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trying out clip studio paint
#foolishgamers#qsmp foolish#qsmp#ive been enjoying using it so far#need some more adjusting to the shortcuts/layout#its almost too customisable if that makes sense#coming from someone who's been using firealpaca for about 7 years#thatnerdydino doodles
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ok i have some time so now i can finally fill out that full ask meme
1. Art programs you have but donāt use
paint tool sai and firealpaca -- i used sai for yeeeaaaars and years and years after starting out in photoshop
2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)
neither, honestly? i go through phases where one thing suddenly becomes dramatically more difficult than anything else but i donāt think that among left/right/forward any one of them is easier than the other two
3. What ideas come from when you were little
uhhhh man. idk. cats? i donāt remember what i drew when i was little tbh
4. Fav character/subject thatās a bitch to draw
i feel like each blorbo goes through a phase where theyļæ½ļæ½ļæ½re a bitch to draw but for subject... indoor settings are currently my big bitch to draw
5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself
hmmmm. 90/10 post/keep, i think? iām interpretingĀ āpostā generously to include just sharing w/ friends too
6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasnāt supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)
oh man this is a really broad question but like. i think everything is a subconscious inspiration, you know? my friendsā art, that post i just saw, the way the sunset looked yesterday, anything. but more specifically than that... idk lol, iām not particularly self-aware, i think, so someone would have to say something to me
7. A medium of art you donāt work in but appreciate
pixels!! pixel art is so cool but idk anything about it, and quilting too
8. Whatās an old project idea that youāve lost interest in
iām preeeetty good about finishing things so i donāt generally abandon them out of lack of interest
9. What are your file name conventions
answered!
10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw
shirts generally (t-shirts and button-ups), but iāve been enjoying pants recently too (jeans, slacks, leggings)
11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what
literally anything from neil cicierega to video game osts to asmr
12. Easiest part of body to draw
golly! everything has the potential to be a challenge. i feel like the thing i struggle with least often (in the sense that i donāt need to use refs quite as often and/or it needs adjustment less often) is hands, i really enjoy drawing them
13. A creator who you admire but whose work isnāt your thing
hmm. i feel like this is an easy one to be Mean about so iāll just go with naming a style that isnāt my thing, which would be 90% of drawn and quarterlyās catalog, or, the litfic (derogatory) of graphic novels
14. Any favorite motifs
man. idk. do i have Motifs? people touching subtly. late afternoon.
15. *Where* do you draw (donāt drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)
home! i donāt like drawing outside of home but i am also a massive homebody in general
16. Something you are good at but donāt really have fun doing
answered!
17. Do you eat/drink when drawing? if so, what
yes......... lmao whatever meal intersects with whenever i happen to draw is what i eat, and i hydrate like a pro
18. An estimate of how much art supplies youāve broken
probably some when i was a child, but i take good care of my stuff! iāve never broken anything as a teen/adult, unless it was something inevitable like charcoal breaking
19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)
nature! bob rossinā it ALL day, i am fortunate to live in a very beautiful area and iām very deeply inspired by everything i see as iām out and about
20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy
i think hands qualify for this, idk if itās still popular to hate on hands but i really enjoy drawing them
21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways
so many... i feel like i donāt follow a lot of artists with a style similar to mine? or maybe i do and iām just unselfaware about it, idk
22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any
iāve got a pinchy ulnar nerve so i have to do nerve glides for that sometimes, and if iām very stiff then i do wrist stretches
23. Do you use different layer modes
absolutely the fuck i do
24. Do your references include stock images
yes! stock images, stuff i find by googling, pose books, awkward photos of myself, anything
25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by
i am genuinely not sure anyoneās ever compared my art to anyone or anything...? this is an invitation if anyone reading this has ever been just burning to tell me that my art looks like [thing]
26. Whatās a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended
i mean... i draw fanart. so usually itās pretty clearly what it says on the tin.
27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with
not really, i use my sketch layer as a warmup
28. Any art events you have participated in the past (like zines)
iāve never participated in a zine but i would love to someday....... and i tabled at an artist alley one (1) time at a convention that where the AA was more focused on commissioning (traditional) art than selling merch
29. Media you love, but doesnāt inspire you artistically
uhhh wow. lots of stuff, i guess? even with very visual things thereās a lot of stuff i read/watch/play where iām like, this is beautiful, but itās not something that i want to be able to do
30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated
iām gonna take this as aĀ āplug something shamelesslyā question and say this one
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This, is Noxy/Noxyfied/Nox. This is the character I identify as online, and I want to tell you my story with this adorable Arctic Fox because it is one heck of a tale from not so long ago
Things did begin rough at the beginning of my personaās history. I honestly canāt recall how I came up with it, only how I inserted my love for something and went with it.
From the early years of 2017 to 2019 I was all paper and pencil. Ah yes traditional art was my big thing for a couple of years during that era of 2013 to 2020. I had a time where I wrote stories about characters I made, and not much. No fan art, no nothing, I wanted to stick to my own original ideas at first before I took the step to do something that I did not own; it was a weird mindset I know, I couldnāt hold myself to want to be original and develop to be good enough to draw other things.
