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[16 Sep 2006|11:40am] |
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I doubt this bears pointing out, but IA is on something of a hiatus for the moment. I just haven't had time or motivation to work on it. I was in an art slump all summer which I'm semi-sort-of-almost coming out of now, but.. Yeah. Believe it or not, the next new page (not of the rewrite) has actually been half-done lying around my clipboard for probably like six months or something. Yeah, sad. I kind of wish I had an art team that I could just dictate to and then they'd go and actually whip it up.. sigh. ;P
Anyway. My main excuse is that I'm in law school now, so.. Yeah. I can't really say when I'll work on the comic next, but I don't want it to die because I want to tell this story, dammit. I'll work something out. But yeah, for now it's just kind of sitting around until I figure out what to do with it. Forty or fifty pages in over five years doesn't exactly bode well. But we'll see.
In the meantime, thanks for sticking with it and leaving me notes and pestering me to update. It makes me happy that people care. :) And I promise I'll get this damn story out one way or another.
♥ ♥ ♥
Kai
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[20 Feb 2006|01:04am] |
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New page.
Don't know if I'm going to stick with this or not. I love the look of my "coloured" (greyscale) pages, but this was faster.. Even if the top panel killed me. I ended up resorting to chibi just because I couldn't manage anything else. Sigh.
In any case, lemme know what you think about the b&w thing, I'm so indecisive.
Please please please enter the contest~!
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| v-day special + new contest! |
[14 Feb 2006|10:23pm] |
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Valentine's Day Special is up!
There are also four new pieces of fanart, a new poll, and a new contest. This time around, the contest is for fanfiction. Any type of fic you want. Prizes include having scenes from the story illustrated and art commissions from moi, so please check it out! The deadline is March 31st, so you have a month and a half to work on it.
I fixed my scanner over the weekend (turns out my using the scanner at home over winter break had buggered everything up.. weird, but at least my scanner wasn't broken!), so the new page will be up shortly. It's being delayed by three things: 1) Law school applications, 2) the fact that we have a quiz EVERY %^&@ING DAY in Japanese, and 3) that all my other classes have decided to have papers due and tests all around the same time. And, of course, I'm working as usual. (Sigh.) But as I've cryptically mentioned elsewhere, I think I've hit on a way to make the pages go by faster.. hopefully everyone won't hate it. So as soon as I get this week's worth of junk out of the way, I'll work on getting the new page up. In the meantime, please check out the contest! Our last one was a total failure, and I still owe the prizes from the first.. It would help if I could take all my fabrics/sewing stuff to school with me. -_-*
So! Happy Valentine's Day, and please enter the contest!!! (I'm going to keep mentioning it until you do. :D)
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[10 Dec 2005|07:37pm] |
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New page. I hate it. I think the more time I'm forced to spend working on something, the more I hate the outcome. (My inking pen magnificently died in the middle of it and I've been weeks getting off my butt and finding an art shop and getting a new one.)
New fanart - a four page doujinshi - and another new page of Second Chance. Ignore KLM's comments about the art, they're all wrong. It rocks. XD
www.idolarcher.com
I should confess part of the reason I'm being so slow is that I've been sucked up by Harry Potter again and I've been fanart-ing my little heart out. I justify it by pretending drawing ANYTHING is good, even if it's not IA. Sorry, guys.
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| New Page! New art! New new new!!! |
[15 Nov 2005|12:43am] |
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..A post?! From Kai?? OMFGBBQ~~!!!
That's right, this can only mean one thing: THERE IS A NEW PAGE.
So it's really "just" a cover page, AND it's from the rewrite.. who cares? New page! Go!
And, God help me, there will be a new page NEXT weekend, too! (Assuming I'm not too busy fangirling Harry Potter.) And the weekend after that! And after that! IDOL ARCHER LIIIVES!
..Ahem. There's also some new fanart, but not as much as I suspect I actually got during that hiatus. If you sent something in, and it's not up yet, please please PLEASE resend it. Godaddy may have a few advantages over ADDR (my new and old hosts, respectively), but e-mail is NOT one of them. I essentially went months with no e-mail as anything sent to kai@dokuja got bounced back. Yaaargh. So PLEASE send it again and accept my apologies!!
And, in terms of even MORE newness: NEW SECOND CHANCE. There's more to come of that, too, with every IA update. Be excited.
AND, because I'm the Kai that keeps on giving, NEW ART. Don't die of shock, please. There's a little doodle from class in the gallery just because I thought it was funny (Gothic Lolita Fennel? I need to turn that into a full picture), AND if you click to vote for Idol Archer on Buzzcomix, you can see the "thank you" picture for getting FIVE HUNDRED "fav't of"s on OnlineComics.Net. 500. Wow, guys. The thank-you art features Linden and Ayla's new, more coherent designs, so check it out.
