#they were in my sketchwork and everything

[jadethest0ne]

Just wanted to day that I really love your work!!! And Aldo was wondering if you'd be able to talk through the process of how you make your comics? You get them done so quick!! And their always so good from backgrounds to expression their amazing!!! Loving your aftermath comic BTW, I look for it constantly even tho I know you post mostly on Tuesday lolol.

Also- Ace solidarity unite!!! ✌️

Hey there! It is possible that you have me confused with @happyfoxx-art who is the one who does the Aftermath comic, so maybe she can say a thing or two about her comic process.

The comics I'm more known for are "The Brains and The Brawn", "Puppet on a String", and "Mikey Bakes a Cake."

In case you are asking about me specifically, I'll talk about my comic process. I usually start with lots of brainstorming in the form of daydreaming and occasionally scribbling out ideas. I often switch between creating a script and sketching out rough scenes depending on how visual the moment is. If there's more dialogue or I want to note down the events panel-by-panel, I'll script more, if the scene is more action-y and I have a specific idea for the layout that I want to visualize, I'll sketch it. I already talked about how I figure out posing in my sketchwork on a previous ask.

Often I create the scenes out of order and write/draw whichever comes to mind first. For example, these are an assortment of drawings I did on my first concept sketch page for "The Brains and The Brawn".

These are from pages 3, 4, 8, and 10, and while they have nothing to do with each other, they represented the main ideas I had for the comic overall.

After that I'll essentially finalize my written script to make sure everything flows well story-wise, and then go about adding or subtracting panels to lay them out in a proper page-like format. It's kind of like slotting puzzle pieces together to see what fits. This is how I get more dynamic action paneling in my comics. Below you can see some of my more disjointed initial sketches (left) become a bit more finalized (right):

From there I block in all the panels with lines, then trace over the sketches with lineart, and fill in the lines with color. Those stages involve a little less thinking on my part, since a lot of it is just filling in what I already have planned out.

I would personally like to get a bit better with color since I tend to color-pick from other source material a lot. I'm hoping in my next comic project to get a bit more trippy and abstract with the coloring. I make sure to keep each color on a separate layer, and group the layers by character to keep things organized. I usually fully color a character at a time.

After that, I add in lights, shadows, and any special effects. I think the shading and lighting is where it really comes together because it adds a nice sense of depth to everything.

Eye shines are very important to me.

I do dialogue and sound effects last. Yes, there is a basic dialogue I put in the script, but honestly, I struggle most with dialogue (I am shocked folks think that the lines are so in-character), so I put the most time and effort into finalizing that. I will make sure to keep space for where the dialogue bubble should go, but it's often filled with placeholder dialogue until I finalize it on the last step.

I'm aware that this is rather rare for comic artists - often the dialogue comes/is blocked in first for most from what I hear, But for me, the final drawing helps me figure out the right mood/tone for the dialogue in the end anyway. That's just what works for me.

Anyway, that's at least how my comic process goes. Thanks so much for asking! And if you were looking for @happyfoxx-art, then maybe she'll add onto this post. I, for one, would be interested in her process as well :3

(also, heck yeah! Ace solidarity baby!!! [shakes your hand])

[imthederpyfox]

Goodbye.

(DO NOT REPOST WITHOUT PERMISSION, THIS TOOK MY TOO LONG!)

Ok, I may have cried while watching the stream, amongst all the laughing at these two goobers. I’m gonna miss Unus Annus, I hope they revive it at some point in the future, though I doubt it. 

Bonus - 

Sketchwork - 

Where were you? We were here…

Basically this comic is just my perspective of what happened this morning (last night depending where you live?) 8.00am, Unus Annus dies, I clicked on the channel, everything was still there for a moment, but then was gone. 

Youtube asked if I wanted to unsubscribe because the channel was no longer there. I’m still subscribed. Why wouldn’t I be? We spent a year with these two goofballs, why would I unsubscribe from that? 

I don’t like change. I felt weird seeing everything get deleted, but I’m going to stop ranting and rambling now, I shouldn’t be this upset, since we all knew it was happening from the start. 

All I can say is this year has been hard for so many people, for so many different reasons, and having these daily videos, it helped. It helped with mental health, helped bring people together, helped us laugh, or simply distracted us from the outside world for a few minutes. 

Rest in peace, Unus Annus. 

Momento Mori. 

