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Delays, Reworking, and More
Hello Everyone. I first want to thank everyone that has been a great support to the little bit of art and effort that I have published and put into my comic. I really appreciate the comments, constructive criticism and advice that I have received. To be very honest, it has been great to take this step and start putting some of my work out there. I have a lot to learn and I appreciate the help that all of you have provided to help me become better and motivate me to continue.
I have been going through a lot more life events that I had expected this school semester. To just put a story short is that I have been dealing with off episodes of depression and other problems and all at the same time I have moved closer to the university’s campus. It seems like I am finally finding my equilibrium again. I have been looking and watching off and on some of my favorite artists but working on my own stuff has been very slow and I have been lacking motivation.
To add even more to all this I was having computer problems which resulted in replacing my old computer. Due to poor efforts to back up my work I lost everything that I had been working on! This has really set me back on my comic. I was very close to publishing the next panel, (It would have been published last week), but I lost it and I cannot find it anywhere.
At first I was very upset about all of this, but I have decided to take it as an opportunity to analyze and rethink my comic and work. Since I have lost everything I am going to take it as an opportunity to reestablish myself and rework the comics storyline. I hope to make it much better. I have a lot to learn still and changing over to electronic medium has been a rather awkward step for me.
I have never considered myself as a professional artist (in fact I have only ever had one art class that was required to get my associates degree and it only covered traditional art mediums and color theory). I am still a student, so my priority lies with passing my classes and getting good grades and scholarships, so there will still be periods of delay to publish the comic throughout my scholarly career. Writing and drawing Bluefox Comics and drawing pictures are just some of the things that I do to maintain my sanity while I am devoting most of my life to study.
The new revision (and getting my grades up) will take me a few months but Bluefox Comics will become much better. I hope to give the comic more structure and depth with its context and because of continual practice and drawing my art will get much better as well as time goes by.
Thank you for your patience and support. I will be posting artwork periodically as I practice, and create a better background for the Comic’s blog and such, so please check my pages on Inkbunny, Furaffinity, Weasyl and Deviantart. The links are listed below.
www.furaffinity.net/user/theon…
Retrasos, Hacer el comic de nuevo, y más,
¡Hola todos! Quiero agradecer a todos que me han apoyado y ayudado durante ese tiempo que estuve publicando el comic. Estoy agradecido por los comentarios y criticismo constructivo que he recibido. Han sido una fuente beneficio en mis esfuerzos de mejorar el comic. Tengo mucho para aprender y todo el ayudo me han dado me motivo para continuar en este aprendizaje.
Hace algunos meses que estuve pasando de muchos eventos de la vida. Estuve experimentando mucho con la depresión y otros sentimientos negativos. Encima de todo eso estuve en el proceso de mudarme a un nuevo apartamento para estar más cerca de la universidad. Por fin yo siento que estoy encontrando equilibro una vez más en mi vida. He estado por el internet de vez en cuando para mirar el arte de algunas de mis artistas preferidas, pero no he estado con mucha motivación para continuar con el comic hasta ahora.
Con todos esos problemas, también tuve problemas con mi computadora. Los problemas resultaron en un reemplazamiento de mi computadora con una computadora nueva. Como resultado de eso (combinado con el hábito malo de no guardar mis trabajos en dos lugares) perdí todo el trabajo y el comic próximo que estuve por publicar. Yo iba a publicarlo la semana pasada. No puedo encontrar en ninguna de mis carpetas, está perdido.
Estuve de mal humor sobre todo de eso pero con tiempo decidí mirar esta situación como una oportunidad de analizar y re-pensar de lo que estoy haciendo con el comic. Voy a usar esta oportunidad para hacer algunos cambios y mejorar el comic en sí y también la historia entera, y hacer lo que puedo para mejorar el arte también. Espero hacer todo mejor, dibujar por medios electrónicos es muy nuevo para mí, pero estoy aprendiendo y con practica y tiempo voy hacer arte mejor.
Nunca he pensado que yo soy una artista profesional, y solo he tomado una clase de arte que solo involucró los medios de arte y la teoría de usar colores. Soy un estudiante entonces el recibir buenas notas es la primera prioridad que tengo, y después hacer cosas como arte y los comics. El dibujar y escribir a Bluefox Comics es una de las maneras como yo mantengo la sanidad mental con todas las tareas y estudios que tengo que hacer.
Para repasar todo el contenido del comic (y hacer que mis notas sean mejor) me tardará algunos meses, pero Bluefox Comics será mucho mejor. Espero dar el comic más estructura y profundidad de contexto.
