Karin Sketches

If you've only just discovered Transpose Operator recently, you may notice that the main character does not have a name yet. However if you've been watching my blog or were from the Comicfury site you may notice that I've let it slip once... or twice... that her name is Karin. "OMG SPOILERS!!!" you may say, however It's not that big a deal, she gets her name in chapter 2, as you'll soon find out.

I've been drawing Karin for years and her design has changed slowly, more stylistically than any particular elements of her design. The sketch page below has a few examples of the older style and the newer style.



It's kinda interesting to see the progression. I've had a hard time in the past making Karin look her age, and in some of the beginning pages she looks more like a teenager than a young woman in her 20's, which is one of the reasons that lead me to re-do a lot of the pages. Then again maybe that's just me.

Also- points for anyone who gets the Persona reference among these sketches.

I plan to get myself on the schedule of posting a new image to the blog every Wednesday, this post will be the first of many to come. I'm trying to get into the habit of producing more art on a schedule, and this is the start of it.
See you next Wednesday!

Transpose Operator site

Hello again. I didn't mean to go so long without posting, I've been busy with uprooting my life to move back home, job hunts, holiday stuff, etc., and the Transpose Operator site has been my main concern so things kinda died down here.
Speaking of that, I haven't posted about the Transpose Operator official site that went up a few months back. I've posted art and info about it on here before, and when it used to be on Comicfury there was a news post about that. But now I have my own shiny new domain that I got to design and pull my hair out over.


You can click the image to take you to the site, or go to http://www.transposeoperator.com/ .

Updates are every Monday and Friday, just like at the old site. Hopefully when I get faster at making pages we can add Wednesday and have 3 updates a week, but for now it's just 2.
If you followed all the way up until the end of Chapter 1 on Comicfury you'll be ahead of the updates since at the moment we're at page 45. However every page has been retouched and in some cases completely re-done(The script included!), so it's worth a re-read if I do say so myself.

I also registered Transpose Operator on "Top Web Comics", and I'd appreciate your votes! I don't know if I'll be doing incentives or not, but I will make sure to let you know if I do. I realize sometimes this is a deal breaker for people, but I don't feel like I need to "bribe" my readers. If you appreciate the comic then you'll vote, if not then you won't. Incentives are a fun thing to have, but I doubt people will only vote for Transpose Operator because of them. And I figure spending my time on making more comic pages is more important than doing incentives :)


You can also vote on "Comic Hovel"!


There's a Facebook Fan page that get's updates and news too!


And as always there's an RSS feed that you can subscribe to!



Not to mention Twitter. In case you don't already know, I have a Twitter account that is constantly updated with Transpose Operator news, among other things. Subscribing to that is also a good way to get updates.

And that's that! I hope to see you all on the site, whether you're leaving comments or not, I appreciate your readership! :)

Happy Birthday Naki!

My wonderful friend Naki just turned 24 and I made her a fanart birthday gift of the characters from her comic "Into The Orchard", which is an awesome comic that you should check out, btw. The characters are Sal, Tabby, and Lise. They're all kind of siblings, but Sal and Lise are the only ones related by blood.

you can check out her Sketchblog here---> http://katyfarina.blogspot.com/
and her Deviantart here---> http://nakira.deviantart.com/
Also Twitter here---> http://twitter.com/#!/orchardcomic

I give you permission to stalk her on those various different venues.

also realized I never did a post about the new Transpose Operator, will be doing that in the next few days.

Shadow Hearts Alice Elliot and Yuri Volte Hyuga

Did the Alice one awhile ago, and finished the Yuri one tonight. These are the two main characters for Shadow Hearts, a game for the PS2 back in.... 2000 I think... maybe 2001. In any case Shadow Hearts 1 and 2 are some of my favorite games of all time, And I play a lot of video games. The storylines of both games are amazing, the characters are quirky and wonderful, and the games are a lot of fun to play(the battle system in the 2nd one ROCKS). I could write a whole essay on why I love those games, but I'll spare you all that...

So just in case you haven't played these games(If that is the case, GO BUY THEM NOW.)I won't give any spoilers, but in the first one... *sniff* the ending to the first game still gets to me, even if I did get the GOOD ending, it doesn't matter since the BAD one is cannon :( kinda sucks how that happens...

I honestly don't know why I haven't done more fan art of these guys, especially since Yuri is one of my favorite characters ever.

The Dishwasher Sign

So my roommate and I have the issue of not knowing whether or not the dishes in the dishwasher are clean or not. So I made these little signs so that we can just flip it if we want to indicate if the dishes are "Clean" or "Dirty".

So I used Transpose Operator for the "Dirty" side as their world is pretty... well... dirty and broken. Haha, it just seemed appropriate.


And I used The Next Adventure for the "Clean" side as their world is very bright and colorful. I just did the line work for this one, Francesca colored it.


The puncture marks are from the cats climbing up on the counter when they shouldn't be and biting it. i have no idea why they thought that was a fun idea.