Project Husk

A Story in Development.

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Burn out

Hello.I had a burn-out as of recent! Not a creative burn out but a

social media-burn-out

if that makes any sense.

I do have to give myself some credibility for keeping up. But I was really busy with getting through an entry exam! But now that I am completely free of that, I guess I can start all over again and stop making silly excuses.

About the burn out, I have been stressed because I feel like I am not doing my job well by informing you what I am supposed to be doing! I felt a little bit of pressure because of it but through some thinking and talking, I can start anew. This means i need to take some steps back and that I need to figure out how I can keep all my followers engaged. I feel that this blog is the perfect thing for me to do in terms of writing down and looking at the steps I am taking. 

This doesn’t mean I am not making art.

I am making sketches and doodles every single day but I didn’t have the stamina to put it on all the platforms yet to show my art. 

If anything you will only see them through my Instagram stories which is not a good way to show your art (But it sure does look like you are cooking something up which is exactly what I am doing)

LONG STORY SHORT.

This is just a confirmation that I will be back and that I will take things a little slower this time around. I will do my best to post something every week but it can be either ramblings about artists, music and also about my own work. As for my plans I need to flesh out, I want to bridge the gap between, Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr. It feels like there are too many different playgrounds when One big one will be a much better option. Reason being my name on all these platforms. I do tell people I am Fragmantiq. But you can only find that name on Twitter. On Instagram and on Tumblr my account names are vastly different, so I am thinking of changing every account name to something standard.  Enough with the rambling. A new playlist will be added this week (maybe even today if I am lucky.) Love and Peace. - Fragma(ntiq)

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Hello, I was very busy with art for some school interviews! I already got accepted into one and seeing that that school would want to see me do more digital related art i busted out my tablet to make this piece! At first i wanted it to be a simple doodle but then I started experimenting alot more to the point I actually liked what I was making!  As for what it is supposed to be? Uhm...just a generic girl I usually like to draw.  I do have to say that i don’t like the shape of her head. But hey I am still drtying things out on my end! Like I loved the way how I put the giometric shapes on her heair. It gave it more color diversity! I like it! I would like to mention the brush I used for this. This wouldn’t be possible without @kyletwebster‘s Impressionist brushes! They really give off that authentic look that I had been looking for in digital art! If you really want to give your art that realistic material look, I highly suggest checking them out! He has all kinds of authentic brushes you can use to suit your needs!  I know I have been pretty muich behind schedule and I still have some other work to do but untill then I will have to go back to my old habit for just a month. Art will start trickling in due time! I hope that you are excited as I am for what the future holds because I have been playing around with the whole identity thing.  So untill then, wish me loads of luck and I’ll keep you guys updated when I can! - Fragma

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Fragma’s Picks #2 - Bulid-up Hello. I told you a couple of days ago I would post one of these again, wouldn’t I? I hope you all had a great v-day for you lovely couples out there, or if you are single don’t forget that you can always tell someone you like (like your family and friends) that you care about them. This however is completely irrelevant to what i just talked about. This infact will be about music! This week I have selected a few that were more upbeat!  You may know that I went to Porter and Madeon last week, I have been obsessing about built-ups in music but the way they can be performed is always a little different. So here i compiled a playlist that plays just like that. We start off slow yet steady, then a little more oompf. After that we get two tracks that are very in your face.  And finally, we start with a very grounded track.  Now what am I trying to convey here? Quite alot actually. For one, music doesn’t always have to have a build-up within it’s track, a playlist or album can do the exact same thing. And also I show alot of differences in genres within this playlist so you have more time to explore the genres to your hearts content (I actually really like the kind of music that Chance Trash’s Maybe plays) Maybe you find something useful out of it, or maybe you found something you absolutely hate. Music is so vast that questions like these will always have different outcomes depending on what the preference is of the listener. NEXT WEEK, I will feature an artist and give my sense on why I like them. I will feature a specific playlist that is fully about the artist it self, with a piece of art that I have made for them. Due to being very busy around this week, my art posting had to be put on a halt for this week, but I am always making something new so don’t worry about getting stale on content. Thank you so much for reading, also have fun listening to it. I’ll see you next week. -Fragma

