Char's Mini-Comics and other art (have you practiced your holy counter today?)

[Char]

To ask kinda again, would you guys rather I do a stream in the middle of the week or on the weekend?
If I do it in the middle of the week, it'll probably be however long after I wake up with a slight pause around 4 - 4:30 PM CST until like... 6 or 8 PM depending on the day.
If I do it on the weekend, it will basically be the same as what I said in the above post. Dunno how long it would last but it would go pretty late into the night. Maybe like 2AM is the minimum end. Just depends on how long I can find stuff to do.

and uh, I don't have anything else to post here besides "yes I am still working on comic 50 but my motivation got mauled and shot to Saturn (though I just finished another row)" so... go read this webcomic, if you haven't. it's super cute and adorable and happy and eeee
Also the art kinda reminds me of Doraemon for some reason. Though that's probably just from one facial expression out of all the (as of this post) 71 pages.

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[Flatflyer]

I would say do it on the weekend but a little bit earlier cause I won't be able to join at that late of a time :/

[Char]

I would say do it on the weekend but a little bit earlier cause I won't be able to join at that late of a time :/

Well it's not like it starts at 2 AM CST. It would maybe start around 8PM, or whenever people come over.
Unless maybe you live in a timezone where that's late...

[Electrk.]

wrong thread how did I do that

[Flatflyer]

Well it's not like it starts at 2 AM CST. It would maybe start around 8PM, or whenever people come over.
Unless maybe you live in a timezone where that's late...

That'd be 9:00 here so if its on a weekend maybe
but if you could do it at 7 CST or something that would be fine

[Char]

That'd be 9:00 here so if its on a weekend maybe
but if you could do it at 7 CST or something that would be fine

it's all dependent on when people come over on the weekend
they might be over at 7, or before, I don't really know.

[Tokthree]

Don't schedule streams, they don't work out unless you have a significant following. Just stream whenever you sit down and start drawing and let everyone know by posting in this thread. If people come then they come, if they don't then they don't, no harm done if nobody comes to watch you since you were going to draw anyway

[.:FancyPants:.]

i gotta ask char just how fluent you are in japanese?
no particular reason, it's just kind considering how often you were using it in the start

[Char]

if they don't then they don't, no harm done if nobody comes to watch you since you were going to draw anyway

well i wasn't planning to draw like the rest of the comic I'm working on or something
just doodles and stuff
plus I was also gonna play some GBA games and I kinda want people to see it...
I dunno, I kinda don't wanna do stuff if nobody's seeing it, in this case. Talking to nobody is a bit awkward.

i gotta ask char just how fluent you are in japanese?
no particular reason, it's just kind considering how often you were using it in the start

uhhh
not very fluent at all
I can read kana and not many kanji.
I mean with a dictionary I can probably make sentences that make sense but sound clearly like a guy that's still learning, but there's a lot of stuff I still don't know how to phrase.
And I don't really know why I used it so much at the start, I should have expected the weaboo comments and stuff (or maybe I did and I just didn't care, idk). I normally only use it for background signs or any text that isn't really important, but I haven't really had anything like that in the recent comics.


so uh, I think for the stream I'll play some

Cheetahmen II (with a bugfix patch that I dunno what it does)
Bomberman Quest
Robopon (Robot Ponkottsu, it's some kind of Pokémon thing, only worse? It's also in Japanese because there were 3 versions but only one was in English...and the one I wanted was not that one, obviously)
Megaman Battle Network (I have both English and Japanese versions of this, so...if you really want to see me fumble my way through a game AND not understand 90% of it at the same time...)
Maybe other games if you feel like it (I'll probably go through my emulator folders and see what games I have and ask which ones you want)

Then I'll just doodle. And take doodle requests.

(oh yeah and I'm preparing some backgrounds for each specific game to enhance your viewing pleasure. Or not, if you just listen to it in the background or something.)
(and all the backgrounds but one involve me dressed up as a character in the game so it's like cosplay I guess)

[Char]

So, the stream is definitely going to be on Friday or Saturday. I may do a test stream "tomorrow" (Thursday), sometime during the afternoon, so I'll post if I do do that. I'll probably just play something like... this Chinese bootleg Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen NES ROM that I have for some reason, to test audio levels (since I'll be doing voice commentary) and video quality. I have it set to base resolution 1024x576 scaled down 1.25 so that my laptop can handle it better.
I also learned that I can apparently stream from camcorders through my computer? I had no idea I could do that, though I really doubt you would want to see that, especially since I don't have a tripod and the people coming in all the time and stuff... although I would really love to play Bomberman Generation on stream.

