Friday Rambles 2024-04-19

Another Friday, another Rambles.

As promised last week, I drew something as penance for posting nothing but pictures of food and buildings on my socials for the past two weeks.

Above: Rare comic, and also an excuse to put draw a Helltaker reference

I was not able to spend much time on this, because I had a tight schedule of traveling to places and looking at buildings and eating food. But I do like how the some of the pictures turned out, considering how little time I spent on them and how long it's been since I drew anything at all.

Above: Standalone pics of Whiskey and Tiger-chan, your conscience

Anyway, I should draw more.

I am currently in Seoul, doing city things, wishing I still lived here. It's gonna be hard to go back home and have nothing going on and still have to drive 20 minutes to everywhere again. Oh well!

Above: Picture of buildings

Honestly, I really am getting a bit antsy to start working on my game again. I'll have to get over it and force myself to relax and enjoy myself because being actually productive isn't gonna happen. I guess I could just draw pictures instead.

Speaking of pictures, I bought a few Japanese artbooks, in a Korean bookstore. Ironically, it was easier that way. For me. They were on sale, too.

 Above: Illustration compilation books for inspo

I'm gonna try to get better at illustration and design in general. Note that unlike every other artbook I have, they don't strictly feature artists working in a typical "anime" style. The TRPG Graphic Design book is an interesting choice, I know. It's mostly designs and examples for like, TRPG rulebooks and campaigns, but it also seemed very applicable for fancy video game UIs and menus as well as printed material like zines. I gotta broaden my horizons and level up my presentation skills for Game 2, you know?

The 1 year anniversary of EMDND launch is in like two weeks, but I don't have anything ready for it. I'm not sure I'll have time. I'll just have to make due with a sale and a crappy comic and a message of thanks, and just make the best bonus story update I can when I get back home.

Thanks for your support, as always! I'll try to draw some more before the next Rambles. See you next week.