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Desendi Year End – Looking back and Forward

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Hey friends and readers!
 
When 2018 came to a close, I hoped that I would manage another page before Christmas came around. In the end, the holidays swept me up and I had to put comics on hold to spend time with family and friends. Even a month ago, I know that would’ve made me feel terrible, like a hack. But one development of the past few months, and something that I want to bring into 2019, is to not sweat it so much.
 
After a few nervous breakdowns, I realized:  
 
My creative work should be fitted around my life. I spent so much time trying to do it the other way around. Unsurprisingly, that made me way more stressed out about doing art! But now I’m realizing that spending time to relax, sleep, and do what I need to do, even if sacrificing punctuality, is often the best choice. It’s still important, vital even, that I get to do my creative work, and I will always strive to find time to do it. But giving myself the freedom and forgiveness to miss an update here and there will do me some good.
 
This year was slow going: I had a(n unintentially long) hiatus after Chapter 1, and then fell behind on chapter 2. I ended up not making as many pages as I would’ve liked.
 
But, you know what? I made pages, and I keep making pages! They sometimes go up slowly, but they do so surely, and they’ll continue to. Even if I’m late, I know that they will get done, and I hope you know that too. I’m learning to be more okay with that. Besides, I’ve gotten more than halfway through Chapter 2! That’s a feat and I’m proud of myself for managing to do it around a full-time job and adult life.
 
This upcoming year, my (conservative) plans for Desendi are to:
 
  1. complete Chapter 2, and
  2. get at least 75% of the way done with Chapter 3 (which, by the way, is already being thumbed!)
 
But page count is only a small part of it. My meta goals this year:
 
  1. Improve my process: finding ‘shortcuts’ that allow me to work quicker, getting more outside help for the parts that sometimes make it hard for me to work, etc.
  2. Become less of a perfectionist! Be more comfortable with mess, understand that I can clean stuff up later, and that things will always be developing. Basically, get it done and out and stop fiddling.
 
I am honestly grateful for everyone who’s been reading, and I hope you continue to follow Desendi. But at least for the past year, sincere thanks for sticking around, my guys. It’ll be an interesting road, so let’s keep going.
 
To end on a positive note, here are my favorite panels from the past year. Enjoy!

C2P14: That Fellow?

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The answers continue…

I’m actually pretty proud of this page, considering that I’ve been sick! I actually really like drawing Gohn, he’s so different from the rest of the characters.

Hope you’ve all been well! Thank you for reading and I’ll see you next week!

C2P13: Another Reason

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Maybe Odessa has found what she’s looking for…

First page of the New Year! Thanks for still reading and entering 2019 with me. I have some thoughts about 2018 and how it went with Desendi, and how 2019 is going to be. I’ll write that up in a post later, but for now, thank you! I’m excited to keep working on Desendi into this new year!

I’ll see you next week. Ciao!

C2P12: Something that you’re looking for…

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Sorry for weird updates lately. I feel like I’ve been sick for at least 3 days out of every week for the past few months. But I’m gonna keep posting regardless.

I’ll hopefully get a page out to y’all before the year is through! Happy Holidays in the meanwhile!

Page 12 later this week

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Hi guys! Sorry for another delay… winter is turning out to be a weird time, as it usually is for me. I should learn to account for the Holidays kicking my butt! I’ve been really busy with prep for X-mas stuff for both work and family, just trying to get everything in place before I leave town (again) next week.

Page 12 is well in progress and should be up either on Friday or Saturday. For now, here’s a snip of a panel from page 12.

I’ll see you in a few days!

Odessa is forced to lie a little bit

C2P11: From Where?

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Oops. Starting to lie without knowing why. Sure this won’t come back in some way.

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Hi guys! Sorry for the lack of updates. Things have been weird since Thanksgiving, which mostly amounts to me being ill and tired. But I’d been chipping on this page all the time since then and now it’s up. So sorry for the wait. How much of it is me forcing myself to paint backgrounds? Who’s to tell.

Thanks for stopping by, I’ll see you next week (hopefully!!!)

C2P10: Everyone’s Lolo

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Somewhat autobiographical. I didn’t like doing Mano when I was growing up because I didn’t like getting touched haha

Sorry for the delay. The fires around here have not been great and it’s gotten in the way of me working effectively. Hopefully I’ll get you something next week before Thanksgiving Holiday. I can’t guarantee but I will try my darndest!

C2P8: A new face

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And lo, a new character appears!

Zentani Language Lesson of the Day

Gandama Mangmagi – Beautiful Evening/Good Evening!

Ganda – Beautiful, Very Good. Also used to describe people!
ma – a ‘linking’ suffix. It attaches the adjective to the noun it is describing.
Mang – Possessive prefix (archaic)
Magi – a shortening of “Pulmagi”, the Zentani Moon Deity.

So the phrase itself translated directly is “beautiful Pulmagi’s realm.” The disused phrase included the word Laligara, the archaic northern word for “land” — Gandama Mangmagima Laligara. It’s been shortened over the centuries just for brevity.

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Sorry for the late update! I really made it hard on myself w/ having all these expository shots in the beginning. But it starts to calm down after this page haha

Thanks for reading! I spent a lot of time on this so comments and shares are always always appreciated and some of the best ways to show me your support. See you next week!

Page 8 will be posted later tonight…

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Sorry for another slight delay folks! It’s my fault. There’s a background on this page that I didn’t actually anticipate would take as much time as it asked of me, haha. It’s the last thing that needs to be done on the page though, and just needs another half hour or so before it looks presentable enough. I won’t be able to get to it until later today (thanks a lot, full time job), but it’ll be up for sure.

Have a tiny little snip of the work in progress page in the meanwhile:

a small clip of a work in progress painting of an inn

See you in a little bit!

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