Wolf Song Attack, Defend or Modify.

Since it seems like there is some confusion, critique and every thing else floating around I’ve decided to put my say into things. I call it self evaluation.

Wolf Song, just another wolf comic on DA inspired by the goddess of comic making Kay Fedewa? No.

Facts (defend): Wolf Song was started on March 15, 2001 when the current main character, Jade Shadowblood, was created. In 2002, Ashley Cheeks, started to create a storyline that was originally a fan-comic of the author’s obsessions at the time, Inuyasha and Samurai Jack. However, knowing that her character would never be placed in either of the shows, she decided to create her own storyline between 2002 and 2004. After constant rewrites and many, many character creations (most of which created between 2003 and 2004) the storyline for Wolf Song was completed (or so she thought). By 2004, Wolf’s Rain the dubbed English version was brought to America and Ashley had to rethink her plot since she had a similar storyline to the anime. In 2005, she was inspired by her best friend Morgan Robertson and her 5th grade teacher history teacher Mrs. Lamar, to write about war, after the engaging discussion she had about the American Revolution. Sadly, by 2006, Ashley joined the Deviantart.com website where she learned of the BBA. Despite the criticism she was bound to get, Ashley pressed onward to start her comic as a way to improve on her art and writing style. Though her dream is to be an animator, she has never made any plans of publishing her own work.

Critque (attack/defend): Now that the BBA has become the most well known wolf related comic any other comic with wolves and war has become the target for criticism, some of it good and some of it bad. Wolf Song still needs much work when it comes to diction and artwork. Wolf Song’s plot seems very vague, there are good and bad wolves that are fighting over some treasures that we have yet to see so what’s the big hype over? The artist is obviously developing her style and though there has been immense improvement over her years, she still had much to learn. She needs to study the basics of anime closer and needs to reword many of her pages (especially the earlier ones). The uploads are slow and after two years of work she has yet to reach the 30th page or get out of the prologue for that matter. I mean what are we waiting on?

We are waiting on her…everyone has a life outside of DA and so though she wishes to upload more and more she has very limited time to work on pages that take between 20 -50 hours. The storyline seems like the ‘typical wolf comic’ but it wasn’t the norm when the author first started working on the comic (and honestly why fix something that isn’t broken?). It is obvious that the storyline is not a cop out of the BBA, or at least wasn’t intended. Also, considering the fact that it is necessary to have obviously over 30 pages of prologue information, something must be deeper then what the people on DA see. It is also not the most popular wolf comic on DA, nor is it intended to be. She did not plan to get so much hype over her comic (and honestaly didn’t care whether it became “opular” or not). It is merely an artistic experiment that was needed for her to improve.

So what now? (modify) with all the crits and reviews I have received, I TAKE ALL I HEAR INTO THOUGHT. I have spent much time with college art professors, college English professors, professional Disney animators, historians, published writers and illustrators and have been lucky to hear their wisdom. I am also very lucky to have people on DA to tell me to cut the crap and change some of this “art” cause it looks like barf on a platter! And lucky enough to have and to spend free time with me to critique and change things in the story that don’t make sense. Lastly, I’m lucky to have all my friends, fans and supporters who keep me going on the project (though I’d love to name you all, I am lazy XD!)




~Organization-Failure



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