[micromanclub]

Yuuichi Higuchi interview

(translated from Volume 6 of the digital version of Yoshihiro Moritou's Microman manga anthology available on BookWalker)

■ Image sketch of Microman Arm System (working name) by Mr. Higuchi. Each part is connected by five-part jointed arms, and each part can move flexibly. It is said that the development was canceled due to problems with strength, even though a prototype was made. Mr. Higuchi provided us with this new illustration of the concept. (Editor)

-------

The Era of Microman

Can you tell us the original point of contact between Mr. Higuchi (with Design Mate) and "TV Magazine"?

"In terms of Takara's work, I have been sketching products since the launch, so I believe design for the product advertisement page was my first relationship. In addition to "Microman", I was in charge of some of the advertisements for "MagneRobo Steel Jeeg" and so on. After that, development of Microman articles started with TV Magazine, and I was in charge of the layout of those pages. I think that would have been my first point of contact with the editorial department of TV Magazine. "

How did you get involved?

"The editorial department asked me to lay out the illustrations. In other words, the design of the look and feel including sketches of the illustrations drawn by Masami Watanabe.

I remember receiving an order like "We want to make the magazine a little more powerful ..."

In 1977, when the article serialization began in TV Magazine, what kind of position did Mr. Higuchi participate in "Microman"?

"Until then, the main packages, catalogs, and pamphlets were done by Sugawara (lead designer / current president of Design Mate at the time), and I was in charge of sketchwork, but I decided to take over everything including the graphics I was doing since then. This would have been right when Microman Command started in 1977.

So, to put it in an extreme way, it was a time when I was doing everything related to Microman. I wasn't just designing and painting, I was doing it all including photos for the catalogs, so I was so busy that I could hardly go home (laughs). I was in my twenties at the time, so I think I managed to get through at a young age. "

Thank you very much for your hard work! To what extent did you design the article page?

"Full color promo spreads as well as the "Microman Club" segments. Within Microman Club, we also selected the reader-submitted postcards. At that time, I really received a lot of postcards. Regarding the spreads, it was almost the first time to work on such a magazine, but I thought that I had to make it competitive with the other pages....Mori-san's (Yoshihiro Moritou's) manga was also extremely detailed. ”

Microman special one-shot magazine "Magazine Zero Zero", which was sold as a set with Microman Command No. 3 (or Lady Command), was also a product of this period. It is said that not only it gave a full view of MicroEarth, but also the lifestyle is shown...

"" Magazine Zero Zero " started at the request of Mr. Ogawa (Iwakichi Ogawa), head of Microman development at the time at Takara, but the idea of ​​the page layout and contents is my doing.

We did it with the total mobilization of the company. I also drew illustrations. By the way, the fashion corner of Micro Earth was created assuming that girls would buy Lady Command."

Following "Magazine Zero Zero", TV Magazine Special Edition Volume Microman Book (published on November 15, 1977), TV Magazine Color Book 2 , "The Definitive Edition of Microman Encyclopedia" (published on August 25, 1978) and Microman's other publications would be released one after another. These were good memories, right?

"In 1978, the development of "Timanic" began, and the following two years were a really rich time."

In the Rescue Squad series developed in 1979, the character of Mr. Moritou are drawn in the catalog...

"This is exactly what we aimed for: a synergistic effect with Mr. Moritou's manga. At this time, his art for Microman was widespread. "MFC (Microman Fan Club)" was made around the same time. Mori-san also illustrated the newsletter of "MFC"; the TV Magazine Microman Club column section was ending, so this meant Takara wiould create the official fan club. It all started with that. I used to go to his house to pick up Mr. Morito's illustrations, but he was very enthusiastic about his work, so I often had to wait (grins). Mr. Mori's uncompromising attitude was very impressive. ”

The end of the 1970s was when Design Mate started working on mechanical design for TV animation.

"That's right. When we were doing work other than product design, we were particularly focused on "Cyborg 009" (Hiroshi Onishi), "Daltanius" (Sugawara), "Tanser 5" (Higuchi), etc. in 1979. Personally, "Ideon" (1980) is the most memorable. I also drew a lot of posters and illustrations. Certainly around the time of "Ideon". When I was invited to (anime studio) Sunrise's year-end party at that time, Kunio Okawara and I took the return train together. At that time, I remember that Okawara-san praised me, "Higuchi-san does very nice realistic illustration."

What kind of involvement have you had with "Microman" since the Rescue team members?

