Update info

(This is an update I put on my main blog, Digital Brush Stroke, but I felt it deserved to be here as well in case anyone is interested in Pure Eden. Because this is affecting the work I'm doing for it as well as my normal review stuff.)

Hey everyone, I'm sorry that there hasnt been any updates recently and I'm trying to fix that, but I'd like everyone to know what's happening, without all the vagueness.

Simply put I'm losing people, its all happening at once and at a speed that scares me. For the past year or two my Grandfather has slowly deteriorated due to Parkinsons, to the point where he can barely speak and eat, let alone walk. And this is a guy whos been around the world with the army, survived battles that he will not speak of, taught children the wonder of music, raised a family while travelling around the world. So when this giant of a man sits crippled in a chair, crying because his wife is gone and he can no longer live the life he once had.

And my Grandmother doesnt help any of this, Alzhemiers has taken the person she was and replaced it with someone whos response to help is anger, rather than thanks. A person who for no fault of her own hurts people she loves, and with each passing day loses another part of herself.

And that is within my family, recently 2 friends of my family have died in the last week. A friend of my sisters was killed when he was hit by a car in Swadlincote, and a friend of my fathers died when he lost control of his Ferrari and hit a tree.

I didnt know these people well, but I can see the pain on my family's faces and for someone like me who's mood reflects that of others, I can feel the loss. And it makes me think of the pain people are suffering and I worry, for while I may not have know my sisters friend "Frodo" I did know the son of my Fathers friend. I feel sorrow and worry for him, for the pain he feels and in part the pain I know I will feel, for I will feel loss sooner rather than later.

I feel almost paralysed by it all, unable to lift a pencil or pen to put thoughts to paper. Instead I want to curl up into a ball and wish everything better, though I know it wont be, I know that this is going to continue and I will keep losing people and I dont want it to happen.

It makes me wonder if life is worth it, and right now I'm not entirely sure but I'm going to keep on living it. And maybe I'll bring some life into this world, a part of me given shape and soul with the help of another.

For I guess thats what we all want.

A family.

Updates? what updates!?

Well in case you guys havent guessed, yes Pure Eden is undergoing a hiatus at the moment due to 2 main reasons.

1. Applying to University and making new work for a portfolio, the amount of time required for this is massive, taking up a lot more than I would actually like, but its something that has to be done.

2. Recently I have been having major troubles in making concepts for the Exile that I feel fit with the image I have of them, they have been far too sleek and manufactored, rather than the scavenged parts wielded and bolted together haphazerdly to create their cyborgs and war machines.

There is an upside to all this, because of all the work I've been doing, there has been a massive imporvement in the quality of my work, and so the comic should be of a higher quality than I had origionally planned.

I am still working on Pure Eden and will continue to work on it, a bit of patience will be needed folks before you can see the work :)

Site Changes

Currently the custom template for the website is being designed as we speak, but i will be using blogger as a kind of mock up, so I have a better idea of where to put all the features, buttons, magic macguffins and such.

And so it begins?

Hey folks and folkettes, for those who don't know, I've currently got a comic project on the go called Pure Eden, a mix of sci-fi, fantasy and post apocalypse all rolled into one. Currently the site wont have anything up apart from this post, but I will be putting up some test strips up hopefully in the next few weeks in order to see how it will look. But until then how about I give you a bit of information on the setting.

Technology is the center of our modern life and still is after it had destroyed most of the planet with an experimental weapon. A few hundred years later and the world has changed, the energy spread by the weapon has transformed the landscape, its inhabitants and the normal state of physics.

Creatures melded together to form chimeras, living beings of stone and metal, new lifeforms have come into being and with islands of rock and earth floating through the sky, seemingly done with magic, such mysterius power is used by the 2 biggest groups of people left in this world, for both the maintance of their small plots of Eden and in its defence.

The Empire is ruled by the Blood Family, thanks to being the sole users of Combat Class Mana technology. A dictatorship bent on conquering others, taking new technology and subverting it for their own use, all in the name of their Goddess of Technology.

The Exiles on the other hand are a loose group of monks, warriors and scavengers, banded together after being exiled from the Empire due to them trafficking in forbidden tech and for becoming a meld of man and machine, cyborgs. Even though they worship the same Goddess, they are mercillesly hunted down by the Empires army, but thanks to their true understanding of technology and willingness to use prosthetics, they have held the line even though they are outnumbered 50:1.

And this what the world has been for the past 3 decades, a constant battle for survival over resources, technology and religion, past mistakes continue on in a world where science is god and magic is technology.

I would like to note 2 things, A: this short synopsis is still in the drafting phase, the main details are there but there are a few things that may change, especially the names of the "Empire and Exiles", i've yet to come up with a snazzy name for both groups yet.

And B: this will be a comic that leans more to the adult side of things, there will be blood and gore, it will touch a few sensitive issues but there will be little if any naughty stuff, theres enough of that stuff on the internet already and I ain't gonna add any more to it.

Till then stay clean peeps!