I typically don’t post stuff like this on my art blog but this is something I feel somewhat passionate about considering I am a fiction/fantasy writer. Sometimes (not all times) people ask these questions in bad faith. If it’s a stranger, I’m more likely to be inclined to believe it is in bad faith than if a mutual or friend asked me about my world building.
World building is absolutely important, but some people love to ask these questions in an effort to shut down your idea entirely; They want to make you feel stupid for even having the idea in the first place.
My rule of thumb is:
If someone asks a question about your worldbuilding, it may be important to ponder the question to flesh things out more, but at the same time you don’t owe people immediate explanations and you have time to think about things! It’s okay if you can’t figure out what a megafauna in your story eats until you’re deeper into development. It’s okay to not know yet!
And I’m gonna be honest here:
It’s ABSOLUTELY okay for some things to “just be” because they’re cool. I have this weird elk creature in my comic that comes up in a flashback event, and someone asked me in bad faith
“How does it even run around in the forest as a predator, its antlers would hit the trees”
And you know what? That may be true if it were real! But it’s not real. I like my design of the creature and that’s good enough for me. Not everything has to be analyzed and dissected under a microscope.
You do not owe your audience perfection. Grow your worldbuilding at your own pace, it’ll come in time.
When you are a queer author, or an author of any minority group, people love to pull “Gotcha” scenarios all the time to shoot you down. It’s important to keep this reality in mind when speaking on this because there are a lot of bullies out there looking for blood when writing is supposed to be liberating and fun at the end of the day.
The thing about fantasy worldbuilding is that verisimilitude and the rule of cool are not enemies. Someone who looks at a pod of flying whales and asks "what do they eat?" is not being a spoilsport – they're engaging with the premise. There are any number of much more serious objections to aerial megafauna than lack of any obvious role in a trophic web that could have been raised if they just wanted to shoot the idea down; a person who wants to know what the flying whales eat is all but explicitly yes-anding the idea. Sure, you might not have an answer at your fingertips, but acting like it's unimaginative for them to have asked is a really fucking weird way to react.
Welcome back, Animal Crossing brainrot 💖
If you’re on the fence about getting Clip Studio Paint because of the subscription I will say that you do not need a subscription if you buy version 1.0 for PC. PC can have perpetual licenses for each version, but with the perpetual license you have to buy subsequent upgrades in order to have the newest features.
But if you have the subscription you get every update with it- and if I am going to be honest CSP’s subscription model is very much worth it because of the type of product you’re getting. I don’t believe in subscription models but I will say this one is well worth the money once you get accustomed to all of the tools at your disposal.
F*ck Adobe and all of their products. Give CSP a try- once you learn the basics you will love it (probably) 🙏
(I am not being sponsored to say this, I’m just a professional illustrator who loves the program a lot.)
Happy Pride Month, everyone! 🏳️🌈🥳
I have another pride month drawing coming up because I’m doing a collab with a friend on instagram, so stay tuned for that! 💖
Here's the old one for reference lol. I like certain things about the older one more but overall I'd say I like the new one a lot more since I like the lineart and overall vibrancy!
Redraw of something very old since I’m playing New Leaf again! ✨🕺
Posting this here instead of my art blog since i’m trying to build a following for my animal crossing stuff 😎
Will probably reblog to my main account tho! ☺️ I’d link the old one but i never posted it (or deleted it idr) ☹️
I hope someday if my comic blows up people will love him and enjoy him, but nobody will ever love him like I love him.
It's funny, he's always just.. been there.
He's one of my characters yeah, and he isn't real.. but he's kind of like a long time friend of mine.
We grew up together in a way.
I remember when I made him, he was 16 in my imagination and I was 14 irl. Now he is perpetually 23, and I continue to get older.
I have so many feelings about him and how much he means to me. He will always have so much space in my heart.
A friend, a reflection of me and my growth, and the reason why l've become a comic artist. He is all of these things and more, and I love him dearly.
Thank you, Xoinu. And happy birthday
You should definitely check out my revamped blog theme 😎 I designed it to fit my fave OC's aesthetic and I put a slideshow embed on the top of my blog! I'm really proud of it lmao
LET'S GO TEAM STARDUST WOOOOOO!
I'm so pumped!!!! I'm working on uploading everything right now. Stay tuned!
This is my first fight so please be kind and patient lol
Hello! My name is Logan and I am the creator of the webcomic series “Journey From Ashes” on WebToon Canvas! I’m an artist who loves to draw my own characters, but on rare occasions I make fanart, too! Please check out my .carrd for more info about me along with commission prices.
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