Finals week is coming up for me, so I figured I'd just post some filler doodle things that I haven't posted here before. But I have no filler, so where should I go? Why, backwards.
All this week, I'm going to showcase old stories of mine that helped make me who I am today. They start from after my style shift to more cartoony (as I don't have anything from my animu days saved on this computer). And of course, that started with Reflection, rearing its head on dA the New Year of 2007.
Oh boy.
Reflection shows some of the things I love with storytelling--crazy people, faking out the reader, sudden revelations--but does them all badly. It stars Edward Doubleday up there, who was a grumpy unemployed guy living in Michigan. He also hated mirrors.
He had a brother named Henry (reference to Jekyll & Hyde), who was a successful entrepreneur, but also nice enough that he let Ed borrow off his profits.
Did I mention Ed hallucinated his dead girlfriend?
...Yeah.
The story started off normal, if rather boring and extremely over-described, but then it gets...unrealistic and weird.
What I was trying to do with Reflection was make a "real-world" story where the main character had non-supernatural problems (he had blocked all his traumatic memories and reconstructed his world around him). But I hadn't taken a Psychology course at the time so everything that happens with Ed's mind is completely unrealistic.
There was a paranormal investigator though. Luciana still sticks around today, she's cool.
Ed also had an awesome truck driver friend named Jerry (but I couldn't draw fat people. sob).
But the story was a major step forward. Despite the psychological wall-bangers, it was my first real push away from anime influences AND fantasy/sci-fi influences. I don't have many stories that take place in plain ol' Earth even today, so Reflection is pretty unique for that. Plus, since it was written, I noticed a lot of flaws in my writing style that I've since corrected. I probably would still have really boring writing today if I didn't write this thing (and use substitutes for "says" every time instead of just using "says").
And it's also been reincarnated, like RR! It's a game idea now and Luciana is the main character. It's kind of funny, because now it actually is supernatural. But hey, whatever makes the plot work, you know?
All this week, I'm going to showcase old stories of mine that helped make me who I am today. They start from after my style shift to more cartoony (as I don't have anything from my animu days saved on this computer). And of course, that started with Reflection, rearing its head on dA the New Year of 2007.
Oh boy.
Reflection shows some of the things I love with storytelling--crazy people, faking out the reader, sudden revelations--but does them all badly. It stars Edward Doubleday up there, who was a grumpy unemployed guy living in Michigan. He also hated mirrors.
He had a brother named Henry (reference to Jekyll & Hyde), who was a successful entrepreneur, but also nice enough that he let Ed borrow off his profits.
Did I mention Ed hallucinated his dead girlfriend?...Yeah.
The story started off normal, if rather boring and extremely over-described, but then it gets...unrealistic and weird.
What I was trying to do with Reflection was make a "real-world" story where the main character had non-supernatural problems (he had blocked all his traumatic memories and reconstructed his world around him). But I hadn't taken a Psychology course at the time so everything that happens with Ed's mind is completely unrealistic.
There was a paranormal investigator though. Luciana still sticks around today, she's cool.
Ed also had an awesome truck driver friend named Jerry (but I couldn't draw fat people. sob).But the story was a major step forward. Despite the psychological wall-bangers, it was my first real push away from anime influences AND fantasy/sci-fi influences. I don't have many stories that take place in plain ol' Earth even today, so Reflection is pretty unique for that. Plus, since it was written, I noticed a lot of flaws in my writing style that I've since corrected. I probably would still have really boring writing today if I didn't write this thing (and use substitutes for "says" every time instead of just using "says").
And it's also been reincarnated, like RR! It's a game idea now and Luciana is the main character. It's kind of funny, because now it actually is supernatural. But hey, whatever makes the plot work, you know?
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