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Nýúlfur: The New Wolf - Release Details!
Posted a week agoHey there folks, I would like to go out of the way and confirm that Nýúlfur: The New Wolf is definitely coming out on the 30th of October! It will be released on Royal Road, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own (AO3) and the forums Spacebattles.com and Sufficient Velocity.com. It may take me a little time to get all five platforms with the story uploaded, but I am going through all the final checks now, so fingers crossed, I can get the story up and running on the 30th without issue!
Looking forward to seeing you all on the launch! I'll do another post with links once the story is up. I also have something a little bit special in mind for the release on Deviantart and Furaffinity, but that will come through once some of the remaining details are sorted!
Looking forward to seeing you all on the launch! I'll do another post with links once the story is up. I also have something a little bit special in mind for the release on Deviantart and Furaffinity, but that will come through once some of the remaining details are sorted!
Art Dash Sunday!
Posted 4 months agoOkay, so I have a problem with being a perfectionist when it comes to linework, which leads to alot of my art projects getting delayed quite a bit. Taking a bit of inspiration from those animators and artists who often advise not to make perfect linework and the like, I've decided to try something different to help with speeding up my own linework.
I call it Art Dash Sunday. The idea is that every Sunday, I take the time to do a sketch, drawing or full piece of art, but limit myself to one hour everyday. Which means unless I want absolutely nothing on the canvas, I need to drop my perfectionist traits and work to try and get the work completed quickly, but to a decent standard. Art will initially start off really bad, junk art really. But as my confidence improves, more and more detail will start creeping in. Meaning I can do line art quicker or to a better standard.
Just some ground rules for the Art Dash:
1. Outside of specific circumstances, Art Dashes always last a maximum of one hour – once this hour has passed, the pen/stylus must be put down and no more lines/shading can be done. 15 Minutes extra are allowed to search for references, but if the pen/stylus are used at any point, those 15 minutes are considered void. If references aren't used, I am allowed 15 minutes on top of the original 60 minutes. If a piece of art is considered 'complete' regardless of state, the extra time saved can be banked and used in another Art Dash.
2. If the drawing was done digitally, then the layers can be shifted into the correct positions and sizes after the session. But no additional lines or shading can be drawn at all to correct it. Pen and paper can have sketch lines removed but if anything is rubbed out by mistake, it cannot be readded.
3. Once an Art Dash session is completed, the artwork – regardless of quality and how complete it is – must be uploaded onto the Internet as an Art Dash submission. Where and how many places the artwork goes onto doesn't matter, as long as it's posted in at least one location.
4. Once posted, that drawing will not be revisited – it can be done again from scratch with the original drawing used as a reference, but it cannot be used directly again. The only way it can be revisited is if there are enough likes from all platforms it is posted on.
It'll either be stuff I just fancy in that moment, or it will be upto folks to offer suggestions on what to do. Art Dash will probably lead to a good deal of trash coming out, but sometimes something really good might come out depending on what I'm working on. But hopefully it'll improve my own artwork in time, or at the very least, make me less perfectionist and get stuff done more quickly!
Should be something a bit different whilst I work on main projects!
I call it Art Dash Sunday. The idea is that every Sunday, I take the time to do a sketch, drawing or full piece of art, but limit myself to one hour everyday. Which means unless I want absolutely nothing on the canvas, I need to drop my perfectionist traits and work to try and get the work completed quickly, but to a decent standard. Art will initially start off really bad, junk art really. But as my confidence improves, more and more detail will start creeping in. Meaning I can do line art quicker or to a better standard.
Just some ground rules for the Art Dash:
1. Outside of specific circumstances, Art Dashes always last a maximum of one hour – once this hour has passed, the pen/stylus must be put down and no more lines/shading can be done. 15 Minutes extra are allowed to search for references, but if the pen/stylus are used at any point, those 15 minutes are considered void. If references aren't used, I am allowed 15 minutes on top of the original 60 minutes. If a piece of art is considered 'complete' regardless of state, the extra time saved can be banked and used in another Art Dash.
2. If the drawing was done digitally, then the layers can be shifted into the correct positions and sizes after the session. But no additional lines or shading can be drawn at all to correct it. Pen and paper can have sketch lines removed but if anything is rubbed out by mistake, it cannot be readded.
3. Once an Art Dash session is completed, the artwork – regardless of quality and how complete it is – must be uploaded onto the Internet as an Art Dash submission. Where and how many places the artwork goes onto doesn't matter, as long as it's posted in at least one location.
4. Once posted, that drawing will not be revisited – it can be done again from scratch with the original drawing used as a reference, but it cannot be used directly again. The only way it can be revisited is if there are enough likes from all platforms it is posted on.
It'll either be stuff I just fancy in that moment, or it will be upto folks to offer suggestions on what to do. Art Dash will probably lead to a good deal of trash coming out, but sometimes something really good might come out depending on what I'm working on. But hopefully it'll improve my own artwork in time, or at the very least, make me less perfectionist and get stuff done more quickly!
