@seranazentha

I like to stream and work out. I watch videos and go out with friends. Or I just pray and go to church and rrad about the angels, they're very fascinating!

1. Creator name

Serana Zentha

2. Comic name

Shelter

3. Comic Link

https://globalcomix.com/c/shelter-1/chapters/en/1/1

4. Describe your comic and tell us about it!

Shelter is about a girl named Kokabi who wishes to be a breeder, but because she fills a role in the family shop as an alchemist, she needs to work twice as hard to become the breeder she always dreamed of being. With the help of Neolo, her best friend from a clan of renowned breeders, she sets her eyes on the chu showcase. But something seems off about all of this...wasn't breeding supposed to be fun?

5. If you want to, upload your favorite page to share that awesome art!

Can't post images on web, so here is a link to my least bad page (All my good pages are from chapter 15 and on cause I've gotten better since then...hopefully when i finish the last two pages of the manga I can edit everything and upload it then. I hope you will all be patient with my progress as a creator, and enjoy the story in spite of the art!)

https://globalcomix.com/c/shelter-1/chapters/en/48/1

Ohh my GOS I meant not anything NSFW do NOT ask me for porn please

Hello all. So, I'm going to start working and doing art, and ended up deciding i will utilize my patreon more. I am in college and need the money and will draw anything NSFW. I have some things posted there already and will soon post more. I may even make future chapters available for a price before they go up here but I would need a bigger audience first if anything.

So for now, please donate and one time payments for commissions are welcome. The link is below. I dont just do characters I also do landscapes and animals and can do perspective and multiple shots.

https://patreon.com/Seranazentha?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkhttps://patreon.com/Seranazentha?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

@ArtCrumbs good to know. I'm up to my neck with college work so it will be good to reference later!

For future prospects, I was wondering if anyone had ideas as to where to advertise their series that isn't Instagram or Twitter (I don't want to attract that sort of demographic to my series, too much likelihood of potential drama for any and all reasons)

If you all have had any successful ventures on other platforms, please let me know. I would be very thankful

@ArtCrumbs I agree with everything here and I jave actually been worried about the less is more part, I always worried if I didn't have enough, would it look bland? I have been thinking about this in my recent write ups and it has been done for the most part, thankfully (in my opinion)

The inly thing I disagree with is the 4th element. It could be a mess up on my part (I may have no conveyed it well back then) but Kokabi does not want to be a healer (nor does she resent her role, merely she resents she is seen as being unable to pursue a breeder role because her sister Thia already fills said role, and was only able to after bothering her mother enough) Looking back at what I wrote I dont remember ever writing she wanted to be a healer, maybe at one point I wrote a specific piece of dialogue that made it seem that way and I don't remember. If so, please tell me because thats a huge error on my end.

What comes to mind is when she tends to puu, but thats simply something that came with her role as an alchemist/apothecary. Its a skill she already has based off her assigned role. She is simply using what she already has as a skill and this will actually be elaborated on when I post the chapters I have finished later on. I thought I didnt have to spell it out because Botanicals (the name of their shop, referring to plants) are used for cosmetics and remedies. (Fun fact: they also do more miscellaneous stuff but the focus is in the aformentioned) It's on the first page and I thought people would pick up on that but I guess I messed up because its not the main focus of the page, its very small and I'll probably edit that on the final draft release when I finish this to make that more clear. Thats definitely my bad and I can't blame you for not noticing such a footnote

She is upset she can't pursue a new role, but she understands her role in the family. She doesnt want to only do that, if that makes sense. She is fine with her talents, it just isnt the only thing she want's to do.

Another fun fact relevant to the discussion: she doesnt want to receive guinea pigs because the popular belief (as someone who owns guinea pigs) is that they are easy animals. (Spoiler, they really arent as explained in the first chapter. They are high matenance and need a friend, it is not recommended they be bought alone) I also assumed I did not have to explain that, either but then again that depends in the readers knowledge of guinea pigs. (I have a difficult time picking and choosing what and when to explain things. I am mindful of over explaining or telling and not showing. I try my best not to make the audience feel like they are stupid and sometimes, i end up missplacing it)

As you read through the manga you will see she always prefers to be challenged (besides the one part after her and Neolo fight where she explains her and her sisters don't fight very well or rough, they aren't the smartest pairs and she has no experiencing in what real combat is. Thia does, but her insinuated illegal activity because of said combat background would not be tolerated at the home, hence why her mother is angry at her even dhowing up back home, but I wanted to keep the specific reason ambiguous and up for interpretation for now. So, there's some lore)

All in all I could definitely update some things and make things a little more clear, but its good to know my only mistakes are in the early chapters and not all over the place. I am glad to have grown a lot on my own, even if it was slow. I will consider everything else and run my stuff through a grammar checker. In later chapters its usually smaller mistakes but I had some pretty big mess ups early on its practically horrid lol.

I'll also work on text. Sometimes, I get worried that if I dont make things expressive or intricate enough to show whats going on or to make it interesting it'll be boring and I end up screweing up and forgetting "Hey, idiot, you need soace for your dialogue" I have been trying to remedy that in recent chapters and that has been a common complaint I exoected from the few people who actually do want to see me improve. I definitely plane to fix that as well in the final release

Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad I can do better with this info

Looking for some insightful feedback on any chapter besides the first (I am aware of its issues and a typo that needs to be fixed but I don't have access to the original text files so I'd have to redo that entire page and I was in a rush so I'll fix it in final release, as well as the art)

I am working on chapter 17 right now and my art has improved substantially but my current chapters can't reflect that as of now because I have only published the beginning of chapter 10.

I would link a recent page, but I haven't uploaded any of them anywhere and I don't know how to upload them aside from the comic section rather than a community post

My content never gets criticism which is a bit disheartening because how am I supposed to know how to improve, ya know?

So, I thought I'd hop on forums and see what you think. It's fairly rough around the edges and the art style is a bit unique to manga so I expect much to be said on the needs work end, but I want that. I am having terrible writers block and need some considerations at the moment. I need a reflection take.

It might be difficult to see said changes until chapter 17 and up because the next 6 chapters have already been complete but I will consider them

Respect is a given of course, but if it's a genuine truth I can't really complain, can I? I can respect that.

Just no senseless dialogue

I usually story board 8 pages a day for 3 days on average, following up with rough draft inking 3 pages a day for 8 days (average out of 24 pages) then I spend three days screentoning nd cleaning the art. Might change it up to 8 days of inking and screentoning since, surprisingly, storyboarding is the hardest part of it all

I usually makes the scripts far in advance of all of this that way I know what I'm doing beforehand. I like to make sure the storyboards are nearly one to one with said scripts, minor changes not withstanding.

I'm halfway through my series. I have 10 chapters up but its 24 long and I have finished 16 chapters so far in the span of 3-4 years (a year break in between) My series was planed after a flop of mine and how poor the art was, so, this series was meant to be a wing-it series to allow me to make mistakes but my art improved so much from advice I was given it became far more serious. So, I made it a goal to make it pop off as hard as it could (Relatively speaking, not concerning views or attention). I gave myself a goal and a deadline with some wiggle room so when I finish this I'll retry my first manga. Also, this manga is a prequel spinoff to my original manga even though they are two severely different plots, but they still manage to connect heavily and hold meaning.

I hope I can actually spread hope through my comics. I want everyone to know the truth, even if and when rough. I want to write things that may be challenging and unpopular even if I really don't want to write them, because I feel no one wants to talk about it or is simply afraid to. I want to have genuine non malicious conversations, and I hope my content can reflect that