FAQ!
am i missing any important questions? let me know :]
[note: i also have a formspring account, if you wish to ask me something personally!]
COMIC FAQ
am i missing any important questions? let me know :]
[note: i also have a formspring account, if you wish to ask me something personally!]
COMIC FAQ
When do you update? (updated 3/29/13)
Optimistically, every Friday, but possibly I will miss an update (and let you know on the d*s facebook page). I used to update every Friday [and sometimes tuesdays too] but I have a baby to take care of now, so I will not be able to update as reliably as I used to. But I will continue to update the comic until it is completed, so don't worry! :)
*added 12/16/11* Is [Character #1] with [Character #2] or [Character #3]? // Do #1 and #2 end up together? etc etc
;P I'm pretty big against spoilers, so I won't be answering this. I'm actually someone who ships my own characters tho, so a lot of the art I draw might not be exactly canon, while some of it actually is... :'D Sorry if this answer is sort of maddening, but... well, just wait and see! :)
*added 12/16/11* You say you wrote this as a novel first? Can I see it?
This has been coming up a lot in the past few weeks! Someone actually recently asked it on my formspring, and this is the answer I gave:
People constantly ask me this and then follow up with it usually by saying it feels like the story has only just begun! It's kind of hilarious to me! And I'm glad you noticed that it's only just beginning... because that's exactly it. :) The novel version was around 35~ chapters when I stopped writing it out. So you can expect probably 40 or so chapters probably in the comic. Yeah. It's gonna be a long one xDD I think from chapter 6 and on begins the meat of the story. So I hope you can stick with it :) You are in for a long one lol.
*added 02/26/10* Did you get the idea for d*s from the True Blood books?
My friend brought up that I might get people asking this. I didn't know this was a book series and hadn't heard a lot about the show. One of my friends loves the show cos there's a buncha sex lol...so he's always trying to get me to watch it, but I don't have HBO =( But yeah, I saw one of the books in a grocery store about a year ago, and saw they had a "True Blood" ad on the front. I opened it and the first thing I saw was the use of the word 'unhuman' in the jacket description. This scared me a bit, but not as much as the description for the setting of the books, which said something about the unhuman types revealing themselves to the human world. v.v But I figured, hey, it's bound to happen. So I flipped to a random page and the first thing I saw there was the name "Hoyet". This creeped me out wildly, cos my stepdad is named Hoyet lol [who willingly names their character that?!]... so I skimmed through and also saw Andre [vix's love interest initially], and another character named Arlene, which reminded me of Arlie [introduced in around chapter 7]. So really my first encounter with this series was shocking. I still haven't read it, so I don't know how much more is similar [aside from it seeming like ALL sorts of unhumans are common knowledge -- i thought it was just vamps til today T_T], so if there are other similarities, feel free to point them out, but don't expect me to have a lot to say about them I guess xD
[3/2/11 edit: btw, i have read the books now. i'm way less concerned xD series is so different it's not even funny xD]
*added 11/08/09* Where is [character]? Why are they missing [item/tattoo/etc]??? I've seen them on your Deviantart/Sheezyart page, why aren't they in the comic?! And how come [character] doesn't know [character]?! WHYYYY! etc etc etc ...
LOL. So I figured that this would come up, since these characters are so old in my art. People who watch my DA account prolly notice some things about the charas that aren't really carrying over to the comic. YET! It's just that! It hasn't happened to them yet! So that scar or tattoo hasn't happened yet, or that person there hasn't met the other! =D This is why it's fun! You get to see for yourself why they are the way they are =]
How long does it take you to do a page?
O lawd... Probably 8-12 hours or something, over many days. I get really anal about things looking good... hopefully I will get passed that so I can post more often xD
Why don't you ever capitalize dream*scar? It's a title after all!
There is no real reason for this. It just looks more appealing to me in lower case. :)
How long have you been working on this story?
Strangely enough, this story began from an old vampire RP storyline [dubbed 'venack'], back in early 1998. I played as Vix in it, and she was one of Kou's vampiric fledgelings... LOL. Eventually, I made a mini comic chronicling soap opera that was the Venack RP. In 2001, after probably 600 or so pages in notebooks of doodles, I kind of burnt myself out and scrapped it, and started brainstorming on how to make it into a better storyline that was more my own. I started writing it as a novel in mid 2003 til late 2008 and now I just want to freaking turn it into a damn comic again. What a vicious cycle 8D
You say this used to be an RP ... how many characters are actually yours?
No one has asked me this in a long time, tbh, but I wanted people to know! Dana and Trina belonged to two old friends of mine from our RP... I've changed them a lot, but I still think of them as guests in my head. Kou used to belong to Matt [my editor!], but when he quit the RP, he let me have him... so I fixed him [he used to be a perverted old dood] and made him hotter/less creepy. Hahaa... Also, Demitry belongs to my friend Luna, but she allows me to use him in the story cos she likes seeing his sexy ass. Also, I am not sure it counts, but Mieru was originally made because my friend Michelle from middle/high school wanted to be in the comic lol. I wasn't going to use her in d*s at first, but ended up giving in cos she kept pestering me in my head to be seen. :)
Did you get [character]'s name from [book/movie/historical figure]?
