Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

Anonymous asked: hey Mod. Hope you're having a good day. I've been following u for a long time and I noticed you latch onto a certain kind of character type. Reigen, Gladstone. That one dude from phoenix Wright u made an alternative ending for. You seem to really like morally grey characters but idk if that's the best term to use? I guess if I were to describe it it would be 'guy with calm passive-aggressive disposition saying cynical things with eyes half closed' Is this a conscious choice of archetype?

Haha, yeah… I guess, I just relate more to characters that aren’t completely bright and shiny? Which is weird because I certainly adore and look up to characters like Wander from WOY like gosh I really do love me a cinnamon bun lemme tell you what, but… I think when I see characters who are openly, obviously flawed and perhaps even a little hate-able I see myself in there much more easily than the more popular and perfect ones. It’s not that I ‘like them better’ necessarily, I just find myself able to understand them very easily. Again, might sound weird; I try hard to be positive and put up a good front, but then I always feel like maybe I try too hard, that maybe that’s annoying and that I’m not as good as I act or try to be. I don’t know how to explain it without sounding crazy but I think it’s a mix of a) finding them more interesting and complex as personalities, and b) intrinsically relating to and empathising with morally grey characters more easily than overtly ‘good’ characters.