KabochaN

Hey guys! Another long stretch of no updates... I'm busy working on stuff! Right now I'm crazy working on my MFA thesis project, which is on novel- to graphic novel adaptations. It's pretty much my life right now. I'll probably post some of it when it's in a more finished stage.

Anyway, if you're interested in keeping up with my projects, I post sketches and whatnot fairly frequently on my Instagram(and from there to Twitter/Tumblr/Facebook). See you there!

WOW! Have I been neglecting you! Sorry about that, folks. But guess what! I'm at the Savannah College of Art & Design, doing grad studies in Sequential Art (=comics), and it's awesome. Freaking awesome. I'm meeting awesome people and learning awesome stuff, and I've been keeping it all to myself. My first few months here, I've mostly spent discovering things and learning and practicing, finding out things I do wrong and how other people do it right.. I'm getting to the point where I have more confidence in myself and my ability to fix or circumvent these problems, and as I move from discovery-mode into production-mode, I'll be getting more active here, too. (I know I say that every time...)

So... yeah. SCAD is awesome. Comics are awesome. Skyrim is awesome. You're awesome.

My company had a wave of layoffs last month, and I was one of the people let go. Emotionally and psychologically, it's been pretty rough, I'll admit. But in trying to stay positive and reassess my goals, I've been spending the last couple of weeks revamping my portfolio and working on my comic.

As a result, "Muse" is now live (muse-comic.com), and you'll be seeing more of me here!

Like Brandon Sanderson? Want to get your name written into his next Way of Kings book?

Brandon's doing an auction here on eBay, with two days left.

All proceeds go to Life, the Universe, and Everything - a science fiction symposium (focused on writing, art, and everything including the sun) hosted at Brigham Young University each February. I've been a member of the symposium committee for the last three or four years, and I attended it several years as a student, too. I owe to the Symposium most of my knowledge of the publishing industry and the writing craft, my creative goals, and a whole slough of books autographed by my favorite authors. It's been an amazing experience rubbing shoulders with some awesome people in SFF - including Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta, Patricia Wrede, Gail Carson Levine, and Brandon Sanderson, of course.

If you're not interested in the auction, but you can make it out to Utah next February (dates TBD), you should consider attending. LTUE 2012 is our 30th anniversary, and it's going to be more of a treat than ever!

Hi friends!

Sorry I haven't been around for a long time. I'm still alive. (I know, all my journal posts start there.) And furthermore, I'm still working at my supercool graphic novel-in-development. I put up the chapter 1 splash at muse-comic.com, but then decided I needed to refine the story a bit more. Easier to fix the story first, than to redo the art later, right?

Life is busy, and progress waxes and wanes, but it's still going to be supercool. It's a bit epic, so it's taking a long time to put together. I've also got other projects that I sometimes end up juggling according to various motivations. If you like, you can follow my progress in my writing community, Hands on Keyboard; some writer friends and I talk about the process of writing while working full-time, including sharing resources and doing writing challenges.

When you have a long-term project, how do you keep yourself motivated?