Should be something a bit different whilst I work on main projects!
My long term plans for art, writing and other projects
Posted 10 months agoOkay, I don’t have a website or blog to put stuff like this onto so I don’t really know how to write this up without sounding like a lunatic. But I’ve just kinda been reflecting on my current creative projects and how I currently want to proceed. Normally when I post something up about how I’ve got a crapload of stuff to work through, I just lay down a list of all the projects I’m working on and that’s it. So, this time, I’m going to do something different. I’m not just going to lay down what is going on with my writing and art projects, but also detail where they are at and what I’m considering doing going forward with each of these projects.
This is over 2000 words long, so if you don’t want to read the full context and details here, here is a shorter summary detailing the current plans.
SUMMARY
• Artwork is being done one at a time, with a maximum of two art projects active at any one time – not counting short, quick doodles. The current focus is completing companion pieces to Spitfire and Marcus, one of which is nearly complete and at least three more are to follow. After that, at least one non-Arcbot related drawing will come up, plus the next complex Arcbot piece.
• The Nýúlfur Novel will be serialised and later self-published. Chapters are currently being written and edited to become part of a backlog to allow for consistent weekly posts after initial publishing.
• The Ship of Aurora’s first draft is at most 80%, and after the second draft/edits and proof-reading, I hope to traditionally publish.
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon fan-fics Guardians of Balance and Mercenaries of Dawn will continue under a 2:1 – 3:1 chapter post system, prioritising the former fic unless it’s on break, at which point the focus will be directed towards the latter.
• GT3050 has at least four remaining chapters for the first part that will be completed. The second part will be completed and uploaded all at once over a daily period later.
• Arcbot content will coalesce into the ARCSverse project, including art, stories, and a tabletop wargame. Plans are still currently being laid out.
With that… time for the big post.
CONTEXT
Before I start detailing all that though, I’ll put a bit of context into why I’m writing this now. Earlier this year, I wasn’t in the best of positions. I couldn’t live independently, at least comfortably without needing a huge amount of support. I was also getting increasingly invested in working on my creative work to the point where I could start using it as a means of helping myself get a bit of income and making myself more independent. That would have been in the form of art commissions, publishing stories and even frequenting markets to sell some stuff, and I was beginning to lay out the preparation for this kind of stuff.
That changed three months ago, where a massive opportunity came flying in that allowed me to start working in a field related to my degree and learn more about it. This has put me financially and independently in a much better position, though it’s still early days and my focus has been making sure I can hit the ground running there. This had the side-effect of knocking some of my creative project plans back in doing something more extensive, hence why I haven’t chased up plans for commissions and that.
Furthermore, despite trying to take steps to give myself less work so I can churn out art and writing at a quicker pace – namely by opting for shorter chapter lengths, committing to one or two drawings, or putting some creative projects on hiatus – I’ve ended up falling back into mission creep and ended up back to square one there.
With that in mind, I’ve decided I really need to put my foot down to get some of my creative content done on a more regular basis and lay out more detailed plans for the future of all them, and what I intend to do with them.
Let’s start with artwork, since this is getting originally posted on places like DeviantArt, this makes sense.
ARTWORK
My current art plans include working on a series of follow ups to my Spitfire and Marcus artwork that I did back in October, featuring other Shadow Knight characters (both human and Arcbot) from the ARCSverse. One of these is almost complete, and I’m looking forward to sharing the Hellcat and Valerie art before the end of the year! I’m just debating on adding one final addition to it or not which will add some extra time on before I can finish the project off. After that, I can confirm I’ll follow up with at least three more partner drawings, the first of which will feature Hurricane and his partner Kyle. I can confirm one of the other two to follow will include an Arcbot called Tempest, and the other is something I’m going to decide on in the coming days.
After that, I’m not sure where I’m going next. Folks have been happy to see Arcbot artwork, as well as spaceships like the Space Carrier Audacity and the Darts. My furry art has kinda started falling on the wayside though, and whilst I do like the smaller art pieces like swords, fan art like Pokémon, flags, and more experimental, quick drawings like the Japanese MadWolf, it’s clear that this doesn’t get much attention. The most recent non-Arcbot related stuff doesn’t seem to get a huge amount of interest, so that is kinda influencing my thinking, as I do want to do art not just related to the Arcbots even though I’m thinking about that kind of stuff! I do intend to try and focus on one drawing at a time for the foreseeable future, maybe two plus a quick project at most. I do have a few sketches left over which are unlikely to be finished, but I might put throw them together in a college so they can see the light of day, or just use them as references.
Coupled with my current work and all my other creative projects, I am going to have to hold fire on my plans for commissions for the time being, until things become steadier.
TLDR for here, once the current Arcbot projects are complete, there will be another Arcbot drawing – with an event happening or a more complex background – and something non-Arcbot related, either furry or ship related.
