Constructing the Servers world

Posted in Tumblr on May 30, 2017. Edited some parts in June 24, 2019. For 13 years, Servers’ world has been built up from a simplistic story about three people in a training camp, to a multi-virtual world of gamers. That world became larger with Team Fortress 2 Originals and We ‘R’ Mercs joining the ranks […]

Death of a community

Facepunch forums, the official discussion board for Facepunch Studio’s games, recently shut down after 15 years. When I was 11 in February 2005, I created an account there and posted almost every single day. When I was 25 in August 2018, I deleted my account due to self-growth and to make a change in my […]

Evolution of my Layout and Writing

Posted in Tumblr on June 14, 2017. Edited some parts for clarity. For the past 13 years, I have been using photoshop to help design my comic pages while also touching up some of the lightning. I admit I don’t have much artistry nor professional experience compared to other Garry’s Mod editors (see: Crazy Knife and Vortex), so […]

Writing fanfic comics

Posted in Tumblr on June 16, 2017 People stick to what’s familiar. That’s what I learned when I saw that my first Team Fortress 2 comic, Speech Problems, was met with positive reception and garnered more reaction than any of my original stories for Servers. It makes sense since established properties already have its own fanbase […]

Mapping the scene

Posted in Tumblr on June 24, 2017. Like any artist crafting a story, any area can best convey the tone. Filmmakers go out to different states or countries, comic book artists go around their hometown, and for my comics, I browse around community-made maps. More often than not, these mappers have crafted some aesthetically pretty […]

Breaking down characters

Posted in Tumblr on August 26, 2017. There are two ways to go about this depending upon your work. I think it’s important to know how other writers craft their characters before you fully delve into your own. It’s why your English teachers make you write essays about a character’s motivations, the metaphorical device, and […]

Twitch

Live-streaming is weird to me. No, really it is. I never minded Let’s Plays on Youtube since it’s akin to how my brothers watch me play a game (or vice-versa), but now that’s a thing of the past as the audience flocked to better interactivity with the streamer and the community it may generate. I […]

Night Sky and My Ride with Frank | Behind the Scenes

For the past couple months, I’ve been working on two different but similar projects set within my Servers webcomic world. One is a novella in-progress and the other is a webcomic with three different stories being released separately. I also released a webcomic in-between too, which serves as a side-tale that otherwise isn’t important to […]

Origin Story/Inspirations

Posted on Tumblr on June 19, 2017 Ideas don’t just randomly come out of nowhere. We get it from any kind of source we encountered in our lives. Whether if it’s an event like going to a concert or a personal relationship with your sibling, there’s always some form of story to be told. For […]

New blog

That should be clear by now. I never really considered myself to be a blog writer. Me? Sitting in a cafe wearing rectangle frames and a fleece shirt as I sip on a coffee that costs way too much? No way. But after more than a decade of writing comics as a hobby and performing […]