It took me some time to develop, hell even to this day I still am unsure of my own skills but I enjoyed trying new things. I donāt reject much criticism even if it comes harsh it still lingers in my head when received anyway. I needed someone to identify as online, a persona who I would have an identity through as I was moving forward on this hopeful career I want to make with my art.
Idea #1 draw my own self accurate to how I lookĀ
Scratch that...
Nononono, I am too bad at showing my face, even at that I donāt like myself.
So I had to come up with something else, 2019 was ending with my skills rising up to something neat. I had Fire alpaca and a wacom cheap tablet which I used time to time back then, and with how I moved foward I said āwhy not, lets draw a glaceon.
Not bad, not bad. I do enjoy anthropomorphic animals, and for a anthro Glaceon it wasn't so bad. Even back then I did not enjoy much of this picture but the idea sparked. I did roleplay around online a lot as a Glaceon. People always had referred to me as a Glaceon when talking, because furry friends tend to be like that and I donāt mind. It had definitely sparked the idea of identifying as one for my persona.
I had a hard time how I would draw this character, a more personalized Glaceon with my own flare of the art style I carry should be nice, should I make it tall? short? anthro? feral? the questions rose up. Even more as time passed, took some time unsure of it, Unluckily I had a Glaceon FURsona, not a persona. (Yes those were two separate things as I carried 7 fursonas as individual characters in their own stories).
But soon one day in class, my artsy self was bored and it just sparked.
This is it! yes! I love it! something about this just clicked for some reason, it was like nothing I had seen before I could not look away at it, this was it.
After class I went home and played some games. The idea was there but man am I tired. Things did go slow, but not for long as of January, the classes I took gave me the ability to better understand this Adobe Photoshop, an amazing tool for editing pictures but also... To draw?!? I have heard of using Photoshop to draw but was amazed to have the ability using such program. During my time 2019 I would doodle around on Photoshop in my school or at home (thanks to the campus giving me a cheaper prize to use it for assignments) Not bad, not bad, the program was for sure something nice to use. Look! I even drew my Fursonas there too, aināt that nice
2019 was something for sure. It had just begun making 2020 quite the year as I took my wacom tablet, opened Photoshop, and on January there it was.
Oh how cute! I felt so proud of myself, firealpaca was nothing like how clean and pretty Photoshop was, I was amazed at this ability.
āI made this?ā that would be what I ask myself everyday. Time to time I would, and still, look at my phone to my drawings and remember what I used to make some pieces, I will not forget how I used thick outlines with the line too from photoshop, added some depth on the eyes. But most importantly, I had a persona, and I introduced it
My friends loved it, I could not believe I am starting to do the shift, my days of traditional art were at a halt. Not at a complete stop since I do use traditional art for a few other things of course, this was just my main focus now.
This little creature was everything to me, cute, easy to make, helped me throughout a few months as I practiced with my digital art.
I also perfected itās look, but something looked rather familiar about it. Could not put my finger to it, so I went on drawing it.
that was a few exceptions where I shifted the proportions for āitā
āItā āitā what was this thing supposed to be, I myself was unsure how to identify myself with this persona. Male? no, female? no. The issue was there, who am I really inside, who was my persona gonna be.
I still cannot tell you exactly what my persona was for the longest time. I at times felt lost and confused with my identity, it did not help that 2020 did its mumbo jumbo and a pandemic happened, it was a lot of time on my own at home just questioning really who I had been for the longest time. Classes were minimal so my free time was big around April and May.
I was always unsure of who I was exactly, through my early years late 2000ā²s I had in me that my body was uncomfortable for looking the way it did, 2010ā²s went silent but there was something in me I did not understand. why did I feel this way, why do I feel as I am not happy with who I am, and who I identify with.
This persona was the wake up call to who I really wanted to be. I saw it in me that I knew being a male was the main issue in me feeling unhappy. Throughout my life I did not enjoy masculinity as much as other kids, yeah I had some boy traits but it was rather minimal, I enjoyed other things more. I enjoyed a lot of things about being female it was something I had never seen before. as hard or confusing things tend to be from me to explain, its a rather hard thing for myself to explain. But that how it felt āconfusingā I researched and looked for things and to my conclusion I had come to be, I come to identify as a MtF trans.
I felt relieved in me of it and I already enjoyed my days more after from it. The only issue is āwho do I tell..?ā I was timid to tell this to anyone, friends or even family. Especially family, those I come to admit they will never be told of what my decision was because of how hard headed they are. It is a tragic story to tell since most families are such closed minded people of rejecting others.
āMy friends tho, my friends? I would feel bad if I told themā that was the mindset I had for a while before admitting to them time to time, one by one. This was a chapter in my life that had changed me early 2020ā²s but I felt a lot of joy in me to be who I wanted to be, I no longer took anyone else's guidance for controlling who I am, I just went with my own flow.
My persona was.... more comically confused, it could be either so I just left it how my mood wanted it to go for when drawing it. So, things went well, in 2019 with the money I got I found myself enjoying a lot of second handed games, with a game coming real soon that had me pumped for I had to get a console I wanted for so long
A PS4 for the the Final fantasy 7 Remake, I was so pumped waiting for the game, I got a used PS4 for it and even bought couple other games for it to get to know the console: Final fantasy 15, destiny, and later on this Persona 5 game a lot of people talked about. Hmm ok, well lets try it out and oh me oh my, a few days later:
The art style captivated me, can you tell I went all out to trying anything with my persona? I cannot believe I was my own guinea pig for these sorts.
