*UPDATE* 7/28/2019
#1. I got CORE. Thanks to
I got my very first DA CORE for a month....Which is honestly pretty freaking cool, plus some points as well so I'd like to thank Ghosthunter94 for the kind gift they have given me.#2. Bought two new games on steam. I saved up my money for the steam summer sale that had happened early this month, however one of the games that I was hoping would go on sale didn't go on sale which led me to buying it for it's current sale price of $30....And that game.....Was Aliens: Colonial Marines.......You can probably imagine why I didn't post anything after I bought it....I mean....It's ACM for crying out loud...Just knowing the fact I spent $30 on that game made me very depressed....(They were only selling the complete collection which included the dlc which is why I think it cost that much) But at least I had enough money to buy another game that was thankfully on sale, Mortal Kombat X....Yes! the one that has the Xenomorph and Predator as dlc fighters, the game was selling at a low price of 19.99 and the dlc characters were 4.99 which allowed me to buy both the game and the alien and predator...Which is awesome, like for real....If there was anything good about spending $50 on steam it was being able to buy Mortal Kombat X and the Playable dlc Characters from my favorite series all together...(And before someone asks, I bought ACM for it's audio and that's pretty much it...I think the aliens and the audio were the only good things to come from that game and that's it, but all I have at the moment is just the alien models and not their sounds, I plan on extracting the audio files from the game so I can be able to use said audio for videos that I plan on making in the future...That's the only reason I bought it, I also figured that I could easily mod it to make it playable and then live stream the game for fun)
#3. Updated Models. I have updated the Xenomorph models so they will be more accurate to the story, the models I've updated are Xeena's Siblings and Xeena as a Praetorian and as a Warrior too. I'll post pictures of the newer looking models soon, I'm a little busy at the moment so it will take me a while to get around to it.
#4. Found my very first model kit of a Xenomorph. My family took me out to a flea market and we found ourselves a tiny little model kit of an Alien for just $5 that's right! just $5...Best part? it's unpainted! So I will eventually paint my very first model kit of a Xenomorph soon.
#5. Plans to Socialize some more. I've been planning on doing this for a long time and it's something that I would like to do more often, that being....Just....Chatting....You see, when I get so focused into my work I tend to forget about the whole world around me which is kinda a bad thing because it's made me into a very shy and not so social person and that is something that I just don't want to be, So I am currently planning on interacting with people more often and also using my own voice to do it, that's right...I'd like to start using the voice chat more often because I can get pretty bored and lonely when working on stuff by myself....So I will be starting that kinda thing soon, it sounds like a pretty good idea to me and it'd be great to be a little more closer with my friends while doing it.
And that's about it for now...See you later!
I have many plans now (since I've been sleeping at the appropriate time and waking up early like a normal human should) and most of these plans will come sooner then others but that's perfectly okay because I should take my time with things instead of rushing them (which I used to do an awful lot) so patience is key cause these will happen.
Now here's what to Expect this year.
The DeviantArt Q&a comics will continue, the reason they've been sidetracked for a long time was so that I could work on other stuff, but pretty soon i'll get back into making them and they'll eventually be released when I can get to them, I've already selected a spot to shoot at so it could come out any day now...... I think that is something to look forward to later.
Lee's Logs will continue, I'm currently planning out the next phase of the story which will be about Lee's Allies in the colony war's and what happened to them before Lee went aboard Oliva Station, and I also want to focus a little bit on the colonists that he met during his various missions.
And yes, I will do some things about Oliva Station, Lee encountered monitors that were still functional after the aliens were released in the story, so there is potential in revealing some things about what was going on there but I need to do it in a way that keeps things mysterious and makes people theorize about it so I got a lot of hard work to do there.
I have made very little progress with Project M.o.t.h as of late due to a change in schedule, I did buy new material and cut out pieces of patterns but no sewing has happened since me and my mom are too busy to do it, but I will update the journal entry I made about the project soon so you should expect to see that coming a little later in time.
