Another Year, Another Round!

We've reached the end of the year!
This year was pretty crazy for me considering that I went from high school to college in the same year!

I'm also pretty proud of the fact that I was able to finally post pictures of drawings and comic strips from my sketchbook! I've been wanting to do that for a long time, even before I started up this blog! On top of that, I was able to introduce a good amount of characters I've created, so that's probably a start on being able to share other ideas I've been working on for some time, and another plus was that I managed to finish and start another sketchbook this year, which is exciting on my part!

I still have a lot more pictures of several drawings and comic strips I've taken from my last and current sketchbook, so they'll still be coming through into the new year.

I hope you readers (whoever you guys are) had a great 2014 as well, and look forward for what 2015 has in store for you and me!
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

...just for fun, here's last year's last post of the year. See ya in 2015!

Verified Online

I'm not on Twitter, but I've noticed how some people are pretty needy about being verified on Twitter. I don't see why they have that want, but of course good ole' me has poked fun on that.

Speaking of Twitter, I have a friend who thinks that I'll probably eventually join it sooner or later. He might be right, but I doubt it.

You know who you are.

Santa Socks

The merriest of the year holiday is approaching, so I have something Christmasy-ish in store to post out!

In case you can't tell, he's blushing. Sometimes people can't tell, so I have to usually clear it out to anyone who asks. Sorry if it was already obvious; I guess it was kind of a force of habit. Heh heh heh...

For the longest time, I've always wondered if you can wear those Christmas stockings and use them like legitimate socks. I haven't tried doing that yet, but it sounds like a fun thing to do if you're ever bored around the holidays.

Attack on Gingerbread

A new animated video was posted today!

And just for the record, no I don't watch the anime. Heck, I don't even watch anime in general.

This was a pretty fun video to create, since the whole idea and concept was so damn childish, but it did wield great results at the end.
Sadly, if you can notice it, there appears to be these squared areas that render the background colors lighter than usual. Taking these off would result in removing the blurred objects in the scene, which are objects I wanted to be blurred, so I decided to keep them in there. I hope that isn't too distracting though.

This whole bit took me about two days to create, but that's probably since there wasn't much to animate in this one. At least it's a colorful video.

Well would you look at that?

Surprise! Another video is in the works!

I Drew My Professor

And not just any professor!

My math professor! I become bored very easily in that class, so sometimes I draw on the notes he would have us print out.
It went to the point where I decided to draw my math professor, and I am pretty proud of the result! I have a lot of other drawings in my math notes, but I'm especially proud of this one.

I know that the semester is over and all at this point, but hey this is quality work (in my eyes.)

My Art Final: From Start to Finish

Alright, so at this point, the semester's pretty much done and now I'm finally free!

FREE I SAY!

For the entire week of this last week, I was working on my art final project, which we had to recreate an image or photo on an illustration board and draw an object along with the picture. The drawing with the object is suppose to represent a memory or event or something around those lines, so for the final, I chose to do a photo I took not too long ago:

It's been cropped a bit, so that explains any pixelation that might be spotted in the photo. Along with this, I chose to draw a bike patch kit with the photo. What story is suppose to be told here? Tune in to find out, only on the Doji Pocket Channel, weeknights at 6/7c!

3D Printing An Essay

I thought I had already uploaded this onto the blog, but I guess not!

It made it on my deviantart page, but not here apparently.
We've all had to print essays before, right? Imagine sending an essay to a 3D printer instead of a regular printer. How screwed would you be?

I figure that since this is the last week of the semester and everyone's going nuts with studying and typing up a storm for their essays, this is a good week to present this.

Featuring...Someone Else's Comic!

I have a friend, who is also as interested in cartoons, animation, and all the good stuff, that had to do an essay for his English class. He decided that along with his essay, he was going to create a comic strip that went along with his topic featuring his own original characters.

Knowing that I have several years of writing comic strips under the belt, he asked me if I could assist him at making the dialogue funnier since that, and I quote, "I'm awful at comedy." (Which that line alone made me laugh) Basically, if I can help him improve the written aspect of the comic.

After looking it through, he took the suggestions I gave him and went ahead at drew up the comic! Here's the final product!

I love how it resulted at the end, so I asked if I can show it off here. So now I'm showing his work off here!

The artwork and dialogue was all created by Alex Almario, with some assistance on the dialogue from me.

North Cali VS South Cali

In time for the arrival of December, southern California have recently began experiencing rain, which is nice for a change. The fact that it started to rain at the beginning of this month has inspired me to doodle up this bit on the difference between the arrival of the holidays between northern California and southern California.

Of course, rain doesn't only happen around this time of year around here, but it seemed like it came with good timing for this little joke to come to life.
And apparently, thanks to someone's correction of my assumptions, it doesn't snow as much in Northern California as I thought it did around this time of the year.

I learn something new every day!