I'm glad this helped good luck with your art!

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That's fine by me :>

Hello :> I'm glad you like it!

The group project was suggested two or three years ago but nobody actually started drawing until earlier this year. A few weeks after the project was suggested I came up with the twins, and not long after that I developed a fascination for circuses, so after a decent bit of research I decided to push the circus and the Envy idea together. Then the general outline of the troupe appeared. School was top priority at the time so I didn't dig deeper into designing the characters, although I did continue to observe everything around me for potential ideas.

At the beginning of 2011 I put pen to paper and after plenty of thoughts and research into ringleaders, Lucifer came into my mind, surprisingly fully formed. I entered Lucifer, that summer, into a tournament in dA to exercise his character and get to know his thought process, and that actually really helped me enter and understand the world inside his mind. After that the rest of the characters in the circus appeared and were developed in the space of two hours (I was on a train for that length of time and really had nothing to do).

So over all it took about two years, although the majority of it was taken up by schoolwork, research, growing up, and exercising my mind into being able to create characters. Now I'm much faster in character design so if I were to start this project all over again, I believe it could take about two weeks (research included) to develop these characters. In regards to the characters in the comic, aside from Lucifer, the daughter and father came immediately because I needed a trigger to start the story. I didn't record how long the story creation took, but it was just a matter of days to get things clear in my head :> While creating the circus troupe I had completely forgotten about the actual anthology project until earlier this year,so that's when I ran around inside my head with a camera crew :>

I believe I have answered the second question in reply to your first one. Like I said, while I was wrapped up in the whole idea of the circus, I had forgotten about the original aim, and in fact was trying to figure out a new project based entirely on this, so really I wasn't trying to build characters outside of the story, I was just simply building characters, in fact building a world. When I remembered what the project actually was, as shown in the Log I freaked out wondering if I had wasted precious time, but nope, it really was actually well invested. With a rather developed world, I could simply capture a day in the life of any character I pleased (in this case Lucifer), and quite easily create a series of events based on the interactions of a character I now knew very well, and do so in an environment that was rich in depth.

I realize that this is a rather long reply in answer to your questions, so I hope you don't mind, and they actually did answer your queries XD