Muchas gracias por su apoyo (y leer este diario muy largo) y su paciencia. Estaré publicando arte de ves en cuando porque estaré practicando el dibujo y también haciendo cosas como una nueva imagen de fondo para el blog de Bluefox Comics. Síganme por Inkbunny, Furaffinity, Weasyl y Deviantart si quieran ver los publicaciones. He puesto los links abajo.
www.furaffinity.net/user/theon…
New Computer and Starting School
Hello everyone! I am sorry that I have taken such a long time to even come back online to even write something about what is going on or what to expect the next upcoming months. I have been offline for almost the whole summer and I apologize for now getting on and saying anything or explaining anything, but I kind of hit a wall of troubles in just general life and I had been very busy with other details concerning work, paying for school, and all sorts of other things. So my summer quickly became dedicated to taking care of a few things and working as much as I possibly could. This meant that due to priority BluefoxComic got set aside for a little while. I must admit that I was sad to put it aside, but now that things are calming down I am more than happy to pick it up again and keep going. I hope to make it even better and with everyone’s help I know that I can learn how to make it a great comic.
So this is where I am at. The school semester has already started for me, and that means that I will quickly become busy with lectures, classes, labs and all the other fun activities that going to a college campus has to offer. Even though I will be very busy, I am going to make time for drawing, coloring and writing my comic. Part of my delays was the fact that the comic had to be drawn on paper. Working all summer has really paid off though because now I have a new laptop with which I will be able to start drawing my comics!!!! I am very excited for this, because it means that I no longer have to scan in my work and try to crop and all that which took so much time. This also means that I can draw in the middle of waiting for lectures or class and I don’t have to carry around a sketch book. I am not abandoning traditional art by any means, but keeping it electronic makes publishing a comic more frequently and of higher quality more feasible, once I learn how to us software.
So in this new light I need some help and suggestions. I would like to know what is good to use to draw cartoons! I have access to photoshop as well as gimp for free as a student, but I would like to know if there is anything better to use. I am using a tablet computer meaning I will be drawing on a touchscreen. I don’t know if that will change the style of software that I should use. Please let me know your opinions, I would really appreciate it!
I am already working on the next panel for the comic and kind of a summer drawing (for all the summer months that I have missed), and those are both on traditional paper. I hope to have them both up soon. Thank you for your support and advice, I look forward to seeing what I can do and learn in these upcoming months!
¡Hola a todos! Lo siento mucho por no haber comunicado ni haber publicado nada por los últimos meces. Tuve mucho para ocuparme con trabajo, familia, y problemas de la vida. Entonces descansé un poco de publicar el comic y me puse a hacer otras cosas. El semestre ya empezó a la universidad, y por eso muchas cosas están cambiando y voy a poder empezar publicar el comic otra vez. ¡Estoy muy animado para empezar de vuelta!
Con todos de esos cambios he llagado comparar una computadora nueva. (por todo el trabajo durante el verano) Y con esa computadora voy a poder dibujar digitalmente. Ese significa que tendré el potencial publicar los comics más rápidos y de mejor calidad, pero tengo primero que aprender cómo usar un software para dibujar. Tenga acceso a Photoshop y a Gimp como estudiante. Pero deseo escuchar algunos opiniones e ideas antes de cometerme a un tipo de software para dibujar. Por favor escríbanme o comentar debajo de lo que debo considerar. Estoy usando un tipo de Tablet de toca si ese significa algo para el software que yo debo usar.
Muchas gracias por toda su paciencia y apoyo. Estoy trabajando con dos trabajos para el comic. El panel próximo en la seria y un dibujo para el verano. Muchas gracias a todos, espero estar publicando otra vez muy pronto.
Starting
I don't even know how many people this journal will reach. I feel like I am kind of in a dark corner until I start putting work out there. I am afraid though that I will never build up an audience sufficient enough to get the feedback I hope for. I do everything on the side as well. School is my utmost priority next to family and then other hobbies by priority of time. So my posts will not be often nor frequent by any means. Nor would they be consistent. I do hope to have a start of a comic to start publishing by the new year, but that is very close, I have enough classes for 3 students, and enough homework to kill five more students. I do speak Spanish so if I do receive upon request I will start translating the best I can and even have comics and whatever I do the most bilingual as possible if so the request is made. I guess what I need now is someone to let me know what I am looking at here on deviant art and what I should expect. How has the experience been for other's on this site?