"I had been involved up to halfway through the "New Microman" line that started in 1981, and I hadn't touched it since the start of the "Micro Change Series." In recent years, I have been cooperating with the replica series, "Magnepowers Microman", and the "Micro Force" series currently being developed. Recently, through "Microman," I have had many opportunities to work with creators who are younger than me. At that time, I am reminded of how much what I have done still affects people (grins). I could now appreciate the hard work I used to do back then.

Published (October 10, 2003 / Recorded at Design Mate)

Yuichi Higuchi

Born July 13, 1957, from Niigata Prefecture.

The works that Design Mate Co., Ltd. were involved with included "Science Adventure Corps Tancer 5", "Legendary Giant Ideon", "Galaxy Cyclone Braiger", and "Wonder Beat S".

Currently still active as chief director.

Also responsible for "Acrobunch" and many others.

[thanidiel]

Womanhood

Everyone paid homage to the new cycle.

And in that, Hui Xiaohu felt a degree of relief; this world of aether and stone and wealth and alienness suddenly made familiar in the connective, red, stitch of Heavensturn. 

To a degree.

Everything was so hushed and so cacophonic all at once. The Teahouse was closed today, the only time in the moons she had been here, and yet it was industrious. She awoke to no women again, for the women were busy at work after dawn. The only thing that greeted her was the bare wisps of bright sun through the small, too-high, window, and the violent ring of steam and metal from the kitchens.

She could imagine, clear enough to form every lifegiving detail, into the brushstrokes passed to her by Great Master Geigu, of pots the size of men thrust about on spitting fires and the boil-charred food flying all about like the horizon’s ocean waves. 

She could imagine, and she did imagine, and she imagined until she could not imagine anymore: to that breaking-point where the young girl could no longer delay the inevitable and distract herself idly with homely, miscellaneous, and ultimately useless things. The mental sketchwork of what the Teahouse’s vast army of cooks was doing from these woks, to the towers of steambaskets and trenches of pearl-white dough, to the vats of expertly-cut bloodjelly and tea-boiled eggs… so minute and apathy-inducing in the face of what was unstated, the imagery generated in her mind pushed down into a locked void.

A dull memory occurred thereafter. 

One that the woman, later, will barely register of its grieving significance - not forgotten, but dessicated and out-of-touch - as she passes it like an anecdotal blotting rag to another,

“I can imagine it’s hard. The first Heavensturn I spent without my parents, I cried my fucking eyes out.”

Crying passed like a hasty turn of a read-before, annoying, page.

Most of the day passed like several turns of her unwanted pillowbook.

That waking-turned-weeping bell passed way into more lessons with Geigu, for she would work as well on this celebrated day, that stretched from pale, to golden, to orange sunlight, and then to a red dusk heralded by the pricking strings of the instrument between them.

Yuko urged her into new silks from Chinatsu for the evening’s dinner when she returned, and these were darker than the ones that she had discerned to be of the typical fashion of Hingan women. Lovely in a different way, that she failed to describe in any proper language, so she settled on these robes being ‘smoky’ compared to the ‘bubbly’ colours she has seen thus-far. 

Deep blue like ink, in which swathes of the most saturated red she had seen in her few years, splashed and mixed all about it. It brought a memory to the soft juncture between her brows of the times beasts would rake the cattle, and how the ponderous things would tread about after. Rich spurts that drained with the pulses of a heartbeat like a hole in the water’s basket, and how it would run across their glossed fur. 

Shortly later, the yellow dust that pervaded her smaller world, then, would coat and coagulate it as the flesh healed opaque-and-green, then robustly red again, underneath.

She was momentarily unsure of where that part of it all would translate to this new-yet-old thing, and then jadecast jewelry was clipped to her fingers, and wrists, and across her clothing, and the bridge between worlds steadied in its unsure sway. 

White was not smeared across her skin, and her lips were not given that unnaturally crimson flower petal when the maquillage came after all of that. 

And when the mirror was presented to her, the young girl felt nothing but a renewed fervour of the twisting uncertainty that she had carried in her belly, and palms, and feet, since the first step she took beyond the Village.

Quickly, she understood that the intention was of a womanly presence.

She did not feel so womanly as this Fifteenth Heavensturn would have her.

She did not look so womanly.

To be beautiful was one thing and she understood, much before the yellow earth left her and the sea severed her, that she was beautiful. But such a thing was irrespective of age; a freshly-born Baby is beautiful, a sun-wrinkled Elder dozing in their seats, the dirt-smeared face of a rambunctious Brother.

