Jacks of all Trades, Masters of None
Welcome to Dark Wind Studios, a magical place of magic and wonder...magical wonder. We've got comics, some shit-tacular photos...which I really should add to, some videos, the Codpast, a forum and...stuff. I'm the webmaster and owner of the site, Wind Zare. Mostly it's my art here, but not entirely. I dunno. But yeah. Poke around, entertain yourself. Have fun!
What's Going on Here? (id est "Updates")
Sunday, June 13, 2010--10:04 PM Note: Hosting is expensive!
Hey all, it's me of the various names. Flicker, Tsuki, whatev'. We'll go with Wind now, cuz why the hell not? So! I've decided to not let this place die. See, it was going to for...about six months or more now, buuuuuut...now it's not. See, I've got a certification in equine and canine massage now, and need to set up a page to pimp myself out. It seemed a shame to let this place go up in smoke, when there's so much time and history here, and I can plug the new domain onto my current hosting plan, which has just come up for renewal. Basically, it all came together at the same time to work out and make sense. And here we are. Don't expect much new material here. Chances are, I'll do some editing and re-organizing, and I'll definitely put up links to my dA and FA accounts, but don't expect a lot here. Seriously. Are you expecting something? Cuz yeah, stop. Also: Wind Runner Equine? Totally my new biz now. |
MAaaaaakin' sssstuuuuuuff--Wind
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009--12:55 AM ^_^;; Okay, so the last page of that "GA is Done" thing is up now. Well, last two pages. Oh, I never put the update up for the first one, did I? Well, that's up too. So, yeah, that's good 'n' shit. So, go to the Group Anthrax page and look at it, and shit. Or not. Though, if you're not gonna, I really gotta wonder what you're doin' on this site. I mean, nearly all our content is comics 'n' shit. I dunno why you'd come here to not look at a comic. It's funny, even. Or, I like it. 'Course, I'm biased, being as I made it. And I think I'M HILARIOUS. So there.
Yeah, pages didn't go up on time, cuz of crazy killer storm in Carbondale. We're talking about like, massive, mature, old oaks completely uprooted, and just sheared power line poles. It was hardcore, man. 100 mile an hour winds and shit. Some crazy bullshit. So, that's what happened with that. I just got back to Barrington last night, and when I left C'dale at about noon there was still no power. Fun times, fun times. And people thought the hail from the night before was bad...^_^ yeah, that was pretty epic. Anyway, next project: up next, we've got Setsuna and Ornexos and The Brain, which is fully written, and clocks in at twenty single-panel pages. Which will be a nice change of pace after 3 years of GA, which I pretty much only had a rough idea of where it was going, until Take 3, wherein I just got tired of its bullshit. So, Setsuna and Ornexos and The Brain is an adaptation of something I originally did for my Psychology class in high school, a...I believe it was twenty seven page thing (again, single panel pages), called Setsuna's Brain. It was actually what I developed Setsuna for in the first place. That reminds me, I've got some shit in old sketchbooks where he did things. There's even this one filler page I don't think I ever put into GA...well, eventually I'll get them all into the Sketchbooks. That'll be good. So, yeah. Setsuna's Brain, that was fun. I threw Setsuna together at that time as a rip on Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, thrown into a children's book thing for a Psych project: make a kid's book about the brain. ^_^ So, I did. With a rip on Nny, and a Gir re-color. Out of that project was Setsuna born, to develop his own character...of sorts. Over the years, he's been my guinea pig. Whenever I've had a school project in which I needed a quick, easy-to-draw character, I've pulled him out to do it with--eventually alongside Ornexos, who came from a scrapped, horrible script that never went anywhere. Eventually, the pair got thrown into fillers, and both characters have had time in the limelight of the site banner. I've got two DWS Shop icons starring the two of them, and in my mind, they're the mascots of DWS. Though it really doesn't show. So, I'd been drawing in my sketchbook a lot, trying to put together a new style--quicker, truer to my roots then the Amerime I've been spewing for years and, as always, using Setsuna as my guinea pig for much of it. In the meantime, I'd pulled out Setsuna's Brain, and the idea I'd had to finish it (one page never got fully penciled and inked, two pages never got drawn at all), and the thoughts I'd flirted with previously to re-do it, updated with Ornexos in the place of the Gir re-color...and eventually I cranked out the script. So, after finding a style I could live with (see GA is Done, With Setsuna and Ornexos), I started penciling. Currently, the first five pages are ready to be scanned, and the sixth is mostly finished. I don't know when this series will start updating--I really want to have it finished before I start posting this go-round, for a few reasons: One) I'll be able to actually maintain an update schedule, two) I'll be free to work ahead on the next project, with minimal downtime between S & O and The Brain and it, three) it's just something completely different from how I've worked before, and I want to try it. So, there's all that. Again, don't know when it'll be ready to start posting, though I know I won't even be able to scan this bullshit until I'm back in Carbondale. Which won't be until June 7. BUT! None of that really matters anyway, cuz it's not like I have a fanbase of any sort. I really should make it more obvious that I'm more writing these things for me. Ah, well. I forget, sometimes. ^_^ Hence the delusions joke in the first page of GA is Done, With Setsuna and Ornexos. Fun times, fun times. Anyway, enough of this bullshit. |
If I eat a pirate, will I get scurvy?--Flicker
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Thursday, May 7, 2009--3:16 PMLast page of Group Anthrax is up now. Only thing left of it is the three-page bit about it being done. Then we'll launch into Setsuna and Ornexos and the Brain--after at least a month-long wait, since I'll be back up north at my parents', with no scanner.
