#also if theres anything ive already drawn that any of u want as a print. now is ur time to tell me

[birdloaf]

batloaf is here to say hello and happy halloween and apologies for the inactivity! it’s probably gonna continue for a couple months while i prepare some merch/prints for ALA in January. i will try to post some Sneak Previews™ as i see fit.

Anyway, @detective-joke-peralta just tagged me in this Get to Know Me jawn so here are some questions if you want to Get to Know Me or fill them out yourself

Get to know me!    

TAGGED BY: @detective-joke-peralta

rules: answer 17 questions & tag 17 people you want to know better

nickname: is KJ a nickname? it is initials. but it’s just my name. See also kor, bird, any other variant of birdloaf, snack

zodiac sign: scorpio BABYYY welcome to my house

height: 5′3 and mad about it

hogwarts house: ravenclaw according to the sorting hat quiz i just took

last thing i googled: “sorting hat quiz” kdgjg

song stuck in my head: I’m listening to music rn so currently nothing, but this morning it was like a weird hybrid of the “graaavity” part from Special K by Placebo and the “graaavity” part from Bulletproof Heart by mcr

following: 458

followers: 22485 who are you people

amount of sleep i get: I can’t usually get myself to sleep before like 3-5am so the amount of sleep i get depends on when i need to wake up. i am stupid

lucky numbers: none. i like 9, aesthetically

dream job: i don’t even know. Some kind of artist. I’m happy with my current status of Graphic Designer but I’d like to design more for the entertainment industry, esp music

wearing: black joggers, a red flannel, a t-shirt from a battle of the bands in like 2013 in which we lost to some guys that did a ukelele cover of radioactive by imagine dragons and i’ve never been angrier in my life

favorite songs: oh you can’t do this. i have way too many favorite songs and they change every day. I will say the one that has held up over time more than any other might be The Suburbs by arcade fire, which somehow still gets me

instruments: Bass is my main one but i’ve been playing way more piano lately bc i find it much easier to entertain myself with

random fact: i rarely paint my nails but today i painstakingly gave myself some hot topic ass jack skellington nails for halloween and it took like three hours and then i immediately destroyed them while trying to put on boots. i’m still sad

aesthetics: fluctuates wildly between ghostly edwardian vicar who died of tuberculosis, gay 70s muppet, vhs goth, opossum, and middle school halloween party. ideally i will someday embody a perfect equilibrium between all five, if humanly possible

tagging: uhhh you if you read this and wanna do it just say that i tagged you. i cant even think of 17 people on this site

#art tag #if anyones gonna be at ALA please say hi its my first con and im so nervous #also if theres anything ive already drawn that any of u want as a print. now is ur time to tell me

[mrfutureboy]

I would like to know when you started drawing and where your passion for fanart started 😊

Oh FUCK dude i did not see this i’m so fucking sorry this is so late 😭 damn you, tumblr, for not fucking notifying me!! Anyway buckle up this is gonna be much longer than you asked for <3

Honestly ive kinda been drawing all my life! I hope that doesnt sound dumb cuz obviously almost everyone drew pictures when they were kids, but i know that it’s been a consistent hobby for me since i was little. By the time i was in 3rd grade I was hoarding notebooks to draw in. Cuz that’s something fun about me: i had a real huge habit of drawing in things that werent sketchbooks. Through middle school and beyond I did buy/receive sketchbooks, but I started out with various kinds of notebooks. One I had from like 2nd grade was like a hardcover, stationary-type notebook that I drew cats in lol, and I have 2 velvet lisa frank notebooks from 3rd grade. In high school and college I had a really bad habit of drawing in the margins on my notes and on handouts the teacher/professor would give. Those classes where the prof just prints out all the notes beforehand and gives them to you to follow along? Oh man, I spent so many classes barely listening while I drew on them! I also used to draw on my physics homework and tests and sometimes I even got extra credit for them (thank you jeff :D). I actually have a folder of various drawings I’ve kept from that 8yr time period and a lot of them are on classwork 😂

Obviously, I’ve been doing a lot of digital art lately, which I’m sure is what u were more curious about rather than the shit about drawing on my homework. I got a surface pro as a graduation gift in 2016 bc prior to that i had a wacom tablet and a janky ass laptop, so the gift was kinda a 2-in-1: i can do schoolwork AND art easily! i like digital art a lot and honestly im still learning new things abt it every time i draw. I use Leonardo currently (i’ll skip that story) but I started out doing digital art on sketchfu WITHOUT the wacom tablet in maaaaybe 2012??? 2011??? does anyone on this site remember sketchfu? Honestly couldnt even tell u how i found that site hahah the internet was just full of wonders back in the day. RIP sketchfu. Once i got the tablet tho some time later i used sketchfu still (i think) but also gimp and krita i believe.

