Share the story of where your work came from

[paracosmosfiction]

Wish I had that kind of motivation. Lol. That's ADHD for you. I am constantly bouncing from one idea to the next.

[ble]

My current comic Baphomet Sheep V2 is like an alternative version of my previous comic Baphometh Sheep. I keep some of the character names, but it's a different universe, in the first comic it was about demons, angels, and magic, however, the V2 is pure sci-fi, set in space.

The similarities are that the main character is named the same and it's a GL.

[jgreene2433]

I hear you, I was so bad that I would catch myself in real life talking in Dean's voice saying how I thought stuff was Awesome. Or sonovab--- and many other his sayings. Lol

[paracosmosfiction]

That's actually really cool! Reminds me a lot of Warhammer's universe. Two diametrically opposed genres set side by side together.

[domisotto]

Heh, I guess I am more in the OC side... but you have a solid text right now, so hopefully it will come together for you. Endings are my fav part of each book.

[paracosmosfiction]

We've still got a long ways to go before we get to the ending. But I really hope you'll enjoy the ride.

[likhoradka]

Hah, we'll see! It's BL romance/drama since I'm not sure where to file romance with a revolution side plot. I decided to make this my first pursuit to finish since I think there needs to be more own voices for LGBT+ stories. It's getting better, though, and I wanna be apart of that!

Damngelic | Tapas

[MaeRose]

My first novel was a love letter to an old video game that had its sequel canceled.

Random question. What's the name of the game you mentioned? I'm very curious

[likhoradka]

Dean Winchester one of my favorite character tropes! That sorta bad boy with a heart of gold. He was the original basis for Methe in my comic, but shed his bad boy attitude and just went to 'I've seen some stuff, and now I'm happy to be alive.'

[TheDoublekey]

I mean uuh... everything is born from inspiration. My manga was inspired by Jojo's bizarre adventure (I started watching it in summer of 2017). The designs of my characters were created through rpg maker. Initially, in fact, I wanted to create an rpg (a friend of mine had started a project back then and I began to use rpg maker to practice) and at the same time, I had the idea of creating a saga. I later put the two things together and they blended into what now is my current work!
Every time I create something, that something is inspired by another existing work. In the beginning I was afraid it would be seen as a rip-off, but I later on took my own path with the story so...

Here it is if you want to check it out

Age I- Age of Darkness | Tapas

[gmaximin]

Originally, my comics were a way to bring sense to my life.

I made my first comics when I was working in finance controlling. My job was to set standards and control variation on a 1k+ people factory. It was so easy that the implication of the process scared me. So I made a story, to dig deeper, reflect on what I was doing, and enlarge it. To reflect on how standards and norms were set, and how we agree/refuse to go along. It was cathartic to me, and hopefully help readers to get a better feel on standardization mechanism in a non boring way...

My current comics popped from a similar logic. I work in a field where ‘efficiency’ is used all the time. It’s almost risible... the word is so worn out and abused that it lost its meaning, but it remains and incredibly effective communication tool to make people do all sort of things against their own interest... so I make story about that, stripping the efficiency myth through a character which is efficiency personified...

[Kura]

All my stories have various origin stories I guess. Though I guess the universal driving factor is as simple as "I like telling stories so I want to tell stories."

[paracosmosfiction]

I checked out a bit of it. I love the art! I'll give it a thorough read whenever I get the chance. I completely agree with what you said about more voices for the LGBT+ community. I always try to make my work as inclusive as possible. Whether or not I've succeeded in that regard with The Devil's Colt series has yet to be decided. But even if someone says, "Eh, this isn't my cup of tea." I'd much rather that than turn people away for having content that makes them feel excluded or appropriated. I really do strive to write things that just about anyone can enjoy.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Oh yeah so... Rip, the main character of my comic was originally a Sonic OC. I came up with him way back in 99 or 2000. I was super into the Archie comics back then and Sonic Adventure was just about to come out.
I made my own character, who was all robotic except for his head, named Rip Raptor.

But...the comic now has zero to do with Sonic xD maybe the design of Rip is still lightly inspired, but overall 33 year old me is more inspired by so many other things nowadays.

So yeah. I owe Sonic The Hedgehog a debt of gratitude, otherwise Rip wouldn't be a character at all.

[paracosmosfiction]

Man, that takes me back. I played the original Sonic Adventures on the Dreamcast when I was still in elementary school. Always loved that game. And the designs for the robots were always incredibly unique. I can see you coming up with some pretty interesting artwork based off that theme.

[simonitropunk]

My story came from a dream that I had couple of months ago, to be frank. I did 2 comics previously on a different site but had a long hiatus and want to continue them, at some point, but kinda fallen off.

I was thinking of starting a new project called "Space Taxi 71" and was planning it and all but one dream later, that got scrapped and started to focus on "Lyza's Sandstorm" the moment I sketched out the main character and at the time, didn't have a name for her. I asked friends what would be a perfect name for her and my friend suggested many names and one of them was "Lyza". I'm like: "Hmmmm.... Lyza!!!" That's an actually cool and unique name. So, she is LYZA!!! It fits perfectly to my character.

You can plan things for months but who knows when a big and better story would pop and want to do THAT instead of everything else.

[paracosmosfiction]

I've gathered inspiration from dreams as well. Haven't actually done anything with it yet, but I have this one idea for a Theme Park called "Afterland" which people visit in their dreams. I got the idea from a particularly surreal dream involving dark forests, a roller coaster, and very tall multi-tailed animals. It was nuts.

[Schwarze_Neko]

The origin of my story came from watching plague doctor art I just started making my OC plague doctor and that eventually led to the creation of my character in which my series focuses on.

I guess I also took inspiration in Edgar Allan Poe's work, since the title of my series is the phrase "Nevermore" from his poem "The Raven". In fact, another important character also came from that same poem lmao (Because he's a raven)

[therosesword]

I got the title of one of my stories first: Dead Souls Doing the Samba. I pretty much suck at titles and this thing just popped into my mind (probably watched a music video, I don't know). I thought it would be a cool title. then I got a first line or two and things went from there.

[allenT]

I'm inspired by Sonic too. (mostly from the 90s cartoons)

My very first childhood drawn comic are inspired by the wacky 'The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'. Very soon with different influences such as shounen mangas, SatAM Sonic-- i created my own world apart from Sonic's universe, and art style has shifted into more a 'furry' look. (more 'kemono' to be precise)

MAOR is just a recently created story from that world i created many years ago and being slowly refined.