girlsquirrel

I CAN create a fully inked and colored piece every night. But that means I have to move fast. Really fast. While there are worse skills to practice, there is no shortcut for quality artwork. You have to put in the work. period. And it takes time. I was reading an article recently under some old chestnut along the lines of "so you want to be a comic artist" (yes, yes I do) and one of the main points he was driving home was to give the same love to the things you don't like as you give to the things you do like. In his case he didn't like drawing backgrounds but did like designing the character. Put the work into the script, into the thumbnail

IT BEGINS. Previously called Luxuria, ChimEra is an original story by me! Cithiel finds herself escorting a courtier from Leonora's kingdom and must keep both him and herself out of Randuil's dream webs if she's going to keep him safe. But fantasies can be very coercive.

Granted, I don't remember much about Sailor Moon other than it was SUPER cute. But the other day I was possessed to look up the Sailor couples and found quite a bit of Sailor Moon/Tuxedo Mask art. That's not the point of this journal. My POINT is, rewatching the old scenes of Sailor Moon with Tuxedo Mask reminded me of a time when I wanted that kind of love SO SOSOSOSOSO bad; a time when I believed it was out there, HE was out there. For me, though, it was Miaka and Tamahome (god I love that couple) that inspired that "romantic" feeling. Now it feels like every potential love interest I find is INCREDIBLY self-centered. I feel like that ro