バスク

A pose commonly associated with Loran.

ほら！すごく長い、髪の毛は。

臭いはすばらしいでしょう。

~Allegra

Lydram Speedpaint

Lydram. Did it in about an hour. He looks more like a bishounen than a scholar here. Oh well.

悲しいそうです。つまらないでしょう。

~Allegra.

BApie?

Yes, pie.  My good friend Cat is starting her own awesome magazine called BApie, or Big Apple Pie. I'm sure it'll be great, she always has interesting things to say. Relevance? She had asked me if I could have for her a few pages of Creeping Shadow for her to put in each issue. I agreed of course. Nora should be fine with it anyway. I would have discussed it before I posted this up here, but I'm not big on waiting for her to go online. But in any case, I should have 5-10 pages done for Cat by Nov. or Dec, or whenever the deadline for the first issue is. And if things work out, I may be able to submit to this International Manga Competition thing as well. We could kill two birds with one stone. And maybe with ten pages we could start posting the comic itself. Three birds.

焼き鳥とパイもおいしいそうです。

頂きます！

~Allegra

だめです、入ることは。

Reconsidering that whole International Manga competition. Sure I'd love to do it, and it would be great for us to win, but this would be going against the work of professionals. Sure, my art may be closer to professional than other people, but having it done by December is too much for me right now, and on top of that I don't think that the story is quite developed enough comic wise to hold any weight against other contestants. Maybe next year.

だめです、 入ることは。

残念です。

 ~Allegra

Progress in the Sidebar

Alright, work on the comic will now go thusly: I'm going to work on the outline and get as much mapped out in detail as possible, and Allegra's going to draw like a madwoman. Our goal is to have at least 12 pages done (completely) by the end of the year so as to enter an international manga competition (eep). So wish us luck! We'll need it.

Also, Allegra's friend Stephi is going to be helping out! She'll edit the script to make it fit better in the graphic novel format and help Alyssa with layouts. We'll put her info up soon...

~Nora

PS: I put the progress report on the sidebar, so I can just update that, instead of making new posts. Much simpler. I also added "Labels" to the sidebar; they're pretty self-explanatory, I think. Just to clarify: "real-world info" refers to anything describing what we are doing - I am working on the outline, Allegra is drawing, etc - while "story info" refers to what the characters are doing. At this point, the only thing under "story info" is the family tree, but there should be more there later...

Changes

I'm not in charge of the writing part of this, but I think that the story outline should be completed as soon as possible so that if the story changes so much that the beginning has to be redone, I wont have to get rid of pages and pages of work and we already rewrote the "prologue." Once the outline is completed the script will be continued, and meanwhile I'll catch up to where the script ends.

これで、買いてみた方か良いです

~Allegra

Progress

Prologue
Scene 1: Written

Chapter One
Scene 2: Written
Scene 3: Written

Chapter Two
Scene 4: Written
Scene 5: Written

Chapter Three
Scene 6: Written
Scene 7: Outline

Chapter Four+
Scene 8: Very Vague Outline
Scene 9: Very Vague Outline
Scene 10: Outline
Scene 11: Vague Outline
Scene 12: Vague Outline
Scene 13: Very Vague Outline
Scene 14: Very Vague Outline
Scene 15: Very Vague Outline

Omake
Ah about the omake, I think that we shouldn't really put it in the serious planning for the comic- those and the joke pages- being that they're not really serious. The ideas should be there, but they're not a real part of the comic so... we'll just keep them as ideas for now.

良くない？

〜Allegra

~Nora