Here’s the main piece I did for the “Style on the Rise” @rise-fashion-zine, and of course, it’s a comic! I got to draw little April and Mikey, and lots of dresses! Hope y’all like it!
It’s time that I post some art I did for the @rise-fashion-zine “Style on the Rise”! This is the artwork I did in collaboration with @fanfic-inator795 for her lovely piece involving Mikey’s accessories. These were very fun to do, and I had a great time working with Andrea, who is a wonderful writer and person!
The fashion zine is out! I have some art in here, including an exclusive comic! Go check it out! There are so many wonderful artists and writers that were involved in this!
I recently posted my latest “The Brains and The Brawn” comic page the other day. I was feeling really awesome about it and got lots of wonderful feedback! It made me feel very happy, and I was happy to finally bring a new page to you!
Then today I got this as a comment on the page:
And beyond this being just very rude, it made me realize that I really need to have a talk with you guys.
Because this isn’t the first time I’ve gotten something to this effect. It may not always have been this rude, but I have gotten dozens of comments of this nature asking something to the effect of “when will we see the next page?”
To reiterate from a section in another post where I talked about this in brief, I really DO NOT like these kinds of asks/comments. They make me feel stressed and
ashamed and pressured, which can create negative feelings around my work
and make me less likely to finish them. I get that you’re excited, and
that’s cool. But literally no one likes those kinds of comments.
First of all, a big reason why I have not given myself a set schedule for my Rise comics is because I did not want the pressure of a consistent deadline at a time when I don’t know if I can hold a deadline. To be perfectly candid, I’ve been recovering from a frankly very mentally stressful scenario, which I do not want to get into here.
Second of all, my recent slow-down in frequency of comics is because I’ve been trying to get my life back in order and get an in-real-life job. I’d been living overseas for the past 6 years, and coming back to my home country amidst a pandemic while also dealing with the previously mentioned mentally stressful scenario has not been easy. I’m also juggling doing my own projects with doing commissions for people, and I will of course prioritize something that I am actually paid to do.
And MOST importantly: I shouldn’t have to provide a reason for the frequency of my updates to begin with!
I’m fine with explaining a little bit about my situation, but not everyone has the means to do so. You don’t know what different people are going through. Myself and other online creatives are often creating content for free, and do not have to answer to someone asking for more content at a pace that may not be reasonable for them. Making comics is hard work! I render everything from the characters to the backgrounds myself, and that takes a lot of time! And that is in between everything going on in my daily life which you don’t see much of because you don’t have any right to!
I make my comics for myself, and I can easily block someone if all they are going to add to my day is some passive aggressive nonsense like this. Unless you are literally paying me through a commission, I do not make art for you. I make it for me.
And because a friend of mine said it so much better, here is a link to some nice guidelines on how to respond to a creative whose work you are excited to see more of without being rude about it.
To repeat, you don’t know what different people are going through. Creatives have lives outside of their online presence. Try to think before you comment and remember that you are talking to a human being, not an art-creating-machine.
It’s finally here folks, the pre-orders for Style on the Rise - a fashion-themed Rise of the TMNT fanzine are finally open!! Visit our website to place your order today! Pre-orders for the printed zine will be open till May 31 ✨
You’ll now be able to place your order for the USA, Mexico, Canada, Europe and worldwide, pre-orders for Australia, New-Zealand, Oceania and Asia will be opening soon as well, so stay tuned!
This one is pretty late cause I was quite sick this week :’)
But here’s this weeks #saverottmnt schedule (Mar 3-7) RotTMNT Fam! Kendra themed for this week!
Each weeks schedule is organized by @holymangos on twitter so please follow her for more info and updates and give her a huge thanks for all her hard work! And make sure to follow @saveriseofthetmnt on Tumblr as well! :D
Also come join us on the #saverottmnt discord if you wanna help organize each weeks schedules! :)
When you post the next page of "The Brains and The Brawn", I want to see it and know about the next comic you told me about, that Mikey will be more or less at the center of the story? PS. Did I write well this time? can you read my messages? I ask because I'm not as good as you eh eh eh ...
Ah, yes! The Mikey-centric comic I have planned for after BnB will be called “Family Portrait”. I can’t tell too much about it, because spoilers. But the premise is basically this:
When Mikey creates a portrait of his brothers using mystic paint, strange things begin to happen in the lair, and an odd affliction starts affecting his brothers…
My main goal for this comic is to analyze Mikey as a character and challenge his ideas of positivity and emotions. And also because I want Mikey to have the spotlight for a change
(PS. Your English is fine and I’ve always been able to understand you! You’re good!)
WOW INTERESTING AND WONDERFUL I will be waiting with eagerness and enthusiasm and thank you very much, sometimes I am unsure about my writing in English. <3
A secret santa I did for @clankclunk based on a scene from their wonderful story “Forget the mess I’m in.” It’s one of my favorite Mikey-centric stories and you should totally read it!
For your upcoming Once Human au, what was your process for designing each of the turtles, like choosing their species, their weapons, and their ages? Your au looks really interesting and unlike most fan reinterpretations of the tmnt I've seen and I can't wait to know more about it!
Ooooh, this is such a good question! To be honest, the design process was really difficult for me at first!
I had very fleshed out ideas for their personalities, dynamics, development, and especially, backstory! But I had very little in mind for what they looked like, haha!
So in designing the turtles, I tried to pick weapons, species, and looks while keeping their backstories in mind, but still put a focus on who they are now.
For weapons, I thought a lot about fight styles, looked up a bunch of Japanese weapons, and videos demonstrating their uses, trying to picture each of the characters using them, and picking the ones that I thought fit best.
Picking species was a bit harder because I wanted to keep in mind a few things:
The species’ function/abilities - for example picking a loggerhead turtle for Raph since they have the toughest turtle shells, and I thought that made sense for the team tank
The color scheme - for example picking a black pond turtle to give Donnie a space-and-stars look to fit with their sci-fi theme
Endangered species - all of the turtles and Splinter are endangered species. This didn’t really have a lot to do with their personality or anything, but I like including a bit of environmental awareness in my art and stories if/when I can
For their ages, I kind of just went with my gut and picked what I thought would create interesting character dynamics. Leo is often the oldest brother, so I was curious to see what he’d be like as the youngest. I made Raph and Donnie the same age because there are so few instances of the two of them having lots of interactions in the canon. I want to change that for this iteration, and making them the same age seemed like a good way to do that. Mikey is the middle child to further push the idea that he is the balance of the team.
Oh, and one more character design note - I took a page out of Rise of the TMNT’s book and thought about shape language. I wanted their general body type and shapes to reflect their personalities. So Mikey is all round and friendly, Leo’s plastron and armor is sharp and angular, Donnie’s design contains stiff and blocky shapes, and Raph is large and smooth with his plastron and shell looking like a shield.
Thank you so much for the interest and the kind words! I’m excited to share more and to eventually bring this iteration to life!
WOW That’s great, wonderful Jade !!! I don’t know if this post is considered for you as a small interview or as a behind the scenes presentation of Once Human Au … but I must say that the way you wrote the “story” of the project and these details about the characters, made your new project even more interesting. I feel like I am waiting for the new season of a series that you gladly watch with PASSION !!!!!! I CAN’T LOOK AT THE TIME YOU ARE FANTASTIC !!!!!!! <3 <3 <3