SWEET BUT BRITTLE

SWEET BUT BRITTLE

“(…) Like an arrangement made in Heaven, not even drudgery was able to choke our spirits. (...) However, even that would be sent to the chopping block, as my obsolescence loomed closer while my bottom line took a big dip into the reds…” — Spam

Well, it's a me again. I couldn't finish the pic on time yesterday so I tried my best to commit to learn how to paint glass today, and wanted to turn the practice into a concept-art of the characters of my visual-novel (even if it's just symbolical in its cute stylization). I think my glass material didn't turn out too shabby 🤔 It was worth the attempt though! 😅

If you don't know yet, is Sears (Blue Addison) and Spamton from before when they both lived together as room-mates, because Spamton back in then couldn't afford his own flat with his dwindling savings and Sears allowed him to crash in his apartment, up until the day their circle of co-workers/friends split with Spamton, prompting him to leave behind that part of the city and one of his best friends forever 😬

The rest is history.

[[SUPPLANTATION]]

Desperation produces [[THE STRANGEST OF BEDFELLOWS]]… — Spamton

I keep practicing art, against my own best judgement, as it is 3:35 AM already as I type.

If there is something I know is that I need to keep practicing how to convey the concept of the protagonist of the AU. Spamton and Swatch work together in the same body in an uneasy truce, but all the other characters only see the head butler, which is a very convenient disguise for someone who will do everything to survive deletion.

<plops on bed>

And here an animated Spamton to make for my previous animation not having a preview.

A small question and a lil update

Today hopefully I'll finally be able to finish and upload the character profile of Sears (the Blue Addison). The next in the queue should be Joel which is the Pink Addison of the group of co-workers that is pivotal to the events from Spam's flashback and during the epilogue of Season 1. After that Genie the Yellow Addison and that will complete the pivotal triad of the plot. The rest of the Addison co-workers will follow suit with the character profiles but they weren't as impactful to Spam as these other three, hence the low priority.

Also, it came to my attention after perusing some blogs that there is some roleplay activity with characters that have their own blogs. People can send them questions and the author replies in character and sometimes with a little cool something thrown in between. Like I already had the idea of replying in character if asked through the "Question the Darkner" button, and I like the idea of increasing engagement with followers and other randoms if they can have me (and are polite while doing so). However, I had this dilemma of if making a separate blog just for Spwatchton and company or keep using this blog and make a few adjustments so that you can Ask questions to any of the characters of my AU (yes even to that White Addison called Velveeta 👀)

I think it would be more tidy if I keep everything in the same blog, because the moment I make more blogs for each one, my mind will break in the sparsecity of all of it (and I has the attention span of a low sodium can of Spam). I better centralize the Ask so that others don't need to run to the specific blog to speak to their favourite character, me thonks. (the DIRECTOR is also part of the cast and represents me as the author so if you have any questions for the DIRECTOR those questions will be addressed directly to me)

Just me mussing a little about increasing a lil bit the engagement in a more open manner 🤔Also this week we should know if we land a new job or not and if not... well, guess we'll be [[ROYALLY SCREWED]] until next week (because nobody hires on weekends) <slumps back in defeat>

This was another concept art of how Swatch looked without the mask. He still retains some of his former feral traits, but are more tame compared to his original EXCEPTION form, monsters that were queued for deletion as they were driven mad by pure undiluted Chaos when the Dark Fountain turned their original forms into Darkners.

This time it just shows how the mask (created by Tasque Manager to curb the feral nature of Swatch) actually hides a more fearsome countenance. His body is Darkness (as all Darkners are) sequestering all the colours of the light inside his body. With the mask on, all that storm of light gets balanced and his thoughts gets clearer, returning him to a more polite and suave demeanour (or as Tasque Manager would say, to a more "ORDERly manner"). Tasque Manager is charged to keep an eye out for him all the time, and to perform maintenance on the mask now and then to make sure the virus inside Swatch didn't manage to damage it.

I also learnt a little how to make the rainbow in him to look more hand-made and less procedural. At first I was using gradients, but it didn't look right to me so I made the stripes by hand. It was a nice experience to have 😊

About creating a community...

Someone motivated me to create a Locals page where to publish and tidy up all the stuff about my AU visual novel. The community is still waiting for approval though...

So far is a good way of keep things tidy and see who really is interested in this AU, and to engage with them in a more personal manner. I don't like Patreon because of how sketchy they have been in the past with people I know, and I don't want to go through the same ordeals as them. That's why my friend suggested me to use Locals now that it supports international communities.

The link to the community is this one but will not be active until Locals deems my community worthy of being published 😅 Is my last card at trying to engage with like-minded Spamton enjoyers that would also like to see my visual novel lifting from the ground.

It also has some sort of FAQ that members can check to get theirs questions about the AU and its development sorted out. I've a mind of posting the FAQ here so that anyone who wonders about my AU after stumbling with my Tumblr can get some things straight without asking me directly.