#i tried rlly hard to emulate the original style but

[tangledinink]

Casey had been listening to Uncle Tello, at first, taking great care to absorb all his lessons for a future without him in it. But as he did so, listening to this man who he had known and relied on his entire life, who had carried him around on his shoulders like he was weightless as a child, who he had once watched run a literal mile-long race with his brother just to end an argument (Casey had timed it himself,) this person who had always, without question, been strong and capable and confident and indestructible in Casey's eyes, even despite the world they lived in, in spite of everything... he came to a horrifying realization.

Looking at him now, Casey was quite certain that if he were to wrap his fingers around his thigh, his fingers would touch.

Based on the latest arc in @somerandomdudelmao Apocalypse Series. I am being very brave and choosing to trust them.

#youre killing me slowly cass i hope you know #i love donnie so much and this is destroying me #i tried rlly hard to emulate the original style but #alas #i am no cass #lol neway this realization was what made things truly sink in for me when my dad was in hospice #lets go lets go lets go lets go #rottmnt #tmnt #rottmnt bad future #rottmnt bad timeline #rottmnt movie #future donnie #future donatello #f!donnie #rise casey jr #rottmnt casey jr #rise casey junior #rottmnt casey junior #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #donatello hamato #angst

[mokutone]

Hi hi! do you happen to have any favourite watercolor artists/ inspirations? specifically ones that rlly influenced your art style? I've tried searching up keywords like "favorite" etc but tumblr search engine is a little iffy, anyways! i adore your art and seeing your process videos make watercolours look like such a fun process and tbh less daunting than what it seems. Your blog is sending me down a rabbit hole of inks and watercolors and aaa its so fun to find gems on this nonfunctional website

OOOOOOH i dont think ive actually been asked this before!!! ty!!!

the truth is when it comes to watercolor im mostly flying by the seat of my pants 😅 but there are definitely watercolor artists that i love even i do not consciously do studies of their work! i should really study more watercolor artists bc its probably foolish to practice a medium while remaining ignorant of the big names within it.

i hope u find these interesting:

This is one of my favorites, it's called The Meeting on the Turret Stairs by 1864 Frederic William Burton. this is WATERCOLOR. good god. help. if you get really in close you can see how he built it up with delicate different colors. Anyway, the solidness of the bodies, the like...the romance in it all, the way the metal reflects the fabric, the detail in the chainmail and the absolute softness in the background...ough. its good. this is a painting which in all ways knows exactly what its about and executes it perfectly

and then there's the watercolor sketches of Hayao Miyazaki obvs skgjhdskgh, i like how loose he is and how clear, and how he isnt scared of the white spaces between where colors meet. i know these arent meant to be final products just like. indications of how the animation should be...but they enchant me so much...i want to be able to do watercolor sketches like that!

Albrecht Dürer does a lot of very detailed illustrations in watercolor, he's a weird guy from the 1500s, look how you can tell how the texture of the hare changes from its back to its underbelly. also, unrelated to his watercolor skills, i just like how he signs his work by putting a d beneath a little A arch. His mastery of textures is delightful and his attention and carefulness with detail is admirable

also i'm gonna mention Akihiro Yamada's watercolor + ink illustrations, specifically for 12 Kingdoms. I haven't spent a lot of my time looking at them but every time i do i find that there's something i want to emulate abt them...something abt the detailed inks and the way he does shadows with watercolor...something abt it rlly speaks to me. i think a lot of my weird shadow experiments are trying to achieve a feeling i get from his work. I think that these are the most like...the most like what I want to do? While also being definitely something other than what I would pursue. Hard to explain. Love to look at them though here's three of them

also

i would absolutely be remiss if i did not mention one of the people who inspired me to get back into watercolor originally, @marina-does-things and here is an excellent example of their work. Here is another (squid game fanart!) They're SO skilled at watercolor and gouache, and especially at conveying light + shadow, highlights and playing with color...when I think of their artwork I think of the light in it the most, u can really tell just by looking at their work that theyre so comfortable with the medium + have put a lot of effort and work into playing with it and gaining skills, theyre also a skilled digital artist too, all around triple-threat. They also do comics and WATERCOLOR comics at that (here is a link to a post of their excellent 80 page watercolor comic piece based on an episode of the podcast WOLF 359) !!! just an extraordinarily cool and talented artist

anyway, i hope this was useful to you!

#yamswers #cali-mar-ri #it was actually really nice just for me. to like. sit down and think abt people whose artwork i love n who inspire me...im overcome by like #art feelings #rosenkranz if u see this sdjkgsh its basil from wolf + this is my embarassing naruto watercolor sideblog! feel free to ignore! #but i could not talk abt watercolor inspirations w/o mentioning ur work + influence

[sevens-evan]

Right back atcha with 11, but also 16 & 17

11. What do you envy in other writers?

hmm. this is a hard question because i don’t read real books anymore, and i don’t really engage with fic in a way that would lead to envy—i don’t read it critically or analytically, i am simply there to vibe. but also i don’t really like. feel Envy anymore? i’ve gotten very good at picking a book apart and figuring out why i like it (thank you high school english teacher loml i miss you every day) and once i do that, i can usually emulate the technique. i guess the closest thing i get to envy is like. excitement when i find a writer doing something i haven’t seen before. then i copy them for three months until i feel like i’ve learned how to do it. idk i’m rlly just happy for other people to be doing good work, i don’t get envious of others’ talents. their success sure. but not their talents.

16. Tried anything new with your writing lately? (style, POV, genre, fandom?)

nothing really! i’ve been neglecting my fics in favor of goofing off with some original ideas that will probably never go anywhere, and it’s definitely an adjustment trying to write in first person again after literal years, but it isn’t new for me. it’s actually a lot of fun trying to write a snarky internal monologue, but i feel like i need to reread pjo for some guidance.

17. Do you think readers perceive your work - or you - differently to you? What do you think would surprise your readers about your writing or your motivations?

i think people think my fics are much more related to my own personal trauma than they actually are. like, i put a lot of my personal experiences into my fics, but not in the ways that people assume? none of the trauma catra and adora go thru in roots, for instance, is at all related to my own personal issues. i mean i also have anxiety, but the ways it manifests itself and the ways i cope with it are completely different from the ones i gave adora in the fic. meanwhile the scene where adora and catra spread razz’s ashes is directly pulled from my real life, but i completely changed the mood of it—that experience was actually very hopeful and fun, rather than bittersweet as it is in the fic. idk, writing used to very much be a coping mechanism for me, but it isn’t now, and i think a lot of people weren’t there for or didn’t catch that change.

#soul-of-spades #answered