I feel like an actual mangaka…

arina

…who is pressed against her deadline.

01My dead­line is the end of this month…

Okay, to show you how much I’ve done~ I wrote out the chapter because that’s the smart thing to do. I did that at the begin­ning of this month. The first chapter con­sists of 5 pages on Word. Well, 4 pages and 2 sen­tences on the 5th. I’ve only com­pleted the 1st page and 4 sen­tences on the 2nd.

That is bad.

And, right now, at this very second… it’s 3:38 AM for me.

I’ve been work­ing on this since 5 PM yes­ter­day. Or some­thing like that…

Why have I’ve been super… L A Z Y ? That may be the ques­tion a few have been wondering.

It’s because the 1st week­end of June was an anime con. That next week we were in Orlando for vaca­tion. The 3rd week­end was another con in Tampa (Met­ro­con) and now I’m spend­ing my last week­end work­ing my butt off to fin­ish this.

02

But a lot of this is also my fault… I’ve been doing lots of dis­tract­ing things. Like fin­ish­ing a few animes such as Somedays Dream­ers (the first one, it was hor­rible btw. I loved the books though), Haibane Ren­mei (much bet­ter but I was a bit dis­trac­ted because I was play­ing Bleach and Cook­ing Mama on my DS), and I watched an epis­ode of Clan­nad After Story today… or yes­ter­day… whatever.

I’ve also been play­ing Har­vest Moon: Tree of Tran­quility. Awe­some game.

03

It’s 3:51 AM. Right now, my aunt’s play­ing Har­vest Moon: ToT and my sis is play­ing Har­vest Moon DS. Yeah, we’re HM freaks.

And now, I’m typ­ing this. Another dis­tract­ing thing… But I can’t draw any­more! ! ! …At least, not until tomor­row… or today… whatever.

So, I guess, to con­grat­u­late you for read­ing this far…

I guess, I can tell you a bit about my comic, maybe? My good­ness, I feel so pooped out and depressed.

04

I guess I’ll talk about the pics I put up. These pics are the ones that I picked that looked the best presentable.

The 1st one (not the Arina pic) is the chapter cover pager thinger. Please excuse me. I’m tired and a little delu­sional from see­ing so many lines! Okay, not really~ So, whatever. Her name is Roze. (That was a spe­cial treat. You don’t get to know her name until the 2nd chapter.)

Oh, before I con­tinue any farther… I’m think­ing of put­ting of a good sketchy ver­sion of each chapter first on DA. Then, later on when I’m done with the whole pro­ject, I’ll ink it all and put it on Mangabul­let. That way, the chapters come faster. I might even have a down­load avail­able if any­one wants it once I’m done with the entire thing. Ink­ing it and all. Or I could sell it. If it turns out really good.

05

The 2nd image is kinda blah. Not much to say except: He’s talk­ing on the phone. I drew a phone there. I did. I just don’t know where it went.

The 3rd image is of Hiro turn­ing around because he heard a bell. I love facial expres­sions. So you’ll see a lot of faces and not a lot of full body. But I’ll try hard to bal­ance things out.

The 4th image is of Hiro’s mom. Yeah, do you see Hiro. Didn’t even feel like doing his head. Btw, what you see here will NOT be the final. I still have to do the good sketch. These are bad sketches. Except for the 1st one.

06

The 5th image… I felt like draw­ing Hiro look­ing ador­ably annoyed.

The 6th image is… me being kinda lazy. But I think the final may stay very close to that because he’s super cute.

07

This is the last page I did today. Can you see how tired I am?

Any­ways, thanks for read­ing this far… or if you skipped and just looked at the pics… that’s okay, I guess.

So now it’s 4:20 AM. My aunt is still play­ing HM. My sis retired to bed and I think that I’m going to do the same. So goodnight.

Also, Fairy Tail is going to become an anime!! Yay~

Oyasumi~

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10 Comments

  1. Gargron 535
    Posted June 27, 2009 at 10:39 | Permalink

    I love facial expres­sions. So you’ll see a lot of faces and not a lot of full body. But I’ll try hard to bal­ance things out.

    Chibi is the best way out. ^__^ Also the 5th image from top… Did I see a neko­mimi? :3

  2. Ammy 59
    Posted June 28, 2009 at 17:23 | Permalink

    Nice job! ^_^ Hope you fin­ish it soon

  3. Posted June 29, 2009 at 16:46 | Permalink

    Motiv­a­tion has always been a prob­lem to many, but I hope you will get yours and fin­ish this doujin­shi! Gambatte~!

    • Posted July 2, 2009 at 05:39 | Permalink

      Sankyuu, I have struggled with motiv­a­tion for a lot of past things I tried to do. But I thought that if I put it up online, there would be people who would be inter­ested in this and that would motiv­ate me to con­tinue on… (It’s work­ing~)
      .-= Llora-chan´s last blog post: Crazy Moon – Kimi Wa Muteki — Arashi =-.