just to say sorry for being slow on new art but I got the seasonal rush of commissions and presents to draw on top of the doodle comic and TPoH- I’ll try to get something done within the week but yeah I just gotta pace myself so I don’t burn out :’D I’m not dying as much as tumblr wants me to just busy!
Among the smartest and longest lived animals we can ever hope to interact with and it was willing to learn this stupid trick to amuse its human friend.
Anonymous asked: pros of following your blog: great art! fun posts! leaves me in a good mood and appreciative of all walks of art style! cons of following your blog: i'm now in cartoon hell. i haven't watched a non-animated tv show in months. what have you done
I’m sorry that I’m not able to see that as a problem (although I did just watch the first episode of American Gods yesterday and wooo that sure did a good job of capturing the book, also have any of you watched Vera? The ITV show? She’s like, the best detective maybe try that out sometime if you can.)
Anonymous asked: how do you manage to write so well for characters? I mean, like, other fandom things as well as your OCs? I remember your Jervis Tetch and Neil Richards stuff and these new Layton and Wright things feel so spot on as well, like they're canon or something
well firstly that’s super kind of you (and hey wow you must have been following me for a while huh :’D ahaha), but I don’t know really, I just don’t try to make characters do anything they wouldn’t naturally- if it feels wrong I don’t do it.
I’ve found a good practice for creative writing is to put a character in a situation and just let them respond to it; it leads to the most plausible and often wildly interesting stories, because you aren’t playing puppet master, you’re just letting the circumstances form as they would do in real life and observing. It’s a good, fun exercise, and leads to the understanding that if you want a character to respond to a particular situation in a particular way, there has to be a logical reason for it. If it’s important for a character to behave in an atypical fashion at a certain part of the story you have to build the story backwards to find the cause of that behaviour at that point in time. You can’t just ‘make’ a character perform an action, the character will perform the action for a reason, as a writer it is your job (and responsibility) to find that reason.
Basically I think it just comes down to learning to respect the character and the fact that they are their own person, and not just a chess piece to be forcibly moved around a set series of events for your own convenience.
Lookit me go, making good on that to-draw list. :) I promised you Prince Gumball, and Prince Gumball you get. Biscuit resumed Wednesday but I forgot to tell :I
Man, I’m sorry for turning this cute nerd into an insufferable dbag. Kind of.
Here’s my Junior Thesis! Our theme was “Kings and Queens,” and although the individual we chose did not need to be an actual monarch, we were not permitted to choose anyone fictional. The paramaters of the project dictated that it be 1) biographical and 2) span from early life to death. I chose John Lennon as my subject (King of Rock, I suppose). PRINTS HERE!
