Moving Forward!

Everything's finally sailing smoothly!
I'll have a video posted on YouTube very soon now! I just have to find out the perfect range between me and the mic, but I won't worry a whole lot about that.

I'm totally excited about making videos for YouTube. I know I've stated I'll try to have something done before the month ends, but I don't think that can be possible, so I'll just shut up about any release date.

Here's a little thing of preview:

It's a shot of the first frame, so it's not really in progress as of this point.

The background is definitely still in the works ('cuz I'm not great with backgrounds); I spent several minutes fixing it before a took the image of the frame.

Here I go.

Birthday Matters

Today's the day!
I drew this up for today

In case you can't see what it says, I wrote, "Today's my birthday! For my 17th year, the theme for this year's presents is money!" Then the elder says, "You want money? Here's a job application ya long haired, filthy hippie!"

Oh, old people.

Party Glasses

I always forget when to post new comic strips that I finish.
I finished this one a while back

I'm trying to keep with this blog, but my frickin' Internet is continually its spree of ceasing to work. It's...pretty annoying, but while this is happening, I try to spend my time with the sketchbook.

It seems I've finally got my wit back. What I mean is that I usually have funny ideas about things that I draw up in the book, and for the period that I wasn't drawing in a sketchbook, I kinda had to "shut that down," so I wouldn't come up with funny ideas and forget them later on. I really hate it when that happens.

Sure, I could write 'em down, but eh.

Also, 6-22.

Closer to the Horizon!

First of all, I apologize for not keeping up with the blog lately. I feel like I've been absent for a while, and I hate to be gone for more than several days. A wave of sickness has taken over my body lately...

Recently, I've finally set up my PC in my room, so now I finally have an easier accessibility to animate. I just got the speakers, so now the next thing to do is test out how good my mic is, then immediately moving on to production on the first YouTube video I'll post, which is about that exactly.

The goal is to have it finished before this month ends; it's a strict deadline for me, but with all the free time I now have, I think I can have it done by then.

Meanwhile, with my absence, I've been all over Nintendo's announcements at E3.

I am a huge Nintendo fan, remember that now.

The Doodles Continue!

About a week ago, I ordered two new sketchbooks that look exactly like my old one, since I became used to its size.
They were actually really hard to find in stores, so luckily, we found 'em online. They arrived earlier this week, but I didn't actually get to them until last night.
I was really excited to get a hold of them. Like, I'd asked my dad everyday if they already arrived.
I have them now, but I haven't drawn anything in it yet. I guess my brain got used to not drawing or writing anything good lately, which was weird because when I finished my last book, I still had ideas and things I wanted to draw, but couldn't, which sucked for me. Sure, I could've put them down on something else, but I wanted to keep it in one place.
Now that they're here, I can probably be a bit more busy now in the summer.

Ninja Groceries

School ending is good, but that means I'll also won't have access to create any animations for the summer, which by the way, I'm wokring on.
So before school offically ends tomorrow, I would like to share the last animated video I've created in my animation class, which is here.

Naw, just kidding. It's here:

I tired to pull out all the stops with this one.
Sadly though, I wasn't able to add audio. OKay, well I do the ability to, since I totally placed some parts in there that was meant for voice, but it just didn't work out in the end result. (I'm still beating myself up for that) It came out weird, both the recording and how it sounded like with the video. Once I get my PC up and running though, I promise to finally add voicing and whatnot! It's not like I don't want to, though.
The video's titled "Ninja Groceries," as said do in the title, and I'm glad I came up with this idea. Originally, it wasn't going to end the way it did, but I feel like this ending's better.
I tried to put the "blurry background" look like I did with my comic strips, but I felt like the effect wasn't the same.

Ahh, oh well.

Free Time Galore

Not a whole lot of people know this, but I have a ton of free time after the last bell rings.
That's the exact reason why I usually develop characters, series, and stories with high details, which speaking of characters, character development!

Now I just Googled and found this, and after looking at all the questions, I could say that I could answer most of them with 99.99% of all my characters, which is a good thing since I kind of follow this exact structure.
See, when I create a character, I think of it as creating an actual human being; I go very deeply and focus on extremely small details, like how God would create a human being. That might sound a little extreme, I understand, but look at the title of the post, son.
I also follow big details, but the point is that the character has to be believable, which I can't say I'm an expert at this since I'm the only person I know that does this kind of activity that I find fun to do with my time, so I never really have any feedback. I usually focus on their personalities, appearance, the activities they like to do, what they like, what they don't like, yadda yadda yadda; all of that stuff.

Doji Pocket Banner

A little while ago, I created a banner for my Facebook, with my characters and my name in the "Doji Pocket" logo (yah, I got a logo. Crazy, right?)
But that was only for Facebook and on Google+, which by the way, I think some of you guys found me already on there. Some people added me to their circles, which I don't mind.

Back on the subject, I created a banner-type thing with some of my characters and my logo placed on there. I thought it came out pretty awesome, and it looks great in 3D! I accidentally posted the drawing on the Colors! 3D Gallery first before I posted it here on the blog. I'm kinda smackin' myself or that, but I'm finally getting to it now!

So here it is:

Neat, right?

For those of you who used to follow me on Flipnote Hatena, isn't it awesome that my character actually has color?! But if you guys already follow my Hatena Blog, then it's whatevers since I have him on my banner. But. The fact that I have other characters is neat too, right?

Onward, though.

I'm really happy on how it came out. Sad thing, though, is that originally, I was planning to have a bit more characters included in the drawing, but I couldn't make it work. This is a better way though, since these are the main characters I use anyways.

Now that I'm thinking about it, you guys will probably see these characters a lot more often later on in this blog. Maybe it's probably a good idea to know who these guys are, instead of referring them as "that guy" or "that girl."

I'll get to that one day.

Of Mice and Men Alternate Ending (LINK REMOVED)

As I've mentioned before, my English teacher assigned the whole class to write an alternate ending or extra chapter to John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.

Now, even though this blog is created to share my artwork/drawing/cartoons/animation to anyone with an interest with what I talk/share about, it doesn't have to be about all that; writing is a an art too, you know. Or is it?

It is. It's the craftsmanship of sentences.

Back to the subject, I felt extremely proud of what I created, since I treated this assignment like as if it was my own project, like with a passion.
I got it back graded on Friday, so out of 200 points, I received 185 points, which is great considering that's an A on the grade ranking that my teacher wrote on the board.
The teacher deemed it a bit "unrealistic," but I don't care. I'm just glad how it came out!

*edit: The link for the assignment on creating an alternate ending for the book Of Mice and Men has been removed. Nov. 7, 2014