Between Places

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 -

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT

http://betweenplaces.spiderforest.com/?comic=20100901
WHAT IS THIS ; 20100901

Happy September first, everyone! Disregard the lack of updates behind the curtain. If the site is a bit wonky, give'r a hard refresh and enjoy the new site layout, curtesy of my excruciating lack of doing things that needed to be done. This layout has the fun new feature of a background that shows up on (almost) any resolution with no empty space! Give it a try and maximize your window, or zoom out, and enjoy the almost infinate background... also the site checks out in HTML!

That goes to show you just how much time I wasted on this site. Anyway, not only does it function in any browser I thought to test it in, it validates as HTML transitional (I got too bored to fiddle with the stuff from other people in the sidebar to make them validate as strict) but it even works in IE6, bar the ugly transparent pngs.

I added someone new to the links page; check their comic out...

Oh. Yeah. The lack of updates. Uh. Look, to be honest, I can't promise I'll ever make it back to three pages a week. I'm going to try for one from here out and try work my way up to two and then three if I can. I think I'm out of the water now. I have a few more brutal work strings and HOPEFULLY a vacation for ME... but mostly out of the water. I mean, obviously, I got this done. I sat down and I did my page. It might be up at an unreasonable time but it's up... consider it Thursday's update. And I'll try for Sunday. I can't promise but I'll try. I did say that short of me dying, if I'm to take the infinate hiatus there will be one final page to tell you how the story ended. I'M NOT DEAD YE--

(thud)

But no, seriously. For those who want to know, mid-August my sister ended up hospitalized and could've died. I really did mean to get back to updating in August but worrying to death about your only sister is hard on the creative spirit. But here you go, the product of my August. A page, and a brand new and exciting site. Enjoy. For those who stuck with Between Places this long, thank you. For those who emailed well-wishes and prayers, thank you too. For those who commented on my last couple of updates to say you were still checking... thank you. I'm not dead yet.

Sunday, August 8, 2010 -

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT

http://betweenplaces.spiderforest.com/?comic=20100808

Monday, August 2, 2010 -

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT

http://betweenplaces.spiderforest.com/?comic=20100802
An apology ; 20100802

No one reads my comic. Did you know not a single person commented on the fact that... for half a month... I didn't update? Nonetheless, I apologize. If you're here and reading this, well, then the apology is for you: I'm sorry for failing to meet my own expectations for myself. Between Places may not update for the next week. But then again it might. Until I manage to get over my personal hurdles, I can make no promises, only that it should update sometime between the 10th and 14th of August. If personal blogging amidst comics is not your thing, don't read further.

For the last two weeks I've done almost nothing creative. My energy has been sapped. A page of a story, a terribly written page at that... the birthday board for work... an avatar cropped... a few photographs snapped. I've been lifeless, listless, and museless. I had to face some personal revelations that I haven't told anyone and I had to get over some personal hurt that was causing me to seize up when it came to art. You may remember that I announced hiatuses when deaths happened. Well... I grieve differently than most people and it's caught up something awful. Two days ago I made a move to change this. I'm hoping my attempts to make some personal changes will be sufficiant for me to regain my muse. I may try Augnowrimo with a smaller word goal than NaNoWriMo just for the competitive sake.

I admit that I no longer have any real attachment to this comic's story due to my dislike of it but as long as I don't have a better story to draw I will keep trying to update. I will not go on an infinate hiatus without telling you guys first. I might fail to update without telling you... but if I don't plan on updating ever again and am still among the living, something will be posted which will include the outline of the rest of the story.

No one reads my comic. It's entirely for me. I think the only signifigant change you guys will see is that I plan to throw my mental vision out of the window. Things might get more... colorful, as this page demonstrates, even if illogically, because I want to have fun drawing my pages. :)

Friday, July 16, 2010 -

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT

http://betweenplaces.spiderforest.com/?comic=20100716
WHAT'S THIS? ; 20100716

A RANGER CAUGHT OFF HIS oh wait. It's just an update. >_> I know Friday's not my normal update day, but it's been long enough... I couldn't wait until Sunday! I'm not entirely sure if an update'll go up Sunday. I'm rather running short on pencils; obviously with the creative blockage I haven't been producing anything. Not a thing! Well, except for this hat made out of pants.

That said, I do plan on doing my best to return to my three a week update schedule. The break was good for me. I became a bit more aware of what I wanted, and what I want happens to be to draw pretty and shiny scenes that take place outside, and to have pretty pages that I like looking at. If that means a permanent two a week schedule, then so be it. This might do interesting things to my plot, which involve several more interior sequences, though... I tend to hit far more art blocks during those scenes and obviously to keep up my update schedule with quality art I've got to be doing what I enjoy, and that happens to be exteriors. Hm. We'll see what happens. However, rest assured that BP will not go on infinate hiatus unless I have a better comic scripted, that includes art I'd like to draw. As of current, I do not. (The Millennium House is unfortunately unfinished. Revenant Lights needs tons of editing, but that one might be a possibility in the future. We'll see.) I'm sorry for the gap in updates, but basically... I was too busy to think. I opened Photoshop every day, I opened this file every day... and it just didn't happen. It happened today, I happen to like the page, and well... unprofessional it may be, but I think I prefer liking the page to forcing it to get it over with.