dubiouslog

I’m writing about my latest Oblivion adventures but it’s getting very long so I wanted to post this before.

First of all, Swampnova is closed because I shouldn’t be writing depressing stuff. Sad people should cheer themselves up, not mope on the Internet. I should know better than that, but these last few months have been nothing but an avalanche of bad decisions on my part.

Speaking of which, at least I’m considerate enough to not put my private life online, else I’d be feeling rather embarrassed now. Long story short, I’m back with VG again. I was wrong on him, he proved it, and I’m grateful to him for being able to forgive me.
Happily ever after, then? I sure hope so.

In the end, this summer went rather differently than planned, and as such I wasn’t able to work on that Pokémon comic, too bad. However, I think I may be remaking Advanced Blanket’s layout as soon as I can; even though the current one is only a few months old and is not that bad as for what concerns usability and presentation, it feels like it’s lacking something, like it doesn’t even begin to convey who I am. This comes as no surprise when I think of the period in which I worked on that layout, but anyway.
I already have some ideas for the redesign. The concept came to me in a flash a few days ago, it has to do with a huge top image…look, I’ll just post a sketch here:

and this may be a thirty-seconds quickie made with the mouse in a Messenger window but it’s really pretty self-explanatory. I think it’s a very powerful image and it also gives a whole new meaning to the site name - Advanced Blanket, is this blanket nothing but our very skin? It’s also a very personal work and as such it can be easily recognized as mine. I think. I don’t know, it came to me in a flash and I was OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. THIS IS THE BEST IDEA EVER and while the way I pictured it in my head is probably way grander than the actual artwork I’ve yet to make I think the idea itself is just fine.

and another thing yet: I’m considering to open a webdesign blog. There are a lot of things I’ve always wanted to write which I never actually did because I felt like they just didn’t belong on this place, so I thought that maybe it would be better if I started a serious blog which would maybe gain its own userbase instead of boring my four readers to death with uninteresting stuff. What if the world has been deprived of my illuminating ideas because of these restraints? JUST THINK OF IT!
hahahahaha yeah I know, it’s just that I want to write about webdesign, I don’t have any stupid pretenses.

next post will have actual drawings! I promise

After months of development, Advanced Blanket is finally up. Say hello to Miranda (look for her full artwork in there, I’m not posting it here too).

YOU CAN’T IMAGINE HOW ACCOMPLISHED I FEEL RIGHT NOW.

so hey stuff was done!

The weasels fanlisting is up and running. Man, what a weird development process. I mindlessly finished the whole layout in a single day, sent the application, received the approval, decided I didn’t like neither the layout I made nor the name I gave it, left it hanging around for ten days and then re-made the whole fanlisting from scratch in a single day again. Well. At least now I actually like the result.

Also Dark Claws got updated twice in two weeks because of a very nice person sending me loads of Sneasel-related stuff. :D NOW TO GET THE NEW SNEASEL PLUSHIES AND FIGURES

Blind Dreaming’s new index’s only missing a decent artwork. I already made one but it ended up looking too sloppy and not very related to my usual themes anyway, so I’ll have to think better. I’ll let you know as soon as I’ll be finished.

Advanced Blanket’s in a very advanced (lol) stage of development. The layout is gray and yellow just like in the index page, but it ended up getting a cyber/steampunk feel to it, there’s rust and scratched metal and bolts everywhere. Also that dark yellow became more like dark yellowish-orange to match. Currently, it’s only missing the artwork - which will feature two female robots. Specifically, a cute household robot who wants to turn on a rebellious and transgressive robot which was deactivated and rotting in a dump. YOU KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING, ISN’T IT. It seems that characters about to do something incredible and meaningful are a constant in my art. That and the theme of rebirth, too.
Other than that, I only have to make the banners and write the about me, which seems to always be the very last page I write in whatever project. Heh. I hate writing about me.

and now, I’ll be working on that damned animation exam