It took awhile but I finally finished the Billiard boys designs!

This reimagining has been really fun to work on, I feel really positively about it. The next step I guess is figuring out what to do now, but I guess that will come in time.

Here's everything I've worked on all in one place, all the art, bios, explanations, etc.

https://imgur.com/gallery/SJg7sUz

In between working on the billiard boys' design cutouts, I've been taking breaks to just sketch and fiddle with some random stuff. Think after I'm done with the designs I wanna do some practice animations, just feels like it'd be fun even if they would probably turn out kinda crappy.

Think i'm just going to be drawing for fun for awhile, wanna work on some stuff for our dnd game. Currently making translucent full body character images that i can turn into 2d minis. Also been enjoying doing dramatic shading in my art so i think I might make a few full pieces utilizing that. Idk, ramble ramble an all that

I really didn't want to come to this conclusion, but it's time to face it, I bit off more than I could chew when it came to Atrona. I overachieved, like I always do, and wanted to make something big and amazing for my first comic, but I'm just not capable.

The comic has become a huge source of stress for me, to the point where I find it hard to find any motivation to draw at all. I've struggled with these feelings for over two years, but trying to do a big project like a consistent comic only made me feel more jaded oppose to better.

I want to tell the story of Atrona Robota, but I'm cancelling it, at least for the time being. I will tell it eventually, but first I want to grow as an artist and figure my self out mentally.

I'm going to get back to just drawing whatever I want and have fun with it, maybe do a few small comics and animations for practice but nothing I have to commit fully to. One thing I've wanted to do for a long time is do a few comics with my dnd group, but have always backed off out of fear because all dnd has a bit of plagiarism in it, and I don't want to seem like an uncreative artist.

But I want to get over that because I love our characters and just wanna do stuff with them, even if it comes down to the stories being borderline fanfiction, I'll fully acknowledge that.

In all, this sloppy rant was basically to say I just want to go back to being a normal artist, instead of trying to bind myself to 1 project. Even if I don't have a following, I still feel guilt for stretching this out so long like i'll get back to it soon. I want to better myself and I want to be happy.

Still practicing and working on my artstyle cause I still don't like it

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Been working on my artstyle a bit because being unhappy with it is generally what makes it hard for me to work, so I took a step back and took the time to learn and practice.

Anyway I did a full head rotation and up and down view to kind of get a better understanding of the layouts of a face and head (Only just fuckin learned that the nose goes above the jaw line, shit you learn after years of drawing)

Also did this so I could figure out hair for characters like Krono, cause I generally like having the hair stay the same shape and to point to where the character is looking, even if that isn't accurate to how it should be. Problem was I had no idea how to draw his hair from certain angles, so this helped me figure it out and also figure out when exactly to flip its direction.

Sorry if this was a bit of a rant, but just wanted to explain wtf I was actually doing. It's been a bit hard to feel motivated these passed couple months, this whole year honestly. The fact that I probably could have had the chapter 0 of Atrona done by this time if I really cracked down on myself, but I've only gotten 6 pages done has only made it harder.

But I'm doing good, and I'm feeling ok for however long that lasts. Really the only thing I'm worried about is how awkward the next page will look where midway through there'll be a jump in quality lol.

Anyway here's the head rotations, wasn't going to post them anywhere official so this is the best I can do. Some angles with the hair looks a bit odd, but after days of constantly redoing work I felt this is what looked the best in an artstyle context. Besides in fast paced animation and still frames it shouldn't be too noticeable.

So I went back and edited the links to each page to make it less clunky. I also finally linked them to the main Webmancer site/Chapter select because at this point it's on the same quality as its version hosted on Tumblr. Now when you select a chapter of the comic it will give you the option to choose to send you to Tumblr or Newgrounds.

I also went back and changed all the page ratings to T, because even if the specific page doesn't contain material labeled under T, that is still the accurate rating for the comic as a whole.

As a side note I am slowly getting back into working on art, just finishing up some personal commissions from some friends at the moment. New pages of Atrona Robota will be coming out, as well as some other projects, so I look forward to that. :>

So I've been gone awhile, I've been dealing with a lot and honestly just didn't want to post anything I made out of insecurity. Blah blah blah that's not what we're hear to talk about, point is I've still been drawing a lot.

I've mostly been doing a ton of stuff for my wifes dnd game, which only her and our friends have seen. Aside from digital art, I've also been experimenting with making 2d minis and custom spell cards, and other crappy craft stuff that I won't really post.

I've made a ton of digital art too but most of it probably won't see the light of day because they're lower quality than I should post or I personally don't want to. The stuff I do post still won't be fantastic, but it's there and I had fun with it, I'll post if over a series of a couple days cause there's a lot.

Atrona Robota can now be viewed how intended both on newgrounds and tumblr now instead of just the latter! I was worried of it lowering the quality or slowing things down because i had some trouble with it at first, but now the pages are fully animated. So I hope people will be able to enjoy the comic more now without having to jump through hoops :>

Sorry if the next page of Atrona is taking a bit, i'm kind of learning along the way with how to do backgrounds and perspective has always been a bit hard for me. I think it's coming out ok just kinda a process.