The fact that we, Arabic-speaking average people(aka non-journalists), have to keep up with translating Palestinian posts from Arabic to English to avoid having Western Media/Pro-Zionists mistranslate on purpose, says enough about how we all lost trust in the media. From the "there's a list" guy who was standing in front of a calendar and condemning the days of the week, to the BBC's mistranslation of a freed Palestinian hostage's interview. I will try my best to keep translating whatever I can find, and I encourage my fellow bilingual/multilingual Arabs to do the same. It's already sad enough that Palestinian journalists and even children have to use English in videos instead of their native tongue in order to get the world leaders' attention.
i thought you're never gonna post your art here anymore after the news about tumblr selling users' data to midjourney... :( – R.K.
tbh it doesn't make a difference
I can't delete my old post from tumblr anyway, so they will be here anyway. And I'm sharing now everything with glaze and nightshade. So I can at least do this.
I thought about not posting anything new..and I dunno..maybe I will get there. But not sharing my art all doesn't seem like an option either.
I was just curious and excited about the process to get idea on the layering and coloring which ones are drawn first. But thank you for posting the speed videos.
English is my third language. Sorry for my sentence sounding like accusing. I knew it might sound negative so I put "Kindly". I guess it wasn't not enough and I didn't know anything else better on how to fix it. 🥲
Ahh good to know!! Thank you!!
sorry, I didn't mean to accuse you, but especially with ai there are too many people being weird :D and I just wanted to be sure!
Hello. Do you mind if I ask about your creative process when you created your OCs? I have a few of my own but I was wondering how you went about creating a story and background for them. I apologize if you have already answered this.
Hey hey, I don't mind at all!!
I'm not too sure tough I can give a good answer :D
My process has been one that took years. I wouldn't consider myself an ocs artist, in the sense that I have many ocs or many stories. I've been carrying Aran and Tao, and they have changed and grown with me over the years.
But I can share two things I like to do
1: I like to start small and slowly grow from there. This applies to drawing my cluttered backgrounds but also to how I like to explore characters.
Meaning, I start with the rough base. Character, male, how do they look like. And then I go from there. What do they like? And slowly add things. Does what they like apply to their life? Like hobby, or job? So what would they do? Do the people around them like the same thing or don't get it? Who are the people in their life?
You see? Start something small and let it grow.
2: Put them in aus and different scenarios.
Despite the fact that Aran and Tao went through several different main stories and settings already, I also have like 100 little aus and different settings for them. And I feel this helps so much.
I know now what they like and do, but how would this be in another universe or in another situation? How would them liking this and that work and reflect their action in a different setting? This really helps to figure out a characters motivation and behavior.
This all said, I know that this is a long process. It's all progress. And a lot changed over the years. So as we know finally want to have a specific story for Aran and Tao we do have to settle on one universe and one story arch. And now I'm not doing it alone anymore. Suzie Samin joined me and created a story and we developed the characters together.
Which brings me to another third point.
3: Talking with friends or others about your characters and tossing around ideas and playing out ideas helps a lot.
Lastly I think creating a character is a personal thing, and so is the process!
And I think there is also a difference between just creating a little guy (gender neutral) to play around with, and draw in different scenes or write little snippets about, or to create a character for an actual story as a book or graphic novel. Not just in the time you have but also purpose. So there are many different ways.
For my case Aran and Tao started out as those funky little guys to just tag along with me and have fun with, and developed into something more serious. So I really find it hard to share my process, because it's been a long one, and it went through many different stages and purposes.
This now got way longer than I thought, and not sure it helps :D
Just have fun with your characters and don't stress too much about it! Be self indulgent and enjoy the process! Nothing is set in stone. You can always go back and change things! Or use them for another character some day.
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