Going around some friends and they will tell you that I used this pfp quite a lot back then, as well as updating it with a new oc I had come up with
A tale in due time will be told about this gal.
well, it was set and forth that this was me, my persona, this glaceon was who I was. People loved it, my friends really liked it, and I had a blast having this first pure year of digital art only. Meeting new friends, and admiring their art. Having old friends come back, and even losing a few others on the way. During the time of june, to July I was rapid about drawing my persona in many ways, short, tall, anthro, feral
even metallic.
Ā But there come some time I did not grew tired of. But a little worried that I had to rely on a franchise for my own identity, of course there is nothing wrong for those doing it. But reflecting on myself, back then when I wanted this art career to happen, I wanted to go all out letting out my imaginationĀ with my own creations. I had to make the decision, it was time to move on...
...To a new art program and new drawing tablet
No, it wasnāt that. I had to branch out from this Glaceon, but keep my identity, my legacy of this persona in check, but with a new coat of paint of course. did not take a long time before choosing that I had to use a real life animal as inspiration for this change. Something at least close to it, ah yes of course! the inspiration of the Glaceon was an arctic fox, well those are some good stepping stones to begin with so what happened one day is that I began sketching, not before saying good bye to this old self that helped me begin. It was weird, this is me but it was old me?
Tested the new Brushes from this amazing program called Clip studio paint, and I gotta say I love the program. Sincerely the best choice I made to leave Photoshop for this.
At last, this is it. the new Me!
Familiar looking isnāt it,baby steps we can say.
I cannot blame the people for calling my new persona a āGlaceon-alikeā
I headed to the right direction stepping away from it, but it was hard to let go
new program, new tablet, new me. the later half of 2020 went onto a lot of changes with myself, the chibi small version did not make me happy to make anymore, I was losing the touch and with the few comments I got of looking like a āpowerpuff girl look a likeā did set me off to do a drastic change I am thankful to do. This new me had some weird phases, donāt we all tho?
where else to brainstorm than back to the traditional old ways. Now, you may see this and ask what was I thinking when making this. the order of when i started and finish goes as: Top right: ok what if it was feral, nah nah scratch. Top left: Can I still make it cute with a round face and features I had from before? ew no! that looks scary Bottom right: lets make it more natural and wow hey! yes yes yes! this looks hundred times better. Bottom left: It is time I go all out and make it humanoid, it was how I found myself enjoying drawing most things but still did some anthropomorphic things. I was just not the best of it.
Back to digital and.... Amazing, I really out did myself this time, lets go for it, lets keep going with this
I even got a cool sword too!
My practice continued from here, the second half was great and fun. New persona got me in a place where I was happy with and through October and December I was having a blast with the more possibilities with it. I went on to practice with even more suggestive things after a life drawing class I took, proportions mattered to me and with this new persona I went out to make more better looking proportions that were attractive and stylish.
This persona was great, and I managed to make so much of it. even Drawing the more suggestive stuff had left me with an answer for this persona. Just make it gender fluid, my selection for this character being male or female made me so tired I did not know why I just made it gender fluid since the beginning. My mood swings for this character, and I canāt resist drawing it either way. Was I finished? of course not, this persona still had some work around to do. The hair became a pain to make to keeping up withĀ consistently.
2020 ended, with a year of exciting new things coming for this new year. I went through quite a lot in my life and my art career took a shaken with this new digital life style, my persona became the identity I saw myself through, something im happy with drawing to represent Me.
That isnāt to say that I gave up on drawing Me Me.
I drew who I hope to be, and will use this from time to time, nothing fancy but something.
It has been a year already since I began identifying myself with this persona from last year from now. ever since I sketched that doodle in class, it has been a happy trip through memory lane writing it and I am happy how things turned out. 2021 is what I hope to be as good as 2020 was (by that I mean drawing only of course) In 2021 one more change was made that had made me just as happy to continue on with.
I got more hair! as crazy as it is yes. More hair, and a different front style has been to this day what I been using.
I even made a discord emoji for all the warm hugs to have with my fursona!
and my first ever animation I have ever done before!!
I am always experimenting new things, and iām proud to be an artists to go out there and leave my art out there to be noticed by anyone. The love and appreciation friends and others leave me are the best thing I could ask. I look foward to see what is up ahead, for me, my career, and Noxy.
