November Update #6 – Map v2.0

Sorry for not posting a lot, I’ve been very busy with school, this last month has kicked my ass, add that to the fact that I am too poor to get a new pen (Yes, literally, every cent I have has gone into bill and food) I haven’t gotten much creatively done, in the terms of Kokoro No Kinu.

To be fair, I could have posted more Magicka Mechanica information, and that is a failing on my part. Funny thing about that is that a local gaming store has picked me to DM a weekly D&D 5th Edition Homebrew (self-made) campaign, and I am using, you guessed it, Magicka Mechanica as the world it is set in.

You remember The Map I made for Magicka Mechanica? Well for this campaign, and because I could actually do something creative, I thought “Why not update it? Make it better?” … You guessed what was coming again? Man you all are on a roll!

That’s right, for the Homebrew campaign I digi-arted the old map I had made WAY back then, and after over 18 hours of work, I must say, I am quite proud of the results:

And at 25.9 Mb, it is a lot of map. I only used the art program GIMP and most of the terrain, trees, and other stuff are brushes, textures and other small stuff.

That is the update for right now, I am tired, overslept, and missed an assignment (which REALLY sucks), so I’m just gonna go.

Kokoro No Kinu Chapter 4 Page 2 – Title

As you can see, page two is up! This was only possible because I was working on page 1 and two at the same time. As you can read, page two, like all of Kokoro No Kinu’s chapters, is the title page, where I try to do a little better art, and color it.

For those of you that do not know, I am bad at digital coloring… at least in my own opinion. I just cannot seem to get the hang of it for whatever reason. It’s weird because I am able to color by hand, using pencils, pens etc much better than I can with digital, and I’m not sure why. I was hoping when I got my graphics tablet that would change, but so far… not really.

Still, I’m relatively proud of this page. Of course if you haven’t guessed, because I know the page is the first thing you saw no matter what, This is an homage to an old childhood movie I used to watch, Cats Don’t Dance. This page is an homage to the villain’s song in it, go watch it if you haven’t. It’s fun, and is a  pretty great analogy for the prejudice of minorities during the “golden age” of cinema, and it’s for kids, so bring them too!

I’m trying to do Inktober this year, and my pages are going to be included in my “submissions” for Inktober. Of course not every submission is going to be a page, so hopefully I’m going to try and do some different sketches in my downtime to keep up. I think I’m also going to create a separate Inktober page to show off the sketches and doodles I do for the month, hopefully I won’t have many because of all the pages I’m going to do… anyone believe that? No? Neither did I… So hopefully there will be enough to warrent a special little page for them.

Anyway, on to the page. I usually have two versions, a colored and grey-scaled one, and today is no exception!

Kokoro No Kinu Chapter 4 Page 1

I’m so excited! If you can read the title, you know why!

ITS BACK!

Kokoro No Kinu Character Cosplay – Pricefield

It’s that time again. Before getting started on the next Chapter of Kokoro No Kinu, and because it is Pride month, I created another Character Cosplay, this time of Max Caulfield and Chloe Price from the game Life is Strange!

I love Life is Strange, it is one of those games that has an emotionally gripping story that really throws people for a loop, After witnessing her old distant friend Chloe die from a gun wound, Max Caulfield finds out she has the ability to rewind time. This is a great core mechanic that has many functions in the narrative driven story. Your choice matter, and it is one game I whole-heartedly recommend playing, along with it’s prequel Life is Strange: Before the Storm.

But that’s not what you came to see, you came to see art! So here is the piece!

And as before, I created a time lapse video to go along with it! You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/spqwpi3JTAc

You can also see the other time lapse character cosplay I created of Ruby and Sapphire from Steven Universe here: https://youtu.be/Ge4fk8Hm7-g

As always, you can find me on these other platforms as well
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Happy Pride Month!

-Umedyn

Kokoro No Kinu Character Cosplay – Ruby and Sapphire

As stated, I am going to be working on some pieces of art for Pride Month. If you can read between the lines, you can guess where this is going!

The first couple I’ve decided to do for Pride Month is Ruby and Sapphire from Steven Universe! With humility, I must say I think this is the best digitally colored art I’ve ever done. I did two different ones, with minor changes, one is specifically for Pride, with the rainbow behind them, the other is with a black background to better focus on the characters.

