Slowly getting back to more regular sketching again after some health nonsense. My style has changed a little, along with my approach to sketching.

Steve doesn't seem to approve...

Twitter (2020) VS the Hays code (1930)

My god my girlies

MY GIRLIES. I am still crying, I am still crying about this. Every day I cry about this.

You bitched so hard about being forced to read 1984 in school when it’s so problematic (tm)

Maybe you should have actually paid attention when you read it

Because all these AI fics

You are LITERALLY MAKING THE GARBAGE NOVELS FROM 1984 that are written by machines

You have literally recreated the worthless soulless machine-made books

Literally,

Literally. Every once in a while it hits me in a fresh wave of disbelief and anger. You have literally created the dystopian book from the dystopian story about why dystopia is bad, and you are passing it around like it’s this amazing thing. I’m crying, I’m crying.

There is a whole long post I could make about this, but I will keep it brief:

Shaming others for having sex and being sexual is inherently a queerphobic and misogynistic stance.

Just because someone is also under the queer umbrella does not give them free reign to spout rhetoric that is harmful to other queer people.

Being part of a minority does not free you from consequences for harmful behaviour. (like being called out for spouting harmful rhetoric)

You tagged this with 'nonjudgemental stance'. I would highly recommend looking up the paradox of tolerance. "Non judgemental" is not the same as being tolerant of intolerance. Allowing language like "sex is inherently gross" to go unchecked is being tolerant of intolerance. Not being 'non judgemental'.

Twitter LGBTs are so sanitized it’s embarrassing

i know it’s been said before, but it bears repeating: a big, big part of maintaining your confidence & self esteem as a creator is fully embracing the concept of “you don’t have to be good like them.  you can be good like you.”

for example, i’m not someone who’s particularly good at coming up with complex, elaborate plots or incredibly unique ideas.  it’s just not how i choose to write.  and it would be easy for me to look at someone with an elaborate, super unique plot & decide that because i don’t write like that, i’m not a good writer.  after all, unique plots are good, and my writing lacks those, so my writing must not be good, right?  well, no, actually.  i just have different strengths, like taking a simple premise & digging super deep into its emotional depths.  that’s what i do well & it isn’t any better or worse than people who do elaborate world building or come up with really creative and unexpected plots.

your writing is never going to be all things to all people.  it just isn’t.  inevitably, you’ll have to make creative choices that favor certain aspects of writing over others.  there is truly no getting around that & it’s honestly a good thing, because it means you’ve developed your own style.  but you’ll always encounter other creators who posses strengths that you don’t.  it doesn’t mean one is better than the other or that your writing isn’t good enough. 

comparing yourself like that would be like taking a piece of pizza & a cupcake & going “oh no, that cupcake is so sweet & my pizza isn’t sweet at all.” or “gosh, the garlic crust on that pizza is delicious and my cupcake doesn’t have ANY garlic.”  obviously your pizza isn’t sweet.  obviously your cupcake doesn’t have garlic.  a food can’t have every single delicious flavor at once.  the cupcake is good like a cupcake.  the pizza is good like a pizza.  so you don’t have to be good like them.  you can be good like you.

It's really funny how often "ugh, why does everything have to be about romance? Why can't they just be good friends" is used to discredit same sex romances. I rarely, if ever, hear/read that in direct context of a potential het relationship....

Weird, huh?

Finally finished Harry between the many things I've had to do this week.

Comms open

You Are Not Immune To fanart of characters who die in canon that has them alive and well, with scars from the wound that originally killed them

New approach to line art and super quick shading practice.

Quick lunch break sketch to get back into the habit of daily practice.

I will highly recommend Affinity for photoediting and add Infinite Painter for iOS and Android as a fantastic digital art software!

Don't give Adobe your money!

Been a while since I've drawn him. I need to get back to a more regular practice schedule and who better to do it with than one of the first faces I got really obsessed with drawing?

Important question y'all, trying to nail down a character design for something I am working on.