Hello again

Hello again,
So in my last post, I explain about me being on bed rest...so that's what I did, I didn't do any drawing. Ugh, so yeah no progress. It's a bummer really, even when I did try to sit down and draw, I feel absolutely awful, my heart would race and it would be hard to breathe and I try getting up and do some walking or drinking water but it doesn't calm it down. I had this heart thing thru out my pregnancy, and my doctor sends me to a heart doctor but for some reason, it didn't happen until recently.

The heart doctor, a cardiologist, says what I have is nothing.

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OH! Great!!

It just likes to pump extra while I'm under stress, A.K.A being pregnant. That's so good to know, I will continue having this heart issue that makes me feel like I'm going to die until my baby is born, which could be any day now. So I honestly don't know when I'll get back to my book, I still want to try working on it.

I have nothing to show this time...well I guess I'll show what I was planning on selling with my friend, I don't know if I will still cause this baby is keeping me doing things and when she is born I still can't do much, I just know it.

Hmm, I just realize I might have spelled Princesses wrong, haha, but this is another book that I hope for someday to create, it's a magical girl one, these five girls are star princesses from the stars. They ended up on earth when they were just babies and the reason is that they are in danger. The moon queen wants their powers, and that's all I say about it.

This is just a little girl in a blanket, the original drawing is just pencil and I did it when I was like 13 years old, I found it in my old drawings folder and wanted to recreate it. Isn't she cute?  

Mission complete

Yes, I did it, I manage to do five whole pages this week. And that was hard. I don’t know if I’m able to do another goal of five this coming up week but I at least want to do three. The reason is that I went to the emergency room today for my health problems, my baby is fine it’s just me, so I’m on bed rest (not strict, just can’t do much) I might. E having this baby sooner than I think, my goal was to have this baby at least 37-38 weeks, but it might be 35-36 weeks. I’m at 33 weeks right now and it’s kicking my butt.

I’m going to post three of the pages that I worked on this week I hope it looks good.

This car was hand drawn, and it was really hard. It looks ok not the best but that's the best I can do. 

I feel accomplish already

Hey so it's Wednesday (well as for right now it's Wednesday) and I feel really good. But I did receive bad news about the con thing that I was talking about in my last post, unfortunately, my friend found out that we couldn't do it...and yeah it's disappointing for did manage to figure out what pictures I was going to do and was doing them, and when I found that out I had to stop. But she likes the idea of trying to sell our art at a store nearby her, I supported her and told her I can still do that if she likes, so I don't know if it will happen but I finished the pictures that I'm going do.

And I manage to finish three pages of my book already. Three pages already and it's only Wednesday, I can do two more pages or even more if I wanted too by the end of the week! Well hopefully, let's not jinx myself.

I did do another short comic of The Intriguing Life of Nonny Whitney and Tutu, it's on my facebook page called K Productions, but I'll put it here too.

I have also worked on something else this week, I'm on this website called Threadless...I'm trying it out, it's a T-shirt company that you can put your own design on their T-shirts and such, can get money too if you make a sell but you also have to make your shop if you do that. I haven't made a shop yet but I've been doing design challenges that they do and the one challenge was for St. Baldricks Foundations, a charity for children that have cancer. I wanted to do one but sadly it got declined...for reason, I don't understand it could be because my design is complicated but I really like it. Or maybe I don't understand how to submit a design properly. If you guys are reading this and know about Threadless let me know how it's going for you for I'm still learning what it is.

This is what I did...I did remove some stuff like the St. Baldricks logo, but the main story is this, I just love the wings and the bald child, the bald kid could be the one that has cancer and the wings is suppose to represent faith or hope, hope that he or she can beat this cancer. It's super pretty to me and maybe that's not what they were looking for their T-shirts, I don't know, but I hope it was ok to share this I don't want any contention I just want to show you what I did and sad that it didn't make it. 

But besides that, I'm doing my goals pretty darn good so far, and it's making me so happy. But I am spending time with my family, I make sure of that, I don't neglect my child during the day I take her to the park, and such. It's nice to get a break from drawing, but at the same time, all I think about is drawing.

My week so far

Hey, so it's been about a week since my last post I think, and so far I have only done three pages for Sweet and Sour. Ha, didn't make it to five but was pretty close right? I feel like I spend a lot of time on my computer working on it, especially at night, at nine thirty I put my little one to sleep, and then I get ready for bed but I don't go to bed yet, I stay up till 11:30 or midnight working  on my computer. I did that every day this week and yet I only manage to do three pages.

I have been working on other things, my friend Beth (we will call her Beth) has been asking to go to this con thing (it's like the comic con but not, I can't remember what it is called) and she asked me to come with her and sell some art. So I've been trying to color at least two pictures to take with me to this con and hopefully sell them. I'll only make like ten copies each and they will be a dollar each. But the thing is...I still don't know what two pictures I'm going to do!! I've been brainstorming and drawing different sketches of random stuff or even from my story Sweet and Sour. I just don't know.

Luckily this con thing won't be until August. I am excited to go even though I know I'm not popular or anything or probably won't sell anything, it just sounds exciting. Hopefully, my hubby can handle a toddler while I go do this for one day, he is good with her but will she be good for him. She is such a mommy girl.


This coming up week I want to set my goal to do at least five pages of my book, work on one funny comic, and figure out what two pictures I'm going do for the con thing in August. I got time so it's not super important if I don't get it this week.

This is one of the three pages I got done this week, you have to admit I did a good job at that car...I was not looking forward to that car, it's hard to draw a car and I have to draw this car at least five more times, ugh, not looking forward to it. 

Where I started Drawing

Hey, so this post I want to talk about why I like drawing comics, manga, whatever. I have always like drawing growing up, I always liked drawing them even if I wasn't any good, I enjoyed making stories in stick figures. They didn't make sense, but I like doing it.

