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17 years ago
Hi guys, RipRoarRex here.
I'm posting this partly as an update journal but also as something of an explanation about me and how I work. It is slighly ugly in parts and very long. I know therefore that a lot of people won't want to sit there reading through the whole thing. However, there are many important points being raised here, so as much as I will understand if you choose not to, I really would appreciate it if my watchers could take the time to read it.
First off, some things you all need to know about my situation. I've said these things in a few places before, but they are important. There are several conditions I need to work on any picture or animation:
1. Time - I'm a university student, so obviously I only get a certain amount of it. In truth, I really haven't been particularly busy so far this term, but I'm sure I will get much busier in the coming months. In any case, I never like starting work on anything unless I know I can work on it for a couple of hours.
2. Freedom - I live at home with my mum and older (22) brother, and as we are a Christian family, the whole RipRoarRex side of my life must remain secret from them. This obviously puts limits on when I can work, and also leads me to rather extreme measures to avoid suspicion (e.g. deleting all my browsing history and document history after every session, hiding my tablet when it's not in use, etc.). The issue is compounded by the fact that, when I was younger, I used to spend far too much time alone in my room on the PC, and it worried my family to the extent that my PC was eventually taken away in 2004, after which I didn't get my current one until 2007. Not that any such thing is likely to happen again these days, but nowadays I feel I can only work on the PC at times when I can come up with a reasonable false justification for spending so much time on it. This is particularly difficult, because as I say, I've not really been that busy at uni up to now, and knowing this, I have been under pressure to get a part-time job... but if I did, I reckon I would lose all of my opportunities for doing this stuff! Therefore, in order to work, I have to have a reasonable amount of assurance that I won't be disturbed or suspected/criticised for spending inexplicable times on the PC rather than doing something more useful. This is enormously restrictive, and one of the main reasons why I don't get as much done as I'd like to.
3. Motivation - If you're an artist, you'll know how this works. Sometimes you're in a good drawing mood, other times you can't draw for shit. There's also the fact that sometimes you just can't be bothered to sit and draw/animate for the time necessary to make a good job of it. Sadly, on the rare occasions I do have the aforementioned time and freedom to work, I often don't feel up to doing anything.
4. The Horn - Prudish people should skip this bit, because I will be very blunt here about explaining how sex affects my work. Yes. Let's be honest. The only reason I draw this stuff is to get off to it, and my work is very much charged by libido, so this is a pretty important condition. If I've got it, I can inject that sense of sexual energy into my work to make it look more exciting. If I haven't got it, I don't really have much enthusiasm for drawing, and anything I do draw is bland. My moods vary to relate to individual characters or situations (e.g. Rexar, Rocky, Marco... paw fetish, crush fetish, vore fetish) but I only draw to satisfy the mood I'm in, though sometimes it's unclear which particular character or situation I'm up for. Only if I'm really focused on one particular desire can I draw for it. There is the additional problem in that not every time I get the horn will I feel the will to piss around drawing something for it; invariably, much like many out there I just want to 'satisfy' the urge there and then. Hardly constructive, but that's just how it is! Lol!
Only if I've got all 4 of these things can I draw/animate effectively. It's rare that I do have all 4, hence I never get to do as much as I want. Crazy? Maybe. That's me, guys.
Bearing these things in mind, here's a bit of an update about what I'm currently up to, and some things you should all know.
1. WIP "Rocky - Heavy Metal" - Most of my time recently (basically ever since I got the tablet) has been dedicated to animating. I'm planning a rather ambitious movie involving Rocky crushing a car... maybe with Mike inside it. This will be even more ambitious than 'Hux - Protein' and is very likely to take a hell of a lot longer; 'Hux - Protein' was done within about 2 weeks during the summer holidays, whereas I reckon I could still be working on this in March 2009. Whether I ever finish it, or whether it ends up in the art dustbin like my overly-ambitious TMNT animation did earlier this year, I don't know. Rest assured however I will try and finish it. In the meantime, I will be working on other projects, so don't worry, you won't be waiting until 2009 for more work from me.
2. Requests - please read this carefully, and don't immediately take offence to what I say. Yes. I've had a lot. There are many people whose ideas I have noted down and whom I have informed I shall get back to should I decide to do their ideas. I needn't tell you guys that, sadly, the majority of you will be disappointed; the aforementioned difficulties I have in doing work mean that, in the rare occasions I can work on something, it is nearly always one of the hundreds of my own ideas I have banked up waiting for production. Request ideas are something I only do when I'm in the mood for, and this won't be often enough to get through anything like the number of ideas I have had pitched to me. All I can say to you guys is please bear with me; you'll have to look upon your request as something that you pitched to me one day and that I may suddenly get back to you about months and months down the line. This is how I work, so if you want something done and done now, don't ask me for it.