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Hello. How unusual! I rarely post on the same week let alone art! I want to talk about what i had been doing this week! I went to Porter Robinson and Madeon’s Shelter tour in Amsterdam! They played unsuprisingly and amazingly well and I was incredibly happy I went there! I remember when ‘’Ok’’ from Madeon got mixed with ‘’Lionhearted’’ from Porter Robinson, I was blown away! The entire hall was yelling ‘’OK’’ so the aura that was flowing around was breath taking amazing. If they ever stop by whereever I may be on the planet for a show, I will go there without thinking twice! (also shoutouts to the guards who gave us bottles of water they were a real lifesaver) But just before the show I got to hang out with @cyarindraws and @kaomojiclothing and they were great people (they even got to hang out with Porter and Madeon! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?) As you can see I made a little painting for Cyarin to commemorate her achievement of hitting a whopping 1 million followers on Instagram! Again congratulations on such a overwhelming number! As for Kaomoji: I will probably make something for you too soon! You guys were also the biggest Porter fans I have ever met seeing that you made designs for a shirt featuring his album: Worlds. And you guys went to 2 other Shelter concerts in the States which is impressive. It was only appropriate that you went ahead and meet him (and Madeon) in person! I was kind of nervous to hang out with them seeing that they have made such a name for themselves. But I guess I really made a good impression on them and I remain very happy for all the wisdom they have given me thus far and If the oppertunity and time is there, I’d gladly meet them again! I have left links on everyones names that are BLOD so you know where you can find them and the music tracks of the Shelter duo can be clicked on the names of their track! Be sure to check them out! If any of them see this, I wish you luck! Thanks for reading! I’ll talk to you soon! - Fragma

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Hello. Sorry for being late! I will explain the reason behind it tomorrow! First I would like to say welcome to my new followers on Twitter that are viewing this post! Thanks to @cyarindraws and @kaomojiclothing for giving me a fresh start! As I have stated before: I am on my way to give you guys as much content as I can! These are 3 of the pieces that i played around with a long while ago! So this should paint whatever I am focussing on to this day! But to explain what you are looking at: You are currently looking at a gouache painting of a tree! The objective for me was to see how to blend colors in the way they should. The one on the right side is pretty much the first try. I had no experience in it so I was really figuring out what colors to use. On the left side i gave myself a lifeline: Go from light to dark. So i started off with bright yellow and ended up going to a darker shade as i went on. I must say alot of people liked this one even though I applied too much water.  The one on the very top I switched it around by going from a darker shade to a lighter shade! It turned out well if you look at how full it is. Even though the scan is blurry, the colors are well toned! From there on I went a little deeper with it and experimented some more. I have three more pieces left of another tree that was made on the same day! But I will release them at a later date! Tomorrow I will explain some things to you about what I did yesterday in a better detail but not too much….but rest asured: art will be shown tomorrow and it is recent! Thank you for reading and I’ll see you guys tomorrow. -Fragma

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Hello.  I have been meaning to send this yesterday. I am sorry about that. Some things came up and I am rounding up school this week and learning a new language! Okay so I had always wanted to send something like this. More or less a compilation of what I have been listening to for the past few and I am still debating if Soundcloud is going to be my platform to send out these tracks. Soundcloud has alot of people that are still experimenting with their craft and create new sounds, while platforms such as Spotify is more or less sounds from the past and not really all that new....but dispite that I find myself going back and forth... So for now I will be using Soundcloud as some sort of spotlight for musicians. For one it’s effective for newcomers to gain some new listeners and put them in the spotlight BUT genres will always be a sensitive thing so for now I am going to just focus on one style of music instead of throwing more and more stuff in your face that you don’t like. Because I do think music is a big influencer when it comes to inspiration. So I am making this thing that I can show you what peaks my interest and maybe find yourself suprised at what I am digging and maybe attract your tastes aswell. In this playlist I have compiled some music that are more flowy and easy to the ear. I want to go from slow to faster to faster to faster. So we can all have a good time and you will pretty much when to hide (but fret not...I am not too much of a listener that likes loud music. I am more leaning tolwards easy going music so that drawing will be easier. Next week I will hit you with some art I have been making in a while and in hopefully 2 weeks from now I will greet you again with some more music I would like to share! Of course I will also be talking in-depth about what a specific track does to me at every end of the month. In this way I can keep content coming and coming and keep you guys entertained. Thank you and please enjoy! - Fragma

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Ramble: Identity.

