Since it's my final year in school, I began doing my final thesis already at September. Because of that, I haven't really had much time on myself. And right now... I feel like I'm being pressured, since this whole work should be ready at the beginning of December or else there will be great problems. Not much time left, in other words.

The work is coming along slowly and steadily, but... I feel that at some point I'm forced to take a break from everything else... and I do mean everything. Art, chatting, completely all... all, even my free time, just to hopefully finish this final work of mine in time.

Only 1½ months left... and hopefully I'll be thoroughly finished with school. ... ... Either that or... I'll become just like I predicted with these picture. [link] [link]

It's definitively not easy to create an OC in manga style out of the blue without any guidance or models. Especially when there's already a horde of them. There're so many things you have to consider before even starting to draw the character. I've had a few ideas, though, but so far the end results haven't been satisfactory. Mainly because I don't like how I draw them.

There's a lot of mistakes in my first versions that I can't even begin to count. On the other hand I haven't been drawing a lot of manga at all, especially recently. I'm not a master of the style in other words. This could very well mean, that I can't create an OC in manga style before I have good enough skills to do so.

Too bad.

UPDATE: Okay, I'm now creating a background story for my OC, but I still don't have a name for her (yes, my OC is a she). So I'm asking you for help in inventing a name for my furry little OC. Any good ones come to mind?

Oh and just so there won't be any mixups, I'm talking about this OC: [link]

2nd UPDATE: Okay, I decided on a name. What do you think about the name Hana?

I'm finally back with a brand new computer, but man what a job it was. There seemed to be no ending to bad things. Many mistakes were made. But after about 8 hours, we've (me and my dad) finally made new computer work like a charm. ... Now if only this sensation would last forever.

What's actually amazing is that the modem itself survived the storm and is totally fine, even though the whole computer fried up. So my wireless connection is also fine.

That's about it... ... man, these last 2½ weeks were a nightmare.

I'm writing this from a school computer. My own computer got a nasty power spike three days ago during a storm (the biggest one this summer) and unfortunately it seems I wasn't fast enough to save my computer 100%. Now my computer is not starting up at all and I'm smelling smoke. I fear that my power source got the spike and is now too easily overheated. If that's the case, I can't use my computer until the problem's solved.

That's the reason why I haven't been online recently and I also don't know when the problem can be fixed so I can't say when I'll come back

UPDATE: Okay, today, the new power source was installed, but now we've discovered that my display card is broken + the display cards place is broken... which means the whole motherboard is forced to change... which means almost the whole computer is forced to renew... about 600 € job. Nice. As if I already didn't feel guilty enough. The only things that I can keep are the new power source and two hard drives (two others are forced to take out because of the wiring problem). The new computer makes the old one look like scrapheep though.

A quad processor
GeForce 9800 - display card
DDR3 - RAMs
I think there're other parts too, but those are the main ones. Too bad, though. The old ones were all okay.

2nd update: Oh man... this has to be the first one to ever happen. I've got the new computer, but guess what I find out? ... All of my hard drives are broken. ALL OF THEM. That wasn't the worst thing though. My dad thought at first that my Windows was at one of the old ones even though I swore that it was on the biggest hard drive. Since the Windows didn't start, my dad began to yell at me, thinking the Windows wasn't at any of the current hard drives. Things changed when we tried to re-install Windows. We then knew the truth. The computer couldn't find any of the drives.

So in short, my computer's still broken despite the new parts. it actually seems like the whole computer got spiked even though the lightning was 10 seconds away. That has to be unheard of. A new hard drive is coming and should arrive by tomorrow evening. If I'm lucky, I'll be back in business then. Now I actually fear that my wireless Internet connection blew up too during that storm, but we'll see.

Well, I've had this question in my head for quite some time now... actually ever since I started to draw... unusual targets.

Do you think I'm a pro artist?