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February 13 Update (Patreon)

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2022-02-13 18:02:52
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2026-06
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Lots of stuff going on this week. Plenty of standard work, but I'll focus on things for patrons:

For everybody: check out the image above! This is my design for the cover of the third book in The Brightest Shadow. While I'm pretty happy with the overall concept, and this WIP is mostly done, it's still a WIP. Feel free to mention anything that looks off, or just your thoughts in general.

$10 backers just got access to a nearly final build of Once Ever After. I hope I will be setting release dates soon, but more bugs have sadly emerged.

Earlier they got another set of finished scene art. I often feel I can't do enough to thank the $10 folks, but not this week!

The artist who was doing the TWC covers has dropped out on me, so I need to go through the whole process of finding a replacement. Why can't all artists be as consistent as Annikath? T-T

It's almost Valentine's Day! Send your loved ones Sabitha to confuse them:

That is all for this week. Considering regression to the mean, I have some hope the next one will be less scattered.

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Decanter

The real lesson of TBS3 is that if you try to dig a moat around your pyramid, it'll sink.

Lamsey

Damn, that's a shame about the TWC cover guy. Those covers were coming through nicely, and it would have been good to retain the consistency. Hopefully you can find someone who can match the style.

DukeLeto7

I just thought it was a-cute pyramid. Perhaps I'm just obtuse.

Grant Moyer

Overall, I think the cover looks cool and it will look good with text filling the empty space at the top and bottom. I think the color pallet and scene composition are solid. I especially like the light reflecting off the pyramid, but it seems to imply there should be a sun somewhere on the horizon. The dessert sands also feel a little too uniform; it might be good to break them up with some sparse shrubbery. Finally, the settlements feel a little off, because they seem to be made of permanent structures, so they probably aren't temporary military camps, but there's also no apparent water source, and the location seems a little remote for importing water. Maybe some greenery around the cities could imply a source of water. Like I said though, I think the overall composition is good, and the white glowing pit around a smooth black pyramid plays well into the light/dark duality of the story while also evoking some of the eldritch horror themes the series has.

DukeLeto7

Well, there does seem to be a very high level of comorbidity between Bipolar Disorder and creatives in general, and the visual arts are notorious for being an economic winner take all/tournament like modeling, music and writing. There are vastly more people trying to compete in the field then there are paying customers and the share of revenue received by the most successful is far out of scale compared to the relative quality of their product. There are probably hundreds or thousands of young women aspiring to be singer songwriters in the USA at any given time, but there can only be one Taylor Swift. So you have a profession of people who are, generally speaking, emotionally unstable to begin with who are also chronically unable to make a living in their chosen vocation. This means that the responsible ones are out doing their day jobs and the irresponsible ones can't keep the lights on. The more common sense and self-interest a person possesses, the more likely they are to give up on pursuing their art professionally. That further accentuates the tendency for the ones still in the market to be flakes. Since they are not getting or can not get effective treatment for their emotional problems, the options for cheap "self-medication" exacerbate these issues. Note that all of this applies primarily to the English speaking world, and more especially to the US as opposed to Britain or Australia. It might be that the better ordered welfare states give their artists a bit more support. (The one creative Kiwi I know passingly seems to have herself pretty together, so perhaps the more left-leaning New Zealand is an exception.) So perhaps the reason Annikath is an outlier isn't that she's a more inherently reliable visual artist. Perhaps it's because she's German.

sierralee

Yeah, that's what I'm going for. Plenty of artists responding claim they can match the previous covers, so fingers crossed that one of them can.

sierralee

Hey, thanks for the in-depth feedback!

DankPotatoes

If nobody got me, I know Annikath got me. Can I get an amen?

Runcible Technician

Compromise: Amateur artist, but a persistent and dependable amateur artist. Edit: Webcomic artist if you will.

DukeLeto7

Note for clarification: The above wasn't saying "all artists are bipolar, unreliable addicts". It was trying to explain the apparent pattern by itemizing a list of factors that might cause the stereotype to be statistically more likely. They were roughly: 1. Bipolarity and other such mental illnesses are overrepresented in the arts. 2. It is very, VERY hard to make a living as an artist based on the economic setup of the industry, and this is even more true in the US. 3. This is immensely stressful, accentuating a tendency for the genetics causing bipolar and other disorders to manifest in fact. 4. Addiction is a common response to extreme economic and personal stress. 5. The skills that you need to adhere to a schedule and produce art on time, honoring contracts, are the same skills you need to recognize the art game is rigged against you. 6. Ergo the more reliable artists quit the business, and those that remain tend to be unreliable. Writing this down, I could add an additional factor: 7. One of the factors that drive up compensation in a tournament/winner take all system is reliability itself. So the most reliable and talented artists are NOT accepting internet commissions, at least not at the pay scale Sierra can afford. The argument was NOT that artists have inherently poor characters, it was that the system treats them terribly and a better system might produce better artists. @Runcible Technician: In my experience, almost all webcomic artists develop an inability to maintain a schedule, the exceptions being those who prioritize writing over art and gag comics with negative continuity over narrative. Examples: xkcd, SMBC, Darths and Droids, Oglaf. vs. Sluggy Freelance, Goblins, Order of the Stick. Sluggy Freelance especially has been shambling along in a state of living death for years.

Mycroft

Regarding OEA, I started it, the begining is great. A small bug I found : in the quest survive, the "find a way back to bangville" is not put to green after completion (also the Explore the cave" is not either, but maybe it's because i missed someting) Is it possible not to fail the corruption quest ? I was around 30 corruption, and did not found more way to increase it.

sierralee

Regarding the quest log, I believe there are some intermediate goals that are never turned green. If you can completely miss an objective, it will turn red in that case. I think there are more of these than I want to go around changing, but if this is important to you, keep a list as you play. Glad you're enjoying the beginning!

BleBle

Dear Miss Sierra Lee, How are you doing this week? I hope everything is alright. My week was not so well, a lot of people that were struck by cars, 2 kids of 14 unfortunately died because of their injuries.Sad but that's how life is. How is your working going? Are we gonna have a TLS update soon, or are you focused more on OEA? Dont stress yourself too much, have a nice day!! Cheers!!

sierralee

I'm sorry to hear it's been a rough week for you. Mine has not been so bad, only somewhat split. OEA is not taking up a huge percentage of my time, so there is a TLS update that is fairly well along. The update this Sunday will be about that.