#refusing to learn from cero w them

[bestosunglass]

Hello! I love your work so much especially how you do your animatics and animations! I have a couple of art related questions if that’s alright but no pressure at all I understand!

I’ve been wanting to get into more digital art/animation but I was wondering what program do you use and what canvas size do you rec for uploading to TikTok and other social media? I’m using procreate but just wondering! (Your work looks so crispy and clean and I struggle with quality drop at times 🫡) do you use a custom brush for your linework or the default brushes in your program? Also what do you use to edit for videos? Do you adjust the image to fit when making a video or do you use a canvas size that will work with TikToks? Lastly what program do you use to animate?

I’m sorry this is pretty long but thank you so much for reading I appreciate your time and patience!

Also your ATHF designs are so effen amazing I just started watching the show because of you!! Sending good vibes! ♡ ♡ ♡

Ok these questions I have received quite often and I will be genuinely honest, I don't know how to answer them KkkkKkKkK

I don't consider myself nor am I a professional artist, this is mostly a hoobie that I enjoy very much and have been doing for long years so first of all it's all practice, practice and more practice. Everything is achieved with hard practice even though it sounds repetitive!

Regarding what programs and tools I use; IbisPaint and my trusty finger. I draw with my cell phone and I have always used Ibis because I think it is one of the most comfortable programs to make art, very easy to use and learn to master especially with the little instructions it gives you. My brushes are the default, crayon type brushes, only with some configurations. My canvas size is always 2550x2550 (the limit so it doesn't go slow, lol), I make all the drawings, move them to the same folder and then I move that folder to the center of the canvas so it looks like it does in my videos.

For animating, I'm just getting back into it since I haven't animated for many years but what I do is to take a reference video (in my athf video it was a jjk scene, now what I do is to record myself to have better and accurate references of what I want) and take a capture frame by frame, then I pass each of those frames to Ibis and draw over them! Regarding what app I use for editing, Capcut 乁⁠|⁠ ⁠･⁠ ⁠〰⁠ ⁠･⁠ ⁠|⁠ㄏ

Sorry if this isn't the detailed response u would have expected, but thank you sooo much for your message!!!!<3333

[svturn-exe]

some more a0 stuff bc his unfortunate alley cat swag has captivated me

as a young kid, cero had no way of knowing that his experiences are not universal. he crawled out of a small wooden box from under 6ft of dirt and that's all he knows. but once someone finds him and he gets put through schooling, a0 very quickly discovers that's not the norm at all

and ofc being a kid who wants answers for the things he doesn't understand, cero talks about it. because finally he has the words to describe his experiences and some frame of reference to begin to question them

when he's a little kid, it's just a vivid imagination and the adults around him who are supposed to have answers for stuff either find it endearing or tell him off for being too morbid. either way, he doesn't get any answers from anybody

when he's 15 and only a few years from aging out of the foster system, suddenly it isn't cute or quirky anymore. at best, cero gets shoved at psychologists because what he said was Weird but no one will tell him why it's weird and seem a lot more focused on telling him how it Didn't happen and he Didn't spend years of his childhood buried alive. the other option is he gets treated like dirt for 'making shit up for attention' (he really isn't) or just told to shut up and ignored. the foster parents who are in it for the money don't have time to waste on the Crazy Kid

a0's pretty independent, but that doesn't mean he isn't bothered by the experience of being Othered. he already Knows something is severely wrong w him he doesn't need to have it rubbed in. so he learns to stop talking about it, bc there is a disconnect from his peers there that he just can't bridge no matter what he does. bc either they don't understand, or outright refuse to even try and write him off as a nutjob

so now you've got a young adult on his own with more trauma than he knows what to do with, and there's no way in hell he's going to go see a therapist about it. so he just bottles everything up and becomes really irritable and Hates it when people won't listen to him. which is a big contributing factor to how he decides to use his soul-snatching ability once he discovers he has it. what better way to convince someone you hear your out than to literally rip them out of their own body and Make Them

some other stuff:

🖤a0 was given a "normal" name when he was found after clawing his way out of the dirt, but he doesn't identify with it. it is, effectively, a deadname. he chooses to go like a0/absolute zero/zero/cero instead

🖤cero is cis on a technicality. he doesn't feel very strongly about his gender identity bc he doesn't really care about it that much, and only goes by he/him because that's what other people call him. if a0 cared enough to sit down an introspect about it, he would probably be agender.

🖤zero is demiromantic and demisexual. it takes a long time for him to get close enough to someone to even consider them a friend, nevermind a romantic or sexual partner