Hello. First: I will post more next mont, I promise!  Now tonight I want to talk about Identity, especially mine. I have really been thinking: ‘’How do I want to represent myself and how strongly do I want to do that?’’ I heard a con panel of Sean Schemmel talk about identity in his voice work. People often mention things like: that it does him good that people cannot tell him appart from King Kai (Dragon Ball Z) because then he is doing his job as an artist/actor correctly since he doesn’t want break the boudairy of fiction and realism like that people think he really is Goku from Dragon Ball in the world we all live in....While really he is Sean and nobody else. I agree with this statement completely and I do feel that it is also important to identify yourself as ‘’the creator of’’ when making comics or illustrations. Loads of people have these pen names, such as myself all while people will not judge you by appearance but mainly by the way you create art. QUICK INTRODUCTION. I go by the name: Fragmantiq. It is both a combination of the word Fragment and romantique. I hold memories dear. But I like many others tend to only know fragments of it. Fragments of memories that can be joyful or disturbing. I want to tell stories that I have felt or that people I know have felt. Romantique is meant in both artistic and affectionate means. Take it for what you can is all I will mention. But I want my name to reflect only by the way I work. And somehow, I want to show you who I am.  As I said a few weeks ago, I will show myself but not in the way you want me to for several reasons. Sexism, racism and even sexuality are a painful topic nowadays. I don’t really want go too deep into it but I want to cover myself so that no one will be able to judge the person who is creating everything. I mainly want the people to focus on what my art is rather than who I am as a person.  I want people to feel more or less more connected with the works than with me. So I am trying to figure out how to represent myself by almost being a piece of art by it self. ‘’I can be literally anyone and everyone on this planet.’’ That is the objective I want to have as an artist. A penname becoming a piece of art in the physical world aswell as in the digital world.  How I will do this is uncertain....maybe just a random person on the street, I have no clue, but I think it might be fun that I become an art project that tries to be the embodiment of the person you haven’t met, the ID number in society, the random passer-by, the jackass that cut you off on the highway and even your friendly neighbors. Anyway, thank you for reading this.  I hope we can get allong well this year and hopefully the coming years, for I am not done with Husk yet. It is after all my magnum opus and will take years to complete. Goodnight. - Fragmantiq

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Hello. Happy New year everyone!  I wish you all well and hopefully I get to see you all grow as people just like you did for me. Thank you so much for sticking around with me since I started this tumblr page. And to commemorate my time being spend here, I would like to tell you some things so that new people and you will know what I find worth mentioning since I got here. As for 2016: I started this whole thing and I have been hard at work with things I have yet to learn in art. I am not the best when it comes to colors and proportions so that was a huge issue that I am still facing to this day! But fear not, I am still continuing and trying to perfect it in my own way.  I am actually really glad I am spending 1 year without any extensive schooling to just improve what I am still lacking and having this tumblr page (and now also a Twitter page: @Fragmantiq ) I am trying to find ways in order to look at peoples work more critically and more clearly rather than having a Tumblr/Twitter page where I am just throwing stuff around. One thing that was really bad on my end is that even though I claim to be an artist, I haven’t posted too much art on here as I should’ve and indeed had promissed. I am deeply sorry for that but it is really because of one tiny thing that really bugs me: My scanner. My scanner is really good and all but some of the finer details are always lacking and gone. I really want to show my best by providing the highest quality work, but my scanner doesn’t do too much justice.... But bad things aside, I want to go a little bit more in-depth what I want to do in 2017.  - Make atleast a short yet good side comic to show off not only to you, but myself, how ‘’good’’ I actually am (I am a beginner and I just really want to do everything well so in this way I will open my eyes even wider) - Do alot more networking with people. I want to see what they do and how they approach everything as an artist or even a comic artist.  - Travel around alot more than I did last year. there is no doubt about it since I do want to see the ways of how people live. I like observing people all over the world (not creepy at all am I right?) - post stuff on here anyway, even if the scan doesn’t do my work justice. I think it’s important to see my work regardless so you can see I am not slacking off all week. I do draw every moment I get (which is alot)  and last but not least: be a person. This is a weird thing I want to ‘’do’’ In here.  This is also the reason why I made a Twitter account (shameless advertisement) to kind of stay close to you. I also want to do something like Akira Toriyama where he has a character that depicts him (he is a cute robot)  But in what way, I have no clue, I do not really want to show who I am for both the fun of it and for the fact that in some countries, they will not work or even look at your own work based on ethnicity/gender/beliefs. I am not saying that I want to fight against it by staying hidden, but more or less so by being able to be just about every one and no one on this planet. I have friends who do know who I am but I do hope that they will not reveal who I am by the time I am working on Husk fulltime.  Please do understand that I am aiming to spread my work to everyone that gets a hold of my work whether I am alive or even dead. I do hope to get a good start, so just for you here is a doodle I made and JUST TO MAKE SURE I PUT IN MY TWITTER HANDLE THERE JUST FOR YOU.  I cannot confirm nor deny if she will be in Husk or even the little side story I will be making.  Once again: I wish you all a happy new year with loads of luck and love! I’ll talk to you guys soon! - Fragmantiq (yes more shameless self-advertisement)