Oh i suppose I should mention that i took art all four years of highschool and also minored in it in college! So it’s something i did academically as well as for fun. I keep thinking about going to art school for realsies but idk. I’m already $$$ in debt from my first degree i dont feel like adding to that 😅😓

Ok now for the second part of your question: I’ve also pretty much always done fan art! Ive never really been one for OC’s, EXCEPT for the self-insert superhero double life “comics” i wrote about a poodle named Sassy when i was in third grade. And then the knock off “comics” i wrote at a later time which honestly it was weird that i did a knock off of my own thing rather than just adding them to the original or making it a spin off with at least one of the og characters. Cuz it wasnt a spin off!! But anyway there wasnt really much to any of these characters; i just needed vessels to get my weird ideas out.

So anyway yeah most of what ive ever drawn has been fan art or self portraits, because its just easier for me to take characters that already exist and bend them to my will (artistically). Well excluding art assignments in school i guess because i would usually have to draw something specific and therefore not something self indulgent. But yeah ive drawn for lots of fandoms like the earliest i remember is warrior cats. Then theres things like pokemon and warriors and random other books i read thru middle school (i used to read a LOT but now im practically illiterate); spn, sherlock, and marvel through high school; and then marvel and bttf thru the end of hs and beyond. Idk i also have always loved looking at other peoples fan art and so im like “shit i wanna do that too!”. Tho i will say marvel was my biggest fandom and the one i had the longest interest in, so that was probably where the passion REALLY came from cuz I was drawing marvel stuff for such a long time (tho not posting shdjsk u have to trust me), but ive been doing fan art forever :)

(Of course, a lot of the fan art i was making prior to recently was drawn in lined notebooks or on homework sheets or what have you, and I wasn’t posting really any of it, but i was still making it and a good chunk of it still exists. Oh i should also mention most of it was with pencils or ballpoint pens like i wasnt doing anything too fancy. There was some digital art in the highschool-college time frame but it also really wasnt…much. Honestly i barely posted any of it here but I know some of it’s on deviantart)

I cant pinpoint the exact time I started getting more “serious” about my art in general, but i know the first pandemic lockdown gave me more free time and i was less stressed about schoolwork so i just kinda had a good outlet. (Tho i will say that prior, I had been in a life drawing club for a short while, and i had also been working on a personal sketchbook project that had me pretty ~inspired~ to do art. Also i watched twin peaks around this time and it inspired a lot of Feelings and i was making funky collages and other art pieced that were sometimes related to that. Some of those are on deviantart)

Honestly I think the Big thing with my digital art was coincidentally getting back into BTTF the summer of the 35th anniversary bc the fandom here was THRIVING and i was like “oh shit wait i want to contribute!” But as i kept drawing i kept wanting to improve and that leads us to right now where im constantly trying new things (whether subtle or obvious) and challenging myself to do full body drawings with different poses, and doing screencap redraws and what have you for various reasons (backgrounds, proportions, pose, etc)

So yeah :) Basically I’ve been doing fan art forever (I didnt even get into all the mediums ive tried but that’s another conversation bc this is already so long and convoluted) and it’s kinda coincidental that ive suddenly really gotten back into it and have improved dramatically in such a short time. Thank you so much @rovermcfly for the ask and again im really sorry you had to wait so long for a response! Stupid tumblr

#rovermcfly #signed sealed delivered #THANK U SM I HOPE U ENJOY KY RAMBLING :) #id love to ramble more if theres anything else u’d like to hear about my art journey :) bc i know this is all over the place lmfao #i will say some periods of life were a bit more inspired than others and thats bc i like will not draw if im too stressed #bc likely if im too stressed im too tired. see: a few weeks ago when that job was draining my life force