Yep... I'm still working on my projects, and sorry for the lack of stuff posted here, I just have not been in the mood for any drawing lately. It's just a slump that'll pass eventually, but I've not given up.
The first volume is being chipped away at like a giant marble sculpture, and like so the time will come where I can finally pull down the curtain to reveal it.
Don't worry, I'm not getting sucked into the infinite hole of perfectionism that many fall prey to in this field. It's just that I have a standard that needs to be met before I'm willing to sign off on the first volume, because it needs to make a really stellar first impression, as the selling point for the series to come.
I know it's been a little radio silent all around, which I take to mean everyone else is hunkered down working away on their own endeavors, so I hope you're all faring well. Just keep at it, and we'll eventually get to the point where we can proudly declare projects as "done!".

Hey people who read this! I'm still working on my story stuff, deep in the mines of brainstorming and planning while I'm getting it all sorted out for further work. Sadly haven't been doing a lot of drawing, just cuz I haven't felt particularly inspired nor am I at the stage where drawings need to be done. They'll get made at some point and I'll share what I have when it's done of course. But, for now...yeah, kinda just "stuck" in the long process of starting the story. I'm enjoying it though and I think it'll turn out well in the end. Other than that, the plan is switch focus to getting the first volume done, starting in a week or two probably, and that'll give a much better idea to readers what this story is like, once I get around to sharing it. I hope everyone else's projects are going smoothly! It's been a slow month or two for me, but eh, that's just how it goes with creative stuff sometimes. I hope you all keep working hard and I'll be glad to see what you make too!

Everything's going about as good as can be expected, and I'm still working a lot on writing stuff, but I don't want to neglect putting some up here to look at. So, the idea is to make an artbook of the characters and misc stuff from the oneshot I've been posting about. It wouldn't be super long, probably only 30 pages or so, but I'd like to give a bunch of art to look at all at once, instead of infrequent scattered posts, and they'd all be in one spot. It likely won't be in color, and might take a while to make if I only do one complete drawing a day, as that would still take about a month for me to finish. Of course I could maybe draw more than that, but there's a lot of writing and planning that still needs to get done, and that takes precedent right now. Anyway, feel free to let me know if you'd like to see an artbook. Hope you all are doing well!

Whew...So, I'm now halfway done with writing the script for my actual manga, which is written somewhere in between "play script" style and actual prose, just so I know how to arrange and direct scenes later when drawing them. It's only semi-final for now, as I'll do one last huge pass for editing when the other half is done, but I am rather pleased with what I have so far. It's probably going to end up a bit niche, but I wouldn't expect otherwise. Anyway, it feels like a really long script, with 171,000 words, but it's only like six and a half volumes worth of chapters, so it actually isn't that long. They might be kinda beefy chapters and on the thicker side of manga volumes, but I don't even have an idea yet of how long the volumes will actually be until I start making them. Other than that, I'll keep working away on getting this script finished and I'll let you guys know when that happens! Still super excited about this project, even if it is a draining and daunting task!

So, it's been about a year now since I began the difficult task of trying to become a mangaka, and I feel as though I have made decent progress, but could have done a lot more. For one, I took several week long breaks that added up to probably about three months of not practicing, so that didn't help. The good news is that the writing side has gone better, though still suffered from breaks and blocks, too. Still, if anyone does read this, I think all of my friends on here have improved a lot just in the year that I've known them, and I'm proud of all of you! Your manga have all looked great, and I'm sure you'll improve even more! Though, if you can spare the time, I'd like to know what you guys think of my improvement so far. Considering the fact that I started from absolutely no drawing experience, I'd say I've done pretty well. I do want to give a sincere thanks to my friends on here, as you guys are really the only source of encouragement I have. So thanks, and stick with me!

I know I've mentioned it a few times, but here's some sample tracks of the albums I almost always have on when drawing or writing. It's immensely helpful to have some background noise that you can stand listening to for hours on end, and maybe they'll fit your tastes as well. So here's the youtube links to the songs:
If These Trees Could Talk - The First Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQSiSqCiaDM
Miroist - Are we leaden yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-JQ17RvMks
Kerretta - Warnlands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO1N7XVdOWI
Tuber - Luckily Dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-omWO504QkE . If you do like them, I can direct you to the albums they're from, as well as the others that I like, if you want.

Link: https://medibang.com/picture/rx1908271701415130005968646/
Here's the full-page art for the first chapter of the oneshot, well, the only chapter of it for now. It's not perfect, but to be fair, I think this is the first time I've drawn the same characters twice. It's not so simple to make them look "exactly" the same each time, especially not with my skill level, but I think they look passable enough. I'll worry about it if it becomes a big enough problem, but that struggle will go away with time I'm sure. Anyway, thanks for reading and taking a look!

