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11 years ago
Since FA seems to be blazing about this project Phoenix fiasco, here's my simple stand. Keep your personal stuff private and on with the updates. I don't really give a fuck who did what or who's more right. To quote some Lion King bullshit, "It doesn't matter. It's in the past." If things were to a point of being THAT serious, police action would/should have been taken, but everyone knows how furry drama flings a couple people doing some stupid things out of proportion when one half of said party is a well known fur and the other half's public image is painted a 'damsel in distress'. No, it might not have been right, stupid things were done, but over the last few years of the general public has gotten so damn trigger happy and hyper sensitive to things that don't line up with their personal moral compass you can't wipe your ass in a public restroom without someone being offended.
That said, UNLESS I KNOW YOU PERSONALLY AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WE MIGHT TALK OVER SKYPE ABOUT STUFF, DON'T BRING THIS SHIT TO MY PAGE. I don't give a fuck. Thank you and have a nice day.
On other sites
I think I'm on Sofurry? I don't remember, I never go on there or log on if I am. I do have a Weasyl, and I probably need to upkeep that site better with posting, but I'm a lazy shit. Am I going to move sites? No, cause shutting out FA just because of a few bugs here and there (that get annoying to the point of wanting to rip hair out) would be stupid because yes, it's still a very populated site and a great mass of commissioners swear by it still. Yes, there were issues with Weasyl at the beginning about moral bullshit and people have issues with them too. So fucking what? It's another canvas to throw art at and possible gain more watchers (gosh that sounds awful, but from a business stand, it's true!). If I didn't hate Deviantart with a passion, and also, not be able to post 80% of my work on there because it's pornographic, I'd probably be on there too. Tumblr's just too much for me to deal with. I may create a small portfolio blog because I'm dumb at websites and creating one for myself is outside of my skill levels.
In conclusion, I'm expanding, but I'm still going to be here as well.
Lastly, Commissions and the Comic Project! (Oh boy! this is the fun one)
I really want to work on the comic, and I will be running something of a poll for this in the next couple of days, but I would like people to think on this first.
Commission work and Comic work both take A LOT of time. IF I start working more on the comic, commissions will come slower and farther between. I will also be asking a bit more actively for donations towards the comic if I start working on it more regularly. I've been working on a lot of back end work for it between scripting and actually hashing out the smaller steps of the storyline (The whole thing is plotted out roughly with bits and pieces from the later on chapters more fleshed out, but working out details with the early pages has been getting a lot more attention).
And yes, I'm still aware of the few that have donated for cameo spots. Those have been worked in and as I get closer to said pages, I'll be contacting people to double check designs are the same and other little details.
These are the points were I'm stuck, though.
Style
At present, I would love to do the comic 100% in my full colored style with slightly less detailed backgrounds, most likely inking background lines and coloring them as such instead of the normal painterly feel I do. However, this is the longest, most time consuming style for the comic, and would take the biggest chunk out of actual commission time.
Another option is to use a style more similar to my colored sketches. It would look a lot rougher, but I would be able to turn out pages much faster, I think.
The final option would be to go full sketch, forgoing color on it for majority of the pages. Certain pages would be done up better, but the majority would just be quick sketches, and would be the fastest way to get the story out.
Pacing
Not so much for story telling, but for how often the pages would be posted.
The current option is the 'when I can' method, which has ended up with a multi month hiatus. This is obviously not working, but lets me focus majority of my time on commissions. At present, I barely have time to art for myself at all, focusing 95% of my spare time on working on art for commissioners, but this is also necessity to help take care of bills. I can really only justify working on the comic when I have donations come in for it so I don't NEED to focus on said commissions. That said, comic related donations haven't been much of a thing at all, hence the long pause.
If I set up a monthly/bi-monthly/weekly posting schedule, I would need a bare minimum of donations to counter the time lost for commission work that I'd be spending on the comic.
Alternately, but similar to the incremented style, if I set up a designated amount needed to reach the next page, it could be a floating schedule where each time the page goal is met, I drop everything and focus on the next page of the comic. This would take precedence over regularly commissioned work until that page is finished and posted, though I worry that when the comic lulls, it would end up screeching to a halt because the current action isn't engaging enough to garner funding.
THEN there's the idea of running a kickstarter or a go-fund-me thing to get this going, but that might just get messy, haha.
I would like to get this comic stuff figured out by the end of the month, starting with February as the official relaunch for the comic, but we'll see.