I should also say that I've had a lot of ideas saying things like "can you draw a macro Cassie in a city" or "can you draw Skyra eating something/someone". Now, not to be impolite, but it isn't as though I've not thought of all these things before. They're in the big bank of pending ideas that I may get round to doing at some point. I also get a lot of "can you draw my fursona doing this with one of your characters", which much of the time are the same ideas but just with a different fursona each time. The problem is that once I have drawn a certain idea once, I don't really feel like doing it again just to fit in someone else's character. If that were the case, I may as well draw a big Rexar with his foot hovering over a box saying "insert a picture of your fursona here". To that effect, I'm only really interested in drawing requests that have a sense of unique purpose or a fursona I take a particular liking to, rather than just being something I was probably going to do at some point anyway or churning out the same idea over and over. This isn't the fault of any of you, so don't take offence to it. But this is how I respond to ideas, so I may as well come clean about it. Do not however hesitate to send me an idea under the assumption that you will be rejected. I deal with each and every suggestion one-by-one and never turn down an idea out of hand.
3. Rexar & Mike: First Time - I have had a lot of questions about this. When am I getting back to it, are there going to be more pages etc. Yes, there will of course be more pages to come than the 2 which I have done so far. I plan on doing about 12-13 eventually. However, there are several reasons why I haven't worked on this much recently.
a.) I started working on this using my old method of drawing it on paper and photographing it. Now I've got my tablet, I haven't quite decided how to proceed.
b.) I am primarily a paw-fetish artist, guys. Paws or macro constitute at least about 75% of all the work I do. Generally therefore, I don't feel like doing this kind of idea particularly often.
c.) This point may come across as inappropriate and provide blunt information about my personal self that you don't necessarily want to hear. I won't go into gratuitous detail, but I feel the need to share it because it is a significant factor, so if you don't wanna know, skip on. In the last six weeks, I have become increasingly certain that I suffer from a naturally-occuring functional condition with my body which gives me discomfort in certain circumstances and hinders my sexual activity. It isn't serious to my health or anything, but it is something that is likely to require surgery in the future should I become sexually active. I am a virgin and said seuxal activity does not extend any further beyond masturbation at present (and is unlikely to any time in the near future). However, the point is that since discovering this problem, I have genuinely found it difficult to enjoy fantasising about - and indeed drawing - sexual interaction of the sort that is going on in "Rexar & Mike" without worrying about this problem. It's just putting me off, basically, and as I say, with sexual desire being one of the factors in my motivation for drawing, this is a problem. Let me emphasise that I am absolutely certain I will be able to get past it soon enough and get back to work on this comic in the not-too-distant future, but it is an obstacle at the moment and you'll have to bear with me if you are eager to see the continuation of this story.
There's a lot there, I know. And I'm also very aware that there will be a lot of people that didn't read this (or at least not thoroughly enough to understand it all). I am understanding about this, but as I say, I would very much appreciate it if people did take the time to read this, because these are things I would rather not end up repeating over and over in the near future.
Some additional notes - Members of Eccentricities please read:
As many of you may know, we've been upgrading the forum software over at Eccentricities this week from phpBB to vBulletin. The new forums are very cool, but everything is still very much in the process of being fixed, shifted and modified to our needs, so please bear with us if not everything is perfect at the moment. All the previous content (minus a few pending portions) has been migrated over, and you can still access the site as normal using your existing accounts with no need to re-register (although you will need to reset your passwords - instructions for this are provided on the scrolling banner at the top of the home page). If you want to see the new forums, click here.
Thanks everyone, and best wishes.
RRRex
I'm posting this partly as an update journal but also as something of an explanation about me and how I work. It is slighly ugly in parts and very long. I know therefore that a lot of people won't want to sit there reading through the whole thing. However, there are many important points being raised here, so as much as I will understand if you choose not to, I really would appreciate it if my watchers could take the time to read it.
First off, some things you all need to know about my situation. I've said these things in a few places before, but they are important. There are several conditions I need to work on any picture or animation:
1. Time - I'm a university student, so obviously I only get a certain amount of it. In truth, I really haven't been particularly busy so far this term, but I'm sure I will get much busier in the coming months. In any case, I never like starting work on anything unless I know I can work on it for a couple of hours.
