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The Graphic Novel

Well, this is the blog of Archon, the creator of the DarkSun's Glare graphic novel.
DarkSun's Glare is a story of lost people in a cruel world, ideals demented into sick urges, souls twisted into the machinations of a powerful individual, and the sudden bonds of friendship and their durability and strength. It is a serious story sporting some rather un-serious characters at first glance. Yet each holds his own piece of the story.

To start reading DSG from the beginning go to the first episode
The first four episodes are presented in the form of ill-constructed "comic pages" :P However, starting with ep #5 the story takes a different, much nicer form :)
Current episodes:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24-

Photos!

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Yes, this post is about photos. But first I have to say (in a very scotish accent): Bloody hell! I gotta fix up me blog design 'cause o' that "favorites" thing. Ach. EDIT - There ain't no nothing to see there no more. I fixez it.

Anyway, the point is that I'm supposed to print out 6 or more (preferably not a lot more) of my best photos. These will be the main part of the grade that I get in the end. I'm making a new album here, in which I'll put potentials for printing.
The album in question is HERE.
EDIT - 18:10 21.01 - Added some new ones... 10 and up.

Now, I'd really appreciate suggestions here. Which ones should I keep? The deadline is pretty soon too, so I guess I won't get a lot of feedback, but still. What the hey. Thems are intrestin' photos anyways, eh?

Something that happened

This was an actual conversation. Go figure.

"I don't like you."
"I don't like you either."

"Good, then."

"Yeah. Now that we said that, we don't have to pretend to like each other anymore."

"Yup."

Silence.
"Of course, I appreciate honesty, so I like you a bit more now."

"Same here, I'm afraid."

"Just great. We really are starting to like each other, huh?"

"Seems so."

Silence again.
"So."

"Hm?"

"Where would you like to be for the New Year's Eve?"

"Uh..."

"Not the same place I will be, right?"

"Yeah. Still don't like you that much."

"Sure, I understand."

Silence. This time shorter.
"But..."

"Yes?"

"We could try liking each other later."

"I'd like that."

"Yeah. Me too."

They stared into one another's eyes for a while.
"Goodbye then."

"Goodbye. See you next year."

"Mhm. Happy New Year."

"Ditto."

They sat in silence for a little while.
Then they went their separate ways.

More Stuffz

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Here's another thingamajig:

This is actually the first pic I made - the one I posted last time is the second. Never the less, this guy here is Cross (spelling liable to change). He's also a big part of the Mysterious Project (ooooh :ko: ), and will be making more appearances in the stuff that I post later.

Now, the character that I posted prior to this - her name is Leira. All thanks for the both these names (and some others, as well) go to Erik Karlsson Berra - check out his NWN modules and YouTube movies over there ^^
It's that horrible thing that happens in every other RPG game. The joy with which you start up a game just dissapears when you click "New Game" and that headache prompt pops out asking: "Name?".
Ugh.

Wanna post more, but tired now... :zzz:

Stuffzies

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No posts in three months. Hrmf. How sad.

Well, anyway, I guessed it would be time to post something again. So, here's that something:
(Clikie on the thumb to see a 2048px version.)
I think she looks good. Smooth, clean. I decided to try out cell shading, since I was kinda getting tired of juggling with lines/no lines, smooth shade, blurry shadow, color mix type of thing. I actually reckon I did pretty well, considering my first tries at drawing anime (long story :ko: ). She will be (or, rather, already is) an important part of my Mysterious Project(tm). Has a backstory, has a personality, but - lacks a name :ko:
Anyway - the picture is so-so finished, but I won't put any more work in it. It was only meant to be a simple concept art doodle, but then I cleaned the sketch, added color, added shading, and then even a background (if you can call it that). However, I have other things to draw. I'll leave this as is.

And a little update on DSG: Oblivion has been fixed. Kinda. Some stuff is missing, some stuff still needs overriding/bypassing/fixing, but overall, it's stable and I have my characters and locations back. Maybe I'll finally make the elusive episode 25 soon. Maybe.

Expect more stuff from me soon. I'll be around more often. I hope :smile:

Crash, and a big one too... :/

Well, it figures it would happen now, huh?
My computer got infected with a ridiculously nasty virus. So, after trying to get rid of it for a couple of days, we decided to cut our losses and get rid of my Windows instead. So yeah - complete f*-upity.

Now I'm trying to see what I can salvage from my drive... And the worst thing is, I lost Oblivion entirely... The files I saved, but the game is bust. And it will take me a while to bring it back up to where it was... well, quite a while, actually. The entire mod list is gone, and without certain mods, my save games are gonna crash or malfunction, or worse. So it will be a lot of trial and error.
Also, I'm busy installing all the little proggies I had around the comp. Drivers, antivirus software, players, all that stuff...

*sigh*

So - if I'm not replying messages/comments, you know why... I'm just trying to pull everything together here. And it will take a while :frown:

Egad!

There I was, thinking that I could mess around with my design a bit, visiting the blog to scrutinize the whole thing, when I noticed a lot of unknown (and some known) faces in the "recent visitors", and new messages, too.
Wondering what was the cause for such increased activity, I took a look on the community blog, and would you believe it? I'm the member of the week!
Wow.
Like, really - wow!

Thanks!
Or whatever I'm supposed to say here :ko:

I'm hoping that the new visitors will find my blog interesting, and also the DarkSun's Glare.
Ummm.
I'm not sure what to say. I need to come around to my senses.
Oh yeah - episode 25 will be out soon, I reckon. Also, there's a couple of more things brewing in my lab. Like that story I said I would put on the blog - the "Light of Darkness" (don't be put of by the cheesy title :ko:)

Episode 24

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It was quicker than I thought it would be. But then again, I said I will put just enough effort into DSG so that it looks good, but still comes out regulary. Right:

http://quemaster.com/darksunsglare/comic.php?page=24

I also fixed the faulty dates on the previous episodes... wasn't really thinking about them at that point :ko:

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Episode 23

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Aye - 23 is here. That's three for two. Not shabby, indeed.
This one's a bit dark too. Actualy, really dark. I messed around with levels, but in the end the pictures would look bad. So they are only moderately lightened.

http://quemaster.com/darksunsglare/comic.php?page=23

Hmmm. Yes. It seems I'm back on track. :D

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Episode 22

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Yeah, it's true. After such a long away-time, two ep's in a day. Not bad I reckon.
Ahem:

http://quemaster.com/darksunsglare/comic.php?page=22

You will probably notice that some of the text bubbles are grey. I did it for no special effect, I just lowered the contrast, since the pure white ones would really be too bright against the dark pictures.

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