Life as is now

Hello everyone,

I know I haven't been posting much lately, but I have been busy drawing SPOON (duh), and settling into my new job.  Which also means I am in the midst of moving since I will be further up north closer to my friends and my girlfriend :)

Chapter 2 will be wrapping up soon and then I will take a 2 week break and in the break, I hope to create a good buffer and also practice some drawing.  I realize that my poses are still a little awkward when I draw them, so I am going to start working on some body figure drawings to improve this.

Also pretty soon, I have a HUGE surprise for SPOON fans...I'll let you know.

:)

YOONICORN

LIVESTREAM

hey guys,

soooo to get closer to my audience (well the small following i have right now that is haha)

at certain times, I will livestream.  What does that mean? you can watch me draw!!! ...LIVE!

so I will always notify you guys when I will draw live through twitter or facebook. The site is here, so add it to your favs!

http://www.livestream.com/spooning?t=807693

I look forward to talking to you all soon! :)

YOONICORN

unintentional blog hiatus

hey guys!

Long time no talk..well on this blog anyways haha....

For those of you who do not know, chapter 1 of spoon is finally finished and you can check it out here:

http://spoon.smackjeeves.com/comics/1390588/1-introduction/

I am working diligently on chapter 2 as we speak! For other chapter releases, I plan on taking the same pace of releasing pages 5 days a week and then taking a 2 week break inbetween.

I hope by the end of this summer to unveil some cool surprises so stay tuned!

YOONICORN

too long (that's what she said...huh!?!?)

hey everyone,

it's been awhile, I have been drawing like nuts, working like nuts, and partying like nuts, that's a lot of nuts, right? hahah

well anyways, I want to update saying thank you for the support I have received thus far from fans thus far and that every comment motivates me to draw even more.

If some of you have not heard, I have backed out of the yen press contest so I can get better at drawing and hopefully in one years time, my drawings will be at a whole another level and that SPOON will be in a different place...different place????

I have a lot of hopes and dreams with this edition and I hope people will stick around for it...

YOONICORN

in times like these...

Hello!

So as usual, I am in a tight spot, drawing SPOON and on top of that, I am ALMOST done outlining for the yenpress contest........which is more difficult than you think since I have to fit it all into 32 pages, lol.

In other news, PROMATEURS, episode 14 is up:

http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=99009&cmd=tc

It is called the "LOST EPISODE" because we recorded this previously, but it didn't record, lol.

You can check out her awesome manga here!

http://mayshing.com/

uh...I have a lot of stuff to talk about...mainly, promoting SPOON, I have been thinking more and more of trying to advertise it, but using sites such as smackjeeves and drunkduck seem to be getting me nowhere, but it also could be that the concept is very foreign to people and also the drawings still need work, lol.

But I keep telling myself the first chapter is yet to be finished and it's been only a month, so we shall see where things go in life....so my to do list is as included:

-SPOON

-ONESHOT for yenpress

-YOKAI

-setting up a DEVIANTART page

also, there will be a small hiatus for the podcast since my cohost has gone on vacation...so yeah..that is all for now! back to drawing! haha

YOONICORN

PROJECTS!

Yooooooooooooo! nicorn...just kidding...get it? hahah...anyways...

I have been working like feverish beaver(well yoonicorn) and I have decided to start working on other projects ontop of SPOON..yes, I am crazy!

YENPRESS has initiated a grand tournament:

http://www.yenpress.com/nts-11-12/

Yes, I will be entering this grand ordeal which requires 30 pages of epicness and for it, I have prepared a story, NOT SPOON, but one called O.G.

A story about a grandpa and a kung fu dude...no summary because I suck at summarizing..I feel like my summaries give away spoilers haha: heres a sketch below of the rough character sketch...

The epic contest is due March 30th...2 months...30 pages...O__O, my goal is to finish the rough draft for it by the end January so I can start penciling and stuff.

And my SECOND PROJECT is a child manga called YOKAI, a story about a monster boy with horns and just moved into a neighborhood and is a social outcast...haha

The sketch is just the design for the main character named YOKAI...whose name was inspired by a kid I recently met named...Yokai...hahah.

My goal with YOKAI is to submit it to publishers aiming towards a child hood audience hoping for it to be a kids manga teaching them morals and then eventually becoming an epic adventuring manga allowing kids to grow up with the character, but the market is getting shittier...so I don't know, my goal is to have a couple of pages done by....March?

