The web hosting plan I have for the site is set to expire on May 25th. I can renew it, but it’s going to cost me $120 to do so, which honestly isn’t realistic for me right now.
I’m trying to decide what I want to do. I don’t like the idea of losing the website, but I also haven’t used it in a long time, and despite the thoughts I have occasionally of drawing the comic again realistically I know it probably won’t happen anytime soon. There’s also still the original Smackjeeves page, which has nearly all of the comics on it, so if the site were to go down there’d still be a place where people could read it.
I dunno. I may switch it to monthly billing for a bit so I have more time to think it over, but that’s still money going into something that hasn’t happened in a long time. Money that I don’t have a lot of.
Just wanted to give you a heads up, in case the website goes down in the future. I’d like to work out a solution, I just need to think about it a little more,
Cross posting from here.
Originally Phileo, the spirit of love, he fell from grace after becoming a victim of his own spiritual nature. The loss of a human under his protection whom he had loved caused him to become consumed with hatred and fury for the fallen spirit who caused her death. A spirit of love can’t live with hate in his heart, however, thus Phileo fell into darkness, his nature corrupted. He became Saneh, the spirit of hatred, and lives now in a constant state of unrest, despising what he has become as well as all of the other fallen spirits around him.
Saneh exists in a universe with numerous other angels and fallen angels I’ve created over the years. I probably won’t ever tell their story, but I enjoy drawing them and adding new characters from time to time.
Damnit Tumblr, why’d you go and let me know that Netflix has all of Inuyasha available for streaming?!?!
I’ve done nothing for the past two days but sit here and relive my teen years. Nothing has gotten drawn. I made it THREE DAYS into that character thing.
Right, my mission tomorrow is to create three characters and catch up. I CAN DO THIS THING.
Cross posted from here.
No bio on this one. Pretty much sketched her out of thin air. I was somewhat under the influence of Amy Winehouse at the time, which could explain some things or nothing at all.
Cross posted from here.
Justin Valenti: Early 20s. Art student. Open-minded Christian.
For some reason I’ve been wanting to make a laid back, cool, religious character lately. I’m not at all religious, but I was for a period of my life and I still find the subject fascinating. Justin has his beliefs, but he understands that everyone believes in different things and that they have just a much a right to their beliefs as he has to his. He’s cool with everyone as long as they’re cool with him too.
Cross posting from here.
This is Klorr. His full name is Klorralleikahn, however everything after Klorr is just his family name. Klorr’s a member of an amphibious race that’s been in my head lately; figured I’d do a full sketch of one and see what came out on the paper.
I don’t often do science fiction, despite the fact that I’m a huge sci fi geek. I’ve been getting into alien races lately though, probably because there’s practically nothing that can’t be done with them. I like having options that I wouldn’t normally have with human characters.
Two things from me on here in one week?! What is this??
Just wanted to say that I signed myself up for the 30 Character Challenge, so I may be reaaaally active on here in November (for a change) since I’ll probably cross post the stuff I draw there here.
So I’ve been thinking a lot about Half Death lately. No, I haven’t forgotten about it; I think about it every day, actually. Even been doing some sketches of characters and going back over the storyline I had planned, especially since I finally went and bought a new tablet (my old one died months ago).
The thing about Half Death is, when I first started doing it, I was in a pretty shitty place. I was unemployed, had pretty much just lost my best friend, and was dealing with not only a lot of depression but also a pretty severe identity crisis that still hasn’t sorted itself out entirely. I woke up one morning with this silly idea to do a comic making fun of the vampire craze that seemed to be sweeping the nation, and figured I’d try it out and see how far it got. It was pretty much a way to keep my mind occupied with something else while improving my drawing skills.
Now, two years after starting it (and about a year now since I put it on hiatus) I’m in a very different place. I’ve moved twice to two different states, have a good job, and am in a really awesome relationship. All of the things that had driven me to where I was when I started Half Death are gone, and now there are a million other ideas floating around in my head looking for a way out and I’ve got a whoooole lot less free time to sort through it all.
I think what I’m trying to say by writing all this is… yes, I could continue Half Death. I’ve still got the story, I still like the characters, I could sit myself down and make myself keep drawing it. But for me, the story has served it’s purpose. It gave me something to do when I was down as low as I’ve ever been, and it helped me improve artistically to a point where I finally felt like my art might have some kind of worth to it. But continuing it now won’t take me any further. There’s nowhere to go with the story that hasn’t been done a million times in other vampire fiction. There’s just not enough potential in it to help me grow past where I am right now. I need something else now, something that will help me grow and improve further and isn’t based on a topic that was overdone even before Twilight hit.
Anyway, it’s way past my bedtime so I need to wrap this up. Gotta be up at 5:30 in the morning to go to work in my cubicle tomorrow. Oh the life of an office worker.
…where do those ladies keep their internal organs??