Christmas happened, I got some brand new stuff that I've been wanting for a long time including a drawing tablet that will allow me to draw stuff on my computer, I just got a drawing glove in the mail and I spent a couple hours drawing and coloring in this picture here--->www.deviantart.com/moonman2219… if you are curious as to what my Christmas gifts look like they are right here--->sta.sh/01rbepymc4p2
And finally some good news...Ever since I started sleeping in earlier I've been getting my motivation to do stuff again, I've been thinking an awful lot and I have all kinds of ideas as to what I should do next. I also did a live stream on the 11th of December last year and even though It wasn't exactly as perfect as I wanted it to be I know a little bit more about how to do it and I might do more in the future when I get more used to it. So since that has happened some good things will come out of it since I'm getting more rest, hopefully i'll get back to making videos again and focus more on the story of metamorphosis and if there are problems I'm all the more willing to fix them in order to improve the story as best as I can to make it good.
Now that it's a new year, I am hopeful that it will be a lot better then the last....
Sure, I did learn that the sequel to Alien: Isolation is a Mobile Game...But, hopefully 2019 won't be a bad year for aliens despite the mobile games reveal early on....
I'm still hopeful though and excited since how to train your dragon 3 is out next month, I don't care if I'm the only one who goes to the theater that day I want to see it on it's release date and not be spoiled by anything.
With all that is said and done, I'm really looking forward to what's to come in 2019....
I'm back...
Sorry about going away for awhile, I just needed a break from the computer since at the time I was pretty stressed out about all the stuff I gotta do currently.
One day, I just woke up and decided to not go on the computer that day....
Soon the day melted to days, then weeks..
After September, I decided to clean my room since it was a mess and I haven't really properly cleaned it in 3 years (It wasn't that bad kinda messy, it just looked like a teenagers room is all.) And I spent days cleaning and organizing it so that it would look really nice looking and more open then it used to be way before I started early October.
Once I was finished, I realized "Holy shit, Not only do I feel better but my birthday is in two days" so that's why I made this entry today...
I Really missed everyone while I was gone though, I felt really sad and didn't know what to do other then distract myself by watching Markiplier, Gamegrumps and DashieXP videos on the youtube app on my roku when I wasn't busy working on something...
That is the big reason why I came back on today, I missed a lot of my friends and wanted to hang out, talk to them and maybe play games with them.
So yeah, I'm back and I plan on working on stuff as soon as I remember how everything works...
When I got on today I swear I felt like I never been on a computer before, (like how Xeena felt when Lee was teaching her how to use one) so I'm pretty confused at the moment so please wait cause I will start making stuff soon.
Project M.O.T.H...*WIP*
[PROJECT M.O.T.H]
A.K.A "Mother of the Hive"
*WARNING* This journal entry is still a work in progress, certain information has yet to be revealed since this project is still active and yet to be completed.
The Following Parts/Pictures were taken to document the progress...
It all started around Alien Day 2018.
I was still new to the alien fandom as a whole and missed out on Alien Day 2017, when I found out that happened I made a promise to myself to not miss the next one. When it was approaching i was crossing my fingers hoping that they would announce a lot of cool stuff this year including a Alien Queen plush made by kidrobot which i believe would have completed the kidrobot alien plush collection, however they didn't and i was a little disappointed. So i began to just think to myself "Well, i could always make one myself" and after that day i began to look online to see if someone made one so I could perhaps purchase one, Didn't see anything.
I also looked up public patterns that people could use to make a plush but still saw nothing and during my search I saw that there wasn't that much alien plushies made by fans, which ultimately led me to deciding one day "You know what? I should make it myself."
And after I made it pretty clear to my mom that this wasn't a joke and I was serious about this she gave me a sketch book and told me that she needed a reference for it and after receiving a sketch book i began to draw....A lot....
Part 1: The Idea Stage...
This stage felt like it was a long one, i spent a lot of time thinking about how i would have wanted it to look like, I had my NECA Alien Queen as a ref but I needed to cartoonify/simplify it and I didn't know how to do it..
But i ended up using the plushies that i already had as help for this stage which helped me get passed this stage....
This is Stormfly, she's a dragon from How to train your dragon and i got her at toysrus early this year i believe, i liked her in the movie and when i saw her i decided to get her to keep in my treasure chest.
But while i was playing around with her i got a sense of deja vu, when i flipped her over upside down i could kinda see a torso that looked familiar.
I shown mom this and then took a look at my other plushies and saw something interesting...
The cute and tiny arms of the Chestburster i believed would work as the tiny arms of a Queen, i put the two plushies together and thought that it looked great together.
The one I would make would be a bit different, but I got a pretty good idea what size they should be thanks to this Chestburster plush (whom I named Xeeta)
I looked at the legs of stormfly and thought that they would work well as the legs of a Queen, just add a handle and heel and bam! I thought that was pretty awesome.
