"The Hand That Reaches From the Grave..."

Within the effort to articulate the impetus behind my art and the need to escape the banalty of being uninspired, I've finally found my inevitable return to be necessary (Yes. I talk like this now).  You may have all (three of you) been wondering what eventually became of the self-absorption and inscrutability that was this blog, well the answer is finally here, and it is an emphatic and admittedly underwhelming "Still Alive"... Things have certainly been happening, many of which I cannot discuss until the appropriate time.  In the mean time, though, let's discuss these things:

That's right!  FuZioN things!  I'm back, full-force and so is TJ.  Adjusted colour-pallet and all!  I have to say, the script for the this property is coming along so well! I'm like 50 pages in with no end in sight, but who needs to worry about things like "page count" and "Frames per page" at his stage, amiright?  Even though I'm not a 14-year-old boy any more, TJ's character (who essentially started out as nothing more than a self-insert) still fairly vivid in my head and I'm having the best time coming up with all the dialogue and character interactions.  Guess all the pre-production development and characterisations really paid off... Exactly what is up with those random floating hair things???

In the midst of all the universe moulding(which is still technically in the process, just far ahead enough to start working on basic scripts and such),  I developed a love for drawing TJ and Strike doing the most arbitrary of tasks.  Funnily enough, though, this image was integral to the development of the Sandal Empire (TEASER!) as at the time I was exploring the designs and aesthetics of various cultures 'n such...

"Merlin's Bird!" (Terrible pun)

Another important aspect of the FuZioN-U is the monsters in it.  The thing you have to learn about me is, if there's an opportunity to work cute little monsters into a story, I will do it!  Thankfully (as I'm sure I've mentioned before) the FuZioN-U is essentially built around the interactions of humans with these Pets... named as such mainly because... People keep them as pets(that's the official name for them until I can come up with something better)!  Trust me.  It's not as derivative as it sounds!... I mean, at first it was. Obviously! I was 13 and Pokemon was beyond Colossal at the time and I thought, "Hey.  Wouldn't it be great if we could each have our own little Pokemon to hang out with all the time?"  Which is why a retooling of the concept was necessary...Although, to be fair, the comics I made were never really about the Pets.  All those elements occurred in the background while the story focused on all the high-school dramedy.  Currently, I think I've managed to distance it enough from Pokemon comparisons (story-wise) that it can stand on its own.

The two new creatures featured in the images are Bolt and Merlin's yet-to-be-named Pet. Bolt (the yellow one)  belongs to Raex.  More of this shall be discussed in due time. I think that's a decent batch for now...

It has been over a year since this blog began!  Somewhere during the month of October last year, I decided it was absolutely necessary to have my drawings exhibited and discussed over the internet!  I probably should have had a "Birthday-Halloween-Double-Whammy-Special" sometime ago, but sadly the I missed both ships.  And as I watch them both sail away into that temporal sunset from whence they shall never return,  I can't help but think, "At least I bothered to come back at all!"