I kinda want to post that "me playing through Japanese Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky" thing (that I'd have to redo since I accidentally savestated over my savestate I had for the post) in like a spoiler tag where you click the button and the box expands to show the whole spoilered part. But BLF doesn't have that. And I don't want to take up so much with a post I'm not sure you guys want to see, so I'll just find something I drew some years ago, so that there's something interesting to look at.

Aha! I did this with my two brothers so many years back... too bad I was such a bad drawer back then. I wish I could do one now, but I doubt it would be as fun as it was when we made this one. I'll just censor our last name. Or at least, where I think it's readable.
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And here's just some random, possibly interesting stuff stuff. I promise, the next part of the 50th comic is coming soon.
I could probably just save this for the livestream so that I have some content, but who needs foresight?
- I just realized I don't have a lot of girl main characters. I drew a couple of covers for both sides of my comic binder, one boys and one girls, and the girls one was like really empty compared to the boys side. But I have more goddesses than gods...

- Sometimes I wonder if I should have like... non-gender binary characters or trans characters, until I realize that there is no point. For one, it is impossible to tell if someone's a girl or boy anyways (aside from maybe if I have one enter a public restroom?? Or something?); for two, I wouldn't be able to accurately portray such an issue anyways; and for three, when would this ever be brought up?? I always have weird thoughts that are kinda like this (like extremely religious characters, or maybe a conspiracy theorist or something, etc.) but I feel that such a thing would detract from the comic just by being so pointless, and the humor would probably just be "look how ridiculous this is". Not like my comics have a lot of humor anyway, but I usually try to be a little clever with it.
(speaking of which, did anyone get the joke in that one comic that was about grandparents and "where is my birthday money"? i don't know what page it's on...)

- A character a lot like Kumato was going to be the head of a polytheistic religion I was going to make to go with a language (that's basically just like ripoff Japanese) I was making in school. But I grew bored of the language so I never went ahead with developing the rest of the religion.

- In 8th grade I sketched out a few movesets for an UMvC3-style fighting game where I just had a bunch of my characters (I think I was going to invent a few for it, but now I could fill an entire fighting game with just my characters) and Kirby characters, because I thought they kinda fit. But I never went anywhere with the idea.

- One time I drew a comic entirely in Japanese and got my friends to try to see what was happening, because I made it have an actual plot.

- In 8th grade I was going to draw some comics called "Dr. Scribble". Dunno why, maybe it was that joke everyone knows about doctor's signatures being totally unreadable. I couldn't really make any funny jokes about the American healthcare system or anything like that since I knew nothing about it (and still don't), and I stopped working on it after a grand total of two 4-panel comics. And that's not the fastest I've scrapped a comic, either.

- I think I may have said this before, but originally this was going to be a silent comic, and the only text would be signs, electronics, etc. But that only lasted a page before I started adding text.

- Did I ever talk about "A Badly-Drawn Comic About Badly-Drawn Chibi Yoshis"? It was, well, exactly what the title said (though some would say it was not badly-drawn), and it started when I was in 7th grade. It came from about...3 pages worth of comics that I drew in 5th grade because I really liked this other thing I found called "Chiboshis". Which, surprise, was a comic about chibi Yoshis. The original forums it was on (YoshiArt forums. Geez, anybody remember YoshiArt?) are down, but I think a lot of them (or maybe all) are on his DeviantArt here. (There's not an album, so it's just a search for Chiboshis.)

- Bonk started as one comic, then I split it into 3 different ones in 8th grade. I had Bonk School, which was, well, Bonk at school. It didn't borrow nearly as much from real life as "(Mostly) In High School" (my current comic set at school) did. It also wasn't a 4-panel comic like the one is now. The next one was Bonk 4-panel, which was, well... four-panel comics. The last was still just Bonk, although I first called it Bonk Long Story. Basically, this was just, well, extended storylines. Instead of four-panel gags, it was a lot of gags that all fit together. In 9th grade, I merged the 4-panel and Long Story series into just one, and it's just called "Bonk" again. It's mostly longer comics (though not more than one page) but there's some 4-panel stuff in there too.

