It's Not a Japanese Nadine

I've posted a while back that I may have found somebody who drew a character that looked like Nadine. But then Xellos informed me that the character that looked like Nadine in that shot is actually a character called Saber in an H-Game called Fate/Stay Night (see the character on the left). Here is an unofficial Fate/Stay Night Game Homepage. Unfortunately I cannot link the official site (in Japanese) because it contains rude pictures that may cause me to violate some rules on my host.

Click on the character to see more pics from the Fate/Stay Night game. And also click here for a fanart of the same character.

Wow. Seems like I made a fool of myself in the older post as this character seems to be popular among Japanese or people who follow Japanese trends. It's just uncanny how the character designs are similar.

I wonder when this character was created because I fear that people will think that it was I who copied this character's design when in fact I've never heard of this Saber character till now. I wonder.

Nadine Slays Gargoyle Print for Sale

If you are interested, a 4x6 print of the Nadine Slays Gargoyle image is available for $2.49 at my DeviantArt Store.

Japanese Nadine?

To those who've been following my webcomic long, you'd know that I favour the use of OpenCanvas 3 when I draw digital art. So, yesterday, I wanted to check OpenCanvas's website for updates and entered their Japanese site instead at http://www.portalgraphics.net/.

While there, I found out that in Japan, OpenCanvas 4 is already out. Not only that. There is also a totally new software from them called FrameToon which creates animation and saves it in shockwave/flash format. There are two short sample animations created using this tool on their site here by clicking on the first big pink button (for animation 1) and the first big green button (for animation 2).

I thought the sample animations were cool so I went and browsed through the amateur FrameToon user submissions. Then, I came upon this one:


Click here to see the actual page.

The image of the female this person drew looks suspiciously like Nadine, a female warrior character on my Lovarian Adventures webcomic. Here is an image I drew before that shows Nadine (the left most character) and the rest of the cast of the comic.



Notice that both characters have blonde pulled back hair with bangs (though not exactly the same blonde colour but blonde still), blue shirt with yellow lining and metallic shoulder armour. Interesting.

I guess I don't really mind if it is intended as a future piece of fanart but if the person is going to claim the design as his/her own, then I would probably take offence. The other possibility of course is that it is merely coincidental that the person created a female blonde character with a blue and yellow shirt with a metallic shoulder armour. I think that highly unlikely though.

I'm just surprised to encounter Nadine's visage somewhere out in the web.

Nadine Slays Gargoyle!

It's finally finished! I've been working on this image of Nadine fighting off a gargoyle based on the what's currently. Note that this is not actually page 7:4 but only a poster-type image depicting Nadine slaying one of the gargoyles attacking them.

I was working on this image as a sort of practice piece to get myself to drawing something again in preparation of Lovarian Adventures's move to Graphic Smash. I need to draw lots of buffer pages before I start on March so that I won't ever be late in delivering new pages.

I thought, might as well do something that the old readers will like. Which was a sort of continuation to where I left off several months ago. And also to answer one of those nagging questions: is Blade really an enchanted weapon? What do you think now, huh, Helix?

Anyway, it took some time to complete but I finally did. A lot of the delays involved having to relearn how to do a poster type image like this. It's been a while since I've really done any digital art work. Although I think it could be better, I'm already satisfied with how it worked out.

I've placed the shrunk 500 x 750 version on the front page of the site but if you'd like the full 600 x 900 version, click here to see it in my DeviantArt gallery.

Palabok.com Officially Ready

Just wanted everybody to know that if you are interested in what I'm doing outside of the Lovarian Adventures webcomic, I now share a personal blog with my wife Raquel at http://palabok.com/.

Not related to this post is the news that I have sent Graphic Smash a signed contract that should have Lovarian Adventures run in their service from March to September this year. I'm not sure if that means I'm as good as in but so far I haven't received any details as to what to do next.

In the meantime, I'm currently practicing drawing again as I seem to have lost my mojo (in terms of drawing) and everything I draw seems like crap to me. I'm also working on the story as a whole.

I'll keep you guys posted.

Our Palabok.com Blog Almost Ready

Palabok.com is a joint-blog and home site for me and Raquel and it's ready for viewing. It's not currently perfect yet but we're getting there. It should at least be presentable enough to show to people.

I posted earlier on my current blog, The Geejay Journal that I'll be posting my blogs in English there and in Tagalog at Palabok but I just realised that doing it that way will just be too much trouble. I also discovered that I'm having an unpleasant time trying to write a blog in Tagalog.

So I'll probably just discontinue updating my current blog and post all of my personal blogs at Palabok in English and Lovarian-related stuff here. I'll probably write Tagalog posts there, too, if I deem the topic I want to discuss is too sensetive (like talking about a non-Filipino here in Australia) that I cannot risk that person finding out what I had to say about him/her or his/her activities.

I also mentioned in a previous post that I'll probably make the Geejay Journal blog as the official blog for the Lovarian Adventures webcomic page but I think I'll just continue using this one and just retire that blog completely.

There'd probably be double posts still though between this blog and the Palabok blog as I may want to inform my non-comic reading friends about something important that is related to the webcomic. I'm not sure though if I still need to post personal stuff on this blog when everybody here knows I have a personal blog they can read elsewhere.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everybody. I'm not sure how many of you still come back here hoping for any changes but to those who does, you're perseverance paid off as I'm announcing something.

Mind you, this is not yet a sure thing but I've just been asked by Graphic Smash (a Modern Tales sister site) if I was interested in having Lovarian Adventures included in their service. That means that if I agree to this, and if I get accepted (there is a screening process apparently), I would get some sort of income from drawing this comic. And it'll also open up other doors of opportunity for me, I hope.

However, if this happens, that means the my archived pages will no longer be available then. But don't worry. I'll give you a warning when I'm about to pull out the archives so you'll have time to re-read it one last time.

Also, if this does happen, it will mean that I'll be continuing the Lovarian Adventures comic after all. Ringjo may still end up drawing it but I'm kinda thinking of continuing drawing it myself. We'll see.