2. Freedom - I live at home with my mum and older (22) brother, and as we are a Christian family, the whole RipRoarRex side of my life must remain secret from them. This obviously puts limits on when I can work, and also leads me to rather extreme measures to avoid suspicion (e.g. deleting all my browsing history and document history after every session, hiding my tablet when it's not in use, etc.). The issue is compounded by the fact that, when I was younger, I used to spend far too much time alone in my room on the PC, and it worried my family to the extent that my PC was eventually taken away in 2004, after which I didn't get my current one until 2007. Not that any such thing is likely to happen again these days, but nowadays I feel I can only work on the PC at times when I can come up with a reasonable false justification for spending so much time on it. This is particularly difficult, because as I say, I've not really been that busy at uni up to now, and knowing this, I have been under pressure to get a part-time job... but if I did, I reckon I would lose all of my opportunities for doing this stuff! Therefore, in order to work, I have to have a reasonable amount of assurance that I won't be disturbed or suspected/criticised for spending inexplicable times on the PC rather than doing something more useful. This is enormously restrictive, and one of the main reasons why I don't get as much done as I'd like to.
3. Motivation - If you're an artist, you'll know how this works. Sometimes you're in a good drawing mood, other times you can't draw for shit. There's also the fact that sometimes you just can't be bothered to sit and draw/animate for the time necessary to make a good job of it. Sadly, on the rare occasions I do have the aforementioned time and freedom to work, I often don't feel up to doing anything.
4. The Horn - Prudish people should skip this bit, because I will be very blunt here about explaining how sex affects my work. Yes. Let's be honest. The only reason I draw this stuff is to get off to it, and my work is very much charged by libido, so this is a pretty important condition. If I've got it, I can inject that sense of sexual energy into my work to make it look more exciting. If I haven't got it, I don't really have much enthusiasm for drawing, and anything I do draw is bland. My moods vary to relate to individual characters or situations (e.g. Rexar, Rocky, Marco... paw fetish, crush fetish, vore fetish) but I only draw to satisfy the mood I'm in, though sometimes it's unclear which particular character or situation I'm up for. Only if I'm really focused on one particular desire can I draw for it. There is the additional problem in that not every time I get the horn will I feel the will to piss around drawing something for it; invariably, much like many out there I just want to 'satisfy' the urge there and then. Hardly constructive, but that's just how it is! Lol!
Only if I've got all 4 of these things can I draw/animate effectively. It's rare that I do have all 4, hence I never get to do as much as I want. Crazy? Maybe. That's me, guys.
Bearing these things in mind, here's a bit of an update about what I'm currently up to, and some things you should all know.
1. WIP "Rocky - Heavy Metal" - Most of my time recently (basically ever since I got the tablet) has been dedicated to animating. I'm planning a rather ambitious movie involving Rocky crushing a car... maybe with Mike inside it. This will be even more ambitious than 'Hux - Protein' and is very likely to take a hell of a lot longer; 'Hux - Protein' was done within about 2 weeks during the summer holidays, whereas I reckon I could still be working on this in March 2009. Whether I ever finish it, or whether it ends up in the art dustbin like my overly-ambitious TMNT animation did earlier this year, I don't know. Rest assured however I will try and finish it. In the meantime, I will be working on other projects, so don't worry, you won't be waiting until 2009 for more work from me.
2. Requests - please read this carefully, and don't immediately take offence to what I say. Yes. I've had a lot. There are many people whose ideas I have noted down and whom I have informed I shall get back to should I decide to do their ideas. I needn't tell you guys that, sadly, the majority of you will be disappointed; the aforementioned difficulties I have in doing work mean that, in the rare occasions I can work on something, it is nearly always one of the hundreds of my own ideas I have banked up waiting for production. Request ideas are something I only do when I'm in the mood for, and this won't be often enough to get through anything like the number of ideas I have had pitched to me. All I can say to you guys is please bear with me; you'll have to look upon your request as something that you pitched to me one day and that I may suddenly get back to you about months and months down the line. This is how I work, so if you want something done and done now, don't ask me for it.
