THE NEW WEBCOMIC

here we have the front cover of my latest project: "Tekumel: Chronicles of the Hill People."
These are the three main characters of the story, which is based upon the RPG I currently attend. If you want to read up on the sorts of things these characters have been up to then go to my GM's blog HERE
although I will warn you that a lot of stuff there will be spoilers (however Im going to add my own artistic licensing on some of the stuff....possibly.)

The planned start for this comic is next Wednesday, fingers crossed I can keep to that. It will then continue to update on Wednesdays and possibly the occasional Saturdays from then on.

Nightlife will still update as much as possible, and if anything has to be sacrificed for what ever reason (even if just for a short period) it will probably be Tekumel first.

DISCLAIMER: TEKUMEL AND ALL CREATURES COPYRIGHT OF PROFESSOR M.A.R BARKER. CHARACTERS ARE COPYRIGHT OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS (KUNA, the female, COPYRIGHT OF SESKIMO... ie me.)

Uh Oh

well Ive gone and done a terrible terrible thing.... I bought Assassins Creed for the PC.... I will probably get distracted by that on my evenings which may cause the pages for NightLife to become a little late... there will be an update tomorrow though it may be in the evening (about 11pm in the evening). I will try not to distract myself too much with the game.
Im also working on the new comic at the moment. More info on that will be coming later.

thats all from me for now.

seskimo

new website layout

unfortunately I doubt there will be a new page of the comic this week. This is primarily due to the fact that I am working on updating the site... hopefully for the better.
also I will be having a little look at MYSQL and how that works as well as CSS (I think its time I stepped up a notch with my web design. Ive been told it will make life a lot easier if I use CSS instead of HTML.... we shall see.)

another thing is that I'm struggling with one panel of the comic, and I really want to start working on the look of the thing. therefore I'm going to take my time with it. I will, however, put new art up as and when I have any done in the mean time.

so in the mean time, keep an eye out for the new web site design.

Seskimo

All Hail The Admin Girl!

well I have one less stress off my plate. I have convinced my awesome cousin to do the admin side of the website for me. this means she will mess about with programs such as MYSQL and Wordpress. she is an utter legend and I constantly bow down to her knowledge of anything computer-based. Hurray for my cousin!

I wish other things were going well... but they're not. The next page is progressing along ok, and may well be up tonight. but more personal issues are getting me down at the moment, though I wont go into them.

oh well! thats life.

awol seski

I'm very run down and constantly on edge at the moment.... probably due to the fact that I spend 35-38 hours a week a work, then spend a further 8-16 hours a week on web comics, have 2 sets of 4 hour gaming sessions a week also, and then try to find SOME time to spend with the fiance. It is causing me to be ill a lot of the time and I'm also very stressed and angry for no reason (I don't think it helps that I've been eating nothing but salad pretty much constantly the last week.) I try not to be a girl... I hate doing cliche girly things like storming off... but sometimes its better then punching someone in the face (....again)

so I want to make a formal apology to my gaming friends for running away last night.
you see, I had the guys around my house, but felt so pent up I had to do something. I was on the verge of either throwing something or breaking down into tears (and I refuse to let people see me in tears if at all possible) so I got up, put on my shoes and left. I know, a bit immature but honestly,and you can ask my fiance, you don't want to see me when I'm pissed off. luckily he was there to be a good host in my place.

I'm sorry guys (if your reading this) and I will try not to do it again.


on the other hand I got to watch the most beautiful sunset over the sea. the waves were gently lapping and the only noise was that of the ocean and the seagulls in the distance. it was an image that could not have been painted of photographed... it was just too perfect. the whole sky was golden and there were only a few wispy clouds dotted about. I wish I could describe just how amazing it was.

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AND IN COMIC NEWS....
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going back to comic stuff.... I am currently trying to draw the next page ENTIRELY on computer (I am trying to save money on blue lead and paper, since I'm almost out of both)

we'll see how well it turns out soon.

a new chapter, a new style

Chapter 2's front page marks the start of a new colouring style for my comic, though its very subtle I think it works well. also I have just left the inked lines black instead of colouring them. It looks better I've decided. I am also changing the way I draw the pages in order to make better quality pages. I am putting 2 panels onto a page, giving me more room to add details etc. I will then be shuffling them about on adobe and setting them up to look like a comic. At some stage I want to cut out the drawing on paper all together and draw from my Wacom tablet straight onto Adobe. I'm not fully confident with that yet however so it may only be random panels every now and again.

ok I really am just babbling now, but I wanted to just say that there are a few changes being made to the over-all process......

sick seski

Ive just got home after leaving work feeling like I'm about to throw up. I will try and do some of the page today but it will be in bouts of probably 10 minute sessions. so it's going to be slow progress. hopefully it will be up tonight however.

SITE ISSUE RESOLVED

i finally figured out what was wrong and why I couldn't upload my site onto the new host server I have set up on lunar pages. the reason was simple but took me a while to realise. I had not changed the DNS on my domain name to co-inside with lunarpages.... hence when I logged onto the FTP program it had NO idea what I was asking for. ahh well easy mistake to make Im sure. (translation: is a dumb ass)

so, why the change of server I here you (translation: no one) ask. simple really. the host server I was currently using did not offer MySQL, which is vital to use wordpress, as part of the basic package. I would have had to pay £160 for the privilage. However with Lunarpages it is part of the price, as well as a lot of other nifty features. the only down side with lunar pages is that it has a bandwith limit where as fasthost did not... but I doubt I'll be reaching that any time soon. if it does come to a point where I reach my quota on a regular basis I will consider upgrading, though it will cost me a lot more. but I will not worry about that just yet. in stead I'll be happy its finally all sorted and I can focus on the webcomic again.

No page this friday

I wish I could post this up on the main page of the website but unfortunately my ftp is playing up.

there will be no page this Friday, due mainly to the fact that I am unable to do ANYTHING with the site (refer to what I just said in the first sentence)

its all because of this new host. I'm struggling to find any of the correct ftp details.

On a brighter note however, I have re-written chapter 2. Maya (my favourite character) will be appearing as of the first page of the chapter. this also means that Ruben will come into play in chapter 3... as well as introducing the final two main characters it also means one of the main the stories comes into play about 3 chapters early due to how I have re-written the chapter. I'm quite pleased I did it... though some of the scenes will be difficult to draw and are going to put my skills to the test.... but thats also a good thing :)


due to the fact that Maya is now appearing earlier than before I will also (soon as I get the damn site working again) be updating only twice a week, this means I can start focusing on another project I am doing.

anyway thats all from me. hopefully updates will resume as of next week.

seskimo