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Hello. Nothing too special here, but I do want to wish all of you a merry christmas. (the new year thing is going to be a larger topic I want to handle so please stay tuned for that later down the line.) I hope you will all receive great presents from your friends and family and even if you didn’t get that one thing you wanted or just like me: nothing at all, remember that christmas isn’t (only) about getting gifts, it’s all about getting the love and care from those who you cherrish. Even the most left out person should get love and care of those around him or her. Please do enjoy the time you get to spend with your loved ones. Tell them you love them, tell them how much they mean to you especially try to enjoy while you are still here. Sorry for getting all sappy! But I would love to tell you one thing. Thank you and I love you, for all the support you have been giving me on my own project such as Husk. I do hope that next christmas, I will be able to provide you all with a very good looking doodle or even fully fledged illustration from yours truely. Thank you and I wish you all a great eve and weekend.

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Let’s talk: Rijksmuseum

Hello. So today I went to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to give myself a taste of art back in the golden days. I always liked looking at paintings from the 16th to 19th century art since they just happen to stand out by letting people know that progression is a big deal.

I honestly never liked the middle ages since they are flad and they kind of look the same. It was the norm back in those days obviously since beauty was traded for a more biblical and religious point of view. They were meant for people that couldn’t read and instead they made a more simple way of telling a tale by making it more of a comic strip.

But as I said: I hate this period of time since it’s flat, boring and mostly (to me at least) disturbing. The humans that are depicted look so..creepy. I wouldn’t really want to hang that on my wall and say: I am able to sleep while this ‘’human’’ stares at me. It just looks creepy. But that is besides the point. I love renaissance, romance and impressionism for their use of color and their sense of realism in their own way.  Now I know that art in the Middle ages were pretty much the same way, but the humans look human and they tried their utmost, hardest to make the viewer, feel something.  I find art that asks me to look at it more closely or forces me to look deeply into it, very satifying and amazing.  I love this scene of progression (especially when we talk about the Italian renaissance since they started off very strong and kept improving in alot of ways, while the Dutch renaissance was slow and still stuck to the past in some aspects) I love the fancy coloring and exploration of being part of the painting as a viewer, very beautiful.

Durring my time at the museum I came across some familiar and some unfamiliar faces. I took a handy notebook with me the entire time to write down what I liked and what I disliked about the paintings that drew me in. I also came with alot of conclussions for myself, about what I want to see myself do and also as a viewer, as if I would talk to the artist and compliment and correct the artist on.  But sadly I didn’t have time to get through each and every single one of the things I wanted to see (like CoBrA and the over all fashion) 

I will gladly return to it and spend another 5 hours or so there to look at the rest but also on the things i have seen, to check them even more to completely figure my personal favorites and the worst ones, out. 

