'Cause guess what? That's the last WGN update of 2016! There will be more coming 2017, but no official dates will be given yet. I have to focus on Aces right now, as I'm kind of FREAKING OUT!! I haven't had nearly enough time to work on coloring page 1 as I need, and it was supposed to be done AGES ago! It's getting there, but it's slow going. Hopefully I can have a couple pages done by the start of January though. Like I mentioned before, page 1 will have more detailed coloring than the rest, which is...rather odd, if I might say. I may eventually go back and color the rest fancy, but right now I just don't have the time. I really enjoy coloring the good looking way, but it takes much longer than just the flat colors.
That's all for now folks, and I'll see you on the 24th for the double tutorial release! Stay warm, stay safe, and give someone a hug today!

-Lissie Dixon ♠

PLEASE BE PATIENT, YOU'LL HAVE DOUBLES ON THE UPDATES THIS WEEK!
WGN will have a full mini comic, as well as two extra full-page illustrations...one as a Christmas Special, another as a COMPLETE SURPRISE!
There will be two of the Face Basics: Male tutorials uploaded this Saturday...which is also Christmas Eve!

Stay warm!
-Lissie Dixon ♠

I'm so sorry, everyone! I've been very, very busy, and I haven't had time to finish anything for this week's updates! :c I'll try and make up for it this coming week by updating twice, but we'll see. Christmas is always an extremely busy time of the year for my family and I.
I've also been struggling with inspiration for the projects I'm supposed to be working on. Sure, I feel like drawing and all that jazz, but that doesn't mean I feel like working on the stuff on my agenda. I feel like I don't produce as good of content when I'm not inspired to do so, so I usually try to do what want to for a while. That doesn't always work out too well for my site's release schedule however.
Again, super sorry, and I'll try my best to get back on track! (Ugh, I knew I should have worked on WGN over my birthday...)
We're also having a pretty rough ice storm this weekend, so sorry if I disappear for a while! I wouldn't be surprised if we lost power or internet, especially when I look up at my windows, which are completely covered in (rather beautiful) ice. Don't worry about me though! I'm staying warm with fluffy slipper boots, hot stew and time-wasting apps on the iPod touch I got for my birthday! By that I mean Cookie Clicker. It's great.

That's all for now! See you soon!
-Lissie Dixon ♠

Yes, indeed! My birthday is this weekend. I considered taking the weekend off from updating the tutorials, but then thought better of it. I want to expand the tutorial selection, and since I switched it to Saturdays only (I might start releasing them on Wednesdays and Saturdays again at the beginning of 2017, but I haven't decided for sure yet), I need to release one EVERY Saturday, not just when I feel like it.

In other news, I have decided that for the coloring in Aces, I'll just be doing flat colors for the most part. The first page will have rendering (shading and highlighting...all that fancy stuff), but after that it will be the plain colors. This will save time on the coloring and allow me to finish the pages possibly twice as fast. Since I still don't have a drawing tablet I can use, It's considerably harder to color things. It is very, very difficult to color with a mouse. :c

Have a wonderful weekend everyone, and I'll see you soon!
-Lissie Dixon ♠

Greetings, my friends! I'm sure you're aware that it's December now!  I'm personally not enjoying the frigid air, but when frost and snow begin to show up I get the impression I'll like it a bit better.
At least when it gets this cold it's good weather for working inside. I've spent the day working on variant cover designs for Aces #1, as well as prepping some pages for color.

I could have completely skipped them! ...But I didn't, so there's that. Most panels don't have very obvious background details though, which I am rather guilty about.

I hope everyone has been checking out the new tutoral set! I've been putting a bit more effort into this one, which isn't actually saying much, because anyone who takes a look at Face Basics: Female can tell I didn't even try. I plan on changing the execution of the tutorials though, as you can see with the new ones. I learned quickly that the long layout was best for what I was doing, so that's what I switched to. Which do you prefer? Let me know!

That's it as far as updates go, I believe! I hope you all have a blessed day--or night--or whenever you're reading this--and are given a hug! Oh. Uh. Sorry. I love hugs. And give quite a few each day. Ahem...anyway.
-Lissie Dixon ♠