#hone their craft

[spacerockband]

Legend tells of the carp that leapt over the Dragon Gate at the crest of a river and became a stand up comedian.

[slapstikcomedyentertainment]

Getting to Know Comedian Silas

I would say every comedian I’ve been on stage with...

1. What made you want to explore comedy? I think I’ve always been a silly kid and I kinda just stumbled into it when I started telling jokes, and I was getting laughs, and I would think “I kind of like that.’’ So, I would sneak in my little jokes; I would write, and people would laugh. Long story short, I went to an open mic, I didn’t bomb, so I said “Okay, this is something I could continue…

[trickstersaint]

fr though you have to write bad poetry. poems are not handed down to you fully formed by god they are things that you have to work on and practice your skill at creating. nobody would expect you to sit down at a pottery wheel and end up with a perfect vase with no practice. it's a skill! art is a learned thing!! you have to make the shitty little pots with dents and marks and your fingerprints all over them in order to get better. and you're allowed to be proud of those first little pots you made too

[nipuni]

Hey, Nipuni! First off, I want to say that i love your work sooosoooo much and i can’t even truly describe the impact it’s had on me. You’re an inspiration to me!! No matter what your interest is in i will always be a fan. I was really curious and wanted to ask, i think you’ve talked about it a looong time ago but, how long do you reckon it takes your to do your fully painted illustrations these days?? and how long do you wait before posting it, assuming you aren’t sure if you’re satisfied with it. I’ve just been struggling with overworking my art and feeling like it’s not ever ready to post so i was curious. 😟

Hello!! I'm so late to reply I'm so sorry!! Thank you so much for the kind words!! to hear that my work can have such a positive impact on someone is the greatest compliment truly 😭❤️ and thank you for sticking through all my interest hopping too haha

These days it takes me anywhere from 2 to 9 hours most of the time, non consecutive if I can help it, and I usually sleep on them at least one night before I share them. But I've held on for over a month to some just because I didn't think they looked quite right, so I keep coming back to them every now and then and do some small tweaking until I reluctantly post them either out of frustration or exhaustion haha I don't have the patience or the attention span to work on the same thing for very long to be honest, so I've adapted 😆

The truth I like to remind myself of is that once I share something all my focus shifts to my next idea every time so whether I could have done better or not doesn't matter once it is out of my hands. I can always do better on the next one, there is just the comfort of letting go and a fresh start.

I've struggled with overworking pieces to death a lot too. It stems from anxiety really so it's a matter of building confidence, the point at which art is ready to be shared is arbitrary after all. You can convey a message or idea just as effectively through the roughest of sketches to the most detailed oil painting, the rest of the work is mostly towards aesthetic value.

On the technical side of things, when you grow frustrated with a piece to the point where you start to resent it is a good indicator that you need a different course of action. Sometimes bringing in new references can help you find the issue, sometimes the problem is structural and buried under piles of unnecessary detail and you have to go back and redo or remove something you were reluctant to, and sometimes the best thing you can do is to let go and come back to it with fresh eyes when you have learned more. As for studies, working from big to small, training for speed and on a time limit has helped me. Anyway I think I've started rambling, I hope any of this helps!! Remember that art at any stage is better than no art at all!!

[jaratedeguadalupe]

he will not in fact, cover them up

[wolfythewitch]

Pls don't go on my animatics and tell me they look like characters from a different fandom mwuah thank you

[maxellminidisc]

I keep seeing the Jamie Lee Curtis "legacy" win excuse, as in "she's worked this long she deserves it" excuse, and it's like uuuhh if you want to make that your argument than why the fuck aren't you giving Angela Bassett her due then? Bassett has an EXTENSIVE filmography and a much decorated career because of the caliber of her work, talent, and performances through the decades she's been working. Like you know exactly why. ONE of Bassett's most iconic performances (her most recognized being Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do by a white audience) has more of an exhibition of talent and skill than like the entire Halloween franchise or any of Curtis' other well known cult comedy roles for the love of god, who are y'all kidding!? Like white people would rather argue themselves into circles than admit that JLC won by pure whiteness and "legacy" aka nepotism.

