I am SO delighted to see your work again. I'm debating getting Orangepeel, Onionskin to do a liveplay with my boyfriend since I like engaging with work that looks like it will wreck me emotionally (debating to see if they'd be fine with erohorror)
But it is so! refreshing! to see fatness in your work as something not only natural but something that like other bodies should be adored and not shied away from. I love to see the weight and the curves in your art, and the way you do lines compliments this VERY nicely
And now for a question; do you have any writing advice for the audience?
for what it's worth, there's nudity + sexuality in orangepeel, onionskin but no Sex in a traditional sense. there is plentyyy of gore tho, lol.
also tysm!! i'm glad my appreciation comes thru <33
as for writing advice...fuck! i feel like such a chaotic mess of a writer, every project i do is like the first time i've ever made anything!! i'll list some things that have been helpful for me, but fair warning it's a lot of writing 101 shit:
-it is vitally important that i restrain myself from editing my first draft while i'm still working on it. it's so hard for me to let it be dogshit. but it has to be. it is way easier to go back and edit once the whole structure has been built. i hear this advice all the time but it's a different beast actually taking it seriously. for a first draft, i've had to stop reading what i've already wrote entirely, and just push ahead until i have something complete to work with.
-actively making an effort to watch movies and read books has made me feel so much more competent as a writer. when i see something i like, it can be a jumping off point for me. when i see something i don't like or, more often, an idea i like that isn't pushed far enough, it makes me consider what i want to see. as an example: i find a lot of fiction around food, eating, and eating disorders to be deeply unsatisfying, which has pushed how i consider these things in my own work.
-if conventional means aren't working for me, it's pointless to try and force myself into that structure. i've been working on a mixed prose/comic/illustration project for a while and i've been struggling with it. i had the idea i should start by writing the prose first, but prose isn't my primary language -- visuals are. i wasn't able to make the story really click until i started thumbnailing each page like i would for a comic. i've drawn thousands of comic thumbnails in my life. i've written comparatively fewer pages of prose. this way, i'm depending more on the structure and the language i'm familiar with vs. trying to work in the way that seems to make the most sense. who knows if it'll work! which brings me to my next point:
-just fucking around with this medium has been so fulfilling. i love comics, but comics have been a job for over 10 years of my life. that way of storytelling began to feel so laborious and inflexible to me (it's not inflexible. i love comics. i promise. but i was super burnt out with all the work that went into writing and drawing my own). playing with visual novels, and other mediums that rely more heavily on prose, has reignited something within me. and it is truly just playing around. i make some money from this (itch + patreon) but not a lot. i have a tendency to take myself really seriously in that i think everything i put out has to be like, the best fucking thing i've ever made, comparable to people who have been writing prose for as long as i've been making comics. i'm an amateur. accepting that about myself has helped a lot. more than anything, it's made it a lot easier to improve, because when i write something that's shit it's like. well yeah, of course i did!
if you want some real decent practical advice from someone with a lot more experience, my buddy @taylor-titmouse has been answering plenty of writing related asks over on his blog :-]
