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Dec 2019

I've been trying for a long time to find a passion. Something I can do that will make money and that I will enjoy. Something that would support my pastime writing comics. But.... writing this comic... over time it's kind of enforced the realization that... this is what I love to do. My favorite thing about my comic is that it reminded me I love to make comics. :relieved:

2 months later

For my comic 3 thing:
• Alexander, a character that have not appeared yet
• the drama before the climax.. still a long way to go...
• my followers comments!! They are lovely, clever and supportful!!

If you want to take a look here is

1 month later

I'm really happy that in my zombie story, I managed to drop many small hints throughout that lead towards the final twist at the end! :wink:

I also enjoyed writing the action scenes and maintaining the psychological tension from chapter to chapter. :smiley:

I've gotta hand it to developing character relationships. The comic is a horror/fantasy that takes place in what is essentially a parallel universe to our own. The main character of my comic is a 15-year-old foster kid. She's an optimist and tries not to let her lack of a typical family arrangement get in the way of things. Sparing you a whole novel's worth of backstory and explanation, this girl essentially gets adopted by a reaper (technically only half-reaper, but that's irrelivant. Though it's worth mentioning he abuses his powers to save children). The reaper himself had a less than ideal upbringing as a kid, not to mention he's unable to have biological offspring of his own, and seeing him connect with this girl is pretty tender and makes me feel really good when drawing. I love drawing the slow progression of their relationship. Watching them go from confused and unsure, like complete strangers, to essentially what is just a very wholesome child/guardian relationship.

I also like the complexity of some of the other relationships in the comic. Such as the main antagonist falling in love with one of the main protagonists. Drawing out her emotions and thought processes is an interesting experience for me. Watching two halves of her fighting over whether to kill or spare the protagonist is just....well, again, interesting.

Artistically, I like that my comic is painstakingly drawn in ball-point pen. The colors are digital, but the lines themselves are all hand drawn in ink. The original comic pages were completely digital, but I didn't feel like they were a good representation of my true art style. So I actually pushed back the comic's official release date to early 2020 just so I could redraw every page in pen. It is a pain but I'm proud of myself for prioritizing my happiness with the comic over just getting it out on a certain date. And I do like the look of the handrawn style significantly better. It gives it a bit of dirty, grittiness that I think fits the aesthetic better than clean vector lines.

I like what my novel has meant to people. It handles some very dark themes on mental health issues, and I am glad that people can recognise traits of themselves in it and perhaps find some understanding. Thus far quite a few people have commented on how it has resonated with them, or even helped them, which I am really glad for.

I really like the atmosphere and the vibe of my comic (cozy and calming), and also the backgrounds! (I put a lot of effort in it)
But there are also many doubts and insecuruties abt my comic lol


1 month later

I really enjoyed writing an action scene revolving around assassins trying to kill each other while waltzing. :stuck_out_tongue:
It was super fun to describe the gadgets involved and I'm happy with how it turned out!

Honestly? I really think my writing is super solid, even if my art is still somewhat lacking. Especially the dialouge. I think the character interactions and talks are the best part of my comic. I do struggle with introducing the world and pacing everything out, but the dialouge always brings me around to being proud of my work again. Especially the dialouge in the last chapter (that chapter was mostly talk anyways as a "silence before the storm" thing"), as it payed of things I had long been building up (character backstory, a reality check for my protagonist, the return of my favourite character that had been missing fro the comic for around three years :D).

I am also pretty proud of certain backgrounds and covers. I definitely don't nail it all of the time and many of my pages are rushed. But If I look at a page like this.... my favourite things just is how much I was able to learn through this monstrosity.

Definitely my two main character's child. He's such a smol bean and is really innocent because he's just trying to help his parents without wanting to cause any disruption to anyone. He's also in the dark and "adult" things, but then knows everything about some things that one of the main character's is hiding from the other. He also has my favorite characteristics from the two main characters and it's just so beautiful, I love my smol babie

my favorite thing is when the readers get the joke I'm writing in, their likes, and their comments.
fav. thing on creating it, that would be the expression, the feeling, and the different personalities of the characters I'm writing in, and also when I draw my fav. character. :smiley:

here's my comic:

1 month later

My favorite part about plotting out my meta:Morph story was introducing a lot of recent technological issues including gaming addiction, data privacy, and the treatment of AI characters. :wink:
I also had a lot of fun writing the short news articles at the beginning of each chapter!

I like where I cut my chapters. I don't like them to be too long. I like telling what I need to tell then moving on.

And honestly I'm really happy where my art is at right now.

I'm a sappy romantic at heart so I love my side plot of HP's and Mr. Graves budding relationship. They're the light at the end each other's tunnel and mine too. If a reanimated corpse and a slightly closeted gay transgender man can find love during the horror of 1920's Arkham then there can be hope for the rest of us freaks. There's nothing better than making these to awkward boys struggle through flirting while chasing a serial killer.

2 months later

My favorite thing about my latest novel is the various themes that are involved in it! :smiley:
On top of your usual murder mystery, the novel takes a more in-depth exploration of parenting and exposes the dark side of technology. :smiling_imp:

That I managed to write characters that aren't exactly one-sided. I used to struggle on characterization but I'm proud with what I come up for my characters, their views, struggles, and personality differs and clashes from one another.

the fact that ive improved like crazy since i started the comic, its such a learning experience for artist that just so much fun to do. from creating a concept to actually seeing it come to life
here is a few examples of what i meant (im redrawing the first couple of pages on my comic but their not colored yet)



also me love my main boy chirp, his life was just so interesting to design from a simple scenario to all the plot twists, hell hes an orphan living with 7 sisters and 1 brother (and he hismelf is the youngest of them all!) under the safety of a kingdom!

you can read mine here

I love my lore. I'm so proud of how extensive and vast the themes of my world is. Atemporal connections, emotional branding, the fall of the Bones of Decay...and so SO much more. Oh and my art. I worked so hard to be able to illustrate my own books. :green_heart:

I love how my characters interact with others. I love writting how my characters deal with difficult situations.
I also love the crime part. Crime is my favorite genre so seeing that in my comic brings a smile to my face.
I'm very patriotic so the comic takes place in latvia. I love that part too : )

I will add testimonies with this so It does not sound like bragging without a proof.

  • I am quite pleased with my world-building, especially in the lore, cultural, and historical sides. Although my story is not a high-fantasy that requires more extensive world-buiding, I try to put my thoughts to it and present it in a way that is relevant to the scene. My power system is also pretty easy to understand. I might need to improve for things I am not good at/have no interest of like politics, military, and economics; and keeps everything plausible
  • Likeability of the characters is very important for readers so they can follow the series. I am very happy when readers like my characters or find them interesting. I am trying to make their personality realistic and giving them appropriate back story, reasons to their actions and personalities in the story. I really do enjoy creating and developing them and it is exhilarating to see that people like them too.
  • As this is a reworked version of my previous series, improving it is very important as it is the point of reworking it.

  • I also improved the old cover (edit: it should be "July 2018"). I technically improved and it is visually much better:



My series: