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!

Walkthrough: How To Pretend You Can Draw Guys

This is a walkthrough on how I draw guys! :V And just how I sketch in general. A lot of artists seem to have trouble drawing guys, so I thought I'd try and throw some stuff out there on how I do it. I mean, I'm definitely not a pro at drawi...

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Life: 06/17/14 | By: moonlit dream | 3 comments | Tags: gabe

Stuff Dump

I feel like I've been doing a random "here's some stuff I drew" dump like, every week... >3>; H-HOPE YOU GUYS ACTUALLY LIKE THESE POSTS, BECAUSE I'M GONNA KEEP DOING THEM.

ANYWAY, I'm almost done with the next OFAV strip... I said I'd update every two weeks, but I'm HORRIBLE. So I'll probably finish it tonight and upload it tomorrow morning. 8D IDK, MAYBE I'LL TRY TO UPDATE THIS SATURDAY, TOO, TO MAKE UP FOR IT!!

Anyways, here's some things I drew recently.

After playing Mario Kart 8, my passion for the Koopalings has been REKINDLED. I used to really like them in elementary school, back when Iggy still had rainbow hair like Lemmy. :V They always seemed so hardcore to me because of their spiked bracelets, so PUNK-ISH GIJINKAS, I GUESS...
I also thought Roy (bottom right) had a pink bowl cut, for a while... I GUESS HE'S ACTUALLY JUST BALD...?
Anyway, these were really fun to design, and I might make some more drawings with them. :D

Some sketches of Noland and Prue. WEIRD-ISH CONVERSATION POINT COMING UP...?: I don't usually like drawing girls because I always draw chests badly. BUT. I actually enjoy drawing Prue because her ~pointy bosoms~ are actually pretty easy to draw................................ She's just all around angular, actually. Maybe that's why I like drawing her. I usually draw guys pretty angular because of the muscles....
/end weird topic
I REALLY SHOULD DRAW CHRYSTAL MORE, because she's technically more important to Teach Me Something Good than Prudence. Not that Prudence isn't important.... Idk, she's more important overall in Noland's life than Chrystal is, but Teach Me Something Good focuses on his first year as a high school teacher. Or something. WHAT. EVER.
Maybe I'll talk about Noland and Prue in detail, sometime. Idk, I think they're interesting. MAYBE, YOU, WILL, THINK SO, TOOOOOOO?????

Puffmaster Noland.
This is actually from a couple weeks ago, but HERE YOU GO.

Soft shading practice! 8U If anyone has some tips on how to soft shade on SAI, THROW THEM MY WAY BECAUSE I'M STILL HALF-WINGING IT. AND ABUSING OVERLAYS.....
This has been happening a lot to me, but I keep seeing DARE IN GABE'S EXPRESSIONS AND IT'S FREAKING ME OUT. I like Gabe and I like Dare, but I don't like thinking "oh he looks like Dare" when I draw Gabe.
/idk.
/IDK!

~*~sweatshirt with the sleeves ripped off is really pointless!~*~
I was trying to draw an outfit for him, okay. Idk what kind of clothes Gabe even shops for...;;; WHY CAN'T YOU BE SIMPLE AND JUST WEAR SUITS LIKE STEFAN?
I think I've been doodling Gabe a lot because I'm paranoid that I won't like drawing him anymore if I don't draw him a lot.
BUT AKIOH, YOU LOVE DRAWING PUNK IDIOTS!
You're right, you're right. I shouldn't worry. :U;;

I have a doodle like this in my sketchbook, but it didn't look very attractive, so I drew it again on SAI.
In my mind, Stefan tries to act like a gentleman when he's dating Gabe by doing things like opening doors and offering to pay for meals for Gabe, and Gabe can't decide if he should be flattered or annoyed by it.
And my mind is canon because Stefan and Gabe are my mind, so THIS IS CANON.
YEAH.

...okay that's all. HAVE A NICE WEEK, AWESOME POSSUMS.

Life: 06/08/14 | By: moonlit dream | 5 comments | Tags: gabe, koopalings, noland, prue, stefan

Random OFAV doodle-things

GUYS, I FOUND ANOTHER COMIC CALLED OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES!! What the heck. Hahaha. xD

Anyway, here's some sketches/doodles I did in my doodle notebook thing.

