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coughs up blood

#ugh #UGHGHFHHJHJDCKJKJ #art tag #p3

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p3r meme

#p3r spoilers ??? #persona 3 spoilers ??? #idk lol #p3r #art tag

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some progress shots :3

was thinking about how perfect ken amada's battle pose would be for oz <-playing too much p3r

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was thinking about how perfect ken amada's battle pose would be for oz <-playing too much p3r

#fought for my life trying to emulate the persona style and i think i failed but i still like how it came out #thin lines are just not my forte so i gave them more weight than i should have #pandora hearts #art tag

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pamdora heart

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How did you learn to draw different poses? Did you study anatomy?

i’m gonna be so real with you i bullshit everything lol

i did study human figure seriously when i was trying to go to art school…… 10+ years ago… but then i realized that was a pipe dream, so now i just throw spaghetti at a wall until it sticks. do as i say not as i do etc etc etc

what i did back then that carries me now is gesture drawings. so so so so SO many of them. i’m not concerned with details so much as proportions and movement, which generally gets the message across even if things look wonky. but i’ve trained myself out of perfectionism when drawing so YMMV if your priority is being like super technically solid. neither is better or worse, it’s just about what matters to you.

i put some resources for gesture drawings @ the bottom of this post from a while back! (admittedly i am more of a perfectionist when drawing hands but i’m trying to let go of that too lol)

#yip yap #i’m more concerned with technical accuracy when i draw dogs bc i draw them for different reasons #dogs i draw to learn more about their structure #mostly when i draw people i’m trying to convey an interaction or emotion #so like. you can have both!

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Maybe a bit random but it always confused me that weather Oz was a child of ill omen or not was a debate just because he isn’t human when baskervilles aren’t fully considered human and like half of the story making sense if he isn’t one and also oswald literally called him one like am I blind I feel blind why aren’t people talking about this

ngl pretty much any ph-related discussion i witness is against my will so i didn't even know that was a point of contention lol.

this is what i have to say on that topic though

as far as i know it was never specified that children of ill omen are exclusively human. most things in ph are pretty open-ended and leave room for a million different interpretations anyway (despite fandom often seeing it from a black & white lens -- which is part of why i usually avoid discussion about it lol). the things i remember actually being specified off the top of my head are

1. oswald's statement that children of ill omen are "irregular existences produced by the core on a whim" 2. lacie's theory of the core producing children of ill omen out of a desperate need for someone to find her & save her from her loneliness 3. the fact that there have been children of ill omen who were siblings to the glen of their time, aside from lacie & oswald

in any case, i don't know everything so i could be wrong! like you said, oswald did explicitly refer to oz as a child of ill omen buuut it's not an explicit focus in the manga. i didn't even connect the dots myself until like 2019? so i can understand how people could just miss it entirely. but vehemently denying it is kind of odd to me because oz reflects a lot of the struggles lacie & vincent had as children of ill omen. imo break is the odd one out, conventionally speaking. i could go on about that all day tho so i'll spare the details ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#yip yap #btw @ the person who asked me & worstie about allen and oz's adjacency to each other i promise we haven't forgotten fdkjsafdsa

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yaaay

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i ❤️‍🔥 miserable blonds

#at first i was pissed my brush pen was drying out but i think it worked out lol #pandora hearts #art tag

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Oz

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If I have hand pains (as artists get) what’s should I do? Do you recommend any exercises?

hmmm so i don't get hand pains necessarily, but i did damage my ulnar nerve pretty badly end of 2019-2020 from the oz fanbook grind lol. this led to a constant, dull pain in my dominant arm and persistent numbness in my hand. for a long time, i couldn't hold a pencil at all and to this day my grip is pretty weak. i remember when acnh came out in march 2020, i cried out of frustration constantly bc my grip was so lax i couldn't play.

that said, i'm speaking from experience when i say that taking advice on stretching techniques i found online made things way, way worse for me because it exacerbated the nerve damage i didn't know i had until i saw a doctor. the wrong kind of stretches can be more damaging than helpful if you're not doing them correctly, and especially if you have some kind of underlying issue that would be counterproductive for. the same thing goes for wrist braces and such -- a lot of people recommend them, but the wrong kind of brace can damage you further, and you should not be constantly wearing a brace unless a medical professional has told you to; constant usage of braces weakens your muscles over time because the brace prevents you from actually using them. if you have the means for it, i would really recommend consulting a physical therapist for preventative care.

but i didn't have access to medical care for a long time, so i get that's not feasible for everyone. if that's you, basic harm reduction guidelines are good to keep in mind. these are going to be things you've undoubtedly heard before, but they're drilled into your head for good reason:

take breaks. set a timer for every ~30-60 min and every time it goes off, get up, walk around, flex your hands and wrists, etc. ideally at least 10 minutes.

keep plenty of water within arm's reach at all times. hydration manages/prevents pain more than you might think. as soon as my grip gets too slack, i know that i need to stop drawing and drink a ton of water, but you should be drinking fluids at a semi-constant rate so you don't get to that point.

if you're in pain, stop drawing. no "i'll just wrap up the lines and then stop" -- listen to your body. if you're hurting, you've already pushed it too far and anything more is just going to make it worse.

posture posture posture -- any kind of posture advice for office workers generally applies to drawing.

