- Tiffany

No updates this week – due to the following that occurred over the weekend.  This week’s comic was done, but I’d rather have a chapter image up for two weeks than the next page up and an immediate pause for a week.  Either one is bad … there will be an update on Wednesday next week.

I was a bit caught up in the whole, What is wrong with my computer, it won’t turn on! panic.  A lot of time was spent on that, getting HP to connect my account to my replacement plan (I had a two year one just in case of such a situation.)  I got the tablet sent off yesterday afternoon and it’ll be in their hands tomorrow, which means on Monday they SHOULD start working on it and sometime during the following week it should come back to me … and with luck.. three Mondays from now I’ll have my tablet back.. with luck.

Now, the big issue is that the software I ink on is ON the tablet.  It came with it so I can’t install it on my desktop.  I have, btw, gone through trying to ink in Photoshop – slooow, unnatural, Flash – smooth, but clunky and  Manga Studio EX 3 – not sensitive enough to ink properly, which is apparently a common problem.  (I use Painter Essentials to ink… not even an expensive program, can get it for $40, but I intend to get the full Painter 11 at some point and nowhere around here has it for that.) Sooo, I opted to upgrade to Manga Studio EX 4 – which has improved to the ‘right’ feel for inking.  Sadly, their order form is annoying.  I wanted a physical copy AND a digital download so I could get it and use it immediately.  I ordered the physical upgrade and EXPECTED that there would be a link to a digital copy, because anytime I’ve ordered software from anywhere else, you go in and order and you get that option.

Apparently I had a 50/50 chance of getting it right. 9.9  I chose the wrong selection and have had a lovely runaround from their so called ‘support’ which ended in: Most people who order a physical copy don’t want a digital copy.

I am not pleased.

I hope they ship it in time for my next round of inking.  I tried to ink pages by hand, but I do not have the proper supplies after inking on the computer for so long.  It’s going to show in next week’s Alien Dice.

Update!  Fluffins as requested.   Asha and Niyht – the latter of which was a typo when I made his swatch file in photoshop.  I make no promises on making it every week, but I will try.  Next week’s update is already colored and done.

- Tiff

Asha! Stormclaw and Nightwing’s grey chick. Asha is not her permanent name. She would choose her name once she reaches a year of age.  You can download wallpapers in the downloads sections.  Despite them appearing cropped ( I can’t figure out how to make it not do that…) they are there in full.

1. Stormclaw lifting her wing to reveal fluffballs sleeping.

I am particularly proud of the lovely ruffled look on the back of Nightwing’s neck.  This is the last story page for this chapter.  I’m hoping to get a wallpaper up tomorrow, but am not sure.  I will be updating Shivae! Cler immediately following… after I upload the three character images.

I’m going to try to get a wallpaper up on Thursday here, then move on to Cler!, which already has half a dozen pages pencilled, inked and ready to color… kicking off with three wallpapers if I can pull it off.

I will be using the time I’m updating Cler over to write scripts for Vas.  VAS, btw… has two character inclusions left, one for Daemonschile and one for Flowerlark.   Vas will be ending before Cler will… primarily because Cler is about to split into three different stories: Cler, Zaya and then Caiden and Koel.  They most likely won’t be long and I may do them in black and white, like I intend to do a story also featuring Vas and Taun while back on the farm.

Technically… Cler’s story ended already once Dior was ‘defeated’, to be continued when she’s older.  So I am already in  Caiden and Koel.