It was another thing to be properly woman.

To be arresting.

The bone lines beneath the skin, and muscle, and fat, of her face were not sharp and angular as she saw in the older women.

No, not at all. They were soft, and round, and sloped gently by the blood of Mother and Father.

And she, she herself, was small and diminutive compared to the presence of her Elders of the Teahouse. Not only in size, but in the slender shape of her brows, and the lacking firmness to her mouth, the tender yearling-fat to her cheeks.

More proper a doll than a woman.

That is what she looked like - so consumed in something beyond her. 

But, then, that was what was wished of her, wasn’t it? 

A woman-doll for this Lady Chinatsu. To preen, and educate, and lend, and show off as she ever-desired.

Something about that sank her heart in her breast, that thought. She was too young for such things, to be able to pluck apart and reverse-engineer the machinations of people-using-people so cleanly as undoing fabricwork. It hurt, and it confused her more in the way that the mind determines it is better to dump all of the koi back into the pond than to seek the clarity of the speaker amongst them. 

So she found her stone-laden hand slipping into Yuko’s as they stood for the evening’s banquet.

And the girl possessed it for as long as she was allowed to, until she entered the eyes of all, and custom indicated she keep her touch to herself and seat herself below their proprietor and Mistress.

The golden hairpin slid into her tresses by gnarled moonhands felt like the Clouds and all of its Kingdoms all weighing down upon the ‘woman’.

[jaqirabbit]

✨ It’s Delphi, b*tch ✨Meet Juniper’s friend, Delphi the Summer Fairy, who we created last night on my Twitch stream. My brother actually came up with her name based off of the Ancient Greek religious sanctuary sacred to Apollo. The ancient Greeks regarded Delphi as the center of the world...and boy does this fairy believe that lol. She loves the sun and everything that shines and glitters with an iridescent dress to match her iridescent wings. Her favorite human eras were the 60s and the 90s and you can bet she puts butterfly clips in her hair! I’ll post a full color of her soon ✨✨✨✨✨ ALSO THOSE WHO WANT COMMISSIONS!! At the beginning of every month I will be opening up 5 slots for $35 sketches of their OC. Those wanting more finished line work and or color added can add those for an additional charge. STARTING RIGHT NOW SO DM ME IF YOU WANT A SPOT✨✨✨✨✨ • • #delphithefairy #fairytail #fairy #oc #originalcharacter #myoriginalcharacter #fantasy #fantasyartwork #fantasyart #fantasygirl #mythology #ancientgreece #sketchwork #sketch #digitalsketch #digitalart #procreate #characterart #characterdesign #commissionsopen #jaqirabbit https://www.instagram.com/p/B0oYYYQDd8E/?igshid=e3p5rmxt1wg

[elecman108]

Since October (I think) this year, I’ve been working on a new Desktop background for myself. My OCs I hadn’t drawn in ages, last time I’d done anything with them was my reference sheets back in July. So, since I’d been adjusting them and working on them, I thought “What better way to draw them than to put them in my new desktop background!”

So here I was, since I basically started a new, mostly online semester, working on and off on a project I thought I’d never complete.

When I had the vague poses sketched out, I thought that’d be the end of it.

When I did the cleaner sketchwork, I thought that was that, I was done.

The lines took me so long to do, I thought I’d never get it done and it’d end up in the WIP hell that everything else I’d made over the months ended up for the most part.

But here I sit, just with the shading, lighting, and final details left, and... I... don’t... hate it. In fact, I think it’s some of my best work I’ve made since February, when I shifted from traditional art to digital art.

I’m actually going to finish this. So many hours in, I’ve made my mind up. This project is going to be finished, and no pandemic shutdown, work, college, or anything can stop me from doing so.

(Some random WIPs posted to twitter under the cut)

So I posted WIPs to Twitter just because, like, I had nothing else really to post there, so here’s a few from ages ago.

November 1st I had finished the clean sketchwork for what I initially had. Just some people, some pillows, and their main weapons they used, the odd extra bit here and there (the Crewmate Ender has in her hands, Seven’s SCP Foundation phone, the two Nintendo Switches, etc) but it was pretty empty. It neeeded more, I thought, and started sketching while working on the linework, something I never do because then it takes me ages to do the linework.

