How to generate success with an OC -- one year later

Last Saturday was the official first anniversary that the DeviantArt world known the AI-made creation Lydia Goulet (or Golan in english) after one attempt that made it almost close to perfection. One year and tons of AI-works later, it's now on a narrative that I've worked there since the begin of last summer.

It's easily a project that is done from passion and heart. But Lydia having a long journey before to be the lovable, tall, athletic and nerdy-like girl we'll know today. It went with a series of misfires, after to be overwhelmed that the main fursona Christine series will eventually be going to a permanent end. (A last attempt from AI in the later weeks told me that this is it for Christine and that I don't wanna be associated with its name anymore.)

Fewer knows that Lydia have to own a debt to Vanessa "Giraffe!", a sort of monster-like tall girl with an infinity addiction for music and dance. It was the first time that I going forward with a human character at opposed of an Anthro one. I tried many times with her before to cancelled all out in 2024. Reasons are that it is very difficult to be engaged on a narrative that consists of just... tall girls speaking about tall girls problems!

No mention that the Vanessa storytelling seems to share the same problems than Christine by be sometimes, that ran out of focus or that I slide in every directions and took one against all else. Compared to what it came out today, Vanessa's anatomy and sense of heroism is a little odd. The characters looked so interchangeable and too much-Christine like that it's not surprise if Christine became a giantess fursona vixen girl... where they having no reasons to be like there!

Then, came a genuine premise-- A follow-up of the Christine saga, but from the original 2010-2016 series with what called out a descendant of the fursona girl we'll know by featuring Sarah. Sadly, I weren't very confident with that, that it was abandonned after only fewer pages. No mention that the interactions between human and furries in the same universe is something that were a little out-of-fashion, on a time where cartoons movies starring Anthropomorphic characters took too much public space than the safety and civility problems in our roads or what we going to ate tommorow for less.

Me, by trying too hard to be appealing!

When the success and appeal of Lydia came full circle, one new contender has taking its steps in even if that was short-lasted -- A wedged-girl name Abby, which it was litterally created at a joke... for the many times wannabe cartoonists took the presence of girls characters at leads as they were parts of their own experience. I mean, I know that the world of comics, BD and graphic novels count the majority of artists at women, and even Greg in the older days, claimed the lack of girls protagonists at that time, (When that existed, yet!) but that late saturation is due to the way internet normalize the stock loud-mouth heroines who are dress like Sex-toys by please the horny losers from their screens. 

No mention that in later times, the internet is very uncontrollable by the many hypersexualization of women, real or otherwise and children on nude or other NSFW that are circulated regularly on many 18+ rated websites without no one took the consequences. But about Abby, I have withdrawn it when someone on DeviantArt, started to stalk me about THAT character, by asking me tons of silly questions about, and without to known my person or that I'll took the time to developped her background. This was a mistake, but it was a pretty good excuse to get Lydia Golan back.

My past attempts to trying on the 18+ Rated filter comics-art were parts of why The Two Meter... err, I mean, Lydia and Tommy came in life since past June 13th. After an unsuccesful effort last year, I returning it back about a story that dealt about friendship yes, or how to met a past old friend, but to tackle the changes in the bond throughout the delicate days of adolescence. I have moved away with conventional teen stuffs stories to one that went further with sexuality, NSFW and nudity but without that it distract the point of the narrative. This is not a love story, neither a friendship one, but to face with the many changes in life and that the past childhood friend you'll know before is not ready to get back... and that went with hilarious visuals of Tommy been the target of abuses, and oh, that's a refreshing change of the tedious and manufactured storytelling thing of mine from Post-Pandemic days!

A lot of HentaiEra comics were parts of the inspiration, even if that have to not happening that way. It was just a turn of events. Like many grand stories out there, the most unpredictable outings/ideas are what sells the story's more than the main subject matter.

Lydia came first a very sophisticated and intelligent short-blonde hair girl, and by own glasses in her face is not a nerdy thing, but to make her a little more unique or versatile to the formulaic heroines that were often populated. I have already 28 pages to be made in fewer times, which it's a plus, considering that the ever-firsts Christine pages from the early '10s can took me around two-three weeks before to get it done! This is clear to me that my saga of Fursona characters are over and I only wish that many animated features from the mass-market stop to using these if there's nothing originally or witty to work with. This is like getting back the theatrical animated shorts of old where talking-animals characters and chases become more for formula than an artistic one.