#forget the details of what he looked like 😞 maybe it's for the best

[meezer]

I JUST REMEMBERED. HIS ASS WAS SO FLUSTERED. HE PICKED UP THE WRONG TYPE OF CUP BEFORE GETTING THE RIGHT ONE. AND HE HAD THE MARKER TOO AND HE WAS ABOUT TO WRITE ON IT. UM. WWELL WHY DIDN'T YOU WRITE ON IT? is it cause you would've had to ask my name & acknowledge that I seem kinda familiar to you/that you know me? LMFAOOO

[verytiredrn]

Hello tiredhomeboi, I'm sorry to bother you if it's night or you're busy, but I'd love to ask you something please.

First of all, I want to tell you that I love your drawings and they are great! Really well done and it makes us want to love the Leopika or the pariston/ging even more! 😊❤️ You inspire me a lot and I'd also like to draw people from Hunter x Hunter but especially the phantom troupe that I particularly appreciate.

The problem is that I can't find my style, or draw exactly what I have in my heading. So I was thinking that maybe a pro like you had some tips/advice for drawing 😅😥🙏

Did you learn how to do proportions before drawing and with what? Do you use references? (I do, but it limits me a lot on my ideas as I don't necessarily find references that reach what I have in mind 😞)

How did you learn to do sketches so easily? How did you find your own style?

I'm really sorry if I'm taking up your time. Thank you very much for your time and attention ❤️

hey there, thank you so much for the kind message :,D

I’ll be honest, im not the best at giving art advice. although I’m still in the process of improving my art, I can tell you how I’ve been developing my style.

I like looking and analyzing my interests that have unique art styles. For example, I see togashi’s style in hxh and what I’ve gathered based on his work is how he ranges from some simplicity to a more very detailed style. For me, I love his simplistic style a lot more. and that makes me want to develop my style that is more cartoon centric, if that makes sense. So see what art styles intrigues you the most, study it, copy it (which is valid for beginner artists imo, but don’t claim it as your own art‼️), then forget about the copying method and practice it, and overall, just have fun with it.

despite achieving my cartoony style that im used to having, I still try to make the proportions in my art look decent. I’ll be honest, I still need some practice on it. sorry if this sounds vague, but I use a lot of shapes and lines to figure out the proportions (ex. For the head, I start off with a circle and a horizontal line at the center of it, and change the height of the line depending on where you want the eyes to be at) I wish I could show you some examples for this part but I don’t have my ipad with me right now. :,) one of my other ways of practicing proportions are redrawing official art from my favorite interests. it’s honestly a fun way for me to improve on drawing proportions. but if I want to draw a character in any pose of my choice, I look up references on Pinterest. I know this method is pretty much common and im sorry about that :,)

for sketches tho, sometimes, i do tend to struggle on sketching as well :,) if its something im used to drawing all the time tho (example: kurapika) then it isnt as hard to sketch easily.

overall, those are my ways and methods in developing my art. sorry this took me days to reply back, i wanted to try to answer all your questions as best as i can. lemme know if i need to be more clear on certain parts :,D

[makingqueerhistory]

I hope this is okay (feel free to delete if this isn't in your wheelhouse) but I have a maybe weirdly specific request: do you know any LGBTQIA+ nonfiction books that aren't ENTIRELY about aspec identities, but do talk about aspecs in a detailed and thoughtful way, not just throwaway references? A few months ago I got to go to a bookshop with a LGBTQIA+ secrion for the first time and I was so excited, but I looked ALL through it and not ONE book actually seemed to really include aces or aros at all. :( hell, in one book the author actually said 'I like the long awkward LGBTQIA+ acronym because it reminds us not to forget anyone' and then 1 paragraph later said 'these gay, bi, lesbian, and trans activists' so. He already did forget us. And I just;; still feel really lost and wish I could believe that exclusionism Doesn't Exist In IRL Queer Spaces but it's actually really hard to find any evidence of that and since I'm the only one of my IRL friends to just be aroace it makes me feel even more lonely 😞

(Ah adding to my last ask just because after I sent I got worried I hadn't been clear enough) by 'actually talking about aces and aros' I mean things like including a chapter on us, or including a comic/short story/whatever by an openly ace or aro creator, or just sort of... treating us as having an important shared experience? Another book, claiming to be like a Guide to Queerness or whatever, only mentioned asexuality as like some new modern label in the vein of 'nowadays people identify with all kinds of weird things, isn't that cute?!' And that is... exactly the sort of thing I am trying to avoid, as example hahahh.

I will be honest, this question probably isn't best answered by me, not a lot of books came to mind when you asked this, and in general I am more likely to pick up a book about a specific topic that is intensely focused over one that is more general interest and includes what you are describing. I am sorry you are having so much trouble though, and I am hoping my audience will respond with some suggestions