CUPdate 40: Digital Sketchbooks, Rogue Bird Eventure, and Notion

Wow, it's been a long time since the last CUPdate! We had a lot of in-person meeting up and other things going on over the past month, so we decided to postpone our CUPdate until after that so we could spend more time together in person. But now we're back, so I have quite a few different projects to talk about for this one.

I didn't post this last time because of the Global Game Jam, but last time I also finished my Digital Sketchbook for January. Most of it ended up being drawings from Colors Live, so it's more of a Colors Live sketch dump.

And because it's been so long since the last CUPdate, I also have the Digital Sketchbook for February! I honestly didn't draw much in February due to my recovery happening, but I was getting other non-drawing projects done throughout that time instead. I mostly drew these towards the end of the month.

I started to try and draw a bit on my cintiq again. Mostly while standing because sitting is still a little difficult for long periods of time. But I did this little digital sketch for my friend Jinny's birthday too.

And then I took a break from some of the other games, drawings, and things to work on The Nays again! While reading Eventures, I got inspired to do some drawings related, so I colored one of my drawings from my digital sketchbook of Akuma.

And then I also re-read the Kali's Mission Eventure so I drew a storyboard of one of those moments. On one of the last OONC Days, we read that Eventure together as well.

I started to read some Eventures and got really in the mood for writing more because it's been a few months. So I renamed the Blizzard Eventure to the Rogue Bird Eventure and decided to rewrite it since that was an earlier Eventure that could use a bit of work. 

In the meantime, I also updated my Notion a bit. I added weekly to-do misc tasks to the top of my calendar. These are reserved for things that I didn't really want to make a whole task for on my calendar so I could still check off boxes and keep track of things without flooding my calendar with non-project things. Most of my project things are going to stay on the calendar, but these are random other reminders and things. I'm also archiving them into a weekly task so I can check that off too for each week.

Speaking of Notion, I'm also going to have some of my longer projects have more details there than my actual blog, just because it's a lot of writing and other things that I'm not ready to post on my blog yet. Maybe I'll post them here eventually, but for now, I'm going to be leaving some of that on Notion instead.

CUPdate 33: Gift, Inktober, Projects, and Eventure Writing

October is always a pretty productive time for me, mainly because Inktober gets me back into daily drawing and project creation. So I've been doing a lot of drawing but also getting into a lot of writing! Because I'm drawing more, I'm also more inspired to work on projects even on weekday nights and I've had a lot more time on weekends to work on projects too because I've been socializing a little less this month (other than the week that I was out of town).

So this was something I actually did for the last CUPdate but now that it's publicly out there, I can talk about it here! I made a drawstring bag design for my brother's birthday gift this year. You can find the design here on RedBubble.

And then I've been keeping up on doing Inktober every day! I'll post all of them next time, but for now, here are a few for now:

I decided it would be fun to make mini Notion project pages for all of the projects I've ever worked on! That'll be a big project to go back and document everything, but I figured this could be a fun way to look back on projects I've done and document all of the aspects of each project. I want to even include very small test projects in there so I can remember everything I've done. I started with a few projects.

I've also been doing a bunch of Eventure rewrites while I'm reading through them. I rewrote the Rovi Eventure first to make some of the parts more impactful and overall remove some of the generic parts that I wrote over 10 years ago in there.

Then I updated some of the Neo Obelisque Delivery Eventure, mostly doing a copy edit pass to update some things. But I also removed one part that was pretty unnecessary and replaced it with a shorter scene that connected better to the end of the Rovi Eventure.

And then I rewrote the Welcome "Home" Party Eventure, which I revamped entirely. It's now called the Tag World Ceremony Eventure and fits a lot better into the story. The previous iteration was basically a filler, so now it feels a lot more integrated and leads up to the next Eventure (which we still haven't written or fully thought of ideas for).

And then I decided to make up a new Eventure and do a little bit of re-ordering. The War on Tag World is now just going to be combined with the You-Know-Who's Reign Eventure, so instead of just pushing every Eventure number up, I decided to add a new Eventure to fill a gap after the Return to Sir Dude World Eventure. It's called Kali's Motives and goes into more depth about Kali's past.

So that's about 60 pages worth of new Eventures I've written! So this time was pretty productive, even though one of those weeks I wasn't working on any projects, and I did have some health-related issues in the middle of that. But I got a lot of writing done and have been keeping up with Inktober for the most part.