Planning for stories and stuff.
Word, dawg.

note: this intro hasn't been thoroughly updated in a couple years

This is a world I made mostly for my own use, but I made it a public world anyways. I'll be posting things about story outlines, my characters, my comics (including fan comics), WIPs, ect... It's pretty much a world where I can store information and/or plan things. xD

Below are short descriptions of my stories to help you know what's going on. xD It also shows which characters are in which story, along with their extended profile if I have one made. Some stories aren't mentioned because I don't work on/think about them often. Therefore, not all of my characters are mentioned.

STORIES

The link leads to the fan comic in my portfolio. If there isn't a link, there isn't a comic yet.

ORIGINAL STORIES
*Rock Band: Something Impossible: The story of a Rock Band and their adventures in music business.
Major Characters: Michka, Zack, Loyal, Dare, Rick
Important/Frequently Mentioned Supporting Characters: Damian, Tim, Dare's Aunt aka Auntie

*Of Fruits and Vegetables: 4-panel comics of the life of a 21-year-old model and his friends/workmates.
Major Characters: Tomato, Stefan, Tomato's Boyfriend aka "TB", Gabe, Janet aka Jo, Kasey, Dean
Important Supporting Characters: Danny, Leah, Mick

*Dreams: The story of a rich and pampered English boy who gets transported to the mysterious town of Dreams, and his adventures there.
Major Characters: Alcott, Luli, Ms. Marigold
Important Supporting Characters: Shinitsu, Annabelle, and others that are to be decided.
**Annabelle's and Ms. Marigold's profiles are in the same post.**
Story Dialogues: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1

*My Dear Princess: The story of an orphan child, a princess, and friends who's home country's peace is threataned by the evil prince of a country that was thought to be nonexistant. (CONFUSING. xD)
Major Characters: Isaac, Charlotte, Rinchu, Segran, Lucia, Nicholay, Faida, Hrafn, Falorin, Gaelnis
Important Supporting Characters: To be decided.

*Foreigner: An alien boy sent to Earth to destroy the human race finds himself in Los Angeles California, befriends a human girl, and gets involved in crazy advetures.
Major Characters: Kor, Gliding Eagle
Important Supporting Characters: Michelle, Dailen

*A Life Like This: A written story in the perspectives of Dare, Tim, and Rick.
Major Characters: Tim, Dare, Rick, Ms. Ackart
Important Supporting Characters: See characters for Rock Band: Something Impossible.
Chapters: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten

*Teach Me Something Good: A story about a friendship between a student and a teacher. Somewhat of a spin-off of Of Fruits and Vegetables.
Major Characters: Noland, Chrystal
Important Supporting Characters: Prudence), Stefan (briefly)

*I Was a Boy, Too: A short 3-part story about Gabe when he was in high school. Optional backstory related to Of Fruits and Vegetables.
Major Characters: Gabe, William
Important Supporting Characters: DJ, Dave
Parts: One

*Nerdy and Jock: So there's this nerd, and this jock, and also they're boyfriends. That's it.
Major Characters: Jack, Ned
Important supporting characters: Matthew Brodney III, Dmitri, Charlotte, Jessica Marron, Lafayette, Brodney's girlfriend who doesn't have a name yet;;;

FAN STORIES
*The Adventures of Marth and Roy: Super Smash Brothers fan comic. Title is pretty self-explanitory.
Major Characters: Marth, Roy, Ike, Pit

I don't have a name for his story, but Jamal is a Kingdom Hearts fan character. I figured I'd mention him because I draw him often enough.

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Also, if you want to find posts that feature a specific character, type in the URL http://theotaku.com/worlds/variousinformation/tags/[character name]. For example, http://theotaku.com/worlds/variousinformation/tags/dare will bring you to posts about Dare. :)

Enjoy Your Stay at Various Planning!