I should also say that I've had a lot of ideas saying things like "can you draw a macro Cassie in a city" or "can you draw Skyra eating something/someone". Now, not to be impolite, but it isn't as though I've not thought of all these things before. They're in the big bank of pending ideas that I may get round to doing at some point. I also get a lot of "can you draw my fursona doing this with one of your characters", which much of the time are the same ideas but just with a different fursona each time. The problem is that once I have drawn a certain idea once, I don't really feel like doing it again just to fit in someone else's character. If that were the case, I may as well draw a big Rexar with his foot hovering over a box saying "insert a picture of your fursona here". To that effect, I'm only really interested in drawing requests that have a sense of unique purpose or a fursona I take a particular liking to, rather than just being something I was probably going to do at some point anyway or churning out the same idea over and over. This isn't the fault of any of you, so don't take offence to it. But this is how I respond to ideas, so I may as well come clean about it. Do not however hesitate to send me an idea under the assumption that you will be rejected. I deal with each and every suggestion one-by-one and never turn down an idea out of hand.
3. Rexar & Mike: First Time - I have had a lot of questions about this. When am I getting back to it, are there going to be more pages etc. Yes, there will of course be more pages to come than the 2 which I have done so far. I plan on doing about 12-13 eventually. However, there are several reasons why I haven't worked on this much recently.
a.) I started working on this using my old method of drawing it on paper and photographing it. Now I've got my tablet, I haven't quite decided how to proceed.
b.) I am primarily a paw-fetish artist, guys. Paws or macro constitute at least about 75% of all the work I do. Generally therefore, I don't feel like doing this kind of idea particularly often.
c.) This point may come across as inappropriate and provide blunt information about my personal self that you don't necessarily want to hear. I won't go into gratuitous detail, but I feel the need to share it because it is a significant factor, so if you don't wanna know, skip on. In the last six weeks, I have become increasingly certain that I suffer from a naturally-occuring functional condition with my body which gives me discomfort in certain circumstances and hinders my sexual activity. It isn't serious to my health or anything, but it is something that is likely to require surgery in the future should I become sexually active. I am a virgin and said seuxal activity does not extend any further beyond masturbation at present (and is unlikely to any time in the near future). However, the point is that since discovering this problem, I have genuinely found it difficult to enjoy fantasising about - and indeed drawing - sexual interaction of the sort that is going on in "Rexar & Mike" without worrying about this problem. It's just putting me off, basically, and as I say, with sexual desire being one of the factors in my motivation for drawing, this is a problem. Let me emphasise that I am absolutely certain I will be able to get past it soon enough and get back to work on this comic in the not-too-distant future, but it is an obstacle at the moment and you'll have to bear with me if you are eager to see the continuation of this story.
There's a lot there, I know. And I'm also very aware that there will be a lot of people that didn't read this (or at least not thoroughly enough to understand it all). I am understanding about this, but as I say, I would very much appreciate it if people did take the time to read this, because these are things I would rather not end up repeating over and over in the near future.
Some additional notes - Members of Eccentricities please read:
As many of you may know, we've been upgrading the forum software over at Eccentricities this week from phpBB to vBulletin. The new forums are very cool, but everything is still very much in the process of being fixed, shifted and modified to our needs, so please bear with us if not everything is perfect at the moment. All the previous content (minus a few pending portions) has been migrated over, and you can still access the site as normal using your existing accounts with no need to re-register (although you will need to reset your passwords - instructions for this are provided on the scrolling banner at the top of the home page). If you want to see the new forums, click here.
Thanks everyone, and best wishes.
RRRex
Riproar, the secret agent! Ha.
"Pain in the arse".
Lol!
This is gonna take a while...
Cant wiat to see what you come out with nex when you got the time!! ^-^
Here's me wishing you luck and happyness! ^-^
Generally the best opportunities I get are during the daytime when both my mum and bro are at work (though my bro's job doesn't offer a regular routine, meaning some weeks I may get more chances than others). Invariably though, when these opportunities come around, I very rarely seem to be able to get the focus to work.
Thanks anyway, Alakser.
Good luck and keep it real.
Thanks anyway, Rider.
Thanks, D.
And I'm sure the vast majority of us still think you should at least accept donations. :p
there are times where I can draw with the right motivation and there are times that I just can't get into it and the drawing comes out as a piece of dodo.
If I may ask: what is your major?
I could barely draw as well because of all the projects now..x.x
Well school is for life anyways...
Good Luck on your upcoming arts and your school stuff Mr. RRRex.:3
Is it me or is Darren Bent just doing fantastic the last couple weeks?
And thanks, dragonfire.
I'm the same way with the sexual moods, lately i've had an uber crush on Quetzal from Dragon Tales XD.
BTW, if your okay with it, would you mind explaining to me in a note a little more about said sexual condition? Its okay if not, that's your personal thing. I'm just rather curious. Cause stuff like Viagra may work for it.