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Another set of responding to asks lol.. As usual I have them numbered and will also write out the ask in the text, especially since the screencaps are all blurry and taken at various times/compiled together badly and probably hard to read ghghhggh..... answers under the read more ~Ā
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1. "Hi I don't mean to bother you at all, but I was wondering where you get your rocking horse shoes? (I think thats what they're called) I've been looking everywhere and I can't seem to find any :(( "
I donāt entirely remember, since I got them like 6 or 7 years ago.. I think maybe at some point that placeĀ ābodylineā or something had some cheap ones? But I donāt see them on the site anymore, they were like $50 or $60. Now when I google it I can only find these insane like $600 ones from vivian westwood or whoever, or ones that are platform shoes but not necessarily the same type. Maybe you could find some on aliexpress or ebay or something? Usually you have to use weirdly specific search terms and look for a while, but you can often find stuff like that on those sites. Sorry I couldnāt be of more help!!!Ā
2. "I've been sick for over a month and my doctor tested me - everything came back fine. After some discussion it appears that my ptsd symptoms came back and the stress on my body is making me fatigued, sick and dizzy. I don't want to say that this could be similarĀ to you situation, but if you have a therapist or someone to talk to about any stresses/your sickness, it might help relieve the pressure a bit. Good luck, I'm so sorry you feel so unwell"
Thank you for sharing! Yeah, I think stress definitely plays a part in why I feel sick so often. Currently Iām not still having the same problem I was having a few months ago when you sent this, so thatās good at least!!Ā
3.Ā āHi! Do you plan to ever have more sculptures for sale? Or would you do commissions? I haven'tĀ seen any in a while but wanted to buy one! :-Oā
I have plenty that I want to sell, I guess itās just hard for me to get set up. Since so much of the reason I procrastinate selling stuff is because I hate the stress of deciding on a price, Iāve thought for a while now that maybe I can just auction them (so I just set a base price, but people bid whatever they feel is fair and I donāt have to decide myself). But Iām just not sure of a good way to do that.. Ebay has auctions, but I donāt want random strangers buying them, Iād rather stick to just the pool of people who follow my art blog and are already familiar with my sculptures or etc. I could do them on here ??Ā (like, āreply to this post to bid, bids close 8am EST, whoever said the highest number sends the money through paypal and then I send the sculptureā sort of thing???)Ā Ā But Iām not sure if itās legal to sell stuff through tumblr, or if there could be any other problems with doing it so āunofficiallyā like that.. I donāt know, I have a vague idea, Iām just having trouble deciding the best way to set up something! I do want to sell some soon though, if I live through the pandemic and anything ever goes back to normal, of course (I wouldnāt want to be having to leave the house to ship stuff in the mail right now).Ā
As for commissions, I have actually done sculpture commissions for friends a few times, so I feel confident-ish that Iād be able to do something like that, but I also wouldnāt want to get overwhelmed since it takes a lot of work. Custom sculptures may also be more expensive, and again.. I always feel guilty and strange about pricing. Iāve thought about doing very limited sculpture commissions though (like, maybe just one at a time, first come first serve or something..?). If it seems like thereās actual interest in that sort of thing, I could definitely consider doing it in the future!Ā
4. " *picks up that smol blue kid and throws them acrossĀ the room* "
ghgh .. the smallness is an advantage... they could just skitter back down your arm like a tiny squirrel the second you tried to pick them up.. Ythrili survival strategy is to be too small to catch in the first placeĀ
(also forgive every sketch in this post, my screen that you can draw on broke, so Iām either drawing stuff in ms paint with a mouse, or drawing stuff on paper and coloring it in firealpaca also with a mouse ghghh.. not going to look Good)
5. "it sounds like you feel pressure to only post good content on the internet, and so you end up psyching yourself out of posting at all. Am I on the right track? "
Not necessarily, like I mentioned in the tags I think itās more just that everything is complicated by my brain. I canāt just do something effortlessly. Whether itās for an audience or not, I get caught up on every little detail and adding so much complexity to everything that all tasks take me longer than they take other people lol. I think I just tend to take everything very seriously??Ā
Like for example, Iām often accused ofĀ āturning things into a discussionā when someone was just intending to make an off-handed remark, because if someone is bringing up a topic to discuss, I end up engaging with it 100% and putting full effort into it, and itās hard for me to beĀ āācasualāā about pretty much anything (so if someone was likeĀ āMy day yesterday was a bit weirdā I wouldnāt be able to just respondĀ āaw man, that sucksā, I would just be likeĀ āWeird how? what happened? what made it weird? Are you okay now? Are things still weird? Have you found a solution?ā etc. etc.). I was also bad at essays/open answer questions in school (despite usually being great at the class otherwise), because no matter how hard I tried to filter my speech and cut things out, I was always far too long-windedĀ and would get almost too engaged with the topic and lose the clear cut thought organization and focus that youāre supposed to have I guess. Even like, playing video games or something thatās supposed to be relaxing, I canāt justĀ ājump into themā and do whatever, usually any game I play (large ones at least, small 25 minuteĀ point and click adventure games donāt count of course), I have 7 - 10 pages of notes, do hours of research, look up most of the main spoilers, plan out and organize exactly how Iām going to play it and this and that, etc. lol...Ā
So, that personality trait carries over into posting things online as well, I canāt just type something out quickly and hitĀ āpostā without a second thought. Social media is hard for me because youāre supposed to use it casually, but I spend a long time re-reading drafted posts, thinking about them, etc. etc., and end up never actually getting around to posting anything. Itās not that Iām perfectionist about it and want it to beĀ āgoodā or appear a certain way, itās just that my mind becomes preoccupied with things I guess.Ā Iām a natural information gatherer, part of my natural way of processing things is to learn everything possible before acting, and I want to make sure Iāve fully thought about everything always, and know as much as I can (so I wouldnāt want to publicly say something without giving it a lot of consideration first, or post a picture without really thinking about if I want to post it, what my reasons behind posting it are (like if Iām posting something just for a validation of a certain aspect of myself VS. genuinely because I like it, etc.), if a few months from now Iāll still like that I posted it, etc. lol.. even with like silly cat photos or something, I have to analyze it and be likeĀ āhmm.. will I still stand by this picture in 4 months? why am I posting it publicly vs, just keeping it privately to myself on my computer? whatās important about it?ā etc. etc. ghgjhgjh.. like.. shut up lol.)
