Planning for stories and stuff.
Word, dawg.

This is a world I made mostly for my own use, but I made it a public world anyways. I'll be posting things about story outlines, my characters, my comics (including fan comics), WIPs, ect... It's pretty much a world where I can store information and/or plan things. xD

Below are short descriptions of my stories to help you know what's going on. xD It also shows which characters are in which story, along with their extended profile if I have one made. Some stories aren't mentioned because I don't work on/think about them often. Therefore, not all of my characters are mentioned.

STORIES

The link leads to the fan comic in my portfolio. If there isn't a link, there isn't a comic yet.

ORIGINAL STORIES
*Rock Band: Something Impossible: The story of a Rock Band and their adventures in music business.
Major Characters: Michka, Zack, Loyal, Dare, Rick
Important/Frequently Mentioned Supporting Characters: Damian, Tim, Dare's Aunt aka Auntie

*Of Fruits and Vegetables: 4-panel comics of the life of a 21-year-old model and his friends/workmates.
Major Characters: Tomato, Stefan, Tomato's Boyfriend aka "TB", Gabe, Janet aka Jo, Kasey, Dean
Important Supporting Characters: Danny, Leah, Mick

*Dreams: The story of a rich and pampered English boy who gets transported to the mysterious town of Dreams, and his adventures there.
Major Characters: Alcott, Luli, Ms. Marigold
Important Supporting Characters: Shinitsu, Annabelle, and others that are to be decided.
**Annabelle's and Ms. Marigold's profiles are in the same post.**
Story Dialogues: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1

*My Dear Princess: The story of an orphan child, a princess, and friends who's home country's peace is threataned by the evil prince of a country that was thought to be nonexistant. (CONFUSING. xD)
Major Characters: Isaac, Charlotte, Rinchu, Segran, Lucia, Nicholay, Faida, Hrafn, Falorin, Gaelnis
Important Supporting Characters: To be decided.

*Foreigner: An alien boy sent to Earth to destroy the human race finds himself in Los Angeles California, befriends a human girl, and gets involved in crazy advetures.
Major Characters: Kor, Gliding Eagle
Important Supporting Characters: Michelle, Dailen

*A Life Like This: A written story in the perspectives of Dare, Tim, and Rick.
Major Characters: Tim, Dare, Rick, Ms. Ackart
Important Supporting Characters: See characters for Rock Band: Something Impossible.
Chapters: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten

FAN STORIES
*The Adventures of Marth and Roy: Super Smash Brothers fan comic. Title is pretty self-explanitory.
Major Characters: Marth, Roy, Ike, Pit

I don't have a name for his story, but Jamal is a Kingdom Hearts fan character. I figured I'd mention him because I draw him often enough.

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Also, if you want to find posts that feature a specific character, type in the URL http://theotaku.com/worlds/variousinformation/tags/[character name]. For example, http://theotaku.com/worlds/variousinformation/tags/dare will bring you to posts about Dare. :)

Enjoy Your Stay at Various Planning!

More Fun with Fake Screenshots + WIP

This is too small to upload to my portfolio, so I'll just post it here. Last night/this morning I was having some fun practicing cell shading and using thin line arts. I drew Stefan, who is usually my guinea pig as of late:

Something helpful I figured out is that lining the eyes with a thicker pen helps them stand out and not look washed out of the picture. ;3; It's a little obvious, but you know... I'm not used to this digital art stuff. I usually thicken lines by drawing over a line x10000, but it turns out that USING A THICKER PEN SETTING IS EASIER AND LOOKS BETTER! Who would've thought.
(answer: a lot of people)

Then I made this just for fun:

Idk what kind of weird youtube video is shaped like that, but... yeah. xD Apparently, an episode of OFAV is 5 minutes and 20 seconds long. (I stole the bar from this video) I don't know what kind of scene this actually would even be. :m;;;
Who wants an OFAV anime??? 8D
Me.
But then I'd actually have to do work like COMING UP WITH A STORYLINE.

Lastly, here's a WIP of a drawing of Mordecai from Regular Show as a human.

BAM. My digital art just got 124791 times more anime. I... I don't really know how that happened, but I'll just roll with it. :M
The colors were supposed to be a test, but I got carried away. xD YEP...