21 days later, November 22nd, I had... more to do. Linework. Sketches. So much to do, so little work put into it since I finished the main sketches. I had some more things added (nods to various media I love, like Vinesauce, XCOM, FNAF, Minecraft, and so on), but I felt like it wasn’t THAT great.

Now, I didn’t have much to show between this point and the one I’m really proud of except little bits like so:

...So I’m gonna just remake the stages, minus the funky coloured background I had temporarily in place so I could see what I was doing.

I barely had any work done, I realized, so I worked on finishing the flat colours for the figures first. Mona, Ender, Alpha, Vic, Yvette, Alren, Seven, Lailah, Theo, and the dragon familiar Roko were finished on December 1st, Roko being the last one I completed. I put some texture into the flat pink pillows because I liked the pink, but the sky-blue floor and tan walls I had weren’t gonna cut it, so I deleted them.

This is what I had going into today... Except the only extras coloured were the things around Lailah (minus the book and Golem), Alpha’s dual pistols, the flyer in front of Vic, Ender and Mona’s shit, and the two Nintendo Switches that Theo and Seven are holding. Everything else I coloured today, and added some extra details. You can see as well, today, that I cropped the bottom edge off the image, as my prior ones show the lower, empty section of the image that the newer ones don’t.

I don’t know how I did it, but I put so much time and effort into one image. I’m proud of myself, and honestly... It feels good to have something really nice to admire as a desktop background.

[palteringcecutiency]

==> Psii: Worry.

palteringcecutiency ...how is he doing? Do you know?

caepaecaesurae .. Nadaya? > Time to Squirm A Lot, due to the dualscar talk you've been doing with him . . .

palteringcecutiency Of course not. I was thinking of that other troll we both speak to that is suddenly a wiggler. Yes Cronus. Nadaya.

caepaecaesurae WVell pardon me for not being psychic.  I don't knowv, though he sounds like he's settling some.  WVe're still establishing a rapport, I'll be asking howv he is once he's not flailing at the wvorld.

palteringcecutiency Lord Cronus catch up with the rest of us. Mindreading makes everything so much easier. ...alright. That's better than I had feared thank you.

caepaecaesurae I'll keep you as updated as I can.

palteringcecutiency It's appreciated a great deal.

caepaecaesurae A psionic wvas stern to him, and he is ""fine"".  ...I'vwe offered my protection and assistance, but I think that's the best I can do right nowv.

palteringcecutiency Yes I saw the sternness and it is taking every ounce of my willpower to not rip into them for it. Do you know if he is alone? I am not volunteering myself obviously but someone to hide behind may help.

caepaecaesurae I sympathise entirely. I'm...trying to find that out, as gently as I can. He at least has his cats.

palteringcecutiency Cats are quite helpful little things. Especially in cases like these.

caepaecaesurae He has a moirail present apparently.

palteringcecutiency A relief.

> A great deal of time passes, enough for Cae’s queue to post and for him to say he’s logging off.

palteringcecutiency If I was in the mood to fight I would've gone after my alternate. In case this affects anything.

caepaecaesurae > Time to quietly squirm and debate whether you want to admit you were running or not..

palteringcecutiency > It's not as if you weren't familiar with his running, having called him out on it so many times. And you did word that statement in a way that didn't imply he was running either...

caepaecaesurae It doesn't particularly.  I could stay if desired, but a tumblr glitch annoyed me a bit.  Enough to take a break.

palteringcecutiency Quite understandable this hell site seems full of them. And I have nothing worth dragging you back onto it for I just thought I would remind.

caepaecaesurae > ...Was he trying not to scare you, trying to cajole and provoke you back into a trap, or speaking idly without ulterior motive. Pardon the narrowv miss.

palteringcecutiency > The first, but would he even believe you if he found out? It hardly makes sense, except that you're rather acutely aware of being frightening, and not in a good way. It is fine. Some things are hard to spot especially while distracted.

caepaecaesurae Hard to spot?

palteringcecutiency The connection between the two. Unless you were speaking of something else?

caepaecaesurae There's no connection betwveen you showving up and me stepping awvay

palteringcecutiency No I did not think there was. But between your queue's post and my being around... I thought perhaps.

caepaecaesurae > And time for more squirming. I probably should havwe savwed that in my drafts wvhen I found it. Rather than bothering wvith a queue.

palteringcecutiency Even knowing it has done nothing?

caepaecaesurae > Pinned fins. ... I wvouldn't wvant Sal to think I wvas aiming it at him.

