#concept building

[intrepids-stuff]

OKAY so looking through my discord I apparently was on a JJBA/Grim Fandango kick a few months ago and made a musically fun but lethal Stand & Stand user based on the game Grim Fandango. I have a whole profile thought out for them but I’m still figuring out their designs. So I’ll probs hold off on posting anything about them until I get their appearances/pictures figured out. XP

[dearcl113]

014 - Ebay Guy/Organizing Music/Narrative Concept birth 2016-2025

Today I'm going to talk about how I got into the narrative concept, how I organized my 12+ old projects and the event that got me back into music. The next few days will expand on narratives and organization.

In March right before I recorded 'you're the voice' I was talking to some people about googling ourselves. I did it to me, and my name came back to the actress I share my name with (she seems like a nice person). I googled DEARCL, and I found a picture of the album 'Everybody's Dead But I'm Still Dying' I did in March 2016. We (my producer at the time and I) put a ton of work and effort into this project, it was supposed to be my 'break-out' and it kind of fizzled out even with all the energy put into distribution, pressing my own copies, etc. It was the final project made by us together after the original 'I'm a Ghost'. By the time I was done promoting it, I felt drained. A month later I was writing Manic and the original version of Seal Team Six. Nowadays it's not one of my favorites because of the events surrounding my life at the time even if a lot of people still like it. Still that album helped me out for along time, I'd sell extra copies whenever I could and sometimes I really needed the money so I appreciate it in the end. I think we pressed around 400 and in the end we only had around 10 left. The ebay one (shown above) might be a bootleg tbh. I clicked the picture and it sent me to a google link of a guy reselling my album, I reached out to him initially planning to ask him to take it down but he told me a story of finding it in some record store in Connecticut. This was weird to me, it had been like 5 years since I've been around especially music wise. I posted to reddit asking for advice on what I can do and people clowned on me for taking it negatively, which is funny to me now honestly it makes me laugh. So I took it as a blessing. One day around then Dontae told me 'Why don't you just upload all of your music online dude' or something and at first I was like 'well' but then I thought about it and he was right. I had my music stored away, and I really looked at it. The biggest thing that I had never done at that point was organize all of this music that over the years i've recorded, and there was a lot of it. It's hard to do it without a clear idea in mind especially with music when often concepts are just themes or things like that. I started with dates, then I expanded - I moved to what sounded good in between. The more I listened, the more I saw connections between each song. The little lyrics and pieces that repeat, that in hip hop usually are used for personification of the rap character but in my music propelled a story. And honestly, in everybody else's too. Once I realized that people won't listen to full extended versions of my projects with throwaways, I split whatever didn't fit on the Light Trilogy I released this summer/fall/winter into unreleased projects. They're not my favorite anyway. Those projects are more aligned by themes of sound, not really a story. I'm working on five projects right now with two recorded. The projects are expanding on the narrative concept, but I'm still learning. Compared to the Light Trilogy what I'm doing now amazes me, but today isn't about that. I understand how hard it is to organize music especially if you can't stop recording, and the narrative stuff helps me with that a lot. It's my own little sagas, with the stand-alone narratives helping me create the projects outside of my main storyline/sounds. The saga of 'Everybody's Dead' is that even if I didn't like it, I was reminded of all the people who did when I learned the story of how that guy got the CD. My co-workers who'd play it everyday, the random people who really liked the effort put into it, the shows, the clubs, all of it came back. My story was worthwhile even if at the time I didn't think so.

[l2i0n0k7]

Beyond

Three by three by three.

Three to link. Three to strengthen. Three to transport. That’s what I remember. That’s what I learned in school. It’s what I talked about with… With me? With Ayra. But I am Ayra. But I am Caél. But I am… Me. Us. Nine names. Which am I?

I thought it was all just for fun. Part of me did. Most of me does. Some of me knew it was real. I knew it was real, but I didn’t think…

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[lbwings]

The ideas keep going -.-

Ok please tell me if you would like any of these ideas as short (1-3 page) manga instead of just one image with the woods under it. 

-The Moms: 3 stories covering Madam Magneta (Iron’s Grandma), Mrs. Siller (and how she relates to Chief Kitsune), Mrs. Stroker (an intro to Vampi’s mother)

-School Time: Vampi’s point of view recalling their high school days as she remembers that Iron didn’t really smile like she does for All Might for the other guys but she did for her.

-I Island Adventures: Mini stories from their trip to introduce Dave to Iron. Things like movie night with Melissa. Recover issues with nervous All Might. All Might wondering if Dave spent this much time with him when he made his first suit. 

[lbwings]

“I am a hero who is built to die. My master has trained and raised me to die as the sacrifice to save my save and anyone else I can reach in the that moment. Till that moment comes, the rest of my life, I get to chose how to live. Maybe I can do something with that.”  

[lbwings]

Character Building

I’m supposed to be drawing pokemon designs, finishing Cyanna’s picture, or doing one of the little comic ideas I have. What happened instead? I figured out how to put together Carmyne and her brother in-law can complete the court. Making the second act cast-

Chesire Cat, Mad Hatter, Mad Hare, Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum

I thought this up and now I want to draw that too! XD Plus I still want to do summer swimsuit pictures. If my hand could keep my head I would be in great shape. 

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3D printing

So this semester, we’re learning about 3D printing and mould making. We’ve learnt about Thingiverse and Meshlab and Sculptris. The processes of 3D printing and mould making are reproducible and have the potential to create things in multiples. They are also man-made. These processes influenced my concept to work with dichotomies between the organic and man-made and the unique and the reproducible/multiple.