Ask Taiki

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

Ask Taiki

Raine · Character Inspiration

let's tell everybody about how you lost 1/3 of your pinky finger! hahaha

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

I was an unattended 1 year old crawling around and stuck my finger in the gears of an exercise bike while someone was riding it. T_T Bye bye finger. They couldn't fix it cuz it was too contaminated in grease, so now it's stubby.

Fribee · Active Member

Wowzers, okay...i shouldve gotten a look at this geared finger.

how many years are you going to in your webcomic? will it progress to present day?

Nobody · Moderator

Do you accept cuddles as payment?

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

Well, so far I have story lines up to my first year in college. =3 So atleast 3 years of Taiki's life. It depends on what happens.

And cuddles for payment of what? xD

Nobody · Moderator

For friendship points that I can use to purchase things in the friendly shop?

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

You mean the actual store? Cuz I know the prices are weird, but actually they're the lowest I can make them, so I actually don't make any profit there. O_o

darkside · Senior Member

umm so why did you deside to make this webcomic

Nobody · Moderator

There's a place called the friendly shop...?

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

lol, I mean the actual shop.

And I desire to make this comic for many reasons. The characters had just been coming to me over a period of 2-3 years and when drawing them over and over again, these stories of what they'd do just came to me. As well as their personalities and such. Then by drawing all my friends as comic characters, it became my life as Taiki and the other characters that aren't based on real people. After a while, I just had this story that I wanted to write so badly since I had tons of sketches of random scenes. Since I suck at actual writing, I decided to do a comic. I had attempted comics before, many times, and would only get like 3-8 pages into them. But this time I was determined! So determined that I bought a domain name and put it on the internet so that I'd have more motive to keep going and update. And the reason that I don't update as often as I would like isn't because I'm getting tired of it or anything, it's just that I'm at that point in my life where I have to start paying everything on my own, bills, and .... college. T_T I write this comic to help me improve my art, and because I love telling stories. I have a crazy imagination and can make a story with just about anything. And because I love shoujo ai and I thought there should be more comics of it online for others to read. This is my first go at a comic this long, so I'm sorry of it's not the greatest, but I'm trying hard to improve. =3

darkside · Senior Member

no its a great comic alot of my friends love it because they say it seems so real and like we can relate to it

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

Yeah, and it's just going to get more realistic as it goes along because right now it's still all crazy. Soon it'll be getting into what really did happen in my life. O_o whoot?

Nobody · Moderator

I have a few more questions for you now, Taiki.

I'm about to graduate from college with a Digital Multimedia degree and I've been noticing some things in your comic. It looks like you use Flash to draw your characters. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's just what it looks like. Am I right about this?

Also, if you use software, is that why your perspective is always so off?

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

I actually use Photoshop 7 to draw my pictures/comic. I'm not so great with Flash.

What kind of software are you talking about? lol And my perspecive is always off because I just suck like that. I know I suck, but I'm trying.

darkside · Senior Member

at least you know how to do it i cant do any of these and i want to go into art but i suck at it when it comes to graphic art

Chibi hoshi · Active Member

What company did you used for the calendar?

-- Edited by Chibi hoshi at 15:36, 2007-06-16

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

I used lulu.com

Deglorath · Lurker

I'm afraid that I'm not so good with the comin' up with questions thing, probably part of why I'm real bad at arguing, heh. But I will say that I think you're doing a darn good job with the comic here, Taiki, so keep it up, eh?

Quixotic · Lurker

Why doesn't Haruka have a pet duck named Lieutenant Quakers?

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

Maybe it's copyrighted or something. >_>;

oneshot555 · Veteran Member

ok i got some questions taki lol ok

1. is how did you get so good at drawing iv always loved to draw but i suck very bad and even practicing dosent help too mutch is their any tips you can give for an artist?

2. will their be any more contest like the one charicter contest? your not the only one that has a huge imagination maby peaple request to see stuf in the comic

3. was it easy to make a online comic? me and my freinds want to start learning how to make one (after we get an artist) but we dont have mutch detail on how

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

Answers!

1. I used to suck horribly at drawing. D: Like seriously. The only way to improve is to practice a lot AND try new things. I draw literally every single day. And I try new styles and new techniques whenever I see cool ones that I like. I'm taking a realistic sketching class and everything in it was completely new to me, but the basics stand for any time of drawing. So I used it as a foundation to learn anatomy way better since before I always just guessed.

