Seedling

Heya everyone

Sorry about the missing updates – my wacom tablet died, and while the new one should be here soon, it has set me back on my schedule some. Hopefully I’ll manage to get a few new pages up this week despite this. Thankyou for your patience. 🙂

• Five

Phew! It’s been a while. Okay. Here’s what’s going on.

Back in November, when I outlined my plan going forward, my original schedule was to roll out Chapter 2 when all of Chapter 1 was uploaded to Webtoons. Well, Chapter 1 is on Webtoons now, but with no Chapter 2 on this site as of yet.

When I first decided on the original plan, I knew I was being very optimistic. A few weeks into the new job I’d gotten around the same time, and I knew the plan would be near impossible. But I still wanted to give it a try.

I’m a fresh-out-of-school teacher, graduated this summer. They say the first year of being a teacher is the hardest – after 4 months, I’m inclined to think they were right. It’s been a wild experience on several levels, and I’m learning an incredible amount of things in an extremely condensed amount of time. In the last few months, the new experiences and the sheer drain of it all – including the mental drain of doing everything for the first time as well as long travel distances – left precious little time for comic making, and the time I did get has been more incidental than anything.

I’m not complaining, and I’m not disheartened – I’m still learning as I go, and that includes working on this comic. The purpose of this post isn’t to make excuses, but to restate this fact, and to tell any potentially worried readers out there not to be worried. The comic is coming. And I constantly work towards creating a schedule for myself that I can maintain. It might take a few, or a lot, of tries. But I’m determined to do it.

So, the new/current plan: I’m going to release Chapter 2, here and on Webtoons, when it’s ready. I have my own plans and inner hopes for when that might be, and I don’t like giving vague release dates, but I’ve decided that being vague is better than setting up a much too optimistic deadline that I can’t realistically reach. I need to give myself time to figure out how to balance my work life with comic making, and so this is the state of things until further notice.

There’ll still be new things to see on my blog (and my patreon!), and if you feel like sharing my work with others, know that it’ll be hugely appreciated. 🙂

Thank you all for your patience, and keep on being awesome ♥

The Seedling comic project started out as a 30 page stand-alone comic I made pretty much on a whim, and out of a desire to play with some character ideas. When I decided to make it into a full-fledged webcomic and remake the stand-alone into Chapter 1, I figured it’d probably double in length. Well, here we are, Chapter 1 is done at 95 pages, three times longer than the original, yet it allowed me to kick off Seedling in the best way. I’m so immensely proud of this accomplishment – and now the real work begins.

Working on Chapter 1 has been eye-opening in many ways. I now know pretty much how long I need to finish pages of various detail levels, and how to organize my work time both practically and planning-wise. And planning has been on my mind a lot as of late. In my previous post I mentioned publishing Seedling on other websites, and I’ve come to a decision on how this will be done.

A mobile-friendly version of Seedling will be uploaded on Webtoons – the first three episodes have already been released, and the comic will continue to update on this platform with a new episode every Friday. Over the course of the next 5 months, all of Chapter 1 will be released episodically in this manner. While this happens, there will be no new page uploads to this website. I’ve decided to spend the time working on the next chapters, rebuilding my buffer and dedicating more time towards worldbuilding and fleshing out the overall story, as well as continuously looking for possible ways of advertising the comic and gain more readers.

By the time the Webtoon version catches up with the website version, Chapter 2 will roll out both here and on Webtoons – on top of this, I will publish the entirety of Chapter 1 on my profile at Deviantart as well. I’ll also be using Deviantart as an archive for all the concept and behind-the-scenes work I do on the comic (as well as art-stuff I do not related to Seedling), releasing these as they become relevant (though nothing containing spoilers).

My tumblr won’t stay vacant during this hiatus. I plan to upload sketches, mini-comics and anything else I can think of in the between-time, and overall it’s gonna be a lot of fun! 🙂

In summary –  by the time Chapter 2 comes around, Seedling will be published:

• On Webtoons once a week, currently Fridays, for people who prefer the mobile format.
• On this website twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays, for people who like the page-format.
• On Deviantart whenever a chapter is finished. I’ll upload full chapters in the page-format here for people who don’t mind to wait and just want to read entire chapters at a time.

It’s all subject to change – my current situation is that I’m looking for full time work. This means that whatever happens from here on out can easily upend any plans I make now, and so I consider this current plan my starting point. However, I do know that I love this project, and I want to keep working on it no matter what. And I’ll keep this space updated with any changes that happen along the way.

As always, thank you for reading! ♥

FiveHourSleep