I remade the cover for my oneshot I'm working on, as I wasn't really feeling the old one, link here because of 5mb limit: https://medibang.com/picture/rx1908221608181990005968646/ . I think this one looks better, but as my comment on there says, I'd be open to coloring it in, I just want some feedback on the monochrome version first. Thanks for reading, and I hope all of your projects are going well! It still gives a lot of motivation having friends on here that are capable of making some pretty good looking stuff!

Link to image, as again too big to post here: https://medibang.com/picture/uy1908081603211940005968646/ The torso, thighs, and inner clothing were drawn off of some reference for anatomy, as I'm still learning that, but the rest is drawn off of me, meaning no fan art this time. Did this drawing to keep up practice with drawing figures, as well as to try to make a good looking color drawing. Still a lot to improve on, but I don't think it turned out too bad. Feel free to let me know what you think, and thanks for reading.

It's actually pretty good considering what it is, link to it on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28FVxYQuLOQ . Thank me later.

(Link to post, file too large to post on this section): https://medibang.com/picture/c71907281052395870005968646/
Felt like doing some more fan art, this time of Satsuki from Kill La Kill. I was originally intending to do something with an intricate background, but I'll save those for drawings focused on just that. I'll need to practice architecture and perspective on buildings soon, but not this time. Anyway, not a lot to say on this one, but I hope you enjoy it and any feedback is welcome as always. Thanks for reading!

Wanted to do some Misty fan art, so I churned this out today, using roughly the same colors as the Reiju fan art from earlier, as they fit her aquatic theme nicely. Thanks for looking!

Meet Hanmei, the third and final member of "En's #1 Fan Club"!. Hopefully you like her design, as I enjoyed making it and all the others as well. Now that all the characters have been made properly, the only thing left is to actually draw the darn oneshot. Not gonna' lie, you'll be waiting a while to see the whole thing, as I'm spending the next two months putting together proper documentation for my main manga project, as well as intensive writing to complete the remaining 59 of 78 planned chapters. So, this is really only going to be worked on in snippets during breaks or off days. That's not to say I won't share anything during that time, however. I plan on sharing (if they're done during this time) the "chapter cover art", a finished page or two, and some of the extra pages at the end, along with any other practice or fan art I'll squeeze in. I'm not going to go dark, but I also won't promise a steady stream of posts. Thanks for reading, and hopefully things go as planned!

Here's Kei, the second member of the fan club. I'm pretty pleased with how her design turned out, she's supposed to be shorter than the others, but without them for scale it might not look like it, I dunno. Anyway, I tried to make her look intimidating, but not in a scary psycho way like Yami does, instead more of a casual air to it. I think I got it, but let me know how you feel on it. Any other feedback is also appreciated. Thanks for looking, and the third and final member of the fan club is up next!

Welp, it's a little later than I wanted to get it done, but here she is. Aroko, the leader of the three girl group that's the self proclaimed #1 Fan Club of the head Sorcerer En. They aren't full fledged sorcerers themselves, so they don't have masks, but that doesn't stop them dressing the part. Basically, their style is supposed to be similar to En's fashion sense, while not being a direct copy, but still retaining the mushroom motifs as well. I think her design went pretty well, especially the shoes and the hair, but feel free to leave any feedback of your own. Thanks for looking!

So here's the design drawing for Yami, the second character of my fan oneshot. I've kinda been doing these in reverse order of how I normally design characters, as I normally have them fully made on paper, before touching their visual design way later (obviously slightly designed in my imagination early on). So, there's not a whole lot to say other than she's Sashiba's "friend", and is an actual sorcerer as well. Next up is to design a trio of characters, members of a self-proclaimed "En's #1 fan club".

I changed my profile pic to a new character of mine. If they don't look familiar, that's because they're a char in my slow-to-make-but-will-be-done-within-a-decade fanmade oneshot I'm chipping away at. I'm currently finishing up their design and should have a proper drawing of them posted soon, which this image is cropped from. Hopefully you'll all like it!

It's rated mature, based on guidelines, but it's really pretty tame: https://medibang.com/picture/4y1906091031488930005968646/ . Here's the cover art for a fanmade manga that might see the light of day at some point. It's a mix of Q Hayashida's original characters and my own creations, set in the world of Dorohedoro. Q Hayashida reserves all rights to the original content of her work on Dorohedoro, I'm just a fan adapting it, and make no claim otherwise. Hopefully it goes better than my other failed attempts at oneshots, as this has a lot more passion and excitement behind it.

Question: What is the most visually appealing anime you've seen? (movies and OVAs apply too) My answer: K-Project. It might not have the most fluid animation, but damn if it doesn't have really good art direction, as well as some really cool scenes with good general direction. Like the parts with Yata on his skateboard, or the various Kings' abilities in action, and the big rooftop fight at the start of season 2, it left a lasting impression on me.The anime never really stops feeling like it has cinematic levels of production, at least to me. There are plenty of close seconds to it, mostly by Madhouse, but studio GoHands did a great job with this, as far as everything visual is concerned. [Edit] Here's the S2 fight scene I mentioned, on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8I95WL9H08 . It's about as high resolution as you can easily find for the whole thing, and there is some fanservice starting at 4:50 in, just for fair warning. There's not really any major spoilers either.

