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Me: yeah so I have bipolar and I have periods of mood states that can last weeks or months. I also experience psychosis and struggle with hallucinations.

Also Me: *experiences severe depression and hallucinations/paranoia/dissociation for the last three weeks*

Me: *surprised Pikachu face*

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When Airbuds roasts me but I can’t even defend myself because 224 times in one week is a little obsessive…..

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I wish there was some kind of treatment. Anything to help. A medicine or a pill or a surgery or some kind of procedure. Anytime I go to the doctors or a specialist for my pain or my symptoms they just go 'well what do you expect me to do?' I've been told to take ibuprofen and shut up and stop bothering them. I'm losing hope.

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Since you like drawing anatomy is there a part you like drawing most or least?

How did you get a hang of drawing certain things like hands, feet, faces etc?

What phase of the art process in your favorite? (Sketching, lining, rendering etc)

How many layers do you usually have on a piece?

Do you find people, objects or animals easy or harder than one another? (Rephrased, which is easier, which is harder?)

Do you often add backgrounds to pieces if so how simple or how complex to they normally get?

Do you prefer simplistic drawings or do you like adding details/making detailed pieces?

How'd you find your style?

-sparrow

Since you like drawing anatomy is there a part you like drawing most or least?

I love drawing hands. It's such a weird thing to like but they're just so posable and they really hold a lot of information. It's also just so satisfying to add each finger lmfaooo. One thing I don't like drawing is the torso. Like oh my goddddd, I get way too confused trying to figure out how to move it around. ALSO FACES. I hate faces with a burning passion.

How did you get a hang of drawing certain things like hands, feet, faces etc?

I used to absolutely hate drawing hands. I'd hide them every and any way I could lmao. But I started using LineOfAction and did the hands practice photos and eventually started to get the hang of it. The more I drew them and stopped hiding, the better I got. It also helps to really break the hands down so you're thinking smaller instead of bigger. Each section of the palm is a shape vs the entire hand as one shape. It makes it easier to tackle.

As for feet, I never understood it until I watched this one video by DrizzleDrawing. It basically breaks the foot down into three shapes. The heel. arch. and toes. You can layer/foreshorten these shapes and it makes the foot look a lot more dimensional and accurate. I don't really know how to explain this in writing haha.

And for faces... I have no mastered faces at all. I'm still hiding from them. But if I've learned anything from my past experinces, I need to just face my fears (pun intended) and start drawing them more instead of hiding.

What phase of the art process in your favorite? (Sketching, lining, rendering etc)

SKETCHING!! I love sketching so much oh my goddddd. I have millions of sketches. I swear they always look so much better than my finished pieces. As soon as I do lineart or add colours my art just goes downhill lmfao.

How many layers do you usually have on a piece?

I like to combine layers as I move along. Normally I'll have my sketch layer. A line art layer. A layer for each base colour. Then a clipping mask layer on each of those base colour layers for shading. After that I kinda just add layers whenever I need them and start merging them when I can.

Do you find people, objects or animals easy or harder than one another? (Rephrased, which is easier, which is harder?)

Objects are the hardest because I'm horrible at understanding dimension and perspective. I've never been formally taught the theories of it so I just make shit up and hope it looks okay. Animals are some of my favourite things to draw though I don't do it often. I love cats in particular. They're probably the easiest for me to draw.

In fact, I used to only draw animals and never draw humans. I just started branching into humans a few years ago so I'm still getting the hang of it. I'd say they're relatively easy to draw until I get to the face. Then I'm screwed haha.

Do you often add backgrounds to pieces if so how simple or how complex to they normally get?

Because I don't really get perspective much, I try to avoid complex backgrounds. However, if I'm up for a challenge, I love making detailed pieces with backgrounds or settings. It's super fun to decorate and create a space. I need to work on my perspective and object drawing so I can do better at it.

Do you prefer simplistic drawings or do you like adding details/making detailed pieces?

I like a good mix of both honestly. I think too much detail can clutter and too simplistic can be 'boring'. So when I make a piece that's simple with just flat colours, I try to compensate by adding lots and lots of content and flow for the viewers eyes to move around. But if I make a really complex rendered piece I try to simplify the subject so there's not too much going on. If I have a very very simple subject, like painting a single flower, I try to compensate by adding something unique or creative. Like a slash of black paint and a value change or something like that. I think it's really just a balancing act and I like to stay towards the middle.

How'd you find your style?

Honestly still don't feel like I have a style. It changes so much. But the more I drew the more it developed.

I think the other biggest thing was taking in as much information as I could. I would watch my brother draw ever since I was a little kid. I observed the techniques he used and I took what I liked and kept it, and I modify what I didn't like, and discarded what I hated. I watch a lot of artists on YouTube too just to see how they do different things and pick up random miscellaneous tips that all combined to develop my style. I think it's also really important to immerse yourself in art. I follow literally like 400 artists on Instagram and I'm constantly being bombarded with the curated art I love and it helps inspire me. Just examining and appreciating the art allows me to find things I like and try to replicate it.

Finding your art style is just as much finding what you like as it is finding what you don't like. You gotta observe first. Then develop by drawing.