Process: RB:SI, Ch. 1, pg. 1

Because I was bored, I decided to make a step-by-step process of how I do comic pages. 8D This is the first page of the first chapter of my comic Rock Band: Something Impossible So... Here we go! xD;

This is the preliminary sketch. It's used as a guide for panel placement and speech bubble placement. It's also use it so I know how to place the people in the panels. :D

After the pre-sketch, I sketch the page on a 8 1/2" by 11" paper, using the pre-sketch as a guide. I change the poses and stuff as I see fit. I haven't added the dialouge in yet, either.
I write down the dialouge in a book so I can change and edit the dialouge as much as I need to. :D

Next is the line art, where I ink over top of the previous sketch. The line art always looks worse than the sketch. ;A;
Oh, and I also write the dialouge onto the page.

Finally, I shade. THIS IS THE MOST BORING PART. DX I hate doing it because it takes so long and it looks weird... and... ;A; Yeah.
Then I scan the shaded page, add in the text, and it's READY FOR UPLOADING! :D

Fun times.
I won't be submitting this page to my comic until I make the chapter splash page. D:

Page Draft: RB:SI, Ch. 1, pg. 1

What up with the title, yo? (??)
It means Page Draft: Rock Band: Something Impossible, Chapter 1, page 1.
So this post will have a draft of the next page in my Rock Band comic! :D

I actually have this page sketched out already, but my style has changed so much that I don't want to use it anymore. ;3; So I'm re-doing all the chapter 1 pages I have. (Three, I think.)

Anyways, here's the draft.

You: ???!??!?!?!?? WHAT IS THIS MESS.

Like I said, this is the draft. xD; I mostly use it for paneling and camera views (which I'm not very good at. xD;) I don't draw on top of this one, I re-sketch it. o3o

The people on this page are Rick and Dare, and Michka in the last panel.
Basically, here's what's going on...

Rick: DARE, YOU'RE SO COOL THE BAND PEOPLE THINK YOU'RE COOL. :D
Dare: SHUT YOUR FACE, RICK. WHY'D YOU TALK ME INTO TRYING OUT FOR THEIR BAND.
I'M TO BUSY WITH SCHOOL TO BE IN A BAND. AND THEY'RE WEIRD, LIKE, ONE OF THEM HAS AN EYEPATCH. D:<
Rick: AN EYEPATCH?1?!??!?!?
Dare: YEAH.
Rick: AND ROLLERSKATES???!
Dare: WHATCHOO TALKIN' 'BOUT, FOO? D:
Rick: ROLLERSKATES!!1!11
Michka: *Is coming towars them on roller skates*
Dare: HOLY-- D:

Yeah. xD;;;
I'LL DRAW AND INK AND SHADE THE REAL THING SOON! :D

Concept Sketches: Kasey and Dean

Some more character planning/refrences/sketches/something or other. :D
This is the last of Tomato's hair-and-makeup crew. There are other people who do his hair and stuff when he's modeling, but they don't usually stay constant. o3o
Anyways, this is Kasey (left) and Dean (right). More mini profiles:

Name: Kasey
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Height: 5'6
Special Talent: Make-up
Hobbies: Reading magazines, make-up, hanging out with Jo
Likes: Pop-culture magazines
Dislikes: Haughty people
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Love Intrest: any "hot" guy.
Personality: Gossip-y, bubbly

She's Jo's girlfriend and does Tomato's make-up. She's into pop-culture and is up-to-date on the latest gossip. She loves to gossip. xD; It says in her profile that she dislikes haughty people, and you may be thinking "Isn't Tomato haughty?"
Well... Tomato is nice and up-beat, so she likes him. :D

Name: Dean Johnson
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Height: 5'8
Special Talent: Hair styling, make-up, following orders
Hobbies: Doing whatever Gabe, Jo, Kasey, Tomato, or Stefan tell him to do. (Not really a hobby, but...)
Likes: Leah
Dislikes: Mick
Sexual Orientation: heterosexual
Love Intrest: Leah
Personality: Submissive

