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[ladybrightcynder]

A Tribute to Akira Toriyama

I don't usually post tribute art, I'm generally not the type to share my grief publicly. I'm not a good speaker. I feel awkward trying to express my feelings, trying to strike a balance between what I feel like I should say and terrified people will take me as insincere.

However I still want to share my feelings on Akira Toriyama's passing, even if I can't articulate exactly what I want to say. "Grief" is maybe a strong word - I didn't know the man - but I can't express what an impact this man and his work had on my life. Toriyama's work has been present through most of my life - from Dragonball Z in my preteens, to Chrono Trigger in my early 20s, Dragon Quest in my late 20s, and back round to the Dragonball franchise in my early 30s. It goes without saying that he's been an influence on my art and storytelling.

This probably wasn't obvious, given I'm not as vocal about Dragonball as my other fandom interests. I've always wanted to make Dragonball-related art, especially with how much I loved DBS Broly and Super Hero, but I've just never gotten round to it. Feels pretty sad that this is what provoked me into it.

I really just don't know what to say. I really struggled to put this post together. I felt like I should put a quote on the artwork, but that didn't feel right either. I don't think anything I could say or do or draw could ever express how much Toriyama meant as a creator to me. Even though I made fun of his lack of faces or reused designs from time to time, it was out of a place of affection, because it was just a trait of his work, and I loved his work. He was just great.

All I can really say at the end of the day is "thank you".

Rest in peace.

#akira toriyama #brightdraws #brightchat #dragonball z #shenron #dragon

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[ladybrightcynder]

Hey you! I have a shop now!

I've started up an Etsy store to sell prints of my art! I've currently got five pieces up for sale including an improved version of my old Galar Glam art!

I'm currently only able to ship to the UK but working on other regions, I'll post updates as these go live!

#brightchat #shop #etsy shop

[ladybrightcynder]

Fan Art/OC Art - “Zairo” the Dragon

I felt like drawing my dragon character Zai in the style of Spyro Reignited’s dragons! Child and adult versions. I imagine Zai would be a Magic Crafters dragon. I like the idea of him being this gawky, raggedy, clumsy mage in training. I really dig the cape and hat combo!

I’m considering drawing my other Wyveria characters in this style. Pashka would also be a Magic Crafters, Ancha would probably be a Peace Keepers/Dream Weavers hybrid, and Hollis would be... a fawn?

I feel like this is leading into the elephant in the room of “What happened to Wyveria?”. I’ve been toying with a few ideas, and I’m probably going to go with the route of a full reboot or a story set in the near future of the world. Right now I’m experimenting with improving character designs, hence Zai’s palette change here. It’s not something I’m planning to do any time soon. But I really must get a move on archiving the comic, since Smackjeeves disappeared off the face of the planet :(

#fan art #spyro the dragon #oc #original character #spyro #spyro reignited #dragon #anthro #sfw #mage #magic crafters #feathered dragon #brightdraws #wyveria #wandering wyveria #brightchat

[ladybrightcynder]

Me, watching Nintendo Direct: It’s never going to happen, but I always hope Rune Factory 5 will be announced.

Me, 20 minutes later: holy shit

#nintendo direct #reaction #rune factory #rune factory 5 #holy crap I'm so happy #I never thought we'd get another Rune Factory #Also looks like I'm putting in another 300 hours into RF4 #brightchat

[ladybrightcynder]

Why I don’t want forced Exp. Share in Pokémon Sword/Shield

Rant incoming.

So y’all might have seen a couple news articles floating around saying that Exp. Share might end up being forced on the player, and it seems that this has been confirmed.

Source: https://www.gonintendo.com/stories/348837-game-freak-explains-why-exp-share-is-baked-into-pokemon-sword-an

Now I personally have a huge problem with this for multiple reasons. My biggest problem is how much it trivialises the difficulty. The moment I turned it off in X/Y was when I realised I was several levels higher than the gym leader’s strongest Pokémon, and since then, the only times I’ve used it are for mass grinding post-game, or for levelling Pokémon for evolution and dex completion. It’s a good feature, but the fact that we get no say in the matter is unfair on people who like to decide their own playstyle.

