And 2019 passed by...
I'm aware I have been massively deserting social medias since a while. As a matter of fact, there are way too many : Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TumblR, DeviantART... with massive exodus from one media to the other on a regular basis (most Facebookers moved to Instagram, Tumblr people moved to Twitter, etc.. ).
I will have to "automate" my posts, at least on most of these medias. DeviantART, Newgrounds and Artstation can't be automated though, so I'll consider keeping mainly DeviantART.
Drawing-wise, I haven't stopped drawing, inf act, since December I've sketched a lot, but I have too few finished illustrations. A lot of these sketches are about Maniacity, and I admit I don't see the point of posting things about a story that will (or won't) come out. If anything I'll post these on my other DeviantART and keep illustrations and experimentations here.
Finally, I don't talk much about personal life, but it's been draining me. Crap has kept coming and coming, the timings have been the worst ever for every event, forcing me to juggle mentally and physically. Not everything has been black, of course, but as I'm drained, it might influence the way I type as well. As a result, I feel like 2019 came and went without anything but chores for me, and I can't do a single productive thing since 2020 started.
As a matter of fact I was supposed to have a break that came right in time in February 2019, after an exhausting year (yeah, 2018 wasn't all pink but... I managed through it better than through 2019). I ended up:
- having to help a friend through massive crap / associative management
- turned out after a few weeks I discovered he had lied and taken advantage of everyone around him (in several ways)
- got out of that shit
- had a surgery that both went super well and super bad (was physically quite though BUT the results were fine)
- got new flat and had to deal with a moving while I wasn't recovered yet. They changed dates for the worst and I couldn't do anything about it. I also had no help when I was at my worst, only got a little afterwards (and I'm thankful for it)
- massive amount of administrative crap to deal followed, as a matter of fact, still have some to do but can't be bothered with it anymore
- can't bear anymore noisy "flatmate". Seriously. Coming home to Youtube blasting(yes, BLASTING.) complotist crap is something I shouldn't have to deal with.
- have to deal with yet another big project at work while being all alone on something I hate doing (character animation). While I was happy to have gotten rid of a project with animation.
I'm surely forgetting stuff.
Right now I'm trying to see clear through what I have to do next, but I also realize having constant stuff coming in my face kind of broke my nerves and I feel like I can't relax anymore. Free time feels like time during which I should be dealing with stuff, and is therefore stressful. Maybe spending that time sketching will be a nice start.
Gallery sorting and mid-year news
NEWS
Took me about time, but, as promised, some news. About the gallery : that's it, I'm done tidying. I've gathered Les Carnets (old project) and Maniacity in a single "personnal projects" folder since, Les Carnets is a dead project but with interesting visuals, that I should still be able to exploit as ambiances in single illustrations, and Maniacity just isn't ready yet. Which shouldn't prevent me from submitting illustrations and informations on that thing once in a while. I haven't deleted anything, only put as "Featured" what could be used as a Portfolio, and put what's left in general categories:
- All the Fanarts have been gathered instead of having several thematics, as I had maximum 5 or 6 illustration on each fandom (Borderlands, Dofus, Requiem Vampire Knight...)
- All the personnal projects have been gathered (Les Carnets, Hardtech, Maniacity/previously Lubicity).
- What's left are "Memes", "Inktober 2016" and "Balthazarn" (in other words my avatar) because it wasn't classifiable.
Also considering putting my TumblR back in place since I quite liked the community over there, but I'll have to post back some stuff oh oh oh....
J'ai mis le temps, mais comme prévu, des news.Concernant la galerie : ça y est c'est trié. J'ai rassemblé Les Carnets et Maniacity dans un seul dossier "personnal projects" puisque, Les Carnets est un projet mort mais avec des visuels sympas, que je pourrais éventuellement encore exploiter en terme d'ambiances en illustrations seules, et Maniacity est encore dans les cartons. Ce qui n'empêche pas de sortir des illustrations et des informations sur le machin de temps en temps. Pour le reste, je n'ai rien supprimé, juste mis en "Feature" ce qui pourrait servir de Portfolio, et catégorisé le reste de façon plus générale :
- Tous les Fanarts ont été rassemblés au lieu d'avoir chacun leur dossier, vu qu'au maximum j'avais 5/6 illustration par thème (Borderlands, Dofus, Requiem Chevalier Vampire...).
- Tous les projets personnels ont été rassemblés (Les Carnets, Hardtech, Maniacity/Ex-Lubicity).
- Il reste "Memes", "Inktober 2016" et "Balthazarn" (enfin mon avat' quoi) parce que c'était inclassable.
Je considère aussi remettre mon TumblR en état vu que malgré tout le côté communautaire est encore celui qui me plaît le mieux, mais va falloir que je reposte des trucs oh oh oh...
SLOTS
1.
Fizââk for Fizaak-Zikkey (colour fullbody / simple bckgrd - traditional) - PAID - DONE2.
