Hello! This is yet another journal entry where I say that it's been a long time, or that I should check back more often. I kept forgetting about DA because I've been so busy with a full-time job, and with my comic, but I remembered it again recently. I haven't drawn anything OS-tan related in a long time, but it's a series and a fandom I'll always be thankful for, even when it's not as active as it used to be.
It was the fandom I was the most involved with during my high school years, and where I met some of the most influential online friends I had, who were very influential to my writing and art. I lost contact with some of them, and I miss them. I read and enjoyed many of the OS-tan gag comic strips when I got started, and found myself wanting more. The concept of an expanded universe developing characters for vintage, hobbyist, and historical systems drew me in even further! I got a lot of practice writing characters from it.
My original series,
Magical Renegades ~ Anathema to Commonsense (
Tapas version), went through many revisions, but is now more than 150 pages into the final rewrite. This is well beyond any of the earlier drafts, and I'm happy I've been able to move forward with this! I almost gave up on this series altogether during earlier rewrites because I didn't plan them out very well, and they stopped being fun to write past a certain point that my motivation fizzled out. Some of the unplanned hiatuses and near-abandonment were because drawing OS-tan fanart and fan characters was a lot more fun and rewarding, and I had a lot more to work with.
I'm only a hobbyist with making webcomics, but to me, they needs to be fun and enjoyable to write and draw to keep the motivation for a comic going, where working on pages is looked forward to instead it feeling like another chore to do. The final rewrite was a massive overhaul that prioritized worldbuilding, better pacing, character development, character designs and backgrounds that were fun to draw, and fight scenes that were fun to draw and write. It's a lot more fun for me, and I have a lot more ideas for it. There should be enough ideas to work with, but too many at once can be a problem too. Sometimes I had a hard time coming up with any OS-tan drawings because there were so many ideas that it was hard to decide what to draw, and in what order.
Thanks to everyone who's still favoriting my OS-tan stuff since I last posted here! That's encouraging and I hope I can get back to drawing some ideas I had. I had to prioritize my original series because of how long each page takes to make. It was my focus for all of last year and most of 2017. My 2018 art summary was posted to my gallery a few days ago to show it.
This year, I'm trying for some balance drawing some other things while keeping comic updates steady. I want to post the finalized Magical Renegades pages here, but I feel want to fix up the early pages yet again, which I did for some of them when posting them to Tapas, and with more than 150 pages, it'd take a while for me to post them here.