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Okay! So a couple years ago, a friend wanted to write a Nuzlocke story and I agreed to work with him and make it as a comic. He's done a lot of writing, but unfortunately due to school and other personal issues such as trying to save up for a friend to visit and various other things, I barely got any further than sketching page 4.


Now, 2 years later I'm gonna have a good three and a half months free before uni after the 15th and so I decided it would be brilliant timing to continue working on it. It will give both of us something fun to work on alongside another secret project we're coming up with.


What I've decided to do, as it has been so long, is not just continue it but re-draw the cover and the first couple pages. HOWEVER I don't know what style to do it in, which is what I'd like to know from you guys!


STYLE 1:

Style Examples:

Pros:
(1) Much much quicker to draw, colour and shade
(2) Being quicker it would be easier continue once I do start uni as I'd need less time to draw up the pages
(3) I do like "sketchy" drawings

Cons:
(1) Because it's not using lineart it appears messy, which isn't always good as it can make it difficult to make things out
(2) It's easy to get "lazy" with it if for some reason there's something I'm not as good at drawing or even can't be bothered to draw (E.g. Hands)
(3) The Nuzlocke writer prefers the other style a little more

STYLE 2:

Style Examples (My usual commission style):
xxthepurpledragonxx.deviantart… (Without the texture over the top obvs)

Pros:
(1) It's much much neater so looks more "professional"
(2) Forces me to not be too lazy with it
(3) It's much more standard with how I draw it (specific steps)

Cons:
(1) It's MUCH more time consuming than the other style
(2) I can get tired of lining quite easily
(3) There's the possibility that I might run into the problem I did last time of it stopping


What do you think? Which do you guys think would be better? ^u^

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I shall draw one of these of your MLP OC for a £5 ($7 USD) if you want one :)

i.imgur.com/31S9iYi.jpg

Message me if you would like one ^u^
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Random update 'cause I'm awesome like that :D

Okay! So it's the summer holidays! I've been working on some requests (closed now atm I'm afraid) and I still have about 3 to do, though they shouldn't take as long as my latest one 'Battle To The End', which took a while, I dunno how long, but a guess would be at least 10 hours, if not more X) (Gosh I use so much time drawing..... no wonder I don't have a decent social life! XD)

But anyway, I've been and got my bridesmaid dress for my uncle's wedding which I can't wait for!

Also I've re-met a friend from Primary school (haven't seen her since year 6, which was 4 years ago :O) and found out how wonderfully (and creepily) similar she is to me. We've met up a couple of times now, and hoping to meet up more soon. It's great 'cause she loves singing as much as I do, last time she came over we shared a great duet of 'What Is This Feeling?' from the musical 'Wicked' which we both LOVE (She was Elphaba and I sang as Glinda).

Also today my dad and I started our vinyl LP collection and went to a record shop to look. We spent only £20 and bought about 13 records! Only to find that my fave one, the Queen double album (Greatest Hits 1 and 2) was misread... It actually said 'Greatest Flix'... they were actually 2 laserdiscs (the predecessor to DVDs; basically giant double sided DVDs) meaning they had the video with the songs... though it's not what we wanted... Dad's ebaying it 'cause we don't want it...

Anyway, all fur now! cya guys! xx
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So so happy now

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Okay, the other day I got a Skype call from the wonderful gal who I love so so much. She was crying so hard, so terrified, cold, hungry and I didn't know what to say. I am truly terrible at comforting people in situations like that.

Okay so she decided to leave and take refuge in a nearby Church and so went, leaving me feeling worried sick. I couldn't get to her because she lives in America, I couldn't Skype call heror anything to make sure she was okay...

So I prayed so damn hard. I prayed that I would sacrifice the good of my following day so long she was kept safe and cheered up.

Yesterday I woke up with the most horrible pain in my neck, I must have jerked it in my sleep or something. As the day went on I felt worse and worse untill about half six when I gave up and went to bed.

At about ten, I woke up cos my parents were going to bed and mum had come up to check on me. I felt alot less tired so I stayed up.

I was very glad I did stay up because turns out my prayer was answered. So yeah my day was sh*t but the girl was safe, in fact very happy. I was so thankful and relieved to hear this and almost cried with happiness. And to make things more amazing... The person who cheered her up was a man of God, the pastor of the Church she had gone to.

So we had and awesome convo on webcam and despite feeling a little crap from cold I stayed up till almost six talking. ;u;
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Love them :)

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Yeah yeah, alot of what I share is my love life (not that I have ever had one) but still... Basically I would like your advice. This is my situation/question:

What would you do if you love someone so much. So much that them just putting pictures of themselves on facebook makes your heart race and you get butterflies. Just small jestures of friendship gets you so emotional you cry your eyes out. You have felt this way for a long long time. You may not have wanted to admit it before because you weren't sure, but about 2 or 3 years of feeling like it you finally are certain. You have dreamt of them more than a few times before. You would do absolutely anything for them. You want them to be happy, to see that beautiful smile they have. They are the most amazing, beautiful thing you have ever seen. They are more incrediable than millions of fireflies lighting up the sky at night like stars, hundreds of rainbows making the sky burst at the seams with colour. You love to see them laughing and smiling. Happy. If you ever see them crying, you feel their pain to such an extent that you want to cry too. You rage and thrash about when they are angry. You would trade everything just for them and their wishes. You want to tell them this. You may have told them before but it wasn't enough. You want to write them songs, poems, books and draw pictures about how you feel for them. You want them to know eveything so badly that you are falling apart.

Though there are things in the way. Your fear that they might see you in a bad light. That you will get rejected and they will never speak to you again. And that they are already in love. They are already in a relationship. You wait untill they aren't. But by the time you have the courage, time and place to just sit them down and tell them face to face, they have been asked out again. They are already going out with someone.

What would you do? What should I do? :) thank you x
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