This is actually my friend's character! :D Kinda. She drew him in a picture (along with a girl and another guy), and I named him Dean and gave him a personality. She said I could use him. :)
Anyways, Dean is the hairstyling assistant/make-up assistant/wardrobe supervisor for Tomato. Baisically, he gets all the grunt work. xD; He's also the youngest... he's FRESH OUTTA COLLEGE. :D
He's a super pushover, and HAS NO BACKBONE. (not literally.)
People boss him around a lot.
He has a crush on a girl named Leah, but Leah has a boyfriend.

WIP: Tim goes to NYAF! :D

HEY HEY! I got a sharpener. ;D And I can color again! ;w;
Although, I used my freaky scanner for this picture. It likes to scan REALLY bright, so I usually only use it for sketches, line art, or marker pictures. xD; When I finish the picture, I'll use the other scanner...
But um...
Yeah! Here's Tim. This would've been my NYAF mascot, but it's super boring so I probably wouldn't have won anyways. And it's not halloween themed and stuff.
So now it's just Tim in NYC for the New York Anime Festival because he's such an anime nerd.This is what my line art looks like when I actually try. Usually I'm way to lazy and simply just trace over the sketch... Sorry. xD;
I think I developed a different colored pencil coloring style after my "Thank You" picture. xD;

I need to do a new character profile of Tim. I've given him some time to develop, and I think he's become more of a round character in my mind. :) He has a reletively boring story, though. >_>
But anyways, yeah, I'll be doing a character profile of him soon.

Concept drawings and stuff: Gabe, Jo, and Tomato's Boyfriend

Some character planning/refrences/sketches/something or other. xD;
On the top-left, there's Gabe. On the top-right, there's his sister Jo. The colored picture is of Tomato's Boyfriend. (Look at that ugly camera. xD;) Here's some mini profiles, I guess...

Name: Gabriel
Nicknames: Gabe
Age: Um... 25-27?
Gender: Male
Height: Around 6'2
Special Talent: Hairstylist
Hobbies: Hairstyling, teasing Stefan (Tomato's manager)
Likes: I dunno yet. xD;
Dislikes: I dunno yet. xD;; He's not meant to be a very round character.
Sexual Orientation: Homosexual
Love Intrest: I'm not entirely sure yet...

He does Tomato's hair. xD;; He appears in the comic, so... yeah. He likes to tease Stefan. o3o

Name: Janet
Nicknames: Jo
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Height: 5'5
Special Talent: Make-up
Hobbies: Make-up...ing...?
Likes: I know even less than before.
Dislikes: Her character is even flatter than Gabe right now. xD;
Sexual Orientation: Homosexual
Love Intrest: Her make-up partner who doesn't have a design yet.

She's Gabe's younger sister. She does Tomato's make-up. People call her Jo for unknown reasons. :D

Name: Unknown
Nicknames (?): Tomato's Boyfriend
Age: 20-21 ish
Gender: Male
Height: 6'1?
Special Talent: Photography, drawing (?)
Hobbies: Hanging out with the people at the modeling agency, taking pictures, going to the museum
Likes: Good pictures and stuff...? I dunno. ._.
Dislikes: Tomato's Manager
Sexual Orientation: Homosexual
Personality: easygoing, kinda boring... AVERAGE. D: He has the personality of a log. Like, that's his personality. xD But he can act lovey-dovey around Tomato when he feels like it.
Love Intrest: Tomato

HE IS TOMATO'S BOYFRIEND AND HE IS BORING.
Everyone: But he doesn't look gay. D:
I know. I know. But that's secretly the point.
Anyways... yeah. He's boring. However, he understands Tomato's way of thinking and they both surprisingly get along well. He doesn't like Stefan because Stefan is mean to him. :<
....but secretly, Stefan is just jealous. OHH.
Er. xD;