- I also had another comic series called "Ninja!". It was just...generic ninjas, just doing dumb things. The only okay joke was where one pretends to be a tree by holding up their arms and saying "I am a tree", and seemingly fooling the other ninja.

- Last thing for now. I mentioned that Ace Attorney-like comic that I have, right? Originally, it was going to be that Plushy was the attorney (and, indeed, in earlier one-off comics she was the attorney). Then, I was going to have Nyuu be the attorney, first as a stand-in for another one but then becoming one herself, and now it's just Bonk as a regular ol' attorney. Except it's Ace Attorney. Attorney attorney attorney attorney.

(wow, this post is about as long as the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon thing...)

[Char]

!!! IMPORTANT !!! ACTUAL COMIC IN THIS POST

(previous comic if you don't remember, clicky for full)


(current comic)


I would imagine asking a child to murder someone is kinda scarring. But this is a cartoon, so she'll be fine! Or wait, this is a cartoon, so maybe she'll be weak and frail and break down crying. I dunno.

also, since I didn't stream this afternoon, maybe I'll do it tonight. I mean, any time before I actually stream is fine for me, I just don't want to be fiddling with stuff when I want to play games.

[Char]

(quadruple post i feel so lonely)

Oh my god, I'm so not ready for this but at the same time I am...

my stream is at http://www.twitch.tv/sadcolor
I'm now live but not really doing anything...

It may be loud because I have no idea what this is gonna sound like to someone else. I have this program to mix my microphone and computer sound (because my laptop is dumb and I can't do it any other way) so I only have one volume available to me, aside from adjusting the volumes in the program.

So yeah, there's gonna be probably a lot of background noise, but I'll try to keep it as little as I can, even though it's mostly out of my control. There will be, obviously, sound from my keyboard and touchpad. Less obviously is that it's thunderstorming right now, so you might hear some rain and/or thunder. Slightly more obviously than that is that you might be able to hear the TV in the garage, because my room is right next to my garage. You might also hear doors opening/closing, etc. because people are coming in (mostly to use the bathroom). Finally, I moved to the rug on the floor to minimize noise from if I barely move.

With all that said, I hope you enjoy. Or at least tell me how to balance my audio better.
Also I have no idea how bad the delay will be. Probably like 20 seconds because it's Twitch.

[AcornCake]

(quadruple post i feel so lonely)

Oh my god, I'm so not ready for this but at the same time I am...

my stream is at http://www.twitch.tv/sadcolor
I'm now live but not really doing anything...

It may be loud because I have no idea what this is gonna sound like to someone else. I have this program to mix my microphone and computer sound (because my laptop is dumb and I can't do it any other way) so I only have one volume available to me, aside from adjusting the volumes in the program.

So yeah, there's gonna be probably a lot of background noise, but I'll try to keep it as little as I can, even though it's mostly out of my control. There will be, obviously, sound from my keyboard and touchpad. Less obviously is that it's thunderstorming right now, so you might hear some rain and/or thunder. Slightly more obviously than that is that you might be able to hear the TV in the garage, because my room is right next to my garage. You might also hear doors opening/closing, etc. because people are coming in (mostly to use the bathroom). Finally, I moved to the rug on the floor to minimize noise from if I barely move.

With all that said, I hope you enjoy. Or at least tell me how to balance my audio better.
Also I have no idea how bad the delay will be. Probably like 20 seconds because it's Twitch.

for me it's frozen with really glitchy sounds.

and then it randomly shows a picture saying "goodnight"

[Char]

for me it's frozen with really glitchy sounds.

and then it randomly shows a picture saying "goodnight"

Yeah sorry, I was checking another stream and then I went offline so it didn't lag
I'm about to go back online, though

[Char]

Well, stream's over. Didn't get to doodle this time. Maybe tomorrow.
It was a bit more fun than I thought. It was kinda boring though, not a lot of people so I didn't have too much commentary.

The highlight of the stream has to be