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What is a project you have been thinking about doing?
A book of illustrations done in an Aubrey Beardsley-esque style telling the story of the daughter of a goddess who has to go around cleaning up her mom’s messes.
A collection of short stories about a fantasy character. *zips lip because that has actually started and it’s really just for meeee*
What unfinished projects do you have lying about?
I have two three paintings in progress. One has been ‘in progress’ for uhhh… four years? Five years? XD I should really finish it. The second painting is for a friend’s apartment and the colours she’s picked are goooooorgeous! The third is going to be a test with Culture Hustle’s new Black3.0 paint that I got in the beta for! (So… maybe I’ll do that before the new year so it gets done? Only.. the canvas I have prepped is HUUUGE so maybe I need to visit the art shop on boxing day for a sale on canvas? XD)
I have a few fics still in progress/beta/revision etc. *flops* This time of year is terrible for me (and for many) and I mostly trudge home at night and plant myself on a sofa with youtube.
Would you art for a living if you could?
Yes but… only if I could be a multi-disciplinary artist. I’m considering spending semi-retirement finally pursuing art as a career. Possibly even a degree… finally. I could probably even start that in the next few years.
Would you write for a living if you could?
Nope. I can force the art out but I struggle with words and you can TELL when my heart isn’t in what I write. When I write I write what I want to write.
Plus, I suck at long-form writing.
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So many good ideas! I drew the first one that captured my imagination!
X marks the spot. I really liked the prompt for Flint strolling across a chart but because I’m lazy I drew him doing a stereotypical pirate map. I like to think he’s going through all of this effort to make a decoy map for idiots. It’s hard to tell but the paperweight is a rock with a fossil in it. It seemed like the sort of thing Flint might have hanging around.
I used a reference for his inkwell and quill!
I actually inherited an inkwell and a real feather quill! I simplified the inkwell for the sketch but thought you might like to see a photo of the one I used as reference.
Batbaby! Lol
tea-blitz asked:
Late night snack. Bilbo likes to have a snack before bed but he may have bitten off more than he can chew! (I drew peanut butter cookies even tho I know peanuts weren’t around the Shire. XD I just like the criss-cross pattern you make with a fork on top!)
I think the thing that makes me saddest about this is that... filler / quiet / character / bottle episodes that have nothing to do with plot used to be considered crucial structure in storytelling, particularly in a lot of drama storytelling.
It's been really lost with the rise of grimdark as a genre, and also with the way television has changed over the years. But 'the rise and the fall' or the 'inhale and exhale' within a genre (i.e. between intense and light moments, or emotional and silly moments) was actually fundamental in particular to television storytelling structure, and certainly in a lot of books too. You only need to look at Lord of the Rings to see that even J.R.R. Tolkien understood this inherently. It's good storytelling to know that in most stories, in most genres, even horror and thriller, it's good - powerful actually - to let your characters breathe and have a moment.
Anyway, ThatKodo is 100% on it, it's just that plot driven stories used to have so so so much more of this. Characterisation IS plot and it DRIVES plot. I am a 'character over plot' writer so I want to eat all of ThatKodo's words, I fully agree with them. It's just that for the most part the current divide between plot and character is one we didn't used to have in most genres to the severe degree we do now.