Emerald Winter

After a lot of thought, I’ve come to the conclusion that I can’t run two webcomics of this size at the same time. Since Emerald Winter is kind of a jumble mess right now, it’s logical that I focus my efforts on Lavender Legend. I have come to accept the fact that I can’t salvage the work that I did before. No matter which direction I go in, it is still a project from ten years ago instead of a project I want to do right now.

You will see Rien, Gisela, and other characters again in the future in a new incarnation. I need to do heavy editing to the entire concept. I’m not sure if it will still be called “Emerald Winter” since that name has never made all that much sense, but we can keep it as a subtitle.

Anyway, as I don’t want to start a new ongoing project in the midst of Lavender Legend finally getting off the ground, it is on hold indefinitely. The comics will still be there if you go to the archives, but I don’t want to advertise to new readers, since I won’t be continuing the series for quite some time.

Thanks everyone whose given me their support.

Haven’t updated in so long, wanted to give you guys an idea of what was happening.

I am finished with the moving and the cons right now. I still have to finish up a few commissions, but that’ll be done with today.

The space that I’m living in now is incredibly small, plus there’s two people living here. It has been a real effort just to unpack everything these past two weeks. We still have so much that isn’t unpacked because there’s no room left. I have a space designed so that I can do some traditional artwork, which includes Emerald Winter pages, but it’s also the eating table and Mike’s computer table. So I’m kind of time-sharing my art space, it’s very frustrating. Not sure what I intend to do about it yet. I’ll probably pick up a folding table I can put aside when not in use.

Anyway. That’s pretty much why it’s been taking so long. I think I actually did ink the last page before I left and can’t even find it because things are so crazy. But, you know, artists have to live in the cheapest place possible. ^^; So it’s just something I have to adapt to.

I just wanted to post and let you guys know what kind of limbo I’m finding myself in right now. Once I get completely settled, I want to get Emerald Winter’s update schedule down solid.

Okay. I think I got the site under control for real this time. It isn’t pretty, but I’ll work on the cosmetics after I get everything set up right.

I want to thank Lorehunter from the chatbox for uploading all the old pages for me. I have never seen such a complete archive of the older version pages. I’m going to set up an external site to display these for the sake of history, but I don’t want to add them to this installation of Emerald Winter, in case people get confused about what’s canon and what’s not.

I lost these pages in their original format thanks to the “perfect storm” of bad luck I had around 2006 or 2007, I’m not sure which year. Anyway, I didn’t have access to the internet for several months because our cable company couldn’t get the line fixed (this was before wifi was everywhere). During that time, I also had a hard drive failure. The backup files I had got corrupted somehow over the years, to where a few aren’t readable. And during all that, the hosting company I was using went MIA. The site just poofed for a long time. I didn’t know who I could contact to get the domain back. When I finally did get to the registrar, they wanted to charge a $200 fee to renew the domain name. I didn’t have that kind of money. I’ve only gotten the name back recently.

Anyway, I’m glad somebody out there saved it so that I can at least point and say “there’s that comic I did in high school” haha.