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(I intend to return to this post frequently and update the FAQ whenever new frequent questions arrive :}} )
Do you take commissions?: I do! And you can order one here on my ko-fi. They are currently Open and I have 5 slots left! :D
Do you take drawing suggestions/unpaid drawing requests?: I do not. Sorry!
When you say you don't like fanart being made for you, does that mean fanfics and other kinds of media as well?: Yes. it applies to all of that <:/
Why don't you like fanart/fanfics being made for you?: The simple answer is it just makes me very uncomfortable. It feels icky when someone I don't know draws/writes about something I designed without asking me. I get that most artists love fanart and don't see it that way/feel that way about it.. but I do. And even if people ask for permission first, I just like to keep my works to myself..
How can we show support if you don't like fanart?: You can support me over on ko-fi! :)) Or, just send comments! In what ever form they make take. Reblogs, asks, direct comments, tags?? Which ever way you choose! My absolute favorite part of posting on Tumblr is reading all the responses. Whether its a huge paragraph or a simple "Loved this! 💖" It always makes me smile to see people comment! :}}}
What drawing program do you use?: FireAlpaca! Its a free program and is easy for beginners to learn, yet also has a lot of tools available for the pros! Though be warned. It can be a bit buggy at times and has some weird quirks you're gonna have to learn how to work around.. 😅
Why are your sonas hands bloody and bandaged?: When I was first designing my sona, it looked kind'a plain.. I wanted to add something to my sonas hands, but I wasn't sure what.. at the time, my hands were covered in Band-Aids due to dry skin and cat scratches. Looking at my patched hands I thought "Hey! My sona could have these edgy bandaged hands! They can represent my "artists hands" and my love for angst as well!" and so that's what I drew <XDD
Do you have any other socials?: I have a ko-fi and a YouTube channel, but I haven't posted to it in a few years now 💀 other than that, Tumblr and ko-fi are the only places I post my artwork to! :}
When will you get back to your FNAF AU?: I have no plans to return to my FNAF AU publicly due to the amount of art theft my AU has faced. If I draw any FNAF stuff it'll be posted to my Ko-fi 🐻🪦
When will you get back to Octonauts?: I will not be coming back. At least not publicly on this blog.. I had some very uncomfortable experiences with the fandom that persist to this day and so I decided to just step back and leave the fandom. (See this post for more details)
My last Kung Fu Panda post got more interaction than I was expecting! :D Makes me wonder if there's a lack of KFP art out there..? XD None the less- it definitely motivated me to consider more ideas for my fix-it AU.. 👀
I tried starting with Kai, naturally, since him and Oogways beef happened the furthest back in the timeline. I knew I wanted Kai be alive and well today, and to still be like a brother to Oogway. But how 🤔💭... Well, here's the vague idea I'm starting with; :)
200-500-ish years ago (I haven't decided yet) Kai was a warrior alongside Oogway, and they shared a strong brotherly bond.
One day, during an ambush, Kai was unfortunately wounded and Oogway dragged him on a crude stretcher for days, searching for help. They then happened upon a secret village of pandas, who tried to use their knowledge of chi to heal Kai. But his wounds were too great, and death would soon claim him..
Oogway was desperate and horribly distraught, and so the Pandas took a risk and used chi to tie Kai's life force to Oogways. Causing both their pupils to turn white, and their eye colors to change to a vibrant gold. Now that their souls were bonded, Kai could not die as long as Oogway was still alive. His heart was forced to not give out, his lungs were forced to continue breathing, and so despite the wounds and blood loss.. he somehow continued to live...
Weeks went by and Kai was able to recover from his grievous injuries, and come to terms with this new soul bond he had with Oogway. There was fear in not knowing what consequences this might bring.. but he took comfort in knowing that he would face these challenges with his dear brother.
During their stay in the village, Kai and Oogway both became fascinated by the power of chi, and together they were taught by the pandas on how to utilize it. Though Kai never developed an obsession with taking chi. I cant explain how yet, but he didn't <XD
They eventually left the village together. leaving their lives of war and bloodshed behind..
As the years went by, it almost looked like Kai wasn't aging at all.. They figured out that Kai must be aging in sync with Oogway. So if Oogway is 60 in tortoise years, Kai will be also 60 in yak years..
