Forever Young - Process Page

Cheers!

2010-02-01T08:41:00.000-08:00

I hereby happily announce that book 5, Rise of Darkness, is at 16% right now! Hurray! 12 episodes from the new story already written. I have no idea how to fill the rest of the book, but I'll manage :) Inspiration will come eventually :) At least now I don't feel the pressure of 'OMG I only have 15 more episodes to finish this all off!'.
Now I just have 'OMG how am I going to fill all those other episodes now?!' in my system! XD

New art:

The dresses from the the Evolving image:
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/The-dresses-148669462
Includes Naraku and Whisper Shadowhunter... and two old, old characters...
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/The-First-The-Last-Eternity-148827488
A reference of Matsuru
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Fy-Reference-Matsuru-148955620
A reference of Grasshopper
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/FY-Reference-Grasshopper-148965521
A new Evolving Image: Forever Mage!
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Evolving-Image-Forever-Mage-150737188
Kimu and Mateo
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Pull-out-the-Fire-extinguisher-151807090
Kimu at work
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Before-the-fall-151808292

Wow, so much art! And more writing! I don't know about you, but it makes me happy =D

Status Update

2009-12-08T01:02:00.000-08:00

Sorry, ye all XP

I'm working a lot for an exposition I have in April. About 80% of the art that will be sold there is Forever Young Art! And of course I'll bring the books along :)
I haven't been able to write for a loooooong time, but I'm currently working on Grasshopper's (Art completed) and Matsuru's References.
New art:
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Mumea-Version-2-143388026 -- a new test of Mumea
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/FY-Reference-Kai-143482026 -- Kai's reference

That was about it. Sorry, things are slow at the moment. But, like said before: if you have a million or so to spare, I'll be able to spend time on FY non-stop!

I'll try to get back here XD Sorry!

2009-10-27T03:34:00.001-07:00

The New Dorothy by ~kittyocean on deviant ART

Not yet updated?

2009-06-29T11:46:00.001-07:00

But already online! Book 2 is about to be released (so exciting!), but here you can watch some drawings I made and Gift Art I got! Isn't that amazing!

http://mistygemmy.deviantart.com/art/Gift-sushi-127674407 -- Thank you so much, Misty Gemmy! I so did NOT expect to get something awesome from her =D It's so cute!!
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Picture-on-my-wall-120426860 - Kimu and Mateo
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/FYE265-The-weeping-Willow-125776718 - Willow
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/FY-Reference-Naraku-125813904 - Art Reference - Naraku
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Forever-Young-Progress-Chart-126340415 - Progress Chart (need to find a place for it XP - Asides DA)
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Sketchy-Kai-127667426 - Kai
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/FY-Reference-Sushi-127670634 - Art Reference - Sushi

Yeah, things are slow at the moment. But that's because book 2 is coming out!!

Site updated!

2009-06-12T10:51:00.000-07:00

I completely forgot to tell I updated the website http://foreveryoung.keep-in-mind.nl on the 3rd of june. O.o Sorry! I updated all the profiles from the entire Eternity series!

What else? Well, I hope to write a new episode sunday. And no worries, episode 263 is no longer the latest one!

Almost!

2009-05-31T13:27:00.000-07:00

Today I finished episode 263, meaning I reached almost 51% of book 4! So much has been written since the beginning of my 3 week vacation and today was the top! 5 episodes, an entire (yet small XD) arc was both started and finished today. Never before have I written so much on one day!

263 is a sad one; it almost made me cry myself! It adds a lot more depth to Ao, as it actually mostly revolves around him this time. Sushi is important too, but not as important as Ao. Mah-Lin barely appears and neither does Naraku XP. However, they all make a shocking discovery! Le gasp!

Okay, that last part ruined the mood XD Sorry. It's really a sad ending. Or should I say beginning?

At this moment, I don't know yet how to fill the following chapters, so I might not write tomorrow. Perhaps I use the time to re-do the character pages, or, what would be even more amazing: do the other pages from the Studio Tsunami site!

