Dreams of the Quill

I had my AP English midterm on Thursday, and lots of other tests on Wednesday and Friday, and didn’t have the time to really focus on the Crystals of Mana during the weekday. Come the weekend, well, I’ve been busy … playing with my brothers and celebrating Jamesui’s birthday with Duk and another friend, Ollie.

It’s all good, no, great- but I won’t have Chapter Eleven out today.

Gem – Lord the Fourth

Next up for coloring, as you can see in the sidebar, will be a younger and less lordly Gem Hunter.

First order of business, as promised, here’s that Mana sketch. Oh, and another one for good luck. The second one is full of spoilers. Yum.

Mana II – Come with me
Mana II – Terror

One thing you’ll notice if you navigate to the above linked pages is that I’ve begun integration between the HC art and the HC wiki. I might go through and do this with all 38 images in the gallery, I might not. It makes for easy referencing from the art pages, and seems a nice subtle way of guiding my readers to the wiki ;)

Next order of business. I have signed up for Sumiyoshi’s newest Pokemon RPG, and that signup can be found here. Chip Sirron is not so great a character as Harry Locke, but then, I doubt I’ll ever create a character so well written as Locke.

Finally, I’d like to take a moment to investigate the activity of our beloved “Woodlands”, the RPG section of the Dreams of the Quill Forums. It’s been rather active of late, almost too active- I for one do not find time in my schedule to pay equal attention to all the goings on there. I find this a welcome sign, a sign that we did our duty in upholding the community of the war3forums RPG section. Three cheers to them Old Guard!

RPGs Ongoing
Second Exodus [Jamesui]
The Darkness Comes… [KingCrazyGenius]
Dark Existence [Open RPG - Saurus]

Sign-ups Open
Daemonica: The Summoning [Alar]
Evolution’s End [Sumiyoshi]
Tomb Raiders [MoronsonofBoron]

So I have Photoshop again. I won’t say more than that on the subject.

Following are one coloring and three sketches of Mana, none of which I’m entirely happy with. The fact that I have Photoshop again though promises nothing but improvement upon my technique when I turn to coloring other sketches, and the sketches- while not good- are definitely steps taken in the right direction. After all, I might argue that any sketching I do is a step in the right direction.

Gem – Other Clothes [Color]
Mana II – Quite a bit of it
Mana II – New Hair?
Mana II – Renewal

Also, I edited the art index to have better section images. I basically put up pieces of scanned images where I could, replacing previous images that were cut out of photographed sketches.

I promise better art within the week- I hope to use a scanner tomorrow, and I have one drawing of Mana that I feel *very* good about waiting in my sketchbook.

Yeah, there won’t be a new release tomorrow. (today if it’s already Sunday where you are)

I got about half done over this week, and was planning to finish the chapter today. Editing and proofreading would come Sunday. Well, I just spent today at the EBCC working/doing homework/playing N/chilling with D.

Fair enough, right?