First off I want to apologize for the lack of updates in the past few months. I’ve unfortunately been busy with college which took up a lot of my time. The good news is though I’ve graduated now. Yay for me!
Going back to Clone let me assure you that Diane has always been on my mind, I have a ton of stories that I want to tell, it’s just that I haven’t had much time to work on them until now. Though I’ll be honest, Clone isn’t gonna take up all of my time, unless I get enough donations via my Patreon to do so I can’t make a living working on a fan comic. Now that doesn’t mean Clone is going away, it just means I’ll also be dedicating time to finding more freelance work as well as working on other projects. In fact I’ve just recently hired to work on a webcomic for the Roan RPG website (it’s a small gig but it’s a start).
As for the future of Clone, I actually have a post finished and ready to go (which is viewable on Patreon now if you’re curious), however I want to wait and create a backlog of posts before I begin posting again (I’m aiming for either a weekly or bimonthly schedule). As I am speaking the next few updates are in the process of coloring and the next chapter script (which is the biggest and most ambitious so far) is pretty much done.
I’ll also try to tone down how much I signal boost stuff like my patreon, commissions and stuff by my other artist friends on that blog (I’ve noticed I’ve been overdoing that lately and I apologize).
Overall I want to be able to produce quality content more consistently for my fans. I am very thankful for all of my followers for sticking with me this look throughout this extended hiatus.
So until next time here’s a cute drawing of Diane in a dress.
For those of you who were wondering about the status of this blog. Also the next post on this blog will feature a new comic page, that I can assure you (Unless some emergency happens. Which is unlikely.)
I know I haven’t posted much (Mainly cause my computer crashed and lost all my files on there), but here’s a comic of Ash asking Diane from @theclonethatgotaway . This is the first time I did panels. Maybe I should practice first.
Well I might just start posting in this media form
((Special thanks to everybody who sent invitations, but in the end I had to go with this guy. He drew an entire comic page, that extra effort goes a long way.))
In-Universe probably, but this is gonna be more of a fun non-canon thing. This event is meant to be mostly a collaborative effort between blogs and it’s not much fun collaborating with yourself.
“Hello everyone! It’s that time of the year, it’s time for the Annual Pony Prom! This years dates are July 7th-9th, its all weekend!
Our location this year is Canterlot! We’ve been allowed access to the royal gardens where our main activites will be, but you’re all free to roam around the beauitful city for the best pictures and dates.
How to prom? It’s simple! First, invite a person to prom. Go to their blog, and send an invitation. If they accepted, you have a partner! If not, try another person! It’s also fine to come alone.
What then? Have fun! Draw each other, write what you’re doing, plan out the weekend for the two, RP, do whatever you want to make it fun for you!
Submit drawings and stories to the blog, and I’ll publish them, or you can post them to your own blog and use the tag “Pony Prom 2017”, as that is the tag I’ll track this year.
Remember, everyone is welcome no matter the species!
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to send it in! I’d advise you to please read the FAQ and the Prom Procedure first, your question might have been answered there.
Best of luck from the Prom Team!”
((Diane might be up for this if someone asks her. ;D))
Something to keep fans occupied till the next update. This is “Diane’s Theme” for the blog The Clone That Got Away, written and composed by a good friend of mine Pennoink (Go check out his work here: http://pennoink.tumblr.com/).
Originally I was saving this for a possible Clone dub series, but seeing as how that’s unlikely to happen anytime soon I’d figure I would post it now.
The theme was inspired by the work of the late James Horner, known for composing many favorite movies but the ones in particular I cited for Penn to get an idea of what I wanted were An American Tail, Land Before Time and most notably the 1995 live action adaption of Casper (in fact you may notice several similarities between this piece of music and the track “Casper’s Lullaby”). I specifically mentioned him because I wanted Diane’s theme to have a similar tone to the early Don Bluth films, one that acknowledges that the character goes through a lot of sadness and heartbreak on their journey, but still has a feeling of optimism and that everything will be okay in the end.
With this month marking the second anniversary of his death it seemed like another appropriate reason to post this homage to him. Thank you for the many years of wonderful music James Horner. Hope Casper is keeping you company.
The next update is currently being worked on and should be out pretty soon. Though I’ll be posting something here related to the blog very soon. Not a post but something fans will definitely enjoy.
Okay after doing some tests a few nights ago I’ve found out a few things:
*Yes it is true that posts with regular links to non-tumblr sites won’t show up in searches.
*Posts to a page on your tumblr blog with links to non-tumblr sites will show up in the search.
*However what I find more interesting is if you make tumblr re-direct links through your customize blog page to non-tumblr sites and put them in your posts those posts will still appear on Tumblr search. Special thanks to Adurot for pointing this out to me via Clone That got Away. Here’s a link to the reblog that explains how to do it.
I’ll probably most likely be going with the third option for future art and comic posts.
Update: Turns out this doesn’t work. Or at least, not as well as it should. Yes the posts with the custom links do show up in the searches eventually, but only a few days to a week after you post them (either that or there’s something wrong with my posts).
Just to be safe I’m not going to include links in my future posts for the time being.
reversalmushroom asked:
Is The Clone That Got Away dead?
