BlueMario1016

Hey, all. Blue here.

I got a brand new commission sheet for those who may be interested. Prices for most of my offers had to be increased due to inflation. But don't worry as it's only just by $5 USD. But however, I now have more options available such as Custom Logos and Abstract Backgrounds for your own use.

Thanks to domafox and with three hours of extra work given from him to help, I now have a more professional-looking sheet that's easier to understand, with panels that may have less colors, but can offer more, as well as interesting looking shape designs and use cool-looking fonts that'll pop and catch people's interest. The English version is displayed, with a Japanese sheet being separate.

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新しいコミッションシート！

やあ、みんな。 ここはブルーです。

興味のある方のために、新しいコミッションシートを入手しました。 インフレのため、ほとんどのオファーの価格を値上げする必要がありました。 ただし、たったの５ 米ドル（５００円）ですので、ご安心ください。ただし、カスタムロゴや抽象背景など、独自に使用できるオプションがさらに増えました。

domafox のおかげで、彼からの3時間の追加作業のおかげで、色が少ないかもしれないがより多くの色を提供でき、見た目も興味深いパネルを備えた、より理解しやすい、よりプロフェッショナルな外観のシートが完成しました。 形状デザインを作成し、ポップで人々の興味を引くかっこいフォントを使用します。英語版が表示され、日本語シートが別になります。

I am very sadden to hear the news that one of the all-time greatest Mangakas that the world has ever embraced has passed away, eight days ago. At the age of 68, he doesn't need any explanation. Akira Toriyama. He is a man who left behind so many works for the millions and has bought joy to many. Dr. Slump being one and the other being the most well known that he's ever done, Dragon Ball. I was actually somewhat inspired by his works like most others and he is a man that made Anime and Manga popular internationally outside of Japan, and was also a man who did character artwork for videogames, such as for Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger and Blue Dragon. His works were part of our childhoods and has sticked with us, for generations.

Without Toriyama, Anime and Manga wouldn't have gotten that recognized globally, as much as it has. Dragon Ball still remains as the #1 Anime/Manga franchise in the entire world. It got Toei Animation to where they are now, as well as other works in addition to Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball such as Cyborg 009, One Piece, Sailor Moon, Digimon, Slam Dunk, Saint Seiya, Toriko, World Trigger, The Transformers (1984-1990 including Japanese exclusive productions) and Pretty Cure. Toei Company themselves have worked on Tokusatsu such as Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Metal Heroes and a slew full of others that had other creators such as Shotaro Ishinomori involved and helped get Toei to where they are as well.

However, we can't ignore the fact that Toriyama has done a lot for the world and it's him that most people are familiar with, when it comes to Japanese entertainment. He was still in the middle of doing several projects and has unfortunately left our world. Now he's up there with Shotaro Ishinomori as well as Osamu Tezuka, Leiji Matsumoto and even Kazuki Takahashi.

Thank you for everything you've done Toriyama-san...May we forever bid you godspeed. Rest in power, great legend.... 😭🙏🐲🐉

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マンガの伝説に別れを告げる

世界がこれまでに認めた史上最も偉大なマンガ家の一人が8日前に亡くなったというニュースを聞いて、とても悲しいです。 68歳という年齢については説明の必要はないだろう。 鳥山明。 彼は何百万もの人々に非常に多くの作品を残し、多くの人に喜びをもたらした男です。 『Dr.スランプ』はその1つであり、もう1つは彼のこれまでの作品の中で最もよく知られているもの、『ドラゴンボール』です。 実際、他の多くの人と同じように、私も彼の作品に多少なりとも影響を受けました。彼はアニメやマンガを日本国外で国際的に人気を博した人物であり、『ドラゴンクエスト』、『クロノ・トリガー』や『ブルードラゴン』などのビデオゲームのキャラクターアートワークを担当した人物でもあります。 彼の作品は私たちの子供時代の一部であり、何世代にもわたって僕たちの心に残り続けています。

鳥山がいなければ、アニメとマンガはこれほど世界的に認知されることはなかったでしょう。 ドラゴンボールは今でも全世界でナンバーワンのアニメ/マンガフランチャイズとしての地位を保っています。 東映アニメーションを現在の地位に導いたほか、『Dr.スランプ』や『ドラゴンボール』以外にも、『サイボーグ009』、『ワンピース』、『美少女戦士セーラームーン』、『デジモン』、『スラムダンク』、『聖闘士星矢』、『トリコ』、『ワールドトリガー』、『トランスフォーマー』などの作品も手掛けた。 （1984年～1990年日本独占作品を含む）と『プリキュア』。 東映自体も、仮面ライダー、スーパー戦隊、メタルヒーローなどの特撮作品に加え、石ノ森章太郎など他のクリエイターも関わった数多くの特撮作品に携わり、東映をここまで成長させるのに貢献した。

しかし、鳥山氏が世界のために多くのことをしてきたという事実を無視することはできず、日本のエンターテインメントに関して言えば、ほとんどの人が鳥山氏をよく知っているという事実を無視することはできません。 彼はまだいくつかのプロジェクトの途中でしたが、残念ながら私たちの世界を去りました。 今では石ノ森章太郎のほか、手塚治虫、松本零士、さらには高橋和希らと並んでいる。

鳥山さん、これまでしてくれたすべてに感謝します...僕たちが永遠に神速を祈りますように。 偉大なる伝説よ、権力に眠る.... 😭🙏🐲🐉

Not much to report. It's only the end of the first month as we move to February, which is bound to be like a tough month, as Februarys' typically go. But it'll be a leap year since we're to have 366 days. And then when March comes, it'll be time we set our clocks forward by one hour, as being in North America.

Here are my first few submissions I got set.