WRITING
As for the writing front, I have exactly five different writing projects ongoing now in varying states. Specifically, there are three fanfics, my Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Guardians of Balance fan-fic as well as it’s prequel Mercenaries of Dawn, and finally, The Grand Tour 3050, which is essentially a Grand Tour/Top Gear – BattleTech crossover and a sequel to Top Gear 3025 – give that one a read!
Alongside those three fan-fics, I have two original fictional projects, namely my long-term novel Nýúlfur – featuring werewolves in a post-apocalyptic setting with heavy themes of racism and significant character development – and the Ship of Aurora – of which the Dart class ships would feature in!
Recently I reached a point where I was starting fresh on entirely new chapters or starting a new round of editing/proofreading, which I will admit left me stumbling around to restart. But it also helped regain some perspective by the simple fact I’m only one person who hasn’t got any creative project to a point where I can live off it, so I need to seriously and definitively mark off the future of these respective stories and determine how they are going to progress in the future. So, to bullet point them off:
• Nýúlfur – I’ve spent a long time on this writing project, and looked at all sorts of different ways to get it published, either without success or deciding not to proceed when I realised the many, many caveats that added on top of those options. Therefore, I’ve decided to release Nýúlfur as a serial, and I’m currently in the process of building up a backlog of chapters to help start publishing the story. There are currently two volumes of chapters for Nýúlfur I have on hand, and once I reached a suitable point, I’ll release the first load of chapters onto websites like Royal Road, with early chapters coming through on the likes of Patreon once I worked those details out, with new updates coming through weekly. Once Volume 1 is fully uploaded, it’ll remain online for some time, before it is taken down and self-published directly to Amazon, save for an additional prologue to help folks learn more about the setting. Volume 2 would continue as normal, and hopefully by the time Volume 1 is self-published, then Volume 3 and maybe even 4 should start making up the backlog. Now? I’m currently writing new chapters whilst simultaneously editing older ones to suit the new format and getting that backlog ready to allow for consistent posts, hopefully I can do edits within a single night, and get the backlog up to a comfortable point to start releasing it.
• The Ship of Aurora on the other hand, I hope to traditionally publish, mainly due to its much smaller size and clear-cut focus. In the first draft alone, I think I might have completed eight out of ten chapters, not counting an extra one that might be required in the future. Hopefully additional drafts and/or edits should be a relatively quick affair. This is standalone, so there shouldn’t be anything immediately following this story up.
• PMD: Guardians of Balance and Mercenaries of Dawn – I never imagined I’d be putting so much time into working on these fan-fics, but despite making the chapters shorter, I’m still not great on the consistency front. Therefore, I am making a clear-cut decision about how to proceed in the future, as despite wanting to initially put MoD on hiatus, I ended up returning to it later. Therefore, I will allow both to continue with specific rules. Guardians of Balance will be more regularly updated, with two to three chapters being released for every Mercenaries of Dawn chapter. If GoB happens to be on break due to an episode being finished, then MoD will take up the slack until GoB restarts or MoD hits a critical stop point. Both will continue to be updated on Spacebattles, Sufficient Velocity, Fanfiction.net, AO3, Bulbagarden and Thousand Road. I might also experiment with building up a backlog, but I’ll discuss that with…
• GT3050 – Okay, despite chapters here being quite short, GT3050 is also weirdly a lot harder to write, as you must try and get into the heads of real people on top of writing it in an unusual method. Part 1 of GT3050 should be concluded within around four, maybe five chapters. Yes, I said Part 1, there is a second part to GT3050 that I do have a solid idea on in terms of plot. But after Part 1 is completed, I’m going to take a different approach. Instead of releasing each of Part 2’s chapter’s ad hoc, I’m going to write all the chapters first to build up a backlog, then release the Chapters daily to complete GT3050. This should conclude the episodes that were started in TG3025 and wrap it all up, especially with the end of the Clarkson/Hammond/May era, allowing me to return my focus to the other stories.
This is all subject to change, especially as things continue to develop. The backlog approach is something I’m looking into trying a lot more, but it will require a slow down as I get some of this stuff done. I want to try and avoid any other big writing projects for now, because again, I’m only one person.
But I do want to reveal one big thing in particular, going back to the Arcbots themselves.
ARCBOTS – THE ARCSVERSE
Long story short, Arcbots has become a much bigger thing that I ever expected since drawing Spitfire for the first time, even more so than the years long Nýúlfur project.
So with that, I’ve made a decision. This is now being encompassed as part of a larger project that I’m calling the ARCSverse. Not only is there the Arcbot artwork I’ve been working on, but I have also been developing an Arcbots roleplaying game in a similar fashion to tabletop wargames. Here, you control one Arcbot that you have a huge degree of customisation and control over and battle other players in short, brutal battles. I’m currently going through some playtesting and revisions on the game itself, and so far, things have been promising. I hope to further refine it over the next few months. Extra play testers will be welcome here! In addition, when it’s done, I don’t just want to sell it like some corporate product like other tabletops, and want to give players more of an ability to direct how the Arcbots game takes shape and develops. I don’t know how I’m going to do that just yet, but it’s something I’m thinking over.
