Twitter Page and Logo

Before I go into the new image I want to show, I want to let you know right now, I have a Twitter account now: @RyuKageChroma.  For a long time, I did not sign up for Twitter because I was not fond of the tight limits on what you can type per post.  However, I decided it would be a quick way to share some of my thoughts on games or events happening, as well as one more outlet to share my artwork with a wider audience, both originals and fan art.  I will be posting there and here, as well as my personal Facebook page whenever I can motivate myself to do so, and I plan to use them more frequently than I have been.  Hopefully, I can keep that promise this time.  Ha ha.

Click here to see my Twitter account: @RyuKageChroma

In the meantime, let me share a revamp of my old logo, the Mark of the Red Dragon.

Team Chroma Logo

PAX East is fast approaching, and I will be attending Friday, April 22 and Saturday, April 23.  Therefore, I should get cracking on whatever new projects I want to tackle within the next week.  I have also decided to upload multiple posts within the next week.  I would like to show at least two posts, but if I can do three, that would be fantastic.  I do have other drawings I want to make, though, so we will see what happens from here.

Today, I am showing a logo I made a month or so before Pokemon X and Y were released (I guess September 2013).  I drew this with the intention of forming some kind of guild to discuss and explore the game, an aspiration which did not pan out.  Still, at least I made a cool logo for the group: "Team Chroma".

In every Pokemon game, there is a group which acts as the antagonists of the game known as "Team [Insert Word Here]" - "Rocket" in Kanto and Johto, "Galactic" in Sinnoh, "Plasma" in Unova, "Flare" in Kalos, and both "Magma" and "Aqua" in Hoenn.  They show up throughout the game nudging the plot forward through underhanded actions.  "Team Chroma" started as an idea for one of those, but with a bit of a twist.  Team Chroma would antagonize the player, but their true goal would be to stop a more evil group known as Team Gris (the French word for "gray") from freezing their country.

Ryu-Kage: A Return from the Shadows

 

"How's it going, folks?  This is Ryu-Kage!"

Wow, it has been a long time since I posted anything here.  What happened?  Well, how can I put this?

I "fell asleep" for a year. Not literally, of course, but that is basically how it felt.
 
Without going into too much detail, at some point since I last posted on the blog, I became rather depressed overall about my life as it is and where it would go.  However, I did have occasional glimmers of hope by briefly reconnecting with a few old friends from college, which started to change one of the reasons I was feeling so bummed.  I would like to reconnect with them some more, and since I made many of my friends through my favorite video game series - Pokemon, this year (the 20th anniversary of Pokemon) would be an excellent opportunity to reconnect.

I did still draw during the past year, but I was not sure if many of the pictures I made were good enough to show (oh hi, confidence problems), and even if I did make something worthwhile, I just could not bring myself to upload it here for some reason. Thus, many of my pictures have basically been in limbo.

Well, I cannot say I am completely past the negativity, but I am sick of moping so much, and I want to shine through the darkness again.  After the jump, I have a few things I would like to do in the near future.