Of course my version would be a bit different then this version, cause I was still using the NECA Alien Queen as a ref...
While i was looking at the plushies i had this mindset of making the plush the same size of my other plushies which were all small and can easily be stored in my treasure chest.
I also wanted it to be simplified like this little plush here, but it wasn't going to be that easy and i just didn't know it when i took this picture....
Later...
On the 4th of July, I spent the majority of it watching war movies like the patriot and saving private ryan, but while I was watching the last movie I took some stuffing from a hole in my star wars body pillow (A Basic and Normal one from Walmart, I live with my parents.) and stuffed a couple pairs of old socks I had in my drawer and got a basic Idea as to what the head should look like including the torso.
^ I liked the way these looked and used them as a bit of a reference when I would draw the head and torso.
As much as I would love to have the head and torso turn out this way, certain things can change during the progress even the whole look of the plush can be changed and redesigned.
When it came to the size of the body parts i used old socks with holes in them and just cut them up into jagged limbs for the sock head and torso, I did this to figure out what size it was going to be for these limbs and i ended up using them to trace a size for the limb in question and did my best to make them look a little better.
Seems odd to bring up here you may be thinking, but i thought it was a noteworthy since doing this helped me out when it came to scale for these limbs.
Part 2: The Material...
Since plans for making the plush were already underway I had to get some stuff to make it, so I went out one day with my mom to go shopping at walmart to look for some nice and soft material for a plush.
While I found some White Felt for the claws and Mom found the Stuffing i didn't find anything for the actual material for the plush, I also wasn't sure if the plush was going to be black or gray but I decided to make it gray after we left the store. Then Mom brought up Joann fabrics and how much material that they had there and we ended up going a week later.
Mom ended up finding black and gray colors that I thought were really nice and soft.
They were a bit dirty and needed to be cleaned but I thought that it was perfect to use for the project.
Now that I think about it, we don't really need the black material but it could be used for another project in the future...
Like make a Crusher, Warrior or a Praetorian Plush.
Part 3: The Doodling...
Now as some of you who have been following me for awhile know, I'm a terrible drawing artist, i suck at drawing because I gave it up when I was kid cause I thought I was awful and I still to this day believe I am..
But my Mother said that my words on how the plush should look like were "too vague, i need a reference picture" so after she gave me a sketch book i just did a couple doodles to see if i can try to make something that looks like how i thought it would....And believe me i used the entire sketch book and it had about 50 pages....
It was a damn nightmare, I wasn't that great at drawing so I had a bunch of attempt drawings for a while, but that would soon change after this problem...
On this date, I was doing a Friday the 13th Marathon and watching the 4th movie in the franchise when I decided to go to my mother for some help.
It was about the Crown, (I'm shit at drawing) so I asked my mother to give it a try and she had me give her the Alien Queen Funko pop figure that keeps falling off my audiobox usb and she did a remarkable job at drawing it, the way she drew it was interesting and pretty damn close to how the crown actually looks...The way she drew it also ended up inspiring me to make the other patterns..
(Another thing to take into consideration when making a plush is to simplify it, don't go TOO overboard with designing it but don't be Too lazy with it...)
I did have to add the side fins, the funko pop figures was too small so mom didn't draw it.
The first drawing I did was good but when I tried to do the other side I kinda messed up, so mom just used her scanner to copy my version of one side and reverse it...
After Mom drew the Crown, I began to draw these ref sheet/concept art of the body parts, mostly to help for when I would eventually make the patterns.
^ This is all of them combined into one, I really liked it and thought it was very cute and was getting really excited by how all the pieces would look together..
And I will admit, despite me not being good at drawing I think this was a pretty well made drawing...
^ This is just a basic example of the body concept art, I did it for all of the body parts. It's also how I want to make it look, cute and friendly like the kidrobot plushies.
Eventually I was able to make a breakthrough and drew concept art for all of the body parts, which took me awhile to do and it was quite a challenge, mostly because i want it to look perfect and not like it was made by someone who was new to sewing....(Which i am, but i want it to look good you know?)
Then came the part i was not looking forward to, the patterns.
I had to sketch out the shapes and then erase bits of them to make the drawing look more better and similar to the drawings i made (which is why you see some faded pencil marks in the patterns, i haven't really drawn this way before because i thought i was so bad at drawing i never did it again for a long time) then when i was finished i cut them out and began to piece them together like a little puzzle.
