Thursday, July 1, 2010

Oh.

Well I guess I deserved that.

The not receiving any entries for the contest thing, I mean.

I'm sure most of you are busy reading Hanna is Not a Boy's Name and/or making art for her, so it's understandable.

I don't even know where to go from here. I'm so tired. Either I act like this and get a bunch of pity that only serves to bring me around to this point again or I am completely ignored.

But the fact is I have nothing else. I update and post art because I want your attention so bad. Just some comments, some questions, fucking hate mail, I don't care. I want to be able to love my work because it means something to someone else.

This is embarrassing and rude. But I had to let you guys know.

10 comments:

Emi said...

Don't think that cause you didn't get entries for your contest doesn't mean we aren't watching :(

Fact is a lot of us (including me) can't draw for squat. If I had tried it would have been disrespectful of your work.

Don't feel bad. Just keep doing what you do best.

(P.S...I haven't even heard of the comic you mentioned in the note o.O)

tlaloc4kids said...

I posted a response, but Blogger decided even THAT wasn't worth the virtual space.

HiNABN is a comic that is destroying all other comics. The popularity is deserved, but it's also like a white-hot knife burning into my chest. Really slowly and twisting, and then they leave it, and then come back and twist it a little more to rip the healing parts...pretty much like that but every hour.

I suddenly feel like working on my comics again because it might bring in new readers and excite the pre-existing ones, but I know, in my wretched, bleeding, cold heart, that that isn't true.

Psi said...

Oh, fucking Jesus crap, I knew I was forgetting something... I'm so sorry... I just got stressed out by exams and failing two classes and almost getting kicked out of university before I even freaking start it and work that I haven't drawn ANYTHING in a while... Well, since it's too late now, I might as well just post what I did draw - so you can see that some of us did attempt to make an entry. Life just got in the way.

And I forget how you do links in the a href crap, so if I do it wrong, s'not my fault.

First sketch
of Tlaloc's decapitation page.

And then because I didn't like that one at all:
Second Sketch
of same page, now in awesome-tastic 4 panel.

But then I didn't like the panel divisions so:
Third Sketch
In good ol' fashion normal 4-panel.

But then I decided I hated this, too, and decided to switch pages:

Fourth Sketch
Of the page where Roger is walking, contemplating if he should work with Baxter or not. As is obvious, I had only briefly started the sketch.

The sizes are all off because of the screenshot program I used (in a related note, the pictures will only be online for a week).

Psi said...

Congratulations on the update, by the way! I love the shading on Roger's face in the last panel.

:D

tlaloc4kids said...

Sounds like you had your own Roger-esque issues. Yes, Roger, too, is on the brink of academic probation. This doesn't make your situation better and, yeah, life gets in the way. It's going to get worse.

The sketches are great! I love them. It's...still...kind of technically July 1st. I suppose it would be unfair to not give you SOMETHING for the work you did.

Your choice: a commission free of charge or the $50 gift card to your favorite bookstore.

Congratulations on winning :>

And thanks. I fucking love that panel.

Psi said...

Bleh, I hate being related to characters that are failing at something (it happens a lot more then I'd like to admit). Why can't I be more like Baxter then Roger... Wait, it's probably not a good thing that I want to be more like the raging sociopath then the average person... And I'm well aware of the fact that life is going to get so much worse, but right now all I can do is sit back and enjoy the apathia.

Haha, thanks. Umm, yay for technicalities? XD I guess I'd go with a giftcard for Chapters, seeing as that would be the most useful thing (although this was one of the toughest decisions I have ever made - it took me an hour, no exaggeration).

I still plan on actually finishing a page as fanart, though. And I've honestly never heard of HiNaBN before you mentioned it.

tlaloc4kids said...

FUCK YOU, BLOOGER, JESUS CHRIST.

Anyway...

1) Email me your address for a giftcard.
2) At least you are not Alex.
3) I...
4) ???
5) Profit!

Psi said...

Heh, is it not posting what you say the first time around? Welcome to my world. The trick is you copy the message just before hitting send, for just in case you have to re-paste it.

Also, your Contact page is down. I sent it to the email on the contest page.

tlaloc4kids said...

Good advice, let's see how it goes...

The Contact "page" isn't a page, but if you mouseover it, and you have FireFox like a normal human should, you'll see at the bottom lefthand of the screen the email address listed. It's not perfect, but it saves me having to make another page.

But About page is live now! :D

tlaloc4kids said...

Oh shit I lied, it doesn't do that...ARGH. I'll fix it...