Anonymous asked: so you're telling me you're currently unemployed, recovering from 6 months of tendonitis, have been diagnosed with a thing that might foretell of a future where you can't draw due to the pain AND you're dealing with constant rejection from publishers despite having a thing that everyone wants to buy??? how the fuck how the FUCK are you so positive all the time jfc
well, I’m not always positive! but it’s a good default and hey, today’s a good day and I’m still alive, so I guess I’d better get on with living, hey?
Anonymous asked: why do you sell in such small batches?
because, alas, at the moment I not only have to hand-write all of the addresses on the envelopes (I am going to see if I can get a new printer and figure out stickers), but then I also have to carry them all to the postoffice, and with my fragile and pathetic elastic body even ten books at a time is very hard to lift- I am in eternal debt to my mother who has been helping me not only to parcel up the books but has been writing the return address on the envelopes and giving me lifts to the post office and helping me to not panic about the whole thing!
this is why I’m also spending a lot of time writing to publishers and sending some of the books out to people like that who might be able to take the strain of all this heavy lifting (literally) off my hands. That said I am having zero luck applying to them, and each rejection is another blow, but hey! all I can do is try and try again, and honestly I don’t know what else I can offer them when the books are clearly selling themselves and I have an established international audience :T
okay so I think I know why my postings of sales sucks for EST folks especially because I live in the UK and I usually make my posts in daylight hours, so if I post the next sales at like, 10pm it would be something like 2pm for you guys? maybe that will work out better okay I’ll try and remember that :Tb
SHE DOESN’T GIVE ANY WARNING BEFORE SHE SELLS ANOTHER BATCH OF TPOH BOOKS AND BY THE TIME I SEE ABOUT IT IN MY TIMEZONE THEY’RE ALREADY SOLD OUT
I’M SORRY FRIEND WHAT IS YOUR TIMEZONE AND A GOOD TIME FOR YOU I’LL TRY AND WORK OUT A GOOD TIME TO PUT THEM ON SALE NEXT TIME
F U CK omg i’m sorry that sounds so whiny and entitled i forgot about tumblr’s new tagging system and honestly didn’t know you were going to see this!!!!!! aaaAAAAA
but GOODNESS i’m sure there’s plenty of us tpoh fans here in north america that would like a batch at some point in eastern standard time? early evening est ish?? gosh i dunno
i’m sorry again!! don’t worry we all know you’re really busy but you’re doing really great you are great!!!!!!
okay I will try and remember that for next time, and if it helps I always tag those posts with ‘TPoH sales’ and next time I will try and do a head’s up post before hand and no shhhshh don’t be sorry it was a bit of a disaster yesterday for several reasons and I am still bad at selling things it terrifies me so much shhh
doodleniks asked: if i'm interested in starting to teach myself animation, where would be a good place to start? just picking up a pencil, paper, and a lightbox, and working from there, or some other avenue? i know you went to school for animation, and i want to too, but as a measly high schooler im hoping i can teach myself some stuff before i go. thanks, and sorry if this question is somehow bothersome!
oh gosh well I started trying animation long before I went to a school for it so YES just try anything you can! flip books are fun and easy to make, lightboxes are good to start but try not to rely on them- you get a better idea of how the drawings will move by flipping the paper so find a method of holding the paper together (use a hole punch and make a peg bar or even just staple them together at the bottom to start), and there’s always stop motion that you can start trying with moving about anything at all and a camera! plasticine is good but you can get the idea of movement and learn about animating by using coins, clothes, literally anything you have- my first gig in animation was work experience in a stop motion studio (the place that does Bob the Builder) and it gave me a good footing in how far to move things and the importance of holding still once in a while. Hope you don’t mind me publishing it but I think it’s relevant to anyone wanting to have a dabble at animation- don’t think you can’t start now!
small synopsis for those wondering how my KH2 playthrough is going (under the cut in case spoilers? idk everyone in the universe has played this except me but nobody likes spoilers)
