FAQ

I keep getting asked the same questions recently, and I feel it's much easier to have them all in one place than to answer every time someone asks, so yeah...

Also, if you have a question and it isn't on here, feel free to ask! I really don't mind.

1. What program do you use? 

For the longest time I used GIMP 2.0, but in the few months I've been using FireAlpaca, and it's so much better. 
I also use a tablet for my work, which is a 'Wacom Intuos Pen and Touch', which has also been pretty awesome for art. Sadly I'm a klutz and I've already broken my tablet pen a little, so it can be faulty at times. 

2. Are you open for requests, commissions, trades, etc?

No for each and every single one. I have bright colourful stamps on my front page saying what is open and closed, so I don't get why I keep on being asked this?... If you've asked this and been ignored, it's because the answer is already there, and I don't want to repeat myself over and over when the information is in your face.

No, asking specially through note will not convince me to change my mind.

3. Will you draw my character if I give you more points?

Having issues with a number of people trying to bribe me with points after I've said commissions are closed. 
I appreciate that you like my art so much, but offering me more points won't change my stance of commissions. Sometimes I'm just too busy to work on art, and giving more MORE points doesn't magically make me unbusy.

Plus it'd be pretty unfair on those who wanted a commission but I told them they couldn't. You just don't tell a person that an item is not for sale, and then sell it two seconds later to someone else who offered a higher price. It's not fair and I won't do it.

4. Can I use your characters for my RP?

No, I'll never allow my characters to be used by someone else. They're my brain-babies and they mean a lot to me, and I have spent a lot of time working on them over the years. 

5. Can I use your art?

Another no. I don't care what it's for; forums, DA avatars, or anything else. I do not appreciate my art being used, and if I catch anyone using it I will report you.

6. Can I use the colours for canon characters from your character sheets?

Of course~ you don't even have to ask, or even give credit, just go ahead! This is for canon characters ONLY however. Please do not use the colours or designs of my OC's.

7. Will you upload a character sheet for all the characters?

I get asked this so often, so I needed to answer this here. If a character's name is listed on a ref sheet, they will get a sheet of their own. If they dont have a name and only have '???', they do not have a set design or a name, but they will get character sheets later on.

I can take a while with some sheets I know, but I do intend to have all of them uploaded eventually.

8. Where do you find the names for your characters?

I use Babynology.com for characters if I am looking for something with a specific meaning for a character, especially main characters.
I use Babynames.net if I'm just looking for a decent name that'd suit.I mostly use it for side characters, or background characters.

9. Your character's name means a rude word in another language, can you change it?

Not really, no, I honestly don't care if their name means dick or nuts in some other language. They have different meanings in African, and my characters are African, so what's the problem? Just giggle at it and move on, because it'd be too weird to call them something else after all this time.

10. Is your Uru related to Zira?

If I had a penny for every time I got asked this, I'd be rich. 

No, my Uru isn't related to Zira. Once upon a time she was though; I originally had Zira be the cub of Scar and Sarabi, making Zira her grandaughter. This isn't the case anymore and now I have Zira completely unrelated to the Pride Land Lions. Uru's design still somewhat reflects their old relationship however, as when I redesigned her I couldn't bear to get rid of the stripe.

But I also get asked this question for other characters as well. No, just because a character has a stripe, doesn't mean they're related to Zira. 

11. Why does your Ahadi not have a black mane and green eyes? I thought it was canon that he had those traits.

With my TLK stories I try to move away from TLK:6NA. I wanted to create something unique, and I feel that too many Ahadi designs from other people look too similar... so much so that you can easily get them mixed up; DJCoulz's design is so popular and so overused it might as well be canon at this point (Not that there's anything wrong with her design, I do love it! It's just so many people use it). On top of this, when I decided to no longer make Ahadi Scar's real father, giving him a black mane and green eyes seemed pointless. 

Overall I just wanted my Ahadi to stand out among others, and I wanted him to be recognizable. I wanted people to look at him from a distance and say "Yes! That Ahadi's design was made by Demi!". I wanted to break the mold and be different. 

12. When will your next comic page be coming out?

Honestly? I don't know. I've hit a brick wall with 'A General's Folly', and I'm just not motivated to work on it at the moment...

'You Were My Heart' had also hit a brick wall there was no getting around, so it is no longer being continued. I only cared about one plot point in that entire comic, so there was really no use on continuing it. On top of that, a lot of the plot has been changed (mostly concerning Nuka's relation to Moyo) so yeah... It didn't get very far anyway, and not too many people were bothered about it, so I'm not fussed tbh.

On the other hand, I am still working on another project featuring that single plot point I was excited about... And this time it's going to be planned and plotted out a lot better. It's going to be called 'All That Remains', so keep an eye out for it sometime in the future. It's a short comic however, and probably won't be any longer than 20 pages roughly.

13. Do you plan to make other comics?

Besides 'A General's Folly' and 'All That Remains'? I honestly don't know. I do not want to make more comics because they are time consuming, and I'd rather make single pictures with the story written underneath. However I'm not much of a writer, and I wouldn't be able to make it as good as I wanted...

For the most part I'll be sticking to just short comics I think. 'A General's Folly' will be the last comic I make that is extra long with loads of story.

I have a few other ideas, but I don't want to say for definite in case I don't actually make them into comics.