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Been and will be quite slow with art because I'm back in hell studying a new career full time but I've been finding joy in quick little scribbles in my notebooks.

Enjoy your birdy~

#signalis

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really fond of having her sit on random stuff its my favorite thing to draw. enrichment. in her natural habitat. flourishing. photosynthesizing

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Heads up: I've had a guy stalk me for a while and it's making me quite uncomfortable, therefore I've decided to block asks for anonymous accounts, because I'm tired of deleting rather pathetic attention whorish asks every day. Sorry for the annoyance.

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Hi! I just wanted to take the opportunity to express how absolutely awestruck I always am by your artwork.

The characters themselves are gorgeously illustrated, but I think it's your backgrounds and environments that always awe me the most. I love the way that you draw the ocean and the sky - the seashore in your piece with the Kolibri and Storch was absolutely gorgeous - and I'm captivated by the world around the characters as much as I'm captivated by the characters themselves. It feels as though the world is alive, and that makes the rest of the piece feel alive as well.

Thank you for sharing your work! I look forward to seeing whatever you do next :)

Thank you kindly. I've had the sea at my doorstep all my life and I've always considered it my home. When I'm depressed I go to some tidal pools that formed under a crumbling pier around here, and it's magical. All of my life I've felt more like a part of nature than humans. Suppose it's because no animal has ever called me a faggot. That's why I try to color it whole and not separate characters from background or use predetermined assets and have the characters look tiny and surrounded in the composition. Even at my worst moments, when I'm thinking of suicide, I want to just go and sink into the sea, like it's my real home.

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Hey hey, I've got a semi-technical question. So, for your digital art, am i correct in guessing you're a watercolor texture overlay? And if so, would you mind sharing the texture you're using? I'm currently creating an NPR shader for a game partly inspired by your style as a portfolio piece, and I'm having trouble finding any water color textures that are anywhere near as nice as the one you are using. (also, what blending option do you use on your texture layer?)

Sure! I color the layer and mix with the water blending brush in CSP, and then just use a watercolor texture set to the overlay option right above the color layer. Those combine to create the illusion. You're gonna have to forgive me because I use CSP in spanish and the translations may be a little wonky (I assume overlay is what for me is superponer). The rough paper texture I can't find the specific one, I may have downloaded it a long time ago. You can find a lot quite easily, though finding the right one will prove challenging.

You can see here the brush blending at the beginning especially in the sky layers. The one big overlay layer for effect you do it right when you finish, as you can notice.

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Them

Drawing Signalis characters with a ballpoint pen

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Drawing Signalis characters with a ballpoint pen

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Freak spread

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Some good old ships

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When I started discovering my gender I thought I was gonna be a cool alt girl but now I wear the same 2 tank tops and some hunting camo pants I bought 7 years ago with no makeup so I look like a deceptively high functioning butch alcoholic

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Talked about this on bsky already but more people see my stuff here so I feel like revealing a little bit of lore about this. Obviously it's a bunch of soldiers doing a very heinous act and I tried to emphasize that none of them are too involved in what they're doing, they're just doing another shitty day at work.

I did this one drawing once of Ariane taking revenge on an Eule unit since the Eules at her school were quite hostile, but I felt like the result was quite exploitative and violent for shock's sake, so I scrapped it. Instead, I made a sequence of Ariane being bullied and then the Eule being shown in a more human light, suffering for what she's forced to do. I would show it but the image inserts bugged because tumblr working is like boiling ice.

Point is, I try to refrain from depicting revenge or evil or even the death of faceless extras for no reason. Never liked it in movies, though I'm fine with it in games. Especially if they're nazis or something. I guess I'm slowly hating everything american so I try to get rid of this mindset of shooting people and blowing shit up. Fuck Hollywood and fuck Lord of the Rings and fuck Indiana Jones. I try to give everyone a face and a personality.

I feel like violence comes across a lot more impactful when it's delivered in a dry way rather than stylized gore. Even war I don't think it's that interesting to depict as different factions with each one having a point, but as some kind of distant state of being that swallows people and turns them into the worst version of themselves, like in this one drawing up there. Gotta give it a sense of weight.

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Going back to the sketchbooks

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Being a trans person with severe social anxiety and constantly comparing myself to others, the way you draw characters experiencing grief and joy has helped me feel a little more human. Lately, when I feel anxious, I remember about your art and I realize it's okay to feel the way I do. Thank you so much.

As a trans woman who is deathly terrified of other people and avoids everyone, you're welcome. I have plans to go into this hole even deeper.

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What’s your opinion on trans content creators like Alice Lunazera or CafeFoxTale?

I am a literal anemone, I don't know any content creators

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To be fair I have never met a happy lesbian so I don't know what are people expecting getting into the extremely red pallet game with a woman in the cover that looks like she hasn't smiled in 17 years famous for being gay

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bonus:

1-800-r-u-slappin