I started True Faith as a vent novel after a recent breakup. I had some prior inspiration and a very different start, but it involved killing kids so no...
My other two stories were sparked more by the creative juices needing a bit of direction. And I just happen to have a love of shapeshifters. She Walks Softly was very loosely inspired by On A Leash and the deer woman legend. Murder aside, it was originally intended to be somewhat lighthearted, in contrast to True Faith.
I initially wrote Flirting With Death as a class assignment, and it was just one scene. The scene I first wrote is the second scene of the second chapter, where Jason confronts Foreas about how he lied his way into his life.
It was also a massive love letter to Hellblazer - especially the storyline where John has lung cancer and faces the possibility of dying and going to hell. Similarly, my main character is a reckless asshole who learns he is close to death. However, unlike John he cannot face it alone and has no choice but to let powerful beings lead the way. He kind of learns to be more humble.
It has evolved into something that reflects certain aspects of my own relationship with my partner, only without the lies and death lol.
As for From The Sky I basically wrote it to show off the character cast, which is why it's all character-driven comedy.
I loved the idea of personifying different types of weather, and the first two I designed were Nimbostratus and Cirrus. Cumulonimbus actually came to me a couple of strips into posting.
Eventually I took a really long hiatus but I came back to it (with no steady upload schedule, as before) because I wanted to make some improvements and I had even more character ideas that I'm excited to flesh out.
Well the story I'm working on has characters that my friend and I created a long time ago when we were younger. Being able to bring back those characters and do something new with them seemed like a fun idea and now that it's starting to come together I'm just enjoying the ride and seeing where these characters end up.
The reason I originally made Aiiro No Kunoichi was... really dumb tbh. Literally I was super into that whole "pirates vs. ninjas" meme at the time, and I wanted to make a cool ninja character because I felt like pirates were too popular. Like I said, really dumb. 
The reason I continue making it is because the characters grew on me over the years, with a few of them even being particularly well-liked by my friends, so I didn't want to give up on them. Also they have some interesting stories that I still need to tell, haha.
I'll be upfront. The reason I work so hard on my comic is because it literally saved my life.
Several years ago I was in a really tough place mentally, and there were days that I didn't want to exist anymore. It got really, really bad. I was getting help, but every day was a struggle especially when all I wanted to do was stop being alive.
The only thing that kept me going really was working on Kamikaze. It gave me something to do when the demons weren't letting up. Something to think about and put energy into. If I was working on Kamikaze, I wasn't thinking about hurting myself. I buried myself in Markesha's world, and making Kamikaze helped me hang on until I got the help I needed.
I know it sounds dumb, but Markesha and company saved me from myself. I work so hard on her story because to do anything less would be an insult. She saved me. Now it's my turn to make sure her story is told. <3
Quite a few reasons:
Space dragons and their counterparts, space dragons slayers are incredibly under-utilized in a fantasy/sci-fi setting.
Space and the deep sea are incredibly similar, so why not combine them? All of the dragons in Anarchy of the Galaxy are going to be based on some type of sea creature and a dragon/wyvern.
I had an idea of Jedi scaling dragons like Wander does in Shadow of the Colossus and wanted to make a story around it.
A lot of story elements are homage to Yasumi Matsuno and George R.R. Martin. More on that as the story progresses.
Combining sea creatures with dragons is REALLY HARD if you are not a. Using a moray eel as a base, b. Using a shark/whale/turtle as a base. It took me a long time to figure out what a Japanese dragon and an jellyfish would look like fused together. In doing this I grow, which leads me to my last point.
I want to be amazing. And I can’t get there if I’m not drawing EVERY SINGLE DAY and having it be a priority. Having a comic that you post regularly to ensures that you will get better. I remember I used to make 60-120 pg personal comics when I was in grade school. I grew so much from that. I also want this to be my career, so I don’t have to live my life unfulfilled.
I wanted too write a story with deep lore, also I wanted humans to not exist in my story because i've seen too many fantasy stories with humans. I made each race have their own culture and anatomy, making sure it was somewhat noticeable even down to the small things.