ANYWAY, yeah, I donāt know if itās about wanting online content to be āgoodā, as much as itās just like... I take everything way too seriously and am detail-oriented, contemplative, and analytical to a fault, which means it just takes me 10x longer to do basicĀ āāsimpleāā things that it would for other people. Though I can still be quite quick-thinking and decisive (I donāt often waver back and forth between things too long), itās usually because I have years of thinking about the same exact things behind me, so I already am very clear on my opinions on stuff, to a point. But when itās new things Iām less familiar with (like playing a new game, or posting regularly online), Iām still in a phase where I guess I have to give it a lot of thought. I just process things in a different way than other people I guess? Or have some inherent inability to be brief/concise/careless? If youāve ever read any of my worldbuilding posts (where I usually start off wanting to explain one thing but then have to derail into 400 other misc. details and explanations and it ends up being a novel), then maybe itās more evident what I mean, where itās just like... my natural manner of speaking is Too Much.. I guess? Even this answer is winding and rambly, and I feel like other people could have answered this ask in only a few sentences lol..Ā
Ā If any of that makes sense? I donāt know how to describe how I am lol.. I just know it's hard to me to use social media in this ~~casual effortless~~ way most people seem to, since my brain is just inherently incapable of anythingĀ āācasualāā orĀ āāeffortlessāā lol..Ā T u T ;;Ā
6. " Hi! I hope this isn't weird to say, I'm designing a race for my DND campaign and some of the aesthetics are a little bit inspired by some of your costumes and makeup designs. You're awesome and your art is awesome so thanks : ) "
Thanks so much, I appreciate it! Itās always cool to hear I can inspire people~Ā
(I usually donāt include many compliments in these ask compilation posts, but I always try to include a few, just to let people know that even if I donāt respond to all of them I do see them, and appreciate it!)Ā
7.Ā ???
I ended up cropping out this ask and not answering because some of the content was questionable (the reason WHY/how they wanted to make the character) in a way that I didnāt feel like getting into a long thing about, but part of it was relevant to making OCs in my world, so I will just make a quick comment:
I do state that this is a closed world, so I donāt want anyone making OCs of my species or etc. at least not at this point. Once my game is finished (if ever lol), or I write a few books or something, then I feel it would be understandable if people like, made up a background story for their player character and thus maybe could have some form of OC in my world and etc.. So I may be more relaxed on this in the future as I create content that people naturally would want to engage with , but for now, Iām still a very tiny creator with a closed world and it just doesnāt feel the same as like.. making an oc based on some thing in a big TV series or something. My worldbuliding and etc. is still very personal to me. Unless weāre directly collaborating on things (like mentioned here (link) a bit), or youāre a personal friend of mine whoās gotten involved in the world with my own guidance (meaning I could tell you lore things youād need to know to make it accurate, etc.), then I donāt feel itās appropriate for strangers to do at this point.Ā
Especially since I donāt even have enough world info out for people to be able to reference (most species have half-complete guides, Iāve only ever talked about like, one continent, etc.). There are so many necessary details which I have only in my head and have never typed out, so again, idk, itād just be weird. Iām not okay with it until I have a lot more lore published, and maybe a few actual works out there that people can reference/stories/games/basis for OCs to exist in the first place. If that makes sense?Ā
8. "Hey, is it ok to use your outfit posts as inspirationĀ for a dnd character? I love them so much, you have such a unique way of combining crazy patternsĀ and fabrics into something that gives off a good vibeā
Yes, that would be fine! Thank you for asking, and I appreciate the compliments~ Hopefully I can get back to posting that sort of thing more often lol.. Iāve gotten WAY off my routine and havenāt done many outfits lately.. aaa
9. "hi Luca! i just wanted to say i really love all of your costumes and fashionsĀ and dress ups, its all so cool and pretty and interesting. i actually wanna dress up for fun for myself, and now that i know about the bins i think i'll try to convinceĀ my mom to take me to similarĀ places for cheap clothing pieces, since my mom is worried about how much all this costume stuff costs. anyway, please keep posting your cool and beautiful stuff! "
Thank you so much! I wish you luck with your costumes! Yeah, I think thereās a common idea in a lot of fashion communities (like with makeup, costumes, etc.) that you have to always have high quality things to look nice, and even if sometimes you can do more with a little extra money, really you can make anything look good with what you have if you just combine it right. As Iāve always been quite low income, being into fashion and stuff has be discouraging at times, that I couldnāt afford certain materials or items, but you just have to find a niche where what youāre able to do works. For example, a lot of even ācheapā lolita style clothings are too expensive for me (like $30 - $50 for a dress??? then the more pricey ones can be over $100???) lol.. BUT, then stuff like mori kei, cult party kei, fantasy costumes, etc. you can do with nearly any fabric you can find, and itās still just as fun and creative. Most of the outfits I take pictures of probably cost me no more than $1 - $10 for every single item combined. Obviously it depends on location - I have better access now that I live near a place like the bins, which I understand there may not be similar resources in small towns or etc. But even with generic thrift stores (which may not be as cheap as the bins), you can still find pretty good alternatives to all the money it costs to buy things brand new. Thereās still some stuff I legit just canāt do because I donāt have access to the materials, but for the most part I can manage everything Iād like with $3 eye-shadows and 15 cent tattered curtain fabrics lol. You can still do really cool stuff on a pretty nonexistent budget!
