Mitsuki - Art School Journey (+ Animations)

[mitsuki-youko]

Thanks @patrycja.lerch @catsforsnacks @Kaz_0 @brzechwajan583 @snakker @kohkeeree and @daceronine for stopping by!! always makes me happy to see your guys's comments!!

Did some hybrid creatures so far:

SICK BEATZZZ!!

Eyyy thanks so much!!

Fun stuff man. I'm not sure how deep you have delved into music theory, but if you're interested Michael New is a fantastic teacher. Really makes it easy to understand.

Thank you @catsforsnacks! I'll check his stuff out

Man, is there a way to post a link without taking up half of someone's forum? Haha. It just feels kinda rude - know what I mean?

Haha I dunno about that, i dont find it rude, its helpful i think Its also nice for putting youtube vids imo

Nice stuff ! I like the deep kick sound.

Thank you! out of all the sounds i make i think thats my fav, i use it in almost every beat! Currently working on a new full song and def putting a good amount in there

I find it really difficult to make something that's not a torture for ears

Haha thank you @brzechwajan583! btw have you tried watching The Negativeist's youtube vids? he has good tutorials!

I watched this:

Anima Audio

^ This channel is the rebranded ver of Jazen sounds which had GREAT tutorials!!

Jazen sound vital tuts
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL140suvrHW_ct0hk4iQed4T4RHTHkeQNl

That's also a pretty interesting format. Seems you kept track of the time. Did you do that on your own or any specific software?

I have a mac so theres a thing called screen time tho i doubt its accuracy sometimes LOL but seeing as i only track it roughly and for fun i simply check when my file was created and flip through the hours of app usage in screen time. that only works if i work on one thing at once, otherwise if im serious about it i'd use an excel sheet to be a bit more precise.

[kohkeeree]

ohh~ the second one is like a snake that lives in a hermit shell? That one looks fun

[gregorya]

I like your animal hybrid studies. That's an interesting tutorial.

[NosferatuJr]

Wooooowww Mitsuki, you ought to give lessons in discipline!! Hot damn, those animal studies look amazing! Keep up the amazing work like I know you will!

[mitsuki-youko]

Thank you @kohkeeree, @gregorya and @NosferatuJr

Wooooowww Mitsuki, you ought to give lessons in discipline!! Hot damn, those animal studies look amazing! Keep up the amazing work like I know you will!

HAHA thank you! TBH I need lessons in discipline cus i never follow my own schedule...

I could say ok after work and dinner and aside from getting ready for bed, from 6/7-11pm I should do the following:

1 hr music making
1 hr plotbuilding
1 hr drawing
1 hr learning hacking

and the minute i pick one, i use all 4 hrs on that LOL

I have a hard time switching from one thing to another and just want to keep working on that thing i picked til i finish it XD

That aside, recently my aunt who teaches at a college invited me to share my project at her school so i've been busy prepping for that as well as other things.

Made a poster for the event - figured i'd share it cus im pretty satisfied with how it looks:

most of the text on the poster was written by their staff but yea

Not sure if they'll end up using my ver of the poster but it is a nice thing to put on the graphic design section of my portfolio regardless

[gregorya]

I could say ok after work and dinner and aside from getting ready for bed, from 6/7-11pm I should do the following:

1 hr music making1 hr plotbuilding1 hr drawing1 hr learning hacking

That's pretty impressive. I like the poster as well.

[mitsuki-youko]

@gregorya Thanks!

Tho i almost never follow my own schedule

[brzechwajan583]

Really nice poster!

1 hr learning hacking

By this you mean like reverse engineering? Or hacking websites?
I'm just curious

[mitsuki-youko]

@brzechwajan583 Eyy thank you!

I mean ethical hacking - bought this course a while ago due to it being so detailed but because my love for my characters is more than my love for hacking (and cus i wanna publish my comic more than i wanna learn to hack LOL) I've kinda neglected this hobby because when i do get into it, and i follow some tuts many times i run into issues at every step that I have to troubleshoot - which - while is good experience, is a HUGE timesucker..

