Doing Things!

No comic this week woo! Instead we have other important things I've been working on. This is some concept art for the game I'm currently doing the art for. We don't wanna give away too many details before it's set in stone (please see: we're making it up as we go) but it's going to be a game in which a disease will infect the player with different types of mutations giving them increased strength or a ranged bile bomb type attack. Things like that. Also I've picked up Richard Williams' book The Animators Survival Kit, because I'm probably gonna need to learn how to do actual animations and fast. So far it's a crazy awesome, crazy heavy book with some really good character to it.

So all that's taken up a good bit of my week along with working my real job. I don't plan on making this kind of stuff main content for the week so this was just filler for this week. I have some comics I wanna do involving things like Hearthstone, Child of Light and eventually Transistor when that comes out.

Lastly, the Greninja V. Kirby comic was my best comic so far with the most popularity and best reception out of all of them. So thank you guys for sharing it with others and spreading the laughs. Please continue to do so and of course be sure to follow me on Twitter @Toushinu for updates on when I post new content! What do you think of the character designs so far? Sites each progression read as distinctly melee and ranged?

Kirby Becomes A Monster

Kirby now has the power to spit shurikens at his opponents.

I've been wanting to make this comic for far too long. Like many other people I was extremely hyped to see that Greninja was added to the new Super Smash's roster. I've always been a fan of the faster characters in the game and Greninja looks like he's gonna be just that. Also, doing this comic was one of the most therapeutic things I could have done all week. Have you ever just googled "Kirby" before? It's unholy how adorable it is.

Be sure to follow me @Toushinu on Twitter for updates on when I post new comics! Maybe we can ponder the mysteries of life together. Like, where am I gonna get my groceries tonight? Does Kirby ever say no to a meal? When is Mewtwo gonna be announced? All these questions and mooooore!*

*will go unanswered

Five Stages Of Grief As Told By Dota 2

Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. All these ingredients come together to create the maddest little boy!

Games like League of Legends and Dota are so bittersweet to me. On the one hand, it's a game that a lot of my friends can get behind and we can all play together. And they are genuinely fun and deep and get me super engaged with their mechanics. On the other hand, when you don't have a full party, you have to deal with the beast that is the anonymous internet. A terrible beast indeed. With zero consequences, people will say and do anything to anger those who anger them, unprovoked or otherwise. And that is why I have been fairly successful at quitting these games. There are just some days where my friends have this... itch. And when your friends have the itch, you need to help them scratch. Now I'm uninstalling Dota 2 for the umpteenth time. Yaaaay. I do love me some Phantom Lancer though.

Be sure to follow me on Twitter @Toushinu for updates on when I post new comics! And would you like anything to finish off your comic like a pepsi product or a dessert? No? Well fine, more for ᵐᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉ.

Updates and Such

Hello people!

So the comics have not been coming out for the last couple of weeks and people have been confused. Basically, I've had an overhaul to how I'm going about my everyday. I've picked up more shifts at the restaurant I work at, which if anyone has worked in restaurant they know that a shift doesn't  mean 5 hours, it means like 8 hours or 12 hours a day. For me those hours typically take place at night. So now every night that I work means a very tired person around 2 AM. What that means is that this person does not want to draw anything, and what's more, this person does not want to PLAY anything. And being that this is mainly based on video games, it's kinda crucial that I have subjects to make comics about. But I'm going to try to dedicate blocks of time throughout the week for playing, playing for work, and working, aside from my actual job. 

On top of all that, I am now collaborating with a friend as the artist of a game! We've been talking about making a game for quite a while now, and we have a lot of projects that never got out of the pre-production stage. But finally, we're taking actual action and making a game. I have some doodles for characters and archetypes that I want to work on some more, and when I do I'll post them up here for some feedback. 

Other than that, I don't have much else to say... Anyone excited for uhm... like, the Wolf Among Us Part 4? Das a good game...

So as always make sure to follow me @Toushinu on Twitter so that I know that what I'm doing is bringing some joy to people okay? Okay. Kthxbai

Flapper Gal

So I have no idea whether or not blogger will be compressing this image for me or not. For 100% definite 1920 x 1200 resolution try using this link:

http://min.us/i/ofhsBxX9WwRB

The Evolution Of A Titanfall Player

But honestly this is how I am with every competitive game.

I was really skeptical about Titanfall for a long while. It was a combination of the online only functionality, the lack of a single player campaign, and the fact that I'm terrible at shooters. But I decided to sink the 60 bucks, and I wasn't disappointed (in the game at least, I was still terrible at shooters). It was really fun, the parkour worked really well, and it doesn't feel as gimmicky as I thought it would be. People get really creative with the wall jumping. And playing inside the titans is extremely empowering. You're just like "I WILL BREAK YOUR SOUL" and all "ANYTHING THAT CROSSES MY PATH MEETS DEATH". But then you panic when your robot friend tells you that someone is on top of your titan. There's also a neat power up system where you get one time use cards that give you advantages until you die in a match. So eets fun. Rull fun. But fuck losing.

Apologies for not being able to post a comic last week. Like I said on twitter, it's been a hectic week so I never got around to making the comic, but NO MORE! Every Saturday kids!

Be sure to follow me on Twitter @Toushinu for updates on when I post new comics! It would help me know that there are more than 3 people reading these :D And give me motivation to actually... draw... backgrounds... WOO! Is there any way to get better at shooters? ;-;

The Instrument of Your Doom

You see this shit?! This shit actually happened to me! This game gets my dick ROCK HARD. 

I really enjoyed Dark Souls and Demon's Souls before this, but this moment in Dark Souls 2 was one of the most beautiful moments I've ever experienced in a video game. I don't think I did this justice in this comic, but my little brother and I just... sat there, jaw on the floor as to how awesome this emergent kind of narrative arose. If you want to experience this assetry, this happened in the Undead Crypt.

In other news, this comic made me realize how little I know about anatomy. So many... misproportioned things. But hey. Some constructive criticism would be nice.

Be sure to follow me on Twitter @Toushinu for updates on when I post new comics! I won't invade you for like, 2 days if you did that. Think about that shit. Has anyone else had ridiculously awesome things happen to them?