Furthermore, I’m also considering writing a story set within the increasingly expansive world of Arkaris – the setting for Arcbots – with some of the characters you have already seen in the Arcbots art. I already have some solid ideas in place, but I don’t have any current chapters at the ready. There is a lot of stuff I need to work out, but it will likely release as a serial as well unless I genuinely think it can be traditionally published, but that is something I will ultimately decide on in the future. Shorter snippets and stories could also be released as well, and I do have a short story snippet based on one such playtest, so that might come up at some point!
CONCLUSION
So yeah, that is the long version of some of my plans. Again, I’m only one person and I’m not in a position at this very moment to live off this, after all, my current job takes precedence as without it, I’m left in a difficult position, but I hope to be able to share more of this stuff down the line. I’m also going to start doing update posts as new developments come up so I can try and keep people informed, and hopefully reactivate my Twitter (I’m not calling it X) and Bluesky accounts accordingly.
Welp, that’s my big update on plans. If more questions are wanted, feel free to ask me. Now, I’m going to get back to working my evenings away as best I can. Ciao. And have a Great Christmas and New Year!
StolenMadWolf
This is over 2000 words long, so if you don’t want to read the full context and details here, here is a shorter summary detailing the current plans.
SUMMARY
• Artwork is being done one at a time, with a maximum of two art projects active at any one time – not counting short, quick doodles. The current focus is completing companion pieces to Spitfire and Marcus, one of which is nearly complete and at least three more are to follow. After that, at least one non-Arcbot related drawing will come up, plus the next complex Arcbot piece.
• The Nýúlfur Novel will be serialised and later self-published. Chapters are currently being written and edited to become part of a backlog to allow for consistent weekly posts after initial publishing.
• The Ship of Aurora’s first draft is at most 80%, and after the second draft/edits and proof-reading, I hope to traditionally publish.
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon fan-fics Guardians of Balance and Mercenaries of Dawn will continue under a 2:1 – 3:1 chapter post system, prioritising the former fic unless it’s on break, at which point the focus will be directed towards the latter.
• GT3050 has at least four remaining chapters for the first part that will be completed. The second part will be completed and uploaded all at once over a daily period later.
• Arcbot content will coalesce into the ARCSverse project, including art, stories, and a tabletop wargame. Plans are still currently being laid out.
With that… time for the big post.
CONTEXT
Before I start detailing all that though, I’ll put a bit of context into why I’m writing this now. Earlier this year, I wasn’t in the best of positions. I couldn’t live independently, at least comfortably without needing a huge amount of support. I was also getting increasingly invested in working on my creative work to the point where I could start using it as a means of helping myself get a bit of income and making myself more independent. That would have been in the form of art commissions, publishing stories and even frequenting markets to sell some stuff, and I was beginning to lay out the preparation for this kind of stuff.
That changed three months ago, where a massive opportunity came flying in that allowed me to start working in a field related to my degree and learn more about it. This has put me financially and independently in a much better position, though it’s still early days and my focus has been making sure I can hit the ground running there. This had the side-effect of knocking some of my creative project plans back in doing something more extensive, hence why I haven’t chased up plans for commissions and that.
Furthermore, despite trying to take steps to give myself less work so I can churn out art and writing at a quicker pace – namely by opting for shorter chapter lengths, committing to one or two drawings, or putting some creative projects on hiatus – I’ve ended up falling back into mission creep and ended up back to square one there.
With that in mind, I’ve decided I really need to put my foot down to get some of my creative content done on a more regular basis and lay out more detailed plans for the future of all them, and what I intend to do with them.
Let’s start with artwork, since this is getting originally posted on places like DeviantArt, this makes sense.
ARTWORK
My current art plans include working on a series of follow ups to my Spitfire and Marcus artwork that I did back in October, featuring other Shadow Knight characters (both human and Arcbot) from the ARCSverse. One of these is almost complete, and I’m looking forward to sharing the Hellcat and Valerie art before the end of the year! I’m just debating on adding one final addition to it or not which will add some extra time on before I can finish the project off. After that, I can confirm I’ll follow up with at least three more partner drawings, the first of which will feature Hurricane and his partner Kyle. I can confirm one of the other two to follow will include an Arcbot called Tempest, and the other is something I’m going to decide on in the coming days.
After that, I’m not sure where I’m going next. Folks have been happy to see Arcbot artwork, as well as spaceships like the Space Carrier Audacity and the Darts. My furry art has kinda started falling on the wayside though, and whilst I do like the smaller art pieces like swords, fan art like Pokémon, flags, and more experimental, quick drawings like the Japanese MadWolf, it’s clear that this doesn’t get much attention. The most recent non-Arcbot related stuff doesn’t seem to get a huge amount of interest, so that is kinda influencing my thinking, as I do want to do art not just related to the Arcbots even though I’m thinking about that kind of stuff! I do intend to try and focus on one drawing at a time for the foreseeable future, maybe two plus a quick project at most. I do have a few sketches left over which are unlikely to be finished, but I might put throw them together in a college so they can see the light of day, or just use them as references.