The bundle i purchased which i dont think they sell as a bundle anymore has these + a test to get a cert:

https://academy.tcm-sec.com/p/practical-ethical-hacking-the-complete-course
https://academy.tcm-sec.com/p/windows-privilege-escalation-for-beginners
https://academy.tcm-sec.com/p/linux-privilege-escalation
https://academy.tcm-sec.com/p/osint-fundamentals
https://academy.tcm-sec.com/p/external-pentest-playbook

These courses are amazing and taught way more than I could ever learn in my community college back when i took a basic ethical hacking class.. (tho ive not finished watching any of those, i got like 60% for the first one before i went back to drawing lol) I've always been interested since i discovered that ethical hacking was a thing and used to mess around a lot on my own like making usb boot kali linux's back when i first got into it (they dont teach u that in college LOL i had to google it and do it myself)

But these courses are the best thing ive ever come across and the most detailed.. im slowly trying to get back into it tho.. but yea takes time.. need to be more disciplined about splitting my time amongst my hobbies XD

[NosferatuJr]

Respecting your own schedule or no, dedicating 4 h to a passion per day even though work is involved, is no easy feat! It's all too easy to be like "yeah, I had a lot going on at work today, I'll just put my legs up and ease my mind watching TV for the rest of the night".

What you do is still called discipline. And, if you don't mind me throwing in my 2 cents, 1 h per day per project is not enough to "immerse" yourself in it. If you were to follow your own schedule, it could be quite devastating. I know you feel like you have all these "free" hours to dedicate to your several projects but, truthfully, every person needs a little time to "dive" into their project in order to be submersed enough to progress. If you keep switching projects every hour, it could be detrimental to their development... just saying. Dedicating 1 day per project might work... or, as you wrote, keeping up with one until it's finished and then resuming another. That could work too! What I'm trying to say is, don't overwork yourself - all great things take time Keep up the astounding work. You're headed some great places!

[NosferatuJr]

BTW the poster looks very cool!!! Your aunt is a true G for setting this up! I love it when family members see the potential in you and encourage it however they can.

[mitsuki-youko]

Respecting your own schedule or no, dedicating 4 h to a passion per day even though work is involved, is no easy feat! It's all too easy to be like "yeah, I had a lot going on at work today, I'll just put my legs up and ease my mind watching TV for the rest of the night".

haha i suppose that is true

What you do is still called discipline.

Awe thank you! I try ^u^

1 h per day per project is not enough to "immerse" yourself in it.

Thank you for your 2 cents

Completely agree - which is why i dont follow my own schedule most of the time lol i just pick one thing to do for those 4 hrs.. maybe 2 things.. but sometimes when im kinda in a chill mode and NOT trying to FINISH something (a song, plotbuilding, a drawing) or i dont mind half assing it and doing it just for the fun of it i might do one thing every hr or even 30 mins..

Life is unpredictable and personally i find that i need to be more flexible.. even if i dont have time to immerse myself i should at least do a little of everything i can - as it all adds up still.. my main issue is that i always feel like "Why start if I can't finish it.." and that leads to a lot of wasted time.. if i put in 15 mins a day on something at the end of the week thats like an hour and a half or 2 hrs worth of stuff.. so im still trying to figure out how to use these specks of time that, IF used properly can lead to great results imo

Dedicating 1 day per project might work... or, as you wrote, keeping up with one until it's finished and then resuming another

BUT this is all part of one project so its like like i have 4 different projects.. oh right i dont think ive properly mentioned the full scope of my MASSIVE project in this thread XD

What does this project encompass?

H@くK is a Fantasy/Solar-Post-Cyberpunk/Sci-Fi story that spans across roughly 24 story arcs with 2 worlds, 5 main characters, and 100's of side characters, all of which will be meticulously built out.

It is a story that I will turn into a webcomic, once I have the plot fully built out.

There are many things I am doing/planning to do (all on my own) that will all result in the eventual release of my webcomic:

• Plotbuilding - I've written about 500k words in my plotbuilding doc, but I've got lots more to develop.

• 6 Fully Animated Trailers - storyboarding, animating, making the music, making the voice acting with Synthezier V, compiling the trailer, and adding sound effects

• Maybe some 3D modeling for environments

• 2D asset creation

• Working on my website https://mitsukiyouko555.github.io/hackwebcomic/

• Making the artbook for worldbuilding so that I can sell it with the comic
  volumes eventually creating the backlog for the comics so when I post it
  online once every week or two

• Make and sell merch such as stickers, pins, prints, shirts, stands, etc. (Maybe even 3D figurines of some characters)

• Once I publish the comic online, I plan to print physical copies to be sold
  and bundled with my artbook, and/or other future volumes.