WHAT HAS THIS TO DO WITH HUSK?

Alot! Ever seen cover art for your favorite comics, manga, video games, table top games and even card games? I want to give that experience to you and I will be doing so by giving myself time to make those. Now I haven’t decided an artstyle and method/technique inorder to say: ‘’this is the signature art of Husk’’

But if I do, I would want to give the cover art a sense of impressionism, renaissance and also some romance, while maintaining my signature look. This means I will mainly use the colors that you see in these paintings, not the look. If I had to say: I want it to look as if it’s the first volume art of One Punch Man, I would be lying to you (though I have to admit that it’s direction is very nice, but it takes too much away from the original art that the Manga and even the webcomic do. Over all, I really am thankful for these artists for existing and providing us with these views of their future and present that we would otherwise never had.

Here is a list of artists that struck me the most and you should check out for yourself! (prepare for alot of Jan’s)

Jan Cornelisz

Hendrik Willem Schweikhardt

Isaac Oudwater

Paulus Constatijn

Jacob van Strij

Petrus Camper

Aert Schouman (this man hit me like a truck)

Pierre Prud’hon

Herman Hengstenburgh

Gerrit van Honthorst (Sater en de Nimf is so life like that it almost made me cry)

Willem van der Velde II

Ludolf Bakhuysen

Aelbert Cuyp

Jan Asselijn

Jan Both

Jan Hackaert

Jan Weenix

Gerrit Adriaensz Berkheyde

And obviously the legendairy man himself: Rembrandt

I recommend going here if you ever do get the chance to come down to Amsterdam. If you are into sketches, I also recomment het Rembrandt Huis, It features tons of early sketches and also alot of history about what this man has been going through.

The van Gogh museum is also a must if you are very much into something that is completly out of the ordinary and is now currently one of the top artists to have ever lived on this precious planet.

I wish you guys well and art REAL SOON I PROMISSE!  If you read through all of this: Thank you so much.

I bid you adieu.

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Hello. I made this neat painting a few hours ago and I kinda want to talk about what I will be doing. I painted this tree fully with gouache and I was heavily experimenting with mixing colors together. I took inspiration from expressionism and plein air seeing that i took a huge facination to it when I was a young teenager (10-15 years old) I struggled with 2 things that are essential to those kinda of artists: you need to mash colors together aswell as doing it in a fast amount of time.  I ended up pretty decently if I do say so myself. I really captured the colors right and It was done pretty quickly.  As you can see on the uper right side of the tree you can see remains of my pencil work and I have to figure out what I should really do. Do I go all out or do I need to look hard and sketch in order to give myself some idea of making it work. Things I need to touch up upon the next time I paint things like these. -Make it seem like it is a tree. It is missing branches and the leafs are a little too full. - get a better grasp in colors seeing that the sky is kind of muddy in some spots. The sketches from this project were scanned...but the colors are a little off (even this is a little off.....so I will release it at a later date in order to show what you would see if you were to look at them IRL. HOW WILL I DO THIS THIS BECAUSE WOW WE’VE NEVER SEEN YOU DO THIS I am planing to focus on 1 thing per week. I make some rough sketches and i analyse on things I struggle with or find very possitive from a newbie standpoint. The analysing I will mostly keep to myself but you will see progression from the sketches I make.  I do try hard to get this thing going each week but stuff is happening and a busy schedule is coming up pretty soon so please if you don’t see it: I am very sorry. Comments and reactions are very much appreciated. It helps me grow and learn from people who might do alot better than I do. Anyway thanks for reading and I’ll see you next week!

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Inktober and selfreflection

Hello! I have been hard at work the past month with Inktober and such! I have to say that even though I didn’t really do the full 31 days (thank god because that would be the end of me) I have learned alot about myself! My main focus this inktober was to go and do things I wasn’t used to doing. This went from posing to shaping. I have been mildly satisfied with what I was capable of doing in shorts amount of time but I was very satisfied with shaping.

