It's been an incredible (loosing) streak lately for me :/

Commercial attempts all fell flat, wether single illustrations, coloring collabs, comic submission and even the book cover I signed and submitted will never hit the prints as the editor has finally revoked its contract with the writer (and they didn't reply to my enquiries about nevertheless paying their due for my work they received within their harsh schedule).

On dA well, I'm out of both OC competitions. It's not as tough but when added to the previous, it's a little bit undermining my resolve to persever as a wannabe artist : 1DF entry was outvoted by the public (I suspect I didn't get a high score), VC well, couldn't get my imagination under control so I reinterpreted too much the story / the other participants' OCs.

However I was considering some ways to keep going, but what thing is sure, there is a little problem somewhere. Don't know exactly which one(s), I can't nail them.

One surely is the lack of 'recognition', as proven by pageviews. I get big bursts only when I submit to my dear old FM club, other submissions are scarsely viewed. The fact is, I kinda fought this, because even if I really love to draw fit people, and women in particular, I don't want to be restricted to this.

Also don't want to draw boobs and asses to get pageviews, I also enjoy drawing that, but it is not what I want to be first stage on my page.

So about this popularity problem ? Don't know. I read about the "lilponies's effect", well I understand that but not everybody should draw ponies, there are plenty already cute enough, no need for me to join in.

I'll keep investigating and trying.

New focus is :

Work on a comic based on an ongoing novella published in French. In this I think I will benefit from VC's experience, where I had to develop a story based on other artists' (some text based), within tight schedule, with a standard somewhat correct. For VC when I am done with an epilogue, I will have reached an usual comics length format (and a full arc). This will be my next commercial attempt.

On dA, I will probably catch up on all clubs I left behind, starting with deviant Universe (I had worked on several challenges but never finished them on time), the OCFG concept, and I will also probably develop my starwars OC character (since I'm a SW fan since my child hood, and I am fond of the comics too).

At some stage, I have other ideas based on comissions such as 'comic short stories / fake extracted page based on your char / synopsis', and another one to create a complete card game with existing or specially created OC's. And/or a classical Tarot card game.

If you stop by and read this, your comments and ideas are appreciated.

So you around.