HAPPY NEW YEAR (And rambling)
Howdy all! It's been a while, I haven't been bouncing up on social media as much lately. It feels like that bought of depression happened and the minute it was gone work picked up and people at my job quite etc.
So other than that what have I been up to? Mostly art still. Tried to up and quit several times under duress and stress but I keep coming back anyway. At least things will be a lot chiller for a bit (Maybe) with my job going into 'dead hours'.
BUT A COOL THING! I modded a fountain pen to use a Hunter dip pen nib!
No more dipping!
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I wish I had more art to show, but this year I've been working on a lot of comic projects ^^
One of which is, of course, the Candle. It's still getting worked on, but slower because of shared limited time with my other projects...
I mean... that and I got really burned out on it... and when I get burned out the quality drops really really bad...
And when the quality drops I don't get that juice back. It's like... I don't have fun doing ANYTHING, I have fun FINISHING things and then it converts that into energy to work on the next thing to completion. But when I don't feel like I completed something because it doesn't look decent then no energy return -_-. I'm not going to lie, I much prefer getting things done in hyper bulk so I wish I had stopped weekly updates after chapter 1 and then completely finished chapter two and three before returning again. It gives time for that break from creative burnout to recoup and by the time the pages need you again you've got the groove back or did something else and are ready to go again.
In the meantime I have gotten pretty good practice at inking without pencils!
Yeah yeah this ain't a spoiler! You've all seen the chapter art, you knew they'd be here! God I love drawing them! The Candle will eventually return. Just... not until Chapter 3 is done on my end, which is a bit slow going because it's art priority #3.
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Art Priority #2 is my paid work commission comic I've been working on since around the summer! It's also slow going because it's done completely by hand with pen and paper! I can't say much about it because I promised not to spoil anything, but I did get Permission from my commissioner :iconLepouvoirduflan: to show off my favorite out of context panels XD!
I love drawing Bowsers back~!
I'm really having fun working on this project with her! Familiar characters with a breath of fresh air, being a different plot from the Candle and all! Having more comics to do makes each one slower, but it keeps me from burning out without the weekly time limit and the constant change of scenery! ^_^ And Lepouvoirduflan has been helping me with Art Priority #1 as well!
Speaking of that...
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Art Priority #1 is a comic I've wanted to make for a long time, it even predates The Candle and I've been working on it more seriously for the last 5 years (It probably isn't 5 years worth of good but HEY my New Years resolution for 2020 is to be less critical of my work so I can get stuff done!) but it finally feels like it's gotten to a point that it's going to happen! A few bits of it have popped up here and there on DA and Tumblr but I think it's far enough along that I'm ready to talk about this passion project as I think it'll be coming out sometime this year! (Not that any of you are here for that, you're all here for Mario stuff! ^^')
This passion project is called Faeredoux, a combination of the word "Fae" and the french word "Redoux". Faeredoux is... basically the same stuff Disney does. I like the fairy tale, I take the fairy tale, I tell my own version of the fairy tale.
I had always been told "Write what you know" but I never felt like I knew really anything. That is until a friend said "....... Why don't you like... draw a comic about fairy tales? That time you told me about the frog Prince was hilarious! And the Nightingale and Cinderella! Those were cool ideas!" And that's when it hit me... I do really love fairy tales. I own the Grimm and Andrew Lang collection, among others, I loved those old bargain bin Disney rip offs that stayed closer to the original tale (I loved Encyclopedia Britanicas Beauty and the Beast especially!!!) and, I had a love hate relationship with a fandom I was in in 2010 for all it's fairy tale AUs that just copy paste the transcript to the Disney film.
I at least want to do the first 3 stories I had planned because they fell into place so well (And one is a revamp of itself from 2006 so an oldie!) The first one is what I've been working on a lot recently:
"Faeredoux: Glass and Gold" (Name pending because I might have a better one in mind but haven't committed yet.)
Glass and Gold is the Story of Eloise Cendres, cursed by a fairy as a child to suffer 13 years of bad luck and, should she live that long, be destined to die on the anniversary of the thirteenth year... that is unless she marries the local prince (Fairies are weird). Now in these kinda of stories usually a maiden in need would get a knight in shining armor or a fairy god mother, but with none to be seen she chooses to summon her own! But wait! You don't "Summon" a fairy like that!
Eloise unknowingly summons the demon Francine, who luckily has a bone to pick with a certain fairy. Together can they get Eloise to a happily ever after? Or when the clock strikes midnight will her world come crumbling down?
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I guess that's really all I have except some art (Not much) that I've done... but I don't have a scanner at the moment so I guess photos it'll be? Sometime tomorrow or now-ish? I dunno. Typing all this sounded like a better idea when I started.
Maybe I should just go play some more Digimon World... or use my badass custom pen...
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