Ah, but have you considered, and thus it follows that, on several orders of magnitude, whilst exemplifying a natural dichotomy, that therefore the conundrum is in truth, in part, or in whole, entirely to the nature of that which is a priori perceived in the metaphysical, for does it not say that this is (or rather that is) wholly owing its status to the nature wherein it most clearly prevaricates thusly: that the discourse is most disconcertingly fungible (if not quite frangible) and that, as it is later revealed in evident case that the colloquial definition does wonders for the ineffable application of juridical wit, or to wit: that spaniels do drench in the mystical flibbertigibbeting of the momentarily sane, and that (and for the record is has not, nor has even been, a spurious connection between the Platonic ideal and the Antaean example [for little do these cowans note the connection between octopusean tripe and the excavations and extirpations of the redundant rendition of an unspoken definition ? ? ?
Hmmm... how to say this without writing a bible?
I want to tell a story where people can think and have fun at the same time. A story that you will finish the last episode and say "holy crap, that was good." And for myself only, I want to create something and take it to end, to feel that I'm capable of finish things.
And because space, aliens and political stuff is my thing <3
Oh my goodness this is fun but also reminds me the reason I started to write this monster:
Lets see I had started spring semester of college and I was only in one class, my favorite professors creative writing class. At the time, I was going through a lot of things because I wanted to be someone else. I didnt want to be me because in my head, the me at the time wasnt up to standards of what I wanted if that makes sense.
So I started to change. I started to dress better, dye my hair, open myself up to more friendships. The complete opposite of how I use to be. However, during that time, the past where I use to hurt people started to follow me. Stalk me constantly. It never left me and dragged my guilt threw the mud.
Whenever I succeeded in going out with people and having a good time some how some way, an old ex friend would find me and tear me down or something I did would be brought up and I tried to play it off but the more I started to try and stray away from what I truly was, the more my past would haunt me. Belittle me. Tell me that I was nothing more than trash.
So I would sit down and listen to "Price of Freedom" by Dday One. I started to think that, I wasn't the only one who was running away from their past. At some point, everyone tries to hide who they really were at one point because they appeared to be an ugly person or they did some terrible things. And one day, I was in tears from something, I had asked myself "What is the price of freedom?" What does it take for us, who made mistakes in the past, to be free from that.
And then the story was born XD
It took a while for me to get to the point of making it a comic, but I had been tossing around the ideas that would eventually become my comic, Alansbeeville1, for years.
Since I was little I liked to think of story ideas for things like movies, tv shows, comics and the like. Stuff I was interested in. My comic started as a bunch of little ideas that eventually morphed into it's current form after an extended period of time. I didn't think of doing it as a comic at first. I didn't even know if anything would come of it. The ideas could have stayed in my head and never materialize into anything as far as I knew.
As I got older I started having an existential crisis, not knowing what to do with myself. That's when I finally decided to sit down and give it a go, knowing I at least tried to do something with my life. I may still have problems with my life, but I don't plan to give up the comic anytime soon.
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well.. I had some stories in my head that I made drafts of but I ended up evolving them multiple times until I finally made my actual comic. I also like seeing my art improve as I upload more pages and I mean I have a LOT of ideas for it later on that I want others to see
At the time we conceived of Midwinter, I was getting tired of a lot of the common tropes I would see in manga, specifically shonen. I liked them a lot for being character driven, but wanted more nuance and relationship building. So, I set out to do a story about an already-powerful protag THAT WASN'T A GOSH-DANG TEENAGER where battles were more tactical and relationships were explored (and romance wasn't two characters dancing around each other until they got together during endgame).
So I guess I'm doing it for myself and for anyone who wants the kind of story I did. It turned out kind of niche and expansive--it's going to take me at least another 10 years--but I'm excited to be doing it.