I haven't decided if Kai lived with Oogway at the jade palace for the duration of movie 1 and 2, or if he was off on some adventure. But I do plan to have him "come back" or be around at some point. :0
Their separation during that time wouldn't matter as much since they are able to communicate directly via meditation. So there's no "we'd miss each other too much" factor really..?
Idk, that's kind'a what I cooked up so far for them XD if I come up with a better backstory I can aways change it. The thing I was most excited for was obviously the sick golden eyes that they share. I can see myself drawing a lot of different things about that.. 👀
There's also obviously sooooo much angst and aura potential with the type of scar I could give Kai. I just haven't decided what fatal wound he got yet <XD Although I'm thinking that whatever wound it was caused his speed and/or movement to be limited. This kind'a forced him to look at more "projectile" and ranged seeming weapons. Which is why he switched from a double-sided staff blade to the jade blades on chains.
Anyways, thank you for reading this if you did! I'm sure this Kung Fu Panda kick will still around for a few more posts at least XD so stay tuned and take care! :)👋
WAHHG I LOVE THIS!! :DD You nailed the wing and skin patterns! And the background is so well done and very fitting for Meria! THIS LOOKS GREAT! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! 🥰🥰💞💞💞
AN??? ANIMATION??? 😧😧THATS SO AWESOME!!?? WAHHGH THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INCLUDING MERIA THIS IS SO COOL THEY ALL LOOK AMAZING AND THE ANIMATION WAS SO FIRE ARGHGHH!!! 😭😭🥰🥰🥰💞💞💞💞
Haha! 🤣🤣 Nooo no obviously not. I wont have Uncle Chuck or (since I can already see people suggesting it-) Agent Stone be Tinkers husband. Also this ask makes me realize that I need to clear up a few things about my AU/my Mr. Tinker..
To start, I don't want to add Agent Stone at all, and Uncle Chuck makes the AU more complicated so Idk if he'll exist either..
Also my Mr. Tinker is NOT Eggman. Dr. Ivo Robotnik is Gerald's great uncle and he is off doing whatever the heck somewhere else in my AU. The running idea with Mr. Tinker is that he actually is one of Gerald's younger brothers.
His name will likely be Theodore, and he'll be called Theo, Ted or Teddy by friends and family. But strangers/customers/acquaintance will call him Mr. Tinker :) (I considered Timothy, but I just couldn't stop seeing it purely as an overused baby name)
I really want to write him to have wife, so I've been on the lookout for some human female characters that can fill that role. katlyntheartist commented on my post and recommended Katella from "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog". Which was almost perfect!.. But that version of Eggman? Julian Kintober? He's ALSO in my AU. And I was wanting to give him a wife too. So taking the best possible wife material from Julian and giving her to someone else felt pointless <XD Cuz Julian is left with no one..
Another suggestion I got was in this ask....👇👇👇
@sunnys-bloog
Ella... hmm.... She might be my only option. 🤔 But now I'm kind'a caught between a rock and a hard place.
The more I think about it, I realize that all I'm really doing is plucking some random disconnected character and shipping them with Tinker. Which honestly is starting to feel more cringe to me than just making my own OC to fill the role.
I mean- obviously its fine to make your own OCs and just do what you want. I'm not saying that you're cringe for doing that- but it personally feels cringe when I do it. Its like, it kind'a breaks my immersion if I see my own OC dinking around with the real characters. It especially feels weird to ship my OC with Tinker. Eww. 😵💫
So I guess I just gotta decide. "Fix up"(???) Ella and use her as the wife and deal with that cringe, or make my own OC to be Tinkers wife and deal with that cringe.
And before anyone may ask-- he's gotta have a wife. The AU works a lot better if he does, and I don't wanna write a plot line where she dies or anything. Its just a matter of finding the lesser of two evils and picking a wife <XDD
@lebirbybitchybitch
Aweee!!! Thank you so much!! 🥰🥰💞💞💞
And yeah, its an attempt at whittling away at my no fanart rule, since I don't like that I have it.
What makes Art fight different/easy for now is that I made those characters specifically for Art fight and the purpose of being drawn by other people.