I am in a ramble mood but I promise that I won’t beat myself up too badly. THE PROS 1. The pros of what I learned through this month is that I could have something ready each day (except for two) and that I had ideas ready to produce. I hope that I can convert the same things into Husk and keep providing new stuff. 2. I can finally see that I want to take time on my work. I rememeber making the first two drawings of inktober and really giving it proper time (about six hours per drawing.) I have always been hasty because I kept thinking: oh hey I should finish this in about 1 hour or else I just don’t have enough creative juices flowing. But Inktober really got me thinking deep on how I want to approach and present it to the public.  3. I can see what went wrong and so do my peers. I am still going to artschool and I showed my teachers and some students my work and they gave me very good feedback such as how to mentally prepare myself. But most bad feedback were also things I looked at and wanted to change! I am happy to get such feedback since it allows me to put myself in their perspective and not just my own. THE CONS 1. I went too fast in the end and began to lash out.  I was fully aware of having just two weeks left but I was beginning to struggle aswell as losing hope. I had to go to work and I was far too hasty compared to the first two weeks. ( I wanted it to be done in three hours or less.) I think it was because I began to be overconfident seeing that the drawings in the first two weeks were very well recieved by fans and artists alike! I should really take my time and when things get difficult and look what needs to be done in order to improve. 2. I need to look around more. I feel that nature would be the best thing for that theme I was doing.  I took this in mind on my last week of inktober and actually looked around such as trees and grass. I want to make something like that more in order to improve that sense of liveliness that it desperately needed. 3. Study more and take things alot more seriously. I already was pretty serious on what I want to do but Inktober showed me how incapable I was in terms of human proportions and directions. A friend of mine even pointed it out by saying: You have the ‘’facingforward-syndrome’’. Which is kind of true. Noe the less I showed angles I wasn’t used to which was good for practice but also shows me to go out and see the world.  I am thinking about going out every morning and sketching people like @kuvshinov-ilya does in his art where he sketches people in the subway. (it’s also a healthy excersize if I go to the central station by bike....and people do know I am a gymrat SO EXTRA CARDIO IS ALWAYS NICE) What will this mean for Husk? It will mean that I want to explore more and more things about the human anatomy and nature, seeing that it is a very important part for Husk to have these things. I want it to be as dynamic as I can.  I might plan to make a short story that has nothing to do with Husk but will feature it in the same vain in terms of looks and art direction. When this will be released is unknown but I do have a little story I want to see happen by yours truely~ Knowing what i have been through this inktober I am not ready to show the character just yet. I need to be confident on my art so just give me a little while in order to present the character in a way I see fit. I want to be proud of what I can do and not just put it out there for the sake of putting it out there and pleasing the people who do want to see more characters. Please do wait. IN THE MEANTIME I do intend on posting what I am exploring so please enjoy that for the meantime. More coming this month!

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U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horse

If Husk had a soundtrack #3

If husk Had A Soundtrack #3 Hello, it’s been a while hasn’t it!  I have been busy with picking a school and I have to say: bummer. I won’t be going to school fulltime which sucks balls because I really wanted to stay with all my friends. But I guess I’ll have to deal with it for now. At the very least, I have quit my job as a dishwasher and I will be going to artschool, parttime! They happen to have a department that teaches everything about comics, so I am going somewhere with this! Today I haven’t been feeling well eitherway. It’s been exactly a year ago since my then-but-still-is-one-of-my-close-friends’- girlfriend broke up with me.  I have to say that I can confirm that I haven’t fully gotten over it yet (sorry if this isn’t your cup of tea and read about my sad stories) but I think I’ll get over it in a few days.  When I drove home from a little artsupply shopping, I happen to hear this song. I didn’t even know I had it but I remembered having the entire ZOO STATION album in my Iphone, so it was quite obvious I would hear this, but it might suprise you that I haven’t heard this song in years, and when I did, I didn’t understand the lyrics (I was pretty fluent on speech but this was a nutcase)  Now that I do, I kinda started being emotional since it came in the right time. I feel as if I was the one being the source of everything bad when I thought it was perfect before something shit happened. In this case, the breakup. To say the least the song is something I can cry to and reminisce to since I consider it (even to this day) one of the best times I’ve ever spent and the shittiest feeling I’ve ever felt when it ended right now, a year ago.  Nothing really something I can put in Husk, but if I really had to say something it’s that I would make the most emotional scenes fit this description of longing or leaving the feeling of something. It can be anything, from an object or just a ‘’status’’. I feel that even if a side character is having a hard time, that you as a reader should get to know how it feels, as a by-stander.  Think about it: let’s say your friend is crying. You instantly want to help that person even though you can’t. The sense of not being able to help, is like getting a papercut, mentally. ‘’How I am going to do this’’ you may ask? I simply do not know.  As for recommendations i suggest giving U2′s Zoo Station album a listen. It’s a great album where you can feel U2′s energy, love and their sense of diversity and it’s the very album I grew to love as a very young child, simply one of my favorite albums made by U2.  Also I will release the first character’s face pretty soon! I still am wondering if I should release her entire outfit, but I guess that can wait since this project won’t be done for a long while.  As always, thank you for your patience and keep on doing what you’re doing 