Or maybe draw those entrance pictures/splash images I've been wanting to do. I actually also need a new one for Forever Young's section, so advice is welcome!!

Holy High Ones! Yay!

2009-05-22T11:47:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I wrote 2 Forever Young Book 4 episodes. Today I even wrote 3 episodes! I am so happy and proud; I'm back on my groove! The energy is flowing, the excitement has no end!... I just wished I slept better XD Ai!... Can't have it all!

The website is moved!

2009-05-11T13:43:00.000-07:00

The website is moved :) The new adress is http://foreveryoung.keep-in-mind.nl :) Go and look! And please let me know if I missed any broken links.

Website needs to be moved

2009-04-25T11:24:00.001-07:00

Geocities will close later this year!
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html
Yahoo has decided to close Gecities, which means I will have to find a new host for my Forever Young website. If you know ANY free webhosting that does NOT drown in advertisements, please let me know.

I need to move 3 websites:
- Forever Young Eternity
- Serenay Moon
- Studio Tsunami (personal site)

Why the heck are they doing this??!

Drawing Kimu

2009-04-22T12:32:00.000-07:00

And her name is...

2009-04-18T13:13:00.001-07:00

Lady of the wind

2009-04-17T10:47:00.001-07:00

Continuation

2009-04-17T08:28:00.001-07:00

Okay, 4 times is a charm XP

2009-04-13T12:17:00.000-07:00

3 times is a charm?

2009-04-13T10:32:00.000-07:00

Again?

2009-04-13T06:28:00.000-07:00

What the...?

2009-04-13T04:56:00.000-07:00

Estimation-prize book 2

2009-04-07T11:20:00.000-07:00

Just a short notice:

The estimation-prize for book 2 is known: an estimated maximum prize of 31 euros. It seems like a lot, but book 2 is a lot bigger/thicker and has a longer story. The prize can still drop, but it's best to prepare for the worst ^_^ And if the prize indeed drops, it's only a bonus for us all!

Not much news...

2009-03-28T03:11:00.000-07:00

Since the last version is about to be send to the publisher, there isn't much news.

Yume, Graven and Sute (book 5)
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Storytime-114638941
Fanart of Cecia:
http://mene.deviantart.com/art/FY-Gryphon-and-Cecia-117341618
Fanart of Naraku, Ao, Kai, Hane, Rain and Keiran:
http://acrocat.deviantart.com/art/Go-Naraku-116328414

Maybe these last 2 fanart pieces will inspire you? ;)

Website is updated!

2009-02-24T08:13:00.000-08:00

HA! I did it! http://www.geocities.com/foreveryoungeternity/ is finally updated! Let's do a dance together now!

Oh yeah, and I gave the sidebar a different colour. It was poking my eyes out; way too bright!

There it is!

2009-02-23T13:38:00.000-08:00

I posted the cover online! Check out: http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Forever-Young-Eternity-2-Cover-113894180 !

I also gathered the art for the update:

I have about 21 new fanart pieces
I have about 24 new art pieces by me!
2 of the pieces by me are not yet posted on DeviantArt yet, meaning they will most likely stay unique to the site!

No, I didn't do the update yet. Gathering links takes most of the time; now it's only copy-paste and upload... but that will be done soon... soon!!!

Inbetween

2009-02-22T13:10:00.000-08:00

A little update, because soon I will post the cover for book 2. Why?

The publisher accepted my manuscript. They were quite enthusiastic!
I don't need to gather 80 adresses, only 50. And I'm way above that!
The contract will be signed really, really soon!
The extras are finished; I found back some really old drawing!
New art!

Mizu is added to the evolving image:
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/From-2008-to-2010-107998278
Two Weather Fairies (Yndian) are drawn:
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Yndian-112737732
I found back an old drawing made in 2007; for season/book 4:
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Found-Back-Season-4-113797436

And I will SO update the website as soon as I can

Updates

2009-01-16T12:14:00.000-08:00

I wanted to update the website since I have time to spare, but all my files are on a different computer XD.