I kind'a detached myself emotionally from them and it made it easier. Hopefully someday I can unwind some more and I'll be more open to sharing ideas and getting fanart of the fam and whatnot. But not because I think my boundaries are wrong, its because they're not fun to have and feel. <:/
AWWWW, THAT'S SO SWEET!😭😭💞💞 Thank you so much!!🥰🥰💞💞💞
waAAA!!! :DDD Thank you so much!! 🥰 I'm so glad to hear that! I hope you have a ton of fun with it!! :DDDD
@artacetinker
I know, honestly the toxicity of that fandom surprised me. Because its literally a toddlers show. But I guess MLP has its toxicity too doesn't it..💀
I'm sorry you were bummed, but I'm glad you seem to understand why I privated my Ocotnauts artwork <:) 🩵
@badlyblurry
You found it because of ME?? WAAAHG THATS SO COOL!! 😭😭💞💞💞
Now- I've still been considering it, but just haven't committed 😅 My biggest fear is that the potion or someone else will bail Vitalstatistix out of the fight. That would be a total eye roller for me.
This is because when Getifix went crazy in the comic, Statistix buckled down and trained with Asterix every single day. He cleaned up his diet, did all the exercises that Asterix advised, and in the end he didn't need the potion or ANYONE. He won that fight 100% fair and square with just good endurance and strength. That made Statistix look SO COOL!! And I was hoping he kept that coolness in the show 😅 But if you say some of my fears are confirmed.. oh boy.. 💀
@miss-cherrypie
I cant resist it any longer!! ✊😭 They're called ORANGES!!! 🗣️🗣️📢📢📢 I don't call them tangarines, I call them ORANGES!! 💪😭💞
Ah I'm sorry, I thiiink I know what you're talking about.? But I couldn't find it. I think that post was made somewhere between July and August 2020..? Maybe I couldn't find it because I privated it.? Ah, I cant remember. I'm sorry man <:(( Thank you so much though!! <:}}}}
@idkwhatswronginmylife2112
Of course you may!! :DDD It helped make writing stories and posting them much easier for me, I hope it will help you too! :)👍
Nah, not at the moment <:/ and idk if that series is really my taste anymore.. not sure if I'll be coming back to it.. 😵💫💫💫
And ngl, life has been rough. I'm looking forward to when things are better <:)
For a time I considered making them police officers like Big the cat, but then I kind'a went back on that...
I had considered that there was a small anti-badnik/support organization that was lead by Longclaw. Maybe Mighty and Ray are apart of that group..? I'm not sure <XD
Hmm.. Its hard to pick a favorite.. apart from sentimental value, nostalgia and what not? I think a safe bet would be to say that OG overwatch was one of my top favorite games. If not my most favorite. It was the one FPS that I could actually stand my ground in and I always came back to it. So sad to see the absolute slop that it has dissolved into..
And yes yes, I've heard of Marvel rivals. I tired to download it and was really put off, I forget why-
Plus, I loved the story of overwatch too. And Rivals cant replace that.😔
Aww! Thank you so much for that closing comment!! :D 💞💞
But ngl, the more I see/hear of chapter 5.. the more disinterested in it I become.. and especially after hearing that Asgore had a small character arc. He was always a really interesting character to me and I was looking forward to his character being taken seriously.. Idk man😭 people talk it up a lot but my drive to look into it just isn't there at the moment. Maybe someday I'll get back into it.. 💔
@thisisacandlehandsup
WAAHHHGG THANK YOU!!! THATS SO SWEET!! 😭😭💞💞💞💞
Thank you so much! :D If I can get past the plot hole at the start of my AU, I'm sure down the line I'd get back to drawing King Boo XDD Hey that rhymed!
@freddy481
Thank you so much!! :}} ..Now uh, unfortunately its been like 3 years or whatever and I'm still dealing with whatever this is. Though I've learned to live around it so its not as bad as it was the first year I guess. 😵💫
And ngl my FNAF AU is not looking good. If I were to go back I'd want to do a HUGE overhaul, as I am currently very dissatisfied with the quality of my AU. So that means I'd be in for a MOUNTIAN of work. Noooot exactly something I feel like doing atm..
Plus, FNAF is like the number 1 fandom for art theft. I have reported dozens and dozens of stolen FNAF artwork and honestly I'm sick of it. I have no interest in walking back into that fandom right now.. 💀
@sparkent
I've been adding that every time since I got this ask. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't, but its worth typing it in. Thank you! :))
That's a headcannon? :0 English being Mario's second language?? I thought for sure that was just straight up canon..
