Greetings groovie people! This is the
self-proclaimed Blue Dragon and I'm
back with another Friday Night Video. And
let's see, this week's video I don't have a-
I never have a title for these! I come
up with the title for it later. I think
I'm going to title it vote for Julius! [laughing]
I'll explain why in just a minute. But
I'm thinking of changing these videos a
little bit, because 1) I find value in
making these Friday videos because it's
a way for me to catch up on all my to do
work that I have. Oh my gosh! I've got so
many projects that I've just been
putting off on the side burner and this
has really been helping me actually sit
my butt down and do something. I'm gonna
be talking about all these pieces of
paper in a minute. But the videos are-
like last week's video was over an hour
and a half long and while I was-because
I started so early I was able to you
know edit it and everything get it ready
to go a day ahead, I worked all week on both
the Wednesday and the other video, and
it's taking up--I mean I still want to do
these videos but it's taking a little
bit more time than I want because I have
once again run out of my buffer for my
comic. And whereas I do need to work on--I
need to get that built back up--I think
what I want to do is I'm going to still
record these live, and then I'm going to
just kind of take a page out of some of
the other YouTube artists' books. Oops!
I didn't know my finger was so high up! It doesn't look
like up at all!
Oh no! But I'm going to--what I'm going to
start doing
is cutting out parts of the video and
we'll see if this takes longer. If it
does take longer, then I'll find another
way of doing it. But I got to make sure
that I'm..that I'm saving time for my
comic, because I need to work on that, and
that's--that's my baby! My baby!
My project! This video's already
gonna be long, because this intro is so
long! The other thing is, as I've been
saying, I'm going to be at Con+Alt+
Delete, and I'll be handing out free
stickers on each day. There's three days:
it's December 20th, 21st, and 22nd up in
Chicago-- Rosemont, Illinois--
but outside of Chicago. And so each day
I'm gonna have a different sticker
design. So this is what I'm gonna have
for one day. I actually will be selling
sticker packs on the nice paper. This is
just cheap print paper, like label paper
from Office Depot. I'm not gonna lie this
paper for the quality it is it's really
not that good I feel. I spent a lot--well, 
not a lot, but like more than...I spent
like thirty dollars on a box of this, and
I know that they're not for stickers!
These are just for my free stickers that
I'm handing out so these are obviously
not going to be as high of a quality as
the ones that I'm selling, because I am
giving these up for free. But I really
don't like this paper. Like my mom, I gave
her sticker and she put it on the
dashboard of their car for some reason
which is cool it looks cute I think she
was trying to advertise for me. But it's
already faded and peeled, so this I mean
other than maybe putting this in a
notebook, these are just kind of little--I
wouldn't even put this on the top of my
laptop because if you rub it too
hard...these aren't going to last. They're
just little free advertisement stickers that I'm going to be handing out. But I
have a couple designs that I'm handing out.
So I've been working on cutting
things out. I have to do these by hand
because I don't have a fancy machine. But
this is what's going to be for day one,
is my neko girl! Aaa! Can you see
that? Is that focusing okay? Maybe I'll put it
down here? Maybe I should put it on a
white background or something? There we
go! So my neko girl-I think she's cute!
I was actually talking about weeaboos
but I actually do like it when people
cosplay, or dress up like this. I do think
it's cute! So don't get me wrong, don't get me
wrong! But this is my neko girl, and
then I'm gonna be handing out--like I
have stuff that I'm writing on the back
like my information--I may make a label
and just start slapping them on the back
of some of my stuff. So then I've got
these that I need to put my information
on, and then I'm gonna put like who the
character is and the link for my comic.
But I don't really know what I want for
day three. So that's what I'm gonna work
on today! A sticker that I can sell but
also one that I can give away. And I
thought you know what I could do:
there's a couple things that I want to
work on today. I also wanted to show you
this see these are just scrap papers.