I have to set the table now. Thanks for reading! :)

More Random Stuff. :V

Yay... .u.;;; I'll draw something for real eventually. xD;;

Here's the song that the lyrics are from. :V I ONLY LIKE DREAMING ALL THE DAY LONG... I remembered that this song existed last year.
This song partially reminds me of Stefan because he got a lot of pressure from his parents growing up to be proper and to study hard. That's pretty much why he's so straight-laced.

While we're on the topic of Stefan, he's a shirtless picture of him!

Aha.
...;;
I drew this for a friend who wanted some advice on drawing men with thin frames. IDK IF THIS IS REALLY HELPFUL AT ALL, BUT... I figured I'd show you guys anyways. xD

And here's a random picture of Vevila I drew yesterday.

She's talking about the song Man eater by Hall and Oates. BECAUSE SHE'S A MAN EATER... HAHA... Hilarious, Akioh. -u- (idk)
I'm really terrible about keeping up with the MCC... """"orz GUYS, I CAN'T RP WELL...

...and that's all I have for you today. 8D; Thanks for viewing!

Character Development Meme: Stefan

These things are probably the most boring things to you guys... but they're really fun for me. xD

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I think Stefan's personality is still pretty similar to how he was when I first created him. The biggest difference is just the way I draw his clothes. (Yeah, I have no idea what's up with that outfit on the left.... >3>;) It's kind of weird to think that I learned how to draw suits just this summer. I think I've got the hang of drawing them these days.

As I mentioned in this thingie here, Stefan's personality kind of changed because I learned how to draw suits... xD;;

Another thing that's changed about him is his views on romance. In a meme/quiz I did with Stefan some time ago, one of his answers was "I wish I was a model... and I wish I had a lover. ;A;" I doubt he would say that last part out loud, these days. xD; Stefan's turned into the kind of person who prides himself in deliberately pushing romance out of his lifestyle, and often goes as far as to say there's no such thing as love. I've known people like this, who say they don't believe in love and that what people think is love is actually infatuation/superficial attraction. It's a pretty pragmatic approach to romance, so I'd say it's a fitting view for Stefan. :m

I'd say more stuff, but I have to go to school. orz Thanks for viewing! c:

Comic Sketches + Misc

Since I put comic sketches in the title first, I guess I'll post the comic sketches first. :m I'm working on a comic-thing for Christmas (since I never upload Christmas-themed pictures) of Dare, Rick, and Tim. These are just the 1st two pages. Yeahhhh. It takes place in 11th grade, so it's pre-Something Impossible.
Akioh, I have no idea what you're talking about because I forgot everything in relation to A Life Like This and your Rock Band comic because you haven't updated either in several months
Me too, mysterious reader. Me too.
:I;;
Maybe I should update those some time.............

Aw, yeah. Master of dialogue here. ... COMICS WITH FLOWING DIALOGUE ARE TOO HARD. ;w; Maybe that's why I like 4-panel strips so much.
Whoa, Akioh, who the heck is that guy with the hat-- OH, IT'S RICK! I really wanted to draw Rick in a new hat... xD
And yep. Sorry for the handwriting, as usual.
Oh, and here's the song Dare was singing in the beginning. Not relevant at all. xD

Anyways, on with the other non-comic stuff! :m While we're on the topic of Tim, here's a picture of him and his mom.

Yes, Cassidy looks freakish. :M Who cares about bodies making sense! Answer: everyone.
The weird thing about these drawings is that I drew the picture of Tim and the picture of Cassidy on two separate papers at two different times. So it was kind of weird that they kind of matched when I put them together like this... Even the quotes seem kind of consecutive. xD;
But yeah. Akioh draws weird stuff sometimes.

I hardly draw Loyal, but I felt like drawing her the other day. :o No, that's not a beard... it's some weird shading... ;u; I remember reading a chapter of Yu Yu Hakusho once where a guy's chin was shaded like that, and I thought it was a beard. xD; I was wondering why it vanished in the next panel...
What I like about Loyal is that I don't feel compelled to draw her in a girly pose like certain individuals. :V

The rest of the stuff is OFAV related. I was talking to Takara the other day about how Gabe's pretty different from how he used to be. I think his appearance changes are on behalf of my drawing style changing. I can't seem to decide if I want him to have light brown or dark brown hair, though... I want it to be light brown, but it always comes out dark in marker. ;A;

This is the first thing I've colored in marker since... Hm. Apparently, I still think it's summertime.
Gabe's hair color is incorrect. BAH.