So you're telling me that the consistent definition of the ideals of a Neo-Aristotelian method of philosophical interpretation of the world around us is driven by the quantum induction of not only an individual's prior involvement in the manner in which Einsteinian space-time continues but also the future of the individual's further involvement in the past of other individuals, which in turn alters the metaphysical state of being of their society and will ultimately manipulate the philosophical rhetoric of a future and past universe, by which suggests that not only is the homo sapiens' condition of belief and interpretation of its surroundings ever-changing, but any civilization that participates in the progression of the accelerating entropy of this cosmological dimension, which includes our own, is trapped in a perpetually cyclical, metaphysical paradox?
Was sketching out various characters when I was 15-16 who all were in the same narrative of being cursed with a specific magic and then found one that seemed the most interesting. I wanted to explore his backstory more and expand. I really wanted to tell a new story, one that would actually be interesting to read as my other stories have for the most part been too long and all over the place. I also wanted to very subtly explore whats it like exploring an identity and society in the modern day with a fantasy spin, a kind've homage/remake to an older comic I made a decade ago that took place in the same universe.
I watched anime and fantasy movies and wondered if I could come up with entertaining stories.
That's about it. I just want to make stories and have people enjoy them.
I started my series to improve my sequential art but it was also for myself in that there are moments or words that I've encountered which I thought would be nice to share with others
Oh dear, with multiple comics, I'll have to explain my impetuous decisions.
[COMPLETE ONESHOT] First comic I posted was a university creative writing class final project. I didn't think too much about the idea and remembered an idea that I read on Tumblr a long time ago about "NOPE, the anime". I drew a slightly more detailed version of that and used it as a final project. Although I only drew 9 pages for the original (due to project criteria), I liked the premise enough to want to expand and draw bonus stories for the side characers.
[COMPLETE ONESHOT] The second comic I posted was ALSO a university final project, where in my Modern Japanese Lit class, we had an option of drawing a manga instead of writing an essay. I based this story off two stories we had to read in class. One was a story about a woman in her thirties with creepy sexual fantasies including BDSM and child abuse, while the other story was about a narrator who discovered a girl living alone wearing a rabbit costume.
The third comic I posted was inspired by when I found out my childhood IRL friend also had a Tapastic comic: a SOL series that pretty much was a diary of the little events in her life. I somewhat reconnected with her a bit through this, and also started my own so that we could keep up with each other's life events despite having moved far away from each other (She moved to a neighbouring city for school, and then for work). This became my casual, unscheduled diary comic.
[CH1 COMPLETE] The fourth comic I posted was my own personal wish. I was itching to draw a purely plotless, BL comic since I read so many of them and it's pretty much 80% of what I read. I also lamented having so many characters that I created for old DeviantartRP groups that didn't get enough development, so I took a few that had similar settings and threw them together into one comic for them to develop. I also figured out while writing this one, that a porn-without-plot still needs a basic plot so they have a reason to start doing the sexy.
The sixth (The fifth is just an empty placeholder comic) was somewhat unplanned. I felt like drawing a furry comic. Not just what I usually see around FurAffinity (which were mostly all NSFW), but I wanted to draw a SFW, cute furry comic that was just... cute. I also wanted to update my furry characters that I created back in university, and remade them with the concept of Phantom Thief and Police Detective, since I was REALLY into Magic Kaito 1412 at the time. Readers read it and thought it was based on the Persona 5 hype, but really, it was based on Magic Kaito.
[COMPLETE ONESHOT] My latest series is one more "final project" during my grad program. We had to present our self-directed research project/thesis presentation in a creative way, so I decided to do what I'm used to doing: making a comic. This one was to highlight burnout, stress, social/cooperation of colleagues, etc. of the teaching career. Some research did not make it into the comic, such as "burnout and depression symptoms tend to crossover, and some critics believe that there is a correlation between the two" and that "burnt out teachers tend to lead classrooms with higher rates of student dropouts, student depression, and student suicide." (My conclusion is that burnt out teachers end up teaching in a way that causes burnt out students, like a top-down reaction)