Coupled with my current work and all my other creative projects, I am going to have to hold fire on my plans for commissions for the time being, until things become steadier.
TLDR for here, once the current Arcbot projects are complete, there will be another Arcbot drawing – with an event happening or a more complex background – and something non-Arcbot related, either furry or ship related.
WRITING
As for the writing front, I have exactly five different writing projects ongoing now in varying states. Specifically, there are three fanfics, my Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Guardians of Balance fan-fic as well as it’s prequel Mercenaries of Dawn, and finally, The Grand Tour 3050, which is essentially a Grand Tour/Top Gear – BattleTech crossover and a sequel to Top Gear 3025 – give that one a read!
Alongside those three fan-fics, I have two original fictional projects, namely my long-term novel Nýúlfur – featuring werewolves in a post-apocalyptic setting with heavy themes of racism and significant character development – and the Ship of Aurora – of which the Dart class ships would feature in!
Recently I reached a point where I was starting fresh on entirely new chapters or starting a new round of editing/proofreading, which I will admit left me stumbling around to restart. But it also helped regain some perspective by the simple fact I’m only one person who hasn’t got any creative project to a point where I can live off it, so I need to seriously and definitively mark off the future of these respective stories and determine how they are going to progress in the future. So, to bullet point them off:
• Nýúlfur – I’ve spent a long time on this writing project, and looked at all sorts of different ways to get it published, either without success or deciding not to proceed when I realised the many, many caveats that added on top of those options. Therefore, I’ve decided to release Nýúlfur as a serial, and I’m currently in the process of building up a backlog of chapters to help start publishing the story. There are currently two volumes of chapters for Nýúlfur I have on hand, and once I reached a suitable point, I’ll release the first load of chapters onto websites like Royal Road, with early chapters coming through on the likes of Patreon once I worked those details out, with new updates coming through weekly. Once Volume 1 is fully uploaded, it’ll remain online for some time, before it is taken down and self-published directly to Amazon, save for an additional prologue to help folks learn more about the setting. Volume 2 would continue as normal, and hopefully by the time Volume 1 is self-published, then Volume 3 and maybe even 4 should start making up the backlog. Now? I’m currently writing new chapters whilst simultaneously editing older ones to suit the new format and getting that backlog ready to allow for consistent posts, hopefully I can do edits within a single night, and get the backlog up to a comfortable point to start releasing it.
• The Ship of Aurora on the other hand, I hope to traditionally publish, mainly due to its much smaller size and clear-cut focus. In the first draft alone, I think I might have completed eight out of ten chapters, not counting an extra one that might be required in the future. Hopefully additional drafts and/or edits should be a relatively quick affair. This is standalone, so there shouldn’t be anything immediately following this story up.
• PMD: Guardians of Balance and Mercenaries of Dawn – I never imagined I’d be putting so much time into working on these fan-fics, but despite making the chapters shorter, I’m still not great on the consistency front. Therefore, I am making a clear-cut decision about how to proceed in the future, as despite wanting to initially put MoD on hiatus, I ended up returning to it later. Therefore, I will allow both to continue with specific rules. Guardians of Balance will be more regularly updated, with two to three chapters being released for every Mercenaries of Dawn chapter. If GoB happens to be on break due to an episode being finished, then MoD will take up the slack until GoB restarts or MoD hits a critical stop point. Both will continue to be updated on Spacebattles, Sufficient Velocity, Fanfiction.net, AO3, Bulbagarden and Thousand Road. I might also experiment with building up a backlog, but I’ll discuss that with…
• GT3050 – Okay, despite chapters here being quite short, GT3050 is also weirdly a lot harder to write, as you must try and get into the heads of real people on top of writing it in an unusual method. Part 1 of GT3050 should be concluded within around four, maybe five chapters. Yes, I said Part 1, there is a second part to GT3050 that I do have a solid idea on in terms of plot. But after Part 1 is completed, I’m going to take a different approach. Instead of releasing each of Part 2’s chapter’s ad hoc, I’m going to write all the chapters first to build up a backlog, then release the Chapters daily to complete GT3050. This should conclude the episodes that were started in TG3025 and wrap it all up, especially with the end of the Clarkson/Hammond/May era, allowing me to return my focus to the other stories.
This is all subject to change, especially as things continue to develop. The backlog approach is something I’m looking into trying a lot more, but it will require a slow down as I get some of this stuff done. I want to try and avoid any other big writing projects for now, because again, I’m only one person.
But I do want to reveal one big thing in particular, going back to the Arcbots themselves.
ARCBOTS – THE ARCSVERSE
Long story short, Arcbots has become a much bigger thing that I ever expected since drawing Spitfire for the first time, even more so than the years long Nýúlfur project.
