So I've been dead on dA, again. Sorry for the absence.

I've read all your comments, and I must say, thank you all so very much for all your suggestions and kindness ;w; I've been drawing a lot for the past few days, but been mostly unsatisfied with it.
But yeah. Sorry for all the delays lllOTL I've just got to be thankful that I have an obedient scanner.

But yeah. I'm feeling rather meh right now :/

In other news: OCT entries are due by early January. I've been getting some entries, and one person finished theirs


So how was your past two weeks or so?

Emo journal ahead. Turn back while you still can.




So I've been dead for a while. Painting, history, annoying brats and a near-dead person in my room - lots of small things add up to a lot.
But then just now, something big got dumped on me.


My tablet. It died.
Actually it's less of death and more like...disabled. It clicks on its own and stuff.
And I'm probably not going to get another one until Christmas (highly unlikely, considering I asked for something rather costly earlier in the month), or my birthday (which is much too far away)

Which means:

TO ~KarukaXIkashi
Your flash is dead. I'm sorry. But I can't work on it when I'm moving half the frame around against my will.

TO ~Splitcat
I am going to work on your Perin still...just traditionally. You'll still get it, and I'll try to make it as awesome as possible.

TO ~KeijiKunoichi
I haven't forgotten about that AT. I know it's taking a while, but it'll get there.

TO ~Fortranica and ~SailorSun546
I still owe you things. Same thing with Keiji and Splitcat - you'll get it traditionally.

And....to *ilovebluejello

FAN MAN.
WILL BE.
TRADITIONAL.
FRAME-BY-FRAME.
ON PAPER.
I don't care if it kills me. I've owed you this for like... a year. literally. I'm going to scan it all and put it together in Flash or (god forbid) Windows Movie Maker.



I...I really don't know how I'm going to do my keychains now. Hopefully I won't screw up too much with the pen and stuff, but then...I was planning on some prints and stuff, too, or some nicer pictures, at least. And if I'm going to do what I was planning to do...that means I have to take up acrylics. Canvases are costly. Not to mention paints.

So yeah. Brace yourselves for the whole crapload of traditional stuff that's going to come your way.


But enough of me. How was your week/month?

<EDIT>
The deadline has been extended by request :3 The new date is December 31st, but I don't really mind if you hand it in after the New Year (it being around Christmastime and all so if you're away from your comp don't worry about it~)

</EDIT>

So I've been dead for quite a while. Ah.
Things are going great and horrible at the same time, so I'm living a balanced life of sorts, I guess xD I'm having fun doing other things while trying to get out of the wonderful art block that I am having >_>; it's almost like the pictures don't want to be drawn. (Fan man is halfway through~ though I've got to figure out how to make Flash work with my laptop OTL)

And just a reminder - OCT CONTESTANTS! You have until the end of this month to hand in a reference sheet plus an entry comic.

However.

I could give you a couple months' extension anyways o_o God knows I owe people so much stuff and they've been waiting for a long while (Especially ILBJ; I'm so sorry.)

For OCT info, [link] and for the current list of contestants, [link]



So, come and tell me how you live - or rather, how you've lived for however long I was away ._.
<sub>If anyone can tell where I quoted the first bit from then you get a cookie.


To Do List
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-Fan Man (Top priority dammit lllOTL)
-Heather and Balthazar
-Perin + Lettie (she's a Polish hen, right? What are her colours?)
-The Terminator Sketch
-Mikage Sketch
-Mr. 117
-Conway and Dawn
-Buck + Rachel
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-Keychains
-A whole ton of MGS prints ;_; The Joy x The Sorrow ftw~ Ocelot, too. And BB. And Sniper Wolf, and Laughing Octopus, and Sunny, and MGS4!Raiden, and Liquid, and- *shot*
-Organized Heroic Arts Institute vs. Fairly Unconventional Criminalists United.</sub>

