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6, 15,and 25 for that artist ask post! :o

Ooooooo! :D Strap in, this is gonna get wordy. xD6. What is your least favourite thing to draw?It’s hard to pick just one thing for me, though I find it’s also difficult to distinguish between things I’m bad at drawing and things I actively dislike drawing. I have a lot of struggles with backgrounds, but those are far from my least favourite thing to draw, and I’m actively trying to get better at them, especially for design and world building purposes. Though the first thing that came to mind when reading this question was cars, and mechanical/industrial things in general. Especially when they aren’t in a fantastical or imagined setting, where I have more of a comfort zone design wise. I’d be far better at designing a medieval era carriage than a car or bus, for example.I’m the type of person that can fall in love with a subject once I learn how to draw/design it in my own way (see: humans), but I never know how to design a modern day vehicle or building without them looking like a boring brick, and for vehicles I can never seem to get the shapes or proportions right without going full cartoon. I know there are ways to make them look interesting (and with proper structure) without that, but I haven’t found it yet. xD15. How long does an average piece take you to complete?That’s an even harder question to answer actually, lmao. My times for completion vary wildly between pieces, but it is never fast dfhjsgfhjsg ;;;;;;;;;; I can chalk some of that up to my mental health and The Current State of Things™ right now, but I’ve never been a fast artist even without that. The speed of my work and the detail/nuance of my work increased simultaneously while I was at art college, so it sort of cancels itself out. I upload a heck of a lot more now and at a higher quality overall though, so that’s nice! A decent compromise, I’d say.This also depends greatly on whether I am designing something new or drawing something that’s already been designed, either by myself or someone else. As you’d imagine, the former takes a lot longer than the latter. For my initial design sheets, I’d say those take anywhere from 6 to 10 hours, depending on if it’s a full sheet with other parts or a single pose to get the first idea down. They usually get closer to the 10 hour mark if I have trouble wrestling with the colour schemes, aha.But for things like extended character packs, rotations, poses, etc., those take a lot longer due to a higher level of refinement and consistency required compared to the first design sheets, and I usually like to make them at higher resolutions for assets/reuse purposes. I also use high resolutions for print stuff too.Logo designs are a slight anomaly to this, as those are probably the fastest things I can make outside of 5am insomnia doodles. I can usually crank out at least a somewhat refined version of a logo design in a few hours, especially if it’s symmetrical (thank you Procreate symmetry tool), but this does not include the time I take to clean it, and later turn it from a raster image into a vector if needed.Larger pieces with lots of shading layers or complexity (and ESPECIALLY ones with backgrounds) take me anywhere from 15 to 25 hours at minimum, and that depends entirely on the subject matter and art style. If any or all parts of the piece are more challenging than normal, like a different art style for example, it takes me a lot longer in the process phase to completely figure those out, thus adding to the time elapsed. With things like new shading styles I usually have to break it down and actually give myself a process for completing each part, like the number of shading layers, the colour of the shading, etc. to maintain consistency and not fry my brain with too many things at once.25. Do you like to draw in silence, or with music?I almost always listen to music, I find I can’t work as well or get into “the zone” as easily without it, and I have different playlists for different moods, either from my emotional state or from whatever I’m making. I might listen to video game battle music for an intense expression drawing or something. My most common music is upbeat and fast in some way, usually branching a lot of genres, and I often nod my head to the beat while I draw if I’m really into it. Though the best times are when I’m so deep in the zone that I don’t even notice that my music is playing, similar to how I space out when I’m tired/bored. Everything but what I’m focused on completely melts away, and before I know it I’ve burned through a playlist already, aha.The one exception to this rule is if I’m already overstimulated emotionally or from other sounds/things happening around me, in which case I’ll escape to a quiet place and turn off the music where possible. Either that or listen to one of my slower playlists. Sometimes the world is too loud, you know?Thanks for the questions! :D

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flanngo replied to your post: Hot take: “ace” or “aro” are enough in and of...

Fully agreed. I hate the term if cishet aces…it completely removes the ace identity. The whole discourse has turned into the “"oppression olympics”“ where it took so long to get them to admit aces/aros DO go through some horrible things but now it’s suddenly a thing of "you must be this level of oppressed to be in the community”….haven’t seen a single discourse post that doesn’t flat out ignore discussion/criticism/points that others bring up on it…..

i’ve literally had an ace exclusionist say heterosexual asexual within the past like fuckin week lmao. lbr that’s exactly what they mean when they say “cishet ace.” They mean “cishet” full stop. this is tiring because it’s literally just history repeating itself, just with a new target to punch down

Homosexuality and being transgender were wrongfully classed as mental disorders, just like HSSD/ISD still is (and the token “unless they self-identify as ace” they pasted in is the same “unless they’re cool with being gay” that “ego-dystonic homosexuality” got, blatantly ignoring that the “distress” with the identity might have something to do with a society that actively deprives them of information and acceptance around that identity gosh)

that’s literally the “but aces don’t experience the same kind of oppression we do so they don’t experience oppression” argument shot down. like not even touching on the whole “the gender-identity-based parts of the community also don’t have the same experiences as the attraction-based parts and a lesbian’s oppressions may differ from what a bi man faces or an nb pan person deals with, but to suggest that their lack of that particular experience makes them Fake or Not Deserving of the Community is garbage - the point of the community is meant to be uniting umbrella support not hyperfocus on a single type of oppression” part, they have the Official Systematic Oppression Badge they say aces lack right there lol

but nah we’re all just regurgitating the same gatekeepy bs that bi and pan people have to struggle against so much and that still wounds trans people unfairly with that ghastly “trans gay men are just straight girls trans lesbians are Just Cishet” because there’s Only One Way to Be LGBT+ And It’s By Being LG

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