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24/04/2024

Update #25

Added alt text and hover effect to my new stamps.

Caught up on writing blog posts.

Made music themed stamps.

Replanning the rest of Fallen Star Chapter 1

I'll be redoing the planning work for the remainder of this chapter. I wasn't happy with the pacing and felt it was too rushed in the second half, so I want to improve the pacing and let the story and art breathe more. I think it ended up being too squashed down becaused a short page count was too restrictive for the amount of story the comic has. It was squeezing out all the good stuff. I'm hoping that worrying less about the page count will help make the comic more enjoyable to draw and to read. So the rough goal is now a maximum of thirty page chapters. And for the print version, I can always add bonus art to fill page counts to be divisible by four.

Another reason for the rewrite is I've been working on writing more of Tom's backstory and I need the dialogue the gods have in the first chapter about him to be consistent with this because it's changed a little bit. Giving more time to these parts of the story means Tom and Mike meeting will have to be pushed back to the second chapter, buttttt then I can spend more time on building their relationship up and it not being rushed over. Them becoming a couple is my main motivation for drawing Tom's story so I'm excited to get to that part LOL.

But yeah! The comic as usual will take time to make, so don't expect regular quick updates. I am working at pace that is healthy for me mentally and physically. I hope you can understand this. Thank you to the people who left positive comments on the comic, it really motivates me to draw more!

23/04/2024

Update #24

Wrote more plot stuff for Fallen Star about when Tom was a god and his dynamic with the other gods.

Sketched new draft panels for Fallen Star.

A screenshot of panel sketch thumbnails for my comic

22/04/2024

Update #23

Added content to About page.

Made new stamps for fave films table.

21/04/2024

Update #22

Finished and animated pixel Mike sprite.

Added Mike to characters menu on navigation bar.

Fixed broken image urls on blog post 6.

Made and added different sizes for Fallen Star comic banners and code text boxes for them.

Added mouseout to urls for gofundme and shop links on navigation bar so they'll open in a new tab when clicked.

Added projects section on navigation and Fallen Star title linking to the comic's website.

Added link to neocities profile.

Made and added About and Resources pages and unhid them from navigation.

19/04/2024

Update #21

Sketched some tomike art.

18/04/2024

Update #20

Finished colouring Terra on a Fallen Star comic panel.

Updated my comic with all the next finished panels.

16/04/2024

Update #19

Worked more on Fallen Star comic website layout.

Reuploaded the comic panels higher quality and deleted the old images from my dashboard.

Added navigation arrows for the comic by FreePik and added credits in my footer. I learned how to add greyscale effect to images using css and will use this to show when the arrows are inactive. The arrows are hidden from view for now until there are more webpages to go to for the webcomic chapters.

16/04/2024

Update #18

Made new png of the Kena characters front page art and replaced the old ones. Learned through this that minus numbers can be used in styling margins to crop the article. I used this to close the gap between the border and the artwork.

Deleted old code for the characters placement co-ordinates and images from neocities dashboard I no longer needed to use.

Worked on Fallen Star comic website. I added the comic panels so far.

Made a newer higher quality version of the Fallen Star project banner and replaced the old one with the new one.

15/04/2024

Update #17

Created new neocities account for my Fallen Star comic.

Worked on the style sheet and temporary html document for the index page layout.

Backed up html files for the Fallen Star section of my main site ChocolateRevel. I plan to delete them off my main site when they're up on the Fallen Star one.

12/04/2024

Update #16

Sketched some art of Tom.

11/04/2024

Update #15

Sketched an idea for a Fallen Star print.

06/04/2024

Update #14

Made custom text commission examples in three different sizes.

Small

Small sized pixel text saying Erin Small sized pixel pink heart

Medium

Medium sized pixel text saying Erin Medium sized pixel pink heart

Large

Large sized pixel text saying Erin Large sized pixel pink heart

05/04/2024

Update #13

Drew Essence on a comic panel.

Re-sketched Terra so they're ready to line.

Lined, coloured, added reflections to table, and added background with airbrush.

Filled speech bubble backgrounds in white.

04/04/2024

Update #12

Made two new stamps for Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.

03/04/2024

Update #11

Changed updates section on home page to mood section instead.

Added blinkies to credits page.

Created pages for graphic types and added content onto them all.

Made Fan Art banner and put it on my home page.

Tom pixel Fallen Star Now! button.

Fan art of Tom holding onto Mike, them both looking at the viewer smiling and surrounded by sparkles.

Art by CharlieBobDraws

02/04/2024

Update #10

Created RevelLine font.

Made all my fonts downloadable.

Revel Line

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AN EXAMPLE OF THIS FONT BEING USED TO TYPE WITH.

01/04/2024

Update #9

Replaced Assets with Graphics title in navigation.

Made Stamps page.

Made pixel Tom stamp and large button.

Drew new art of Adam from my project Type 3.

OC Adam glaring upwards at the viewer

31/03/2024

Update #8

Animated Tom pixel art.

Drew Mike pixel art, did flat colours, and coloured line art.

Added pages for individual blog posts with comment boxes on them.

Tag buttons now work and show only posts with that tag.

Credits page added.

Added updates digital notepad to home page.

Added more mutuals buttons.

Made a lot of new stamps.

Added pages for individual blog posts with comment boxes on them.

Tag buttons now work and show only posts with that tag.

Credits page added.

Added updates digital notepad to home page.

Added more mutuals buttons.

30/03/2024

Update #7

Created a page layout template.

Added page links to navigation.

Updated Sites I Love page layout.

Created blog page layout.

Added posts onto blog.

Drew pixel art of Tom.

29/03/2024

Update #6

Made Fallen Star website buttons.

26/03/2024

Update #5

Swapped out a few blinkies to match website colours better.

25/03/2024

Update #4

Added transing the internet webring.

Added blinkies.

Created and added Art Gallery banner and Sign My Guestbook banner.

Added cursor pointer to banners manually since they weren't being treated as links automatically.

Changed navigation text to Revel Block font instead of Bubble Star text.

23/03/2024

Update #3

Made table TDs clickable to both open pages in a new tab for external links (like linking to my ko-fi shop) and links to open in the same window for pages on my website.

Added, removed and reorganised pages and links listed in navigation menu.

Added dividers.

Added sub-headings to navigation.

16/03/2024

Update #2

Added shop banner.

Resized all banner spaces and added another row.

Updated Tom pixel art to new design and animated it.

15/03/2024

Update #1

Added bubble font to navigation buttons.

Added alt text to all images.

Added hover effect to everything that is going to have hyperlinks.

Added pause to marquee when hovering over it.