Here is the Pride Picture

The other piece is the black background, and will be placed in my gallery

I have at least two more Character Cosplays I’ve already decided to do for Pride Month, I won’t tell you, but I’ll give some hints. One couple is from a video game where time travel is important. The other couple can control the elements. Those should be pretty simple to tell who Tomoko and Hitomi will be cosplaying as.

I have another treat for you all. I didn’t just draw these two, I made sure to record the process as well. I condensed the hours long process into just 13 minutes, with music too! I will be doing this for every one of the Pride Month couples I decide to do, so look forward to those as well!

So you can view the video on youtube here: https://youtu.be/Ge4fk8Hm7-g

You can also follow me in other ways as well!

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Onto the next piece, and work towards Chapter 4!

-Umedyn

Multimedia Class Final Project – Flash Game

As I promised some time ago, I said  I was going to upload my Multimedia class project when it was finished. That day is today!

The game is a VERY simple platformer, kind of like Mario. The premise is this: Find your lost cat.

This is a simple flash game made for my Multimedia class project, none of the assets are mine, and credit is given when due. It is VERY rough, and I didn’t work long on it, I just made it for my final class project. The visuals were taken from Maple Story, the music and sounds were from Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories and RPG Maker.

Because I have a free package of WordPress, I cannot upload flash files on this, I had to use a small hosting site, because I didn’t use any of my personal assets (besides the coding, etc) I couldn’t put it on Newgrounds like I originally wanted. So if you want to play my project, please visit this link: www.fastswf.com/LUdQZ0Y

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Until next time, I hope you enjoy!

-Umedyn

Photoshop Class: Final Project

My final project for my Photoshop class is a nice and creepy atmospheric piece, It reminds me of those “haunted”, or “ghost” videos you usually see, with floating orbs, and almost looks like a screenshot taken from a VHS tape.

If you look, you can see a familiar face in the background (hint, big floppy ears), That is, if you’ve seen any other of my artwork, or the back to my twitter.
I really don’t have too much else to add, I’m working on finding a hosting site to so I can show my multimedia project, a very basic flash game with “borrowed” assets. So I’m going to give the usual contact info, and leave it at that!

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My semester is almost done, and this class was pretty fun,

-Umedyn

Kokoro No Kinu Chapter 3 Page 19

It is here! The final page of Kokoro No Kinu Chapter 3! It has literally taken over a year to get this done, part because of my own procrastination , and partly because of life. As much as I would love to be working on this full time, life and being able to eat and pay bills comes first.

Working on this chapter has been an amazing journey! I want to give a special shout out to everyone who follows my efforts, and those who encouraged me along the way.

No more sappy shit, lets get to the last page of Kokoro No Kinu Chapter 3!

Kokoro No Kinu Chapter 3 Page 18

This took longer than anticipated… This is because my mood took a nosedive during the weekend, sleeping for nearly all day, schoolwork and other life stuff getting in the way. Despite all that, I still got the page finished, just one more page to go before the chapter is finished!

This chapter has taken WAY too much time to finish, and that is because I am a lazy asshole who keeps hitting slumps in my mood, creative blocks and horrible bouts of procrastination. This chapter should have been finished sometime last year. Still, it is almost over, then I have some remodeling to do with the site, some restructure of the story, and Chapter 4 is going to be a really heavy chapter that is going to push some people’s buttons, and go into some dark territory.

Anyway, enough of the ramblings, onto the page!

Kokoro No Kinu Chapter 3 Page 17

If you are looking at this, then you know the next page is here! I’ve been keeping to my schedule of working on Kokoro No Kinu between my Tuesday and Thursday classes, but that feels really slow for me, at this point I’m only releasing a page a week, which is fine, I guess, but I really wish I could be doing more on this end.

The problem is that between this and classes, I really don’t have much else that fits the theme of this “blog” (shudders, I hate that word). I watch a lot of good anime that is out this season (Like Yuri Camp, Marchen Madchen, Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san, Takunomi, Slow Start, and of course Citrus) and I’m engrossed in some really good shows (Star Trek Discovery, The Orville (Which just ended it’s first season in December), and Marvel’s Runaways (LOVED the comic, even more enthusiastic with the show, especially what they did with Nico and Karolina!) As well as way too many comics and books to name. There are already a lot of great reviewers who would do, and are doing, a better job then me, so I feel that area isn’t really right for me. Either way, I’ve complained long enough, let’s get onto the main event!