So.. There you are. I'll update the poll later, and think about starting a new contest (though I still owe the participants from the last contest their prizes.. maybe I should just offer art 'til I get this sewing thing down XD). 'Til then, hopefully you have enough to tide you over. I'm going to go pass out now. Wheeee!
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[26 Mar 2005|12:28am] |
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Page 28 is up, and I apologise for both its lateness and lameness. Clicky.
The first page of Second Chance is also up: Mo' clicky.
I also messed with the "about" page because I disliked the current format and wanted to go back to Q&A, as well as clear up any possible remaining confusion as to how the comic is made. (On that note, I finally uploaded and linked that "how to" page I made awhile back.) Also added is a really random page on the main talasiths and their animal traits which I apparently wrote up some time ago in some kind of painfully sober stupor.
Unfortunately this will more than likely be the last update before the hiatus as I'm leaving in one week. I'm sorry it's so late, but I've been extremely busy - not only in getting ready to go, but in doing a million stupid things I've got to do before I go. For instance, I spent half of today cutting out foam crawfish. ..Yes, really. My mom just opened her own shop in February, and I've been painting signs for it and occassionally helping with weird random things like that. (There's a big crawfish festival here in April.)
IN MORE INTERESTING NEWS, the "guest comic contest" has officially begun! Please don't procrastinate until the last minute with entries - the idea is to be able to pose them on a rolling basis, so the earlier you get them in the happier Kai will be. Of course, you have until August, but I'd rather get the entries spaced out than get them all the week before the deadline. That'll give people time to read them before they vote instead of throwing them all up at once. XD;
What else..? I must admit I've shamefully wasted some time with this, too:
I have Fox, Fennel, and Talyn done too, and Ghost and Dokuja half done. What are they for..? Nothing, really. Just my own amusement. I might make actual sprites too. They're good timewasters for when I have to be on the computer anyway.
So! There's all my long, drawn-out news. Unless something happens between now and Friday, except my next update to come from Japan!
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| Dun dun duuuun...!! |
[17 Mar 2005|01:33pm] |
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It's now official!
Idol Archer has moved to www.IdolArcher.com!
Please update your bookmarks and links, thank you. ^^
Now, on to updates:
The Valentine's Day Special is finally up. Check it out!
We now have several new sections, including downloads and a special page for IA doujinshi/guest strips. Related to this, IA now has its own ongoing doujinshi, drawn by the marvelous Kuja's Little Mage and available here.
We also now have a forum, as well as an oekaki board (finally! *_*), which will hopefully encourage more of you to poke your noses in and comment. XD
There's a bunch more fanart, by wonderful artists like Kaiyu, Cat, Susan Starr, Kuja's Little Mage, and of course, Duo. I highly recommend you go see if you haven't already.
And finally, the Valentine's Day contest is over. When I closed it, I thought we only had four entries, but it turns out Faye's had been lost in the mail. ^^; In any case, I didn't really want to award three out of four contestants (that just sucks), so everyone is getting a keychain for their awesome entries. :D (I am a benevolent dictator, see?) Which means.. you really should have entered! But there's always next time. New contest will be announced shortly once I figure out what I want to do - there's a thread in the forums dedicated to the topic.
The shoppe section may take awhile to open simply because I can not be making and selling merchandise while I am in Japan (where I will be from 2 April to 2 August), so it may be the end of the summer before that is actually fully up, my apologies.
In any case, I hope there's plenty of stuff to keep you entertained for now, and thank you for reading! ^^
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[21 Feb 2005|09:42am] |
If it's not one thing, it's another.
( Changing hosts. )
The short version of all that: Dokuja.com might be down for a little bit, until the move takes effect and I reupload everything. IA will be down a little longer, probably, until I can get the new stuff up on idolarcher.com. Thank you guys for being so patient; I feel like an ass, espcially when I'm leaving in five weeks. But I'll try to sort everything out as quickly as is humanly possible. (And I only have two more weeks until I leave my job, so..)
PS - I feel bad that the V-Day special is so delayed (it's going to be computer coloured, so I'm really stuck on it until I can scan), so.. would anyone care for a short written story to tide you over? XD;
And as a final note - I have almost 50 gmail invites sitting around, does anyone want one? (Just reply with your e-mail address if you do. <3)
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Okay. I have no scanner. This is not such a good thing. I tried doing a temporary replacement V-Day pic with my WACOM last night and -- er, it sucked. So. No scanner = not good. I'm working on it. Sorry for the delay. D:
Love,
Kai THE HABITUALLY LATE
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| updates! |
[30 Jan 2005|08:02pm] |
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I'm feeling lazy, so for the most part this will be copy-pasted from the info box. XD; (Yes, there is a new page, but it's not really - it's a cover page. Sorry to everyone who was waiting for Fox and Caol to start making out, or something. XD Link for you!)