When I-if I print something off that I
decide I no longer need, or if I get like
something in the junk mail and the back
actually doesn't have a bunch of stuff
printed on it, I just fold it in half and
that's what I use for like my
thumbnailing of my comic or like like
little ideas like this is going to be a
cover for an act. I don't know which one
but I think I've actually switched it
out where I've got, um...I think I have Kanna--
yeah Kanna is as Chun-Li right now, and
then I'll probably--I flipped them by
accident--but I was like "yeah it doesn't
really matter." I mean you know Rhina can
can dress up as Cammy 'cause neither
one of them had blonde hair so whatever.
She'll hae a wig on. But one of the things
I'm going to work on today is in my
comic--oh! I don't see I don't need this
lobster anymore. This is my rock lobster sketch. And see how I just had used the
back of the paper? Yeah. This is like such
a boring intro!
It's gonna get better I'm gonna work on
it! I'm gonna improve! You only improve
with time and work and effort! So yeah,
in my comic in Act 2 of the revamp, this
is a little bit--like when I originally
did it I just took some public-access
picture of a dragon eating its tail and
just photo
you know just copied it in there like
it's not I didn't even try to make it
look like a drawing I didn't trace it or
anything I just put it on the piece of
paper! I'll put the comic, what what page
I'm referencing: Boop!
But for this, for the revamp, I was like
"you know what? I'm really trying hard to
do my own backgrounds to do my own
everything" and I mean aside from
screentones.
I try to make my own patterns
but screen tones and stuff you know
they're open for people to use and I
bought some packs that you know I paid
for it so I'm gonna use it gosh dang it!
And that's what they're there. And mangaka in Japan,  you know they
don't all design their own screen tones.
They get them somewhere. So those I don't
feel so bad using, but like that dragon
was like you know I was like I can
incorporate this into what actually
happened in Act 1, so I just did a quick
ugly drawing - you know because her
level of drawing you know she's just
getting ready to enter high school. Some
people are fantastic but her level of
drawing is more like cutesy. And this
was supposed to replicate the Lisa Frank
style because the comic does take place
in the late nineties and I remember
that's the kind of stuff that my friends
and I had when we were younger. And
that's why it takes place in the 90s
because I'm not even gonna try--I mean I
don't know what the kids experiences are
today, you know what their experiences
are like, so I'm doing it based on what I
remember and even then you know memory
is such a it's such a...complex thing you
know? You remember things one way and
then somebody else remembers the exact
same story a different way and you know
go watch Rashomon if you want to see a
good example of that! Akira Kurosawa's
Rashomon. Rashomon? Oh my god! That movie
was so good! I love old movies! I really
do. I think, man, Kurosawa's amazing! Not just the
samurai films, but like his other movies, too.
So this is a sticker I'm going to be
working on. And then I was like I want to
start working onTthe Whimper in the Dark
again! And I had some pictures and I
remembered I was just trying to trying
to remember this for what I wanted to do
this week. And so I was like I know I got
a cute little picture of Jack our dog
Jack dog from The Whimper of the Dark.
And then I had one for Julius, where he's
like goofy looking. I was like I wanna do
that too! So I found them in my scrapbook.
Okikdoki! I'm also going to work on...um...I think
there's some music sites that  I can
get some-download-some free music from.
And I'm gonna stop having it play in the
background because the the quality isn't
very, isn't very good. I'll reuse those
post-it notes. I like to reuse those. So
this is the picture: I thought this would
be cute! That's what I was trying to
remember last night...is when I was
brainstorming what I was going to do.
Well at the time that I'm recording this
this video is going to come out on the
20th
so I'm actually working on this on the
13th so. A week in advance! Hey! I'm
starting to catch up on my buffer!
I'm starting to catch up. I'm starting to
get a buffer. But I thought this would be
a cute little button or a sticker uh
yeah and-that's from Inktober of last
year-I'm gonna be gearing up for that
too.
