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Q&A
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:10 am
by Shouri
Got questions? Post 'em here!
Re: Q&A
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:26 am
by Don Alexander
Re: Q&A
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:51 am
by Artemisia
I have a question...you're cute will you marry me?
That was a joke. I was SO tempted to make it on the Springette site.
My actual question is...when does everything restart with your strips?
Re: Q&A
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 4:39 am
by Shouri
Hi Don!
* * *
Artemisia, XD. But instead of some engagement rings I'd prefer a Daft Punk helmet...
I'll start posting again next week! After spending a month in the States, I had to do some readjustments, and upgrades to my computer, I'm helping with the PTC layout updates... I had some unfinished business from my time off.
Re: Q&A
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 5:34 am
by Azrael
Welcome Shouri.
About time you had your own section here.
Re: Q&A
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:06 am
by Artemisia
Shouri wrote:Hi Don!
* * *
Artemisia, XD. But instead of some engagement rings I'd prefer a Daft Punk helmet...
I'll start posting again next week! After spending a month in the States, I had to do some readjustments, and upgrades to my computer, I'm helping with the PTC layout updates... I had some unfinished business from my time off.
lol
I'm just glad that you'll be starting back up again soon. I've missed both strips in my rotation.
Re: Q&A
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:40 pm
by Don Alexander
Daft Punk helmet, check...
Anyway, an actual question: When will we see some picture updates on the cast list. Many of them could be easily done since the characters have already shown up - especially Emily.
Also, wonderful to hear it will go on next week, I misssssed it!
Final question: I saw you have merged and moved the Otakon pics to "Gallery", but what of "*coff*" and the little comic where you missed your flight? I couldn't find them readily.
Re: Q&A
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:09 pm
by Shouri
Thanks Azrael!
Cast list: I need to draw them... and I'm the slowest.
So, soon, soon...
I
didn't delete the filler comics off the site, but... I didn't like the fact that there were gonna be like 5 unrelated pages in the middle of a chapter. I haven't decided where I'll put those sketches yet. ^^;
Re: Q&A
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:04 am
by Blissfull Wulf
How old is the concept of Fragile, and how did you get the idea?
Re: Q&A
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:15 pm
by Shouri
Around 2003, when I first got internet at my home (yes, yes, I know) I started to draw
pixel dolls. I had created this 'catgirl' as a mascot for my website: purple hat, violet eyes, black hair... and named her Mitzy. She was Proto-Marian.
I really loved making pixel dolls, I was very prolific, probably made about a thousand of them! The weirdest color combos, the better. The earliest pixel dolls of the four friends was probably made in 2004. Emily didn't show up until a year later (and she had 4 braids).
This is the oldest one I have online, but not the first one I did.
I was very attached to these character designs, so I thought of writing a comic around them. I started *trying* to write a story around mid-2007 if I recall correctly, but I could never come up with a goal, it was illogical and Emily had no reason to be. Originally it was named The Gang (huh) and it had fantasy elements, which they were more of a crutch rather than an actual part of the story. And I was never super confident about my [URL=
http://shourimajo.deviantart.com/galler ... 6#/d17s3lq]art skills[/img]. I thought I would never be able to do this!
A while after I started collaborating on EC/MC, my art got better (just a little bit I guess), and Giz asked if I had any plans to do a comic that wasn't a 4 panel strip. I told her about this idea I had for a story about friends, and it sparked me to start working again on it. I knew I wanted a story about friendship, and contrasts. Unlike other stories I've "written", I never had a clear idea about this one. I did a looot of research, tweaked the characters, and wrote a rough story plot from beginning to end, before I started working on each individual chapter & page. So while the "concept" (char design, mostly) is quite old (2004?), the story as you're reading it right now is probably only a year old! (5th version, give or take
).
And that's how Equestria was made.
Re: Q&A
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 12:14 pm
by Ravenhull
Any chance we could get a version of your Chibi-Shouri that isn't part of a larger pic? It's too cute. ;)
Re: Q&A
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 8:43 pm
by Shouri
Ta-da!
Re: Q&A
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 10:52 pm
by Ravenhull
Thank you very much, m'lady.
Re: Q&A
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:16 am
by Don Alexander
Are you being sinful and munching on a potato chip??
I thought pretty girls like you didn't do that.
Re: Q&A
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:13 am
by Shouri
Don,
I am the Original Chop Chop Ninja Doom.