Hey guys. How are you? That's great. Unless it's not. Hooray for formalities!
Anyway, I want to apologize for my lack of doing, well... anything with this page. I'm surprised I still have followers, honestly.
I'm going to be honest. I'm lazy. But you knew that. That's not what I was going to say, but it's just a reminder. Besides that, I'm still not fully sure how I'm going to approach what I want to do with this blog.
It's going to be, or at least, I'm planning for it to be a story-based blog, both picture and text based, but hopefully with many pictures. Whether or not I want to make it part ask-blog as well is still being debated (even though I may have a misleading icon). Chances are, I will be accepting questions when I get things going, but they'll only be half of the posts at most.
Besides that, I also don't think I'm not actually fully ready. I'm in a position where, if I really wanted to--and I do, trust me--I could start a story. But the thing is, I'm not at a level of drawing, or a writing, or anything that I'm feel comfortable with yet. Granted, I only started drawing a couple months ago, and I'd be lying if I said I haven't improved greatly since then, but that doesn't mean I'm very confident of my work. In fact, I'm still frightened that people will hate most things I post.
I still have so much to learn. And I want to learn a bit more before things start really get in depth.
AND THEN THERE'S THE DEPTH PART. I'm not actually fully organized yet. The anon pony is NOT going to be the only character this blog will focus on. It will be a big part, but the blog is supposed to tell the stories of several other ponies... and griffons... and zebras. They're not all independent though. Each character has their own story, each varying in size, and they all have their way of having their stories intertwine. That being said, I also am spending a lot of my time making sure their stories are good, interesting, or at least entertaining. But my big focus is making them decent. Like, they're not going to be ultra violent or sexual. I'm working for decent plots. And not the kind half of you are probably giggling about right now.
But, while I'm on the subject of having multiple characters, I should probably mention, and emphasize, THERE'S A FREAKING TON OF THEM. Like, I can't actually give you an accurate count. I have seven confirmed griffons at the moment, just to give you an idea. And they're a minority.
Obviously, so many characters means tons of designing. Which brings me back partially to the art. If any of you have seen some of my art in the past month--or months rather-- you'll see that the quality, style, and so of of my drawings change rapidly. This often affects my designs, as many characteristics such as snouts, eyes, and other generally defining characteristics are often different on a character across several drawings. This is mostly because I forget to pay attention to that detail, or more commonly, I'm unable to recreate something I was able to make previously. I need to work on this some more. Obviously, things like manes and important physical features I can work with, but it's the details everypony has that get me a lot. Especially tails. Tails are hard.
When it comes to details in my characters also, while I'm able to make designs for them, color schemes, cutie marks, feather patterns, names, and so on can often leave me bewildered. It can sometimes take me several days to think of a certain aspect for a single character, just because I want to try and put the effort the character is worth into it. Hopefully, as I improve in my artistic level, things such as colors will be much easier for me to decide on.
I mentioned before that my writing level, to me, feels a little lacking as well. In fact, I don't know how I'm able to type this much so quickly at this moment. My ability to express detail in writing appears to work best when I'm not actually trying to emphasize it. But when I go to write something, it's like my mind just blanks, and I'm unable to do it. Now, I'm beginning to take steps towards fixing this, and I have been writing more and more on a roleplay blog that I still use, which is also helping me learn how to maintain a character's personality and how to gauge how a character should act in response to a given situation.
Wow this is a lot. I probably had another point that I've completely forgotten. Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks to anyone who's kept following this blog. I know not many, if any of you, think much of it at the moment. Heck, I can't blame you. But I just wanted to say something that made people know I do actually want to take this blog a little more seriously. Especially considering my characters, when in a human form or some form of magical, talking animals form, are taking over my mind.
Luckily, Summer is getting close, which is going to leave me plenty of time to improve on things, when I'm not working of course. I'm also working on saving for a better tablet (because you can only do so much with a bamboo, y'know? Well... you can do more if you have something better, at least.)
I plan on updating a few more times soon. I may even make a few posts that will help me get some practice in with your guys' help.
That's pretty much it. And I'm bad at closing things. So... good day? Night?
Also, ignore my cruddy shading job. I'm still learning, remember? It's not like I was trying to impress you or anything b-baka!
