#like this isn't just a thumbnail on your digital library

[jakeperalta]

I'm sorry I just cannot get over how BORING the eras tour book cover is. not only is it the same photo we've seen a million times as the tour movie poster but there's zero design elements to it?? I'd hoped that midnights + ttpd signalled taylor moving away from the recent album art trend of "just take a photo and leave it at that, who cares about incorporating the title or anything" but that's exactly what we're getting here 🥲 and it's even worse when it's a $40 coffee table book like those are meant to look good!!!!! bring back graphic designers we're in a pop culture crisis

[skittidyne]

It's been two months!! How are you feeling? How are sales going? Have you found a name for a sequel? What can we do to help?

you're very sweet anon!

i just checked the sales (that i can easily access) because i haven't for awhile, and not after that book blog tour i tried, and it only serves to remind me that ingramspark is very confusing with their sales reports.

BUT. if i'm doing my math correctly and ingramspark isn't doing something really stupid, then i've very much broken triple digits on my sales!

not only that, but WOAH NELLY WHAT IS THIS

i... actually don't know what that is. it can't be just my books, because i only have one available through them. but it seems hard to believe that it's #2 overall?? i'm not selling that much. (yet!!) but it makes for a really neat screenshot to take! it also gave me a little gold ribbon on my book thumbnail :'3

i have NOT found a title, and i hate that Very Much, but that's also something i can't ask for outside advice on because holy legality batman.

THAT SAID. here is a list of ways to help your local skitty author with her local guides to the supernatural:

REVIEW. review my books on amazon and goodreads and wherever else you want!

TELL PEOPLE TO BUY MY BOOK! friends, family, libraries, your boss who is cool with queer content and swearing, and maybe your influencer cat who makes more money than you or i will ever dream of!

send asks! i love asks! and again: you're very sweet, anon :> these fill me with warm fuzzies and the support needed to scowl my way through editing for preptober

make fanart! make fanfic! make SOMETHING. i know a lot of people are like "i can't make anything ;O;" but trust me. y'all can. go make natalie's mashed potatoes! make a playlist! make the vorpal sword! crochet a unicorn! hunt an afanc! find a taxidermied jackalope to take promo pics with! talk about it on social media (and tag me; i'll talk back)! everything that fandom does generates hype for a series, and weird things are great.

i'll be looking for beta readers and ARC reviewer/readers in coming months, so do one of those! or both! (i think you can be both? i don't see why not?)

help me figure out a way to get the cool promo pictures i took on my fancy camera onto my laptop because i only just have realized that my stupid laptop doesn't even have a normal-sized SD card port

seriously tho, keep sending asks. questions, comments, liveblogs, predictions, anything! (except title name ideas, because if you come up with a really cool one, i can't use it, and then i'll be peeved i can't use it.)

stream distractible & go my favorite sports team on podcast sites so i can partake of markiplier's onlyfans. that will support me A Lot.

[dearartdirector]

So I have a question about art. I’m not planning on becoming an illustrator but I would like to learn digital art. I just got Procreate. Would it be wrong for me to try to imitate illustrators’ works to learn ? Just as a practice. They wouldn’t leave my files. Thank you and have a nice day.

Studying other illustrators' artwork is very good practice, and is actually essential to developing your taste. You can learn a lot by studying, imitating, or even tracing the art of other artists for practice. In art school they call these "master studies" and professors will MAKE you do them.

There are two things you need to be careful about when studying other artists' work:

1. If the artist whose work you copied/traced is long dead, then you can post your study online with proper credit to the original artist. (For example, "personal study after Sargent.")

2. If the artist whose work you copied/traced is still alive, then, in my opinion, DON'T post it online. Even if you posted it with credit, there's still a chance that you'd be accused of "stealing" someone's style, or of your image being confused for the original artist's work, etc. Just keep it in your personal files.

Also, just for your personal development, try to absorb a variety of artistic styles. Don't rely too much on one genre or one artist. A good way to do this is to get off the computer and go to a library, bookstore, art gallery, or museum, and look at art that isn't curated by an algorithm. If you study art from a variety of sources, your art will look like a unique mixture of influences, rather than a second-hand imitation of someone else's style.

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