lorenz-attractor:

forgive me father for I have sinned

I have corrupted Nick

I can tell that you aren’t sorry for this at all.

• Erin: like at one point The Outsider says Corvo is "fascinating"
• Erin: coming from well
• Erin: a really ambiguous whale god thing
• Erin: that's pretty neat LOL
• Nickvinsky: I can imagine corvo just
• Nickvinsky: squinting at him
• Erin: I'm not going to lie, I just read that REALLY wrong oh god
• Nickvinsky: what
• Nickvinsky: how
• Nickvinsky: tell me
• Erin: I read that as "squirting"
• Erin: ahah
• Erin: aha
• Erin: cough
• Nickvinsky: FUCK
• Erin: " The Outsider thinks I'm 'fascinating'" [ spontaneously ejaculates]
• Erin: I'm sorry if I just ruined the game for you
• Nickvinsky: sdlfjkfjkjkl;
• Nickvinsky: the sound I made was not human
• Nickvinsky: ERIN
• Erin: HEE HOO
• Erin: FLIES OFF INTO SUNSET

Ah, cheers, man! We’re just glad that you all seem to be interested in it. To answer all your questions:

1. Muffy and I will be posting writings and answers over at ask-avatar-creed. It’ll be an ask blog so that means there’re going to be drawing and comics pertaining to whatever people ask us but the writing for the bigger story will be tagged and collected for your convenience. We’ll keep you posted!
2. That really depends, but we’ll try to have a balance with writing and comics/illustration as we’ll try and have a balance of humour and light-hearted material tied along with the bigger picture of the story. 
3. We haven’t had any ships planned to sail with this, but that’s not to say that there aren’t going to be any ships. People ship what they want to ship!
4. Republic City is one of the settings in the storyline, but since they travel around the world, it’s only one of the areas in the story.

noahbradley:

I hear it all the time:

Am I talented enough? How much should I draw? Am I studying right? What’s the best way to use XYZ book? Art school or no art school? Do I need a degree? How will I know when I’m professional? What should I draw? Should I do more studies or finished work? What are the best materials? What kind of paint should I use? What pencil should I use? Are pencils or pens better to draw with? Should I draw big or small? Is it bad to draw from photos? Should I paint digitally or traditionally? Am I too old to start learning? Is Photoshop or Painter better? What’s the best way to hold a pencil? Where should I find inspiration? What do I do if I’m not inspired? How do I get through “artist’s block”? How long will it take to be a professional? Why does it feel like I’m not improving? Should I get a Moleskine? Is art dead? What is art? How do I do backgrounds? What are the best tutorials? What resolution should I work at? How do I come up with good ideas? What do I do if I stop enjoying art?

Well, I have the answer to all of your questions: it doesn’t matter. Really. It doesn’t. These questions are excuses, plain and simple. They are used by people who aren’t drawing or painting that want to get wrapped up in petty minutiae at the expense of their own work.

The fact is that if you want to make art, then you need to make art. I could answer every single question on this list and it wouldn’t make you the slightest bit better at drawing.

Now, I should qualify these statements before people start chucking rocks: these are mostly valid questions, with equally valid answers. They’re worth discussing at times, and are things that you’ll eventually figure out. But by and large, you’ll figure them all out for yourself by working. Notice a pattern here? Don’t be afraid to ask questions and research things, but be sure you’re not doing it at the expense of actually learning things.

So shut up, stop whining, and get to work.

referenceforwriters:

A while ago I reblogged a highly interesting article (here if you haven’t read it; really, go do it) regarding why children are better poets than adults. It can also apply to art in general, in my opinion. It’s a concept I had heard before, but the article truly shows what it is about in a way. 

The way I see it, when we were kids and enjoyed drawing and writing, we didn’t care whether it was accurate or not. We didn’t see the way others did it, nor thought (or cared) if they were better than us. We purely created out of enjoyment; we created for the sake of creating. 

At least, that was my experience with it. When I was young (from six to ten years old) and picked up a pencil and tried to write, or painted, I did it because I found it interesting, because I could make new things, or just enjoyed looking at the interesting colors, the interesting words.

Another thing happened while I was taking care of my little cousin not so long ago. She told me she was going to draw and color a house, which she did. She later showed me the finished product. She had trouble making straight lines, as well as coloring just inside said lines. Did she care? Not in the slightest. It was just a pretty house in her eyes. 

When we grow up, not only we start to learn how “normal” people talk and express themselves, like the article said, but we start to read and we start to look at much more art; we start to learn about the “right” way to draw and the “right” way to write and so on. Granted it helps, but it also makes us see the things we read and the drawings and paintings and photography are better than the things you do and the things you make. We start to doubt in ourselves like the artists we are. 

I’ll tell you something: you can spend years learning everything about grammar, new vocabulary, reading new books, learning how to write like the great writers you read about in some class. You can spend years learning how to draw realistically. But it’ll take you a lifetime not to care about it.

My advice to you today is to do art like a child would do it: carelessly, for the sake of doing it. Do it with the words you now know, the feelings you have, and forget how others do it. Your art will be good because you will make it with your own hands and your own thoughts, your own need to do it. Write for yourself, “write selfishly”, like others say. Write because you’re a writer, and the only thing that makes a good writer is that- writing. Write, and make it better later. 

Make all kinds of art you want because you want to, and because you want to get better at it for yourself, not to be better than someone else.

Once you’re able to write like a child, or do art like a child, you’ll remember why you enjoy doing it. 

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once they grow up.” - Pablo Picasso

I don’t know if this makes sense… nor I care.

-Alex

spacerocketbunny:

If there’s one bit of advice I can give to any artist it would be KEEP YOUR WORK! Even if it’s old and the heads are too big or you cringe at the sight of every phase you went through that might not have been as successful KEEP THEM ANYWAY. These are good to have because it’s easy to lose sight in what makes you happy and what you originally loved to draw. It’s so easy to get lost in all the things you’re not so when you’re feeling uninspired, stale and that your style has gone stagnant, look through your old drawings, take the time to haul out the huge box or endless folders to just sit there and review what used to make you proud to create. 

We need these reminders to put us back on track to what we actually want to do, we need these reminders to bring us back to who we are.

Thank you based god Laura.