Doing this as a preemtive strike 8D!! *FF battle music* Anyway, let me see if I can recall where I pulled some of these names!
Optimistically, every Friday, but possibly I will miss an update (and let you know on the d*s facebook page). I used to update every Friday [and sometimes tuesdays too] but I have a baby to take care of now, so I will not be able to update as reliably as I used to. But I will continue to update the comic until it is completed, so don't worry! :)
*added 12/16/11* Is [Character #1] with [Character #2] or [Character #3]? // Do #1 and #2 end up together? etc etc
;P I'm pretty big against spoilers, so I won't be answering this. I'm actually someone who ships my own characters tho, so a lot of the art I draw might not be exactly canon, while some of it actually is... :'D Sorry if this answer is sort of maddening, but... well, just wait and see! :)
*added 12/16/11* You say you wrote this as a novel first? Can I see it?
This has been coming up a lot in the past few weeks! Someone actually recently asked it on my formspring, and this is the answer I gave:
I've actually been asked this a few times... and I hate to say that I'd rather not share it ._.;;;*added 03/02/11* How long is d*s going to be?
Reasons:
- It's crap lol.
- I've already changed a lot [i was a kid when i wrote it, really...].
- Related to the previous, I don't want the novel to change how the comic is perceived, which I really think it might lol.
- I don't wanna have spoilers floating around, cos the further into the story I get, the more accurate the novel is lol :(
People constantly ask me this and then follow up with it usually by saying it feels like the story has only just begun! It's kind of hilarious to me! And I'm glad you noticed that it's only just beginning... because that's exactly it. :) The novel version was around 35~ chapters when I stopped writing it out. So you can expect probably 40 or so chapters probably in the comic. Yeah. It's gonna be a long one xDD I think from chapter 6 and on begins the meat of the story. So I hope you can stick with it :) You are in for a long one lol.
*added 02/26/10* Did you get the idea for d*s from the True Blood books?
My friend brought up that I might get people asking this. I didn't know this was a book series and hadn't heard a lot about the show. One of my friends loves the show cos there's a buncha sex lol...so he's always trying to get me to watch it, but I don't have HBO =( But yeah, I saw one of the books in a grocery store about a year ago, and saw they had a "True Blood" ad on the front. I opened it and the first thing I saw was the use of the word 'unhuman' in the jacket description. This scared me a bit, but not as much as the description for the setting of the books, which said something about the unhuman types revealing themselves to the human world. v.v But I figured, hey, it's bound to happen. So I flipped to a random page and the first thing I saw there was the name "Hoyet". This creeped me out wildly, cos my stepdad is named Hoyet lol [who willingly names their character that?!]... so I skimmed through and also saw Andre [vix's love interest initially], and another character named Arlene, which reminded me of Arlie [introduced in around chapter 7]. So really my first encounter with this series was shocking. I still haven't read it, so I don't know how much more is similar [aside from it seeming like ALL sorts of unhumans are common knowledge -- i thought it was just vamps til today T_T], so if there are other similarities, feel free to point them out, but don't expect me to have a lot to say about them I guess xD
[3/2/11 edit: btw, i have read the books now. i'm way less concerned xD series is so different it's not even funny xD]
*added 11/08/09* Where is [character]? Why are they missing [item/tattoo/etc]??? I've seen them on your Deviantart/Sheezyart page, why aren't they in the comic?! And how come [character] doesn't know [character]?! WHYYYY! etc etc etc ...
LOL. So I figured that this would come up, since these characters are so old in my art. People who watch my DA account prolly notice some things about the charas that aren't really carrying over to the comic. YET! It's just that! It hasn't happened to them yet! So that scar or tattoo hasn't happened yet, or that person there hasn't met the other! =D This is why it's fun! You get to see for yourself why they are the way they are =]
How long does it take you to do a page?
O lawd... Probably 8-12 hours or something, over many days. I get really anal about things looking good... hopefully I will get passed that so I can post more often xD
Why don't you ever capitalize dream*scar? It's a title after all!
There is no real reason for this. It just looks more appealing to me in lower case. :)
How long have you been working on this story?
Strangely enough, this story began from an old vampire RP storyline [dubbed 'venack'], back in early 1998. I played as Vix in it, and she was one of Kou's vampiric fledgelings... LOL. Eventually, I made a mini comic chronicling soap opera that was the Venack RP. In 2001, after probably 600 or so pages in notebooks of doodles, I kind of burnt myself out and scrapped it, and started brainstorming on how to make it into a better storyline that was more my own. I started writing it as a novel in mid 2003 til late 2008 and now I just want to freaking turn it into a damn comic again. What a vicious cycle 8D
You say this used to be an RP ... how many characters are actually yours?
