Scottthespy

So I realized a while back that I've done this chapter wrong. It could have been half done by now, instead of a sixth done. I'm not happy with a lot of things, its very much bothering me, and I just have no desire to work on it anymore. Its too late to change to the style I should have used...unless I straight up restart the chapter and do it right. That would take a while, but it would overall take less time to get the chapter out. So...That's what I'm doing. I'm going to take a hiatus while I prepare a few pages of the revised chapter, and I'm going to leave what's already there up, but once I get the new version going chapter one will link to the revision and the current "Karma" pages will be a standalone thing that people can still look at, but new readers are no longer directed too.

Due to a rather large lifestyle change (moving countries and getting a normal job for the first time in a couple of years), progress might still be slow on this, but I'm absolutely determined at this point to get up to chapter three out. Chapter three is a good general 'stopping point' for the comic, and it'll free me up to work on some other stuff. Sorry to anyone who was really enjoying the wordless style, its just taking way too long to get through this, and I'm so sick of it.

I just went back through all of Undersaga to re-read one of my favorite parts, and I discovered that not one, but TWO WHOLE PAGES are missing. Now, luckily they're both pages that happen to not contain super important plot, so the story still pretty much flows without them, but GrAh! How I straight up miss two pages?!

On top of that, there was a missing 'next' link (which is now fixed) and a good number of errors...not just 'I couldn't draw and it looks weird' errors but like...places where the lines stop before the border, leaving disembodied bits floating around. Also spelling mistakes. 

All of this is  B o T h E r I n G  me. I think I might want to go back and redraw it all digitally, fixing up all the little mistakes I couldn't in traditional media and updating the art a bit. It'd still be in 'black and white', or more 'black and tannish grey', but there's like seventy pages all told to do...not to mention how the heck do I fix the two missing pages? Maybe that'll be something to work on after chapter three is over and done with...for now its not such a big deal.


For those wondering, the missing pages are True Lab 10 and 14. In page 10, Sans is trying to ask the kiddo about her dodging abilities and she's dodging the question, leading to him grabbing her magically. In page 14, she's just offered him 'chisps' and he accepts them, and we get to see that they are in fact ketchup flavored chisps, just as a little Easter egg. The two of them then walk unhindered into the sink room, kiddo fishes the red key out of the sink, and they walk unhindered back out. So yea nothing super important but...still.

On Thursday night my internet company shut off the internet, because there was an unknown problem with the card used to pay for it. I didn't get the message telling me that payment was why they turned it off until Friday evening, and to fix it we had to go into the store, which is a two hour drive away. Too late to get there Friday, and they aren't open over the weekends, so we had to wait till Monday to get the issue fixed. It might still not be fixed, we might have to go through this whole shebang again in a week or a month, but hopefully the new card will work. Sorry for the absence, hopefully it won't happen again.

So! The general feel I'm getting from the responses to the Undersaga issue journal is that digital will be the most satisfying course for all involved, myself included. I used the time I was internet-less to redraw two pages in digital, and I'm liking both the process and the outcome, so digital is how we're going to do it. But...

Do to a bunch of stuff going on right now, I just don't have the gumption to make two comics a week every week. In fact, right now, I'm not even sure how to DO the next page. I've got one almost ready to post which will finish up Snowdin, but I don't know how to get through Waterfall. So while I'm struggling with that, I'm considering also doing the ask series. Its the sort of thing I've always wanted to do anyway, and it looks like I have a few people with questions. This will take some stress off the comic itself, where I can answer questions either outright or cryptically that I can't figure out how to portray in the comic. Its kind of the lazy way out, but this is my first comic and I'm willing to admit when I'm in over my head.

So! I'll be trying to update twice a week, Friday with comic pages and Monday with Ask pages. I'll also be going back and updating the old pages with their digital remakes as I make them, but those won't be part of the schedule. 

Sorry to anyone who's genuinely interested in the comic, especially my newest watcher who has yet to see even a single new comic despite three update days having passed since they joined. I'll try to get back on track with this and make something enjoyable out of it. Wish me luck, and have a great day!

So. I have a question for those who watch me. Its one I'd like some answers to, since it'll effect what I do about this problem.

I started doing my comic in colour...but now I'm running out of and loosing pencil crayons, and my colour matching is going terribly. Which is bad for the comic and making me not enjoy working on it. So. Options to fix this are as follows:

1. I could switch (part way through the chapter, eugh) to digital. I planned to go digital for chapter three anyway, but...yea.

2. I could continue doing my best with the pencils I have, colours changing slightly as I go, with assurance that no one watching will care so I don't have to agonize over the continuity.

3. I could continue working on the comic the way it is right now, but only upload once a week so I can continue agonizing over the colour issues, BUT, also do a digital 'ask' series so that people can still posit questions and get information about the characters, also once a week, so that it doesn't take so freaking long for these questions to be answered. 



Could y'all folks vote on which one of these works best for you? Just so I know which one people are more alright with? You can vote for just one, or rank them in order of best to worst in you're opinion...I just really need some feedback here because this is starting to drag at my will to art.

Thanks to everyone who puts in their say!

The important bit is in bold at the end, if you wanna skip the rambling.

So for almost two years now I've been struggling to post this comic idea that occurred to me when I first started reading Undertale fan comics. I'm not a strong artist, or a fast one, so drawing even a single character in a boring pose can take me hours...here I'm trying to do full comic pages with fight scenes and multiple characters, and its taking so long, and as much as I want to get at least the basic idea out there, I'm not enjoying the actual making of the pages. So hiatuses happen, and the posting is sporadic. And I feel meh about the whole thing.

And then, to top it off, its not getting much attention, at all. A few likes, a few comments, but I've seen lots and lots of Undertale comics, from people with even fewer watchers than me or art that I don't think looks as good as mine (though mine needs a LOT of work, don't get me wrong). And these comics get multiple comments on every single page, comments with meaning, not just 'cool comic'. And mine doesn't get those comments, and while I know a hobby artist is supposed to do it for their own enjoyment, not the views, its still disheartening. I want to have that connection to other fans, that opportunity to discuss theories on what will happen in the future of the comic or why I chose this personality for that character, that many other Undertale comic artists get. And I realize that my comic is a slow boil with mediocre black and white art and that no one is as interested in your own personal head cannons as you yourself are, but it still sometimes saps the will to make the actual comic. If I'm the only one who's getting any enjoyment out of this, why put all this effort into making it physical? I can picture the story in my head way more easily. 

But...I DO want the story to be out there, just...to say I did. And a lot of the times I kept posting were out of sheer determination to at least stop at the end of a chapter, not in the middle of something. But now I'm getting to an interesting part, and a few motivating things have happened recently. A few people who watch me are actually commenting on my stuff and talking with me in that 'internet friends that aren't too close yet but get along well' kind of way, I've manage to make a bunch of single pieces that turned out exactly how I pictured them (not common for me), I got a new watcher who commented on (and helped me fix the 'next' links on) my comic, and a much bigger DA artist that I've commented on a few times and who's own Undertale comic inspired me to keep trying also added me to their watch, which was a hugely pleasant surprise.

So...I've decided to take a crack at another chapter. Chapter two, Karma, will start posting on Monday December 3rd, and will update Mondays and Fridays. This chapter is a flashback chapter, and most of it is in full colour, but with very little in the way of words. It will explain 'Frisk's' history, from falling into the underground to when she started to traverse the dimensions. I'm looking forward to it, and I hope at least a few of you are too. Thanks, and good night!