Ford and Bill for Sam-Ryyuzaki (x2 ink busts, detailed background) - PENDING Eclipse
NEWS
So, I've seen this Eclipse advertisement from DeviantART. While I'm liking both the ad itself (okay, they made it with pretty colors and I just love pretty colors. Bear with me guys I'm addict and there's no cure except more colors), and the concept, as it would mean I no longer need to seek to make a dedicated portfolio... well, it also annoys me a bit. I've got pretty much old pieces over here, full of imperfections, that I would not like to see in a portfolio. But I still somehow like them. I was kind of wondering if it would be interesting to make a "draw this again" for the ones of them I like the most? Your point guys? Waste of time or worth showing the evolution?
There's also this issue of my content that's "exclusive" to TumblR. Too much posting here would spam the hell out of you, hence why I posted my Inktober over there only. But perfect for that timeline-thinking that's peculiar to TumblR (also Facebook and Twitter but that's another issue).
On the same matter, I've started reorganizing my gallery over here. My main issue was that I was trying to organize in a very scholar matter : characters/environment or technics. However I tend to change technics regularly, I rarely make illustrations for themselves (it happens though), only thing is common is usually a project/universe, be it fanart or original.
Will probably post a journal when all is clear and defined there!
Donc, j'ai vu cette publicité Eclipse de la part de DeviantART.Bien que j'aime la pub en elle-même (y'a des jolies couleurs et j'aime les jolies couleurs. Oui, je suis accroc aux couleurs et y'a pas d'autres solutions que d'autres couleurs), et aussi le concept, puisque ça voudrait dire que je n'ai plus besoin de chercher à faire un Portfolio dédié... heh ben ça m'ennuie un peu. J'ai de vieilles illus par ici, pleines de défauts, que je mettrais pas dans un portfolio. Mais je les aime bien quand même. Je me demandais donc si ce serait intéressant de faire un "draw this again" des pièces que je préfère ? Votre avis ? Perte de temps ou bien ça vaut le coup de voir l'évolution ?
Il y a aussi ce souci de mon contenu "exclusif" à TumblR. Poster trop ici ferait pas mal de spam dans les flux de notifications, c'est pourquoi j'ai uniquement mis mon Inktober par là-bas. Mais c'est just parfait pour le côté logique de timeline qui est particulier à TumblR (et Facebook et Twitter mais c'est un autre souci).
Sur le même sujet, j'ai commencé à réorganiser ma galerie par ici. Mon problème principal étant que je tentais d'organiser de manière assez scolaire : personnages/décors ou techniques. Toutefois je change régulièrement de techniques, je fais rarement d'illustrations isolées (même si ça arrive), le seul truc en commun à mes travaux est bien souvent une thématique ou un univers, que ce soit du fanart ou de l'original.
JE posterais probablement un journal quand tout sera propre et bien défini !
SLOTS
Commissions - Prices, status, everything
1.
Fizââk for Fizaak-Zikkey (colour fullbody / simple bckgrd - traditional) - PAID - 75% finishing and polishing. 2.
Ford and Bill for Sam-Ryyuzaki (x2 ink busts, detailed background) - PENDING Inktober finished soon
NEWS
Little update, comissions aren't stopped at all. My first comisionner isn't in a hurry, so I've been able to make an Inktober duet with Nyarlah (sorry, their DeviantART is mostly inactive, you'll have to check their TumblR to have a look at their artwork).
I'm a day late but Inktober is soon finished, we made it in the shape of a classic 32 cards game, with the benefits of both forcing us to design characters that haven't been designed yet, and put down a little presentation for each of them. I know it is less than the little sceneries made with alcohol markers I can sometimes provide, but it's still a good thing. I'm sure you'd muuuuch rather getting webcomic pages but I'm not at it yet, at least on my side.
You can view the result here, it's only missing Ace of Clovers (will be posted this evening), Ace of Spades and Ace of Hearts. A later, full version will be provided with a few corrections.
Totally out of topic question : I don't translate anymore my journals and everything, I'm unsure of how many French readers I have on my networks. By default I only write in English, please comment down here if you miss my translations.
P.S. : My commissions aaare still opened and I'll be free again to work on them by next week. If you miss me posting Borderlands busts, I'd be more than happy to get back at them in the shape of commishes.
I offer the same exact format than artworks already posted but at a lesser price than they'd normally cost. Contact me if interested :v
SLOTS
Commissions - Prices, status, everything
1.
Fizââk for Fizaak-Zikkey (colour fullbody / simple bckgrd - traditional) - PAID - 50% coloured. 2.
Ford and Bill for Sam-Ryyuzaki (x2 ink busts, detailed background) - PENDING About that ''hole'' to fill...
NEWS
Told you I'd be back soon.
As said on TumblR for those following me there, I'm opening commissions.
General informations can be found here : Commissions - Prices, status, everything
Although these are "normal" prices, I'm mainly opening them due to a big fat money loss into veterinarian costs.
I also have a Ko-Fi and WILL give you a sketch for every two Ko-fi.
Many big fat thanks (yes, even if you're only reading this so far).
SLOTS
1.
Fizââk for Fizaak-Zikkey (coloured fullbody, simple background) - PAID - Second inking done. 2.
Ford and Bill for Sam-Ryyuzaki (x2 ink busts, detailed background) - PENDING