10. ādo you have any tips on growing your hair long? is it expensive to up keep? i wanna grow mine out but it grows so slow!ā
Well, I know nothing about hair and am not a hair stylist or etc. so I really donāt have any tips lol??Ā And I think hair maintenance depends a lot on the type of hair you have, not everyoneās is the same. I assume we must have similar hair Ā (my natural hair is thick kind of coarse very dark brown/black hair, which is a bit wavy in some parts but mostly straight, but most of my hair currently (aside from the overgrown roots at the top) is altered because of damage from bleaching and etc., itās more brittle. so thatās what Iāll be referencing) if youāre asking me this instead of someone else, but just know that whatever I say may not apply to you. Ā
Anyway, I really donāt do anything to my hair to make it grow or etc., itās just that Iāve gone a long time without cutting it lol. I used to cut it all the time or change styles, and now Iāve kind of just left it for 5 or 6 years or so. Because of my mental illness I have trouble maintaining personal care and etc., so I do sometimes go a week or more without washing it, even though Iām trying to work that into my schedule more (luckily I donāt have stinky head, Iāve heard some peopleās scalp oils and stuff can smell weird if left for too long, I have the privilege of being able to like.. skip on hygiene a lot without it severely impacting my ability to do things or etc. since itās usually not obvious if I havenāt bathed in a week or two).Ā
My cat also EATS HUMAN HAIR for some reason, so I have to keep it up all the time, so that when I shed it doesnāt actually just fall loose onto the ground lol. Literally all I do to my hair is just keep it in two braids at all times and wash it with normal shampoo and conditioner occasionally, when I can. I really only think itās gotten long because Iāve been leaving it alone and not messing with it, not really because of anything Iāve done (like I donāt use fancy products on it or etc.) And because of that, no, itās not really expensive! It absolutely WOULD be if I were like..a normal functioning person and I regularly bleached it and dyed it and put products on it and styled it and used shampoo and conditioner every 1-3 days on it and etc. lol.. But I guess because I donāt do anything to it to maintain it, Iām not spending money on hairspray or dye or shampoo or etc.Ā Ā I used to bleach it a lot and straighten it and use hairspray and stuff on it, and it seems healthier (at least on the new top parts) now that Iām just ... ignoring it basically lol. But I donāt really know what to do to make it grow faster! Iām bad at self-care, and even if I do costumes and stuff, I really am not into beauty and hair and nails and makeup and stuff, so Iām probably the wrong person to ask hghjhb.. My upkeep routine is just... eat and sleep. wash face with water daily.. do extra stuff if you can manage to despite your functioning issues, etc. Iām definitely not a Beauty Advice person, I barely brush my hair even once a week lol
11. "Maybe you should reduceĀ the number of races if it's too overwhelming? A world can still be immersive with only a few races in it."
(sidenote - Not to be nitpicky, but I make a specific point that the groups of fantasy creatures I create are species, not āāracesāā, even though it is a commonly used term in fantasy worldbuilding, I think itās inaccurate/weird )
I know I donāt have to make so many different groups, but, I guess I just really want it to be a broad setting. Part of the point in creating Nanyevimi (aside from worldbuilding just being extremely fun and a hobby greatly suited to someone with my personality traits lol) is to have an established world that I can do anything within, a framework already built where it'd be super easy to just drop a character anywhere on the map and already have an idea of what their culture, background, experiences, etc. would be based on pre-existing details about that portion of the world, etc. But I also want it to be broad, and varied, where every area kind of has itās own dynamics going on there, so if youāre in a different place, you get a different kind of story. (like in an elven alliance city, youād be better suited to tell an adventure story centering around complicated local politics, or city life, or etc.. whereas out in some isolated mountains in the south, itād be more suited for a mystery story about stumbling across ancient ruins, or running into a mysterious traveler, etc.)Ā
Which I guess doesnāt matter much, since I'm better at setting, world design, character design, planning, and details than I am at plot, soĀ I probably wonāt actually ever do anything with it (god forbid I tried to write a book or something with my utter inability to be concise/brief in any imaginable way). I can craft settings/characters/history/world-details all day endlessly, never losing inspiration or etc, but my weak point is actually telling stories within those settings and formulating a solid plan, organizing plot structures long term and etc.. Setting up everything for something to happen/creating a place where many interesting premises could occur is fine, but then actually thinking of how those things should OCCUR, or how the set up should play out, is where I get kind of lost. I guess the ideal at some point would be to have people working with me, helping when writing stories in my world/outlining games/etc, to add more cohesion/structure and reign in the unfocused stream of ideas,Ā Ā but thatās very unlikely since I donāt have any close friends that are good at organizing or plotting either, etc. BUT anyway, even if I canāt ever manage to do anything with it, the whole āhaving a setting I can use for anything I want if anything ever comes up, which is already established and thus makes it much easier to formulate ideas because all the background work is already done for myselfā thing is at least a nice goal.. in concept...theoretically lol..Ā Ā
And, itās not really too overwhelming, I think the overwhelming part is actually just formatting and producing those ideas in a consumable form. Itās not hard for me to keep track of 20 different groups and make backgrounds and every imaginable detail for them, but it IS hard to actually take all that information that exists in my head, type it out as a worldbuilding post, format and organize it, draw pictures to go with it, etc. If I could just post long stream of consciousness style 300,000 word long posts with no paragraph breaks, 4000 typos, barely any punctuation, etc., then Iād have A LOT more world-building info publicly available (since thatās what all the initial documents on my computer look like lol), but thatās just so inaccessible itād be pointless to have public in the first place. The hard part isnāt really coming up with or managing the information, itās just... organizing it all, and finding a way to share it.Ā
12. "oh PLEASE tell me what boing peach beverage the elf looks like"
a quick sketch of them.. mysterious peach (and other produce) salesmanĀ Ā
13. "fun question: what are ur fashion pet-peeves?"
