Update: Sweet to Bite Too? · 6:44am Oct 7th, 2014
Hello everyone , it's once again time for my weekly blog post. I admit that I was hoping to have more for you guys today than a simple blog post, but things have gotten a little bogged down with my current project. Though the saying goes, you can't rush quality, I'm hoping to have something for you all soon. Something Sweet to Bite.
You see a few months back when Emogak first approached me about orchestrating the reading of the Candy Mare's tale on her channel, I was ecstatic about the request. I'd always thought it was one of my better stories, even if it was a little goofy and gory by equal turns. That someone else liked it enough that they wanted to feature the story for the month of October leading up to Halloween couldn't have made me happier. As we got to talking about it I let her know I'd be very willing to answer any questions she might have in order to help the project along. Though there were obvious ones about characters and characterizations, there were a few that I hadn't expected. They were about characters who's fates had been left somewhat ambiguous by the story. Specifically they were about the two members of the Mane Six who had inadvertently seemed to have survived the Candy Mare's rebirth.
What she couldn't know was that the decisions about those characters and their fates were purely intentional, and had been left ambiguous for a reason. Ever since I finished writing the original story, there was always going to be a Something Sweet to Bite Too. I had been working on the story for a long time, of and on between other projects, but talking to her about it really got me thinking about the kind of story that I would find satisfying if I was left asking the sort of questions she had asked me. Needless to say I wouldn't be talking about this if it hadn't all, at last, clicked. Something Sweet to Bite Too is in the final stages of polish and will be posted before the end of this month. Honestly as it stand I'm just waiting on the cover art, which I'm pleased to announce will be provided once again by the impeccable kvernikovskiy.
To tide you over, today I'll share a few of the preliminary sketches that he provided for me.
Extra credit, if you can guess the inspiration for these images, leave a comment and I'll let you know if you're right.
Obviously there will be more about Something Sweet to Bite Too soon.