Whelp, I guess that's my favorite too then XDD
Sounds like a fun AU! :DDD I hope that they animatronics don't snap up Jack XDD
Yeah I was aware that happened in the comics.. But since its not canon to the show, and I just don't like interacting with shipping culture, I left it out of my AU. 💪😵💫
Upon googling them, they look?? SO AWESOME?? I would love to go to a place like that given the chance 🥰🥰
I'm not familiar with that music, but I'll take it as a compliment! XDD
@pewpewae
AWW!! THATS SO COOL WAHGG!!! I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT!! 😭🥰💞💞💞
As I was kind'a mulling over Belles story, I realized that there could be some conflict between her and Sage.. Maybe Sage would feel like Tinker is favoring Belle over her..
So to fix that, I thought that Belle could have been a family project that had most of her construction done in the family home. She was something that all of them worked on together. Sage especially was a big contributor to her design. That way Sage adored Belle just as much as Tinker did.🥺
This also makes her transition from "mindless robot" to "sentient family member" more seamless. She was already loved by everyone so much.🧡
Here is another concept I've been considering for my AU! After much chatting with a pal, we came up with a way to add Sage, Belle and "Mr. Tinker" to my AU. If I choose to really lean in and try to develop this concept that is XDD it would be a lot of work!.. 😵💫💫
Does Knuckles ever hug Tails like he does with Sonic since my boy gave the best hug in the world.
(Referencing this post)
Yes yes! Naturally he does.🙂↕️Miles probably struggles a little more with his chaos energy since he is a bit younger than the others.. Plus his chaos energy is directly tied to his brain.. So you can imagine intense it can feel to him at times.. :(
Since I want to get better at art, I've wanted to ask some of the artists I follow for advice. So, if you're comfortable with it, what would be the main advice you'd give someone who's struggling with creating art?
Well I don't know you personally, so I cant say if this advice applies to you. And I'm not 100% sure I didn't misinterpret the question-- But its the number 1 thing that came to mind so I just gotta share it.
Stop. saying. your art is garbage.
"But it IS!!" "But I'm not being self deprecating I'm just stating the truth." "But your art is so much better than mine."
I literally, 🤏👌do not care. Speaking from personal experience, and from seeing it happen to people around me, it genuinely cannot be understated how damaging that is to your confidence and joy for creating art.
People always come to me asking, "how do I find the motivation to keep drawing even tho my art sucks.?" Like?? Start there! Do you know how hard it would be to motivate yourself to keep drawing if you always had someone over your shoulder calling it trash and critiquing every inch of your piece?
"But critique is healthy" "I'm just critiquing it" No you're not. Good critique is not supposed to be unwarranted, insulting and unmotivating. Its meant to be like advice that makes you want to draw more and feel excited to try the new thing you just learned.
"This sounds stupid, there's no way it works." Have you TRIED IT? If you really want to improve wouldn't you want to just try it and see? And besides- how could not bashing your art everyday possibly be bad for you?
"Well then what am I supposed to say when my art genuinely sucks?" ..And you wonder why you're so unmotivated. 💀
Try saying literally 1 good thing about a given art piece. "But there's literally nothing good about it." Common now,You're not an edgy 5 year old. If you seriously want to find the motivation to keep drawing, you gotta swallow your bad thoughts and just say one good thing about it. You gotta acknowledge that even if it didn't turn out how you wanted, you're still better off for having drawn it. Your art skills improved just a bit and the next drawing will be even better than this one.
Again, this is speaking from experience. I too got to a place where I was putting my art down all the time. But who woulda thought that after receiving this advice and I started "being nicer to myself and my art", suddenly drawing was a lot more fun and I improved a lot faster. And now today even though I look at other artists all the time and say "MAN I wish my art looked like that." I don't end up feeling unsatisfied with my work. I still enjoy drawing and I still think the end result looks good.
It all starts with your attitude.👍And I know if someone as stubborn as me could do it, than so can you.💪💕
(If I misinterpreted this question in someway and you were looking for a different answer PLEASE feel free to let me know. I'll answer it again!😅😁)
