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I've been writing out  'Fly Girl' in chapters to help plan out the storyboards and I'm wondering if I should try submitting them on DA...Ya know, see if anyone will take an interest.... I may do that. Yup.

Leira and Imp

I lied, another Fly Girl post... But I forgot about this, the twins Leirus Deathstalker and Imperator Pandinus (AKA Leira and Imp). Leira is a Deathstalker scorpion and Imp is an Emperor.

I was thinking about doing a pic of Musca's anatomy... Yeah, I think I'll do that. Fuuun.

More Fly Girl

 

Soo character designs... The picture above is just a mass of all the princes and princess' of Betwick, Musca's elder brothers and sisters. They sure are an elegant bunch...Ha.
My favorite to draw out of all of them are the twins. Awful sadistic little buggers, but look at how well they match! So cute.
The hardest to draw are Phasma and Recluse. Recluse because of his head, Phasma because of his height. How insaaanely taller he is than everyone else. Well that's what I get for making a stick bug so ya know. -_-

In the middle of finishing all the character designs for the main cast, which would be Musca, Folk, Mortimer, Enlil, Congrua, Phasma, and Maggot.
All the side characters, the rest of the Betwick Royals, Serenity (Musca's mother), Mortimer's casino thugs, Musca's room mates at the hostel (still deciding who I want to make her room mates, I'm thinking Lola but I wanted to use her in Cirque du Minuit), and the Grand Generation Insects will come later because there are aloot of the side characters that won't be appearing all the time (like the Grand Insects, most of them will only appear maybe 10 times in the whole series).
But it wouldn't be a project by me if there weren't a fuck ton of characters ^^
Okay! That's my Fly Girl update for the day!

Power of the Dark Crystal

I am so pissed. Directors have been talking about The Power of the Dark Crystal a sequel to Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal forever now and it seems they've officially decided to cancel it. Apparently this happened sometime during last year, so pissed that I didn't find out until now...
I mean, I was actually excited about it. I grew up on that movie and it's fueled alot of my love for fantasy and things out of the norm... I remember when I was a kid I didn't know the puppets were puppets, I actually thought they were real creatures and beings. Skeksis, Gelflings, Mystics, etc, I really thought they were out there somewhere and when I found out they were puppets it blew my mind. That a puppet could actually make me believe such fantastical things existed was amazing to me.
But also take into consideration I wasn't the smartest kid, lots of imagination, little clarity. But when I was in middle school, my mom and I were all excited about the fact that they were trying to bring The Dark Crystal and it's characters back, and even adding in new characters!
...I'm just insanely dissapointed. Getting people hopes up only to shove em' back down...(sighs)

Picture from a trailer of The Power of the Dark Crystal

Downfalls of Being a one Woman Show

Been thinking of linking this to my DA so I can get some followers but at the same time it's like...I don't want people to read this stuff which is why this blog is so awesome because no ones reading it. It's like me writing little notes to myself. But still, I should probably link this to my DA...

Been working out the kinks in the 'Fly Girl' plot.
Going through the same old same old when it comes to me and plot: character motives, plot holes, and time span.
Musca Domestica as the main character has probably been the easiest to move along. She's not a very complicated character as it were, she tries her hardest to acheive her goals and is just generally a nice girl. Her reactions to the world around her a pretty predictable, its just creating that world that sticks me in the side.
Folk, the male main, has become something of a troublesome kid. In their original storyline I came up with back in 2010, he was like a super average guy who managed a café and happened to be spirited away into some crazy dark world by Musca. In 'Fly Girl' though, the dude is in over his head in debt and contracts and is like the master of weaseling out of everything and anything. I'd like for him to keep some of his past character traits from the old plot line but I'm not sure how to incorproate 'average dude who is bored with life' together with 'street wise kid who's constantly running from police and casino owners'... It's just like argh, what do I do?

Anooother harder character to protray would be Congrua Spilosoma, the villain. Because she's insane. Most of my female characters that have ever been extremely mentally ill or demented are like the 'I could stab you in the face at any time' or 'I'm constantly screaming at nothing' types... Very obviously crazy. Congrua's not like that. She's supposed to be very clever, but greedy. A type of evil you don't really see coming but in the back of your head you feel it. She's very controlling, to the point where it's unnatural, and the lengths she goes to get what she wants are extreme.
But her first appearances are supposed to show her as a very calm, almost serene type of character with a hidden agenda.
Trying to force all that into one character is both hard and easy. Sometimes she just sort of comes to me, and other times I'm having to force her to dance. She's a stubborn one, thats for damn true. -_-
It just kind of sucks when you're the author and artist of your story. Cause while you have complete control over everything going in and out of it, you also don't have any help. Especially when you're nobody kid like me and there's no cool people to say 'omg, it'd be so cool if you did this or that!'