^if you use a screen tablet (like cintiq or ipad) it's going to be virtually impossible to maintain good posture without buying a tablet arm or something. in cases like that, you should place even more of an emphasis on harm reduction or maybe even consider switching to an analog tablet so your monitor is at eye level. personally i'm in it for the longhaul with my ipad though lol

unfortunately advice like this kinda sucks for ppl with ADHD (meee) because pausing in the middle of something can cause you to become distracted or lose motivation. i don't really have a solution for that, but ultimately i got to the point where the nerve damage was so bad that i solidified these habits to prevent making it worse. i do get distracted and lose motivation a lot, but i did that to myself by not treating my body with the care it deserved.

if you take one thing from this response, let it be this: if you don't already experience chronic pain and/or nerve damage while drawing constantly without taking necessary precautions, it's not a matter of "if" you develop these issues, but "when". if you don't already have chronic pain from drawing, your goal right now should not be to preemptively look into things to remedy it, it should be seeking to prevent these issues altogether. work in some good habits, even if it's just taking breaks every now and then. even just one break per drawing is better than no breaks at all. i thought i was immune to these issues for over a decade & then i developed arthritis in my upper vertebrae at 20 years old lol nobody is immune i prommy<3

#sorry that was a lot of words to essentially say nothing lol #tl;dr: advice from strangers can make it worse but at least drink water and take breaks #yip yap

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we should let jack play with scissors too sometimes

#reupload bc the last one screwed up lol #pandora hearts #art tag

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rabbit eyes

#thinking about out of how all of the children of ill omen oz & lacie are the only ones whose eyes look like this #bnuuy #pandora hearts #art tag

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fun fact : mochijun made a reference to beatrice in one of the vnc omakes, and the artist for the EP4 manga has drawn a ph fanart (of the nightray siblings)

anyway umineko and pandora hearts are my top two favorite stories of all time and i can draw so many parallels between the stories' themes and characters, so finding out that you're reading it is such a lovely surprise! i really hope you enjoy the ride!! and thank you for your beautiful ph art it fills me with both joy and pain just how i like it

wait…..wait…..can you share the omake???…. <- has not read vnc

and ty for the kind words 😭 i look forward to exploring the parallels more…. ^_^ (trembling in fear)

#yip yap

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this is what i mean when i say i wish jack made beato faces btw

Hi! I love your PH art and I saw the picture with Alice and Maria and it made me happy because not a lot of people who like PH have even heard of the when they cry franchise and vice versa from what I’ve seen. But they have such similar hope vs. despair themes that I’m surprised more people aren’t into both series. Do you like Higurashi and Ciconia as well? Anyway thank you for drawing that. Tis good for the soul.

hi thank youuu! :] yeah, the reason i began reading umineko is due to its proximity to pandora hearts! i've only just started ep4 and immediately pikachu faced at the similarities btwn alice & oz and maria & sakutaro, though i'm not very far into it yet. maria & her relationship with rosa hit too close to home so i kinda have to pace myself with it. but i'm always thinking about what fun jack & beato would have together... lol masters of 4D chess<3 i adore the absolutely wicked faces beato makes, and it makes me wish jack's face twisted up like that.

i haven't started higurashi or ciconia yet, but i do have higu waiting in my steam library for me next! i'm just not much of a reader in general so it's kind of a struggle to get through VNs lol but i will get there!!

#aughhh i wish you were more of a freaaakkk she makes him look like a drop in a bucket

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Hi! I love your PH art and I saw the picture with Alice and Maria and it made me happy because not a lot of people who like PH have even heard of the when they cry franchise and vice versa from what I’ve seen. But they have such similar hope vs. despair themes that I’m surprised more people aren’t into both series. Do you like Higurashi and Ciconia as well? Anyway thank you for drawing that. Tis good for the soul.

hi thank youuu! :] yeah, the reason i began reading umineko is due to its proximity to pandora hearts! i've only just started ep4 and immediately pikachu faced at the similarities btwn alice & oz and maria & sakutaro, though i'm not very far into it yet. maria & her relationship with rosa hit too close to home so i kinda have to pace myself with it. but i'm always thinking about what fun jack & beato would have together... lol masters of 4D chess<3 i adore the absolutely wicked faces beato makes, and it makes me wish jack's face twisted up like that.

i haven't started higurashi or ciconia yet, but i do have higu waiting in my steam library for me next! i'm just not much of a reader in general so it's kind of a struggle to get through VNs lol but i will get there!!

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whenever oswald calls jack disgusting i think of him with an asuka face

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