24 Hour Comic Sketches: Automaton

Here is the automaton sketch from my 24 Hour Comic attempt. This is the one I am most pleased with out of all the automaton sketches. I wanted him to appear more clockwork, similar to the automaton in Hugo and the book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, upon which it was based, starkly contrasted by the ray gun gothic, retro-futurism zeerust feel of the rest of the robots and machines. I wanted him to appear "old science" so to speak, nearing Frankenstein and alchemy and a 9 sort of feel. Note that his face seems bolted on; I was thinking it would be a malleable metal that could show facial expression uninhibited, demonstrating that he was a very advanced and complicated device, despite his primitive look. Sorry about the rest of the sketches, but really these were the very best in my opinion.

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24 Hour Comic Sketches: the Alien

Here are a few of the sketches I did for 24 Hour Comic. I'm sorry this isn't all of them, but the scanner I'm using right now is messing up and potentially ruining my work, so all I have right now are these two and the third of the automaton. Oh well, these were pretty much my favorites.

The top sketch was the first I did. I planned an alien invasion force, (note the helmet and weapon [the design of which I wasn't entirely pleased with...] below the creature), complete with grotesque aliens (figures right? scary aliens and sad robots; can we all say "author appeal"? XD). The idea was that the alien was tired of killing other races in an unoffical war and decided to take pity on the automaton and, ultimatety, the family of humans holding the automaton captive (and perhaps any survivors in the immediate area; I don't know, didn't get that far -_-).

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24 Hour Comic Sketches--- Technical Difficulties

Sorry I haven't posted my sketches yet, but my scanner isn't exactly available right now. As soon as it is, you all will be receiving sketches from me! Thanks for waiting. :)


~rrc

24 Hour Comic (5)--- Finite

Well, that went pretty poorly. Curse my inability to say no to people! Maybe if I had stayed at home all day...

Anyhow, I have concept sketches, a not-so-wonderful plot sketch (no dialogue, therefore no "script" in the traditional sense; just fragments that make sense to moi and moi alone), and sketches of the first two pages (the rest were not up to my standard -_-). So, yeah, i wasn't ready. I suppose I still could have done it, but... No such luck. I am tempted to do it tomorrow, but then I suppose I couldn't submit it and it just wouldn't feel the same. Oh well, at least i still have OctPoWriMo...

I think I will, however, take pity on the story and finish the "Window scene", paint and all, just because it was quite nice a scene and I rather liked it. 

Oh well, better luck next year! I'm actually rather pleased, truth be told; I had a lovely time today, met some new people, invented a new species, world, story, and cast of characters, and got a taste of what I'm capable of. I realized that I may very well be able to skip steps because of my ability to do several processes (such as visualize a story unfolding, and the perspective angle through which it goes about, and the panel placement) simultaneously. And I can apparently create a fascinating group of characters and snippets of a story in a very short period of time.

I just have really, somewhat, really poor time management and a lack of ability to refuse to do cool stuff. 

But I can do it. And I will do it. Just not right now.

Anyways, good night all, I will be off to sleep.

Thank you for putting up with me. ;)

~rrc

24 Hour Comic (4)--- Eureka!

Brilliant, I think I've got it! Well, I better hurry off now; I kind of slept in and the comic's not going to write itself!

24 Hour Comic (3)

Well, I'm off to bed. Got some decent sketches, some usable ideas... Now, for sleep...

24 Hour Comic (2)

Alright, so for plot, I either do something new or something I have. Jeck would make an interesting subject for a 24 hour comic. I could even do his life by 24 hours. He only sleeps, like, three of those...

So, Ideas:

----previous characters/stories

-Jeck

-Sky (she gets, like, no coverage from me)

-Greyblade, an obvious choice

-any of them, really (Dracco, Drew, Teino, Chloe? That’d be interesting)

-etc.

----fan work? Naw...

----Something new, just for the heck of it.

-steampunk

-math

- etc.

24 Hour Comic (1)-- What the heck am I doing?

Ok, I was sooo unprepared. And I've pretty much blown two hours. And then there's the family event to contend with...

But enough about the challenges, the obstacles. let us commence and go forth unto victory!

24 Hours and 13 Days

Here.