E-mail gathering is going fine; I'm over 50 now. I still need some more adresses. Cool that some people already pre-ordered!
No reply from the publisher yet, but that was to be expected. They get new manuscripts every day!
New art!

Evolving image (new part added each month):
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/From-2008-to-2010-107998278
Serena Saichi from Forever Young Sci-Fi:
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Warmth-109116194
A poem:
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Forever-Young-109366266

It's a little update, but soon I will update the webpage... and then all this will be added =D And that webpage is soooo overdue!

New Art and a Personality Quiz!

2008-12-24T13:36:00.000-08:00

Done by me:

Watercolours Yunakara
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Yunakara-High-One-106947416
Watercolours Eeraah-Nohaja
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Eeraah-Nohaja-High-One-107088542
Watercolours Eeraah-Nouschka
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Eeraah-Nouschka-High-One-107089457
Watercolours Cecia
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Cecia-High-One-107289973

And a Personality Quiz! A long one though. To find out what your Seken birthdate would be!

http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Time-Kill-Seken-Personality-Q-107300367

Have a bit trouble with the submission form for the publisher as well as gathering 80 e-mailadresses :( And Christmas is not helping either XD

New fanart!

2008-12-15T12:54:00.000-08:00

Gah, I so need to update the Forever Young Homepage; I hope to have time soon. But this way I have all things organised and close to me XP. Updating should go faster then!

Fanart time!

Teria by Zakou Nenharma:
http://zakou.deviantart.com/art/FYPortret-Teria-106135969
Sushi by Zaylie:
http://zaylie.deviantart.com/art/Sushi-for-KittyOcean-106255253
Lotus (Iri's eldest daughter) (Art Trade):
http://jyinxe.deviantart.com/art/AT-Kittyocean-105528344

By the way, I finished the last chapter image for book 2, as well as finished editing. Soon I can send it to the publisher =D

Not much news

2008-12-11T01:15:00.001-08:00

I hope to finish editing book 2 this weekend, as well as drawing the last chapter image (chapter 5; 4 and 6 are completed), so it can be send to the publisher for judgement.

New drawings up!

Batch marker set: Nani, Celeste, Yelle, Illiana, Phoebe, Scarlett, Irina and Iri:
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/FY-Batch-Marker-II-105773013
Watercolours Effhaah (High One):
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Effhaah-High-One-105774055
Watercolours Kyshaa (High One):
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Kyshaa-High-One-106020192

Nothing new with book 4. Dutch version book 1 is in the last editing phase.

Fast Updates

2008-11-12T06:07:00.000-08:00

New Art:

Whisper Shadowhunter:
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Whisper-Shadowhunter-Cintiq-102683030
Mumea (a possible future what-if character):
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Mumea-102589232
Princess Kimu:
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Princess-Kimu-102158293

Book 2 progress:

Hope to finish the 3rd editingphase this week. Then one phase left and it's off to the publisher!
Cover is about 40% done. Hope to get to finish one side tonight
Still to do: Seken dictionary part + chapter images

Book 4:

Nothing new written

New Forever Young Art

2008-10-20T06:21:00.000-07:00

I finally have something to post here! What is posted here, is not yet posted at the website.

Posted an old Mayonaka design at my DA Gallery:
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Old-Art-Mayonaka-100876387
Got myself a Cintiq; made Kimu as a test:
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Kimu-in-snow-101078878
Project KiMa wedding (could be already posted at the site)
http://kittyocean.deviantart.com/art/Project-KiMa-Wedding-98364633
Latest Fanart:
http://sailorenergy.deviantart.com/art/ARTTRADE-Kimu-n-Teria-100680247

I hope to write a new chapter soon again =D

The page has opened!!

2008-10-03T10:31:00.001-07:00

And that is about it, because all the latest updates are in the side bar XD With some luck, I can work on the kiss doll tonight a bit.