OAQ - OFTENLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Your English is good as a slug... (actual statement)
Everyday I'm trying to improve this, as millions of people from 98% of the nations around the world that also are trying to speak your language. At least be proud of it, very less people are trying to learn Russian or Arabic!

Why a guy like you create characters with names so... American?
Since some characters from Hanna-Barbera, created on the late 70's, no characters released on Brazil since then had adapted names in Portuguese, as many of them has names in Spanish until today in countries where this is the native language. This makes characters with tipically Brazilian names sound strange, with very few exceptions as Monica's Gang. The story and the characters were planned to be something universal - "something" because the only thing that is clear is that it tooks place at the Western hemisphere. But there are some exceptions among the characters.

You're drawing since when?
For a very long time to being as bad... I started on the age when everyone starts to draw, but there was nothing special about it. I've been developing fan art since 1988 (12 yrs old) and creating my own characters since 1991. Mixing both things I created my first 'furrie' character in 1993 (Julie, drawn aside in 2002 - Hey, it's 100% of mine, I only would know Julie Bruin, from Tiny Toon Adventures, in 2006 !!), and I'm showing my characters on the Web since 1997.
But that's only numbers, because I only started to do something with some quality around 2003. Maybe 2006. Whatever... The reason I'd wrote many times on this website, is because I found some artwork from professionals that really impressed me and made me review my concepts.
As happened with most cartoonists of the 90's, I had a lot of influence from TTA and Animaniacs, that I knew one or two years later than you, even when some of the best moments of both were not shown on Brazilian television (cable included!!)

Your characters have hands and 'feet' something large, including the gals! Why?!
The characters' sight were influenced by some graphics of Capcom games as Darkstalkers, that give this impression, and some years after, by productions that really had this feature, as Saber Marionette X. The females has no difference in these parts of their bodies. The reason for it is the same as Capcom's: these parts are hard to draw as they appear smaller in the frame. All my drawings are done in a very small scale compared to the pro's (circa 2-3 inches tall in a A4 sheet) and I have less tolerance to details than Capcom staff. And these proportions can be helpful some day when we make the suits of them, this way is easier to imagine a "normal" person inside most characters.

Why your characters have colors so... plain? At least three or four of them are brown and some shade of orange!
This is part of the realism under these characters. Patsie, the only that portrays a uncommon color, did himself his colouring, and also are brown under her lilac. But I admit that the inspiration for that came in the mid 90's, when I saw a T-shirt featuring Taz and Coyote (you know them, right?...) and Taz were portrayed with wrong colors, with very less contrast than the colors of the actual character. These were the colors: brown and some shade of orange! I thinked the character looked much better that way, but that caracter doesn't belong to me, so I did it with my own characters.

Why some drawings look weird, jagged, wobbly, and others are extremely clean?
The first were scanned and treated as bitmaps, the second were vectorized over these bitmaps. I'm trying to moderate the use of the second because it gives a false impression about my real capabilities, that is better given by the first method...
(the illustration aside were exported without anti-aliasing, but it's vectorial). There are a third method that uses PSP over scanned bitmaps in a similar way than ILL, but with something different results.
And there has people that do BETTER things that my vectorial drawings whose only hardware is a pencil. I hope that these people are being read this text now, because the next question is for them.

Why you almost beg to people draw your characters?!
Because no one done it on 11 years I am on the Web unless my fellows Morpheus and Icarix Ace on the past year. This is very common with several 'underground' characters like mine, but strangely not with my characters. Many people collect in their Websites fan art from his characters almost as awards.

What about comics or comic strips in this Website?
Since 1990 (the only surviving story from that season is from 1991) I develop my characters doing comics in an amateur way, on ordinary notebooks and still more ordinary drawing materials. These comics generally don't have 'sufficient' quality to be taken seriously, and there's another detail, all of them are in Portuguese. Most times, translated Brazilian humour don't seems funny in English. BUT I can try if you're curious about that...

Why you doesn't make a website on this or that place?
I'm accepting suggestions... I have another websites that can be put here at 000. I already had websites on FurNation and FurTopia, all of these were very good, but the most recent, Furtopia, used a domain (furry.com.br) whose bill were not paid by their owners in Brazil, and all of the websites were down. Due to this I made this new website here. Despite the less number of people that "can make it happen", here I have more liberty to show another characters that are not furries and talk about another subjects.

And what about your music? (even when all of them being in B-Port)
The songs will be back soon. At least they're better than the drawings...

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