So with that, I’ve made a decision. This is now being encompassed as part of a larger project that I’m calling the ARCSverse. Not only is there the Arcbot artwork I’ve been working on, but I have also been developing an Arcbots roleplaying game in a similar fashion to tabletop wargames. Here, you control one Arcbot that you have a huge degree of customisation and control over and battle other players in short, brutal battles. I’m currently going through some playtesting and revisions on the game itself, and so far, things have been promising. I hope to further refine it over the next few months. Extra play testers will be welcome here! In addition, when it’s done, I don’t just want to sell it like some corporate product like other tabletops, and want to give players more of an ability to direct how the Arcbots game takes shape and develops. I don’t know how I’m going to do that just yet, but it’s something I’m thinking over.
Furthermore, I’m also considering writing a story set within the increasingly expansive world of Arkaris – the setting for Arcbots – with some of the characters you have already seen in the Arcbots art. I already have some solid ideas in place, but I don’t have any current chapters at the ready. There is a lot of stuff I need to work out, but it will likely release as a serial as well unless I genuinely think it can be traditionally published, but that is something I will ultimately decide on in the future. Shorter snippets and stories could also be released as well, and I do have a short story snippet based on one such playtest, so that might come up at some point!
CONCLUSION
So yeah, that is the long version of some of my plans. Again, I’m only one person and I’m not in a position at this very moment to live off this, after all, my current job takes precedence as without it, I’m left in a difficult position, but I hope to be able to share more of this stuff down the line. I’m also going to start doing update posts as new developments come up so I can try and keep people informed, and hopefully reactivate my Twitter (I’m not calling it X) and Bluesky accounts accordingly.
Welp, that’s my big update on plans. If more questions are wanted, feel free to ask me. Now, I’m going to get back to working my evenings away as best I can. Ciao. And have a Great Christmas and New Year!
StolenMadWolf
Commissions to come soon!
Posted 2 years agoHi there! Been a while since I've done a journal. But after the last few pieces of art I've been working on, I've decided that I am going to go ahead and start doing commissions in the near future! I'm currently trying to work out the essentials on setting up art commissions like tax, emails, price list and other stuff of that nature, along with making sure the novel I'm writing is ready to go back to the agents soon.
Once I work out those details, I will be getting ready to start some commissions proper! I will likely just start with no more than two slots and stick with nothing bigger than a half body just whilst I get myself into the groove of things, but as I get more used to things, I'll be putting up more slots and/or more complex options.
I'll post a price sheet the moment I've got a better idea of how everything works!
Once I work out those details, I will be getting ready to start some commissions proper! I will likely just start with no more than two slots and stick with nothing bigger than a half body just whilst I get myself into the groove of things, but as I get more used to things, I'll be putting up more slots and/or more complex options.
I'll post a price sheet the moment I've got a better idea of how everything works!
Art Questions
Posted 3 years agoWell, been a while since I've done a journal on here.
I've been encouraged by more than a few people I either need to start selling the art I have, or do commissions. I've mainly avoided doing that as in the case of the former, most of the art is quite deeply personal to myself, and is based on my own world building (the closest stuff I've been willing to put up for usage is a set of flags, and they aren't even really for sale and I've personally put notices on those flags, effectively baring any commercial use). In the case of the latter, that's a combination of working out reasonable prices and actually managing to complete said commissions in a reasonable timeframe. After all, the last time I did a request, it took weeks to over a month to get done. And this is on top of me trying to balance my writing projects and an impending, very busy career job coming up which will eat away at a lot of my time, meaning even doing a small amount of commissions will be very difficult.
Not only that, but I've got so many different ideas buzzing around my head for art (and that's not counting trying to focus on my mix of writing projects) that it's not easy to plan out what I want to work on next. A situtation that will be made even worse owing to my new committments in the next couple of months and if I ever decide I feel ready to actually do commissions.
So, I'm putting up a Google Form about art stuff. It includes some ideas on what my current ideas for art pieces are (I've already had a few prices before, but figured I might as well get a refresh), questions on folks suggestions on commissions and what people are interested in (the latter especially stemming from the fact most pieces of mine have between 1-5 favourites compared to the 25+ I have for the Foxfire piece, and that's not going into the over 6K reddit upvotes I got on the first set of Solar System flags (and the latter barely got any)), so when I get into that career, I might have a better idea of what to work on and how to proceed with things.
The link to that is down below:
https://forms.gle/cYbjcTqGqjvRVhXq6
I've been encouraged by more than a few people I either need to start selling the art I have, or do commissions. I've mainly avoided doing that as in the case of the former, most of the art is quite deeply personal to myself, and is based on my own world building (the closest stuff I've been willing to put up for usage is a set of flags, and they aren't even really for sale and I've personally put notices on those flags, effectively baring any commercial use). In the case of the latter, that's a combination of working out reasonable prices and actually managing to complete said commissions in a reasonable timeframe. After all, the last time I did a request, it took weeks to over a month to get done. And this is on top of me trying to balance my writing projects and an impending, very busy career job coming up which will eat away at a lot of my time, meaning even doing a small amount of commissions will be very difficult.