Some years ago, my sister left me a comment with her prediction of all the pairings that would happen in OFAV, by character. For Stefan, she said "Stefan >> everyone."
UNUSUALLY PLAUSIBLE, ACTUALLY...
The only one of these that's moderately canon is StefanxTomato, because Stefan has a sort-of crush on Tomato in the comic. (Actually, I keep forgetting he's supposed to like Tomato... but.....;;;)
The next plausible would actually be StefanxDean. (!?!?) Stefan usually treats Dean pretty well (compared to the rest of the cast minus TB), but that's partially because Dean kind of a little bit reminds of Stefan of Noland. So I guess he's a little partial to Dean because of that.
The least plausible is... UH... probably StefanxKasey. I think Kasey is 100% unattracted to Stefan, purely because Stefan is 30 years old. Which is old for her. IDK, KASEY, YOU'RE ALREADY 25 OR 26 YOURSELF...

This is from some dialogue I was planning out for a comic about Stefan, Gabe, tattoos, and the levels of friendship or something. (????) I never finished the comic or the dialogue... I just took a picture of this because I like Stefan's face, here. 8D I like drawing an annoyed look on his face, hahaha.

I also really like drawing slightly-bashful-but-not-quite Gabe. 8D;;; This is probably the face of Gabe that I doodle the most in my notebooks....

Stefan was freaking out about making the monthly quota, or something. (??? idk how to talk in business terms.) Gabe's trying to help him out like an Absolute Pro.

A little doodle I did based on THIS AMAZING DRAWING THAT GEROCHAN DID FOR ME!!! ;0; ;0; ;0; /i'm totally bragging sorry
The "Stefan and Gabe Japanese umbrella romance" in the background made me wonder if Gabe would draw something like that.
Answer: maybe...

KISS ON CHEEK, OOOH. yeah. Here's my sort of ref. :V I-I like drawing corny romance stuff, okay...
Gabe's actually not that much taller than Stefan, so HOW LAME OF ME TO DRAW HIM SO TALL. Maybe Stefan's leaning down or something, idk.

SO! There's some stuff. :D HAPPY WEEKEND! I'LL TRY TO WORK ON THE NEXT OFAV...

Life: 05/31/14 | By: moonlit dream | 3 comments | Tags: dean, dump, gabe, jo, kasey, stefan, tb, tomato

Dooooodle Duuump

I've been super productive this week. But not really. Have some great doodles I did instead of working on actual projects! 8D

I posted this on my tumblr, already, but here's some doodle of Prue and Noland. My tumblr is slowly becoming posts of hilarious quality phone photos of my drawings....
Prue is also really weird to draw with her hair down. I always imagine her with her hair in a clip or pony tail, so when I draw it down... it just doesn't look like her. xD
ALSO, YOU DON'T KNOW HOW GLAD I AM THAT SHE FINALLY HAS A NAME! Prue's been around for a while, but I've been reluctant to draw and post stuff about her b/c of her lack of name and finalized design. Her design's probably still going to go through some changes, but yeah. NAMES. They're important.

I've been meaning to post this for so many months, but I just didn't want to use my scanner......... WOW, LAZY. AMAZING.
I think this is the only time I've drawn Gabe's hair sort of realistically where it almost makes sense. Sometimes I try to imagine someone styling their hair like Gabe's in real life, but I always think it'll just turn out looking like the sun.
By the way, here was my face reference. :^D

More Gabe! This is the default winter outfit I draw him in. I like the idea of him wearing a jacket with a fuzzy hood, for some reason. :V
Also, I drew this before my tablet pen broke. THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE LAST THING I DREW BEFORE I DROPPED MY TABLET PEN... I need to order a new tablet already. -u-

On a completely different note, here's Gabe in a bathing suit acting like he always does! Warning, shirtless dude aaaaagh. (???)

Ignore the fact that his chest tattoo looks like a palm tree.
I feel like Gabe would wear the smallest possible swimshorts besides a speedo just for the attention value. Mostly to entertain (?) Stefan.

AND WHILE WE'RE ON THE TOPIC OF BATHING SUITS, here's Noland in a bathing suit, too!

