Song for the Day: Christmas Island by Lake

I have roughly 200 chapters worth of "art" saved on my drive right now. The reason my posting is sometimes inconsistent has nothing to do with how much art I have and everything to do with most of that art being old and thusly, not great. If you have any opinions on consistency of posting and how you feel about receiving old art, please tell me... same goes for longer chapters, because the REALLY big thing that's holding me back from posting right now is that a lot of my art is for certain stories I haven't really explained on here. One. 

One story.

I've been meaning to get around to it forever. 

Anyways, Riptide probably never got properly explained on my original document, but "explaining" Riptide feels like an oxymoron. It's more of a vague feeling manifest into a book, in this case the kind of melancholy you get near the ocean or on vacation when you cast forwards into the future or back into the past and see your whole life spread out on either side, a thousand times harder than it is at that one second you've set aside for yourself to breathe, and knowing one way or another that what you've cultivated can not last, that it was possibly little more than an illusion to begin with.

That sounds deep but I think a lot of people try to write books based on some intuitive feeling, the kind of space where a book should be, and a lot of those books don't get finished and aren't very good, because there's no substance to them, just the compulsion to create something. (Have you ever been somewhere or done something and you're like, damn, this would make a great book?  Yeah. Yeaaaaah.) Thusly, even though I'm very emotionally attached to Riptide, I don't think it'll exist at any point in the future. No plot. 

It's about a castaway who has been banned from several dimensions coming home to Omnia just before the Veil closes and taking care of three highly gifted children who are all orphans. It's basically just her being a mom even though, well, interdimensional smuggler and con artist? Wholesome. These are her kids, who I draw less.

A lot of these pictures were me experimenting with some new style. I don't fully understand what it entails either, but here you are. Top is Seagull, bottom is Waves.

This would be Devestation. She's a sea tortle

More of the kids.

Tryna do a simplified style without it looking dumb and wow

Waves looks Like That