Duality

Caith Sakir's Story App: http://april-lily.deviantart.com/#/d5pnkx1 it's you're in Duality, add me on Skype at: caith.and.april

[caithsakir]

*silently drops this here*

Caith all grown up in dualifree universe. 

Hint: He put on some other idiot's sweater when he got out of the shower.

[caithsakir]

Heyo, how are you doing Duality?

I'd just like to pretty much officially ollie out of here. I might check back once in a while, but next week I start working 40+ hours a week along with having a strict schedule for the comic Frog and I are working on for publication so I'm flat out going to have zero free time starting here reeeeal soon. Literally, all I will have time for is sleeping, eating, showering, work, and comicking. Need to pencil a page every two days while working 8 hours a day @____@ Gonna be intense.

So I just wanted to wish everyone luck with Duality and Distortion and thank you guys for being the awesome community you are QuQ If it wasn't for you guys I wouldn't have had the confidence to even try to submit something to the anthology Frog and I are gonna be in QuQ

If you wanna keep up with what I'm up to a bit, I'd kindly direct you to my personal tumblr.

*SMOOCHES YOU ALL*

[caithsakir]

Heeeeey, so Froggu and I ended up getting accepted to be in Smut Peddler 2014! If you don't know what that is, it's a by women for women erotic comic anthology that promotes sex positivity. Aka kinda classy porn comics. Our proposal was one of 24 proposals they selected out of over 300 entries to be in the book!

I just wanted to say thanks to you guys for giving me my start in comics QuQ I wouldn't have expected a year after I'd drawn my first shoddy comics for the OCT that I'd have some stellar new friends and that I'm going to have my work published in a book and I"m co-authoring with a lovely frog @u@

FEWHJLEHFJF

[caithsakir]

Dualifree Halloween. I cannot handle Dualifree at this moment.

[april-lilies]

Swiggity swack, guess who’s back? The answer is Maldi.

As I finish pages they’ll be put up at my newly established Smackjeeves. All of my future comics will appear on there (Though this one will be on dA and tumblr as well as it’s a short 15 pages). So feel free to stalk/watch/follow/fan/whatever the crap you do on Smackjeeves for future comic-y goodness from me (there’s nothing on there curently, but there will be). 

[caithsakir]

I thought some of you guys might be interested in this since this is where I got my comic start QuQ Set up a Smackjeeves for my future comics and am currently working on a short one-shot. 

*ollies out to go cry about more three point perspective panels*

[shrimp-nugget]

[kimtaehycnq]

and this is why beliebers scare the fuck out of me

[stink-wrinkles]

the real question is why she still has the hair

[kotsuso]

-clutches ponytail-

On a scale of Cool to Not Cool, this registers a staggering “Holy Goddamn Christ I Will Kill You.”

[caithsakir]

Public service announcement: This is BS, that's how they cut off hair for locks of love with a clear band at the top like that, she's sitting in a stylist chair, etc. 

[caithsakir]

Duality Progress

Scrapped&unfinished prelim comic page, Jan 2013.

R1 comic page, Feb 2013. 

R2 comic page, April 2013.

R3 comic page, June 2013.

E5 comic page, August 2013.

Looking at this feels really good. Sometimes it takes looking back to see how far you've come. Momentarily, I'm proud.

[caithsakir]

Ooh, what is Caith like when he's old? What sorts of stuff does he get up to?

When he's old. Okay well, skipping everything from the end of the war to when he's older...he's moved back to some desert country. Not the place he was originally from, but somewhere close enough that the language is similar. Maybe it's the same country just in a different area, idk. But it's bigger city, probably a port. His days are quiet and content and he runs a bookshop and always has stories to tell from the war and his younger days. 

[caithsakir]

Do you regret joining duality? You always seem to enjoyed it.

Nope, I couldn't regret it even if I tried. My only regrets were not pushing myself to finish and to tell his story like I wanted. I feel like I cheated him in a way, but someday I'll tell it how it's meant to be and someday I'll learn how to pace myself and keep my motivation going.

Looking back, I've learned a lot. Though I didn't produce many pages, the jump in quality each round is amazing. I started to learn how to draw comics, how to compose pages, how to keep my black and white balance, how to work with text, how to work with backgrounds and how to use my resources to their best advantage. No, I don't have a workflow or comic style figured out, but because of Duality I have a foot in the door, something I've waited to do for 11 years. I always wanted to draw comics but refused to attempt until I thought I could produce something that wouldn't be completely laughable. 

At the start of Duality, Caith was my first real male character. I drew maybe one or two men a year prior. I was so uncomfortable drawing men. Over Duality I learned to draw them. Yes, they're feminine and look rather similar at this point, but I'm so much more confident than I was before. I like drawing them, a lot, and I'm still learning.

I learned to draw with my tablet after being inspired by watching people's livestreams. I'd had my tablet for 6 years and never pushed myself to learn to actually draw with it. I'd try maybe a sketch or so once  a year in the past and they were proportionally horrific and looked awful in comparison to what I could do with pencil and paper, so I never tried. But with inspiration from Duality I pushed myself to try and learn. Now I can draw with my tablet nearly was well as with pencil and paper, though I'll always prefer traditional because it has a different feeling and quality I can't get with traditional.