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Pbbbbt!--Flicker
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Saturday, May 2, 2009--1:42 PMSo! It's been awhile since an update, ne? So, re-organized the nav-bar--the webcomics are in different sections now. Running, Hiatused, and Finished. So, yeah. Naturally, upon putting GSG into the "hiatused" category, I threw up several new pages--23-26. Joy and stuff.
So, I've got some stuff in the works, more on that coming up. I promise. |
Seriously.--Flicker
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Friday, February 20, 2009--11:49 PM^_^ Look! New page of Group Anthrax page 18. ^_^ Hehe, hooray!
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Wheee-ooooh!!!--Flicker
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Wednesday, February 18--2009--8:22 PM^_^ Look! Look! Pages 16 and 17 of Group Anthrax are up now!
So, I realize I haven't written much here in the updates section past "This page is up!" and such, but...yeah. I'm tired, so...long thngs of whatever aren't gonna happen right now. Mmmyep. |
Eeexcelent...yeeeeesss...--Flicker (^_^ what the fuck, Megs?)
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009--9:05 PMKay, so as for the GA page for today, I'm running behind on it, and gotta get up at 4 AM tomorrow. Two updates tomorrow, then.
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Rollin' around at the speed of sound, got places to go, gotta follow my rainbow.--Flicker (City Escape from Sonic Adventure 2)
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Monday, February 16, 2009--10:06 PM^_^ Page 15 of Group Anthrax is up now. OMIGOD GO LOOK AT IT!!! LOOK AT IT! Hove you looked at it yet. You better have. Fuckin' schmuck. And don't get all hung up on me cussing at chu, *points to Nav Bar disclaimer* that clearly says it's rated Web MA.
Yeah, I got nothin'.
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Rollin' around at the speed of sound, got places to go, gotta follow my rainbow.--Flicker (City Escape from Sonic Adventure 2)
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Saturday, February 14, 2009--5:00 PM^_^ Page 14 of Group Anthrax, chapter 1, take 3 is all up and everything now. Mmmyep. That's enough of this.
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Rargen-flargen!--Flicker
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009--8:11 PMAck...okay, not done with even this part of the project, but I'm done coding for the night. I've been at this...for at least five hours. So:
Changed the font! Now, instead of that weird font apparently only Macs have, we've got Times New Roman. So, yeah. And that's just the first thing! (I did some fiddling with the Linkage and FAQ, but that's all minimal) So! I started this project a few months ago, which, when I'm done will phase out my gallery, and replace it with...well, every sketchbook I've ever had. Um...to give you a feel of the scale--I'm currently on sketchbook 11. And the third sketchbook had 52 pages. And...they get fuller as I go along. And that's not to mention the napkins, and random drawings I've hung on to over the years that I've yet to add or scan. SO! This is rather an...extensive undertaking. So, I've got the first three sketchbooks scanned and uploaded, and filed into the new "Sketchbook" sections. So, the first two sketchbooks fully have comments, and everything, the third--not all of them have comments yet. ^_^ I'd finish with those tonight, but I am so fucking sick of looking at code...you have no idea. |
"Rollin' around at the speed of sound, I got places to go, gotta follow my rainbow!"--Flicker (quoting "City Escape" from Sonic Adventure 2
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