Brain Overload Already??

I've only just started working on Black Dawn and already my brain is overworking itself. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but I'm having trouble keeping everything in my head straight. I guess that's why people write down their ideas as they come and go! Either way I hope that my mind calms down a bit.

On a more irritating note, the book I'm illustrating for isn't going the best. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the characters, but small changes such as hair style throw me off. That goes for my character as well. Originally, Arina had short hair and now it's longer and Morakai has shorter hair and it's a different color. I honestly despise when moments like that happen!

Well enough of me whining about he small stuff. Right now I'm looking for someone to talk to about my novel (characters, plotline, etc.) and anyone who is interested, please leave a comment.

Cutting Down

For those of you who don't know, I tend to enjoy giving myself projects to do over the summer. Well, this year I've decided to focus on three main projects. Writing my book, working on my fanfiction/comic, and doing illustrations for Jennifer Marie Vail's book Drake Knightridge.  So far, I've only been working on two of these projects, but I'm hoping to find a scanner (smirk) and upload my comic pages so that I can quickly color/tone them and upload them onto dA and fA. 


I honestly want to finish these projects relitively soon and it has nothing to do with college or the navy. I want to prove to myself that I can get a major project done in a reasonable timeframe (especially since I have no idea when I'll be able to work on these again!). 


On the bright side, I've finished most of the character development for my series and I've started writing. Mind it'll take awhile since I'm writing it on my iTouch, but hopefully I'll get more done now that I'm forced to take it everywhere :)


Now I only need to get moving on doing illustrations for Jennifer Marie Vail, and I should be set for the summer! It's a good thing I got a lot of money for graduation, otherwise I'd be a starving writer/artist!

Crappy, Yet Productive, Week

Been sick most of the week with a cold that is determined to kill me. I swear, I've never gotten a cold like this. Not only can I not breath through my nose, but I'm constantly having coughing attacks that last forever. 


On a brighter note, I've been working on Drake Knightridge for Jennifer Marie Vail, though I've been mostly doing reference work since I've never drawn a 12 year old boy before. It's proving to be a challenge, but one I happily accept. 


I've also been working a bit more on my Sephiroth/Cloud comic, though I'm still not sure if I'm going to draw it all out or if I'm just going to draw the prologue out and then do illustrations for the rest of it while writing it out. So far I'm leaning toward the latter option, but I still haven't decided.


I've also finished planning the storyline for my book series. Originally, I thought it was going to be only three books, but sadly, it's four books. And if I calculated the number of pages correctly, each book is around 450 pages long. Not that thick, but still a lot of work. But now that the plot line is done, I can work more on character development and planning out fighting scenes! The first book doesn't have a lot of battles, but there are a few fights that need to be planned out a little bit before writing. I'm dreading the third book, since a good portion of that is just fighting!!!


Anyway, I'm working hard to recover from this damned cold, and hope to be back to working on projects soon. For now, sleep shall take me and I'll rest more to recover from this very long week.