Deer Me is a combination of stories and ideas planned far in advance and adaptations as I go. Thomas Millwood being "one of the main three" while Woola Ramson and Jared Raul are just supporting characters or recurring characters readily illustrates this.

Of the Deer Me characters, Velvet was probably created first, followed closely by Woola, and then Viana. I anticipated that bubbly Velvet would be the core protagonist of stories with these characters (not yet anticipating that I would create a comic; I was thinking of illustrated prose stories), with Woola as her mild-mannered foil and Viana as a short-tempered foil to Woola. Each of the three women did have a story starring her, and Viana's happened to be the one most on my mind when I decided to start making a comic.

Viana's story introduced Jared, too; the pair were to have a Romeo-and-Juliet romance, minus the suicide. Those disapproving and standing in their way included Thomas and Rasha. The tension was based on societal tensions between herbivores and carnivores (a.k.a. prey versus predator), but I decided against that in my world, opting for a more "humans with animal features" than "humanoid animals" approach. Also, once I started the comic, the character of Thomas seemed to be a much nicer, more easy-going guy than originally envisioned... and Jared and Viana had no romantic chemistry!

Somehow, relative newcomer and semi-villain Thomas became a protagonist and both Woola and Jared saw their roles dramatically reduced as he replaced them!

Category: Deer Me Art

Labels: Deer Me, Art, Sketch, Female, Male, Deer, Sheep, Wolf

Characters: Jared Raul, Thomas Millwood, Woola Ramson