And this was the original sketch I had
for vote for Julius! It's really
simplified! This what I'm talking
about in the Intro Video, how my sketches
are usually just crap, and then I make
something of it later. But yeah, so that
that's what I had remembered but Wow
what's even less detailed than I thought!
mm-hmm so let's get a blank page! Okay, I
did...That's more to do: see there's my
reminder to draw the cute Odysseus dragon.
Redo Rin's drawing, make it a sticker. See
I have little post-it notes! Man, I'll be
able to recycle that post-it note
finally! I've had that for years and all
the stickiness is all it's all gross and
not sticking more so let me touch it! Blllaaah!
And then I got my "skissors." I'm not even
gonna need those for this! So whaaat
pencil do I wanna use and what do I want
to talk about? [sing songy]
Okay so Lisa Frank. Anyone of my
generation's gonna--
well um, wait she's making,  her arts
making a comeback! I don't know if she's
still alive or not. I can't remember. Yeah
I tore that up [bad jump cut] That's too big!
Well let's just do some circles. This is
my process! I'm terrible you guys! You
have no idea! Maybe you do now. But yeah, she
started doing her art and like the
sixties and stuff, and then it
really blew up, then I don't know I just
really blew up and like when I was a kid
like the the unicorns and everything was
happy shiny rainbows and stuff like that.
Okay so let's break this down into
circles. Why am I doing it on an angle? I
don't need to do it on an angle
and make this hard on myself!
I guess I kind of lost track of what I
was talking about which happens all the
time. I will be looking for a different
music to see if I can find some actual
music files, because I know that quality
is probably driving some people nuts. My
um, dudefriend is super sensitive. Like
he can't listen to laptop speakers.
Cause, like...he won't-like I've noticed this,
like if I'm playing music on the laptop
instead of like the regular speakers, he
like suddenly just starts getting really
irritable and it takes me minute, and I'm
like oh oh oh yeah and he's probably cuz
like subliminally I don't know like we
did this audio testing we're like
there's stuff that I can't hear-I'm kind
of deaf anyway I lost him hearing when I
was a kid-but I noticed that about him, and so I know that there are
probably people where the audio quality
is really driving them nuts with that music
in the background. So I'm going to work on
that...finding something. I have a little
post-it note that I got from--again I
learned from other Youtubers and they
were talking about where they got some
of their music from. I just don't want it
the background music to be the same as
what everybody else plays. Is [that's] the deal. I
mean I kind of want to be a little bit
different. I was a huge fan of Lisa Frank
when I was a kid because when, in
the 80s and the 90s when I was younger
there weren't really a lot of fantasy
stories targeted at girls. There
were some available. This is probably why
I really don't give a crap of whether
the protagonist is male or female. Like
it's nice whenever there's a female
protagonist, but growing up like The
Hobbit...One, my parents read that both
my mom and dad read that to us at
different times, and two-
that ear's not right-so so Frodo-actually
Pippen-was my favorite. Well no, he wasn't
in The Hobbit that was in The Lord of
the Rings. I liked his character but I
really liked The Hobbit and you know
that the main character was Bilbo in
that. I mean there were other main
characters but let's face it he was it
was I mean it was just a fun little
story and you know there are very few
women characters in that. Again, I want to
make sure that people understand I am
super happy there are finally some
stories with female protagonists, I'm
just saying I took what I could get when
it came to fantasy because they really
weren't a lot of stories even targeted
at kids. I mean there were but there
there weren't nearly the...um... there wasn't
nearly the amount that there is now. And
another favorite of mine was the Prydain Chronicles, where, I mean everyone
knows about the infamous Disney The
Black Cauldron, which that movie is not
the Black Cauldron.
It's a combination of The Book of Three
and The Black Cauldron. It starts out
with parts from The Book of Three and
then just kind of mixes it all, and then
doesn't even do the story right because
the prince that was in the Black
Cauldron is not in the the cartoon.
Supposedly that film was supposed to be
a lot better but the censorship got to
it! I actually think that watching like
the deleted scenes and stuff I think it
could have been a really good movie 
if they hadn't cens--it's really weird that they
were so scared about censoring it
because when I think about stuff I
watched as a kid, I mean The Neverending
Story was traumatizing and I loved it!
