#you get rusty

[imma-little-teapot]

Haven't been on the art scene for a couple of actual years now! :O And it shows... Plus, my scanner appears to have a powerful distaste for smudged pencil decorations. X'D Oh well...

I haz a little project in mind I'd like to attempt... some time... I can't say when, but before that, I needed to test the waters when it comes to drawing Ninja Turts, thus where these came in. They're literally just reference practice from various screenshots from 2003's infamous seventh season, Back to the Sewer (Yes, I actually like the art style), of Mr. Blu Boi (because why not your fav, right?). And yeah, it was done a short while ago, but meh.

Their anatomy is a bit baffling to me, must say. :O I envy you folk who draw them effortlessly! ;P Anyhoo, can't say I didn't enjoy the challenge... a bit, at least. Doing the finalized linework felt good after not touching art for such a lengthy period of time.

Sorry, Leo, I couldn't do you justice. :'(

[revasserium]

this is not a request, but a question. how do you write so freely? you literally always capture my attention. your writing style is so simple, free but always captures my attention. has the right amount of detail and just fjskdhndn. 🥺🥺

ah thank you!!! i think ive just been reading and writing for so long that i kinda just… do it? hmmm i really enjoy stream of consciousness writing, so i kinda just let the words flow regardless of how they sound, and i go back and fix it later if it ends up not making any kind of good sense. 

i think it’s just a lot of practice, honestly. writing’s just like any other art or craft, the more you do it, better you get at it. i wish there were some kinda like get good quick tutorial i could give you, but honestly, it’s just doing it a lot, and every day too. 

even on the day when i don’t write on this blog, i’m an active rp-writer on a forum and all my partners on there are so good that it motivates me to write more, and better. and thEN i have all the dumb fic i write just for myself for like dramas and tv shows that will never see the light of day. but i write them bc i want to and it makes me happy. 

so its really, truly, just a whole boatload of practice over a very long amount of time. 

but! a neat trick that i learned is that if there’s a sentence you read that ur like OMFG HOW AMAZE!!! copy it down and try to break it down into parts like – okay, so was it subject and then a lot of complex clauses, was there prepositional phases, literally break it down to the fundamental bits, and then try to do a fill in the blank version of that sentence with your own words. 

so if the original sentence had an adjective, think of another adjective you like – if it was a really good verb, choose your own verb – kinda like mad-libs LOL. but you’d be surprised at how just doing that helps you become more aware of how “good writing” or just the writing you tend to like, is formed. because the truth of the matter is – we all have the same words available to us – and there are only so many ways to put them together. 

you have the tools, you just gotta do it until it becomes second nature! :)