Not only that, but I've got so many different ideas buzzing around my head for art (and that's not counting trying to focus on my mix of writing projects) that it's not easy to plan out what I want to work on next. A situtation that will be made even worse owing to my new committments in the next couple of months and if I ever decide I feel ready to actually do commissions.
So, I'm putting up a Google Form about art stuff. It includes some ideas on what my current ideas for art pieces are (I've already had a few prices before, but figured I might as well get a refresh), questions on folks suggestions on commissions and what people are interested in (the latter especially stemming from the fact most pieces of mine have between 1-5 favourites compared to the 25+ I have for the Foxfire piece, and that's not going into the over 6K reddit upvotes I got on the first set of Solar System flags (and the latter barely got any)), so when I get into that career, I might have a better idea of what to work on and how to proceed with things.
The link to that is down below:
https://forms.gle/cYbjcTqGqjvRVhXq6
Commissions?
Posted 4 years agoI've been working on improving my own art in the last eighteen months, namely as a hobby to pass the time whilst the COVID pandemic is still going on. But I've made leaps and bounds in the last few months, and I feel like there is going to be a point down the line, and potentially sooner rather than later where I'll be able to go ahead and perhaps do commissions of my own. This has mainly been from some encouragement from people I know to give it a try, and it might help my own writing work such on the side.
The thing is... I don't really know how commissions or raffles or YCH's at all on the artist end of things..
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get started with commissions and the like? I have no desire to do adoptable characters for personal reasons, but I'm definitely interested in checking things out.
Also, I am geniunely curious. Looking at my most recent stuff, how much would you pay for it? Go as high or low as you like, I'm just curious.
The thing is... I don't really know how commissions or raffles or YCH's at all on the artist end of things..
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get started with commissions and the like? I have no desire to do adoptable characters for personal reasons, but I'm definitely interested in checking things out.
Also, I am geniunely curious. Looking at my most recent stuff, how much would you pay for it? Go as high or low as you like, I'm just curious.
Getting my Art noticed
Posted 4 years agoI've been improving on my art by a massive amount of the course of the last year to the point I want to try and keep it up, especially when I couple it up with my writing too. I'm currently working on a novel so using my art to help increase interest in that would be extremely helpful to me.
I'm rambling a bit, but basically I have absolutely no idea how to get my art out there or get it noticed. Does any one have any tips or advise on how to get my art noticed more? I might even be able to slowly get to the stage where I might be able to do some commissions once I get good enough at drawing.
I'm rambling a bit, but basically I have absolutely no idea how to get my art out there or get it noticed. Does any one have any tips or advise on how to get my art noticed more? I might even be able to slowly get to the stage where I might be able to do some commissions once I get good enough at drawing.
Emergency Commissions for Artist
Posted 4 years agoHey there, the artist 
ciderberries is putting out a call for emergency commissions! Please check out the details here!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41934620/
ciderberries is putting out a call for emergency commissions! Please check out the details here!https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41934620/
Another Raffle
Posted 5 years agoAwesome Artist 
RednRoge is doing new raffle on their page, please be sure to check it out!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39964394/
RednRoge is doing new raffle on their page, please be sure to check it out!https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39964394/
Free Raffle!
Posted 5 years agoThere is a free raffle being done by a very awesome artist: RednRoge on their page! Please go ahead and check it out!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37952865/
RednRoge on their page! Please go ahead and check it out!https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37952865/
Free Raffle!
Posted 5 years agoAwesome artist 
Qursll is doing a free art raffle on his FA page, please check it out!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37610734/
Qursll is doing a free art raffle on his FA page, please check it out!https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37610734/
Actually trying to do art for once.
Posted 5 years agoNot too often I end up doing a journal, but I figured I might as well get this one up. With the Coronavirus outbreak I've been stuck mostly indoors and figured that to help pass the time I would try my hand at drawing. I've done sketches before but I haven't really been that into it or that good at it (stickmen was the best I could do). Recently though I have actually started to see some improvement and I've decided to try and keep at it. If you guys have any suggestions to improve please let me know!
I'll try and get some initial s****** pieces together soon!
I'll try and get some initial s****** pieces together soon!
Twitter Page
Posted 6 years agoWell, as part of my own work I've decided that it's about time I set up a twitter account! I might as well start building up a platform before I get my first story released at somepoint this year (I've been doing this for a few years now and I might explain some more details on this in the future), as well as give a means for people to get in touch with me and giving nods to anyone here or elsewhere! If you want to follow me on Twitter, feel free to follow me on there! I'll still be hanging out on here.
https://twitter.com/StolenMadWolf
https://twitter.com/StolenMadWolf
Infomation about my Characters
Posted 6 years agoHey there. Below is a roster of all the characters or species that I have created and own. Each of them are characters or beings that I have developed over a long period of time and put a massive amount of effort into them. They are still undergoing development over time as well. Most of the submissions that appear on this page are commissions of my own characters.
Due to the huge amount of time I have spent on them, as well as my own plans for said characters and as well as in thanks and respect to the artists who have done the commissions, I must ask that you show respect in regards to them. These characters and species are not just ideas, they are my own creativity and a part of my life and work. So I must ask you don't reference them and to absolutely not to use them as your own.