And I watched it over and over and over
again! And My Girl with Macaulay Culkin
and I can't remember the main
character's name-the girl-I haven't
watched it for years. But oh my gosh! That
was traumatizing and that was pretty
much targeted at like you know, it
Macaulay Culkin in it! They were
targeting the younger audience!
A...um I guess not with The Good Son [laughs], but...
what else? Um...oh my gosh! The Return to Oz!
That was nightmare fuel, and I mean
somehow we you know my generation
managed to survive! [laughs] But they [Disney] I guess
, well I mean, it wasn't really all--
it's probably the Disney censorship I
should say, but it's like seriously?
Seriously? We could have handled it, man!
We could have handled it! We were tough We
lived through through Artax!!! Oh this
is actually gonna be--[laughs] let me pat myself
on the back--this is gonna be really cute!
Oh my gosh! Too much cute! Kawaii!! [laughingself] Just kidding! I'm really-let me have another drink of coffee!
Aaah! Nice and cold! I never--it takes me
forever to drink a cup of coffee! it's
and it's not even that I put the soy
milk in it, because I only put a little
bit in it this time. It was actually too
hot to drink when I first had it! I mean
I'm-I'm a baby, you guys! But it's like now by
the time I actually get to finishing it
off, it's all cold. Maybe I should drop an
ice cube in and just say it's iced
coffee? It's the best of a...of a
potentially negative situation! I don't
know. But yeah that growing up was one of
my oh my gosh
I read the Prydain Chronicles so many-
okay not the full series-I read The Book of
Three so many times!  And then The Castle
of Lyre, which I guess this is, this is
that book on did focus mostly on Eilonwy,
who was the female protagonist. There
were two protagonists: there was Taran
and Eilonwy. And I loved that the copy of
my book had the pronunciations because
it's um--pronunciation sorry, I need to
enunciate! But they had a
pronunciation guide in it because
they're all Welsh
names like Gwydion and Melangar. I'm
probably mispronouncing, though I'm
trying to remember what I remember from
it. But it was such a-oh my gosh-
Lloyd Alexander...what a story! What a
series! And I loved--I'm not gonna spoil
Taran Wanderer,
but the more, I mean, the moral of the
story, because this kid was always...he was
an orphan, Taran was, and he was always
like dreaming about what is my ancestry?
What is my heritage?
Because he never knew! He was raised by
Col and Dallben the wizard, and he
always had these grandiose dreams of who
he was, and in Taran Wanderer, he's
trying to see if he can find out who his
parents were, and they just-he just...the
author Lloyd Alexander handled it so
well!
And you know his his his search his
journey for who he was and, and what his
identity was. And I thought the message
was really good.
Here's the problem with a sketchbook is
it's hard for me to flip. That is so
totally not even! Oh yeah, I need to uh...
yeah I still ended up skewing him! What
is my issue? [hearty laugh] This is skewed! Eh! You're going in the garbage! No, not quite yet.
I need to still "Lisa Frank" him up. This
needs to be the cutest little, the cutest
little nails. I will say that one of my
favorite books that was a fantasy novel-
well not novel--but this fantasy series that
had a male and female protagonists, but
the main character was female, it was
the Dealing with--oh! The Enchanted Forest
Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede. I actually
emailed her like probably ten years ago,
and she responded to my email herself!
This is-you know nobody emails anymore, I
guess.
I don't know. Oops! I need to be up in the
picture. Wow, this is some epic music. This
is I think this is The Sorcerer's--no,
oh no it's not... Nevermind let's Peer Gynt Suite -I'm prounouncing that wrong-
pronounce in their home suite number one
number 1- Movement 4 Edvard Grieg. Okay.
