cheering Alice up

[Kyriani]

HI! ^_^
*a lurker comes out and posts, and goes back into hiding...*<P>I LOVE Fate Martyr Sapheire, I was so happy to see 3 comics right in a row that I ran around my apartment like a madwoman, causing my fiance to cower in a corner. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif"><P>Just wanted to make sure you knew people loved you, even crazies like me. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/wink.gif">
-Kyriani

[Braen]

Just Hi! I'm very Glad you have returned to us (I want to know moooooore!!!). <P>Happy New Year!! Hope this new year coming you'll have more spare time to spend with us here ^_~<P>And don't worry about the delay, really.<P>------------------
"May the fork be with you"

[Sapheire]

Thank you thank you thank you! ^_______^ Braen, I missed you! *hugs* Well, I certainly want to keep the comic running like it is now. It's going to be alot harder to do once I go back to Pittsburgh and the difficulty getting online there because everyone is always using the phone line. (we're still setting up our DSL.. who knows when we'll get it up...) I'll do my best!<P>misha--yes, I know that. But I still get lonely. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/tongue.gif"> thanks for reading! but that's all I can draw, people and trees! XP XP<P>Kyriani--hello lurker! ^__^ hehe that's okay, crazies are very welcome here! mwahaha you'll see at least 5 pages in a row, and probably more. I've got that many done so far. Thanks so much for the kind words!

[Misha]

Don't worry about it. All the forums are slow during the holidays. The whole internet is slow during the holidays. Everyone will come back when they're back at work and school and home.<P>Oh, and hi. I'm Michelle.<P>I really love your art style very much. Your people and trees in particular. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/tongue.gif">

[CursedElementalNuuva]

You're lucky, at least you can draw trees and people Alice. I'm Lucky if Nuuva even Looks like himself when I draw him in a non-action pose.

[Sapheire]

oh stop that. I love your artwork. I wish I could draw action like you, and to me, Nuuva always looks like Nuuva. Oh, and by the way, that part with Nuuva in it is coming up really soon. I still haven't decided what to have Wil say after Nuuva's response that you gave me. Maybe a defeated-but-not-giving-in "hmmph!" is in order...

[Misha]

*Very* nice castle on todays page. The people and trees theory goes out the window. ^-^<P>------------------
Michelle Thatcher<P><A HREF="http://utukki.keenspace.com" TARGET=_blank>Utukki</A>
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

[Arvynia]

Hai!<P>Newbie here.... well, not really. I was here for a while and read, etc... just never posted at the boards. ^_^;;<P>yeah... just thought I mind as well speak up and give you more support, cuz we know how you appreciate it and it's also an ego booster.<P>hehe, I love yer story so far and I know I sound boring when I say that your artwork is amazing.... just wondering... do you do each drawing right there and then (like one day one page) or do you do it way beforehand... before you scan it and post it?

[Sapheire]

then my plan worked, you see. I hid most of my very crappily drawn castle behind the trees (same as I did with Kuthra's house that I drew oh so long ago) and only left visible the parts that I liked. ^^;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;<P>hehehe... ^^;;;;;

[Sapheire]

Thanks for reading/posting. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif"> heh, I'm pretty sad, really, I get depressed over silly things like people not posting on my messageboard. ^^;;; Sorry for being so sad. ^^;;;;; <P>Okay, that question I can answer. First thing, I'll sit down and sketch out about as many pages that I can care to sketch (these are pretty rough sketches btw) and go ahead and write in the dialog and stuff just so I know where it's going. (I actually have about twenty-thirty of the coming pages pre-sketched right now). Then I actually render at a speed of about one page per day. I like to be ahead of myself most of the time, so I try to have each page done two days in advance. It used to only take me about 2 hours to render a page, but now it takes me longer. ^^;;;<P>Thanks again,
Alice

[Misha]

She draws them wholesale, and passes the savings on to us. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/tongue.gif">
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Michelle Thatcher<P><A HREF="http://utukki.keenspace.com" TARGET=_blank>Utukki</A>
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

[Arvynia]

awww... no need to be sad.<P>Keenspace is such a huge place, there's so many message boards for the different online comics.<P>And it's very cool that you can juggle your busy day life, random errands, drawing AND uploading comics, AND come on to your message board and post a fullfilling message to those that respond. <P>It's amazing. It also helps alot in keepiing us in tune w/the manga and the board. I wouldn't wanna go to a board that's... dead. ^_^;;<P>Your pages are so very detailed... it only takes you about a day each? Wow. It would take me DAYS to finish something that would come near to that quality.

[Sapheire]

hehe I don't exactly have a busy day life right now, because I don't have a job. Sure, I go out sometimes and stuff, but nothing special. I'm currently looking for a job while spending most of my time online or drawing. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif"> That's pretty much my current situation. <P>See, I want people to come to the messageboard because if they don't, they really don't know why the comic, for one, isn't updating right now. Nor do they know they're going to get all the missed pages all at once. Plus I like talking to people, about both the comic and just fun rambling on. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif"><P>Well, I like detail. I've always drawn that way, but I can do it relatively fast now. I sometimes can surprise myself and finish multiple pages in one day. (like today! <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif">)