Anonymous asked: Are you okay with fanfiction about Mesi and Arthur? I've been getting the feels about them lately and I want to put those emotions into my writing. Is it okay to do so?
it is always okay to do awesome things please write to your heart’s content
Anonymous asked: THEORETICAL OTP CHILDS MAKE ME PLEASED YES
honestly I actually don’t usually go in for them but hey with the number of realities these guys have there’s got to be at least one AU where it happens :’D
Anonymous asked: On the very first pages of TPOH , he seems skinnier? Is this just a thing or am I mentally denying this revelation?
he does but I was also really bad at drawing (well okay more bad than I am now but I’m improving at least??? maybe) :’D
Anonymous asked: ARE YOU TELLING ME YOU USED THE FACT THAT A WELL FITTING SUIT CAN COMPLETELY DISGUISE A RIDICULOUSLY MUSCULAR FIGURE ON TOP OF HIM BEING LITERALLY INVISIBLE SO HE'S NOT ONLY A COWARDLY GENTLEMAN BUT HE'S ALSO BUILT LIKE A FREAKING TRUCK
whelp time to go to bed
Anonymous asked: how did you learn to draw hands?
okay I’ve had a lot of people asking this one and for hand tutorials and, well, I’m not much good at tutorials and I didn’t learn to draw them from a tutorial so it would feel a bit silly to make one tbh but this is the honest to god truth you can ask my mother she was witness to it and thought I was nuts because I spent two weeks over a summer holiday drawing nothing but hands every day
that’s… it
seriously
two weeks of nothing but hands
my parents are both doctors so we had various anatomy/dissection books scattered about the place and I knew I sucked at drawing hands but I wanted to be able to really badly, so I grabbed a bunch and sat and did studies of the skeletal structure, muscles, nerves, you name it. Really bad ones. Over and over and over, and even after that I wasn’t fab at drawing hands by any stretch but it helped me understand what they’re made of and how they work as mechanical objects- I mean god I know about the blood vessels in hands and I’ve never had to use that information practically but hell is it interesting to me.
The next step was just observing people and their hands (including myself, lots of drawings of my own left hand in my sketchbooks lemme tell u), and getting the body language down. You can’t draw a real thing purely from a dissected thing- take George Stubbs, fantastic horse artist, knew the anatomy literally inside out but some of the paintings he did just look kind of… wrong. Why? Because they look like a puppet of a horse that’s been meticulously arranged, that’s why. It is anatomically perfect, but not alive. You have to look at the living thing and how it moves and behaves to be able to draw it as a living thing. One thing I learned was that body language- especially in the world of hands- can be extremely personal as well as universal, so observe as much as you can in as many places as you can!
so yeah sorry it’s a very boring waffling answer but in summary I just kind of sat down and studied hands for a single ungodly length of time and kept going as a habit ever after. There are probably much better saner ways of doing it and I’m by no means an expert at drawing them- I’m still learning all the time! Try to find the way that’s right for you, there’s lots of cool guides out there, but in all honesty you’re only going to learn how to draw something by looking at the real deal and trying to figure out how it works, so go look!
Anonymous asked: Hi! Quick (and possibly weird) question: You know these little colourful bouncy balls (in Germany we call them "Flummies")? What are they called in Britain? Because I asked my Englisch teacher but she didn't know either and now it's my homework to find out (we agreed that it's a very important vocable). I'd be very grateful for your help on this urgent matter. :)
FLUMMIES OH MY GOODNESS WHAT A WONDERFUL NAME FOR THEM I WISH WE CALLED THEM THAT I’m afraid we just call them bouncy balls :’D so much for the whimsy of the English
I did take part in chucking a bucket full of them down a very large set of stairs in school though
that was awesome
Anonymous asked: Ah, but the real important question remains: Would RGB canonically wear a dress and/or skirt? (same question for Hero)
Of course he would, he just has very particular taste and there might be other complications but we’ll get to that, as for Hero she would but only if it didn’t get in the way of EXPLORING and having FUN because that is important >:|
Anonymous asked: So captivated by RGB! The site takes forever to load though, and sometimes the image itself doesn't load after the page takes a year... Is there anywhere else you post the comics ^_^?
it does? weird, both the sites seem to load fine for me- I post it on both smackjeeves and comic fury so maybe try the one other than you’re using? btw if it’s being posted anywhere else (with the exception of the translations) then it’s not me posting it!
Anonymous asked: I know you gave that answer about potentially losing your right hand to a swordfight with a pirate which is totally understandable, but just in case that is an embellishment of the truth why *are* you learning to draw with your left hand?
honestly I… just kind of felt like it would be a cool thing to do (゜▽゜;)