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Well, just got Part 3 Chapter 22 posted in Dawn of Light.
These hand tremors have really sapped me badly and I'm struggling to figure things out. I can't do much of anything related to fine motor skills, I haven't really been able to draw aside from stippling. Not being able to draw has been really depressing, honestly, because right now all I want to do is work on my comics. I don't want to write or make 3D models or play games, I want to draw. T_T le sigh...
It's a bit aggravating how my "drive" shifts from drawing to writing to modeling to derping and back again.
Something about the tremors has also made me horribly exhausted, idk if it's the constant, unstoppable motion or if it's something neurological but I feel dumber and slower by the day. It's to the point where if someone asks me a question, I only register that a question has been asked, and I have to ask for a repeat so I can pick apart the words. Blood tests and the liver biopsy and a bunch of other stuff has all come back clean, so... idk wtf is going on.
I can still type, obviously, that's not so much of a problem, I just find myself not really wanting to bother with anything. Guess I'm really just writing this journal to make myself do something rather than stare listlessly at my facebook feed.
In more positive news I've joined some friends on some small game projects, pretty much just portfolio-building things. I've also got three game ideas I'm fleshing out, right now they're currently in game design document revision stage, but two are already being put together in RPG Maker VX Ace. I just need custom graphics, which I'm having a hard time making due to not really understanding how the program's auto-tiling works. I think I have it figured out, but not entirely, but that mechanism is crucial to creating the tilesets I have in mind. One is a somewhat religious themed game (not preachy-religious, more like how CS Lewis or Tolkien based their works on religion), the other is the primary focus and is more of a horror game meant as a study of RPG Maker and how to work certain things. I found a lot of handy scripts, mostly Yanfly's stuff, and so far as I can tell everything is set to work, I just need the graphics so I can start building levels and testing the non-combat mechanics I hope to incorporate. Loosely based on Dead Space, I haven't played the series myself but I watched Markiplier's LP series. I can't stand all the gore, it made me really sick, but the Dead Space storyline was pretty inspiring.
That's it for now. off to bed. *derps*
These hand tremors have really sapped me badly and I'm struggling to figure things out. I can't do much of anything related to fine motor skills, I haven't really been able to draw aside from stippling. Not being able to draw has been really depressing, honestly, because right now all I want to do is work on my comics. I don't want to write or make 3D models or play games, I want to draw. T_T le sigh...
It's a bit aggravating how my "drive" shifts from drawing to writing to modeling to derping and back again.
Something about the tremors has also made me horribly exhausted, idk if it's the constant, unstoppable motion or if it's something neurological but I feel dumber and slower by the day. It's to the point where if someone asks me a question, I only register that a question has been asked, and I have to ask for a repeat so I can pick apart the words. Blood tests and the liver biopsy and a bunch of other stuff has all come back clean, so... idk wtf is going on.
I can still type, obviously, that's not so much of a problem, I just find myself not really wanting to bother with anything. Guess I'm really just writing this journal to make myself do something rather than stare listlessly at my facebook feed.
In more positive news I've joined some friends on some small game projects, pretty much just portfolio-building things. I've also got three game ideas I'm fleshing out, right now they're currently in game design document revision stage, but two are already being put together in RPG Maker VX Ace. I just need custom graphics, which I'm having a hard time making due to not really understanding how the program's auto-tiling works. I think I have it figured out, but not entirely, but that mechanism is crucial to creating the tilesets I have in mind. One is a somewhat religious themed game (not preachy-religious, more like how CS Lewis or Tolkien based their works on religion), the other is the primary focus and is more of a horror game meant as a study of RPG Maker and how to work certain things. I found a lot of handy scripts, mostly Yanfly's stuff, and so far as I can tell everything is set to work, I just need the graphics so I can start building levels and testing the non-combat mechanics I hope to incorporate. Loosely based on Dead Space, I haven't played the series myself but I watched Markiplier's LP series. I can't stand all the gore, it made me really sick, but the Dead Space storyline was pretty inspiring.