Well, basically none because I hate when people areĀ rigid over Fashion Rules or etc. Like, people who take pictures of others in public because they ālook weirdā , or who constantly trash on what people are allowed to wear, what patterns can be mixed with others, etc. etc. I get that some stuff can look kind of bad sometimes, and itās not that I think nobody is allowed to criticize fashion trends or etc. (especially if theyāre legitimately problematic, like of course someone wearing a homophobic t-shirt or doing blackface should be criticized), but I mean just like... that sort of trivial bitter criticism that doesnāt do anything but make people feel bad about the way they look or make them afraid to dress in ways they feel comfortable. Like taking a picture of someone and posting it online to make fun of them because they wore socks with sandals, or bullying 14 year olds who just started doing makeup and havenāt totally gotten their look sorted out yet, etc. etc.Ā (ESPECIALLY since this can often intersect with classism, racism, etc. if you really examine what people mock as 'ugly' or 'unacceptable' styles, it's often stuff like men wearing dresses/makeup, women not shaving, clothing associated with poverty (like wearing āācheapāā clothes), physical traits commonly associated with poc, making fun of people who look a certain way likely due to mental illness (like fidgeting, dirty mismatched clothing, carrying stuffed animals or comfort items in public etc.), etc. etc.
I find costumes and makeup and outfits to be a very cool and fun way to express myself. So when people are complete freaks about it and set out to just relentlessly make others feel bad for no good reason, itās like... obnoxious... How can you take something with so much potential and limit it and close others off and turn it into this rigid hateful thing, when it should be something that everyone is able to be passionate about and appreciate?? Outside appearance isn't everything, but it's a tool of expression for so many people and can relate to who they are as a person, people should never feel uncomfortable to be who they are or look how they look just because some dumbass rich person writing for a style magazine has the gall to declare some random thing to be 'Unfashionable' despite not having a genuinely creative bone in their body, or some bigot thinks that certain things areĀ āuglyā orĀ āunprofessionalā due to their own mental associations, etc.
But anyway, I guess if I had to choose a few things that I just think look kind of odd to me personally/are generally off-putting...Ā Ā
--- the overdrawing lips thing when you can see the persons actual lip-line and it almost looks like they have two mouths or something? (if not done intentionally for costume makeup). It can look a little strange to me sometimes, like an optical illusion where you see multiple mouth lines at once?? idk like this?
--- freckles that are just round circles and really heavy and donāt look realistic (though again, I also realize this could just be the personās first time drawing them on or something and Iām notĀ mocking for lack of skill, etc. I just mean that itās a little strange to look at, not actually BAD though) (and it can also be intentional, like for a cartoony costume look) ---- People adopting cutesy/childlike fashion and clothing and sexualizing it or using it as part of their sex/kink stuff.. I just feel like anything associated with children should not be sexualized..? If the first thing someone thinks when seeing children's school uniforms or frilly little girlās doll dresses or whatever is that it could be a Hot Thing then hhh... like why is your brain making those connections lol.. People can dress how they want for whatever reasons they want, but thatās always personally creeped me out a little. Similar to our cultureās obsession with looking young beingĀ āhotā (like a grown man wanting someone whoās a legal adult but stillĀ ālooks 16ā³ or etc.), where itās like.. okay, I guessĀ yeah outwardly you can make that choice, and maybe arenāt directly causing harm, but.. the underlying tones of it and etc. still make it very unsettling to witness lol... ---- anything appropriated obviously, as well as fetishization or bastardization of cultures, like t-shirts with Japanese writing on them Just For Aesthetic, or taking certain culturally or religiously significant symbols or etc. and adopting them as ājust a silly fashionā thing when youāre actually being disrespectful, etc.Ā ---- those shorts or whatever that go up extremely high on the hipbones always look a little weird to me lol, like they give a person funny proportions,Ā
(you may have to right click open image in new window and zoom to see the text, but itās like.. the blank space makes it look kind of weird to me? Like thereās too much where thereās just nothing going on? idk. Thatās just my personal preference though, obviously I tend to lean towards busy designs lol)
Thatās all I can think of though, like I said, Iām really not picky or judgy about fashion since I think people should be able to do whatever they want for the most part. Iām not like a āomg stripes should NEVER be worn with plaid!!ā type person or something lol.Ā
14. "Hey Luca! I love when you post about your world. Do you have a favorite species you've made up so far? Also, I hope you're holding up well during the crisis!"
