Planning for stories and stuff.
Word, dawg.

note: this intro hasn't been thoroughly updated in a couple years

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

*Teach Me Something Good: A story about a friendship between a student and a teacher. Somewhat of a spin-off of Of Fruits and Vegetables.
Major Characters: Noland, Chrystal
Important Supporting Characters: Prudence), Stefan (briefly)

*I Was a Boy, Too: A short 3-part story about Gabe when he was in high school. Optional backstory related to Of Fruits and Vegetables.
Major Characters: Gabe, William
Important Supporting Characters: DJ, Dave
Parts: One

*Nerdy and Jock: So there's this nerd, and this jock, and also they're boyfriends. That's it.
Major Characters: Jack, Ned
Important supporting characters: Matthew Brodney III, Dmitri, Charlotte, Jessica Marron, Lafayette, Brodney's girlfriend who doesn't have a name yet;;;

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!

Happy New Year's! (OFAV Doodles)

Hey guys! It's 2 minutes to midnight as I'm typing this. :D Happy almost new year's, everyone!! In the new year's spirit, I did some OFAV new year's doodles. C:

This is the first one I drew. :D Champagne for Stef, and beer for Gabe 'cause I guess he's not classy enough. (?) Idk why Gabe's winking. Drawing laid-back and happy Stef was weird, but it's nice to see him causal(ish) and friendly every so often. :9

I like drawing random dialogue. The main reason Stefan likes new year's is because he has an excuse to drink and not worry. I actually had him saying something along that line, but I accidentally cropped it out. xD;

This isn't related to the previous comic-thing. The premise is that everyone's basically like, "We sometimes think you don't like us Stefan, but it's nice that we got to be your friend this year again! :D" And Stefan is emotional when he drinks.
This bit of StefanxTomato is dedicated to Wakusei Aoshi, who used to ship them and maybe still does.

Actually, there is no drinking age in France. It's illegal to sell alcohol to people under 18 years old.
Dean doesn't drink. Jo does sometimes, but not really much. Pointless information.

Okay, it's 22 minutes after midnight where I am now. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!! Happy 2014! :D Let's have a good year this year!

Life: 12/31/13 | By: moonlit dream | 3 comments | Tags: dean, gabe, jo, ofav, stefan, tb, tomato

SO MUCH NOLAND!

I was feeling moody today, so I ended up drawing a whole ton of Noland today. xD; Kind of fun! But I hate drawing his hair. It has not gotten any easier. Anyway, here's my Noland doodles from today, and a couple from the rest of the school year.

...I also wrote a lot of random stuff, so I guess I'll transcribe it for you so you can see JUST HOW MOODY AND DRAMATIC NOLAND IS! 8D And I'll just have the transcriptions instead of the usual random talk about the pictures that I usually do. I also hinted briefly at a secret thing about Noland's story that I haven't mentioned to you yet.
You probably won't find it. :V
You'll probably take that as a challenge. :^D

"Desire is a dangerous thing"
"I don't want to feel like that..."
"Noland's hair is slowly turning into this weird afro thing...;;"
"(That one lonely guy)"

"The ones who wound you help you move on. (Male experienced despoilment; And he'll admit it.)"
"I've been in a rut."
"Leave those emotions behind. Passion is a dream that doesn't need to happen."

"Crystal isn't a love interest, but she is a true friend. I think with most of my characters, I emphasize that emotional love is more important than physical love. But here, I want to say that friendship is just as valuable (or even more so) than love. Basically: It's okay never to fall in permanent love."
"Even w/o love, you won't be lonely b/c you have friends."
"Be careful of the downfalls of overhyping romance."
Noland: "She's always surprising me."
Chrystal: "Stop hating yourself. (your emotions alone never did anything to hurt me.)"

"Pay no mind: he's only crying from withdrawal."
"The movies told me I'd win my first love over again."
"Can't get back again."