So really everything is piling up, my real job, and drawing.

I still want to update SPOON 5 times a week since it is just growing and I am pretty much on fire about the story at this point..but I am not sure if it will ever go past being a webmanga due to the strangeness of it..but we shall see...

ok, I've said a looooooot! haha also I am excited to have this awesome guest on our podcast...soon! who you may ask???....SECRET!

YOONICORN

the land of YOONICORNS

Hello everyone! It's been awhile!

I've been really busy with the serialization of SPOON since it updates 5 days a week, haha. Ontop of that I have work Monday through Fridays from 8:30-5:30pm and then my 2nd job from 6-7pm and then I get home and have roughly about 3-4 hours to draw if I don't procrastinate haha.

Anyways, I've decided to post some pics of my workspace!




My workdesk!


My computer! Usually I am skyping with Contreras or looking at manga haha

The scanner of ultimateness!!!

OH NOES! SPOILER PAGE!!? haha

For the next update, I'll put up some rought sketches of outlines I have started to do for chapters.

Ok, till next time!

YOONICORN

Por que....?

That's right...Charles is now speaking spanish!!! hahaha.

My friend/amigo/rival/podcast cohost, FELIPE CONTRERAS has helped me translate SPOON into spanish. Check it out!

http://spoon.subcultura.es/

And as usual, check out Contreras' epic manga, BLADE OF THE FREAK:

http://bladeofthefreak.smackjeeves.com/comics/776312/blade-of-the-freak/

and his other manga about space!

http://brownspeed.smackjeeves.com/comics/1302806/001-fang-spearer-from-planet-puulp/

and finally, do not forget our podcast! lol.

http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=99009&cmd=tc

PHEW! That's a lot of links...ONE MORE..which is where to find MY MANGA, haha.

http://spoon.smackjeeves.com/

The manga will be updated MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, so 5 pages a week...we shall see how this will go. lol....

YOONICORN

Merry Christmas

http://spoon.smackjeeves.com/

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Instead of merging everything together, I removed my most recent SPOON site and am starting from scratch...so please join the site and make it grow!!!!! haha.

January 1st.

YOONICORN.

Christmas break hooray!

Christmas break at my job has FINALLY arrived and I will FINALLY be getting a week long break. So I will be drawing (and coloring) frantically over break getting work done for January's serialization.

I have not fully decided how to post up the pages on SMACKJEEVES..whether through my original site or create an entirely new one...blargh. I also plan to start working on another project called YOKAI, a kids manga idea I have. So I will be quite busy (hopefully).

I have been getting more tips and advice from Miss Christine Chong

http://mayshing.com/

I still have lots to work on such as the fundamentals of drawing (shading, anatomy), so I plan to look into taking classes or practicing sometime in the New Year, so for this edition, I really REALLY want it to be the version that takes off and is finished and I want to grow as an artist.

So please look forward to January 1st!

YOONICORN

SNEAK PEEK

The coverspread for chapter 1...almost done...not..haha

ALSOOOO PROMATEURS is back from its unintential hiatus. Check it out!

http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=99009&cmd=tc

YOONICORN

JANUARY

Hola!

I am getting excited for January...why? BECAUSE I WILL BE SERIALIZING SPOON!!!!!!!

I really, really, really, really hope that this is the one, because the ideas I have for it keeps me fired up and excited to draw. I am debating on whether I should make another site or to use the old spoon website and archive ALL the editions together, so I am thinking about it.....

So I plan to update on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, three days a week. That will be the pace until things in the story can pick up.

Also my podcast with Contreras, author of BLADE OF THE FREAK, has been rebooted and we are coming out with another episode this Friday, and hope to keep on having more guests, so please stay tuned!

EXCITEMENTTTTTTTTTT

-YOONICORN-

So much to doooooooooo

Hello!

So I have become fickle once again and decided to make ANOTHER chapter to become chapter 1, so what does that mean for all of the stuff I've drawn up to this point?

They become chapterS! So in reality, I have A LOT of buffer pages when I start posting up stuff again, but for now, I will have to start drawing ferociously this new chapter...T___T

Also I have to make a new banner and redo the YOONICORN logo since it looks kinda scribblish...ok, well more updates soon!