I’ve been playing Pokémon for 20 years, and some players even more than that. The lack of true difficulty modes has led to a lot of people making crazy challenges just to keep some modicum of difficulty for themselves. Yes, Pokémon is primarily a kids’ series, and there should be options for kids to be able to ease the experience - but forcing a grinding method is worsening gameplay for longtime fans who have been begging for difficulty modes for years. This isn’t what we wanted.

One of the reasons I disliked Let’s Go! Eevee so much was, by the end of the game, I didn’t feel like I had grown a bond with each Pokémon in my party. “Bright!” I hear you call! “This is a dumb kid’s game, why are you so concerned about bonding with nonexistent monsters?” Well, aren���t you supposed to form a connection with characters in RPGs? They’re not real, but you still get to know them and grow fond of them. In LGE, my party had grown so much without me putting in any effort into training each one individually. I hadn’t gotten to know each Pokémon’s individual strengths and weaknesses - they were just pictures and attacks. I had so little connection with them that I had no qualms about restarting my save when I got bored. Compare this to my experience of White 2, where I had persevered with my team, gradually training and growing to love my little guys, and I was so proud of them by the time I beat Iris that I burst into tears of joy. (Yes I am super embarrassed to admit this)

One of the things that annoy me the most is the reasoning behind forcing Exp. Share. According to the article, Masuda claims that “most players had it turned on.”

Um, source?

Did you actually ask anybody about this, Game Freak? I don’t think I know anybody who has it on all the time. Most people I know use it depending on the situation. And is it really fair to force this on people who really don’t want it?

Masuda has also stated that “Those who have it turned off want to train one specific Pokemon. We thought: is there a way to achieve that? There is, simply by putting the rest of your Pokémon in the PC.”

FIRST RULE OF GAME DESIGN: DON’T INCONVENIENCE THE PLAYER.

I really can’t believe they’re serious about this. Surely, surely it would be easier to just give players a toggle? It cannot be hard to program, especially since it was a feature in earlier generations. I know a lot of people are going to be saying “But you’d be going into the menu to turn off the exp share anyway!” Stop and think about that. Think how many little steps it takes to move a Pokémon to a box. Never mind five others, and continually swapping them out every 5 minutes.

I hate decisions being made for me. This is my save and I’ll play it how I want to. Call me a brat, but Pokémon has always been such an individual experience for every person. Everyone I know plays completely differently.

Taking away options is going to really hurt that.

As for me, I’m still going to be getting Shield, but this is a real sour note, never mind the sweeping dex cuts. If the Exp Share nonsense is balanced like it is in LGE, I might end up raising a team of 12 just so I don’t end up a demi-goddess by the second gym.

#pokemon #sword and shield #rant #exp share #game mechanics #brightchat

[ladybrightcynder]

A doodle of my catsona, Brightpath!

Beware, rambling below the cut.

Realtalk, when I first came to the internets 10 years ago, I got “Brightpath” as my suggested Warriors name on the official site. I always liked the name but never ended up actually designing a character with that name. I ended up combining that name with my favourite game character at the time, Cynder from The Legend of Spyro, and that’s where my screenname came from!

~The more you know~

So I decided to finally give Brightpath a design. I recently found out about tabby-tortoiseshell cats. Which are. Just the most beautiful things.

#brightchat #brightdraws #catsona #warrior cats #tabby #tortoiseshell #torbie #brightpath #rambling #fluffy #oc #fc

[ladybrightcynder]

So I was working on today’s Undertale Month drawing when my computer bluescreened.

I hadn’t saved the file, and I was almost done with inking. I was so happy with how it turned out, and then in a moment it was gone.