Most of the submissions on my profile aren't created by myself. They're created by talented artists from across the globe, all of which have done a fantastic job with the commissions and have been fantastic to work with. It would be disrespectful not to credit them for their hard work!
If you don't receive permission prior to commissioning a work, there are consequences. Each of these characters is my intellectual property, and the work they're depicted in is the intellectual property of the respective artist. Under no circumstances are you allowed to copy, reproduce, repost, or redistribute any of the pieces in my gallery than those your characters appear in without communicating with me first. (Reproducing includes, but is not limited to, posters, printing, usage in writing/multi-user fiction (roleplay), artwork, and profile pictures.) Copyright theft/infringement is bad - don't do it! (I reserve rights to further modify this section or request removal of pieces if you are found using characters of mine without permission!)
Intolerable/Non-negotiable Subjects:
No exceptions will apply to this bullet under any circumstances
* Shipping of my characters with any of your characters
* Incest, rape, intercourse, bondage, or otherwise NSFW content of my characters
* Canonization of content (or attempt thereof) regarding my characters
Character Roster
Fursonas/Kili's Verse
* Kili Kingsley
* Vail Kenway
Alternate Sonas
* Lyall
Arcbots
* Spitfire
* Hellcat
* Hurricane
Chimera
* Audas Kingsley
* Nymph Kingsley
Threat Above
* Adam Cartwright
Everborn
* Warden
Other
* Lyris Heartifre
* Liberdyi
* 'Keyla'
* Unamed Phoenix
* R'aika
* Nyxdai Species
Due to the huge amount of time I have spent on them, as well as my own plans for said characters and as well as in thanks and respect to the artists who have done the commissions, I must ask that you show respect in regards to them. These characters and species are not just ideas, they are my own creativity and a part of my life and work. So I must ask you don't reference them and to absolutely not to use them as your own.
Most of the submissions on my profile aren't created by myself. They're created by talented artists from across the globe, all of which have done a fantastic job with the commissions and have been fantastic to work with. It would be disrespectful not to credit them for their hard work!
If you don't receive permission prior to commissioning a work, there are consequences. Each of these characters is my intellectual property, and the work they're depicted in is the intellectual property of the respective artist. Under no circumstances are you allowed to copy, reproduce, repost, or redistribute any of the pieces in my gallery than those your characters appear in without communicating with me first. (Reproducing includes, but is not limited to, posters, printing, usage in writing/multi-user fiction (roleplay), artwork, and profile pictures.) Copyright theft/infringement is bad - don't do it! (I reserve rights to further modify this section or request removal of pieces if you are found using characters of mine without permission!)
Intolerable/Non-negotiable Subjects:
No exceptions will apply to this bullet under any circumstances
* Shipping of my characters with any of your characters
* Incest, rape, intercourse, bondage, or otherwise NSFW content of my characters
* Canonization of content (or attempt thereof) regarding my characters
Character Roster
Fursonas/Kili's Verse
* Kili Kingsley
* Vail Kenway
Alternate Sonas
* Lyall
Arcbots
* Spitfire
* Hellcat
* Hurricane
Chimera
* Audas Kingsley
* Nymph Kingsley
Threat Above
* Adam Cartwright
Everborn
* Warden
Other
* Lyris Heartifre
* Liberdyi
* 'Keyla'
* Unamed Phoenix
* R'aika
* Nyxdai Species
The First Journal
Posted 6 years agoHey there,
I guess I need to get a first Journal in somewhere. Probably makes my page look more complete at least. But hey, I figured I could throw in some extra details in here.
So the name is StolenMadWolf, although I also go by the name of my fursona, Kili Kingsley. I just hang around and lurk across the site here.
Just to get one thing said and done with, I'm no artist and even I could do good art, I definitely don't have the patience to master it, so any art you see here is either stuff that I have commissioned or are stuff I have just liked quite a bit!
I am an aspiring writer though, so I might just throw up some snippets of text as I go along. I also hang around everyso often on Second Life and other forums just to chat (my avatars can be seen in submissions) so feel free to poke in and say hi. I'm a bit socially awkward but I can give it a try!
So, cya guys around.
StolenMadWolf
I guess I need to get a first Journal in somewhere. Probably makes my page look more complete at least. But hey, I figured I could throw in some extra details in here.
So the name is StolenMadWolf, although I also go by the name of my fursona, Kili Kingsley. I just hang around and lurk across the site here.
Just to get one thing said and done with, I'm no artist and even I could do good art, I definitely don't have the patience to master it, so any art you see here is either stuff that I have commissioned or are stuff I have just liked quite a bit!
I am an aspiring writer though, so I might just throw up some snippets of text as I go along. I also hang around everyso often on Second Life and other forums just to chat (my avatars can be seen in submissions) so feel free to poke in and say hi. I'm a bit socially awkward but I can give it a try!
So, cya guys around.
StolenMadWolf
