SYLVANIA @sylvaniacomic - Tumblr Blog

Hey! I love your comic and have followed it since the olden days! This past year the website has gone down and I figured you were taking some time to yourself which obviously is fine. I noticed the comic is going up again in another website, but the comic's social media has been inactive too and you haven't said anything so I figured I'd ask if you are ok and if the comic is on hiatus or cancelled?

Hi there! I’m okay! Sylvania is now posting on Webtoon since my digital publisher moved all its comics there instead of hosting their own sites. As of today, the Webtoon archive is pretty much caught up with all the pages I have drawn.

I know I promised that Sylvania would be updating again in 2019, and I still really hope that I can make that come true! I’d love to work on it full-time again, but the sad truth is that I have rent to pay and cat food to buy, and convention sales and freelance work contribute more to that than webcomics.

It’s always on my mind! I’m doing my best! I haven’t given up!!!

Hi, I just wanted to say I adore your comic. I was just curious to know: do you have the entire plot, including the ending, planned in your head? Or is it as big a mystery to you as it is to us where it's going to go? Also, do you have an idea in your head about how far in the plot you are? Either way, I'm excited to see you return to it when you are ready!

I have most of it planned! I know basically how it will end, and I know most of what will happen between here and there, but there are still some areas that are hazy to me now that I’ll have to feel my way through once I get a little closer.

The story as it stands now is about a third of the way done! It’s essentially a three-act story, and getting to Mars was the first act. Now that we’re there, the real fun can begin!!!

Hello, Just a question. Will you be going back to some kind of regular updates on the comic in the near future. It would be nice to know if it is worth keeping the link in my favorits.

Hi dude!

I don’t know what your criteria are for your favorites list, so I can’t advise you whether or not to delete my comic or not.

I can promise you that I am still working on Sylvania, that it is still super important to me, and that I intend to see this thing through until the end.

That’s about all I can promise right now! I’ve had to move some other projects to the front burners these past few months, projects that pay my rent, or that have more urgent time frames, or both. So while Sylvania continues to simmer away on a back burner, I can’t really tell you how soon I’ll be done stirring these pots I’m working on right now.

The most I can say is that I will have a table at NYCC, and while I doubt I’ll have enough of a buffer built up to be posting again, I would really like to be working on new pages in earnest by that time. Will I reach that goal? Who knows!!! I’m not stressing about it, because there will be plenty of stressing to do once I do start regular updates again.

I know I originally intended to be on hiatus for no more than a month or two, but honestly, I don’t regret any of the time I’ve taken to sit back and breathe! I’ve been able to consider my life and what I’m doing with it more clearly than I have in many years, and I feel so much more confident about my path now.

That’s all I got!!!

helloooo, did you do any figure drawing when you were learning? or at all? I'm curious if wonderful artists such as yourself think it's a good thing to learn or if there are alternatives! :)

I did lots and lots and lots of figure drawing when I was learning!!! It’s a very good thing to learn. I still try to go to local life drawing sessions every now and then to keep myself sharp.

However, there ARE alternatives too if you can’t find or afford any local classes. Quickposes is a great site for timed practice drawing from photos. You can set it to show faces or full body poses, male or female models, and more.

I know there are also youtube channels that have videos of an entire session with a live model, although I’ve never used them myself. Worth looking up though!

Good luck!!!

Modeling most of a space colony is slow going, even when you're keeping it simple and using as many pieces out of the box as possible, but I'm sustained by the thought of the millions of hours this will all save me in the long run!!!

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Hey everyone! I've made the decision to take a short-ish hiatus so I can have some time to regroup and get back onto a regular update schedule. Thank you so much for reading my weird little comic, and I'll be back before you know it!!! ✨

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How is every single one of your characters a beautiful cinnamon roll too good for this world? How do you do it?

HAHA the thing is- I think that some of them are actually kind of terrible, but I still love them all so much that they come out as cinnamon rolls in my writing anyway.