just so you know.

Poses are kind of static and one of the heads is way too big, but getting better.

The recent pages in Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space have me shipping these two so hard. *sigh* Sorry I couldn’t do it justice.

Chirart mentioned that the way to learn expressive posing is to draw bodies as much as possible, instead of drawing only heads and busts.

It was a lot harder than it sounded! The only way I could do it was by not drawing the head at all. And, sheesh, what kind of pose is that?!

reapersun:

So Fanime was absolutely bonkers. I’m totally blown away. Thank you to everyone who visited my table; it was especially spectacular meeting so many Sherlock fans and getting a chance to share my weird obsessions. You are all amazing <3

To celebrate the release of Wreck and finally crossing this big deadline that’s been looming over me, I wanna do a short giveaway! I haven’t done this before so please forgive me if I do something super wrong @w@;;

Please read all the details under the cut!

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whoatheresara:

umadashibayashi:

scarabsi:

Zelda: Not Flipped This Time by ~Scarabsi
I drewed a comic about Zelda. Well, it’s about Link. But it’s about Zelda games. Specifically Zelda games on Wii. Ones made on the Wii where they really should have known better.

It is not accepted.  RRRRRRRGGHHH LINK SHOULD BE LEFT-HANDED

YES YES YES

I’ve thought about writing about this sort of thing at length for many months, but haven’t because I feel like this sort of issue is one only the people directly affected by it (left-handed people, 10-15% of the population) care, and even now I feel like apologizing for bringing it up when there are so many other issues at hand that involve people fighting just to be treated like people…

But I can get used to right-handed scissors and can openers and sewing machines and notebooks and knives and mice and baseball mitts (scratch that last one), but god dammit, when Skyward Sword came out, I lost the one mainstream left-handed hero I had and I can’t help but be more than a little upset and sad about it.

It’s not just a matter of which hand he uses, either, but by making him right-handed to suit the majority who probably didn’t even care in the first place, you’ve made it clear to the people who had that one mainstream hero to look up to that they are not your target audience.

Link may not have been a POC or LGBTQ or anything like that, but he was still a minority.

/soapbox

Ninjaedit: And it is a dumb issue to get bent out of shape over, because being left-handed isn’t a disability and there’s no social stigma attached to it (anymore, at least in the West), and so a lot of the problem is that it shouldn’t be a problem in the first place.

‘Kay, I’m done for real.

About the “it’s a dumb issue” thing… I don’t think it’s dumb for you to mention it once in a while, honestly. It’s not like you’re harping on it all the time. It’s nice that the western world has learned not to keep trying to change left-handed people, but it does still happen from time to time. :( And, well, I don’t know much about Japanese culture, but this game wasn’t exactly made in the western world, was it? I know in Chinese cultures they still try to change left-handed people. They’ll say “It’s just so much better for them that way,” or “It’s a hassle for everyone else if they don’t.” This seems like a case of that. “Link may be left-handed, but he’ll be right-handed in this game. Because it’ll be a hassle for everyone else if he isn’t.”

I don’t know if you know this, but I also discovered that Skyward Link still shoots his bow and arrow in a left-handed way, apparently?

Which either means he’s weirdly ambidextrous, or it means it’s okay for him to be left-handed as long as it doesn’t inconvenience right-handed people. :| Great! Okay! Wonderful!

Okay now I need to get off my soapbox. ^^;;;

Zelda: Not Flipped This Time by ~Scarabsi
I drewed a comic about Zelda. Well, it’s about Link. But it’s about Zelda games. Specifically Zelda games on Wii. Ones made on the Wii where they really should have known better.

talltaleteller:

A follow up to my response to the issue with the perception of those who are too appreciative.

This one’s more personal, because after that post I’ve gained quite a number of followers on both this blog of mine and the other blog. I’ve been given praise (undeservedly, I’m afraid — all I did was articulate what people already knew and felt!) and, surprisingly, praise that came with back-handed insults!

Mostly in the form of (although these are slightly edited):

• I thought you were physically ugly until I saw your pictures
• I thought you were vapid at first because all you did was make fanart
• I didn’t know fangirls could be so opinionated
• You seem to have a very strong personality in real life, I honestly assumed you were very recluse before
• Consider this a compliment because I don’t consider you a fangirl; you’re not as crazy as the others and you seem a great deal more educated than most

First of all I’d like to note that this is with regards to the female experience. The fangirl experience. Being a fanboy is an entirely different issue and one that I have zero life experience in.

I’m shocked that a lot of people still assume that a stereotype should exist to link what type of person you are in one aspect of your life to another. There are many types of fangirls, but the only kind assumed to exist based on my non-conclusive data and personal experience are that fangirls are ugly, vapid, quiet, recluse, irrationally rabid, unintelligent, and lesser than most.

I resent that. The idea that being labeled a fangirl makes you officially a lesser person is not only vastly ignorant, but also really fucking annoying I just gotta say. In truth, I hate labels in general, but I call myself a fangirl on principle, because I like that about me. I appreciate that I appreciate what other people make.

As somebody who aspires to be working with a profession in the arts, appreciation is exactly what I strive for. Not appreciation for myself, but appreciation for the truth, and that’s what the arts strive to do. And you know something? That’s what fangirls are already doing.

Of course, sometimes it can be overblown. Of course there are many sides to this, because some can have their appreciation closed to a shallow level, and some can be violently passionate without being learned on what it is they like about something. Some like things for the wrong reasons, which is not good, and which I cannot address as I don’t know much about that matter.

I can only talk about my own experience in detail, so here goes.

I’ve been berated several times because my blog contains, and yes I will address this directly, gay Sherlock Holmes fanart.

If there’s one problematic tied to being a fangirl, it’s the shipper factor. General opinion states that you’re a fangirl if you ship two characters of any fictional narrative, because as a female fan, the most you can appreciate is only the romantic aspect of something, and nothing deeper.

Do I mind that people have a problem with me being a shipper? No, because I am a shipper, god help me I am.

Do I mind that people think being a shipper automatically makes you dumb, or shallow, or disrespectful for being so? Yes, because that’s not all I appreciate.

I don’t want to have to go into full detail what I like about the things I like, because those deserve several other blog entries. However, here is the point I’d like to make entirely:

I like things, you have no business telling me what to like, and you most certainly have no business telling me what I like should dictate what kind of person I am, so please do shut up and stop inflicting your worryingly unenlightened opinions on the rest of the world.

And kids, the moral of the story is:

You’d do well to educate yourself in the psychological and societal factors that pervade and affect both interest and personality because then you’ll find that while correlations exist, they do not necessarily form in one manner that dictates that you can categorize an entire group of people into what they are not. Now shut up again.

If you have questions, I have an open askbox.

(via prodigaldaughteralice)

FINALLY GOT MY DOCTOR WATCH TODAY. It’s soooo beautiful~ *gushy sigh*