Part 4: The Patterns...
Now was the time to work on the patterns for the plush.
In the end, I made the actual patterns a week or two later...(It was a nightmare because I didn't know what to use so it took me a couple days to do, once I was finished I still had to draw and cut out new patterns to replace ones that I had deemed *OUTDATED* for the project..)
(^ Some of the Patterns you see in this picture are older and have been replaced or edited...)
So here's all the pieces together, putting them together was pretty easy but it wasn't looking like the drawing 100% (I know that things don't always go according to plan but this was the first time I put them together.)
This Picture is just a size difference between the plush I'm making and one of the plushies I have in my collection, just to see how big it was going to be and i was kinda let down when i saw how big it looked, i wanted it to be smaller so i can easily store it in my treasure chest but it logically does look size accurate. (Since the Queen is bigger then her warriors and drones.)
But mom said that when it came down to the actual sewing it would shrink so hopefully it will be as small as i wanted it to be but if it stays the same size but a bit shorter then I'm fine with that too...
Now here's a *NEW* version of the Patterns, as you can see it's been updated a bit since the last picture was taken.
The parts I've updated are pretty easy to spot, the feet, the hands, the tail, the crown and the neck.
Neck: I slimmed down the neck to be a bit more skinnier because it was too fat so I just re-drew it and shorten the width and made the neck really tall so It can be moved if I didn't like the position of the head/crown.
Crown: Mentioned this up above, I realized that the side fins were not there (because they were small on the funko pop and mom didn't see it.) so I just erased a little bit of the crown and used the NECA Alien Queen as a Ref when I was making the side fin for the crown, now that I look at it I think it looks great! I managed to do a pretty good job making it look like it does now.
Hand/Claws: Hard to draw at first, but was pretty easy for someone experienced in drawing. I used the paper circle in the old pictures as a size ref and drew a couple dozen different hands until I found one that I thought looked good, But even after finding the best one I still had to edit it (As you can see when you look closely at the new picture.) Once I was done, I paired it up with the arm and thought it was great.
Tiny Hand/Tiny Claw: I used the pattern of the mini arm hand as a size ref and simply made the 3 fingered hand, when we get to making the actual plush I will cut off the Original hand and sew on the new one.
Feet: When I was making the feet, I was thinking of the amount of fingers that she had (which is 6) and did the same thing for her toes...However I was an idiot, she has 4 toes not 6 so I had to fix that real quick before I could possibly continue.
*WIP* Tail/Tail Tip: I just snipped it off with a pair of scissors and taped it back on but on an angle, I feel like the tail needs more work before I could continue so it's still a work in progress..
*WIP* Tail Spikes: All I did was cut out little squares and stuck them onto the tail, I'm not sure if the tail needs to be completely redone so the tail spikes are still a work in progress.
*WIP* Back Spikes: The back spikes are still the first ones I've made and need a little bit of work before I can say they are finished, still a work in progress
*WIP* Heart Collar: I wanted to get pink and purple material for the necklace but was too embarrassed to ask at the time, not sure what material I will use...I'm open to ideas...
Part 5: Sewing...*WIP*
Part 6: The Final Product...*WIP*
I just want to make it clear that this is still a work in progress project, I just wanted to post it so that people can see what I've been working on for a few weeks now...
When more stuff happens I will be sure to make an update...I will continue to update this journal until the project is finished..
Update: ????
But i wasn't planning on staying away forever though so i decided to come back once i felt better and now here i am...
I should take a break every once in a while since they make me feel better and not allow myself to get stressed out over things i got to do...
Speaking of things to do, There is a lot of things i should have uploaded weeks/months ago that i haven't uploaded yet and I'm going to start uploading them this week since i feel bad for not doing it sooner, should expect to see something real soon...
Also....GUESS WHO I JUST GOT IN THE MAIL, YA LITTLE BOI IS HERE!!!
I saw this on ebay for 30$ on sunday and decided to buy him as soon as possible, he was in New York so i had the opportunity to get him and have him be shipped here in a couple of days. He just shown up in the mail today, he smells like an ashtray/my aunts house which is a big complaint i have towards the person who owned him last but I'm still so happy to have him right here in my hands, he's so tiny and cute!
Sure he may not be that Queen plush i wanted but I'm making my own Xenomorph Queen plush anyway so it doesn't matter, I'm very happy right now to own this little dude and i promise to give him a better home.