First off, the character is "Hummingbird" from Deadman Wonderland, and she definitely has an attitude, if you're not familiar with her. The top drawing is me trying to get some all-in-one practice on foreshortening, facial expression, and perspective (fish-eye in this case). The bottom is her drawn in profile, as I desperately need to practice profile drawings more. This is the first decent one I've ever done of it, so there's that. Anyway, I'm pretty pleased with how these turned out, but let me know if there's any feedback or criticism you have. There might, might, be a color version of the top drawing in the next few days or so, no promises though.

First, sorry for being lazy/distracted, I'll try to go through your guys' stuff that's been posted and give some feedback. As for this drawing however, I took the char Reiju from One Piece, and altered her design a little to try to fit her into Doro' thematically, like I did with my own character Sashiba. I think I did a decent job of getting the tattered gritty look, with small pieces of armor that some wear, and some Japanese influence in places. It's good practice on how to think about more intricate character designs. I also upped the resolution that I was drawing at again, which makes this look even nicer, I think. And, I tried out a slightly different coloring method of using the watercolor brush set to Size: 7-ish, Opacity: 9%, Color Mix: 11, and Compliment: 25. Using two to three shades for each part, and using longer elliptic strokes like coloring with a marker, and purposely leaving small slivers of white space here and there to make the color look less "uniform".

I said I'd try to make the next drawing more impressive, so here it is! Taking some inspiration from the Chapter 38 cover art from good 'ol Dorohedoro, I wanted to make a character of my own that would feel at home in that world. Below is the result, and she's called Sashiba. I don't have anything more than her name and look designed, but if people want, I might try to do more drawings featuring her. No promises though. Anyway, thanks for looking!

It's not the best ever, but I needed to keep up with practice, this time trying out a landscape. This didn't have a whole lot of time put into it, so hopefully my linework isn't too rough, and the detail came through well enough. I think I'm getting better at the style I'm aiming for, but I still have a long way to go. I might have to go back and dig into some good references to figure out how to do ground detailing, we'll see. Probably going to do a detailed drawing of a person next.

I wanted to practice coloring, so I removed the background from the previous fan art and did some work on it. Disclaimer, the color palette and general background idea are from the Vol 2 Cover of Dorohedoro. I basically took that cover's style and fused it with the fan art to make this. Again, this is fan art of two separate things, I just put them together for practice.

Alright, I was able to finish the background for it today, so here's the final version. Before you get too excited, this is being drawn from reference, as the whole point was to redraw the still frame and get practice doing so. So this isn't all from my imagination or anything, at least as far as scene composition and structure goes. Credit for the original source goes to the team over at Gearbox. Anyway, let me know what you think of the final thing, like if the style looks good and all that. Thanks for looking!

I'm working on redrawing a specific frame from the Borderlands 3 Dev Trailer, trying to keep in the style I'm practicing of course. The psycho in the foreground is almost done, and the bg is going to be the next task. I don't want to clog up the feed with WIPs, but it's been a few days since I last posted and I wanted to show that I am still doing some stuff, even if I should be doing much more.

Did some more fan art for drawing practice, this time mainly focusing on drawing a face in 3/4 view and suitable posing, as well as drawing something with heavy gritty rainfall pouring on it. I like the final product, but feedback is welcome as always.

Wanted to mess around with some fan art to bring the fun back to drawing, so here's what I did, based off of my favorite game of all time, Borderlands. Let me know what ya' think!

I think I've got at the pre-production done, with a finished script, character designs, and other visual elements sorted out for the most part. I've started work on the actual manga pages now, and I'll be devoting this next week to rough drafting all the pages to make sure all the dialogue fits, figure out the flow of panels, etc. I actually finished my first ever panel today that was just a background with a narration bubble on it, and it leads me to think the panels where I mostly have bgs in frame might get done first, some during this drafting phase even, but no promises on that. Thanks for reading, and I hope this project goes well! It's daunting, but a hurdle I'll have to pass at some point anyway.

I really want to give you guys on here something to read from me sooner rather than later, and this is exactly the push I need to do it. Coincidentally, I was already planning a Oneshot anyway when this new contest started, and I'll be finalizing the script(not the manuscript, just plain text) for it today. All I'll say about if for now is that it's going to be a grimdark modern setting, with some hopefully interesting world building and characters. It's not going to have any religious themes or anything like that, so this should be readable by all my friends on here. Well, that is as long as you don't mind reading something that has a fair bit of cursing and a little graphic violence. And I know many think it's cringy or edgy to have characters swearing a bunch, but for a setting like this with adult characters, it would feel weird and way too sanitized for my liking otherwise. I'll keep the spam to a min, but I will post milestone updates every week or so leading up to the deadline, to keep my feet to the fire and share my excitement!