Fortunately, I’d sent a screencap of the sketch and this part of the outline to a friend on Skype so I don’t have to start from complete scratch. I can’t describe how annoyed I am at myself more than this face can. XD

This is a PSA to remember to save regularly and clean up your hard drive, people!

#brightchat #undyne #i'm an idiot

[ladybrightcynder]

Commissions Half Price!

Hey everybody!

So it turns out that my sick pay runs out in two weeks, my back is still wrecked, and I’m needing money for a new router. I’ve decided to cut commission prices to try and get some cash for that. I’ve also changed the prices to dollars so it’ll hopefully be simpler.

Current prices:

Sketch - $5 Inked - $6 Flat Colours - $7.50 Shaded - $11.50 Flat with Simple Background - $14 Flat with Complex Background - $16 Shaded with simple background - $18 Shaded with complex background - $20 Character reference sheet - $25 Twitch Emotes - $12.50 Other - individually priced Commission Form I also have a Patreon with bonuses for subscribers. Thanks if you’re able to chuck some money my way!

#brightchat

[ladybrightcynder]

2018 Goals!

Hey folks, just wanted to give a little rundown of what I have planned for this year. Please keep in mind this is all tentative, and I don’t have any set dates for any of this going into action.

1. Get Wandering Wyveria into the top 1500 on Top Web Comics! This is the big goal. It’ll help boost WW’s exposure and bring in new readers!

2. Start taking commissions! I’ve wanted to do this for a long time, but trouble with time management means it’s always been something I struggled with.

3.

Get more involved with my favourite fandoms.

I love making fanart for Pokémon and Undertale especially, and I’ve had a lot of ideas for fancomics for various series. Whether I’ll actually get round to them is another story!

4.

Practise drawing faster.

I need to get pages out quicker! At the moment it takes me roughly 18 hours (!) or more to get a single page of WW completed from start to finish! I want to try and get this to under 15 hours if I can.

#2018 #goals #self improvement #brightchat

[ladybrightcynder]

No Fan Art Friday today

Sorry folks! Feeling a bit crummy today. I’m on new medication for my back pain and it’s making me super drowsy, so I’m just resting it off.

#brightchat

[ladybrightcynder]

Commissions are now OPEN!

It’s been a long time coming, but I’m finally opening commissions! :D

Link to example page here!

Link to commission form here!

#commissions #brightchat #drawing #illustration

[ladybrightcynder]

Page will be late + schedule change

Hey folks, page is going to be late again. Work’s been a trial lately so I haven’t had a lot of time to work on art. I’m very close to being done (most of the flats are down, just need to get background textures, shading/lighting and speech) so it should be up sometime tomorrow.

I decided that I’m going to change the 12 pm, Monday posting time to Monday in general. It’ll give me a little more leeway for getting pages up on time.

In addition, Christmas is coming up, and this means my work is going to be extremely busy - it’s possible I may have to change the update schedule even further, to once every two weeks. I don’t want to have to resort to this, but I’ll keep you all posted.

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for the next page! It’s got a fluff dragon on it!

#wandering wyveria #update #brightchat

[ladybrightcynder]

Wandering Wyveria will be late

Hey folks, tomorrow’s page is going to be late. I’m kicking myself for doing this, but I’ve been working all day and the page is still not done. It’s close to being done, so I’m planning to post it around 8pm GMT. I can only apologise; it’s my own fault for goofing off and playing vidja games.

Hope y’all will forgive the lateness and enjoy tomorrow’s page! I’ve put a lot of effort into it and it’s one of my favourite pages yet!

#wandering wyveria #webcomic #update #late page #god dammit #i'm sorry #i'm not very good at this #also monster hunter stories is excellent and you should play it #brightchat

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[ladybrightcynder]

I think the moment I realised I’m too obsessed with my own comic is the moment I thought “I can’t wait to go to sleep so I can work more on my comic!”

#brightchat #what is my life