Anonymous asked: is Mother Abbess blind, or just very poor sighted?
She is partially blind but on the verge of total blindness and has been for some years.
It was caused by AMD (age-related macular degeneration) and started in her mid fifties; since it has been untreated the majority of her sight has been lost. While she cannot see things with any clarity she can still detect levels of light and maintains some limited visual perception in her peripheral vision, and she can detect movement although details are completely lost. The glasses are more of a habit than a necessity at this point.
spacekettle asked: Can vampire Arthur talk? Or is he silent like non-AU Arthur?
to be fair I’ve never confirmed if Arthur can talk but in the AU Arthur is genuinely mute :|b
both would be Gryffindors but very different kinds of Gryffindors, also in the HP world Mesi would probably end up being a professional Quidditch player and Arthur would make a pretty great Care of Magical Creatures teacher or headmaster I’m just saying
(bonus RGB and Hero are Slytherin and Hufflepuff respectively)
Anonymous asked: Psst. Hi. This is going to be an odd question. But in RGB's original outfit in the first chapter, is his bowtie brown or black? It's just, the lighting changes panel to panel and I'm not sure. I'm making a costume and I dun wanna make any mistakes. .-.
it’s black! it’s made of satin and the lighting from his screen is very slightly amber so that causes it to look slightly brown sometimes, and as shades of black go it’s a warm tone rather than a cold (blue) tone :|b
Anonymous asked: do you use a special brush to paint the tree or is it like a weird filter thing?
I wish it was the latter I use the default fuzzy brush with scatter and wet edges applied at a low-ish opacity
and then it’s just lots of layering and varying the amount of spacing/size to make it look more in/out of focus in places, I have come to refer to this as the ‘splutch brush’ in my head :D
I usually do a harder contour sketch first so I know what my key values are going to be, but through trial and error I’ve found that just going pellmell at mixing up the colours like I would with chalk pastels results in the best effect so it all ends up being on the same layer in the end
Anonymous asked: okay so I feel dumb for asking but, I just watched SKIP (and loved it) but why does Mesi check Arthur's teeth?! It's hilarious but I don't know why!
you know what anon I am actually super happy you asked because that was a completely spur-of-the-moment thing I did during the animation stage- it wasn’t planned! I didn’t board it! I just had ‘Mesi inspects Arthur’s face’ as the motive and it just kind of happened when I was doing it! I mean heck there are reasons; you can take it as a gag with the expression ‘looking a gift horse in the mouth’, and being a space explorer one of the first things to find out about a new species is whether or not it’s carnivorous so she was probably mostly checking for canines.
but yeah this is what I mean about my characters being the boss of themselves, I just sort of discover them and have to go along with what they’re going to do! On a sidenote if I can get it into the feature I figured it’d be cute if she did that on first meeting him, and then later (when he’s smacked into a wall or something) she does it again but this time it’s to check if they’re all still there .u.
maybe she’s a dentist in another life or has a teeth fetish or something idk I’m not here for explanations \o/
Anonymous asked: I may be reading into this too much but no it's too much of a coincidence DID YOU DESIGN ARTHUR AND MESI TO LOOK LIKE THE MOON AND SUN BECAUSE I SWEAR TO FRICKITY DEE
I DID
I ALSO LOVE IT WHEN PEOPLE NOTICE THAT
Anonymous asked: DO YOU HAVE A FACE AND CAN I SEE IT PLEASE
YES BUT IT’S KINDA GOOFY AND MY HAIR IS TRYING TO ESCAPE TODAY SO WATCH OUT THERE
I am also extra EXTRA smiley because my buddy Sarah sent me a Grand Budapest Hotel pin in the mail and I love it so much omggg
also there was another anon who wanted to know what colour my eyes are and let me tell you friend that has been a subject of debate for longer than you would even believe, but today they look grey? maybe greenish grey?
they usually seem to be somewhere between blue, green and grey but I have literally had people arguing about them while I’ve been stood there in front of them idk what to tell you man
Anonymous asked: what are Arthur and Mesi like if they get angry?
well gosh, Mesi isn’t too shy about letting people know about her feelings and out of the two she definitely has the most extremes when it comes to facial expressions, so it really depends on the type of angry that she is (but for general purpose it’s mostly tiger-like snarling rage), she’s very honest about her emotions and she makes very cartoonish faces too
as for Arthur he’s, well, he’s extremely difficult to upset at all but if you do I don’t know what to tell you man it’s like you know that one person who’s super gentle and kind and never ever gets angry and then when they do it’s like what thefUCKO HGO D
just
don’t upset Arthur okay it’s not a good idea