That's it for now. off to bed. *derps*
2023 around the corner
Guess imma have to get a charcoal forge going soon, mom got me some blacksmithing tongs :o New chapter slowly plodding along here while my finger recovers. I have marginal use of my right hand after my middle finger got popped during bowling a week ago. My dominant hand...go figure. Oh well. Gives me time to decompress and think. I haven't been very active this year because of stress issues and mental health strain competing with schedule limitations and uncooperative health insurance, so I haven't been able to get anything diagnosed and been having anger outbreaks and panic attacks almost every week as a result. I got these last two weeks of the year off and of course the first day I get injured trying to do something leisurely. It's been a really bad year, personally. The lack of productivity and reliance on gaming this year has been pushing me to get back on the art train, so this year...well, I've made and dropped a lot of plans in past journals and longer-time readers might be tired of that. Yet another depression issue that's kept me down this year. So next year I'm hoping to get started on...at least some kind of art project. I don't know yet. Deepest Winter has been on hiatus far too long, as well as Temporal Threads. But, I might just start smaller and try to make some shirt designs. I've made and broken too many art vows so...starting small, hopefully I can get myself up to those abandoned ideas. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals, and a Happy New Year :p cookie to who gets the reference.
Slow tortoise here...and DoL future
Still alive, just been dead. Been poking at various projects, but the biggest killer has been schedule flipflopping at work and resultant depression. Got a new car a few months ago (2022 new, not used or like-new) and trying to work out a schedule where I can pay it off but still get my stuff done. In a college town where everything is customer service and food service...not a lot of options in that regard. I did take some time to go back and re-read portions of Dawn of Light and compile a few worldbuilding snippets I had forgotten about. To be honest, I've been...hesitant to continue on Dawn of Light, not because I've run out of ideas for it or gotten stuck... I'm running into that inevitability of "where to from here?" This fanfiction has been a massive part of my life, but it has to end eventually. I don't know how many chapters it'll take to wrap it up, could be twenty, could be... an entire Part 5 o.e idfk. But the idea of bringing it to a close after all this time has been
just a smol update.
Not dead. Just distracted. a lot. Got a Switch, Smash Ultimate, been trying to get back into Warframe before the New War update, switched job locations and adjusting to the workflow there...plus new meds that have the unfortunate side effect of "unusual fatigue", so when I'm not working, I'm in a mental haze. Yeah...lovely. -_- Still working on Spyro! It's just...an awkward chapter to get out of my head and into text. Been working on later chapters while piecing it together. I've had to rewrite the next chapter several times because it just doesn't feel right to me. x-x once that hurdle is overcome though, the next few chapters are looking more solid.
Thinking of taking down Verdant Tale for now.
The story is being slightly rewritten again, so I don't think I'll keep the older version up here anymore.
Initially, I was trying to have the writing style be a sort of glimpse into Penny's mind, a way of seeing how she prioritizes her surroundings and processes information. This included deliberate lack of information on her surroundings, and a focus on things she's interested in, with more information being filled in later as she grows out of her shell and gets over her tunnel vision.
Unfortunately, test readers got lost with the lack of info, so my approach wasn't sound. There are also elements in the uploaded version that kind of just
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So that's what you've been doing in RPG maker
on second thought... It's kinda obvious lol, but
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Those tremors seem odd, but have you concidered that you might lack magnesium? I actualy heard someone talk about it yesterday, you can get tremors and start shaking from having too little of it. Just an idea.
(psst, watch the live-action movie of Rurouni Kenshin)
on second thought... It's kinda obvious lol, but
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Those tremors seem odd, but have you concidered that you might lack magnesium? I actualy heard someone talk about it yesterday, you can get tremors and start shaking from having too little of it. Just an idea.
(psst, watch the live-action movie of Rurouni Kenshin)