Gestures! Referenced from Yuzuru Hanyu's Worlds 2016 figure skating gala.
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Gestures! Referenced from Yuzuru Hanyu's Worlds 2016 figure skating gala.
A quick painting of Kafka. Working on a new rendering method!
Study in blue. 20 min color sketch.
Another original character! Designed for the prompts "bunny suit + long dress + heels." I wanted a very light, sweet, lacy look.
Lil' sketch of Alastor from Hazbin Hotel. I have a friend who's a Big Fan. I drew this without ref, so forgive the inaccuracies!
I got a prompt to draw her from a secret santa exchange haha. I don't know her at all, but she was fun to draw!
You need at least a little bit of an inflated ego to try to be a professional creative. This does not mean that you love yourself. It means that you think people ought to pay attention to what you’re doing.
Do I hate myself? Yes. Do I also have the audacity to think that my thoughts are worth listening to? Yes. That’s why I’m published. You don’t accomplish that with a 100% stable mind.
Another lil' Falin sketch I finished awhile back.
Drew a Chimera!Falin! Heavily referenced from the manga panels and anime promo art.
A couple OC drawings I did for friends :> They are not mine, but I had a lot of fun interpreting the designs! The pink haired guy belongs to @mimithealpaca, the brown haired girl to @aishiiart, and the deertaur to @lotopaunka (instagram).
i know it’s been said before, but it bears repeating: a big, big part of maintaining your confidence & self esteem as a creator is fully embracing the concept of “you don’t have to be good like them. you can be good like you.”
for example, i’m not someone who’s particularly good at coming up with complex, elaborate plots or incredibly unique ideas. it’s just not how i choose to write. and it would be easy for me to look at someone with an elaborate, super unique plot & decide that because i don’t write like that, i’m not a good writer. after all, unique plots are good, and my writing lacks those, so my writing must not be good, right? well, no, actually. i just have different strengths, like taking a simple premise & digging super deep into its emotional depths. that’s what i do well & it isn’t any better or worse than people who do elaborate world building or come up with really creative and unexpected plots.
your writing is never going to be all things to all people. it just isn’t. inevitably, you’ll have to make creative choices that favor certain aspects of writing over others. there is truly no getting around that & it’s honestly a good thing, because it means you’ve developed your own style. but you’ll always encounter other creators who posses strengths that you don’t. it doesn’t mean one is better than the other or that your writing isn’t good enough.
comparing yourself like that would be like taking a piece of pizza & a cupcake & going “oh no, that cupcake is so sweet & my pizza isn’t sweet at all.” or “gosh, the garlic crust on that pizza is delicious and my cupcake doesn’t have ANY garlic.” obviously your pizza isn’t sweet. obviously your cupcake doesn’t have garlic. a food can’t have every single delicious flavor at once. the cupcake is good like a cupcake. the pizza is good like a pizza. so you don’t have to be good like them. you can be good like you.
This also means that sometimes you will get writing advice on how to improve your cupcakes and sometimes you will get writing advice on how to add garlic to your cupcakes because the reader doesn’t get that you’re not making a pizza
The best advice comes from people who generally like what you’re going for
me reading straight up pornography: hmm… this one just doesn’t have enough accurate character psychoanalysis to get me off
I found an interesting thread on twitter about how fandom puts the well- being of fictional characters above that of actual abuse victims and I wanted to share it cause some of y'all really need to read
[ID: a twitter thread. Witch Hazel @ HazelMonforton: "it's pretty easy to advocate for fictional characters when they literally do not exist and therefore cannot disagree with you or question your advocacy"
peony @ p_e_0_n_y responds: "It's what I call the 'perfect victim complex'
People love the IDEA of helping victims, but they don't actually want to deal with real victims. Because a fake victim can be a tool for whatever idea or point of view you want to push, where a real person cannot.
A Schrodinger's Victim, who can hypothetically exist when needed to win arguments, but remains conveniently absent, silent, unobtrusive, and most importantly never counters the speaker's thoughts, opinions or ideas.
A real victim can counter your predetermined beliefs. A real victim could make you face their humanity and complexity, and disagree with your opinions about how to help them
A phantom victim cannot. A hypothetical victim cannot. They can be whatever you want them to be.
It's why people ramble on about helping 'starving kids in 3rd world countries', but won't do a damn thing for the poor kids in the neighborhood.
It's why people want to ban sex work to save sex workers but never listen to actual sex workers.
It's why a Columbine survivor's story was misattributed to a dead girl, because the dead girl can have a whole mythos and moral crusade made up about her and never counter it, like the living girl can.
It's why people would rather defend fictional characters and the hypothetical victims who maybe, potentially, *might* be hurt by fiction, and not actual victims of abuse and grooming who tell them they're {their} methodology and conclusions are wrong.
The folks angry that this is to 'justify pedophilic ships' while ignoring actual survivors who say not to equate fanfiction ship wars to their very real abuse are some {of} the exact type of clowns I'm talking about here.
Please exit through the gift shop." /id]
id like to point out that the right wing loves unborn babies but doesn't do shit for alive mothers... and they love soldiers who are unable to participate in politics during their term of service, while firmly ignoring the self-advocacy of veterans.
meanwhile petty, self-absorbed antis build elaborate crusades on behalf of their fictional friends so as to destroy the lives of real artists.
[TN: This is a translation of this note by Maromi. If you are able, I encourage you to read the original article for yourself as translation
I have never read a more excellent article
This is a great take and I would like to adopt “Feelings Yakuza” in English actually, I feel like it conveys the whole thing way more obviously than “anti” (not to mention the muddled meaning of “proshipper”).
To avoid harassment, EA and SEA artists have started pre-emptively blocking users with "proship DNI" or any variation thereof in their profiles as a result of this article and said feelings yakuza are getting pissed that their DNIs are being hard enforced by the other side. How very dare.
I’m screaming with laughter at the actual Japanese term, o-kimochi yakuza. The “o” is an honorific indicator to indicate how prissy and self-important these people are being.
A Naruto & Kakashi AU, based off of natsume yuujinchou! Prompted by @ebonynemesis (ilu)
天上天下 唯我独尊, Throughout Heaven and Earth, I Alone Am The Honored One
Lil' Kakashi AU doodle.