Kibate

So here is an even bigger announcement than the time i told you about my twitter sketches uploads.

I have decided shift my focus from artworks to manga. Actually i always saw myself more of a storyteller than an artist to begin with. What i wanted to do was tell stories, not show art.
But over the years my focus shifted towards art, and since i started to do commissions to combine work with drawing, it shifted even more. So much, i forgot my initial goal.

Even when i started doing my twitter sketches, something i did out of pure personal fun, i only did sketches for artworks instead of manga/comics.
Well, that changes now. Starting today, i will draw manga again. They might be in sketches as well, but my sketches usually look clean anyway, so it won't matter
It will be mostly short stories or pilot chapters, thus i will be able to draw a lot of stories in a short time.

They will be uploaded on a Patreon account: BUT BUT BUT, it will be completely for free!! I use patreon because it is easier to upload individual pages without spamming my other portfolios(like this deviantart one) full with sketches.
Of course, that doesn't mean i won't appreciate donations XD

I will occasionally upload cover pages here on deviantart though, and link it to that new patreon of course, since these cover pages will usually be in full color, not just sketches.

So i hope you are interested and follow me or on my Patreon, or Bookmark it and check it out from time to time

www.patreon.com/Kibate

As most of you probably forgot, i actually have a twitter. It has never gained a big following(i have a lot less followers than my brother, who doesn't even do anything but talk about personal interest...which i guess is the main reason why twitter was created, so forget i ever said anything.) thus i never did much with it in the first place.

But lately i have started to use it more creatively. You see, to keep myself motivated and to occasionally draw things i personally like(unlike commissions and patreon) i now draw 5 times a week little quick sketches of random things. Sometimes fanart, sometimes art related to previous artworks of mine, sometimes things related to current events, just random stuff like that.

So if you are interested, keep a look out: @MBartolovic

As for the people who want to know what is going on with SM-CS, well, i don't know either. My workload is huge and i am in need for money(it sucks that life revolves around money...) thus:

For a short while i will accept commissions again.
The prices etc. can be found as usual here:
Commissions(Whether commisions are open or not, please ask me personally, or please refer to the latest journals entries)
Prices for both Comic Pages and single artworks (for each single page of course, though i might shorten/increase the price depending on the content of the pages) New Info: A Comic commission must be AT LEAST 2 pages long, if however you want 1 comic page it can be done but with a price increase, depending on the content.
Sketches: 15$
Lineart: 25$
Lineart + Mangastyle fillings + screentone: 30$
Lineart + Cell-shading: 35$
Lineart + Soft-shading: 45$
Backgrounds: +5-15$ (depends on various things, coloring, size, details etc.)
Example Pages: (currently not available, but you can just check out my gallery)
Script: If you want a comic/manga to be done, it would be nice to have some kind of script to be prepared. I can always pull out something on my own, without any price increase, but i think it would be best to at least have a general outline on what should appear, right

There are some restrictions thought to do what i will do, it would be best if interested to just ask me whether i will do this or that.

Once i will stop doing commissions, i will delete this journal entry to avoid confusion.

(first off, as for the previous journal entry, i am still working on it. The lack of interest kinda lowered my motivation though)

Serious topic i guess, or maybe not...
Anyway, i have noticed something strange, and i guess i need you guys experience to help figure this one out.
You know, i have always figured my SM-CS comic is the one main feature of my gallery, as it is the one thing i upload the most regularly, other than that i only draw random artworks with no set theme. And here is the odd thing, i don't think anyone would be watching someone like that, i mean, whatever they enjoyed about my work, there is no guarantee at all i would draw it again any time soon. And if they just like my artwork, they would also enjoy looking at the sailor moon comic.

And here is what baffles me: I have 2500 watchers to this gallery. But my sailor moon comics get only like, on a lucky day, 700 views. So what are the other 1800 watchers doing? I get that there are SOME people who have countless artists on their watch-list and thus are drowned in notifications of new uploads. But that must be the minority...right?

So can anyone explain this to me?

Hi
first off, before anyone might be scared for the future of Sailor Moon CS, that thing IS still on going and nothing will stop it. So please don't worry that this new project will take up time i would have otherwise spend on drawing.

Anyway, to get to the main topic, i have a new project in plan. You see, as a hobby i like to make games. Some may even remember the flash mini-RPG i did a while ago about the OC Sailor Darkmatter. I have continued to try out making games here and there, however none really took off beyond the planning stages. Eventually i started to experiment with the game engine "Unity", but even here it has never hit off beyond planning stages, however i don't want it to keep that way.

This is where you may come in handy.
You see, i think if i had an actual goal i might have more motivation to create something, even if it is just for fun and not serious.

So i ask you:
What game would you like to see being created?(please comment in this journal)
Here is the best part: It could be ANYTHING, absolutely everything from the genre of game, to the story to the style, everything is up to YOU.

The only limitation i ask is that the game idea you may have is not based on a franchise i don't know(since that would require research, and research takes up a lot of time)
It could be anything from a very long RPG to a silly Tetris game.

What can you expect:
Nothing. Well, not nothing, but nothing much. I WILL create at least one game from the suggestions(though i want to continue doing this) BUT the graphics will more than likely be bad, really bad, as i want to concentrate solely on the game mechanics, not on the artwork for this particular project. So expect something from the lower Playstation1 era instead of something amazing like PS3 games or higher. Same about sounds and music, as i will take the first thing i can get for free on the internet. And it goes without saying, no voice acting. (no pun intended)
Also i take the liberty of changing an idea.
The game, no matter what kind of game it will be(2d or 3d, first person or platform etc.) will be made in the Unity Engine. For those who don't know, Unity games can be played as stand alone or as web games(like flash games). In order to play them one only needs to download a Unity webplayer. (the download link will be shown if you open a page with a unity game but don't have the player already installed)

How will i choose which game to create first?
Well, if there are only a handful of suggestions, i will do them based on the time the suggestion was written. If there are more, i will collect them for a week and then do a poll.

What kind of games have i done before?
I actually finished in my entire run a whole(!) ...3 games. I do have countless other ideas, but like i said, they never got beyond the planning stage.

The first one was the RPG i made in Flash i spoke of, which unfortunately won't make much sense to those that haven't read most other comics done for a specific deviantArt sailormoon OC tournament, and the game mechanics were a little wonky as well(it was my first full game after all):
SMOCT Round 3 THE GAME

The second game was a test to see how well i can work with Unity: Tetris.
Very very basic Tetris: comga-verlag.de/unitygames/tet…

The third game was a little project that was initially planned for Mobile Phone Games, however i wanted to test some mechanics with Unity first, and the mobile version never took off either.
A very very basic Asteroids: comga-verlag.de/unitygames/ast…

I hope to see some unique suggestions! Even if not, even if you ask for the same thing that has been done countless times before, i don't care!