I have some awesome news to announce soon, but I need to get my stuff together first. Unfortunately, I'm working full time at a temp job for 6 weeks to raise money for my trip to Japan, so I've moved updates to Monday so I have a chance to work on new pages over the weekend.
There's also a new contest entry - please go check out the contest if you haven't already, there are cool prizes and everything! XD Also, as a sort of spoiler to my "big announcement," here is a lovely forum and oekaki board! :D Please use them!
..And I am never, ever drawing a coffin again. XD
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| updates! |
[16 Jan 2005|02:02am] |
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New page, new poll, new links. Check it out.
Also, I'm announcing the first ever Idol Archer Fan Contest! This first one is a themed fanart contest, but in the future I hope to do all sorts of different things to give everyone a chance to win something. :D
The prizes for the current contest are an IA plush character keychain, an Idol Archer t-shirt, or custom artwork, which I think are all pretty cool. You can read up on contest details here - please enter, or I'll feel like a total ass. XD
[Edit] Contest link is fixed. Whoops. Also, note that the deadline for entries is February 28, 2005, so you've still got plenty of time!
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[07 Jan 2005|11:10pm] |
Here's the reason that there was no comic last week (and likely none tomorrow, either):
( Ta-da. )
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[25 Dec 2004|01:54am] |
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Oh man.
So first off, we have a Christmas special: Click me. What the hell does it have to do with anything? I have no idea. I just suddenly wanted to draw people tango-ing.
I really wanted to do a mini-comic like I did a few years back, but I honestly could not come up with a thing to draw. (As evidenced by this totally nonsensical offering.) I tried for days to think up some cute little plot, and I got nothing. The replacement pic was done at the last minute, which is probably obvious - but ADMIRE THOSE TREES. I DREW THOSE TREES. IN PAINTER. I ARE SO PROUD. (Seriously, the trees are my favourite thing. Weep.)
Ahem. I have taken way too long to say in lieu of a mini-comic from me, you get an even better gift: hot, pumping yaoi action, courtesy of Mirre!
Seriously, you think I'm joking? She made an eleven page yaoi doujinshi for
IA. I am still speechless. It is gorgeous, and hysterically funny (I think). It's Caol/Talyn, since they seem so "popular" right now (alright, we all know Kai secretly likes Talyn best.. sigh). It's really, really good. So go read it. Why aren't you reading it yet? Go!
Me? I've read it enough times for one night, I think (if that's possible). I need to get to bed before my sister (who is 18 but acts more like 8 sometimes) springs into my room shouting "WAKEUPIT'SCHRISTMAS!!!"
Merry Christmas, all. :D
[Edit] FHDRFGHDFHBGD ADDR [dokucom's host] was down last night. [insert long string of swearing] FTP kept messing up but.. yeah. Apparently it DIDN'T work eventually. In any case the new stuff is up now.
Off to open presents~~ :DDD
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Is it bad if I see that Ian J might be offering plushies soon and go "ACK! NO! Me first!"?
So, with that in mind, I offer you a prototype of the "secret project" I've been working on.. My apologies for the plush semi-nudity to follow.
( Dan dan DAAAAN! )
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[15 Dec 2004|11:57pm] |
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Sorry, no new comic; but I thought I should make a quick note of WHY and WHEN, since those are the two questions people ask most.
The secondary purpose is to say that even though *I* do not have new stuff, there are three new pieces in the guest art gallery - by my wonderful liebchen, the ever-inspiring Mirre, and, totally out of the blue and rather flooring, from the author/artist of another very good webcomic (which is updated far more routinely than mine, it seems), DIVE.
So you should definitely check those out.
That said, there won't be a new page until after I get home, because finals are killing me and finishing the next page is not even a notion I can comprehend at this point. I don't know if I'll be able to get something done right after I get home - I might need some time to recuperate - but I'll try at the least to have a Christmas Special up on time, and hopefully new pages after that.
I can't remember if I posted about it in this journal or not, but it's now like 99.9% sure that I'm going to Japan in the spring. I have to say 99.9% because Nagoya hasn't made their final decision yet, but my college (NYU) pre-screens applicants and only two people's profiles were forwarded, mine included. They've never had Nagoya turn down someone they've recommended (though there's a first time for everything, I guess.) I'm not sure what's going to happen with the comic in the time I'm gone (April - Aug/Sep), but we'll play it by ear, I suppose.
