I've been listening to lo-if and vaporwave for at least a year now, not ironcally but like for background noise while I draw, and stuff. I just would listen to it background, sometimes I would ask myself why I liked this type of music so much. I even like watching the "music video" people put together for music like Saint Pepsi's Private Caller, and Cherry Pepsi and other songs like Groove City. It wasn't until recently when I decided to go back to a more pastel color scheme, it hit me. I looked up "Pastel Aesthetic" out curiosity what I would come up, and I instantly fell in love. I mean, I know the pastel aesthetic is linked to websites like tumblr (which I don't like ), but despite that I really do love this aesthetic. I love how everything looks so dreamy, soft and cute, and I also looked up Vaporware Pastel Aesthetic.

What came up was pastel-colored old technology which I found pretty interesting, and  these things called png packs, I didn't really know what they were at first, then came figure out they were for decoration Tumblr blogs and Photoshop. I decided download some packs and see if could make something cool, I could feel an idea in my head brewing. As  I looked through more packs putting together this collage thing, (I even downloaded a crock board for added effect)I started visualizing a place inspired by the pastel/neon colored cityscapes, imaging what kind of people live there, what technology this people used, and how these people lived. I started to ask these questions more and more until I had a complete vision of a city, it took me a while to come up with an actual name though, but I finally settled on NostoNeo.

Nosto coming from the word nostalgia and Neo for new. I wasn't too happy with it at first but then the more looked at it on the board I grew to like it. NostoNeo is a city where all the resident use old technology, all the resident are creative and city holds a art showcase every weekend, so people can share their best work with one another. Smartphones don't work in city as soon as someone arrives pass the welcome sign the phone turn off and don't come back on until the person is out of city limits. The city also has a mysterious , dream like atmosphere to it, due to it's pastel, and neon-ish color. The city has a bunch of vintage video stores, arcades, movie theaters,  etc. The city also has a abundance of cool vending machines, while town is cool and vintage, many wonder what keeps the city so retro, but still working. Some residence also report seeing strange creatures at night, but other say it's their imagination.... 

I want the NostoNeo comic to focus on 5 (or maybe soon 6) main characters, just living in the city doing cool stuff, and then they notice strange things happening and decide to do something about it. I don't know that's all I have for now. I'll make another page for the whole comic info and characters. I decided I'll  use this blog to keep info about my comics and such, and then post the pages on Tapas.

That's all I got for now. Later days~