Since it's been over a year from starting this and considering I'm switching over to selling physical copies, I wanted to post the entirety of my comic from ShortBox Comics Fair 2023! So much love to everyone who paid for the digital copy in advance! I hope it served you well!!
5, 10 and/or 14! if those haven't been asked yet!
hello there!
5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself
If we're not counting drawing for work I post ~85% of what I make! I don't share most warm ups or silly doodles I do for friends. What's more common for me not to share is my writing! I have piles of feverish poetry and comic scripts lying around- sometimes I'll come back to them and make piece about it to post, but most of the time it's just another outlet for me to get stuff out of my head.
14. Any favorite motifs
Oooooh this is hard... visually... i'm a sucker for anything dark, snowy with lots of delicate lanterns or lights....think The Lantern Bearers by Maxfield Parrish meets old fashioned christmas scenes from the early 1900s. Love it when art feels shiny, warm but not modern.
In a literary way? I enjoy anything playing with the idea of self-sacrifice like FMAB or LOTR! I like to see characters lose and choose to keep going or somehow still find something to fight for. Noncharismatic main characters I think are really interesting to watch unfold. Something really comforting in seeing narratives that are like "things will never be the same but I still want to try".
This will be a surprise print btw on the back of a haikyuu mini zine I've been working on!
Almost Christmas....
8, 10, 30 !!
Hi hi!! :D
8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in
Oooo I had a recipe zine started at the beginning of the pandemic that I meant to compile with friends, but then obviously life hit everyone like a TRUCK. I feel bad it never got any further but happy that it existed for a brief moment and brought us joy during a weird time! So for now my oatmilk recipe is floating out there somewhere as a jpeg on the interwebs
10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw
Ribbons, scarves, bows and tassels!! love love silky fabric that billows in the wind!!
30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated
oh god maybe my storyboards?? I feel like though that's more because posting boards online is always sorta clunky. Plus posting portfolio/original projects makes me a little awkward!! I'm always like... aha.. anyways here's this!! buh-bye!! And log off for a week!!
I just watched your student film and it hit me so hard. I’m losing a family member to a very debilitating disease right now and the grief has been hard to handle. Your film was so sweet and had such a beautiful message. It made me feel like everything will be okay in the end.You and your whole team did an amazing job!
Thank you so very very much for watching it! I'm so sorry for what you're going through and handling right now...the film is based on my own experience caring for terminal family members and the longterm grief that comes with it, so I understand how consuming it all is. But I'm very happy the film brought you a little peace, that's all I could have hoped it could do! Thank you again and again!
Hi 🧍can you pretty please draw Marik Ishtar from the critically acclaimed series Yu-Gi-Oh!
for you? of course.