I think this is the first time I've uploaded a picture that actually shows Stefan crushing on Tomato. xD
Stefan, I think you have to be crushing on someone 12 and under to be considered a pedophile. I think you're in the clear. Although, when Tomato was 17 and Stefan was 26, those could be plausible ages for a teacher crushing on a student. Which is what the song Don't Stand So Close To Me is about. YEAH, CONNECTIONS!

Last one! :m Quote on the side is from Wounded by Third Eye Blind. Inconspicuous quote on the bottom is irrelevant.
I like drawing Stefan, yo. :U

It's weird that it's almost 2013! ;A; I feel like I haven't done much on my "things to improve on" list. I guess you could say I've been working on action poses...

Hm.
Well anyways, that's all for now. 8D YEAH...

Random Stefan Talk

I'm not sure this'll be interesting to you guys, but oh well. xD;

Just now, I've noticed a recent change in Stefan's speech patterns.
I was reading a comic I wrote last year and was kind of PERTURBED by Stefan's dialogue. Well, not perturbed. More like confused. BUT I TOOK THE S.A.T. TODAY, SO... Actually, I hated the vocabulary section. I'M SO BAD WITH VOCAB! ;0;
Anyways, Stefan's dialogue was really weird! o___o In the comic, I mean. Let me list two strangeo-mabobs...

1) HE'S CALLING GABE "GABE"! THIS IS REALLY WEIRD! Stefan never calls him Gabe... well, almost never. Stef almost always calls him "Gabriel", for whatever reason. (In general, he does this with everyone. He calls Jo "Janet", and Danny "Daniel"... No real reason for it, but it's what he does. It's possibly an attempt to distance himself from other people by not using nicknames... or he just likes talking in lots of syllables. |D)
Sometimes Stefan will call Gabe "Gabe", but that's pretty much only when he's exceptionally drunk, or has a lot of words coming out of his mouth making "Gabe" roll off the tongue easier. (The latter isn't really easy to portray in comics. xD) Although Stefan is drunk in that old comic, I don't think I had him intentionally call Gabe by his nickname. Even when he's drunk, Stef is more likely to use the name "Gabriel" over "Gabe".
/a lot of talk about NOTHING.

2) WEIRDO SLANG...! Look at this! "Sucked", "cut the act"... Actually, "cut the act" isn't that bad. I'll let it slide. BUT "SUCKED"...! I can't even imagine him saying that... xD It's not a bad word or anything (because Stefan's not opposed to swearing), it's just... a weird slang term that I can't imagine in his mouth. It's like him saying "that's wicked" or... idk. xD;;

Basically, his speech seems more casual than it is now. I think it miiight be because of this.
THAT'S RIGHT. Learning how to draw suits has made Stefan more up-tight. xD;;; Actually, that's partially why I had never bothered to learn how to draw suits after I designed Stefan... because then I would want to draw ties, and then Stef would look more official, and then he'd become more up-tight! 8D; Haha. He used to be more ostentatious with his gestures. I think it was because he used to look kind of showoff-y for always having his shirt partially unbuttoned. (?)
But maybe it's my imagination. xD I think Stefan's just gradually become more of a prude over time. :M;; But he's fun.

By the way, I wonder if any of you noticed that some time this year I started drawing Stefan's hair differently?
IT'S TRUE!

...okay, so it's not that much of a difference. But it made drawing him a lot easier! 8D; I initially didn't want to change the way i drew his hair (like how I didn't want to learn to draw suits)... mostly because of stubbornness, but also because it kind of makes him look younger or something. I-I DRAW MY CHARACTERS TOO CUTESY... Somehow, separating the bangs from the rest of the hair = cutesy. Idk.

WOW, RANDOM TALK! I'M SURE THAT WAS INTERESTING! 8D But not really.
Um. Yeah, thanks for reading! xD; I wonder if any of you actually find it fun to read me talking to myself about my characters. But I do like comparing them with how they were and how they are now. :D