All that combined may take up to 10 years before I can post my comic online... which is why it is still an ongoing project.

You can read more about it here:
https://mitsukiyouko555.wixsite.com/portfolio/personal-project

But yea so despite it seeming like im working on 4 different projects its all really just part of one project LOL but i do get what u mean.

What I'm trying to say is, don't overwork yourself - all great things take time Keep up the astounding work. You're headed some great places!

Thank you so much @NosferatuJr ur so nice i love seeing ur comments on my thread ^u^

You're making some pretty awesome stuff yourself! (Just realized we're both in term 5 LOL)

BTW the poster looks very cool!!! Your aunt is a true G for setting this up! I love it when family members see the potential in you and encourage it however they can.

Thank you! yea! she's awesome

[NosferatuJr]

Oh, absolutely. 15 mins per day of work on a personal projects is still worlds better than 0 minutes. I'm 100% with you there. And seeing how your projects are all branches of one big tree trunk (bad analogy, lol, sorry), I now get the initial time-divide. H@くK sounds like a wonderfully growing mammoth! I wish you all the luck and success in the world! You already know I'm keeping an eye on you and your formidable progress. Knock 'em!

[mitsuki-youko]

Thank you @NosferatuJr!!

[daceronine]

Oy that poster looks nice! Bests of luck!

Being an introvert, it's always nerve wrecking to me to share any work with strangers in real life, but I realize it's a good way to get your work out there. Eventually I hope to setup a booth in a local anime convention to do a bit of promotion once I feel the manga is at a decent state for it and create some promotional material for it.

Hope it all goes well!

[mitsuki-youko]

Thank you @daceronine!

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Life's been a bit busy unfortunately, which kinda makes me feel like chilling for a bit (then i feel bad about it afterwards lol - was rewatching World Trigger all day today - though i really love how each of the characters are so well written and uniquely memorable despite there being so many characters - which is what i am aiming for in my story as well so you could say i was studying for my project hehe - jk i was chilling who am i kidding lmao)

Tho I've finally re-organized my characterbuilding notes and now can streamline characterbuilding out my characters! Still a wholeee lot of work on its own but now its much easier to make connections between characters, etc due to the new Obsidian update that allows you to make properties easily. (if curious see this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/16hebiz/properties_i_went_from_meh_to_oooooh_i_love/)

Art wise.. I've kinda just been slackin...........................

I was gonna post this after I finished it but its been a week or so since i last worked on it lol
That'd be the last of my term 5 hw when im done with it (its weird how i breezed through terms 1-4 and just went on a stagnant tangent for term 5........... )

I did recently make some progress on my "hawt Gil" drawing. Oh! and I finally finished the 6+ min song I was working on! so i guess i wasn't 100% slacking after all

That song took like 23 hrs across 3 weeks. this pic of Gil, when done, is gonna be the bg for it...

(ngl that bed/couch looks hella comfy tbh i based the bed/couch based off of the Z Galore cuddler chair that i saw once as a kid. I was smol back then so that couch was like a bed to me when i tried it out at the mall XD tried it again as a teen/young adult and it was not as big as i thought anymore XD but i WOULD have liked a bed like that! Thats me living vicariously through my characters! I also rly wanna live in a POST-cyberpunk world high tech high live so theres that.)

I am actually finally starting to get used to drawing bgs (never thought i'd say that!).. the buildings arent bad imo - esp the round ones..

I also designed what the interior might look like as well for the floating buildings since Gil lives in one and he's an important character in my story.

[patrycja.lerch]

Cool creature! Bed does look comfy. I like building design especially tree in the middle

[snakker]

Cool concept!

[timalexander324]

Cool to see the concept study about the Nazeblithe, I can imagine how terrifying it would be coming across that ^^;
Also I feel you on chilling for a bit in between artwork too, but you're still making some progress in other stuff and that's still nice to see o7

[gregorya]

Nice work on your creature. Your backgrounds are getting better.