TwilightDreamKeeper

Hey, guys, just a little heads up! I’m still alive and kicking, but I got a rather bad burn-out, and my mental health is, frankly, not in the best state. Still, there are adult things I have to get done, and some sort of routine to establish, which, hopefully, will give me at least some peace of mind. A little bit on the plans:

1. move “The Dark Times” to ComicFury. Ever since DA’s fuck-up with AI intergration and a big scandal connected to users having to go through their entire gallery to opt each piece of art out of usage for AI, I scrapped the idea of using it as gallery for TDT, but Webtoons just annoys me with the way it destroys the quality (even if you make sure the page has the exact width that is needed for it to look at least decent). This way I also won’t have to worry about episode getting taken down for some horrory elements. I did put the “mature” label on Webtoons, and there is no straight up gore, but still - when I sent them a first episode to make sure that there is not too much blood on the wall in one of the shots, they DID say I should tone it down, since it’s pretty close to breaking their guidelines. In the mean time, one of the big comics here had a set of decapitated heads, clearly in the shot. So yeah, ComicFury is the idea (though I’ll still use Webtoons as the mirror for the comic, for the exception of episodes that may be «too bloody»), but it will take a while;

2. finish Episode 17 (the one I actually was looking forward to, since there is a lot of Shroud);

3. maybe do some fanart on the side to make things a bit more lively. Probably nothing more than a sketch once a week (or once every two weeks, if I can keep it up).

All of this is gonna take some time, of course, because my attempts to get my everything together look like trying to scoop up a big pile of goo with my bare hands. But I’m trying! It’s just not easy.

After a long consideration, I decided to not leave DA just yet. I don't have energy to update many social platforms, but it remains one of very few that gets any visibility for my work. As for "The Dark Times", I will drop art here likely, but the actual pages will remain on Webtoons and, if all goes well, I will also try to set things up at Comic Fury.

Thank you NOT, Deviantart, for forcing me to go through every single piece of art I have here (which is over 200) and manually check in the box under the fresh new bullshit "Not authorized for inclusion in third-party AI datasets". All you had to do is have it automatically checked in. I cannot describe how frustrating this is and how disappointed I am. As if artists nowadays don't struggle enough with trying to not have their art stolen.

I never really gave any sort of summary to what the story is about, so here it is.

"Renaya was a proud member of the Twilight Order, sworn to keep Terranoria safe from dark magic and, in particular, necromancy. But one day, when everything goes wrong, she ends up alone, with the last mission of the Order resting on her shoulders and a world turned against her. Will she find a way to stop the magical catastrophe from swallowing her homeland, or will she perish alongside of her two unlikely companions?"

If you like monsters and stuff like "found family" trope, you should check it out! But a fair warning: there are some horror elements in the story. No straight up gore or anything of the sort, but some creepy and bloody things here and there.

Hello there! I haven't posted here in a while, and this post may get a bit lengthy, so apologies in advance.

I have a story that I had in my head for a few years, which I didn't dare to start, because I didn't feel ready and thought I needed to reach some sort of a "level" in my skill, at which it will be appropriate to finally do that. Throughout the years, I posted here and on Tumblr things like "I'm gonna start this fan comic", and then never following through with my plans. I struggled for a long time and thought I was just no good, that I was lazy or something, until recently I started to piece many of the things together and realized there is a very big chance I have something like ADHD, which doesn't pair well with anxiety, so it causes a lot of problems. But finding some sort of a name for the flow of my problems, present pretty much all my life, made things easier, as I started to battle it.

So, with that in mind, I just started to work on my comic - the original story that had these perfect images in my head. I no longer care that my story has flaws, that my art skill does not match what I fantasized in my head. There is a very good saying - "finished, not perfect". So, on 13th September (the last year) I finally submitted the first episode on Webtoons. I'm still learning, testing waters, trying new things. The first season was small and served as introduction to the setting and some of the characters. Right now I'm working on the second season, which is going to be a lot of fun and have some characters I can't wait to introduce. It goes a bit slowly, as my health haven't been the best this year, and the pile of full-time work didn't improve it either. But it's going, and I'm starting to work on the episodes. In the mean time, I'm gonna upload some of the art related to the story.

You can read "The Dark Times" here!