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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Acquana" data-source="post: 2268167" data-attributes="member: 1616">05/08 and 09/05Hey, like I said, I don't mind (and often encourage) requests.  Again I must apologize ... to anyone who reads this thread regularly, my sincerest of apologies.  There is no real excuse for my lethargy lately ... though I'm surprised how many consider depression to be an excuse.  Well, I've gotten it bad over the last month or so.  I've gained 10 pounds, I don't get out of the house much, I sleep too often, I work  too rarely ... The webcomic's progress has been at a halt for weeks now ... I just don't know when things are really going to start looking up.  I also have been depending on my parents' insurance for any kind of therapy, and the insurance seems desperate to find ways to make sure I don't use it.  All in all ... things are not well.  I'm trying to pick myself back up, I'm exercising again, and once Wellstar handed me some inking to get done I'm suddenly drawing again.  To anyone who's been waiting on me for something ... I'm very sorry.  I rarely get in slumps like these since starting medication ... but lately things have been so depressing I can't even fight it with the dosage I've got.  Thus everything else has fallen behind and Wellstar is trying his hardest to make me feel good so I can get back to work ... It's a slow process and I'm trying.  And I know no one really wants to hear that, so I'll move on.This is a sketch of the main characters of a story that's been in my mind for a while: DP, Gecko, and Coyote of Bad Shape.  It's autobiographical too.  I'd be that parrot on the left.<img src="http://www.shellcatstudio.com/drawingaday/05_05/05_08_05.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> When doing comics about myself, I find it very unnerving to draw myself and those close to me accurately for some reason.  So I draw cartoon animals instead.  The same theory applies as Maus (if you haven't read it, DO IT NOW DO IT NOW GET IT READ IT WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!).  I keep getting people calling this "furry," which it is not.  Furries are more human proportioned.  The only character who is even slightly furry is Coyote.  Mostly because if I didn't give her some kind of figure ... with that short hair she looks like a dude.  No real way around it with that one.  But anyway, Bad Shape chronicles the misadventures of DP as she falls in love with Gecko.  However, DP is betrayed when, as soon as she finds out DP's plan, snatches up Gecko for herself.  The story is very real, very true, and I plan to put it on paper someday.The next one is a different pairing for a different setting.  These are two as yet unnamed characters, who have a very simple story of "boy meets girl."  Only both happen to be corporate asassins in a cyberpunk setting.  <img src="http://www.shellcatstudio.com/drawingaday/05_05/05_09_05.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> The main point of this story is a love story.  A normal relationship that turns out to have a few more eccentricies than either previously thought.  The two of them discover their main source of income, and rather than feeling betrayed or threatened, simply see it as another step in their relationship.  The violence is a backdrop to the story, and the man is the main character.  He finds very little exciting in his work, as exciting as it would seem, and his story becomes much darker later.  He eventually becomes a villian for another character in the setting, but today I've decided you all should see him in his youthful days of lust and life.Wellp, that's all for tonight.  In between catching up on comic inking and webcomic, I'll be throwing up more sketches.  Please be patient with me.</blockquote>

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