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If Husk had a soundtrack #2

I haven’t been posting as much...as expected. I am really sorry!!! Please forgive me (but yet you should know by now.) OBVIOUS THINGS ASIDE I WANNA TALK ABOUT THIS. So it daunted to me that J-Dilla and Nujabes have alot in common. Their sampling and their way of making beats is the same. They give off that vibe that it’s either early Spring or a sunny Autumn, which i really like about these two people and seeing that they have died way to early makes me sad to think that we won’t be getting any new albums or tracks by them... But what does this track have to do and what do I like about it? I think it’s because of the way how it gives me those spring and autumn vibes. Two Can Win by J-Dilla for example, gives me the vibes as if I walked outside and it’s the first day of wearing a 3/4 and a shirt instead of wearing a coat, scarf and more thick things that I’d often wear (like everyone else) durring the cold winters. It creates an open setting. Which is really confusing when you think about it. Whenever I listen to tracks such as these, it’s as if I can FEEL and TELL how big the world is on the surface...but also from the sky. All I can think of is a blue sky and chirping birds or a nice evening at a pub. (this makes absolutely no sense...but try to level with me for a second when I say: it’s a open world experience...) Where did i first come in contact with this track? I found it in a very cool video called ‘Taste Closed 2 Can Win’ by the very talented Soulbrothanumbuh3. And to me it sounded as if Nujabes and rap samples had a love child.  So I digged further and I found myself the album of J-Dilla called: Donuts. And after some time I invested some time with it and came to like the aspects of his beats...and believe it or not, I would without a doubt love to create an atmosphere like this in Husk. Comparing this with the very first ‘if Husk had a soundtrack’ you can tell that the themes of both J-Diller and Clipping are heavily different from one another. But fear not, the more I will write posts like these and the more pictures I will reveal, the clearer it will become. As for recommendations, I advice you to listen to some of J-Diller’s other works such as his album ‘Shining’. As mentioned I also talked a litle about Nujabes which I will talk about in the future since he has inspired me even more than J-Dilla in some aspects.For now I will tell you to listen to Nujabes’ ‘Flower’ to give you some time to listen to something new.Till next time!

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If Husk had a soundtrack #1 So on Twitter I usually want to tell people: WOW THIS SOUNDS LIKE I WANT TO HEAR FOR THIS STORY. And I usually just say: If Husk had a soundtrack it would sound like THIS.So Now that I am on Tumblr I can go a little bit more in depth what I mean by this. So consider this a sort of series full of music and me rambling about why I like the music so much. Okay so, I love Clipping, yet I don’t like rap music if that makes any sense. Even though it’s main focus is to tell stories through multiple people who live on the streets, have an addiction or aren’t mentally stable through music, is one of the best ways to tell how serious it is to be living a life like that. The thing that makes it all the better is how experimental the music is that they are making.They amazed me with their track Story 2 which a friend told me to listen to and I was hooked from that moment on. The reason why I chose this track is how ‘noisy’ and ‘gritty’ it sounds. And this goes for every Intro Daveed Diggs has been doing (This high speed rapping can be heard in every intro of their albums and they dropped their 3rd one this exact month, do yourself a favor and listen to it!)The feel is there it’s dark and unexpected which is something I have been looking for. I am not really looking for a kind hearted story, but I also am trying to bring harmony into it to give it more juice for the audience from different backgrounds to enjoy. Now lyrics wise it’s as gritty and serious as they are all trying to be, but I will not be using any of it in Husks story. I will put it right here and right now: Lyrics don’t matter unless you can clearly see them being represented. From this track I recommend everything CLipping has to offer, but you should really start from their very first album ‘Midcity’ to their second album ‘CLPPNG’ to their latest album ‘Wriggle’. You can hear a very good progression from the band aswell as Daveed Diggs growing to have his own style (Not gonna lie...in the first album he sounds kinda...’’swaggy’’) But their singles are also worth while listening to such as ‘Knees on the ground’

