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Ever had the sudden urge to throw Zib in the trash?

He throws himself there

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Miss Tracy, do u have any advice on researching a specific time period?

(also I know u probably won't see this, but I love your art and you are awesome)

Look for books about the time period, but also books written contemporaneous to the time period, whether fiction or non-fiction. Check used book stores for out of print gems at good prices.

If photography was a technology that existed in the time period you're researching, look for photos of people doing everyday things. Take in the context, the geography, the economic situation. Look at how they're dressed and what their clothes say about them.

Newspaper archives. Sometimes newspapers of the past are free to browse. Sometimes you have to pay for access. Old shopping catalogue collections - if they exist for your time period - are great too.

Documentary films about time periods, or specific events in a given time period can be useful, even if only for a broad overview.

Museum exhibits - helpful whether you're looking for famous paintings or artifacts of past civilizations in a world renowned institution, or trying to dig up something impossibly unique in an oddity denture museum in some forgotten place in the Midwest. If you can't go in person, check online. You can find museums with vintage clothing or household appliance collections from even a few decades ago. Some museums have extensive, searchable online collections too. Take the Metropolitan Museum for instance.

If you can visit historical sites relevant to your area of interest, do it! Do those little guided walking tours. Do the ghost tours even - they're often fairly history-centric with some paranormal folklore for added spice. Sometimes they get you access to places you otherwise can't enter. Check historical societies local to cities or towns of interest.

If you need information about something deeply specific, check the internet for communities that form around that deeply specific topic. I've found tidbits of useful info searching around old forum posts from radio enthusiasts, Model T owners, and people who collect old telephone booths. (Granted, it's getting harder to search for this kind of stuff nowadays.)

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Be careful of AI trash, whether it's generative images, text descriptions, or entire articles. Don't rely much on film or television for accuracy. Some things are more interested in being accurate than others, but there's almost always some artistic license taken. If you're trying to be particularly accurate about something, triple check it for confirmation. Misinformation has had a way of spreading like insidious mildew even before AI started disseminating it with delusory authority.

Lastly, if you don't enjoy doing this kind of historical research like a weird little detective-creature, consider loosening up on the 'historical' aspect of your writing. It's okay to not focus on historicity in your fiction. But if you're going to dive in whole-hog on history, bear in mind it's an ongoing, often time-consuming adventure in information-finding.

(Thank you for the kind words!)

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Haven't had time for new holiday art this year. Still working through a long list of backer and book bundle drawings. (Ow, my hand. But also, thank you for all of the support.) Still, I wanted to say Merry Christmas and happy holidays, everyone! I hope you're enjoying the season, staying warm or staying cool, hemisphere depending, and whether celebrating anything or not.

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🎄☃️❄️ SEASONS GREETINGS TO YOU TOO!! ☃️❄️🎄

🩵❄️🧣⛄️🩵 !!! Season’s greetings, everyone !!! 🩵☃️🧤❄️🩵

❄️🩵☃️🩵🦌🩵🌲🩵❄️

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THIS LOOKS AMAZING, you really captured the essence from that scene! <33

Seeing this brought back memories from when I read this scene for the first time, seeing it again now makes me very emotional..<3

Another Lacka-redraw i made, this one was mostly for lighting practice

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THIS LOOKS AMAZING!!! <333

😳me pretending that I don’t take a picture of this drawing like a month ago and just forgot to post it.

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Some more Lackadaisy style study’s! (Plus one fish eye practice meme that my artist friends wanted me to try and do while on call) I am so not sorry Morticai for being my art subject for that day 🤭

(Please do keep in mind that these are in fact just to practice how the style is supposed to look like, along with trying to see how I could try and perfect them without looking at any references and to draw other characters true to the style without them looking out of place or wonky. Purely just for funsies, and to not take this seriously at all. Thank you!)

VINE BOOM

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Also a little cute victor doodle here as well ✨❤️🧡

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Lackadaisy Christmas/ December doodles with viktor who seems to be having a good ol jolly time lol ✨🧡

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He looks amazing!! <33

Dis the season for the holidays again ✨🧡

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Hello, Tracy! Can I ask you to share a version of this image from YouTube with the "Happy Holidays!" caption? I would greatly appreciate it!

this one?

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I LOVE THIS! <333

achoo🤧

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Hey, in case you're doing some last minute shopping, everything new and old is 10% off...

..in the Lackadaisy Shop!

Have a happy holiday. Or else.

Ivy and Viktor art at the top by the wonderful @kare-valgon! Be back soon with one last little animated thing before the year is out!

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