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July 27th, 2009

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Hi there!

Wow this was a hard one! As you might have guessed, the windmill was the hardest part in this page! (^_^;)
My trick to get it right (at least I think I did), was to draw the “sails”, which I think they’re called, on a separate paper, seen from the front.
I then held the paper with the sails, in an angle that would represent the one in the panel, and looked at it with one eye shut. Then I put it down, and drew it in the panel.
I COULD have just scanned the picture and used my Photoshop magic to paste it into the panel, but I wanted to do it by hand, because I want to get better at drawing, and I think that hard work is good when you try to learn stuff. Yeah … (^.^)v

To change subject, I’ve just completed a long musical journey through Japan.
Well, not really, but almost ;)
I lived in Japan from August 1999 until the summer of 2000, and then again from September 2002 to the beginning of December 2006.
I heard lots of good music while I was there, and I’ve never really owned those songs, not even on mp3, well some of them maybe, but not all of them.
Then I got this crazy idea about four days ago, that I should hunt down and add all those songs I had heard to one massive playlist – on YouTube!
So I did that. I searched for all songs that I had heard, that had stuck in my head, for one reason or another, and made one big playlist of it!
Of course, keeping all those songs for myself would be no fun, so now I’m happy to present to you all …

J-Pop 2000

Ok, it’s not as fancy as it sounds, but it took quite a while to find all of them (there are 57 songs at the moment) and I had to do some research to find some of them, hehe (^v^ ) But it was great fun! There are many different styles of music there, so I think that there’s something for everyone.

Alright, enough for this time. Enjoy page 16! Cya!
/Tomii


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  1. jen says:

    aww! this is so cute!

  2. tomii says:

    Thank you! (^ v ^)

  3. klokei07 says:

    I really like the last panel!! And the windmill its of course pretty awesome.
    When are you going to upload page 17??
    I’m not rushing you or anything XP it’s just that I’m really excited to see where the story is going.

  4. tomii says:

    Thanks!!
    Hmm, I don’t know when I’ll be uploading the next page, actually :s But I have a good reason for that! (^^;)
    If you follow my twitter-feed, you might have read that I’m still working on the script… well, the script is now FINISHED, and I’m now in the process of planning how every page is going to look. But! There’s a problem.
    I’m working to make the comic no longer than 50-pages long – this is due to the rules of a contest I’m entering later this year…
    My biggest concern now, is that I have 54(!) comic pages, so I’m forced to cut out 4 whole pages… this is not an easy task, but nothing’s impossible and I’m working on it everyday! :D

    And … sorry to disappoint you, but there miiight be a chance that the last panel will change before I upload page 17 (*- * ) But don’t you worry! It’s going to make sense, and it’s for the best! hehe :D

  5. klokei07 says:

    Thanks for clrearing that up Tommy, the contest seems an exciting idea, I wish the best luck for you (in other words, hope you win!!) xDD

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