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did you make the Jean Moreau Jersey yourself?? if not where did you get it bc omg I need one

idk, sorry anon 😔 @wyverningx just showed up with them so we could be matching

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I have 3 fake jerseys: 2 for King’s Avatar (Wang Jiexi no.4 for the national team and captain for Tiny Herb) and 1 for TSC (Jean Moreau no.29 for USC) and none of them I can wear bc without the context they cause different problems and I just want everyone to know that :’^)

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behold: my stuff :^)

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do you think you possibly have the sunflower jerejean one prints on your shop? 👉🏼👈🏼 it’s my favorite one and i’m not sure i’m just struggling to find it cuz i really want a print of it 😭

i forgor,,,, to print it,,,,,,,,

I’m sorry anon i thought i had it 😭

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my shop’s open; I’d appreciate it if y’all can give it a gander

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this thing has me fighting both man (my brain) AND machine (printer’s website) y’all 🤪🔫

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hey?

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don’t repost scam who pretends to ask for help! they are not real people from Gaza! They are SCAMMERS

right, i'm sorry

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artemy collared, boss? 👀👀👀

Ohoho, look at him, ever so much easier to yank down to kissing height now. Thank you for this delicious treat. <3

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>>> the perfect court the foxhole court the raven king the king's men the sunshine court the golden raven the broken cage >>> the queen's game

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WOAH that was such an amazing and in-depth response! Thank you! It was incredibly insightful, especially after I came into your inbox like “WOE IS ME….ARTHRITIS….NO TIME LEFT…” (arthritis before 25 everybody point and laugh and throw tomatoes). I took a watercolor class in college and my teacher hated my ass the whole time because I was so trash at it….but I actually have a lot of equipment saved up from my childhood, some of which is fairly high quality that my parents picked up at stores and are collecting dust. But I was always held back by the fear of wasting pigment and material + my intrinsic desire to eradicate anything I’m dissatisfied with. Honestly one of the biggest reasons I switched to digital was the fact that it’s easy to make my goof ups go away. But your feedback is so thoughtful and has given me a lot to think about in terms of what I can still do even with my imploding arm. I will keep that in mind from now on so I can retrieve my cobweb-covered strathmore and lock in. Hope you have a great day!

My mission in life is to get everyone to try watercolor painting 😌🫰 it’s fun and your drawing for fun & u can’t let the haters win

Arthritis is a legitimate problem and i know my fair share of fellow artists with hands and joint problems l o l 🫠 Last tip is if the brush is hard to hold, wrap twine or cloth bandages around the barrel until it’s girthy enough to hold :^)))

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This is gonna sound like some kind of bizarre interrogation, but how old are you and when did you pick up watercolor art? I’ve seen and enjoyed your art and the work of other watercolor legends like Heikala and Margaret Morales and since I was in middle school. Seeing you in the same fandom I’m in now is really heartwarming while also making me feel brittle and old LOL. I love watercolor art but sometimes I feel like it’s too late for me to pick up lest the bones in my wrist explode like a character out of The Boys.

Anon I’m holding ur old tired hands in my crumbling hands deteriorating joints and obliterating tendons tenderly

Listen to me: watercolors are MAD easy to get started in. The entry barrier is low. Hell, I started wcs bc i had no money and Mark Crilley, our OG YouTube art teacher lord & savior, was out there using a no.2 pencil and wcs.

They’re fun, they’re cheap, they’re forgiving. The absolute barebones-minimum you need is a collection of 6 colors (warm-cool pairs of red, yellow, blue), watercolor paper, and a paint brush. I still have some of the original nylon brushes i used when I first started painting like 2 decades ago. They were one of those fun little craft packs with clear colored acrylic barrels.

The paper I’m still currently using for a lot of things is a 90lb paper i got in a box of 250pcs for a $20 from am*zon. I’d recommend you use whatever the equivalence of canson xl paper you can get easily.

wcs are fast and easy and fun. It’s easy on the hands and joints and wrist. U don’t have to wait for things to dry. I use a heat craft gun to blast my paper and then after i’m done painting i iron it flat. Whatever mistakes you make, you can most likely scrub out easily. Whatever you can’t scrub out, that’s what phot*shop is for.

Relax, have fun, go in with no thoughts in ur head and no care in ur heart. I love u & i’m proud of u for trying & u’ll get better as u get used to ur tools & ur UNFATHOMABLY cooler&sexier than the loser who uses genA¡ 😌🫶

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I made my sister look at all your art the other day btw. I said "can you believe it? It's watercolor" she was as blown away as I was about your work :)

thanks very much but why was this worded like a hostage situation lol 🤣

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Would you ever consider doing a tutorial/speedpaint of your work? I love your style and I have so many questions. I saw some of your work is traditionally done. Do you do a mix of digital and traditional?

thanks very much but i don't have filming equipment and honestly i just don't like filming in general, andi don't do anything particularly noteworthy?

the general process is something like

sketch (on procreate bc i go through a lot of fiddling and this saves paper)

print out sketch, transfer to watercolor paper

line with waterproof ink

paint

scan finished painting

digital edits on csp (warping anything disproportionate, paint over any errors, 8hrs of meticulously painting every single selection mask of every single element bc i have control issues, edit for contrast and color)

sometimes i sketch directly on watercolor, sometimes i don't line before i paint, sometimes i use opaque paints instead of transparent watercolors

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oh oops sorry i didn’t mean to make it seem like your preferences had any influence on me or anyone or that it’s ever that serious. i was just tryna to express my gratitude of you being a jerejean main bc i fear we lack jerejean art so i appreciate it when i find an artist who is a jerejean main and that its nice to see someone who shares my preferences😭 i apologize if the way i worded it made it seem like i meant it as something else and if that has upset you, that was not my intention :(

anyway love your art and thanks for sharing them!!!

It’s all good lol we do have so little jerejean stuff 😩

I stand by my belief that fictional characters are not real tho like? We call them blorbos and all of this is deeply unserious lol we should all be humbled and have fun

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first, i’m so happy i found you on tumblr so i don’t have to stay on aftg twit bc you were the only reason i stayed on aftg twit even tho i hate it there. the aftg fans on twit are so toxic esp towards jerejean fans.

second, you are SUCH a beautiful artist. you capture jean and jeremy so perfectly, like that is exactly how i imagine them to look but somehow you make them even more ethereal than my imagination.

also im so happy you’re a jerejean main/solo stan bc most of the aftg artists here are andreil mains, which i love them as well, but jerejean are my absolute favorites from the series. i always cherish and appreciate the artists who are as obsessed with jerejean as i am bc there’s not as many of you guys and yall feed my obsession with such incredible art and yall don’t make me feel alone for loving jerejean more than andreil, i owe you my life fr!!!! i’ll forever support you and i can’t wait for you release your dust jackets for tgr ^_^

lol yeah, my greatest achievement is getting people to try watercolors. my second greatest achievement is getting people off the nazi site :^)))))

thank you; i'm happy to know you like my jerejean designs! 😭🫰

i just like the little guys and none of this is real, man. none of these characters are real and whether i like or don't like a fictional character really shouldn't have any consequence or influence on anyone; we really should not be taking this that seriously