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I see that you are an artist and btw your art is pretty cool! 0: I really love drawings without lineart even though I don't draw them myself (because to be 500% honest i think its too much work rip...) and yours are really well made!

Artist to artist, when i'm feeling down i have comfort drawings, like, things i always draw that make me happy. what are those things for you? And what are the things you avoid drawing because are too complicated or seem too hard to draw? 

aa thank you!! I study 3D animation and one of my dreams is to put on paper my ideas for characters, plot, etc. i feel like this is pretty unreal to happen but dreaming of creating and animating is just... So good. Sadly I'm having trouble with depression and anxiety that are really really bad, and that's getting on my way of doing college right, and changing my mind making me think that work for a big animation studios is unrealistic. But I feel like if i try hard enough i can get into something! One of my dreams tho is help the animation industry on brazil(that is where i live), here the animation industry is basicaly unexistent. So it would be really cool to do something here that's seem on the others countries :/

About my influences, they are mostly 2D because I feel like 2D has a more fluent feeling than 3D, and one of my goals is to make something that can passes this fluent feeling. Like, for example, akira: In akira we have a lot of things going on in the scene at the same time, it's pretty much impossible to spot it all at first look. I want something in 3D that feels really natural and chaotic, i feel like that would be really really fun!

gif You say on your profile that you're a digital animation student! That's really cool. c: I was wondering what kind of animation you're studying, or if you were planning to go into animation as a career? 

Do you have any favorite influences that inspired you to study it, or just favorite animated work in general?

(Sorry for the late reply!)

Thank you so much for the kind thoughts and the questions!! :') The date I set as a goal for myself is January 1, 2019, but my health can be pretty bad or inconsistent, so I hesitate to declare that official yet. I probably could start doing pages anytime, honestly, but I want to go into the reboot with everything planned a lot tighter this time, and sure that I can manage regular updates.

Some things I have left to do:

• (Re)design some very important characters-- I could keep (re)designing more supporting characters forever, but it's most important for me to do some of the show staff and a few other characters of significant plot importance.
• Decide on some plot things-- I know how the story starts and ends and the general events, but I need to lock some other things down before I start. I don't want to skip this and end up writing myself into corners later.
  
• Decide on some style things-- ironically? the style I've been doing character references in isn't the style I plan on drawing the comic in (I prefer making references more detailed and less stylized, because they're more "objective" and I or other people drawing the characters can decide how to stylize them from there). It's too detailed for my bad arm/hand to manage frequent updates with, probably, and will tempt me to go into too much detail, because I always do that. I have some ideas for the aesthetic and format of the comic, but I need to just sit down and make test pages and see how it works out.

You know, I almost wish I weren't so attached to this one project, because I have tons of ideas and it's probably better to work on a variety of things to build up experience for your big epic, but I've given up on fighting that. : p You're passionate about what you're passionate about, and this is the story I've poured so much of myself and what I care about into, and I can't avoid that it's the story that I need to tell. I wouldn't be able to get the story and characters out of my head even if I wanted to. I don't think there's anything wrong with dabbling in a lot of projects though-- not every project needs to be "done" to be a valuable way to spend your time. c:

I'm a self-taught artist (I studied English lit and psychology in college because I figured it would be better to learn how to write in an academic setting, especially given that I couldn't afford any kind of art school). I used to sell my minicomics at local conventions, but I never made a profit, so I guess comics are like a hobby I'm intending to make a career out of. Thanks for saying the website looks professional! :'o I haven't touched that in years really, but it was something I coded by hand, so I'm glad to hear that you don't think it looks amateurish!

Have you any estimation of when you'll be able to start uploading pages to Catband? What's your current progress with it? I think it's really cool how dedicated you are for it & doing a reboot to an older comic, like I seriously respect people who are passionate about their projects & willing to redo or reboot older ones instead of just getting into new stuff (because I'm like that and it's a legit problem I have bc that way I never get anything done lol). 

Also, do you study art or is it more of a hobby/self taught thing for you? I'm asking mostly because the page you have for your minicomics looks so much like a professional portfolio ;v;9

I’m curious, where did you get your interest in history and folklore? Is it because a specific story/person got you into those two, or is it something else?

