix to see younger versions of Xin and Libelle, respectively, because they count even moreso at this time. :D And as always, feel free to submit your requests for other vote incentive pictures.
And just so you know, you have the next three weeks to pre-ordering Unit 1 in order to receive a bonus sketch with the book! After the pre-ordering period, book orders will not come with a bonus sketch, so be sure to pre-order before it's too late!