Anonymous asked: sorry to bother, but can you turn the new design clockwise on the ipad case?? or can you not control that? also, does it fit the ipad air(and/or 2)? thank you for your time!
alas, I can’t! society6 is a bit of a turd with placement editing :’D as for what products are available that, again, is in the hands of society6 and not myself but thank you for asking so politely
Anonymous asked: what types of flower are in the vase? I got the marigolds and foxgloves...
there are foxgloves, marigolds, oleander, basil and purple hyacinth flowers! sorry I am still pretty horrible at doing flowers but goshdarnit I’m trying
Anonymous asked: I saw on the dappertellyboke thing that you confirmed that panel with Julienne giving Hero a chunk of chocolate out of herself is a reference to the pelican myth, but isn't that do with Christianity? Does TPoH draw on religion?
ah, unfortunately I hadn’t thought people would make that link; the (untrue) belief that pelicans fed their chicks on their own blood by injuring themselves with their beaks is a very ancient myth and was in common circulation in Europe during medieval times, which eventually ended up with people linking it to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as the religion became more dominant; consequently the imagery has been used by Christians but the myth, as far as I am aware, actually predates that association by a long way and is a common motif in many arcane scriptures, alchemy amongst them. TPoH draws on a lot of esoteric practices and has hidden ‘extras’ throughout, particularly to do with alchemy and tarot, but religious subtext isn’t my jam- I’m not against religions, but I’m very neutral on the subject and not massively interested or educated in them, so incorporating one in my story was never an aim (I’m not exactly qualified to do so…)
If you interpret it that way that’s cool, but that’s your own affair; it wasn’t put in on purpose! The story is just a wild creature that came out of nowhere, so there are no intentional parallels to any religions.
Anonymous asked: okay it's killing me that I don't know what painting you're laying tribute to in that TPatJ update, can you please enlgihten me :'D
aw shucks I feel bad, and yeah I guess it’s kind of an obscure one, I just have an odd fondness for it? I don’t know what exactly it was that made me remember it for this purpose but I remember finding it in one of those big old artbooks in school and there was something about the fact that it was normal and messy and conversational and looked like some regular scene in a pub and I was like ‘wait you can have old fancy paintings of ordinary shit like someone took a photo of a night on the town that’s awesome’
I was like thirteen, that was a revelation to me, shush
Anonymous asked: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO RGB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW so how old is he~~~
SO IT IS! HhahahhHaHhhAhyouthinkI’mgonnaanswerthat
Anonymous asked: Hi mod! I'm an art student myself and recently I've had my confidence and faith in my work completely shattered. I was just wondering if you've ever experienced something similar and if you have how you came back from it, because right now I don't even want to look at my stuff let alone actually make anything.
I have. It is hard, it hurts, and it takes a long time to recover. You don’t think it should but it does, and it always does, and you may think that’s because the big shattered hurt feeling is so big and fills you up entirely, but rather it’s like the big wonderful thing that did fill you up is gone and that is so much worse because it suddenly occurs to you that you are small and fragile, but the truth of it is that the thing which has been taken from you is so big and wonderful that without it you feel vulnerable- and I say is, not was, because it is still there, and that is what you must remember. You will slowly find it again, in little pieces all over the floor or in the middle of a conversation, and it will be unexpected and gradual and unstable as you put it back together. Sometimes little bits will break off it again and it will feel like the whole jigsaw-puzzle will fall apart again- and it might, but you can start again, and indeed if you have the patience to live on then you will find that it does start again despite everything, because the big wonderful thing that has been so broken and flown away wants to fill up the space inside you, because nowhere and nothing else is exactly the shape and size and wonderful that you are- it loves you. So, be patient with yourself, not angry; you are frightened and hurt and that is how it will be for as long as it has to be, because it matters; if it did not matter it would not hurt so much, but you are able to recover. We are always able to recover if we are given the time and love we need, and there are people and pieces of art and music that will help with the love, but it will take time, and for that time you must be very brave and tolerant and not too cross with yourself, or you risk scaring away the big wonderful thing that wants so badly to come back to you. I wish you good luck, and maybe this will be the first thing that will push a little piece of that broken, big and wonderful thing that you are into coming back to you, because it will; you must believe that it will.
Anonymous asked: you don't usually draw human!RGB with freckles! :o how old is he there, incidentally? or, I mean, sorry, the blond human who-may-or-may-not-be RGB
you’re right, I don’t ;)
he’s meant to be about 19/20 there? yeah
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: are you going to put more TPoH on sale in the future or did you sell out? :o
oh man I’M SORRY I totally forgot to put more up last week! life has been hectic but that’s not really an excuse now is it- I’ll try and put more TPoH on sale later today to make up for it, say… 3pm UK time? ish? yeah