YOONICORN

GOALS FOR 2012-FUTURE

-reserialize spoon by January 2012.
-make a new banner.
-learn some javascript to set up a website .
-get popular enough to make a living and make some books

-finish the story to its completion.

Old Habits die Hard.

Hola,

So awhile ago, I said I would enter for the MORNING contest, but once again, I have backed out, but hear me out first before calling me a giver-upper.

Recently, I went to comicon in nyc (see previous post) and like I said, I felt like a piece of shrimp in a vast ocean, better than last year when I felt like a piece of plankton shit, but anyways....

I recently met up with an artist I met at comicon who goes by the pen name of Mayshing, you can check out her works here:

http://mayshing.com/

Overall, it seems the problems in my art always center around one thing: patience.

So the badnews is that I will not submit what I have to the contest (maybe next year), but I will continue with SPOON and continue what I am drawing since I am having lots of fun with it. The art I plan to put up will be cleaner and better, I promise!

YOONICORN

NYC COMIC CON 2011

This years comic con was somewhat of a disappointement, mostly because I only got to go on a Sunday rather than on a Saturday...=/.

I wanted to AT LEAST get my BONE book signed by Jeff Smith, but he left early and was not there on Sunday...and Hiro Mashima, creator of FAIRY TAIL left already...even though I am not too happy with his manga, he is still leagues above me.

Speaking of leagues, I went to the anime fest artist alley and met the creator of FLIPSIDE and got my art critiqued...let me put it this way.

Last year, I felt like a plankton in a huge ocean, this year...a shrimp. A LITTLE better.

One huge discouraging feedback I got was that getting my own table next year with the level I am at would be an utter waste of money...haha. But luckily I did create some contacts and tomorrow, I hope to meet with an artist I met to critique the shit out of my art...hahaha... So maybe..MAYBE I will have to delay serialization for another year...we shall see.

YOONICORN

NYC COMIC CON!

That time of the year has rolled around again and I will be attending this years comic con as a regualr person lol. I am planning to be there all day Sunday, so if you want to meet up, just shoot me an e-mail and hopefully we can hang out! This year, I planned to show some of my drawings to more people hoping to get a better reaction this year than last year.

Hopefully by next year, I will have my own table with serialization coming...so if I meet you there, I can show you a sneak peek of what I have drawn so far!

So hopefully I will see you there.

YOONICORN

Younger kids are more talented than Me.

A self portrait one of my students drew of me....


a modified Charles by a student named FFFFFFFFRANKY!

So as you can see, my job is quite fun...at times lol. i have met two students today who are around the 8th grade with some scary drawing talent!

Anyways, I have decided to abandon working on the current chapter I am working on and continue with the chapter I was working on before since the deadline is pretty close and finishing this new chapter will take a long....very long..time. Due to complicated angles and sceneries I have in my mind, lol. But do not worry, all of these chapters, I plan to release in 2012!

And if you have not already, check out our podcast with the author of PARADIGM SHIFT, Dirk Tiede:
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=99009&cmd=tc

You can check out his awesome webmanga here:
http://www.paradigmshiftmanga.com/

Ok, until next time!

YOONICORN

BEING PRODUCTIVE...SORT OF

TOTALLY AWESOME.


My bros playing SMASH




Me working while reading PARADIGM SHIFT and smoking hookah lol




On weekends, I usually spend a lot of my time with the bros...sometimes doing nothing lol. So with my busy schedule, I try to fit in drawing whenever I can. I also finally managed to get around to reading SCOTT PILGRIM (I know...I'm behind) and finished it and it is epically epic. I could never get into it originally due to the art, but once I got past it, it's pretty epic. Even my girlfriend got into it...even though she said she liked it more than SPOON...-__-;

So as some of you may know, we have a pretty cool guest for out next podcast:

http://www.paradigmshiftmanga.com/

So look forward to it!

YOONICORN

Where am I?

Hello!

So I have moved out of my parents home and am living on my own...kind of. I am living in another college house with two other roommates, which all seems weird since I feel like I am moving back to college, rather than moving out to become a working person in society.

I took a job at a prviate school teaching fulltime, the pay is not amazing, but I can definitely suffice. Along side that, I have obtained another part time job as an after school tutor, so hooray for me!

As for SPOON, I am still working on chapter 1 on super awesome paper and am trying to draw as much as I can in one day, so I will keep you all updated with cool pics of my new room!

YOONICORN