Hello, everyone. I’m creeping up to day 150, and I’m pretty sure I’m not going to make a big deal out of it, 150 just doesn’t sound nearly as awesome as 200. Then again, day 185.5 is technically the half way point to the end of this project. I’m quite sure I’ll just stick to celebrating and looking back every 100 days.

I was planning on coloring the picture I drew yesterday (Another “No Man’s Sky” picture) but I’ve been playing Flower for Playstation 4 today and I took a few screenshots. I decided to draw one of them and it turned out pretty great! If I had enough colored pencils it would of turned out even better, but alas, I need to get some new ones. I don’t even have black anymore! Terrible.

So, I’m still trying to figure out what I should do to start making a little bit of money with this website. The idea still sounds a little nuts to me. Making any amount of money doing something I love, from complete strangers, is just something that doesn’t seem possible. Though, that possibility is out there. I think I just need to figure out exactly what I’m good at (if anything really) and where to market it. I’m pretty sure I can figure out the “how” as far as marketing is concerned. I’ve been reading up on it and learning for more than a few years now. I’ll just need to set a goal and then plan it out.

My sister once mentioned that it would be a neat idea to put a donate link on my website. Though, I don’t get near enough visitors for that to be feasible, and I think I would feel a little weird doing that. What do you think?

My new Playstation 4 is quite the distraction. I should of been more prepared. It’s 11:35pm right now and I’m just doing my daily post right now. Ridiculous! I should absolutely put more effort into doing at least the drawing bits earlier in the day. I mean, I was up late last night with it being New Years Eve and all. Therefore, I slept a bit of the day away today. Even so, I need to take this project a bit more seriously before I completely miss a day due to distractions and forgetfulness.

I can’t remember how much I explained about this picture when I made my post yesterday, but I’m going to go ahead and explain a couple things about this picture. First off, it’s a drawing of a planet shown off in an early game demo. The game is called No Man’s Sky and I’m super excited about it. Like, to a ridiculous level. It’s a sci-fi game that procedurally generates planets, plant and animal life, and technology in the form of space stations and good old space ships. In fact, there’s supposed to be so many star systems and locations that it would be literally impossible to visit all of them in a life time. The main thing I’m interested in is going to some gorgeous planets and taking pictures of it’s diverse wildlife and locations, and then doing some artwork using those photos.

Drawing planets and wildlife that no other player has ever set foot upon is pretty mind blowing. I can’t think of a better way to explain how excited I am about this. It’s pretty much the main reason why I wanted to pick up a Playstation 4 sooner than later. Now that I have one, I’ll just have to sit patiently until the game is released, which is apparently sometime in 2015.

Wow. You can hardly see this sketch! I guess I did draw it with a pretty light pencil. I may have to go over it in pen for tomorrow. Anyways, it’s a picture from No Man’s Sky. The video game coming next year to Playstation 4. I am so unbelievably excited for this infinite sci-fi adventure! Each planet is about the actual size of our Earth. The galaxy in the game holds billions of stars, with so many more planets! It’s insane, and I can’t wait.

Today, on New Years 2014, I bought myself a Playstation 4. No, I’m not really financially able to do so, but I traded in whatever I could to get the price down as low as I could. The main reason was that I didn’t want to miss out on the last day of the Boxing Day deals at a particular store here in town. Also, I’ve been getting a lot of interesting signs from the Universe lately that I should do this for myself. I even arrived at the store 10 minutes before closing (again, on the last day of the sale!) and they even through in a PS4 camera. So, now I’m all set. I decided to do a 20 minute sketch and post this before I even open the Playstation box. So, now that I’m all done here… HAPPY NEW YEARS TO EVERYONE!

EDIT: Oh yes! I almost forgot because I’m anxious to get to my new toy. Congratulations to Crystal Moody for completely completing her year of creative habits! Please, go check her site out here and send her some congratulations! I know she really appreciates it.

Today, I’m 100% finished with my Final Fantasy Airship. I love the colors I chose, and how I really tried to keep it simple and only use the source material as inspiration only. Yoshitaka Amano’s original painting of this particular airship has an insane amount of detail with all the tiny metal gadgets and such on the hull. I tried to do my own thing and not replicate every single detail. I’m quite happy with how this turned out!

Thanks to my niece Emily, I decided to draw some of the sky. I was going to leave it as it was when the ship was finished, but she asked, “What about the sky?” So I added some clouds and was prepared to color in the entire page with a nice blue. I decided against the blue because not only would that take a very long time, but it could actually detract from how good it already looks. However, the clouds certainly add to the picture, making it feel more like a “scene” rather than just a picture of a flying vehicle.

I was reading some stuff online and came across an article on why you should post everything you do, not just the good stuff. Specifically, to post the bad stuff. I don’t really remember the reasoning behind it, but it did sound like a fun idea. On my official fan page I think I’ll create an album and upload all of the work I keep to myself. All the unfinished and unloved pieces. It might be pretty cool. Some of it will be old stuff from when I was inexperienced, and some of it might be ideas that I never did follow through with, but at least got the project started. I’m interested in seeing what people’s reactions to some of it might be. Should be a fun experiment!