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Well now, it's been a while since my last full in-depth journal.
If you're questioning it, my condition I'm fine, still talking with some guys on Twitter and Discord and considering ideas for art. Unfortunately I haven't been in the mood to do new art for some time since Valentines' Day concluded, after some more err, "events" occurred late February and early March that kinda killed the momentum I've accumulated back in January.
Let's just say I had to put up with a lot of crap for months now, and I feel as if in this day and age I've become a bit... insecure about myself. I'm not letting it get to my head, but I still think about what's happened from time to time and it hurts.
So yeah, the Nintendo Switch also came out, and... predictably I don't own one yet- mainly thanks to the mirage of hardware issues and poor design choices that surfaced at launch, and I'm a bit reluctant to grab it as soon as possible (especially considering the steep price tag). ARMS is a title I want to try out though, alongside Snipperclips and a few others. For retro stuff, I'm currently setting my eyes on getting a PC Engine on eBay (kinda not worth getting a TurboGrafx with how much the Japanese library outclasses it).
In terms of my own content, the Aozora Wiki is still getting gradual updates- especially with the inclusion of "Rock-Aozora 4" characters like Daiyama, Jamji, and Mr. Morph that now have full profile images curtesy of several different artists (with Blasthor, Yasei, and Sonnerie in progress). Two other characters for "Aozora RPG 2" are also in consideration, but I need to find an artist to do one of them, and wait out a bit to get more funds for the other.
That is all.
In terms of my own content, the Aozora Wiki is still getting gradual updates- especially with the inclusion of "Rock-Aozora 4" characters like Daiyama, Jamji, and Mr. Morph that now have full profile images curtesy of several different artists (with Blasthor, Yasei, and Sonnerie in progress). Two other characters for "Aozora RPG 2" are also in consideration, but I need to find an artist to do one of them, and wait out a bit to get more funds for the other.
That is all.
SJB: Twelve Years Later
Boy, time does fly when you go on hiatus from art, huh? Anyways hello people of DeviantART. I wouldn't have ever imagined myself in this position but here we are. I've been using this site since 2009 and two site re-designs later many of my friends and artists that I've supported from the first few years of being on this site have either vanished into radio silence, relocated to other sites, or moved onto other, better things (or so I hope). It's honestly saddening seeing this place as a shell of its former self because the site's higher ups don't believe in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", or because they lost interest in making art. And I'll admit I'm one of those people. While there were some years where I was more generally active (Pre-2013, 2014, and 2017), other years were either posts of minor projects or WIP's and nothing really substantial. I think the whole trying to build internet cred through DeviantArt and having most of your motivation fueled by said cred, along with
Developing More Characters
Hey there. Since I got the thought of getting more characters from my endless selection of ideas developed I decided to update the character design inspiration document some more: Yup, I had to give this a bit of an overhaul since an attempt to reach out onto Twitter in the form of a tweet ended up going completely south when it attracted what felt like the wrong audience for the job. Thus I added some more details to make it more clear on what kind of content I'm looking for in character designs, art style and all. Hopefully it doesn't come off as too mean-spirited, I don't mean to brush aside so many artists but for new designs made from scratch using provided references I'd rather them closely replicate sort of what I can make, give or take a few.
A year later
Well it's 2021 and I'm still away from this site doing other things for the most part. You may recall if you've been to some of my other sites including my blog that I had a major hard drive failure on my Mac in September 2020. It completely wiped all my WIP's and it took me six months to get a replacement computer as well as a few more months to get some of the programs I commonly used. Currently the priority still lies in my Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart racers and many of them have a long ways to go so I don't feel "ready" to go back to doing standard art just yet, and even then the pandemic has been a huge de-motivator. That said I still want to start on something later in the year and my mind has been tossed between two different groups of characters since I never did any modern art of anyone in either group. There's also a few other characters I've had on the mind and wouldn't mind drawing "just for fun" even if they don't lack the highly detailed and fleshed out backstories or
Time to try and boost that roster count.
Yeah it's that time of the year again. Got some cash on hand, going to see if anyone on the internet is interested in working with me and my ideas.
https://forum.deviantart.com/jobs/offers/2555859/
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