Welcome to the DaviManga blog. This is where I--Milla Lindqvist, aka Talvikki, or a host of other names--the creator of DaviManga and its comics, spout off about the comic..my creative process..my life..or anything. Instead of putting all that nonsense on the home page as "updates," I moved it here. So that knowing anyone reading it must be interested anyway, I can write as much as I like. Huzzah.

Friday, December 29, 2006

Happy birthday to me!

Yay, it's my bday. I'm 21, yay me.
The update went up with no problemos. Not much progress on page 20 though. Not enough to even post a sneak peek (unless you want to see my page layout..) cause all my sketches so far are in blue pencil.
Ah right, I discovered the joys of blue pencil earlier this week when I was doing page 19. This way I don't have to erase my figure doodles when I draw the real pictures. The only problem is that the blue pencil is so light, I have to press pretty hard and it leaves dents in the paper. Oh well..
Anyway..I started figuring out how to redesign the comic pages, so that may be looking good sometime soon. Not today though. Lots of madness planned for today. Lasertag, dinner, cake and drinks. And my friend's bday is tomorrow, so there should be even more madness forthcoming.
Well, I have a whole week to the next update day, right. At least I'm not on one of the grinds! Haha!
(the Daily Grind / the Lazy Grind)

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

This close to quiting Blarger..

This site has been giving me hell all afternoon. Posts not showing up, not letting me log in..If it weren't for the fact that I'm too lazy to do all the set-up all over again on a different site, I'd have left Blogger's ass by now.
Hm. I guess the blarg is not G-rated :p
Anyway, I was going to make the big announcement that I finished page 19 and scheduled it as an automated update for Friday, and that was supposed to be exciting because I've never been so on top of things with this comic in living memory. It's probably because things have pretty much ended with a certain someone and so I've just been at home working on my comic for a week.
I did look for a job yesterday..at one store, the comics store in the mall near my house. They weren't hiring. So I guess I have to go work at Borders. Yay for giving in to the evil corporations. At least it's not Starbucks.
I also have to start working on my thesis eventually. Maybe I'll start today. Keep myself busy. I thought I was over him, but since coming home and having to see him, I'm a wreck again. (That "terrible relationship experience"? Yeah, it got better for a while, and then I messed up..several times..and lost the love of my life.) Oh well. I just have to keep doing things and maybe someday I'll be happy again.

Monday, December 25, 2006

Aloha

It is my blarg. Welcome. Soon I'll transfer all my old ramblings here for safekeeping...and all new musings about how RL keeps getting in the way of my comic will also go here. And, I will make it look more like the rest of the site. I guess.

Sunday, December 24, 2006

12/24/06

So who is this cute little kid?
This is what I was doing Friday when you all wish I had been working on page 18 and 19. This is Antasha, a character who shows up later. I felt kind of bummed about the comic, like I was just slapping together pages to get them done, and I wasn't happy about that, so I thought I'd better play around for a bit to get some creativity and fun back into it. So I did some concept sketches of the Davi and some characters. So now I must needs add an art page to my site, so that you all won't feel left out of all the sketchy madness.
And in hopes of fan art XD I asked Ulrich for Crossovers fanart for my birthday, but she said she would do yaoi fanart of these (sadly neglected) guys instead. O.o
And well I did manage to get page 18 up today. Page 19 is all sketched up and page 20 is plotted, but I'm holding off on those as I want to try and build up a buffer. Because as we all know, real life is not kind to my comic.
Well, I still have to bake star tarts for my family, so I'd better get going. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, a belated happy Winter Solstice to all the pagans out there and joyous December to most everyone else!

Thursday, December 21, 2006

12/21/06

The homepage of the new site is ready! It even works on two different browsers. Ah the joys of CSS. I guess I'm just going to have to convert my readers to Firefox and Opera..
To be fair to my dear readers, I think I'll try to finish a comic page or two before I keep working on the site. Kinda alternate between the two. If I can find the motivation :p I love doing webdesign--well of course I love my comic too, just that I don't draw as much as I should and so I have to work pretty hard at it to make it nice. Oh well. Maybe I can do something about that this spring..
Anyway, so how about an update schedule! Something this comic hasn't seen in a while. I used to do Fridays, so let's give it a try..look for a new page tomorrow!

Saturday, December 9, 2006

12/09/06

Well, I did put something up on 110mb (and if my mom knew she'd kill me..) It's nothing fancy, the main point of looking at it may be to see the sketch for the new graphic. That caught your attention, right?
Madly writing my seminar paper. I decided to stay on another semester and write an honors thesis then, but I won't be taking any classes..and my two exams next week will be pretty easy..so once I turn in this paper on Monday, I'm done! Then I can finally make some nice things for y'alls to look at.
Oh, and the tagboard seems to have fallen off the edge of the world again. But I don't have time to fix it now..I'll take care of it when I do the site revamp.