Sorry for this being so late, I had meant to make a post a few days ago and just got caught up. Yeah there was no update Friday. I have the next page drawn and inked, just not colored yet.
Here’s basically a brief summary of what I’ve been going through in the past couple of months. . . Over winter break I transferred schools. I was going to Kansas City Art Institute as an animation major beforehand and decided animation really wasn’t what I wanted to do. After weighing my options as to switching majors I realized what I wanted to do was illustration. The problem was that KCAI had got rid of its illustration program a few years prior. They’re bringing it back but I basically wouldn’t be able to take classes in it until 2012 and, well, I just didn’t want to wait that long, lol.
So I started looking for other schools and found one in San Francisco that had what I was looking for. Since I am, unfortunately, not in a position to move to the West coast I am currently taking classes online (and I love not having to drive to class anymore).
Plus I was hired on as a substitute teacher. The schedule for that is really erratic, basically I work when they need me. I could work five days a week or none at all depending on what’s open.
And in the last few days I’ve been feeling weird lately. I haven’t been able to eat anything and I’ve been feeling nauseous. I think I have some sort of flu starting because I’ve also been completely drained for energy and I’ve been having weird headaches. Blah.
I’m posting this here because I’m going to have to do some moving around to make time for Starcrossed. I’m aiming for once a week still, but it won’t be on a set day. It just depends on how much time I have that week.
This semester I have to go back and take some Foundations classes that didn’t transfer to this school so I’m doing some basic Figure Drawing and Photoshop classes that are easy enough. But I’m also taking a figure sculpting class that my professor has warned will be more time consuming during midterms and finals. So there might be a period in March and May where I’m a bit unavailable. 
I’ve never sculpted before so I’m a bit nervous.
Either way, expect the next Starcrossed page when I get over the initial funk I have right now.
Lucky, getting to move out to the west coast..! You won’t be my midwestern neighbor anymore, haha!
Anyway, hope you start feeling better. My life has been super hectic so I know how you feel.
well, i hope that you get over whatever sickness you are getting ( and fast, cause being sick is no fun ), and i hope that your college classes don’t take up too much of your time. I love Starcrossed, and I think that once the story progresses a little bit further ( past the beginning introductions and into the main story plot ) more people will come around to see it.
get better soon!
The best way to learn illustration is just to do it, but have others who can give you honest feedback on your work.
This sounds simple, but its not easy to find people who know enough to be objective about your work, and not just say they like it because they don’t want to hurt your feelings.
Its also not easy to be objective about your own work. Granted, you have to know you have talent and ability, but being able to see it for what it is calls for a little bit of humility.
Your choice to concentrate on illustration over animation was a good one. If you are a great illustrator then you can always be a great animator, but not the other way around. Illustration concentrates on the basics of the image, wether its moving or not. 3d illustration will put you right in a sweet spot, where you can do anything.
oh noes=( hope you get better:D