One thing that Tom impressed on me was that he expected me to produce some art that took more than five minutes. So I knuckled down and took ten.
These are the same kids as in the earlier post. You may notice that the designs are pretty different, as are their character bios which are a lot better thought out in the new version. Also I was advised to have a definite main character, not the three-way ensemble I was picturing. That turned out to be Milo, the dorky kid, who went from a standard-issue sensitive kid reacting to his environment, to a person with an agenda and his own weird way of looking at the world. That leaves Ezra to play the role of antagonist now, while Milo's innocent/fearful expression has been transferred to Truffle, the little pixie girl.
I also put them in some environments this time around:
Once again Faith came through like a total trouper and helped me write the story ideas, whilst handling baby food and nappies. Basically I throw a bunch of bad ideas at her, she throws a bunch of bad ideas back at me, and hopefully somewhere in there one of us says something I can use. It's great writing with your spouse because you don't have to coordinate schedules. And you can leave her name off the finished product. But if I ever got rich off this and she divorced me she actually would be entitled to half.
Probably won't hear anything for another couple months. If I get shot down I hope I have the intestinal fortitude to keep developing it anyway.