I also improved in that I'm slowly being able to draw facial angles that I couldn't before. I'm starting to learn to draw expressions. I'm starting to learn to draw backgrounds. I'm starting to improve at anatomy and trying to get it right rather than guessing my way through. I'm starting to learn about varying body types. I'm learning a lot. 

Not only that all, but I made some really, really good friends over Duality. Them alone is worth everything from joining. 

I've also learned about myself.

I don't regret joining at all.

[caithsakir]

What was your original plan for Caith? Also, what are some of the changes that happened as you went due to you and Frog's roleplays?

Oh my sweet baby jesus Caith's story could have taken about 50 different paths, the majority resulting from those RPS.

This could be long, fasten your seatbelts.

My original intention was in the first few rounds to get you to like Caith. He was supposed to be friendly, honest, a good guy if not a little distant. He was never supposed to get very close to anyone, not really close to where he felt a 'real' connection with them. This was important to his story, but I wanted him to know some people so things wouldn't be so bland. After the first few rounds to establish people's opinion of him/try to get people to like him my intention was to slowly take everything he loved away from him. He was to be disowned from his caravan back home. To remember his abuse, which would shatter his perceptions of love and family. To lose his grandparents and have his home in Unova burn to the ground. To watch his pokemon slowly die in battle. Each of these things would happen slowly and progressively and each time you would have seen him crack, break, and spiral into darkness. He was to become cruel and malicious. I wanted to make you hate him for the shit he did and how he treated people, teetering on the edge of himself. He'd survive the war but he'd come back with nothing. He'd be alone, broken, and have done horrible things. At the very end he'd be left with nothing but a small bit of hope for redemption. I wanted the audience to hate him, but see he was a product of what happened to him and I wanted people to sympathize with him for that reason. 

That was the originally planned storyline.

As you can see, that didn't happen, yes he eventually would have lost all those things...but he wasn't alone anymore. He and Feliks were originally supposed to hate one another but be addicted to one another in a way. But they got close, somewhere they made a connection. They accepted and understood one another in ways no one else ever had in their lives and they found solace in that and in one another. They wanted one another for being exactly who they were. Through that Caith was able to keep his sanity and moral compass through his losses. He wasn't alone and he had something to live for, so he couldn't lose himself. 

Yeah =u=

If only I'd be able to actually tell he story how I wanted to. But I'm not cut out for an OCT schedule or pacing. My focus is too much on my characters, their developments, and their stories. I could care less over OCT objectives so I'm starting work on a plot for a webcomic, not related to duality tho. Someday I'll revisit his story and do it how I wanted, in a non-pokemon setting as it isn't necessary.

[yuzupool]

got any questions regarding my characters/story ideas/whatever? ask me shit

[bechnokid]

kiddblink:

thegoodsonisbad:

thegoodsonisbad:

i’ve always wanted to start one of these things and i know i’ve got friends with great characters and stories and such and i’m sure they have people just as curious about them!

im still doing dis

Oh oh oh oh I wanna do this too!

This will be a fun thing to do. :>

[amelia-kalili-deactivated201710]

Oh hell I’ll bite

*adds to ask hoard*

*trying to actually send out asks to people this time in an attempt to not be terrible*

[caithsakir]

Bring it all. I'll tell anything and everything since I'm pretty much done with Duality so there's no more reason for secrets with Caith's story. I have it all figured out from literally now until he's old. No joke. 

[caithsakir]

Hey guuuys I joined Flight Rising a day or two ago and am already ranked 10 in the coliseum so feel free to friend me over there, I'm AprilLily #40090 if you wanna find me =3=

[caithsakir]

I just got back from an interesting weekend with a friend and i see the event is posted. And that there's like a coronation festival. And I bet that has dancing and fancy outfits. Kinda like a ball. WELP I GUESS CAITH IS GOING THAT ALONE.

[the-beast-speaker-deactivated20]

((Oh god, oh god I’m making headway with Einarr’s new design aaa. I think I need to tone it down, but yaaaay I’m getting somewhere :”> it took me a while to figure out a good shape; I wanted his silhouette to be more intimidating, while still keeping the feather motif. His height takes care of half the problem, but his form has been so floofy!))

[elegant-lab]

I made a giant PS inking tutorial. Enjoy all my secrets.

[caithsakir]

This might help someone over here? I made a tutorial for inking in PS.

[caithsakir]

Heeeey Duality, music recommendations?

I cleaned my room recently and I was able to set up my CD player and speakers so I’ve been able to listen to my CD collection…the bad part is i’ve been listening to them so often in the last few days I’ve gotten kinda bored of what I have.

SO. I’m going to head off to the used CD store later today (if they’re open) and grab a bunch of CDs.

SOOOO recommendations for me? I mostly listen to alternative rock, but toss whatever you like at me. Old, new, whatever. PLEASE? 

[flesh-and-steel]

You Scratch My Back ...

((WARNING: Very, very long, smutty drabble under the cut involving three look-a-likes. It’s almost incestuous. Yep. I SHOULD ALSO MENTION THIS IS AU and has not, and will never, happen!)

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[caithsakir]

The idea of Caith being rival bitches with Drel amuses me to no end.