No one has asked me this in a long time, tbh, but I wanted people to know! Dana and Trina belonged to two old friends of mine from our RP... I've changed them a lot, but I still think of them as guests in my head. Kou used to belong to Matt [my editor!], but when he quit the RP, he let me have him... so I fixed him [he used to be a perverted old dood] and made him hotter/less creepy. Hahaa... Also, Demitry belongs to my friend Luna, but she allows me to use him in the story cos she likes seeing his sexy ass. Also, I am not sure it counts, but Mieru was originally made because my friend Michelle from middle/high school wanted to be in the comic lol. I wasn't going to use her in d*s at first, but ended up giving in cos she kept pestering me in my head to be seen. :)
Did you get [character]'s name from [book/movie/historical figure]?
Doing this as a preemtive strike 8D!! *FF battle music* Anyway, let me see if I can recall where I pulled some of these names!
Vix - Summer Sisters, by Judy Blume, a book I happened upon in a grocery store and bought on a whim.The main chara is nicknamed Vix, off her real name, Victoria. At the time, I thought it was adorable, so I named my new RP character Vix... :]
Lysander - This one is pretty pathetic -- he is not named after the Shakespear character, or even the Spartan. No, I took his name from an NPC in the game Diablo 2, Lysander the Alchemist... the character was extremely assholeish the first time you meet him so it seemed fitting lmao...*shame*...
Arianna - I HAVE NO IDEA. My best friend named her for me, cos I was losing my mind as to what to call her LOL
Arliss - Yes, after the show, Arli$$. I've never seen it, but I noticed the name a lot on my TV browser when I was still trying to name her, so it just sort of stuck. It's probably a guy's name too...haha.
Dana - she was named for Dana Scully, because the person who played her in the RP was using photos of Gillian Anderson. The name was initally sort of her joke that just ended up sticking lol. I kept her appearence the same as homage to the old days...
Trina - Same deal as Dana, the person playing her was using pictures of Carrie-Ann Moss as Trinity [the matrix].
Anonelbe - from the game Xenogears. They only mention it once[?]...I dun remember what it was, something to do with Fei I think... if you've played the game, you know how deep/complicated the storyline is... XD
All the others I just name searched, pulled out of a dictionary, or made up, but you can ask about them if you want and I'll try to remember why I chose them or how I came up with it LOL
ART FAQ
How long have you been drawing/HOW'D YOU LEARN TO DO THAT/etc?
This question has always boggled me, but I get it a lot, as I am sure pretty much every other artist does... lol. I've been drawing for as long as I can remember. I used to draw Lion King and Jurassic Park when I was younger... I only started seriously drawing people when I got into anime at like age 13 or so. Everything I know how to do is self taught, just trial and error. I still have a lot of error, due to my laziness toward studying... lol. I also love to read art tutorials, even if I already know how to do something. Sometimes people point out things I didn't realize on my own, and they turn out to be really helpful. Anyway, just keep practicing. I know it's like a broken record hearing that response, but if you are bad at something, draw it. Bad at feet? Draw a few pictures where the character is barefoot and the feet are visible! Bad background? Draw some pictures that include a background! Sure, they'll look bad at first, but you'll get better =) Remember, you can always search google or go outside and draw from life! It helps! You don't need to pay big bucks for art school to learn, you can do it all yourself =) [though i am sure art school wouldn't hurt -- it's just really expensive!]
What do you use to draw?
For the comic and other art on my computer, I use Photoshop CS3 and some textures from cgtextures.com or my own scans. For my traditional work, I mainly use prisma markers, and a variety of coloured pencils. Other traditional tools include white out, good ol fashioned WATER, gel pens, and makeup [ususally blush and eyeshadow but have used lipstick as well haha].
Are you taking commissions?
As of Jan 2012, I am on a commissions hold. You can keep up with my current commission status on my deviantart.
How much do you charge for your commissions?
Depends on the detail of the pic I am doing. But I like to think I am pretty cheap xD;
This question has always boggled me, but I get it a lot, as I am sure pretty much every other artist does... lol. I've been drawing for as long as I can remember. I used to draw Lion King and Jurassic Park when I was younger... I only started seriously drawing people when I got into anime at like age 13 or so. Everything I know how to do is self taught, just trial and error. I still have a lot of error, due to my laziness toward studying... lol. I also love to read art tutorials, even if I already know how to do something. Sometimes people point out things I didn't realize on my own, and they turn out to be really helpful. Anyway, just keep practicing. I know it's like a broken record hearing that response, but if you are bad at something, draw it. Bad at feet? Draw a few pictures where the character is barefoot and the feet are visible! Bad background? Draw some pictures that include a background! Sure, they'll look bad at first, but you'll get better =) Remember, you can always search google or go outside and draw from life! It helps! You don't need to pay big bucks for art school to learn, you can do it all yourself =) [though i am sure art school wouldn't hurt -- it's just really expensive!]
What do you use to draw?
For the comic and other art on my computer, I use Photoshop CS3 and some textures from cgtextures.com or my own scans. For my traditional work, I mainly use prisma markers, and a variety of coloured pencils. Other traditional tools include white out, good ol fashioned WATER, gel pens, and makeup [ususally blush and eyeshadow but have used lipstick as well haha].
Are you taking commissions?
As of Jan 2012, I am on a commissions hold. You can keep up with my current commission status on my deviantart.
How much do you charge for your commissions?
Depends on the detail of the pic I am doing. But I like to think I am pretty cheap xD;
