It's a dangerous idea, thinking...
Grace and greetings to you! I understand this is going to be a long one, so for the individuals amongst my watch list who struggle with reading through walls of text I'll be happy to provide a TL;DR at the bottom.
First I must make a confession; I have been fighting tooth and nail against my motivations to get my comic pages done.
Alright, that's not that surprising, is it? Everyone has some kind of struggle getting work done, especially when there's nothing in particular that they have to do. And I, being a 29 year old male still living with my parents, have only the obligations to complete chores and pay a small rent every month. The nothing I have to do could fill a book, so really what is there for me to be miserable about?? And yet despite all the time in the world I have, I've been finding myself hanging my head, lazing about and watching youtube videos, all the while waiting for a certain spark that had yet to be found.
Fortunately misery loves company, so in my efforts to solve the problem like any man would I complained to my brother and parents about being stuck in an artistic funk. And this, dear reader, is where the idea was planted in my head. My dearest mother told me under no uncertain terms that despite my efforts the last few pages of The Prospect were too busy, and she diagnosed that why that might be the case is because I have had more of an interest in animating things than my brother I pack too much into each panel. So... Why not animate the panels themselves?
The idea of trying such a thing hadn't really occurred to me ever, not even back when I still called myself a brony. And if I'm honest with myself... very few others have tried that kind of thing either. This is so so risky, and such a potential time sink, but I really can't help thinking to myself that in all my interest to animate, the thing I want to animate the most out of everything I can think of in my personal portfolio are the characters in The Prospect that I know and love.
With that in mind I'm sure if you've read through this you all have questions now, such as how this might affect my webcomic as it stands today. I'm going to rip that band aid off: I do not know. Most of my old panel work and other arts are very, very sloppy and would have to go through another once-over to even look even close to the quality of my most recent posts, but I have no idea if the writing will have to be taken care of as well. I do know however that some compromises will have to be made; such as the total loss of all my light and shadow layers for the sake of not killing myself over the arduous process of that animation.
But to make that work, I think I need to field-test it first. Do you guys have a favorite scene in The Prospect that you'd like me to try animating first? Please, let me know!
TL;DR-- I'm going to try animating The Prospect's panels, and maybe redo several pages while I'm at it. Give me an idea of a scene you want me to animate!
Take care, and God bless!
It's starting again!!
After getting over who-knows what for the past few months I'm finally back in the game and ready to keep working on this wonderful little webcomic. Matters of one's physical health can affect a person's mental state very, very deeply; and while I don't think such things as health are really a fault of anyone I feel obligated to apologize nonetheless for the webcomic's absence. Rest assured, The Prospect has always been in the back of my mind this entire time, health and anxieties therein aside.
So here it is; page 11 of "The Prospect: The Flying Junk Heap" Is now available to Patrons early for $10 USD a month!
Apologies for my absence!
I've been working on a little something. At the start of this week, the animation bug bit me, and I decided to go on an undertaking to animate two of my personal favorite characters in my series On A Lone World; Kapi and Rosy.
At this point I've got 114 frames of linework done, and once that's taken care of I'm going to do a little bit of adjustment for timing and some fluidity... and then I'll color it all.
I've got the work in progress GIF on Patroen, if you'd like to see all my Work In Progress files, you can do so on my Patreon for $10 USD per month.
That being said, I know people can be irritated about someone begging for money, so I will insist that you're not obligated to give me a cent. I'm sure it'll be done either this weekend, or sometime next week. Thank you everyone for your patience!
Where have I been?
Hi everyone. I figured it's about time I gave all of you an update.
So what's been going on with me? Well truth be told, far too many things, all at once. At about the last week before July I did something to myself which on any other day wouldn't have been a problem. Something got torn, and without getting to much into the details, I can't sit anywhere now without discomfort. From there was a sinus infection, followed by a strange lump. Lumps are scary, people; I went to the ER. However even though I know about what that lump is, it still doesn't take away the symptoms.
In essence I can't sit, I'm tired all of the time, drinking water like a fish and generally in a miserable mood. You can obviously see what that does for one's artistic endeavors if it's all digital art.
Hopefully the symptoms will be resolved or clear up soon, but in the meantime I'm just trying to take care of my self.
If anyone's interested, I'll keep you posted at a later date. Take care!
Hey everyone, it's been a while since I posted a journal on here. Let's start with something obvious:
Out of all the little fandoms and groups I've been a part of, nine-- almost ten years of pastel colored horses was the most amazing ride with all its ups and downs; beautiful artwork, fantastic music, hilarious memes and just a hint of drama; because what is a fandom without a little bit of drama?
I love and loved the pony fandom, and never regretted being a part of it.
However this is where I must go into the point of why I started writing this journal in the first place, and something that might disappoint many of my watchers. I feel like it's time for me to move on. For just about nine years I lived and breathed pony; reading and writing fanfics and fan-comics. But much like any other thing that attracts my interest, I think as I've grown older, my tastes have "matured" so to speak. There will always be a place in my heart for ponies, but I'm sure my watchers noticed already that I've somewhat passively quit ponies anyway what with my less frequent posting of ponies in the first place.
Simply put, I've started to crave working on my original content. Of course it's far more difficult to create something out of whole-cloth, and it's harder to gather an audience through something that doesn't have an audience already, but I feel that my work on ponies has inspired me and given me valuable practice for writing and drawing. I want to work my imagination. I want to make something that can't become irrelevant to my interests in five years. I want to create things on my own, that I can call 100% mine. I've already been doing that, and I've found less interest in drawing pastel colored ponies over time, to the point that I'm afraid it's become a chore; an obligation only posed by myself to do something that I'm not sure I'll even feel good about finishing when it's all over.
I just knew things were coming to a head concerning my big pony comic when I was more interested in things that weren't related to ponies at all... in the comic about ponies.
This was a very difficult decision, but it's time to move on. As of today, I'm officially ceasing active work on Friendship Management.
So what does that mean for me? Well I think for the most part when the muse fancies me I'll still draw the candy-colored horses, but by letting go of my pony comic it frees up my time to work on two things which I would encourage you to follow:
The Prospect, which is my new passion project about a physically disabled alien with big dreams of being an appraiser of ancient technology...
and On a Lone world, my one picture per update Twitter series that features hybrid furries on an alien planet.