Going on an extended hiatus from DA. Not that anyone will miss me in any case, since I barely check or update these days.

My art can still be seen at my website, Lost Soleil, which will continue to be updated with new stuff as I do it. You can also find me on Livejournal.

As for the old stuff that isn't on the site, sorry. I've put everything in storage for now, if I ever decide to return here, that will come back as well. (In theory.)

Cross-posting this from the LJ Community.

If you keep up with my personal LJ, you've probably seen me talking about this already. In any case, after some hard thinking, I have come to a pretty huge decision concerning the comic.

1. I will be restarting the entire story from scratch.

It's been almost ten years since I first came up with the concept for it. I've grown so much since that day, and so has the comic to an extent.. but not nearly enough. The story and characters are still quite dear to me, and I want to make sure I really do it justice. To really make sure I accomplish the things I want to with it, and to accomplish them to the best of my ability. Hence, starting it over.

There's a score of reasons for this beyond that as well. In all honesty, I'm unsatisfied with the art style and have even felt quite trapped by it for quite some time. I tried to shake this off and keep on trucking, but my motivation to continue it as is simply isn't cutting it anymore. Schism was my first serious comic attempt. I knew basically nothing about drawing comics, writing for them, etc etc. And at first, that was enough for me. I wasn't so concerned about it being good, it was more about learning and proving to myself that I could. I certainly never expected it to become as popular as it did, and it still amazes me to this day that it's acquired so many absolutely wonderful fans!


There will be some major changes to the comic.

The entirety of the first 3-5 chapters will be completely re-written because they are and always have been absolute crap writing, though obviously not the basic plot line and story/world concepts. Character designs will be redone. A few (Such as Quay) will look basically the same, others are getting a pretty heavy overhaul. Personalities and basic background stories and such will remain mostly how they are now.

Quite a few the character names will be changing. The japanese names are all being replaced, as in all honesty picking those was really nothing more than me being a silly anime fan. It makes little sense for the characters having japanese names with no other japanese elements in the comic.

Their names will be changing as listed below:
- Shikai = Sly
- Jiko = Jericho (which can be believably shortened to Jiko)
- Jensi = Johnny
- Kitoku = Katarina (Kit, for short)

Obviously the art style will face some changes as well. I'm quite determined to get my skills brushed up and to really push them into new directions and to mature my abilities further. It will be switching to black and white with full-colored covers/splash pages.

I currently have no estimate of when the new version of the comic will be ready to go. Probably not for several months at least. (As an added bonus of redoing the entire thing is that the comic will no be very print-worthy!) The current version will remain available online to read as an archive when the new version is ready to go.

Annnnd... I think that's it for now. Feel free to ask any questions you might have! I really have no clue how this announcement is going to go over, but this is something I really need to do to keep the comic alive and to finally see it meet or surpass the standards I have for it now. I really do hope that you all will continue to stick with me and read the comic when it's relaunched.

Thank you all again for your incredible support!

Tired of that whining being on my homepage.

Been doing a shit load of sketching in the past month. I suppose I should probably upload some of it? XD

I've also made some pretty big decisions concerning Schism as well, which i've babbled about a fair bit in my LJ as well. i'll probably explain in full sometime here soon as well when I feel unlazy. Whee!

*cough* Excuse me for a second, but I'm going to be a royal bitch for a little bit, kay? Because I keep getting notes and other crap about this and it's really starting to get on my nerves.


Guys? Everyone? Contray to what you might think by my username I am actually NOT A NARUTO fan. Yeah, I like it okay but I don't keep up with it and have no real interest in it anymore. So don't waste your time sending me notes with/about/related to Naruto stuff or questions. Because I honest to god do not give a shit.

Which goes to say, if you're poking through this account and looking for any Naruto related stuff you won't find any here. (The two I did do when I did keep up with it have been deleted.)

One of my characters from my comic I gave the last name Akatsuki back in 1998 or something. Well before I even was aware of Naruto. And that's why I used this name.

And motherfuck, do I ever regret it now. >E (I'm almost sorry I even gave some of my main characters japanese names to begin with really, but that's another bitch for another time and I can't change their names now.) I'd abandon this account and start a new one, but I'm too lazy to bother with that. For NOW, anyway.

/end bitching. =____=

Cleaning out some old crap. there's a lot of shit in this gallery that makes me cringe to look at. XP Hopefully it'll be getting replaced with stuff that like.. doesn't suck soon.