The point of all that is to point out that I'm going to have three months of winter vacation instead of a summer vacation this year. Unfortunately I have to get a job to pay the bills (and my airfare and spending money in Nagoya), but I am hopeful that I'll be able to get plenty of other things accomplished. High on my priority list are things like DRAWING MORE, revamping the art section of dokucom, updating commission information, rearranging some stuff.. generally making the site more navigable and user-friendly, as well as linking only to content and not to half-explained story ideas that never went anywhere. It would also be nice to write again, but that's a distant dream.
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No new page this week; I've got a cold which led to me spending all of three days in bed, essentially. (And cost me a day at work.. ugh.) But, instead of leaving you with that and nothing more, I actually drew you a nice little picture: Quick link. Ta-da.
[Edit] AND another new fanart by Recca. Yay. :D Check it out.
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[10 Nov 2004|04:44pm] |
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Whee so. Announcement! (Not a new page, sorry.) I've been giving a lot of thought to the issue of Part I of Idol Archer, and the format in general, and I finally asked some of my friends for advice. One of them, Kels (who has a fair amount of stuff in the gallery) made an incredibly good suggestion, and one that I'm actually going to try to follow.
I desperately want to re-do the beginning of IA, up to about page 13 of part 2. There are just a lot continuity errors and plot problems, and I'm not happy with the way you just jump into the story with very little explanation. (Like, how did Sevrin meet all these people, anyway?) Not to mention the art is just painful. So I've been trying to sort out a way to re-do the opening without affecting the progression of the story. (Though I must add that this will be a completely new script, though nothing substantial will be affected as it'll still match up with where we are now, so it's not as though it's just a remake and people who've read the beginning already should skip it. In particular, it's going to explain how Sevrin met Talyn in the first place... but I don't want to give too much away.)
So here's the deal: Regular updates will continue every week, or as near to that as I can manage. But I'm going to alternate new pages continuing the plot with the remake of the beginning; in other words, for two or three weeks there will be a new page added to the current scene, and then the next week there will be a page from the beginning. I know this has the potential to be confusing, but new intro pages will be clearly marked so it shouldn't be too complicated.
In addition, to further complicate things, I'm changing the formatting a little; rather than seperating the plot into "parts" of about 45 pages each, the story will instead be divided into chapters of about 20 pages. Around nine chapters will make up a volume, and I'll also try to throw in a "special" (shorter) extra chapter focusing on a specific character in each volume. (Much like they do in X, or like the way the Kenshin volumes tend to have an extra story at the end.)
As a final change, I'm going to make a concentrated effort to simplify my pages, or at least have such 'busy' pages appear less often. This will reduce the amount of action (action? what action?) taking place on a single page, which should make each page take less time for me to draw.
So.. there you have it. Hopefully this will go well and not make people too annoyed with me, heh.
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[07 Nov 2004|11:14pm] |
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Oops!
I am an ass. My sincerest apologies to Kibou Kitsune, Recca, and Angela. I finally remembered I never updated the guest art page. In other words:
Three new pieces of guest art! Check them out!
Fox, Dokuja, and Caol, the resident "hawt stuff" of IA. (It seems. Personally, I think Fox needs a little more nutrition. If he weren't a fruit bat, he'd probably have died of scurvy by now!)
We also actually have a links page like I'd been threatening. Man, I hate writing blurbs for them. I'm terribly sorry to anyone whose comic I butchered through my woeful ineloquence.
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[07 Nov 2004|05:12pm] |
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New page - Quick Link.
I'm not happy with it, but you know what? I spent all day yesterday working on it, and another five hours today. I have a bunch of schoolwork to do, and I've been irresponsible enough blowing the whole weekend on this. The saddest part is that this was about half sketched when I picked it up yesterday. This page definitely took WAY longer than ten hours.
A Public Service Announcement: If you're going to come and just harrass the tagboard users or harrass me to update, then don't even bother reading this comic. Find another one that updates more often, because leaving retarded messages that indicate you haven't read a thing on the page isn't going to make me update any faster. It's just going to annoy me. (And nasty messages on the tagboard WILL be deleted.)
Also, if you're going to write to me or anyone else who has a webcomic, for the love of god, spell the characters' names right. Especially the main character's. I honestly don't think Sevrin is that hard, yet I still get people commenting and mentioning "Servin" or "Severin" or "Sevren." S-E-V-R-I-N. Yes, I know there is a German name spelled "Severin." "Sevrin" is a French variation. They all share the same Latin root (Severus). No, his name is not a refence to the Harry Potter character, as I didn't start reading those until several years after IA was created (I didn't pick one up until book 4 had been released). But coincidentally, I do very much like Severus Snape - he and Sevrin just don't have anything in common besides a (coincidental) common name root.
And.. yes. My secret IA project has been put on the backburner for schoolwork at the moment, but I'll finish and post about it as soon as I can.
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