[pollen]

as an editor, i frankly cannot read without it feeling like work. i can't read anymore. i don't read books. i want to do anything other than read when i'm not working. i used to love reading. i loved reading so much i made a career out of it. so now i never want to do it. this is like the "never meet your heroes" thing but for my own life

[izel-scribbles]

How do you manage to have such a delightful and beautiful art?

magic and black tar heroin :D

[uncanny-tranny]

Honestly, going into your WIP pile to actually go through it and see what you actually want to finish can be really helpful, especially when you don't judge yourself and try to learn why that piece became a hibernater in your WIP pile

Some questions I ponder when I look at a WIP is:

Is this project turning out how I want? If not, what about it don't I like?

Do I or did I have fun when I was starting it?

Will I actually use it or enjoy it when I'm done?

Do I like the material now?

Do I see myself enjoying the product after it's done?

Were there, or are there, time restraints preventing me from finishing?

Is this out of my current skill set, and am I okay with that?

If I could change one thing about the WIP, what would it be?

I know plenty of people won't incorporate this into their own WIP and crafting journey, and that's okay. But I know so many people who hibernate their projects for many reasons and feel guilty about it. I hope this might give people ideas about why they hibernate projects to prevent that type of guilt from eating away at their conscious. This (creating) should be fun, and if you're spending a lot of time feeling guilty or ashamed, it can be hard to continue doing the things you like.

[musubiki]

okay she actually needs to use them though like whats the technique

^ a verbatim quote from lime after he fails the first try LMFAO!!!!!!

after mochis like "I didnt get to the technique part!!" and hes like "Seduce me again. I wasn't ready that time. I can handle it I swear." meanwhile he's sweating and red-faced and looks like he's ready to jump her bones any second..,, she's like "NO!!!!"

so i dont think we ever get to see the technique....i might leave it as one of those things that never actually gets revealed and leave it up to yalls minds to think about what it MIGHT be heheh

[ithseem]

Ok. Hear me out:

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[hells-mansion]

Like, I know AI's gonna be a thing for a while and all that But, after nft's, crypto whatevers, and hell knows what else I'm tired of tech gettin into the hands of the wrong people who are out to make quick cash and makin everybody else pay for it

Pardon my french but, it's gettin FUCKIN OLD, MAN!!

[cinamun]

Cin! I was reading some articles last night about writing because I want to improve my writing, and I was reading about getting plots from everyday life the person used Kendrick as an example of a great writer! It was so cool to read that and I rushed to tell you this right now.

I am a huge fan of using everyday life to tell a story! And it goes without saying that Kendrick has a brilliant mind. No surprise there! He's a literal poet (the great Canadian murder aside, have you heard TPAB? Bruh...).

Almost all of my characters are based on real life. Whether real people or real and relatable situations.

[spacebeyonce]

the thing that has been getting me about the conversation I've been seeing about fanfiction as an art form these last few days is that people want to have it both ways. like.

I'm sure you've all seen the back and forth, it's like clockwork! every other year! fanfiction is a transformative form of art that should be respected and taken seriously. but also it's just a hobby that people are doing for free, therefore no one should ever criticize it ever.

so like which one is it? you want fanfiction as an art to be respected or nah? because I'm sorry but you can't have both. with respect comes criticism. and I know some of y'all like to lump all criticism under the umbrella of hate and harassment or whatever but it's not. good, genuine critique is just as much of an art as the fanfiction itself, and seeing it be derided and pushed down is so irritating.

[peridyke]

crazy thing to me about the surge of AI voices/art replacing jobs of real people is that like no one benefits from this or really wants it in the first place its something entirely born from cheapness and that I feel sucks a little soul out of everything its used for. it really makes me appreciate the value of art and acting done entirely by humans and I get genuinely sad about the idea of that being a luxury one day after having lived so long in a world where it was standard. like one day all the voices in cartoons might just be done through voice software and all the backgrounds might be AI generated and something about that makes me deeply sad.