I'm not sure if it has any specific starting point, I think. I was always interested in history since I was a kid, but honestly I was interested in anything that had to do with studying: it was my hyperfixation almost my whole 6 years of elementary school. I just wanted to know more and more and found it amazing all these things actually happened once, and me being subscribed to a lot of books clubs that offered these scientific and often history related books probably influenced that. I think the Jumpstart Third Grade also influenced me strongly since the whole premise of the game is to help the protagonist to fix historical events that were meddles with. History always had this sense of magic and wonder to me, and even now as an adult I feel similarly, because the history of the human kind is nothing short of a wild ride when you realize Europeans ate mummies and drank blood or that people like Amelia Earhart and James Barry existed, or that Nintendo was founded while Jack the Ripper was on the loose. 

As for folklore, I have always been into mythology and ghost stories in particular (like most art kids, I feel), and because of my art & writing hobby they were useful inspirations for me! But then as older I came to realize folklore is really a way to tell history too and I somehow just became really emotionally involved about the whole "folklore is the history and culture of a certain location, often not written and thus left to die if it's not passed on" and I really value this sort of tradition and wish I could somehow do my part to keep it living on! And listening to old people talk about their stories and passing them on is something I feel really strongly about without being able to explain it, like I just somehow naturally value it a great deal and don't want it to disappear as the generations die. I think passing on the stories of people before us is one of those things that bring us closer to the core of what it's like to be a human, and it's somehow comforting to think that nobody's existence is meaningless, even if it's small in the grand scheme of events. But every story matters, and I want to do my part in passing those on. Humanities might not be valued by a lot of people because we're considered useless, but I think especially in these kind of hard times it's important to show people there is still a lot good and exciting and inspiring in humanity. 

Oh, and also, I find history somewhat comforting in a way because I grew up being really ashamed of the way I look!! But then BAM, ART HISTORY! and my mind was blown by the realization that effeminate men have existed throughout the history and were not always even considered an inferior type of man and I felt so Validated. Louvre was like a paradise when I visited lmao thank you for my life 

I’m curious, where did you get your interest in history and folklore? Is it because a specific story/person got you into those two, or is it something else?

Sorry for the late-ish response but I got the interest because there are like a heckton of pretty designs oml- I got the interest before I got my interest in  making stories, and I have been getting some adopts for characters for which I have the basic ideas, but no design ideas! While I can design characters by myself, I sometimes adopt if I can't come up with design ideas

I ask this as an outsider: What made you have an interest in the adopt community? Did you find this interest after or before creating stories? In what way has the adopt community it influenced the way you create stories?

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 YESSSS My favorite vocaloid of ALL TIME is Luka Megurine, I fell in love with her voice right when I was getting into vocaloid, a week or so before she was released!! As a lil kid I felt so happy that there was a vocaloid with a deeper voice than the last ones! Now I'm hella gay for her, she's beautiful!!! Always gonna be my fave. I also like Galaco's design and voice! It's a shame how she was handled :(

I remember the few ones I first heard were like, World is Mine, Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru, the evil saga... But I think Gekokujou really did it for me. Boweadays I don't listen to those in particular (except the evil saga, especially Daughter of Evil) but I do listen to old songs like Meltdown, Love is War, etc cuz they're still BANGIN'

How long have you been drawing? Your style is very interesting, did you form it around other artist's designs or did you just find that it was comfortable in that sort of style.

Thank you! I'm glad you like them! Often times I get inspriation from other sources like TV or movies. Sometimes I'll even go on a hunt for baby names to name my characters, like Anddax. Lesser Gods Must Die is an ongoing story that I'm writing. I can send you the first chapter once it's done.

Okay so I'm a sucker for out-there names and I like that a lot of ur ocs have rad as hell names like Dayender and MurderMutt hehe, do u have any specific inspiration for how u come up with names?? Also i love the title Lesser Gods Must Die thats so METAL

o worm! I'm studying animation! I went to school up in Canada for a year before I came back down to the states to be closer to home :> Grimora doesn't have too much influence on me wanting to get into animation tho lmao. The story is way too dark for any studio in the states to pick up or want to adapt, plus the goal has always been for Grimora to be a book series. It'd be cool for it to be a show one day but that's a vague fantasy I dont really see happening lol

If you ever wanna talk/ ask about art college feel free to DM me too! I know i had a lot of questions last year and I'd be happy to help <3

Well, looking at your profile, I see you're an art student! As someone who wants to become an arts student, what are you studying, and does your personal project have anything to do with what you're studying for? :>