I never liked reading, my sisters did and for some reason, I never got into it, not until I read a manga, my first book was Fruit Basket, and the reason I loved it it was because it wasn't just worded, nor kid pictures or comic superhero pictures, it was pictured! Pictures that looked so easy to draw, just the way they did their noses looked so easy. I was so into it. I got really into it. I started watching anime like all the time and started drawing it, I was terrible at first but I did improve.

I did have a group of friends who also liked anime like crazy, I have learned a lot from them, but what I didn't like about them is that one of them would always tell me how bad I was at drawing anime. It made me so upset each time, cause, in reality, she wasn't that good at it either but I didn't tell her that. So I constantly had a notebook or a sketchbook in my hand and constantly be drawing. Classroom, bedroom, living room, dining room, movie theater, church, on a bus, and anywhere outside. Wherever I went the sketchbook and number two pencil was with me. My Sketchbook was practically my folder for school, I would put all of my assignments and homework in it, I rather draw than do family activities which drove my parents crazy about that, also some teachers I had they always made me put it away but I just rather draw than do stuff or learn history. It's something I love doing, I had to limit myself eventually cause family is important, and especially now cause I have a loving husband and a toddler and another one on the way.

There was a downhill for me, when I went to my mission for my church I was gone for 18 months in Kansas (I'm from Utah) and we weren't really allowed to do the stuff we use to, but as stressful it was I still had my drawing skills to help me. Each time I wrote a letter home to my family (For we weren't allowed to talk to our families as we were gone on our missions) I would draw funny comics about my mission instead of writing it. But what was downhill for me is when I came back home from my mission, I try to draw again and for some reason, I didn't have that burning passion for it like I use too. I don't know why but I had a break from drawing. I found a man, got married, and I had a lot of time to myself being alone in an apartment with my husband, but I couldn't bring myself to draw. I had to find a job and work making money. I felt lost, I wasn't sure why I like drawing so much and why I wanted to draw in the first place. I wanted to publish my work but didn't know how I felt it wasn't going to happen so I gave up.

Well, not too worry I got my burning passion again when my best friend (we will call her Beth) got to publish her story. I was the one that introduces her into anime and manga and drawing them, she was hooked with me and we would talk about our stories together and shared them together and such, well she worked hard and was able to find a publisher that was willing to work with her. She helps me get back to drawing my stories, I want to share them, they are fun and clean to read.

So I am still far away from finishing my first volume of Sweet and Sour, but I hope this blog will help me push through it and get it done.

I just did a comic of The Intriguing Life of Nonny Whitney and Tutu on facebook, you can find it on my facebook page called K Productions, but I will post it here as well something to laugh about. The comic is something that happens to me just recently, the comic isn't necessarily true but it's base by a true story.

My Goals

So, in this post, I'm going to tell about my goals for right now.

I want to publish a book call Sweet and Sour, I have created a lot of books, (Flower in the Dust, Moon Princess, Gaining Altitude, 8 Years, Lost Fairy, 5 Star Princesses, Legendary of Moon Princess, and more), but I'm choosing to do Sweet and Sour is because it's a small story probably only two books series for it but we will see. It's my test book, we will see how well I'll do.

I want to do at least five pages a week, and that is hard to do, especially when your pregnant and taking care a toddler and all you want to do is sleep, but I do the best as I can.

I talked a little about Sweet and Sour in my first post, and it’s my second story I have ever thought of, but it came to a long way, the story is a lot different now than it originally was. My younger sister has helped me thought of it, I have noticed it's a lot more fun doing it with someone, and my sisters are the best at it. It was my younger sister that helped me, when I was like 13-14 years old we were into an anime that had a lot of twins. Like a boy was finding twins in this town and that's all I remember and we thought that's cool, just the twin part and decided to do a story about twins. that's where it started anyway, I was into angels at the time and just made up a story about twins who are angels but one gets stuck on earth with her memories erased. That where it started, and I drew it in a notebook, not a sketchbook yet.

Here are some samples of my first attempt at drawing Sweet and Sour. It's not good, I was like thirteen turning fourteen when I started this project.

My first attempt to make a comic/manga, it's very poorly done. You can't tell what's going on.

This scene is supposed to be a prom night so she is wearing a nice gown, sadly I didn't come up with the dress, credit goes to my cousin.

Oh man, the first corner picture is so hard to tell what it is, it's a little embarrassing. 

This has to be the dumbest thing I've done on this page, I know your probably wondering what the heck is going on but in this scene its suppose to be a letter from the twin sister who is up on top and she is an angel, so sending a letter to the police is suppose to be "ok" to let them know that she is going to steal an item, this way is innocent not being a thief, its so dumb.

That ball is not a ball or a bubble, it's a crystal ball that holds memories she has to collect them for her twin sister. But the way she is holding it in this picture just makes me cringe. 

Oh boy, look at his arms and stomach it just sad.

This was the notebook I used, very old and worn and just sad.

Sure it's fun to look through old drawings, but I you have to understand, back then I thought I'll get this book to publish, from this notebook! Uhg!! No, this was a good practice and now we are going to do it again with a better system I have.

I'm on page 19 as for now, I don't want to show my work but will show maybe one page, just to show how much better I have gotten over the years.

This is the twins, Joy, and Lark. See how much better it looks, I have improved. 

Plus my coloring has improved, it's still under the process but I have gotten the idea of how to color. I never like coloring at first, it just wasn't my thing so now it's ok.

I don't really like the background, but honestly, it was like the first picture I tried to attempt to color and had no idea how to do backgrounds, particularly this one I just had no ideas for the background. 

Ok, I'm going to end this post right here, I hope to see these pictures don't make you throw up or anything like that. Doing one page a page is really hard so we will see.