Hello! New chapter! Everyone’s favorite evil fay is back, and rather cranky. Of course.
If you haven’t already noticed, we no longer have a front page. And soon, the format will be changing too- once Kez works her magic, so watch for that. In the meantime will be putting buttons here in the blog for voting, donations, Nigel, and the store.
Xylia Store
Donate! New wallpaper available! As always, PLEASE REMEMBER:
If you have any difficulties with, or do not receive your donation gifts, PLEASE EMAIL ME directly: bji2001@mchsi.com. I am trying to email everyone with a personal thank you anyway, once I receive Paypal notification, but if I should miss you or not get a notice, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Nigel’s Opus online novella
Please ote TWC- today’s incentive features a couple of backstory characters that may oddly work their way into Nigel’s Opus in a few weeks. I’m sure those of you who enjoy speculating will have fun when you see them!
If you haven’t heard, there is a contest going on! Every donation gets you an entry into a ‘drawing for a drawing’! Here’s the info in case you missed it!Contest Info
All right, and now today’s question: If I could get anyone to compose a soundtrack for Xyliatales- who do you think it should be? Oooo…that’s a fun one.
That’s all for now, as always, THANK YOU SO MUCH for all of the words of encouragement here, emails and forum comments. I read them all many times when I am feeling down about the project or scared about the prospect about being an artist for a living. They really keep me going!
Hugs,
~B
January 4th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Oh snap, Ty’s a bit mad. Maybe from the earlier voting incentive? XD The page layout is awesome on this page, especially how you handled the sound effect. I guess breaking things and starting fires is therapeutic.
Now, to the questions at hand, compose a soundtrack for Xylia? I’ll go outside the box on this one…. Dragonforce! There’s probably more appropriate ways to go about composing Xylia, but come on! Speed metal covering Xylia would be the awesome. XD
January 4th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Thank you for the props on the page layout! I wasnt too sure about the Japanese style sound effect…but at least one person likes it! Dragonforce LOL! While on the subject of speedmetal, click on my name to see my sixteen year old shredding on his youtube site impersonating one of the great speed demons- Buckethead.
January 4th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
YAY! Tychia’s back! pleasedon’thurtmeiprobablywanttolive…
Yeah, she looks pretty angry. I gotta say, with everything happening to Claudius, I’ve almost forgotten about her, but now I’m eagerly looking forward to seeing what she’s been up to!
Moving onto the soundtrack….recently I discovered a band called Flyleaf. I think they’d probably be excellent at creating the right sound for Xylia. If not them, I’ll settle for using Evanescence. Their music has just the perfect haunting melody of longing that Xylia needs.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:37 am
sweet page! totally took me by surprise returning to tychia now too.
enya would suit some scenes. but thanks to you, brent, i just checked out flyleaf (awesome – could suit tychia) and evanescence (*love* them and yes, yes, yes!).
did you make your goal for december? what’s up with the updates this month?
January 5th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Wow. So is the portrait still usable after this? Tychia really needs to work on those anger issues. Music? Hmm. No idea.
January 5th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Oh hay! Tychia’s back! <3
*random lurker popping out of nowheres, sorry!*
January 5th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Wow…I would not want to be anywhere near her for the next 24 hours or so…lol. Ty should look into anger management classes, they could be beneficial
band, band…well I think Flyleaf or Evanescense would be cool for a haunted type sound. very appropriate for some scenes, but for the classic “soundtrack” type music Cornerstone Cues rocks. They write music that sounds like it should be in a movie and sell it after. It’s sweet stuff…
January 5th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
oh, and I can’t wait for the new site layout! I really don’t like this one…
January 6th, 2009 at 2:42 am
Hm… Did she actually brake the painting? I seem to recall Livy saying something about her not being able to manipulate the portal… I wonder what it means for Claudius if she did brake it…
January 6th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Haha your son is awesome. I’m 16 and not quite so good. Not a shredder lol
January 7th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Another stellar page. Am I mistaken or is there a slight tweak to your style? Really excellent.
January 8th, 2009 at 7:56 am
seriously, i’m just asking – are there thursday comics in january? or story pages? i can’t find the story page in the current navigation – am i missing something or did it go away?
January 8th, 2009 at 8:41 am
hey everyone! Thanks for the nice comments!
Yes Tychia has returned…yikes!
Spas- the Nigel update is now up. Sorry for the delay!
January 10th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
okay, you are srsly the best!! i just love your style… it’s so awesome and shiny and sparkly and… awesome!!
(and i am soooo eloquent, non?)
but seriously… i love this comic so much. it’s in my top five that i read regularly.