Upcoming Things and Stuff

Alright, here's what I've been doing/thinking about lately:

• As of right now, I'm very close to completing upgrading all the character's clothing, so look forward to seeing the final, final designs, coloring, and such. Hopefully, I can dream that this is the last time that I'll make major costume changes.
• I'm thinking about launching a new series on Tapastic, however it's just going to be reposts of those cartoon drawings I've posted. The only difference is that they'll all (or most of them) will be redrawn and nicely colored in Photoshop so they'll look nice and pretty rather than just pictures I took on my phone.
• I'm tinkering around with the idea of redesigning the Austin and Jennifer characters and just completely redrawing all 15 strips so they'll look better and more presentable. Maybe, just maybe.
• I've gone back and drawing some stuff in the black sketchbook, so hopefully I'll be able to collect more humorous cartoon drawings and comic strips for another huge wave of cartoon drawings.

That's about it for now.

Oh yeah, I'm trying to make a new animated video. It's kind of in a limbo since I'm kind of lazy to push forward, but it has been awhile since I made an animation.

EDIT: Oh yeah, the green color for the DP logo has been made lighter

A Paid Commission?!

I'd never thought I'd be offered to do a paid commission in my life, but it happened.

What a way to start 2016!

A friend of mine called me to action, which was to create a banner for his social media (primarily for his Twitter and Twitch) that required to have a caricature of him and links to his Twitter and Twitch. We discussed and such, and I showed him early on what direction I was thinking about going to, and he loved it.

It took me some hours on Friday to start and figure out how things will look and be composed, and from 12 to about 3:30AM to finish off the rest on Sunday (or Monday, since it was after midnight.)

He totally loved the end result, which is seen here:

I was going to block out his social media links, but whatever. Hooray for free advertising!

As for pricing, I'm not entirely sure what to charge. I'll edit this post once I figure it out, but for now I'm just totally stoked that I did my first paid commission!

Another Character Upgrade Done!

I've managed to finish another character redesign and this time I'd like to share what I've produced. One of the characters I've been working on lately was the goth girl in the cast, Mandy. She's already gone under a fair amount of changes prior to this particular redesign.
Before, she's had a extremely basic appearance.

Now let me say this: when I started these redesigns for all these characters, I've had to pay attention to fashion; I've downloaded/browsed tons of photos and pictures for references, capturing some little aspects here and there, and trying to work them into the designs of the other characters. That whole process was totally fun and all, but keep in mind that for the other characters in this group, they all dress fairly normal. Nothing to crazy or out there, to be honest; they're all normal people.

But when it came to work on Mandy, I had no idea Gothic fashion was this really crazy, interesting kind of fashion sense. I actually enjoyed kind of studying the look since a lot of it seemed like it was a costume of sorts, which is what I was rolling with.

At the end, it went from a very basic and simple look to, well, this:

It's totally a major revamp!
The dress design is based primarily off of one dress I found that I thought would be perfect; everything else is a mix of little bits and pieces of other Goth-related fashion and such, like, the triangle piercing, that weird make-up thing underneath her eye, that black collar, a skull belt buckle, and the steel-toe-looking boots.
With the dress color, I used like three different variants of black and darkened the shade of purple. I like to see you try and spot which blacks are different.
In terms of physical appearance, I just darkened her hair and used a lighter skin tone. I'm still playing with the skin tone here, so that's not set yet.

Came out very Gothic, right?

Now Entering 2016!

It's here! It's finally here! The year we've been waiting for all year!

So long 2015! Hello 2016! It's finally here! A fresh new year filled with promises of new experiences, friendships, and promises that is just waiting for us ahead!

And look! Danny is back to celebrate the arrival of this great new year!

Happy New Year everyone! May this 2016 be a hell of a lot better than boring ol' last year!