First things first.
Hello, OCT contestants. This is just a reminder that you only have 2 months left until the due date, which is October 31st! (I'm posting this because I only received one character ref so far.)
Have fun~~

Stolen from ~Splitcat~~~

1) How you thought of the name.
2) What made you create the character in the first place?
3) How the character has changed over time (if they have changed).
4) Any random fun fact about that character?
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Shou

1. Actually I don't know. I was thinking of random Japanese names that sound good, without making up some sort of ridiculous Stu name DDDD:
2. He was for another story that I was planning for our comics club.
3. Uh. He went from a fading angel thing to a gunslinging chef, gained two younger brothers along with a cat, a dog, and a rabbit. He gained several hobbies including baking cute sweets and watching romantic movies and practicing his marksmanship. He's also gotten secretly engaged to a coworker....and he spontaneously aged about twelve years....lllOTL
4. He does all the housework, and he's very stoic but very silly around his girlfriend.


Hans

1. I wanted to give a German name to a character 8D that's all (my names really don't have much meaning behind them)
2. He started as this other character for another story for my comics club after I scrapped the one with Shou in it (this story got scrapped too but I might draw it out for fun). He wasn't supposed to be Shou's brother but they looked too similar to pass up the opportunity~
3. He didn't really change, besides the fact that he made a career switch to a florist. And he picked up a seemingly abandoned bunny from the street after falling for its cute looks on a rainy day.
4. The very first version of Hans had a five-year-old advisor and a loli war general, plus a half-plant pacifist court magician who was bffs with a flying, reanimated corpse...dead...mailman thing with a candle burning on his head (not quite a corpse, really. More like he was in the process of ascending to heaven when he got resurrected).


Chris

1. I think he was the first character to whom I gave a normal name (the other people have typical fantasy names).
2. He was an unplanned child. Meaning, of course, that he was a random design floating around~~ he somehow made his way into FOA and into Shou's family.
3. He's become a lot nicer than his AU self (which would be the FOA Chris, with the original personality), he doesn't use his guitar to fight, and he's studying to become a surgeon~ he's also gained another hobby of video gaming, though he doesn't have much time for it.
4. He was a very happy person but after an incident where he gave in to his curiosity (in the FOA-Chris sense), things started going downhill. He hasn't quite hit rock bottom yet, though.


Hana

1. I wanted her to be as normal as possible? But I didn't want to name her Hannah.
2. Since my other pairing in my legion of 50-something OCs is one-sided, I thought I might as well as give someone an actual spouse/fiance(e)/whatever~
3. I planned her to be a stick, but then she looked strange as a waitress so I made her curvy (I enjoyed drawing her more, too, after that change)
4. Her full name is Hana Penelope Lovecraft. She has appropriate tastes that fit her name. Which means that every time she and Shou have movie night, the traditional "guy gets girl to watch horror movie so that he can hold her" becomes "girl eventually ends up in a bear-hug as the guy desperately needs something to cuddle".



Revolver Ocelot tags 6 people, only because he has six bullets.
Solidus Snake taps 4 people with his four arms.
Raiden realizes that he has no arms and goes to emo in a corner.
Liquid Snake merrily prances around on the handrails and falls off onto a faceless guard, more or less tagging one person.
Otacon hides in a locker.
Solid Snake tags...everyone, after equipping the infinite ammo bandanna. (Which makes Liquid very angry and sends him on a quiche rant)



Aaaaand sketches.

Ahem. First ten people to ask will get a free sketch, but you have to give ten in return. Please give me refs if it's your OC.
Also, these are sketches so they will be pretty rough~

1. *Jinney Buck - done
2. ~Fortranica Yume - done
3. =akikodate Xander - done
4. =theHarechan The Hare Avenger - done
5. =Hinashi Snake <33 - done, done, done~~~ <3
6. ~Control-Zed THE TERMINATOR LOLOLOL *shotshotshot*
7. ~Hamatchi Mikage from...07 Ghost.
8.
9.
10.

How was your week?