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Next week (18th - 22nd)

Mainly going to focus on finishing off the school year strong as it'll be my final week before my graduation. Honestly the main thing I'm sweating is my pre calc final which is on Tuesday which.... I may or not be lowkey procrastinating on by writing this.... shh... But seriously how am I supposed to remember how to graph sine and cosine, I did that all the way back in January, sigh. Well anyways, my art final allowed me to draw whatever I wanted, so, I started making some promo art for my comic. Actually I was working on this piece during a stream I held on Friday, so take a peek at that if you want. As I said in the stream I doubt I'll have the piece fully finished for when it's due Wednesday, but, I'll pass of the line art as the final or something. I will fully complete the shading before I post it here though. I'm unsure when exactly that'll be though, as I'll get to there are a few things I may need to prioritized first.

(Note on the stream: I do wanna do more streams in the future hopefully, I really wanna do a stream where I take drawing requests, idk when that'll be but hopefully soon. I even bothered making a server an all that so I could congregate all my friends together, which has been interesting lol. More people joined than thought would, lol ^^)

Next weekend (23-24th)

So Next weekend I'm hoping to use as my 'school wrap up' weekend. While yes I graduate Friday, I still have to finish online prep stuff for my college and I have to do things like make sure my final transcript and AP scores get properly sent to my college. So it's basically a lot of random little small things I need to make sure I do. Some of this stuff I've already done, particularly when I was doing my college registration but not everything. I think its highly possible some of these tasks could bleed into the following Monday and Tuesday, particularly because I will be working longer hours than usual that weekend, but hopefully the spill over should be minimal.

Finishing off May

At this point once any finishing school tasks have been taken care of I wanna focus on getting my model for low poly day completed. I stated prior I was hoping to compete in this year's contest and since then I have begun working on the model I am wanting to use for my final render. I would say I'm about 25-30% completed with the modeling stage. Saying that though is deceiving on my end as overall texturing in the part of model making that takes me the longest just because of the shear amount of revisions I have to go through to get the texture to look the way I want. I would really like to show off a preview of this model as I think so far it's been coming out very nicely but idk what the rules are regarding reuse of prior material and I don't want it to be considered me reusing something if I show a preview now so you'll just have to wait! >< To give a hint though, the character may or may not be a girl from an obscure SNES game. Maybe maybe maybe.

Anyways, following getting more work done on my model, so either the week of the 25th or the following week depending on how things go, I really want to get my comic up to a weekly update schedule. I know I was tossed up in my last update blog on if I thought I could to weekly or bi-weekly updates, but then I was working on the last page and I was like. Oh yeah, it actually doesn't take me that long to finish these, I just haven't had any time to work on them. That said, since it'll still be a little bit till I can work on the next page because of the things above I am going to look into get some white corrective ink and microns. To make corrections I've been using a shitty gel pen and to fill in black areas and draw my panels I've been using a sharpie. Which like. That works because I do always clean my scans in Krita but, being able to do more of the process on paper in what saves me time, and it's cooler. Overall previously when I got better ink was what did wonders for simplifying and stream-lining my process, so I'm hoping continuing to get better supplies will help.

Oh also, for people who may wanna know. I have 16 pages of my comic written so far. Of those I've drawn 7, which means there's 9 pages I haven't drawn yet of what I have written. Of the 16 pages I have written, this so far depicts 3 out of 8 plot points I have written down in my outline for the series. Also chapter 1 I believe has the second most amount of plot points in it so far, although this could changes as I have begun revising my outline a smidge to include some subplots I've developed in my mind since I wrote my outline back in like August/September so, things could slightly change, I'm like 100% certain on the ending now though. I had begun conception the story (initial character designs and plot points) in winter (November/December) 2024. Make of that what you will.

MISC

UTYHH - I don't want to speak too much on the timeline of this project publicly since this isn't like an official post for utyhh and the person who ultimately makes these sorta calls is Daniel, but. I will say I am working on it in the background of these other things. We've begun scripting episode 6 and if you had to ask me I would hope it (the script) would be done by the end of May. Me and Daniel were not super thrilled it took so long to get out episode 5 so we are trying our hardest to make sure this episode stays on 'schedule'. Although it's hard when you have a job and finals to worry about. lol.

EBHH fan album - So anyone who is keen eyed enough to frequently check my 'what am I currently working on' in my pinned tumblr post would know awhile ago I was making cover art for an EBHH fan album. That cover art is done but the album has yet to release for a number of reasons. It was initially supposed to be a Halloween 2025 release but atp it'll probs be a Halloween 2026 release LOL. There's still a strong desire to release though, in big part because I did finish the cover art so yeah, it'll come out sooner or later. Anyways, all this is to say that because there is this time extension I will be recording a cover of a certain lyrical Toby Fox song as a bonus track for the album. I wanted to do this like 2 months ago but haven't had the time nor the correct batteries for my recorder, so, I'll possibly record that this weekend as well????? We'll see.

SFTBH fan designs - Sooo, I was worried this was a supremely stupid idea, however, I both can't get it out of my head and I got some encouragement from cass' server so. I have started making fan designs of the characters portrayed in Weezer's 'lost' album Songs from the Black Hole. I honestly have so much I want to say about it already, from my thought process behind the designs and also just my general thoughts about the story of the album but I'm going to save that for a proper post just about it. I don't know when this will be completed as I obviously have other priorities right now but I do want to finish it, hopefully soon, will keep everyone posted. Below is a preview of one the designs below. The character's outfits are going to have a mix of anime tech wear and like 60s retro futrue.