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Let’s talk about: Death Stranding

So If no one knows: I am a big fan of Hideo Kojima’s work since (obviously) the Metal Gear series. He has this fantastic sense of cinematography, story telling and characters that he pulls out are out of this world. But more than that is the secrets that he holds within his games. The trailer of his latest game ‘Death Stranding’ is a good example of how you can provide people a first taste of it’s weirdness and details such as the dogtags, the flying objects in the sky, the dead whales/crabs and everything that has to do with Norman Reedus. It’s honestly amazing to me how he can provide so much detail and secrets within such a small time frame as 3 minutes. I want to do something like that. This whole: ‘’keep the viewer guessing’’ kind of idea because of one thing: People will start talking about it and people will follow you. It gains alot of traction between the viewers and a creator that people will still talk about it for years. A good example is the MGS5 trailers. Before people knew that there were going to be 2 seperate games people were speculating so much about what happened in the early trailers. It was so popular that people still talked about it for years to come. Now that the game has already dropped people were still standing in disbelief, that their expectations were wrong and that Hideo Kojima pulled a 180 with it’s players who were so heavily invested in it’s story. It baffles me...and I want to make people feel that exact same way.

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Hello.

Hello everyone! Welcome to my all new tumblr account. As people may know I am developing a story which I want to publish to the masses. As of now I am nothing but a rookie and thus I want all of you to see me fall flat on my face or even see me rise a little bit. I don’t intend this story to be a hit, but it would be really nice if I can provide a story that grasps alot of peoples attention.  My goals by making this comic/manga is: - To create a certain style that is good enough to fit in a story that goes all over the place such as emotions and overall story structure.  -Get out of my comfort zone of drawing the same thing over and over again

- See if I am fit to make comics for a living.

I have no idea how I will be doing this but seeing this as a very long term project i am willing to get some feedback from anyone who is interested. I know how weird it is to see a story that is not even done or doesn’t even have a final name. So yes, I am prepared that people want to see more, get bored of my project for taking so long or how might even end up doing something else in the long run.

I am sorry in advance if I take too long, but I am a very busy guy who can’t sit around too long and also needs to breathe some fresh air.

‘’SO WHEN CAN WE EXPECT YOU TO DO SOMETHING’’ I’d say: ‘’wait and find out’’…But what is the point of making progress when all I do is ‘’sit around’’ ‘’do nothing with it’’ or so on and so forth. What you can expect is:

- Monthly posts of me talking about what I really like for Husk to be, music that influences Husk and much more about the ins and outs of this project. - Early sketches and doodles what I want to further develop - Recommendations for music, artists and artwork.  Why? Because all these things Influence Husk in some way or another. - Full on artwork. This will be done when I have the style and the characters down…(so this will be FAR IN THE FUTURE) I want to leave you guys with one last thing. This whole blog is for people who want to see where I am going with this, people who might want to help me out with things and also hopefully read it once it’s done (i really don’t have a set date…)but please keep in mind that I am alone in this and that I am seeking help of those we do know how to handle this whole comic/manga industry. Once Husk has a final name (I might just stick with this name because it has a nice ring to it) and a set release, I will either abandon this account for people to pick up and explore or I might go as far as deleting this account so it prevents people from spoilers. (even though it’s story will not be put on this account in any way) Please enjoy your stay and I’ll see you guys in the future.