Lots of the questions are from many many months ago. Sorry about that! I’m super behind on everything because my life got so crazy for a while there and I’m still catching up! If interested in details about my life, I wrote more in depth about it at the bottom of this post!
Announcements:
❄ Comic updates should start to be weekly again now that things are finally settling down in my life! :D
❄ I found some copies of my comics to sell! If interested in a printed copy of AToTR Volume 1 or Volume 2, Check out my Etsy store here! https://www.etsy.com/shop/GildedPixel
***From the last round of comic selling, a few got sent back to me because something went wrong with the address. Unfortunately i have no idea who didn’t get theirs because of the aforementioned chaos. If you still haven’t gotten your order from like... half a year ago, please just let me know and I’ll send you your order again.
❄ Apparently tumblr is having some uh… “serious technical difficulties”. If it goes belly up, all my comics are free to see on my Patreon. Only the newest comic each week is locked for only patrons to view, but it unlocks when the next one comes out each week. https://www.patreon.com/LorIllustration
❄ A new update to the Youtube dub of my comic is up on Starbot Dubs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZuLjHvERxA
If you haven’t see the previous 5 parts, they’re all here as one video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTAEM9PFPVY
And Now for Q&A!!!
I am so grateful for this letter and for the many other letters of support I was sent over the past couple months. It really helped me get through the low times and I’ll always appreciate it that you and many others took the time to send me words of encouragement, empathy, and advice. Thank you so much!
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Thank you! AND I WOULD BE SO HONORED PLEASE DO!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D
Thank you! My best advice for anatomy would be to focus on two things: look online for skeletal and muscle anatomy illustrations. Knowing the hardware under the skin helps SO much! Also do lots of life drawings. Draw anyone willing to sit still long enough for you! The more you do it, the easier it will get and the more you will develop your own style!
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For the most part, I draw around the word bubbles! Then the next priority is to draw what needs to be shown to communicate the point of the panels. Usually in the super early stages it’s just characters that are sketched in, but sometimes elements of the setting are just as important, like a doorway or establishing the setting for a new scene! I hope that helps!
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LOL she would be SO tempted, but wouldn’t resort to anything like that unless it was over something extremely important that also happened to be an emergency. Ganondorf however would have no problem with it because he has a different, much more Direct, style of governing. XD
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Rinku is indeed Link!
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Absolutely the second one. XD
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TaDaaa!!!! XD
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Super good question! For the most part all the rooms are just laid out as I need them to communicate a comic clearly. The exception is if I already have drawn a room, I try to keep it the same. The throne room, Specific bedrooms, ect. But I don’t have a castle layout set in stone or anything. lol I will eventually have to do that at some point though.
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I strongly considered having this be a story arc at one point but it got dropped! Short answer is, Yes. He would eventually try to do that. But would find that Impa had already secretly killed him years ago and never told Zelda.
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Oh he totally does that all the time!!! Just not important to the story so it’s not shown!
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YUP!!! XD
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Someday, totally, but I haven’t even caught up with the ones I started last spring!!! *I suddenly experience a mighty wave of shame*
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Awww! That’s a really sweet idea!!!! She would totally take his name and he would be so darn proud!
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Oh HECK YEAH!!!!
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Possibly! But if so, it will be in the next reincarnation arc!
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At a later point, I think! if I have time to develop it and not stagnate the story too terribly much!
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Thank you! And Tingle? At some point, YES. Mask salesman? Not sure yet! maybe!
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That's beautiful!!! Was it a fic??? That’s an incredibly cool idea!
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That’s adorable. Eventually they would have to dance together at a royal ball. Ganondorf is a bit more graceful than Zelda, but they would manage. Would be cute as heck too because Zelda would be a little shy and Ganondorf would urge her to be more confident... and maybe rile up her competitive nature by saying he’s better at it than her.
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Update on my life!
Leaving my old life and my ex last August was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but it was the right choice and I’m so much happier now. Things are finally getting stable now! I was only planning to stay with my aunt Jan in Ohio for a short while, but she recently got some serious health problems so I’ll be staying with her for several months more to help take care of her. And even though I wasn’t looking for a new relationship so soon after leaving my troubled marriage, I randomly met someone a few weeks ago that just amazed me with how universally kind he is and with how much we have in common! His name is Mark and he works as an army nurse with a forward surgical team attached to a special operations joint task force. He just got deployed to Afghanistan to go and patch people up, and if all goes well he will be back home in late summer. I never thought soul mates were really a thing, but if they are, I think he’s mine! As for my dog Oscar, he’s continued to grow and be a happy giant puppy! He’s going to be a full year old at the end of December! He’s almost 60 pounds now!!!