palteringcecutiency ...mm. Understandable. > Not that you believe that's the reason for a second, but. Not much you can do when you're trying not to frighten him. Awkwardly.

caepaecaesurae Anywvay you don't need me cluttering the dashboard.

palteringcecutiency I would disagree that's what you've done but I can hardly keep you where you do not want to be.

caepaecaesurae > Captor moodswings were baffling and impenetrable and you didn't understand.  For a moment you seriously considered attempting to chart them against moon phases, before deciding it would be a hassle to learn about the local moon. I'm sure I could clutter it.

palteringcecutiency I have no doubt you could if you put your pan to it. I was speaking of what has already happened.

caepaecaesurae heh.. I hadn't been

palteringcecutiency Hadn't you? My apologies.

caepaecaesurae Drawv anything interesting lately?

palteringcecutiency > Damn it. The blatant topic change wasn't much better than him bolting, but at least it's something. Hhhh. A few things. Memories of Alternia and Beforus mostly places I remember people whose faces I recall. I've no idea if I have gotten them right but it hardly matters at this point.

caepaecaesurae Blind, tonight? You mentioned commas in passing, once.

palteringcecutiency Well remembered. c: But that is not the hindering factor. I can tell where my pencil marks just fine. I was speaking of the accuracy of my memories and being unsure of details after so long.

caepaecaesurae More than fair. I'vwe been trying to make things from thin air, lately.  Embellished evweryday items. Putting memories to page is.. difficult.

palteringcecutiency Like gilding mundane objects? I could see that being rather amusing. It can be. I was better at it on Beforus than Alternia as bizarre as that is.

caepaecaesurae I create the items, though I suppose I might be able to edit them if I try... ... I think Beforus had more artistic inclination in general. And fostered it better.

palteringcecutiency Ah. I suppose that makes more sense but I cannot shake the image of you adding gold and jewels to everything you own as you get displeased with its boring nature. ...I cannot argue with that however. It did if only for giving me ready access to paper and proper writing implements.

caepaecaesurae I savwe many of the gold and jewvels for Treasure.  Not quite all, but most. You should havwe had that on Alternia as wvell.  .. I imagine apologies get tiring to hear, after a wvhile.

palteringcecutiency A good use for them. c: ...only when I am not in the mood to hear them. I was mostly speaking of after I'd escaped. Paper was not high on the priority list a luxury I did not obtain often. And when I did I mostly drew with ashed sticks from the fire. Far easier to obtain than pencils and the like. I made it work of course but finding my sylladex full of sketchbooks was a bit startling.

caepaecaesurae One of the fewv consolation prizes perhaps.

palteringcecutiency Yes. And beyond that the ability to acquire colors to add.

caepaecaesurae A marvwel.

palteringcecutiency This place has its moments even I will admit.

caepaecaesurae Is there much difference betwveen papers and the computer wvays?

palteringcecutiency There is quite a bit. Pencil and paper interact with each other differently. There's bumps and edges to catch on the pencil wears in different ways all sorts of variables to wrangle. The connection between tablet and computer is far more limited they do not directly interact in the way pencils and paper do but there are a great many techniques and tools open to play with and get used to each having a different purpose.

caepaecaesurae It makes paper and pencil sound like a hassle.

palteringcecutiency Any art at all is a hassle a struggle between artist and the medium until the artist learns how to talk to their medium and to listen to it in return.

caepaecaesurae Tricking the tools into wvorking wvith you

palteringcecutiency Or finding a way get what you want out of what they can do. Either or depending on the materials involved.

caepaecaesurae Fair enough I wvas nevwer a grand hand at sketching.  I knewv just enough to mark my impressions of things in my journals if I felt like it. Seldom more than basic maps and loose impressions of horn shapes and symbols

palteringcecutiency I am quite unsure how I learned per say aside from idle doodling that grew into something more. It just... makes sense. You've got your claws into music though. I am unsurprised sketchwork is a mystery as I find creating music to be the same.

caepaecaesurae I suppose it depends entirely wvhat one practices. I think it's easiest to begin music from vwoice wvork or drums.  One must knowv the fundamentals, but there's little wvorrying about keys and chords and theory.  Fewv tools invwolvwed, either.

palteringcecutiency There's some logic to that assuming of course that the student was not impatient for bigger things.