2. I would like to do more contests, but I'd wanna do something different cuz I have tons of characters. >_>

3. It's easy to start a webcomic. I pay for my webspace, but there's places that will host your comic for free, like drunkduck and comicgenesis. They have everything set up so all you have to do is upload the pages. I have another comic on drunkduck and it's reallly easy to update and such.

oneshot555 · Veteran Member

lol yeah thanks taki hmm i guess ill practice alot more now i am showing aprovment on my charicters hair but ill probley need to try alot of ways to make it perfect anyways thanks and if its allright id love to see your other comic

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

It's a Kingdom Hearts fan comic about Taiki in the KH world and stuff. With Larxene cuz I

her.

But if you wanna check it out, you can find it here : ( Kingdom Hearts : Crimson Secrets ). It's in color cuz I was drawing it to improve my CGing skills and I don't get to update it often since it takes a while to CG a page. D:

oneshot555 · Veteran Member

lol sweet ill check it out ow and who dosent love Larxene her axel roxas um and guy with eye patch and the dance dance guy (forgot their names) they all rock lol

so far it looks good lol and i only read a few pages heh it makes me think maby i should start i kh comic hmm anyways i have a question to you taki um on your site will their be any guest comic'ing alowed like we can send you a strip of some goofy parody of your comic or somthing funny and then when you can or dont feel like drawing a stip you can just post that?

-- Edited by oneshot555 at 01:59, 2007-08-25

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

Do like a guest comic week? That'd be fun! I'd have to find a bunch of people who want to do it though.

oneshot555 · Veteran Member

lol it sounds awsome but i probley wouldet be able to participate in it lol bad artist still XD though that fan fic thing sounds rocking im a good wrighter..when i have a spell check lol oh taki i got to ask when is a new update coming for your drunk duck comic >< iv been waiting forever if you need ideas i came across somthing interesting you might like

http://rinacat.deviantart.com/art/KP-KH-Zippers-24231204

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

Yeah sorry, it's been taking me a while to update that. xD And lolz, yeah I love that picture. ^^

oneshot555 · Veteran Member

lol well your geting a few updates now so thats good heh and yea i thought you might like that :P

Nobody · Moderator

That was so cute! I wonder if they read Taiki's comic and got inspiration~

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

Oh Rina? Naw, she inspires me. :D

oneshot555 · Veteran Member

i see how it is taki your not going to have a comic till next week and not even for my birthday *snif snif* i am soo hurt

MrWonderful · Lurker

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Jadius · Active Member

Whats the name of Kai's band?

I'd like to have it for a fan fiction idea...

Nobody · Moderator

The Mickey McSweatsies!!

Jadius · Active Member

...Are you serious?

No Soul King · Active Member

You can't get anymore serious than Nobody.

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

lol I actually haven't come up with a name for them. None that I've liked, otherwise they woulda announced already. I suck at naming. D: Maybe you'd like to help me with that? ^^;

No Soul King · Active Member

Oh!
Overcast Knights

Jadius · Active Member

Taiki wrote:

lol I actually haven't come up with a name for them. None that I've liIked, otherwise they woulda announced already. I suck at naming. D: Maybe you'd like to help me with that? ^^;

Alright, I'll put some suggestions in my fan fic....can even use that as a small part....

Jay · Veteran Member

How about....

THE EVIL AWESOME BAND THAT PLAYS AWESOME MUSIC WHICH IS PLAYED BY EVIL AWESOME BANDS BAND.
eh? eh??!? EH!?!??! Pretty freakin' sweet no? }:] (UNIBROW!)

-- Edited by Jay at 04:56, 2007-11-23

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

oh my. xD

Jay · Veteran Member

if you think that's amazing, i got some better ones if you want em' XD

Shii · Active Member

what made you inspire you to draw your comic? and what made you inspire to draw in general? just curious i guess.

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

Pokemon is what inspired me to draw at first and I continued drawing because I wanted to create my own Pokemon OCs. That and I was a loner, so I usually spent all my time drawing. When drawing I started creating random characters that I liked and when drawing them they gained personalities and eventually I linked them all into a story and that's what the comic is about. Those characters and real life people I know put together to make my webcomic. =D

Shii · Active Member

I think Pokemon was almost everyones inpiration! XD;; i meant little monsters fighting each other? Animal/monster abuse i know, but it was effing cool! XD;; they had special powers! o: that's what rocked!
And that's awesome that sort of transition you did with Pokemon turns into your webcomic! o: awesomeness! 8D and awesome pages today too also! XD; Haruka go it right on! and Poor Nikki! D8;;

No Soul King · Active Member

Loners make good inventors. :P
Like the guy who invented the light bulb.

Johan · Veteran Member

Cool, we can ask things! Neat!

So, Taiki, your brothers look nice, are they going to be more present in your comic?

Taiki · Taiki Webcomic Artist

They will be in it more, but they're not going to be main characters or anything. ^^;