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I had a milestone I should've said something about sooner but I lost track of the date and then I just didn't.
On Feb 7th of this year, the very first commission I got of one of my characters was posted.
Sahlia got me started with my character concepts and all the other characters I posted on here and eventually into groups so I could write about these characters. I had started off just watching other people here, never thought I could actually contribute anything on this site. Then about 2007 I started coming up with a backup character for the D&D setting Eberron that had a couple of templates applied giving a hellacious level adjustment to the character. Never used the character in the game but I was thinking "hang on a minute, I can use this character in other areas", so I looked for my first commission work. I learned real quick how to look for future artists and what should disqualify someone that I ask for a picture from in the future, which isn't a bad thing.
So anyway I get the pic posted and as you can see from the reaction to it a small argument broke out which helped me get started on what has become the old business. I learned real quick that giving all credit where it's due is a really good idea, and plenty helpful for the future...when people remember to read my comments on each piece...
But anyway I've been pluggin away at this crap for a decade now, I wonder what the 20 year mark will bring?
On Feb 7th of this year, the very first commission I got of one of my characters was posted.
Sahlia got me started with my character concepts and all the other characters I posted on here and eventually into groups so I could write about these characters. I had started off just watching other people here, never thought I could actually contribute anything on this site. Then about 2007 I started coming up with a backup character for the D&D setting Eberron that had a couple of templates applied giving a hellacious level adjustment to the character. Never used the character in the game but I was thinking "hang on a minute, I can use this character in other areas", so I looked for my first commission work. I learned real quick how to look for future artists and what should disqualify someone that I ask for a picture from in the future, which isn't a bad thing.
So anyway I get the pic posted and as you can see from the reaction to it a small argument broke out which helped me get started on what has become the old business. I learned real quick that giving all credit where it's due is a really good idea, and plenty helpful for the future...when people remember to read my comments on each piece...
But anyway I've been pluggin away at this crap for a decade now, I wonder what the 20 year mark will bring?
Finally trying to celebrate 1K submissions
I wanted to write this a couple of days ago, wasn't able to then and probably shouldn't be doing this now, but for the love of crap I'm trying to be happy about something here dammit. 1,000 submissions. I have 1,000 pieces of art between crap I've done, art commissions that I've foisted on the poor saps that agreed to do stuff for me, contest pieces I've won, and the few pieces of gift art I've gotten. That is amazing. When I started on this site all those years ago I never expected 1. To post anything and 2. To ever get any kind of following. Now here I am with characters that have been loved (not sure how loved they are these days) and have reached across other interests/fetishes to get people that never saw a Sahlia or a Polygirl or an Arachnia type character before to find them interesting/attractive/someone to follow. I've had people tell me that their characters have fallen in love with my characters, other people have mentioned that they've fallen in love with the
A bit of happiness right now
So I wanted to comment on something that I posted last year. That being this picture here: It's a collab between me and @miraminx that I had actually sat on for 2(?) years for some reason. Anyway like I said I had posted this one year ago today and the number of views is amazing. 20,400+ views, I haven't had a pic get this many views in so short a time in years. I mean it's roughly 10 years bare minimum since I've gotten this many views on a picture period, let alone in a year. I'm amazed, Mira should be happy about that, and hopefully it gets a lot more views in the future.
So it's Villain Appreciation Day...
It decided to sneak up on me this year (like most years really). The thing I realized when this started to happen is I only have one real villain out of all of my characters, that being Hali. She's the start, middle, and end of list of villains I've worked on out of all of my characters. Some of you may realize I have one other character that could qualify but I haven't done anything with her yet. Now I know some people will sit there and say "but what about Sahlia and KeiKo? They're rogues, they qualify don't they?" Here's my answer to that: No they don't. I try to write Sahlia as more of a random act of randomness. Sometimes she gets hired by someone to do something, doesn't matter if it's good or evil. Sometimes she goes and takes something for herself other than the fact she can, if she's feeling good enough she may put it back too. Other times she helps out heroes with resources she took from actual power mad villains. KeiKo also doesn't count since they are usually
900 submissions
Would you believe it? Between my gallery and my scrapbook I'm up to 900 submissions. I never count journals (like this), polls, and status updates. There's this whole big long list of artists to thank for all the commissions, collaborations, and gift art that fill my gallery over the years but because of the "improvements" to the site, it's a pain in the ass to list them all and actually have things work to actually show the icons. It's been a lot of work to get this far, and even though things have been slowing down on my end as far as ideas go and such, I still have a few ideas left at least. I hate to bring up the storm clouds on this otherwise positive occasion, but I'm mainly back to writing by myself for mainly myself again. With the original Angel Falls group shut down and the group to carry on the story comatose at best a lot of my characters are out of a home effectively. And then with Dream Haven shutting down earlier this year the two characters I had in there are
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Time flies when you're having fun, or so they say. Since that's the case, I suppose it's forgivable that you lost track of this one.