"でも [however], something's not right..."
"何を見ている、ノランドくん?" (What are you looking at, Noland?)

This one doesn't any words on it, but it seemed related to the previous picture. Since he's looking at his hand here, and he's looking at his hand in the previous picture... yeah.

This one has no words, either! The idea here was that they're blinding each other. Idk. OR DO I K? Youdk.
(?????? I...yeah.)

No words, except for some of the lyrics to "We Never Change" by Coldplay. Noland is running! WOW!
Also, that's supposed to be Tim's dad on the right. Actually, it's how Tim's dad looks in a dream that Tim has. And the eyepatch is just something I added because I hate drawing 2 eyes. xD

"Noland dresses more like Stefan, stands more like Gabe, and acts more like Dean. (??)"

OH YEAH, almost forgot I did this random Noland Tegakie thing.

Drawing on Tegakie is still hard. But coloring feels easier, somehow. Idk how much of a success this is because it still looks weird to me, but the coloring was fun. xD
Noland's face is always "BOO HOO. HOO. HOO BOO."

Alright, that's everything! SO MUCH NOLAND! WOW. Look at all that hair that I can't draw. Look at all those two eyes that are actually one eye because EVERYONE HAS ONLY ONE EYE.
GOSH.
Okay, I need to work on my research paper or study or something, now. xD Thanks much for reading!! :D

Life: 12/11/13 | By: moonlit dream | 0 comments | Tags: noland, stefan

Pose Practice

Happy Halloween, everyone! :D I don't have a costume this year, unfortunately... but oh well. I don't have time to trick or treat or anything this year, anyway. (Or maybe I do, idk. xD;)
But enough about that.

After some adventures on Gaia, I've decided I need to practice drawing poses. I have a bad habit of not using references... >u> I don't like to use tons of references for completed pictures because then it feels like I just copied it... but I've come to the conclusion that practicing drawing poses from references will help me become more comfortable with anatomy and whatnot! 8D
/obvious conclusion
So here are some sketches I've done from references:

I can't find all the reference pictures I used for this... but I drew these from Star Trek TOS screenshots. Though I think I used this for the drawing of Spock's face and maybe this for Kirk's face. REAL PEOPLE ARE NOT EASY TO DRAW! 8D;
I really want to draw some Star Trek TOS fan art, but idk if I'll ever get around to it. ;u; Maybe some day. Hopefully. xD;

I wrote "posemaniacs studies", but I didn't actually use Posemaniacs. xD; It didn't work on my phone. :M I like how the one of Stefan standing and looking to the right looks. :D But collared shirts are a bother... I think I just don't like drawing buttons. Gah.
I can't find all of the references I used for this, either, but here's some of them. And this might've been used for the Stefan-Face picture, but I'm not sure.

"Younger years" doesn't mean anything, by the way. I just wrote it there so I don't forget it. And yeah, Gabe doesn't play guitar... but he looks cool with one, right? 8D Haha... ha. xD;
Anyway, here's Gabe's references: They're all Mark McGrath, because why not. xD AND LOOK, I HAD ALL OF THEM! They were easier to find because I remembered what I searched in google.
I didn't use a reference for the last one, but I just liked how it came out, so... :Y The mess of lyrics comes from this song.

And... yeah, that's what I have. :D I also have some non-related Tomato sketches that I drew the other day, so I might upload those later or soonish. Oh, and I'm working on a colored picture of Noland, which is taking a while... all I have to do now is the background, which is going to be fun. 8D; AHEH.

Oh, and I might break tradition and not have my 300th picture be a thank you. ;m; I really want it to be a thank you, but I haven't thought of anything or started the thank you picture yet... And I'm drawing other stuff, too. I WILL DO A THANK YOU PICTURE, but it won't be my 300th picture. Probably. I still need to think on that.