caepaecaesurae ... True. VWocal wvork suits the impatient wvell, though. Glamorous enough wvhen done wvell, quick to do wvell if you put enough effort into it, and painfully bad wvhen rushed, in a wvay more obvwious to the audience than the singer.

palteringcecutiency A compelling argument I must say. Though I've not really considered dabbling in the musical before.

caepaecaesurae It's an art that burns time, rather than materials.

palteringcecutiency Heh. That would've been a far smarter art to practice while on Alternia then. Hindsight and all that.

caepaecaesurae ... It's hard not to imagine the engineer reports.

palteringcecutiency The haunting voice of the Angel.

caepaecaesurae "...been singing about howv I dropped my pen for SIX WVEEKS STRAIGHT NOWV--" Perhaps.  WVhen you wveren't using it for mockery.

palteringcecutiency I am going to mourn this lost opportunity until my final days. Imagine Her face trying to deal with it. Narrating Her night to night tasks with song. It would be more than worth it.

caepaecaesurae ♪ Form 887 can be found in the ♪re♪fer♪ence♪ desk ♪ ♪ That soup looks like ga-a-a-A-a-ar-bage ♪ ♪ Yes it makes you look ��♪♪fat♪♪

palteringcecutiency Lord I am going to bust something laughing at this. You realize the text is being read off in monotone right?

caepaecaesurae I hope the tasteful punctuation is helping.

palteringcecutiency MUSIC NOTE THAT SOUP LOOKS LIKE GA A A A A AR BAGE MUSIC NOTE

caepaecaesurae ♪ Performance nominal ♪ I ah.  I think the monotone adds a lot.

palteringcecutiency It most certainly does. It's two hundred times better.

caepaecaesurae > You wish you had more to say, but you're just delighted at the relatively clear air.  ..You keep looking back at Psii's last message every once in a while, debating what a proper reply would be. ... I wvonder howv hard it wvould be to autotune text to speech. > Perfect.

palteringcecutiency > Send file: yourewelcome.mp3 > It took you an embarrassing amount of time to wrangled this, considering how well you know this system that you built yourself, huff, but you manage. Your text to speech voice is not as monotone as it could be but it's remarkably bland sounding, hitching once in a while in an awkward tone-deaf fashion, and it is reading out a shoddily written half-poem song littered with musical notes. You remain a terrible wordsmith but you gave it your best shot, giving him a bored robot reading about the thrill of Her choosing what jewelry to wear some evening past and your opinion on such a thing. Oh goodness I'd definitely like to find out.

caepaecaesurae I'm backing this up to my fake computer as soon as I get the chance...

palteringcecutiency c:

caepaecaesurae There's no reason robots can't be singsong

palteringcecutiency There isn't and lord I beg you to remind me what a terrible idea it would be to modify this program. I would never be able to say anything I'd be too busy being unable to breathe.

caepaecaesurae I'm sure it could be strategic about wvhich messages to relay.. Artistically

palteringcecutiency That would certainly be less hazardous but what would even be the cut off? Music notes seem reasonable but they hardly come up and if it never gets used what is the point?

caepaecaesurae Unecessary capitalization wvould be a delightful one Or random chance Keywvords

palteringcecutiency Oo yes definitely the capitalization. Random chance would be delightful for boring nights where I'm just lurking. Keywords would be fun depending on the words chosen which would take careful thought. ...perhaps depending on who is speaking would be interesting. Or a toggle to make boring conversations more exciting.

caepaecaesurae I'm sure you wvould use this capacity responsibly, and I look forwvard to if you evwer get caught listening to it.

palteringcecutiency Oh yes certainly. I wouldn't dare think of using it inappropriately and as often as I can get away with it.

caepaecaesurae Surely Imagine if it only sang messages wvorth a certian number of scrabble points So the long ones, and the ones wvith odd wvords in them ...

palteringcecutiency Words with a certain number of syllables or more especially if it's more than enough to go up and down the scale.

caepaecaesurae ... Most trolltags wvould end up sung.

palteringcecutiency They would which would make telling posts apart easier. This one is written by Cronus~ and this one is your descendant~~~~ Goodness Nadaya's posting~~ Perhaps muffled explosions would be better for his.

caepaecaesurae Staccato -- clashing pitches NAdaYA is POSTing High, lowv, high, lowv Or just 10% louder than anyone else.

palteringcecutiency Why not both?

caepaecaesurae Your poor ears

palteringcecutiency Perhaps. But it would be worth it to try once at least.