I'm still making mini storyboards, it's just like...Bleh. Trying to catch up with school too. This summer though.... Ohhh this summer. I'm going to be havin' some fun.

I think next time I'll throw up some of my storyboards too. Make me feel accomplished although I've done nothing. XD

Real Convention Experience

Thought I'd write a little bit about my experience at Evillecon last weekend. It was insane. Like, I was in this state of happy panic and shock all weekend.

I had a table in the artist alley and was selling my art for the first time ever. By noon on Friday I was seriously starting to think I really was a horrible artist... People would walk by the table, glance at my art, then sort of walk away and as I went through this process I could feel my heart rise and rise and then drop through ice. It was maddening.
Especially since I was sharing my table with this really great artist I know whose work is ten times better than mine and at professional level. So yeah, I expected people to sort of side step me and go to her, which happened for about four hours.
And then around four five, people starting buying things from me. It was like the amazing experience, I did on site commissions and let me just say my brain was frying itself. Everybody kept coming up and asking for commissions or just swinging by to tell me my style was awesome or unique or just cool. I got literally no bad feed back except for one dude who when I told the prices of my stickers responded with 'no, I'm not buying cause I could just draw all this stuff myself. You're not half bad though'. I have never so seriously wanted to throw a table at someone. It was just the way he said it, I can't even...
But by Sunday I had to take down my on site commissions sign cause I was drowning in them. I had 20 in total, which I was told was a fairly decent amount for a first timer. I sold out of my baby fruit wolves prints, which I had about five of those and sold them five bucks per sheet, and out of my Company stickers...
It was a week ago and I'm still incredibly proud of myself... A year ago I would have never imagined myself actually selling my art at a convention or something...
This has been an amazing year so far, I can only hope it continues like this : )

Oh and the company sticker I sold out of is on the left and the Princess Pixie on the right did fairly well too (I sold 4 which was good because like no one bought my prints XD )
 I'm feeling guilty about those though, because I didn't originally want to make prints of it. One, because the fandom it's from wouldn't be known all that well around Evillecon, and two, I was afraid to try and sell fan arts because of copy rights and junk... I mean, I've had friends steal my art before so I'd never legit take someones art and call it my own, but still...
I was just so proud of 'Princess Pixie', it's the first time I ever digitally colored something from top to bottom and turn out decent so it's like...My baby... Not my character, no, but somehow my baby. Eh.

FLy Girl in Motion

Annnd with this I have officially decided to go ahead with turning my Fly Girl project into a comic.
Fly Girls heroine of course being my lovely Musca Domestica.
I've been playing around with her idea since 2010 but I've never actually had the guts to try and create her world. Well I've got the guts now and I've actually started on the storyboards for the first chapter. It's gonna be wicked.

A descipt of Fly Girl:
The story follows Musca Domestica, the youngest daughter of a royal family that rules over a world of insect-people called Betwick.
Because of their crazy Fly-Headed king, Enlil, the people of Betwick despise humans (though most of them have never even come into contact with one) and the human plane, which had once been open for anyone to visit, is forbidden.
Musca Domestica's mother was human and so as not to create rumours or riot, Musca existence isn't known outside the palace walls and likewise, she's not allowed to leave the castle. She spends her whole 17 years of life sneaking out, only to be caught and locked up again.
Her only real company being two of her more sympathetic older brothers, Phasma Todea and Maggot. The rest of her family treats her like a prisoner in her own home, both physically and verbally harassing her on a daily basis.
Musca wants desperately to belong somewhere but knows because of her roots she'll never be accepted in Betwick. She spends most of her time learning about the human plane in attempts to find out more about her dead mother, only to eventually realize that if she were human, she could defiantly find somewhere to belong in a world where millions of beings of different species and culture all thrive together.
From her brother Morpho, she learns of the hookah smoking cricket-man, Mortimer, who has the power to turn even the most buggy Betwicken into a human. Musca goes to him and makes a deal to have her wish granted, but with a catch and a time limit.
She has 60 days to search the industrial jungle of Chicago for a man named Jonathon Folk who owes her contractor a huge cash sum and somehow drag him back to Mortimer in Betwick or she turns back into a fly girl, forever.
All the while, behind the scenes, a sinister plot orchestrated by one of her siblings is coming into play that could mean the downfall of existence as a whole.

I mean, I could sit here for hooooours and go through the whole plot but its been changing drastically lately. Like there was stuff a few months ago that I was pretty sure I was going to go through with that has since been tossed out or changed. But anyways...
I'm excited that I'm finally making it into comic. So exciting.
Hopefully I can start submitting pages somewhere online soon-ish. Sooo excited!!!