Well, this is kind of a rotten time to mention either of these, since one's over halfway over and the other is two days away, but yay, I'm doing October Poetry Writing Month (write a poem a day; don't worry, I have plenty of catching up to do as well) and 24 Hour Comic, where you write a 24 page (plus cover, so 25 page) comic in 24 hours!

Yes I am crazy. And you can be too! Join the madness!

Just kidding (sort of), but seriously, you should check it out. It's not too late just yet...

Here.

Doctor Who 101

Well, in case you haven't noticed, and I really hope you have because if not it means you neither read my blog nor surf my pinterest boards and that hurts a bit, I've gotten into Doctor Who recently. And I do mean recently, as in maybe a couple of months ago. and I do mean I've really gotten into Doctor Who, in the I-jump-at-sounds-that-could-be-the-TARDIS-rematerializing-I-know-facts-about-every-era-I-own- a-plush-TARDIS-keychain-that-makes-the-VORP-VORP-sounds gotten into.

And it has come to my attention that not all of you are exactly aware of just what Doctor Who really is. May be you vaguely recall a zany, curly haired man with a very long striped scarf from your childhood (as I did), or maybe you've heard your fellow nerds and geeks discussing it during lunch break at various gatherings (again, as I), or perhaps you just spend too much time on the Internet (...yeah. -_-), or perhaps, and this is certainly the worst of the possibilities, you've NEVER heard of Doctor Who. (In which case, I pity you. I dearly pity you...) but not to worry, because there is much to learn and much to be said, and I know many of them the direction in which I may point you.

To put it simply, Doctor Who is a British Television Sci-fi Drama (the longest running Sci-fi drama in the world, with over 32 seasons of television cannon and spanning over 46 years of time. Since 1964, baby.) about a human-like alien known simply as the Doctor, who travels in space and time in near-magic-like blue police box called the TARDIS (a Type 40 TARDIS, to be precise, the last of her kind), a super advanced time/space ship that is far, far bigger on the inside. He hops around the cosmos, doing his best to fix things that go wrong and save people. He travels with passerngers known as companions, often humans (as they are his favorite species), whom he shares his adventures
with, and who protect the Doctor as much as he protects them.

It's completely and utterly awesome. 

I could on and on about the show, but instead I am going to recommend what I feel is the best introduction pretty much anyone could have to the series--this ten minute video by SF Debris, which explains everything you need to know to get started. Enjoy!  (sorry I can't post it directly on the blog, since it's not on YouTube. But here is a link to his site and blip.tv, his chosen video hosting site.)

To the SF Debris site.
To blip.Tv.

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Another Doctor Who Post

Because I could.

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Counting

So one day, while I was eating salted almonds, I was counting and arranging them, like I do from time to time, and getting a huge thrill out of it...I'm sure all of you have done that on occasion too, right?

Anyway, I decided to take a picture on an impulse, just so you get an idea of just how...me your author is. Of course, I chose the number 13, because it is one of, if not my outright, favorite number. Why? It's such a twisted, misunderstood, so-ugly-it's-cute type of number. I've always thought it's pretty, but there is a reason why it doesn't come up as often as 9, 3, 7, etc; it's a bit awkward, and often passed up in favor of its much more streamline, divisible neighbor, 12.

13 has some nice properties and relations to society and the universe-- it's the number of Archimedean solids in existence, the number of notes (via inclusive counting) in an octave, and it has a spooky, unluckiness to it that no other number can compete with (though not in Italy XD).

Bigger on the Inside

Goodness, how uncommunicative have I been?

I must apologize. I'm such an introvert, and such a thinker; so much thought, so little action.

But that's not the beginning and end of me.

I think we all have a secret side, right? Like a box within a box? Well imagine a box inside that small box, and then a smaller one inside that one, and then another, and another, and another until the most inner box is nearly imperceptible. That may very well be me...

For I am a creature of thought, but when thought ceases and impulse and the yearning for adventure and excitement and the repulsion of boredom overtakes me, it's as though the old me has stepped aside and someone new and powerful and unpredictable emerged and decided to take me for a spin.

The question is, how long is that person going to lurk in the shadows while my overgrown cerebrum considers and considers and considers...

I suppose my prayer, my plea with God, is that I know when the opportunity is ripe and the situation calls for my action.

I also suppose now is as good a time to start as any.

Hello Readers, I don't believe we've really quite met...