On the less than great side, I’ve had no luck finding an art-related job, so I’m going to be switching my career goals over to becoming an art teacher. But honestly, I think teaching will be a much more emotionally fulfilling career, so even though that wasn’t my original plan, I’m excited to start to chase that new dream!
Thank you all so much for your continued kindness and support for both for my work and for me as a human. You all are a big part of why I had the confidence and self worth to leave a bad situation and I will always be grateful to you all for that. Thank you for helping me reach this new better life!
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So my mother-in-law loves to support local artists by buying their work from craft shows and one time she came home with this...
And when she showed me, I was like “OMG! I Love that necklace! It’s so cool and edgy! Such bold statement celebrating the erotic beauty of the nude male form!” :D
To which she looked at me in total shock and horror and asked “What on Earth are you talking about?!?!?!” D:
And after a moment of confusion, I awkwardly replied, “...um... Sally....... ” And moved up the little shell piece...
....And that is the story of how I came to own this beautiful little work of art.
Allllll my life I thought I had weak flimsy nails because I was born that way.
Then several months ago I discovered gummy vitamins and now to my total surprise I have nails that are sturdy and don’t bend backwards or peel off anymore!!!
So Thank you vitamins, for tricking me into getting proper nutrition for the first time in my entire life apparently by disguising yourselves as delicious sugary junkfood!!! I’m a little embarrassed that it took me 30 years to find this out but better late than never! XD
So to anyone else with nails as thin as printer paper, seriously, give vitamins a try!
The hotel that I’m staying at in Florida is in a pretty rough part of town but despite a lot of the downsides to that, I love the swarm of feral cats that congregate around the building.
I happened to run into the super sweet old man who lives near by and feeds them every morning. He and a few other people in the neighborhood also capture the cats and take them to the vet to get fixed and give them important vaccinations!
Things like this help to restore my hope for humanity! Thank you, you wonderful feral kitty guardians!
You know that feeling when it’s been like three days and you suddenly realize that the only thing you’ve eaten was half a goddamn sandwich for that entire duration of time?
So ,like, why do I feel completely physically fine and not even slightly hungry?!? I’ve accidentally starved myself!!! This isn’t how biology should work! 😤
Good grief my body is probably digesting my brain or something. Depression is a tricky foe.
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The past couple days I’ve been traveling to Florida with David to be with him while he does a month long rotation at a hospital here! It’s quite a different experience going from a farmhouse in Michigan to a little extended stay hotel in Florida, but I’m really enjoying the adventure of it! I’m especially fond of how different the plants and animals are around here, the tiny lizards everywhere in particular! For the most part I plan to stay at the room and catch up on work. I’ve managed to schlep my work computer down here with me, along with some paint and canvases. My goals are as follows: A- Get at least two weeks ahead on my comic updates. B- Finish this series of three paintings as best I can so I can do another dwb fundraising auction for the holidays. C- finish the script and the design art for an original comic that’s been in my head for quite some time about a Pixie and an Orc. D- Have an overall pleasant month and enjoy the sights as I go about the necessary chores for my days! E- I really hope I can go see the ocean! I LOVE the ocean and all it’s terrifying and majestic glory! Fingers crossed! Hopefully I’ll get all my list done! I should probably sleep now!
I planned to have the next part of ‘A Tale of Two Rulers’ up tonight but I got married this weekend and my schedule got waaaaay crazier than I accounted for! ^_^’
I’ll stay up as late as I can to get it done, but if I accidentally fall asleep I’ll have it finished up as soon as I can tomorrow!
Thank so much to everyone for your patience, kind words, and support! (and if you wanna see a few wedding pics that my friends and family took, they’re here on my ‘Figmentforms-the-human’ blog.)
Thanks so much to everyone that stopped by to see me at GenCon! I was so excited to meet you all! This was a great year and I hope I can go again next year! The next convention I’ll have a booth at is ShutoCon in Lansing (March 23rd-25th)!
