Soren, not only as a new OC but also her story, was a fun and interesting project.
I wrote it in early July and it originally was supposed to serve as a test-run for my writing skills, because I didn't want another story (which will be published at some point as well) to be the first thing ever after over 8 years of me writing the last longer story in English.

At this point, I want to give a special shout-out for  VallyGirlly, as well as thanking  LegionBeast,  McParty and many others for their advice, tips and comments during the process!
Aside from the entertainment purpose of all the stories that WILL come, they are also supposed to add a layer of depth to Sora & company and I sincerely hope that as many of you as possible will give it a shot, especially since future pieces will be more compact and easier to digest (having native speakers guiding me also helped a lot).

 VallyGirlly (who volunteered in helping me fleshing out my characters in written form) and I have more stories for you to come and will follow the same concept I applied for “Soren”.
That being said, there will be more stories involving my other characters, though shorter than the Soren one, plus these stories will also be accompanied by a picture to give you a little hint of what to expect from it! :)

By now it is a little early to judge over the “success” of publishing these stories together with images and I admit that the pure length of “Soren” might turn quite a number of you away. Yet at the same time, I hope that you were at least “tempted” to read the entire story, due to the imagery I provided ;3

If you have any feedback for me in the writing department, or any other sort of commentary on the story, you are more than welcome to post that either here, or in the regular section! ^^




Other Updates

Ignoring the possibility that this may piss off or disappoint some of you, I will drop my comic project “Public Escapades”.

I will make it as concise as I can, therefore giving you a list sort-of-thing of my reasons.

Working on this comic isn't fun anymore. I dread facing the amount of panels I have to correct.
The concept is dated, the depiction of all the characters in there is dated, THE WAY I SET THE BASE FOR THIS PIECE IS DATED.

When I came up with the idea and made the first drawings, I wasn't capable of drawing digitally, which is something I only learned and adapted about a year ago.
My bad eyes always prevented me from creating entire comic pages on one sheet of like 11 by 14 inch due to the small size and the limits my scanner set.

“Public Escapades” is all hand-drawn pencil on paper, each of the ca. 120 panels being on it's own sheet. I used to scan them in to assemble the pages later on in photoshop, while correcting slight mistakes there as well as doing the entire rest of the work.

The aspect ratio of the panels doesn't feel right, the pages aren't properly filled, the drawings look awful by my today's standard and I honestly find them to get worse later on...

I hope that even those of you who aren't artists get an idea of how tedious and frustrating it became to work with such a system, all while I have improved my skills basically on all levels since I made the last drawing for it in early 2017. It also doesn't help that other things always kept me from working on it as well as the fact that I think that I have better ideas I can execute way more effectively nowadays.

To use a video-game analogy, it is like I am only able to update the graphics, while being forced to keep the flawed game-play with all it's annoyances. Doesn't ACTUALLY change the overall outcome, because graphics aren't everything, wouldn't you agree?


There are still aspects of “Public Escapades” that I like and I will use as many ideas from there as possible for newer, better projects for you to enjoy.


That is all for now ^^”


~Trias