Thanks so much for the questions!!! 💜 I hope all of this made sense lmfao if you have any more questions or what help I'd be super happy to help. :)))

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last song i listened to: My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys -Taylor Swift. I'm literally obsessed with that song.

my favorite color: Flaxen yellow. I also love pale and muted or rustic colours. Espeically greens, blues, and purples.

currently watching: The Office. I watch it every single night lmao. I've also started watching New Girl again because Nick Miller is just such a mood ugh.

spicy, savory, or sweet: savoury 100%. I cannot do spicy and sometimes sweet is just too much.

relationship status: Dating my best friend. It's literally the best thing in my life.

current obsession: Medical diagnostic science. I love learning about the human body and all the things that can go wrong in it.

last thing i googled: My AO3 Inbox to see if I got any new comments lmfao. I check like every hour juuuuusssttt in case 😭

ty for the tag @lavenderpanic :D. I'll soft tag @bucky-boychik-barnes @ace-bucket @mandyyvibes and anyone else

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Eee /pos

What program(s) do you use? And what tools/brushes are most frequently used on your pieces?

Do you do warm up drawings and if so what do you usually do for warm up drawings?

How do you pick colour schemes/pallets for pieces?

(sorry if I ask too much)

-sparrow

What program(s) do you use? And what tools/brushes are most frequently used on your pieces?

I use Procreate on my iPad Air 5 with an Apple Pencil Gen. 2. I find it's the perfect balance with having a lot of great tools and options but without being incredibly complex like photoshop which can be a lot slower to maneuver around. I love Procreate because it's touch screen unlike Photoshop which would usually require a mouse and that often causes my joints to really flare up. Procreate is also very portable and easy to use. I've had it for years now and I love it, never once thought about switching programs.

As for brushes, I use a modified 6B Pencil. I modified it so long ago, I don't quite remember what I did to it but I think I just adjusted the sensitivity to pressure and it's relationship to thickness so I had more control over changing the line weight. I literally use this brush for everything. Sketching, line work, colouring, shading, writing, all of it.

The other brush I use is Dry Ink and that's mostly for texture, writing, or if I want a harsher lines on a piece.

I highly recommend taking a look at DrizzleDrawings brush packs. They're an artist on Tumblr/insta/tiktok and I am HUGELY inspired by her. When I need a different brush for something I always go to their brush packs which can be found on their linktree/cardd. If you have money for their Patreon you get free access to both brush packs AND tutorials!

Do you do warm up drawings and if so what do you usually do for warm up drawings?

I actually don't do much warm up drawings haha. I normally try to be very relaxed about drawing so everything starts out without many expectations. I just kinda have an idea and go for it. And if I like it, I continue to add to it, adjust it, critique it, and see it to the end.

However, when I have the time I really love doing anatomy warm ups with LineOfAction. It's a website that gives you free reference photos of people (and animals, nature, hands, etc) They have options so you can set it up on a timer, choose the age range, sex, clothing, etc. It's free and requires no account so it's super easy to use and I love practicing my anatomy.

How do you pick colour schemes/pallets for pieces?

This is my worst skill as an artist actually lmfao. I get fucked over by colour theory every single time. I literally hate it.

My way around this, is to use the same colours in like every piece. I have my own colour pallets that I made throughout the years and I just reuse them over and over and over again.

If I'm really struggling for colours, I often use pinterest and look at colour pallets there to try to get some inspiration. Or, there's this theory I forgot the name of. But basically you take a pallet of colours and then lay a single colour over it and lower the opacity. This unifies the pallet. It's the same idea of taking a ton of dollops of different coloured paints and then mixing in 1 drop of yellow to every colour to give it a certain unified tone.

And oh my god, don't worry about asking too much. I literally LOVE talking so much, like ask me as many questions as you want I LOVE getting to answer them/gen. My toxic trait is that if someone asks me a question I will literally never shut up, I get so excited.

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I need to start taking showers to train myself not to pass out cuz my dorm next year only has showers and oh boy. I haven’t taken a shower in years bc I always pass out. Baths are still a risk but at least the falls not as bad…

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Wha I love your art style can I ask you a bunch of art questions

Taking a break from art tonight myself for pain and fatigue reasons

-sparrow

Absolutely :D

I literally love talking lmfao I could ramble on forever. Go ahead :)))

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Meet the Artist kinda thing to get to know me.

Y'all can send Asks and ask me anything too, I love talking lol.

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yooo, awesome!

Ah yes, just daydreaming about mobility aids. You know, like every healthy normal person does...

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Teenage Petulance

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I could do it with a broken heart sounds like me when I’m hypomanic. Like, it’s straight out of my bipolar brain

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You’re the sea, I’m the weather: Always apart, always together.

Happy 2 months 💛

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The rules are shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and list the first 10 songs that play, then tag 10 people.

Sara ~We Three

Hate Myself ~NF

tolerate it ~Taylor Swift

Baby Don't Cut (Acoustic) ~Bmike

right where you left me ~Taylor Swift

Broken ~Anson Seabra

I Can't Carry This Anymore ~Anson Seabra

my tears ricochet ~Taylor Swift

Bored ~Sara Kays

Down Bad ~Taylor Swift

Thanks for the tag @mandyyvibes

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Hurts if I eat, hurts if I don't; hurts if I sleep, hurts so deep.

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EDS is so funny because I'll be stretching my elbow and then it'll suddenly POP and collapse backwards and I'm like oops, lemme just fix that-- Meanwhile all of my peers are staring with horror in their eyes as I test my elbow out to see if it's back to normal.

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Ignored an 8-month-long project for 8 months and then rapidly finished it in 4 hours with less than 24 hours to spare.

The magic of stress making me productive lmao.

Reminds me of one time I had a 15 page scientific research paper on genetics due in 12 hours with no redos/late submissions. And instead of writing it, I made memes about procrastinating it... and then slammed a ton of energy drinks and wrote the entire essay and turned it in with 5 minutes to spare and got one of the top scores out of both classes...