Oh Hey Blog, How's It?

The last few weeks have been a dizzying flurry of alternating working and creativity. I have worked, with the exception of something like six, every day since coming back from school, and it has recently been pointed out to me that this has left me a bitter husk of a human whose grim wittiness belies the extent to which my spirit has been sapped.

I'm not going to complain about work because that would be trite and ungrateful in a country where people are struggling to get by. It is nice to know I will only be working three days a week again after tomorrow, however.

I have been doing a lot of creative things. I have spent, all told, about twenty to thirty hours making a dungeon for an online video game, from scratch. No more than thirty people are likely to see it, which makes it odd that I have committed so much to it. Of course, these thirty people are some of my best friends so I guess it balances out.
Shall I post some screenshots?

























The game I'm making these levels for has a level editor but I'm rubbish with it, so in a fit of madness and bravery I decided to draw my own levels. I am, by no stretch of the imagination, an accomplished GFXer, that is I have no idea how to correctly do pixel art (I "cheated," as pixel artists would say, by using a tablet). I draw all the walls, crystals, everything; the glow effect is preexisting. Some of it looks amazing, some of it looks horrible, but it's taken a horribly long time and it's more than I ever thought I'd do. I could never make a career out of this but it was definitely an experience.

I have also been working on Sterile, a manga-style comic I've drawn on and off since high school. Every time I start it up I realize how much my drawing has improved, and I do love telling stories in the shounen style. It's simplistic and predictable but so much fun. I was doing everything digitally, but ordered some manga paper and markers and have done two pages on that so far. The only issue with that is that the pages are 11x17 (so that the lines will be thinner and smoother when reduced to viewing resolution) and my scanner is not that big. Gotta get a new one, I guess. Definitely gonna be my new medium if I can get it on the internetz, I think it looks really great so far.

I am not going to link it here, but I'll gladly give it to you if you ask me for it.

So I go to work every night, come home, and stay up until five drawing cave walls and silly mangas, and all this time I have not written a damn thing. I have two stories, two very good stories, that I have probably written out in my head a thousand times, and I wont just sit down and write them. I previously mentioned that I have a rebellious streak that manifests in stupid ways, this goes for my masochistic side as well. If I just sat down and write I'd be goddamn famous.

Instead, I make internet stuff for my friends. I guess it's not so bad; eventually I may not have the time to do this. Might as well enjoy it while I can.

I go back to school in less forty eight hours and I could not be more happy. I've rather grown fond of my life at school, even if people continue to tell me I'm doing it wrong. Maybe I'll try to make friends before the last month of school this semester. If I feel like it.

I read a book called The 47th Samurai this week. For a person who often feels (and has been told) that he was born in the wrong era, it was an unequivocally pleasant read. It also inspired me to read the Hagakure again, which always puts me at peace.

Good god I'm the biggest nerd ever.