Hey again, guys! I made new instagram account for my OP OC stuff!

Feel free to follow me there: https://www.instagram.com/sokko_opoc/

As some of you may know, I already had an instagram account, @ sonjasokko .

From now on, that account will be about my other art stuff, like my animation school studies, personal art and art practice. This new account, @ sokko_opoc will be only for my One Piece related art, like OPOC art, From Vast Seas art, fanart for other's OP original characters, One Piece fanart, etc.

The reason I made this new account is that I want to be more active with my OPOC content in other medias, alongside Deviantart. I also notice that quite several friends of mine have recently started being more active in instagram than DA. I want to keep on touch with them outside Deviantart. I believe it also makes it easier for me to be more active in OPOC community with this instagram account. However, It has been hard for me with my old instagram account, because there's so much content that relates to other things.

I'll start following my DA friends IG accounts with this new account ^^ I will start drawing new OP OC content to its gallery very soon too. I already posted some old pics there to make it look less empty, haha!

Yes!!! It is finally ready!

Just kidding!

This headline was my pathetic April Fool's prank to you guys this year. I wish it would have been true though... :'

As some of you might remember, I told you in my last journal 3 months ago that me and

started making a 3 minutes long short animation film in our animation school.

We had a goal to finish it in 3 and a half months, but we are obviously not gonna make it. Our animation is now approximately 50% done. Instead of getting it ready before summer, we are going to work on it the whole summer.

Hopefully it will be completely finished at Christmas...

Nevertheless, I want to be more active here on Deviantart again. I want to draw a couple of comic pages during April. I hope I could continue drawing more comic pages after that in a slow pace too..

Here is some sneak peek pic of the characters of our animation short film for you.

Hopefully see you again when I upload some new From Vast Seas comic pages!

Hi! I haven't written any journals here for a while, but now I have so much stuff to share with you guys that I wanted to write one.

After my summer vacation ended I haven't had any time to focus on my OP OC stuff here in Deviantart. Corona situation complicated my schoolwork schedule very badly. I had to work insanely long days just to get everything done in time. I'm sad to say that it's still not over yet.

Me and xKaurax have started an animation project in school. Our animation short film will be 3 minutes long 2d -animation. Last time we animated a 3 minutes long animation, it took us over a year to finish it. Well, now we try to make it in 3 and a half months! This is an insane deadline but I still want to believe that we can make it in time. That's why I'm going on a hiatus until we have finished this project.

This is why I dedicated my Christmas vacation to deviantart and my One Piece OC comic.

I have sketched 16 new comic pages to my OP OC fancomic, From Vast Seas. I'm very excited about these new pages, because during them I finally got into the juicy stuff in my comic. Something big and important will happen in them and I can't wait to show them to you!

If we manage to get our animation ready in time, I will try to get these new pages ready in April 2021.

In addition to that I've decided to go through my old comic pages with a massive reformation. I have now updated the first 28 pages. I have drawn again some of the most important or bad looking pictures. I've also written the dialogue again. Most importantly, I have deleted some pages entirely and even changed the plot in some scenes. (You can still find the deleted pages in my scraps).

I decided to do this because I wanted new readers to have a better reading experience and I also wanted the comic to feel more cohesive. My plans are to continue doing these changes to the rest of the pages after my hiatus. I'd appreciate it really much if you read these old pages again and keep an eye on any possible writing mistakes. I want this comic to be as easy to read as possible. So feel free to tell me if you found out something that isn't right.

Here is a link to my comic: https://www.deviantart.com/s0kk0/gallery/48860357/from-vast-seas (Oldest pages are in at the bottom)

Down below you can see some selected pieces of my redraws compared to the old ones.

I'll keep an eye on my DA inbox during my hiatus, so feel free to send me any messages any time. ^^

See ya~ Love ya~