Anyway, have a nice Halloween! :)

Life: 10/31/13 | By: moonlit dream | 10 comments | Tags: gabe, pose practice, star trek, Stefan

Sketch Comic: A Little Backdrop

HEY GUYS! Haven't posted in a while. I was talking to someone on dA some time ago about Noland, and she told me she wanted a com...

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Life: 09/29/13 | By: moonlit dream | 14 comments | Tags: noland, stefan

Alternate Universe Concept Designs

I want to enter the Alternate Approach challenge, so I'm coming up with some designs for (as always) Stefan and Gabe. DON'T HATE ME. *jumps off cliff* I wish I could enter more than just two designs to the challenge... ;u;

I'm going the boring route, and making Victorian-era Stefan and Gabe. Here's Stefan:

The sketch of normal Stefan on the side was drawn over top the sketch of Victorian Stefan. :V I'M TRYING TO MAKE HEADS MORE CONSISTENT... gah. I also made Stefan's sunglasses into real glasses because I'm pretty sure sunglasses weren't invented yet. I think they're just for show, though... as in the glasses don't have prescription lenses in them.

Here's some sketches of both of them:

Gabe looks so different because people didn't dye and spike their hair in the 1800's... orz SO LONG PONYTAIL HAIR IT IS, I GUESS?
And yes, if you could read the notes, Gabe's voice sounds so weird in my head right now. Gabe sounds kind of cockney, while Stefan sounds kind of posh... Why are they English?! ;u; I really don't know what an American accent sounded like in the late 1800's, so... yeah. I'd be really horrible at dialogue because of my lack of knowledge about Victorian-era speech.

SPEAKING OF DIALOGUE...

IRRELEVANT SOLILOQUY! I tend to draw people with one eye when I doodle... .u.;;

And so, that's their designs. For some reason the idea of a Victorian-era boys love story really appealed to me when I was coming up with their designs. :V I think it'd be fun to draw them sometime. I even made some notes about Victorian-era Stefan and Gabe and how they're different from their modern-era counterparts. 8D
Gabe: Victorian Gabe is a cobbler (!?!?! If you read this, that might sound familiar. xD), because his dad was one. Unmarried, and disinterested in marriage. Jo (who's called Janet in this era) is the only person (besides Stefan, eventually) who knows of his homosexuality. He dresses like a drunkard, but doesn't really drink. He's lazy and doesn't work much--consequently, he doesn't get a lot of money.
Unlike modern-day Gabe, he doesn't flirt with guys so much as inconspicuously making them uncomfortable by standing too close to them/hugging them too long/touching their thighs when they're sitting in a close vicinity of each other/etc.

Stefan: Victorian Stefan is born into a wealthy family and potentially has a lot of money, but willfully refuses to accept money from his parents. He's more superficial that Modern Stefan, and spends more time on his appearance than necessary. He's a fan of literature. Possibly influenced by Oscar Wilde, who he admires for his wit and aestheticism. Idk what occupation he has, but it's moderate-paying and he lives in a small apartment.
While modern-day Stefan is an atheist, Victorian-era Stefan is a deist. Furthermore, while modern-day Stefan has no qualms with liking boys, Victorian Stefan ignores his feelings for men and tries to convince himself he only has feelings for women. His parents push for him to marry.

Story in general: One thing I tried not to focus on in Gabe and Stefan's modern story is gender. As in, neither Stefan nor Gabe would say things like "I can't love you, you're a boy!" in their modern story because they've both come to terms with their orientation. Because homosexual practices were illegal in the Victorian era, I think it would make more sense for there to be a larger focus on gender and the legalities of them having a relationship--probably more on Stefan's part, because Victorian Gabe's more or less accepted that he doesn't like girls. There would also be a focus on how they come from different social backgrounds. I don't know how I would incorporate Tomato and the rest, since Stefan wouldn't be a modelling agent, though... whoops.

This post ended up being really weird and slightly pointless-feeling. I forgot what I was getting at.
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SHABAM!

Life: 08/18/13 | By: moonlit dream | 6 comments | Tags: gabe, stefan