I’m slowly, but surely working on chapter two. There’s a few changes that I’m making for it. For one, I’m opting more for flat tones rather than so many screen tones you see now. It cuts down on a lot of the time spent toning the comic and getting it out.
Also after doing thumbnails for all the pages, I went through and shot reference photos for each panel. I felt the anatomy for chapter one isn’t quite up to snuff to what I can do, so hopefully chapter two will be an improvement visually.
Also after this chapter, I’m going to switch to updating once a week. The reason is I start school August 25th. I want to be able to buy myself enough time to keep at least a chapter ahead of what’s out. Between the comic and animation projects I’ll have in school, I don’t think I could keep up with a twice-a-week schedule and I’d rather stick to something I can keep consistent.
Just letting everyone know I am currently taking commissions. I ran into some moderately expensive car trouble and I need to make some extra cash to get through next month. T_T
I am doing small post card sized sketches for $5 a pop (shipping is included) of whatever you want.
I am also selling prints. I have prints on hand of most of the stuff in my deviantart gallery so feel free to send me a note or email me if you’re interested.
Any offers would be greatly appreciated. 
In case anyone’s curious and wants to see my other work or just other things I’m involved with, I figured I’d post links here.
Automaton Works – Our studio site run by Rumormonger and myself. Rumor was nice enough to do the speech bubbles and lettering for the comic and deserves a mention. ^^ We’re both on the forums every day.
Deviant Art – My main art gallery. I post a lot of stuff in my journal there, too. Plus you can see work from other projects. If you don’t like Deviantart, I also have galleries at Storm Artists and Manga Revolution. Neither gallery has as much stuff in it though.
Livejournal – I just started posting here, but I’ll probably post a lot of news and stuff here in the future.
Myspace – I’m rarely on and I’ve actually kinda grown to hate Myspace, but I still accept friend adds and read any messages that are sent to me.
Feel free to friend me on any of those sites. So long as you don’t spam me I don’t mind. ;D
Being that this comic is about seven pages, I’m actually mildly surprised by the amount of attention it’s attracted already. I’m enjoying the comments coming in, especially on the most recent pages. The chats I wrote were loosely based on conversations I’d had in real life (with a sarcastic and humorous take of course). I can remember being a teenager and struggling with who I like. I didn’t have anyone to talk to in real life about it, so I saw the internet as a way to talk to other people like me. The problem with that, and I’d imagine it’s probably a universally female problem with the internet, is teenage girls tend to attract weird and creepy guys. If you say you’re bi or lesbian, some guys just think it means you’re kinky. Or that bi girls will do anyone because they like both. Or that lesbian girls regularly have orgies with each other as soon as a camera turns on. The IM chats in this comic are supposed to be something that any girl can relate to, especially les and bi girls. Because I’m sure we’ve all encountered that one guy on IM at some point of our internet lives.
Also the “marketable skill” comment on page 7 was made out of sarcasm to all this. Like anything else that can be remotely related to sexuality, lesbianism is definitely one that is exploited.
Well I do certainly hope you enjoy both pages that are out so far. ;D There will be more, I promise. I have the first chapter done so far and I’ll be posting them twice a week, you can count on it every Tuesday and Friday. . . I should probably post that somewhere on this site . . .
Anyway, this is my first attempt at a more serious comic. And by serious, I mean having an actual story. I’m writing chapter two, and already I can see this becoming more comedy than drama. XD
For those of you who aren’t familiar with me, I originally did the comic Value=Dead which started out as a 4koma strip and eventually grew . . . and grew . . . and grew. It was originally supposed to be a fun little comic dump to blow off steam and eventually it got a little carried away, so I had to cut it short so I could do other things. I still planning on getting back to it though. More on that later.
I’m used to writing self contained jokes, occasionally I’d dip into a storyline in V=D, but that would only run for about four strips at a time. I’m actually pretty excited to be able to tell a story this time around. (yay!)
