I've been so caught up in my current projects that I've neglected to update the month of August.
Well, first of all, I'm helping out an old classmate who's opening his own business in town. When I heard that he was opening up a gaming cafe downtown, I half-jokingly asked him if he needed anyone to do some graphics for him. He ended up mentioning characters all over the walls inside, and I ended up saying I could do that, and here I am, creating images of video game-looking characters and monsters and painting them inside a local business. I'm having a great time designing all of them and spending time transferring them onto the walls; it's such a great experience, and I can't thank them enough for allowing me to do this.
In case anyone's curious, they're called Save Point, and while there's nothing to speak of on their web site, their Facebook page is loaded with pre-opening pictures and information.
In other news, I finished colouring my chibi picture a while back, and have since moved on to a few other things. I bought a magazine full of tutorials on digital painting and plan to utilize said tutorials once I get my laptop back up and running (currently having issues with booting). But, we bought an amazing gaming computer capable of running Final Fantasy XIV at optimal settings, so I'm looking forward to the game even more. In fact, I plan on having no life after it releases.
Speaking of game releases, this fall is going to kill me. Not only does the next Fable come out, but there's the new Fallout, the sequel to Little Big Planet, a new Castlevania...and of all of those, I want the collector's editions, which means I'll be poor. Thanks be to Epic for not releasing Gears 3 until April next year (though, honestly, I'm dying to play it).
But I have plenty of things on my plate right now. School is going well, and I've been writing more of my Aislin comic and Arden Rain short-story. I picked up Star For Command for my DS and fell in love with the series all over again. But seriously, am I the only one who doesn't like the fact that they scrapped Fara Phoenix all those years ago? I also got to play a little bit of 3D Dot Game Heroes, which is pretty much an ode to the Zelda games, if not a complete rip-off that's well done. I also finally downloaded the extra levels to Resident Evil 5 and am disappointed at the lack of zombies in the mansion...but it was great to play as Jill and Chris. Still have yet to play the second DLC level with Josh and Jill, but I plan on getting to that soon.
Back to my Arden Rain story...I've actually been meaning to post the first chapter onto my Deviant Art page to get some feedback and see if I'm heading in the right direction with it. I'm fairly satisfied with how it's turning out, personally, and I'm finding that the more I write, the more I enjoy it. For me, it's like purging the left side of my brain, while drawing purges the right half. I liken it to exercising, and do it until I can't do it anymore. I've been carrying a notebook with me like I used to, and have been going over it while riding the bus, taking lunch breaks at work, etc.
What I would love to do is devote all of my time to Aislin and her story, though. I was up far too late the other night with a power outage, going over my old scripts from a few years back by candle-light, remembering what I had written, what I wanted to keep, what I wanted to add...I could easily let that world consume me. I've spent so long creating it, sustaining it, building on to it. I know it must sound a little silly, but it's such a large part of me and I feel like I've not been giving it the attention it wants. Essentially it's written, and has been for years. I've been working on a revised version for the last couple of years, trying to properly divide it up into the ten books it was meant to be, and don't even get me started on the character designs. I think I'm finally happy with my current drawing skills and writing abilities, but...
I didn't mean for that to turn into a rant. I suppose that I've just had that flame rekindled and I'm in need of returning to that story.
Who knows? Perhaps the next time I update, I'll have done more with it.
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