10/28/2009
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Oct 28
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At for this one it barely even got off the ground again. 9.9
I’m actually MOST upset about not being able to update Black Rose. … I’ve been wanting to work on this for over five years now. 
Well, as most of you know, this month (and September) did not go anywhere near how it should have gone. The sites being up and down along with my daughter being ill with Swine flu (and my husband and myself) kind of had serious ramifications for work. :/ Basically, it comes down to being behind to a point that I have to stop doing the comics I simply want to do to concentrate on other things. Mainly the backlog of wallpapers and books that must be put together for the others that were supposed to be worked on in the last two months. I hope to start this comic back up again in 2010, but I know I’m just going to struggle along with barely an update a month. Until then, sign up for the RSS. I have way too many pages of scripts for each of these stories to let them sit…
- Tiffany
Basically, my tablet pc died. I do all my inking on the tablet and Black Rose didn’t update this week solely because of that. It WILL return next week – because I already have half a dozen pages inked.
The rest below here is more for readers of the other comics who might miss the news so I’m making sure it’s EVERYWHERE.
I was a bit caught up in the whole, What is wrong with my computer, it won’t turn on! panic. A lot of time was spent on that, getting HP to connect my account to my replacement plan (I had a two year one just in case of such a situation.) I got the tablet sent off yesterday afternoon and it’ll be in their hands tomorrow, which means on Monday they SHOULD start working on it and sometime during the following week it should come back to me … and with luck.. three Mondays from now I’ll have my tablet back.. with luck.
Now, the big issue is that the software I ink on is ON the tablet. It came with it so I can’t install it on my desktop. I have, btw, gone through trying to ink in Photoshop – slooow, unnatural, Flash – smooth, but clunky and Manga Studio EX 3 – not sensitive enough to ink properly, which is apparently a common problem. (I use Painter Essentials to ink… not even an expensive program, can get it for $40, but I intend to get the full Painter 11 at some point and nowhere around here has it for that.) Sooo, I opted to upgrade to Manga Studio EX 4 – which has improved to the ‘right’ feel for inking. Sadly, their order form is annoying. I wanted a physical copy AND a digital download so I could get it and use it immediately. I ordered the physical upgrade and EXPECTED that there would be a link to a digital copy, because anytime I’ve ordered software from anywhere else, you go in and order and you get that option.
Apparently I had a 50/50 chance of getting it right. 9.9 I chose the wrong selection and have had a lovely runaround from their so called ’support’ which ended in: Most people who order a physical copy don’t want a digital copy.
I am not pleased.
I hope they ship it in time for my next round of inking.
… wow … I began working on Black Rose in 2001. 
Or sometime around there. I have the first book fully scripted and book two begun. The longer it takes, the better it will be… except that I start panicing the moment anything comes out that remotely sounds like what I’ve concocted. When I originally began updating, it was Underworld (which I did enjoy when I saw it) and now it’s Twilight… which I’ve panned as a sappier Blood and Chocolate. The strange thing is… Black Rose is about VAMPIRES, but in the course of writing it, I fell more in love with the WERES.
They really do get the short end of the stick. 
So the were/lycanthrope characters or just Lycans as they prefer, which I was calling them before Underworld and run across pretty commonly, became more prominent. Right now, I’m thinking about instead of letting it sit idle, take down what’s up and start posting some character art and actually get character pages up BEFORE I begin… because once it’s started, I never seem to have the time.
Black Rose, btw, has already spawned half a dozen stories within the universe that are in various stages of scripting because I love it so much. It’s spawned more than Alien Dice has in my imagination. (AD has spawned three alternate stories, one of which I decided not to do, two others which may be done.. oh wait… there is another third one.. so there’s two plus two threes. 
Anyway, titles of stories in Black Rose’s Universe: Cursed, Agape Ai, Cute Abominations, Tall Tale, Angel and an unconfirmed title one. None of them contain the same characters. And yes, I’m recyling Cute Abominations in a way that I can actually PRINT it, which means no Cuddly Cthulhu, because I think it’s copyrighted, but Clovis remains.
If you want to keep up with this comic, I recommend signing up for the RSS feed. Black Rose will begin when Alien Dice ends. The current pages will be redrawn… better.
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