Hello and welcome to Keba's Anime and Manga Place (KAAMP for short)! Here at KAAMP, I write about anime and manga that I have seen/read as well as my views on them. I'll also post about my original stories from time to time.
Just beware that some of my posts contain spoilers. I'll put them in spoiler tags just in case.
KAAMP's history: KAAMP was created in July 2002 by yours truly. It was a sloppy-looking website on Yahoo's now defunct Geocities. I posted my anime fan art on that site. Also, for a time, I posted my thoughts on the few anime series that I had seen. Now that I look back on it, my thoughts were rather ill-informed (is that even a word?) because I had only seen bits and pieces of anime dubs. Now that I've seen more series, I think that my commentary on various anime will be a little better than before.
So, come on in and stay awhile! KAAMP is now in session.
And I don't mean the building kind.
I've just been having trouble coming up with ideas. I want to draw characters, but I have no idea what they should be doing. I haven't written anything in ages. Heck, I don't even feel like posting last year's sketches or my Survival Instincts draft. Is "posting block" a thing?
There is some good news. I set up an account on Picarto. After a lot of frustration, I got it to work. If I can do a livestream on Tuesday, I will. It'll be for those Challenge prizes that should have been finished by now. I haven't even sketched the third one. But the first two are sketched. Hopefully, that will help me with my various blocks. Maybe.
OK, so I want to enter this contest. I even have a picture. The picture may or may not be done. What I mean by that is that I have no clue whether it's good enough. I thought it was winning material until I saw this one picture by someone roughly half my age who had madd skillz.
I realize there's only so much I can do right now as far as technique is concerned. I'd like a second opinion (and a third, and a fourth) as to what I could do better, but I don't know if I can actually make it better. At least not without scrapping a lot of my work.
Really, I don't know what I'm trying to say. I know I'm agonizing over this way too much. It's not like I'm super-invested with the contest. I know my chances of winning are slim. And even in the off chance that I win, what then? Do I lose the rights to my work? Will it end up in the hole that is DevantART, posted by 100 people that aren't me? Still, I want to enter, and I don't know why.
I saw the new Star Wars finally yesterday. I've been feeling all nostalgic ever since. When I was a kid, Star Wars sparked my imagination. It's what inspired me to create stories.
Now I've been thinking about all those old stories I created (OK, so I only linked to two pictures of the same character-- I don't have any others) and I want to do something with them. No, I'm not going to rewrite the stories. As much as I hate to say it, stories like Pwekeyes (my Star Wars ripoff) and Happiness (my Sailor Moon ripoff) are beyond help. I want to do some kind of weird sci-fi AU thing with all my OCs-- a six-way crossover, if you will. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
I promise I won't start anything until my three ongoing stories are compete. After all, I want to include characters from those series. Maybe by that time, I'll actually have a plot.
Dang, somebody help me.
Happy new year, everyone!
Now let's cut to the chase. If I made a Challenge about the songs that I write and give out those songs as prizes, would you enter?
Also, I'm going to work on my events World to turn it into that new thing.
Pretty short post is pretty short. Redundant me is redundant.
Livestream is up. The action might be slow because I have to clear junk off my scanner first. Join me!
Shout-out to Clue, Neilly, and TDE for stopping by. Thanks, guys!
What to expect if I stream tonight:
- Scanning/touching up my Sketch Marathon sketches
- Making that Sketch Marathon cover (I need input, people.)
What to expect if I finish all that (or if I stream tomorrow):
- The "ask us" fan comic pages
- The Naruto one-shot gag comic
- That T7DS pic that I've been working on forever
- LunaInverse's prize for winning my Challenge
- Maybe something new?
So who's gonna be around?