The productivity is rather low, but I'll be doing more. And I hope to figure out what to do for college this semester as I haven't found out what I can do yet, given my credits transfer came late.

See you guys in February.

- Blue.

3...2...1....Midnight! 2023 has arrived!

With 2023 now a year of past memory, we now enter 2024! The fifth year of the 2020s decade. January 1st of the new year has arrived with 342 submissions of last year now being left behind as I shall start again fresh with a new straight slate of drawings now that the new year is here. I tend to try to post at least two submissions a day as I try to have an even number of posts within months' count. I have not been as productive as I once was before, but I can try to kick in that creative spark back, depending on how I feel and how things are going.

For my new years resolutions is continue on with my college career, as well as hope to get more art commissions made. And no more getting accidentally engaged into internet problems with other users either. And I hope that me and mom can find a way to move back into my old town in a new house.

When the sun comes, I shall get through working on my first submission of the year.

And I got a message from yours truly.

Welcome to 2024! A new year for new opportunities to right wrongs and a new time to go out there and show who you are truly made of. Have a very happy new year, to all my friends and fans still around.

May the Chinese Dragon shine you with good luck this year. Oh--speaking of shine, I must take my sleep now...See you all later.

- Blue out.

Greetings. Blue, Protagonist of Light with one final journal to close 2023. This year ends on a very bittersweet note and it was really not like any other year in my whole life.

Less than 12 hours left before 2024 begins in North America as most of Asia, some regions of Africa and Europe already in full commence. This year could have not been any more different compared to last year. The biggest loss being of my childhood home that I have been living in for more than 20 years. Not long ago, the sale of the house was closed and we got our money from it. Since now, my mother and stepfather are separated and have been so since May. This was before July 15th, earlier this year when I officially left. We were only the owner of the house for one year, after paying rent for more than 19 years prior. As of now, it's just me and my mother living together as we work together to be sure we uphold our duties and pay rent in our garden apartment as it's now been more than five months since we have been living. Our desire is to hope that by 2024, we can find a way back to our old town in a new house. It might not be simple given housing is expensive and it's also unfair that if you do not have a credit score at all, or if your credit is poor, you'll be denied to move anywhere. You'll also be denied if you don't show the desired income of how much money you make a year to those that are renting or selling the place that people want to go and move to. I pray every night hoping that not all is lost and there can be a way. Because in this world, there's always a place out there for someone to live in. From the house sale, I have yet to receive my money back that I put into.

After two weeks of moving in to my garden apartment, things went south real fast. And the pain lasted for a very long time and remands of it still carry on to this day. I am sure that nobody needs to know as pretty much everyone knows and it still haunts me for what mistake I accidentally caused, blew up into utter chaos when I let my emotion get the best of me. It costed me my best friend who left me for over four months. And I was worried that I would have lost so much more should I have done nothing. It wasn't until just recently that my close friend finally came back as a holiday miracle and has given me his blessing to do art for him once more. And I made a promise to him and the world that I will never let these things ever happen again. But sadly, his return came at a cost. Others gave him flak for it. And I certainly didn't appercicate that and I don't think that's fair for him. From what I understand, him getting flak has nothing to do with him. It has to do with the fact that people still share utter disgust and outrage for what I did and wanted to keep us apart due to my "toxic behavior" that is supposedly my true self. Well, I am here to say it's not. Even after I apologized sincerely and wholeheartedly, I can't reverse what has already happened. And as of now, he's now limiting his presence on the internet, given that soon, he'll be expecting big things to happen later in his life, so he has to put focus on that. He feels that everything he did was controversial, and even when many disagree (even I), it doesn't seem to change much either. It's just unbelievable on how I caused all this, I'm even surprised at my own self, but I can assure you that this is not how I normally act. Though, long has passed since. And I just want 2024 to begin and put all this behind. No telling what can happen if this keeps being bought up.

342 submissions have been posted this year. Last year was 672. So with that, this is the very first time that you guys have seen a productivity decline due to things happening in my life. So with that, it was bound to happen. I got a pure dose of hell. And this year was not like any other in my life, as much as I have been on social media. It's the least I've done since 2017 with 272. Although I did more this year than back on that particular time, it's less than even what I did in 2018 which was 350. An eight submission difference. Every 25 submissions marks a milestone, so if we do 342 ÷ 25, I only reached 13 milestone achievements. Here's my very last milestone I did this year. Ravry with Diamond Hope to show that this year would end with a bittersweet note and it did.

Now let's look at this art breakdown and compare. First, we'll look at 2023's art count.

60 in January

40 in February

28 in March

34 in April

20 in May

20 in June

20 in July

20 in August

32 in September

16 in October

24 in November

28 in December

2022's art breakdown from last year:

66 in January

52 in February

46 in March

44 in April

112 in May

86 in June

66 in July

62 in August

48 in September

26 in October

30 in November

34 in December

It was to happen at some point. A productivity decline. As we age, things happen. Many things can happen in a single year. Counting all submissions published throughout the 2020s decade, now leads me at 2,198 submissions alone total. When I get to work on my first two submissions of 2024, that will add the count up to 2,200 and then some.

Let 2024 be the year of Good Luck. The Chinese New Year animal will be the Dragon. The element of it will be Wooden. Here's a submission with Blue and Pink featured in their new clothing known as "V6," meaning that this is their sixth main iteration towards how they appear. And after that, here's the final submission of 2023, bringing it to 342. As we still continue the 30 Vibrant Years celebration event.

2023 marks the end of an era and the start of a new one of my life. We can now finally put a good rest to a bad year and move on to begin our 2024 adventure. May the Chinese Dragon bring good luck to us all when it comes. To be continued.

- Blue.