Nice to know that if I even think about actively working on SaB, a relative of mine keels over.
Nope, not even kidding. That makes five.
I think I might have to break my promise and put SaB on an official hiatus. I just…I just can’t.
Anonymous
when will sab be updated? i want moar :D. sorry for being inconvenient / rude, but i want it back.
That is an excellent question, anon (and you are most certainly not the first to ask)! And it’s actually something I’ve been actively thinking about as of late, so I guess I’ll explain myself outright. I’ve always felt that I’ve been fairly transparent with my readers, and I don’t plan on stopping now.
Anonymous
i was 11 when sab started and i really loved it and i got excited whenever it was updated and everything. i also thought you were a really good artist and i tried to emulate your art style back then. so i really want to say thank you! you were a big part of my life and that sounds pretty corny but thank you!
Hm I don’t think this a part of the meme I posted earlier so I’ll answer this publicly - no, thank you! : D I’m really flattered, wow! (Why so past tense, though?)
Anyway, as a general thing: I actually get a lot of asks about SaB. Every time I’ve set out to answer them, something has come up, or circumstances have led to me not feeling comfortable giving an answer (i.e. relatives passing away). However, I can say this much: SaB is still a thing. I’m still actively thinking about it, and about how to proceed (since if nothing else, I can’t make more new pages until I can work with my new style choices at a comfortable consistency, not to mention there’s some edits to older pages I have to make).
I’m not done telling SaB’s story, I’m just still trying to figure out how to logically start it up again.
In which I plan on going to bed early, but end up not being able to sleep and pulling a near all-nighter for almost no reason. Whoops.
So, uh, somewhat SaB-related doodle?
On SaB’s Posting Location
So, guys, here’s the deal: I never use my dA (except to browse for tutorials and brushes and stuff), and I was considering moving SaB’s non-Starmen posting to SmackJeeves.
(This is also because the only reason I bought premium on dA was for the organizational stuff for SaB - gotta have that extra column in the front dedicated to it and stuff! - and a year of Donator status for comics on SmackJeeves - which I would need to even upload some of SaB’s pages due to file size, silly colored comic pages - for a year is markedly cheaper than dA’s premium fee for a year.)
As far as my non-SaB art goes, I’ve just been posting everything basically exclusively to Tumblr, anyway? I, uh, really like how easy it is to post images to Tumblr, and I draw so many doodles that I would never post to dA that I really feel like buying premium there just for SaB is a waste. Similarly, it’s a lot easier to read a comic on SmackJeeves than it is on dA, where half the time I have no clue how to get to the next page, and I posted the thing.
But, of course, that means I’d have to reupload all the pages to SmackJeeves and such. And make buttons and things. Stuff like that. Anyway, I was just wondering what people’s opinions were on this matter?
So, SaB’s Three-Year Anniversary was a few days ago!
I didn’t want to make a huge deal about it, since I haven’t drawn that many pages in the last year, and anything I would have said in a retrospective I already said in that only post I made a while back, but hey, a milestone’s a milestone!
Let’s get past this mental block and get back to working on awesome comic awesomeness in this upcoming year! Woohoo!
Gotta get back in the loop, man.
(Also, why you so dithered, photoshop gif? Just pretend you can’t see all the little red bits, I guess.)
The Truthful and Probably TMI Explanation of Why SaB Hasn’t Updated
So, it’s been a while, and I owe everybody an explanation.
But first and foremost, before putting the rest of this under a spoiler tag, NO, I HAVE NOT ABANDONED SAB. Just getting that out of the way right now.
Explanation and information after the “Read More”:
Sorry for all of the super-rough sketches lately - been trying to get myself back in to the swing of things.
Also, classes start in a few weeks and as much as I’m looking forward to it, after everything that happened last year I’m more than a little apprehensive.