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Only one more page in this scene, then we’re switching to a different set of characters for the middle of the chapter. Ahhhhh, I’m über excited to draw that next scene. 😀 It will be 100% awesome!*
*Declaration of awesomeness may be subjective.
And new vote incentive! Tiffany Ross was offering cameos in her awesome set of anthro / sci-fi comics, The Cyantian Chronicles, which are a set of roughly a dozen different comics all set in the same universe and sharing many of the same characters. They’re all connected, but split according to when they take place and who the focus characters are. ANYWAY, I bought a cameo slot, and Flowerlark will be making an appearance in Pawprints (which is an anthology of short, light-hearted stories about the characters when they were very young) as an anthro. The new incentive is a reference I drew up for Tiffany. It feels kinda weird drawing a character that has always been strictly an animal as a pseudo-human. But I quite liked how it turned out, and I will probably paint it at some point.
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Obligatory geek rant!!
I finished Tales of Hearts R. It was pretty awesome, though I found the ending to be pretty predictable. I.e., I correctly predicted it about halfway through the game. Never-the-less, it was still a good storyline and the battle mechanics were super fun. I’ll be doing a New Game+, though, because I only snagged 1/3 of the PSN trophies during my first play-through. I am frustrated, though, that you don’t get the last party member – Chalcedony – until nearly halfway. I found I can use Chalcedony FAR better in battle than the main character, Kor. And now I’ll have to suffer with an awkward-feeling character until I get Chalcedony again… about 20hrs in. 😛
I feel this all could have been avoided had Andrea been rational and told them about the approaching Veslian army and the burned villages she saw. Then again she seems used to things being her way. I wonder how much more trouble that will cause in the future…
Also, the comic is certainly not light-hearted but more I read into it, it becomes much more depressing as I come to realise all the implications about the world. I wonder if the comic will take a darker turn once it progresses some more…
Yes, Andrea is the type to make rash descisions without ever thinking about the consequences… for herself or others. And though we haven’t seen too much of this yet, but she is also very manipulative. These two traits often spell more trouble for those around her than Andrea herself. Her heart’s in the right place, she just… doesn’t go about it in the right way.
And you can be guarenteed that pretty much any story I write is going to get progressively darker and more intense. Eryl’s darkness is mostly from violence and life-or-death situations. And while it has plenty of violence and danger, Ashes becomes much more emotionally and psychologically dark.