helloooo!! can i ask what equipment you use to draw? do you use a drawing tablet? on which app? etc etcc, and iiiif you also wanna share the brushes? i absolutely adore the way you color and your line art is so so gorgeous
I use XP-Pen Artist 22 Pro 2nd gen, with Clip studio paint! The brushes I use are default to CSP; rough pen, airbrush. Thank you!
Hi!!! Love your art so much! I have a question,,,,do you take comissions?? And if you do, how can i get more info about it?? (prices, how to pay etc etc)
I won’t be taking commissions for the rest of 2026! Indefinite break, if I ever get back to it, I’ll post the info!
I saw you say somewhere you use the default csp screen tone brushes but in some of your pieces the tones look much denser than what the default csp brushes offer. Is there a setting you futz with for that or are you resizing the tones after putting them down/your canvas is just on the larger side? Thank you so much, sorry to bother you, I adore your art so much!
Not a bother at all!
The screentones I use aren’t brushes, it is a setting that you can apply upon using stuff like selection or lasso tool (meaning, a small box of dots on the pop up bar will appear that you can choose amongst the other options). In those screen tone settings, you can play around with the density, frequency, and even the shape!
You're such a huge inspiration for me and I adore your art and fanfics!! One chance and I would carry you princess style and give all the smooches because I got lowkey a crush on ya. 💐
Thank you so much dear! And aw haha that’s so cute🩷 I do enjoy princess style carries and smooches!
hihi! first of all, i wanted to express how much of an inspiration your art is! everything from your lines to your anatomy are just absolutely gorgeous, crisp and have the most natural flow. the love you have for your material is always conveyed beautifully and has in turn infected me. your work has inspired me to come back to drawing more seriously ❤️
on that note, i wanted to ask for your advice on creating for a rarepair. your opinion, tips, anything. your kuramei has won many hearts including mine!!! and my own pairing has a following/activity similar to kuramei’s (if not even less…) and i have trouble maintaining the motivation to share work of them. my passion and inspiration for them still run hot personally, but i falter when i think of sharing content of them because it feels like nobody gaf fr 😭
Hi! Thank you so much, I’m glad I can inspire you some!
Ohhh, how do I answer this, it’s such a good question. I don’t think I can answer it in terms of method and execution, but rather by just how I move as a person.
I feel like I’ve always been drawn to the most unpopular things in fandom, but Kuramei about takes the cake. The reason being, they meet all of the things I ADORE in a ship that no other ship has seemed to latch on or do for me. That said, there was already a micro-community for them that was booming in 2020-2021, all because of THIS socmed AU (and actually, it was what got me into Kuramei in the first place. I’m gonna go ahead and reread it tonight because, like you, I am in need of some enrichment).
As soon as I got into Kuramei, I realized I was on my own, so I knew no one was going to care. The wave for them had passed 4 years prior. It felt incredibly freeing. The reason why, I think, that I’ve been able to stick with them for longer than any of my other interests, and why I’ve been able to post about them for so long without being deterred, is because I quite literally exist in that judgement-free zone. Of course, because of my interactive work, other people who haven’t even read the source material enjoy them as well. I take pride in this. And I will very selfishly claim that I have reserved the KuraMei crown, I cannot and will not be dethroned. Not in the competition sense, but rather, it’s very motivating to be Known for That Thing.
There are a couple other factors that play into this, of course. Daiya is not an entirely dead fandom. The show still has the final arc to be animated, which is where Kuramei is abundant in content. That distant future is something I dream about and it maintains my motivation to create until Daiya is truly complete. Even now, I’m hoping to take Kuramei with me to my grave,
What I recommend: you must realize you have the creative freedom to make WHATEVER you want, so be the household name for your rarepair, be the person people think of when it comes to that ship, because perhaps someone out there is looking for it, looking for you, but it just hasn’t been posted yet.
It’s difficult for me to keep the same interests over extended periods of time because of ADHD, but I have been in love with Kuramei for going on 2 years now. I cannot imagine how bland my life would be had they not been introduced to me. But everyone is different. I cannot say that, what works for me will work for someone else. Hopefully this gives you some clarity?
Due to its surprising popularity on the many places it's been posted and reposted to, I decided to finally complete this little wlw sketch that I had kind of given up on. I'm hoping to have it riso printed soon !
hi isa! this might be an out there question but i wanted to ask, how do you get your ideas for poses? i always find your compositions are really unique and dynamic and i wondered about your inspirations/idea-getting process
also get well soon!
Hi, thank you! Not an out there question at all, it’s actually pretty frequent, but I realized I’ve never faithfully answered it before.
I am a pinterest warrior day and night, I watch a lot of movies, read a lot of manga/comics, fanfics, etc. Basically, I am getting visual material and nourishing the creative part of my brain whenever I’m not drawing.
After that, I start my process with a need to spill a certain emotion into my work. This feeling could be nostalgic, domestic, joy, yearning — and that’s usually what spurs me. I tend to draw whatever satiates that feeling. I’ll do a cursory glance over Pinterest and other artists work to gather visual information that satisfies the feeling.
I deviate from the references I compile because I still need to do my work to make the drawing my own. - But how do I do that?
Take a hug, for example:
Internet photo is an adequate reference for a hug. Great, let’s use that - but how do we make it more romantic? Ah, let’s pair it with that desperate Eugene and Rapunzel hug from Tangled. That gesture, placement of the hands, where their faces are buried, is extremely provoking of a Feeling. Let’s mash it together and see what we get.
I can’t exactly explain how I go about composition, because I’m still learning, and I’m not sure myself. There’s a lot of scrapped drawings behind the scenes.
All-in-all, pretty mundane, but I hope it answers your question a bit.
TLDR: References, enjoying visual material outside of your work
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