Also, early March, I will be moving again, but the move in period of days shouldn't be too bad. It's right around the corner from our current place, and we don't need to move everything in one go! Just a heads up.
EDIT: Also I worked on a few things but managed to jump around enough that most aren't at 'postable' levels *sigh* I'll be working on cleaning some things up and finishing others up today/tomorrow, as well as starting the sketches for the new round of commissions.
That said, UNLESS I KNOW YOU PERSONALLY AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WE MIGHT TALK OVER SKYPE ABOUT STUFF, DON'T BRING THIS SHIT TO MY PAGE. I don't give a fuck. Thank you and have a nice day.
On other sites
I think I'm on Sofurry? I don't remember, I never go on there or log on if I am. I do have a Weasyl, and I probably need to upkeep that site better with posting, but I'm a lazy shit. Am I going to move sites? No, cause shutting out FA just because of a few bugs here and there (that get annoying to the point of wanting to rip hair out) would be stupid because yes, it's still a very populated site and a great mass of commissioners swear by it still. Yes, there were issues with Weasyl at the beginning about moral bullshit and people have issues with them too. So fucking what? It's another canvas to throw art at and possible gain more watchers (gosh that sounds awful, but from a business stand, it's true!). If I didn't hate Deviantart with a passion, and also, not be able to post 80% of my work on there because it's pornographic, I'd probably be on there too. Tumblr's just too much for me to deal with. I may create a small portfolio blog because I'm dumb at websites and creating one for myself is outside of my skill levels.
In conclusion, I'm expanding, but I'm still going to be here as well.
Lastly, Commissions and the Comic Project! (Oh boy! this is the fun one)
I really want to work on the comic, and I will be running something of a poll for this in the next couple of days, but I would like people to think on this first.
Commission work and Comic work both take A LOT of time. IF I start working more on the comic, commissions will come slower and farther between. I will also be asking a bit more actively for donations towards the comic if I start working on it more regularly. I've been working on a lot of back end work for it between scripting and actually hashing out the smaller steps of the storyline (The whole thing is plotted out roughly with bits and pieces from the later on chapters more fleshed out, but working out details with the early pages has been getting a lot more attention).
And yes, I'm still aware of the few that have donated for cameo spots. Those have been worked in and as I get closer to said pages, I'll be contacting people to double check designs are the same and other little details.
These are the points were I'm stuck, though.
Style
At present, I would love to do the comic 100% in my full colored style with slightly less detailed backgrounds, most likely inking background lines and coloring them as such instead of the normal painterly feel I do. However, this is the longest, most time consuming style for the comic, and would take the biggest chunk out of actual commission time.
Another option is to use a style more similar to my colored sketches. It would look a lot rougher, but I would be able to turn out pages much faster, I think.
The final option would be to go full sketch, forgoing color on it for majority of the pages. Certain pages would be done up better, but the majority would just be quick sketches, and would be the fastest way to get the story out.
Pacing
Not so much for story telling, but for how often the pages would be posted.
The current option is the 'when I can' method, which has ended up with a multi month hiatus. This is obviously not working, but lets me focus majority of my time on commissions. At present, I barely have time to art for myself at all, focusing 95% of my spare time on working on art for commissioners, but this is also necessity to help take care of bills. I can really only justify working on the comic when I have donations come in for it so I don't NEED to focus on said commissions. That said, comic related donations haven't been much of a thing at all, hence the long pause.
If I set up a monthly/bi-monthly/weekly posting schedule, I would need a bare minimum of donations to counter the time lost for commission work that I'd be spending on the comic.
Alternately, but similar to the incremented style, if I set up a designated amount needed to reach the next page, it could be a floating schedule where each time the page goal is met, I drop everything and focus on the next page of the comic. This would take precedence over regularly commissioned work until that page is finished and posted, though I worry that when the comic lulls, it would end up screeching to a halt because the current action isn't engaging enough to garner funding.
THEN there's the idea of running a kickstarter or a go-fund-me thing to get this going, but that might just get messy, haha.
I would like to get this comic stuff figured out by the end of the month, starting with February as the official relaunch for the comic, but we'll see.
Also, early March, I will be moving again, but the move in period of days shouldn't be too bad. It's right around the corner from our current place, and we don't need to move everything in one go! Just a heads up.
EDIT: Also I worked on a few things but managed to jump around enough that most aren't at 'postable' levels *sigh* I'll be working on cleaning some things up and finishing others up today/tomorrow, as well as starting the sketches for the new round of commissions.
Lots more detail up there for later reading though.