GH - HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for the support, readership, lurking, fanart, ANYTHING from these past 5 years of working on this comic of mine. I truly truly appreciate it.

I improved on pretty much everything because of making this comic. It made me discover my dream of becoming a comic book author and illustrator. I made so many friends because of this comic. Just. Damn. I can't be coherent right now. I am so happy.

Now for this picture. It is heavily influenced by “Radicals” by Tyler, the Creator from his debut album, Goblin, which just released this Monday. (I bought a deluxe edition, lawl.) Upon first listen of this song, it truly touched me as someone who works hard for my dream rather than settling for a path for security and money (ie; the brilliant artists who decide to go for nursing – screw that shit). My sister actually criticized me for going to college for 4 years for my major of illustration because it's selfish of me. If I do anything else on this earth, I will not be reaching my potential and I will NOT be loving what I'm doing as much as I am loving it now.

Essentially the message the song is sending out is “Don't give a fuck about those who try to bring you down or anything traditional you should follow. Believe in yourself and what you want to do. You are a human first before all the pre-existing traditions that come before you”. And that shouted out LOUD to me as something related to Glass Hearts. They all have their own personalities, dreams, interests, problems, and styles. Sure their identities aren't set in stone in the age all of them are, but they're forming their own and facing the things society wants them to be and questioning everything.

Anyways. The process of this picture was extremely grueling. SAI Paint Tool decided to be a douche and not allow a huge resolution for the sketch I made. So I had to literally divide the sketch into 6 different documents JUST to get a large resolution. (It isn't at 300 DPI for this reason.) Gaining motivation to work on the lineart was SO hard that I had to do most of it (like 89%) yesterday. I was streaming most of the process too. Upon opening everything in Photoshop, the stream died like, twice, and the computer was freaking slow. Hahahahaha. It was essentially extremely frustrating. Then I couldn't type yesterday night / this early morning because my sister was there sleeping. (Lol if you follow my twitter or tumblr, you know why.) So this morning I did all the type and etc. It's been an extremely taxing process and I love how everything came out.

I'll have a journal entry up with stuff coming out today along with this picture.

Oh. Because deviantART is fucking stupid with 1) the text area where you upload shit? THAT DOESN'T SHOW UP IN CHROME, 2) I upload a zip file on Firefox, AND THE "YOU SHOULD UPLOAD A THUMBNAIL WITH THIS" DIALOG BOX DOES NOT FUCKING SHOW UP, here is a zip file of wallpapers (uploaded on Mediafire):

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They're with the following sizes I could think of:
1440x900
1280x1024
1024x760
800x600

If you want a custom size, let me know and I'll include it in this.

Again, thank you all. Oh my god. <3

30% SAI Paint Tool / 70% Photoshop CS5