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Honestly, I take inspiration from a bunch of things, but probably the Powerpuff Girls (or...pretty much any McCracken show for that matter) and the Sonic the Hedgehog games were my biggest influences! The Powerpuff Girls got me started with drawing, and it's probably the reason why 98% of my stories have kid heroes in them. XD Plus, it's what introduced me to the idea of a "Villain Scale", which I use to rank my antagonist ocs on a least evil to most evil scale. And from Sonic, I was obsessed with Sonic as a middle schooler, and I always liked the "lighthearted story, dark situation" tone they tended to have and I've aimed for that same tone is almost all of my work. They're pretty baseline inspirations but they're what got me into what I do now! :>

Out of all the cartoons, anime and video games you enjoy the most, which would you say has inspired you the most? What was it about them that inspired you?

I legit didn't expect to be asked a cosplay question omg. That's a nice surprise!
It'd probably just be better to talk about each costume individually so here we go!

OH! u like cosplay so how many cosplays have u done/owned? who was ur first cosplay and have u ever worn a costume to a convention? do u make ur own cosplays from scratch or do u just buy full outfits from online?

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ElithianFox ok i'm answering this so late so u might not even see it BUT! i can't say i know how to explain my creative process as i kinda zone out when i draw ;^^ tho i can definitely show u my main inspirations and art examples from some of them - which i'll put in the spoiler!

as for how long i've been drawing - for as long as i can remember, my mum tells me i drew my first real 'human' or just... general distinguishable art when i was like one or something, and i didn't believe her until she showed me an old photo she took of me as i was drawing it (i mean, granted it looked like a potato w/ a face w/ 100 sticks coming out of it's head for hair w/ some tiny stick legs and arms but hey)
another friend of mine inspired me to start creating and drawing OCs as they had SO MANY and i thought they were the coolest things ever (and my bf again had a bunch of OCs as well, and i was very inspired by him when i was in early highschool despite not actually being proper friends w/ him at that point in my schooling)

What's the inspiration/creative process behind your artstyle, since it's fairly distinct and has unique facial features that I haven't seen around in a lot of other styles? In that same theme, how long have you been drawing and what's the thing that made you interested in drawing OCs?

Thank you for the question! However cliché it is, I really love answering questions of this type 😉

To answer the last question first, I started out with OCs and worldbuilding around when I left middle school and went to high school, so around age 12-13. Considering I'm nearly 22, that'd be around nine to ten years of working on my stuff!

At first, I'd come up with random stories to keep my way too active mind busy, and around that time I was still obsessed with dragons and horses. In middle school, we had an educational trip to Bokrijk, which is this large domain filled with buildings from the olden days (1400's), and we were told a lot of stories about demons there. This ended up giving me an interest to incorporate demon characters into my stories besides the already existing dragon people, and eventually come up with actual characters! My first stories revolved around random dragons and demons interacting, and there wasn't really a lot to it. I also don't remember most of them, only some small snippets of imagery that has long faded.

I went with a medieval time period because I liked the idea of a lack of electricity and much looser laws where it was still possible for people to be complete douchebags and still avoid the laws, which was definitely needed in the storylines I was making. At one point, electricity was a resource that existed in the world, but it wasn't a primary resource because I liked its use and its ease but didn't want it to have a large impact. That eventually didn't make sense at all to me, so at first I went with a conversion to fully medieval, which later changed to very late medieval. I'm still stuck on how electricity magic exists and yet electrical applications don't hgfcjgvh;bkjv

Back when I was still just making up character stories to fill my time I realised pretty soon that I had no idea what kind of world my few characters lived in. At first, I really didn't care. At first, it was just a blank slate that was edited as my characters changed history. At first, the idea was that the world was endless, but that didn't satisfy me enough, and eventually my willingness to have a concrete world with actual details grew so strong I started worldbuilding. It was a wild journey, because I had to fit in all canon details about my characters (and back at that time, there was no such thing as AUs; if I thought of it, it was damn well canon!) and ended up being cluttered. It ended up sorting itself out through small changes over time.

I think it ended up being a skill I honed over the years! Seeing worldbuilding I liked to draw inspiration from, seeing worldbuilding I disliked to find out what I should do different, and the feedback people gave me were all things that led me to become more and more interested in worldbuilding itself, and now it's taken almost a front seat in my creative interests! 

ElithianFox i may ask such a clichéd question but what led you to love world building and (medi) fantasy so much? we almost have the same kinda interest and that will always pique my mind whenever i see people with similar likes n stuff

how long have you been working on your stuff too?