AAaa thanks! Iām okay mostly. Itās distressing since because of my particular mental illness I already have constant paranoia and obsessions about health, so of course hearing about so much illness can be really triggering constantly and Iām preoccupied in never-ending anxiety spirals about mortality and etc. etc. etc. , but situationally, Iām just very thankful that nobody in my household has gotten sick yet and I desperately wish that will continue to be the case. *** *** ***Ā
(ignore the *** *** *** , this is a text version of a physical compulsion (a hand movement) that I have to do when I mention certain topics lol.. the little man in my brain that controls my obsessive compulsive disorder says I must do certain things after saying or thinkingĀ certain things,, You Know How It Is )Ā
And I really love worldbuilding questions, so thank you so much!!!!! Hghgh maybe it seems weird to favor any over the others, but of course I really like the Avirre'thel. Conceptually, I think their origin story and connection to ancient elves and their abilities and etc. put them in a really unique position in the broader world (some of the only truly immortal people to exist, the only people who can still decipher ancient elven texts in a way that makes sense, etc. etc.). Since Nanyevimi (my world) is really just a setting being built so that in the future I can set things within it (games, short stories, etc.), I think I'm drawn to the aspects of it that have the most potential to make interesting characters, and there are definitely a lot of pre-established dynamics with the Avirre'thel/in Navyete (their home country) as a whole that would make it an good place to set certain things, or a good group for a main character to be from, etc.
I do really like the Jhevona as a species overall too, even if I haven't developed them as much, they also kind of stand out as having some fairly unique features that put them in an interesting position in the world (being one of the most magically capable groups that exists but that also having downsides (health issues and infertility from magic exposure, etc.), how the necessity to keep control over their magic influences their culture, being some of the only natural shape-shifters, etc.). Within that, I REALLY love the Thastanri (a subspecies of Jhevona), like their connection to dreams, the Imkasyn, being one of the last few peoples in contact with real dragons, etc. etc. There are a lot of complex things going on in their area, so thereād be a lot of potential to tell a variety of stories or have interesting characters from that group.Ā
AND, though it's supposed to be Unknown in the world so I won't talk about it just in case I ever write a book one day or something and need to preserve at least a FEW mysteries that I don't just outright explain in worldbuilding posts, Jhevona do have the most interesting origins of any species in my opinion. There are some things from before the timeline break sort of thing (where all recorded history was seemingly wiped and everyone had a big memory loss about 50,000 yrs ago) that people aren't aware of anymore... but Jhevona used to have a cool backstory and quite interesting function in society prior to that. There are some remnants in the genetics of the species and how their magic works (at least for certain groups) that kind of hint at how ancient Jhevona used to look and what they used to do, even though in the modern day things are very different.
15. "Top 10 songs you've been listening to lately?"
I donāt have a top 10 since I listen to everything for different reasons, and donāt have as deep a relationship with music the way some people do (like I donāt really have a favorite band or group I have a connection with thatās āgotten me through hard timesā, or music I cry to/any songs that are specifically personally emotionally meaningful to me, etc., etc.), but hereās a quick playlist of a few favorite-ish things Iāve had in my head a lot recently -Ā
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPmQ4SZdFFHNkgKo7nAiEMgVvLcycX5Qc
the last song on the list specifically Iāve been replaying a lot for some reason, I guess since itās good background music as thereās no words. Particularly the part that starts around like 38 seconds in, something about that melody reminds me of something distant, in a dreamlike way. The past few days I mostly alternate between that song, Outstanding, and And The Beat Goes OnĀ lol
16. " Do you ever sell sculptures? I really like that little fawn!"
Yeah, I hope to eventually! Like I mentioned in question number three, if I can set up some sort of way to do auctions or etc, then maybe I can sell that one!Ā
17 & 18 : '"aaa yay!! i missed your outfits!!!" / "can I just say love ur outfits! They're so cool and inspire me to draw my ocs with new outfits > o < and I love your cat too, please give him a big ol pat!"
Thank you!!!! more compliments posted just to show I appreciate them lol, even if I donāt publicly respond to every one~ And, the Boyes appreciate the pats.. here is them.. big babbeys...Ā
#it bothers me still that I didn't take all the screenshots the same way and there's different colors of nu#mbers and etc. lol.... but some of those are from 4 months ago or more and I had already deleted the original ask#from my inbox so I can't go rescreencap it to match the others..#this is the issue inherent in taking so long to answer things that I just respond in large batches lol#replies#okay also I know it's been months but... one of you has to like this post or at least show you read/interacted with my#response somehow because I cannot spend like 4-5 hours typing stuff for others if nobody will read it ghghg#( i know i make it take longer by being rambly and etc. but.. still...)#I'm sorry they sat in my inbox a long time and etc. but... also..... my pwecious time and effort#i hope at least one of the people I'm responding to sees that i did indeed reply to them lol
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