But the princess Cimorene is the main
character. But what I liked about it, was
that the dragons are actually good guys
for once! And the wizards are the
bad guys! You know, it's always the dragon
needing to be slain! I loved this series
by Patricia C Wrede. It's Dealing with
Dragons, Talking with-oh wait-
Searching for Dragons, Calling on
Dragons, and Talking to Dragons. But
together in the omnibus, it's The
Enchanted Forest Chronicles. Loved it! And
both, you know, there are both male and
female characters. They get plenty
of screen time. I loved it! And so yeah
there were like a handful of books that
you know had female protagonists, but for
the most part I ended up having to read
stuff like you know like Edward-I
haven't really read a lot of his stuff--but
like Edward Rice Burroughs had some
stuff he did: Tarzan and the Martian-well
A Princess of Mars. Not The Martian Chronicles, that was Ray Bradbury.
Which I haven't finished.
I read Fahrenheit 451 twice. I've
enjoyed that.
He's from Illinois, too [so is Wrede.] I'm from Illinois
originally so anytime there's an author
or something from Illinois I'm like yeah!!!! Illinois rocks! Even though I hate Illinois!
I don't really hate Illinois. Actually, you
know you always when you're younger
you're like "I hate where I grew up!" Illinois's a hot mess, okay, but at the same
time--like politics-wise it's a hot mess.
They need to get their stuff together
and that's across the board! Everyone! It's a bipartisan effort, how messed up Illinois is! [laughing]
But...and I mean--yeah people are very--
I don't know. I don't know! It's just
now I'm getting nostalgic a little bit,
because I live in Missouri but
Missouri's okay. It's not terrible! I'm
not like trying to down Missouri folks.
It's just not what I'm used to. It's very
different here, even though we're only a
stone's throw away! We're just across the
river--it's-it's interesting how
different it is, even like Southern
Illinois versus Central Illinois versus
Northern Illinois. My hands! Northern
Illinois. They're all so very different, and
one thing I'm gonna say: if you're from
Chicago and you're watching-this quit
lumping Central Illinois in with
Southern Illinois! Because we're not all
the same just 'cause we're south! And I've
lived up in Northern Illinois, and
there's plenty of Northern Illinoisans
who are a lot like the Central Illinoisans
but not quite like the Southern
Illinoisan. And I've got relatives and
cousins in Southern Illinois and I've
traveled aroun! So it's-it's interesting
how even within a state, the cultural
spectrum...I mean obviously there are
similarities, but there's also so many
differences! It's very fascinating!
There we go! There's Odysseus! That's it,
that's the sketch! I will fix up his paw--
and his paws?--His hands! I'll probably,
when I ink this, I will fix
things up, because I want to move on with
the video. What am I at? Well it's been 30
minutes. I could just end with this.
Yeah, maybe I'll just end with this.
That's the sketch today! [abrupt segway] Well thank
you guys for watching me sketch this
image of Yulie,
Odysseus, from Dark Horse. For those of
you who, you know, are just joining in.
Links for my free web comic are down below.
Con+Alt+Delete. You know, things that I
reference. I will have some affiliate
lin-lablah bla bla! [laughing] Sorry! Affiliate links down below. Also referring to like some of the books
and stuff that I referenced during the
video. I mean the sketchpad and pencils
and stuff I'm not going to have
affiliate links to because...why? You can
get those anywhere! [laughing] They're nothing really special! But yeah all that will be down below. If you have
any questions, I do certainly encourage
you to, you know, leave me a question down
in the comments. That's cool. If you like
the video, "like" it. That always helps out.
Do the bell thing, if you want. And you
know, just thank you guys for watching
these videos! I really do appreciate it!
They're...they're...I'm trying to make it a
little less work intensive, but at the
same time, I do find them to be very fun!
I love to talk! And I'm usually by myself [laughing]
during the day! [through laughs] I always talk to
myself anyway! So I might as well
record my ramblings and share them with
the world, 'cause everybody else is sharing all their
their thoughts with the world, too! I
mean really no one cares what I have to
say, but thanks for listening anyway! I
certainly appreciate it! All right you guys,
I'm having too much fun with this! Peace
and love, fare-you-well,
and always, keep on truckin!
