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happy yuri day !!

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Where can I read assassin freeloader Yuri I must know

unfortunately here... u gotta line up with the rest of em and wait for me to throw scraps out the window </3

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Some people were curious about their dynamic in bed, so here it is!

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I just discovered your blog after a long difficult work day and it is so nourishing....... I am entering the yuri dimension 👼✨ thank you 🫶‼️ please continue forever this is some of the best Yuri I've seen in a while

yayy thank you, im glad my yuri is at least doing some good for the world 🫶 !!!!

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I love your assassin x freeloader comics so much, I'd eat it up if you ever made it into a full webcomic. You are so good at showing compelling characterization in just a few pages

wah!!! thank you so much, comments like this keep me going! <3

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does the creative process ever get tiring for you, or like. does planning out an art feel like more work than fun at some point? how do you get out of that feeling?

100% it’s so tiring! I think making art in general is tiring (if you ask me what my favorite part of drawing is I'd say looking at the final piece LOL) but usually there are certain things that tip the experience from tedium to drudgery. For me that's when I've got artblock or am unsatisfied with my current skills. Anything I try to draw just ends up as proof that I should quit and never come back. but I've found that trying to force myself to be creative or test new techniques just doesn't work when I'm in that tired headspace. So, what do I do? I quit!!

I frequently go months on end without drawing a single thing or even thinking about art. When I’m not actively chasing ideas, they seem to come to me naturally. I fill my notes app up when things come to me, I save art inspo when I come across it, but I still don’t jump at the chance to draw again. I only really go back once I feel myself start to froth at the mouth to pick up a pen. Do my skills get rusty? Yes! But I’ve found that the fresh perspective I get on my own art actually leads to improvement down the line.

I think nowadays everything is so focused on fast production, following trends, and trying not to be forgotten. I’m only able to take these long breaks from art because I have nothing riding on it anymore, but I understand that this may not be helpful for those who do. I think at the end of the day, being able to separate your worth from the quality of art you put out is important. I genuinely believe that holding art at an arm’s length away is the best thing you can do for your mental health. Not everyone is built to be consumed by the pressure of art. I know I’m not. I’ve had to work hard to establish art as my tool, since it used to be the other way around.

TL;DR try to commit to being the emotionally unavailable partner of art as a whole. If it loves u it'll chase after u eventually.

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green yuri phone case !!

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i had to go through so much hell for this thing ....

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green yuri phone case !!

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top 3 canon yuri ships. or noncanon if you prefer

See I'm actually a multi shipper, characters are my dolls and I want them all to kiss each other equally, but if I had to choose I'd say:

Asuka and Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion

Tomoyo and Meiling from Cardcaptor Sakura

Nami and Vivi from One Piece

Honorable mentions: KaeMito, TamaShino, MercyMaker, MakiQua, or really just quanxi and literally any woman in the csm universe...

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What would you say inspired/influenced your art style?

This is such a hard question...!! I don't really have a specific artist I look up to or imitate, but one practice that really helps me is to keep a log of any art that I like. I keep a private discord channel where I just paste links to any art I see on social media that I like! It can be for reasons such as I like the way they rendered the hair, or the way the characters express themselves, or even that there's this draw that I feel when looking at it. Often times if I'm drawing a piece that is just missing that little something that I can't really put my finger on, I can go through the logs to see how other artists that I like approach it. Having a curated log of art you like as reference is a great way to improve and get closer to your ideal art expression!!

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Have you thought about putting out long a form comic?

I have tried and failed on multiple counts.....

After many years of starting and abandoning projects I finally came to the realization that being able to finish a few short 4-panel comic strips is wayyyy better than creating a draft that will never see the light of day.

Besides fatigue of course, a big hurdle I also encounter is just the lack of writing skills I have. It's definitely a goal of mine to eventually sit down and try to create a chapter-sized doujinshi of some sort, but first I really need to get better at writing lol... As besides the art, the stories I come up with are mediocre at best.

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What is your favorite Yuri art you've done so far?

gah such a hard question..!!!! I love all of my pieces but if I had to choose I think my piece of asuka and rei in the classroom was most memorable. It was my first real push into the toxic yuri direction, and I really like how much information I was able to cram in with the posing / coloring!

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Your art is so gorgeous and expressive and idk how to say this well but, like, moody-- do you have any advice about how to improve those parts of a piece?

Thank you!! If I had to say, I think a lot of people underestimate how much hand acting can be used to covey emotions/intent. While expressions are also a very important part, i think hands play just as much into how you can read a character and scene! (extra points if the hands show underlying emotions that are not readily shown in the face!)

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would anyone care to ask me a question?