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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-

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:

Read more...

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

Read more...

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.

Read more...

Episode 21

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I aten't dead
Real life intervened. Still is, as a matter of fact. Anyway, ep. #21, up and waitin' to be read:

http://quemaster.com/darksunsglare/comic.php?page=21

Read more...

New Design!

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Wheee!

I'm back (though I'll be gone again shortly) and I brought along a brand new design!
Lookin' nice, huh?

Just lookin' nice doesn't cut it yet, though - try reloading the page.
I'll wait...

See? Random pics in the banner!
It took some doing to make it work, but all credits for the coding go to my bro - thanx, man! :smile:

The random pics show up in the two frames separately. On the left will always be character shots, and on the right specific scenes. As DSG continues, I'll be adding more pictures to both sides. It's rather easy to do, now that it's working :smile:
There's also a new background, new buttons, new sidebar titles, and a couple of misc things. I guess I'll be playing around with it some more later.

The date of the next episode of DSG is still uncertain. I'm finishing up the first semestre, and exams are here, so... yeah.

Still - nice to be back even for a short while :D