I'm pretty bad at being consistent with the way I draw Noland, but this is about what he's supposed to look like. :V On a related note, here's what Noland has to say about his body:

I have amazing handwriting. Ha..... If this is too small to read, right click and say "open image in new tab," bro. ;o
The "cool and fit" Noland was really weird to draw, because I've more or less gotten used to drawing Noland with curvier (?) lines. It just... looks like Gabe's body with Noland's head....;;; Or like his original concept art.
Noland also doesn't mind being called cute. DEEP DOWN, HE THINKS OF HIMSELF AS CUTE, TOO... /idk
Prue's dialogue is still a little inconsistent because I'm not comfortable writing in her voice yet. GAH. I just have to make sure she doesn't sound too much like Stefan, or Stefan's Boss. (Not that you know what Stefan's Boss sounds like, but.............)

And lastly, some SteGabe idiots. NOW THAT PEOPLE IN THE REAL WORLD HAVE TOLD ME STEFAN AND GABE ARE CUTE, I feel no shame in drawing them. HA......;;; Actually, I didn't used to draw them a lot because some of my friends in high school gave me a hard time about Rick and Tim in 10th-ish grade, so I was just really secretive about Stefan and Gabe after that. :V I also used to assume everyone hated them because Stefan's 30 and Gabe's almost 30, which is OLD. Er. Older. But if I don't say their ages, people just kind of assumes they're in their like, early or mid-20's. I think people in their 30's still look pretty young, so... WHATEVER....
I also kind of forget that I'm still more than 10 years younger than Stefan. He is probably not anything like what a 30 year old man would act like, for I am nowhere close to being a 30 year old man..............

That was a weird tangent. Anyway, THAT'S ALL FOR NOW, FOLKS! I'm working on this colored pencil picture that I hope to finish this weekend, but might not because I want to draw a BACKGROUND. Ugh. Have a nice Friday, anyway! :D

Life: 05/16/14 | By: moonlit dream | 2 comments | Tags: gabe, noland, prue, stefan

Sketch/etc Dump

Happy Monday, everyone! :M Woo yeah. Here's some stuff from the past week-ish.

Some outfits I drew last night during my stream. :V I wanted to practice girly outfits, but then I drew Noland and wanted to draw more guys. So I drew Tomato.
I want to draw Tomato more often. ;0;
I like drawing Kasey in tacky make-up. :V I'd be lying if I said Nicki Minaj wasn't an influence on Kasey's fashion taste. xD Kasey's kind of like a combination of Gyaru and Nicki Minaj here, or something. :V
The Noland outfit is something I sketched in a notebook one time, but didn't have colors for it. I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT I THINK POLKA DOTS REALLY SUIT NOLAND...

Some random Danny. Still not really sure if I want to make his hair brown or ashen. It looks too much like Stefan's hair color here... not that that's really a problem, but IT FEELS LIKE IT'S A PROBLEM.
I love drawing Danny's buck teeth. :B

IT'S ALMOST SUMMER, SO I DREW SOME SUMMER CLOTHES! I think I don't like Stefan's head in this picture. Gabe's head was also annoying to draw. WAH. I do kind of like this, though, even though their heads are weird. Maybe I'll finish this, and draw a ~*~BACKGROUND~*~, too. 8D

Muic = music, because I can't spell.
Noland and his coworker/superior Prudence/Prue having a conversation. :V I haven't decided if that's her final design yet, or exactly how I want her personality to be. SHE'S JUST A MYSTERY!
And yeah, Noland and music. Yep. He's like that guy you knew in high school who could tell you everything about every Led Zeppelin song. Or maybe you didn't know that guy. I didn't know that guy.
Noland mostly listens to 60's rock and classic punk. LITTLE DID YOU KNOW. Interestingly, that's not the kind of music I listen to when I draw him. Usually I listen to music that I think the character might listen to when I draw them, but not for Noland! I usually listen to more emotionally-dramatic music when I draw him, because he's an emotional boyo at heart.

I was going to delete that shirtless Dare, but I forgot.
Here's some doodles of the A Life Like This trio! :V i'm trying to figure out how I should draw Rick and Tim's faces. I think Tim should stay the closes to what I originally draw him as, but idk about Rick. WHOOOO KNOOOOWS.

That's all I've got for now! :M Have a nice day, and all that. :D

Life: 04/28/14 | By: moonlit dream | 3 comments | Tags: dare, gabe, kasey, noland, prue, rick, stefan, tim, tomato