FAQ

Frequently asked questions. Surprisingly, people do ask me questions. And sometimes they ask the same ones.

I love music, music videos, video games, and all sorts of mediums that blend visuals with audio and time. Music really implants visuals in my head, I imagine vivid scenarios while listening to songs. You will be displeased to discover that most if what I listen to and imagine AMVs for are 50's-80's pop, heavy metal, and dad rock.

Even just learning the stories behind other artists/musicians/creators is inspiring for how I like to create characters. The story informs the visual aspect for me… Especially with goofyass shit like 80's musician autobiographies about snorting ants and getting cursed by your neighbor the male witch.

I also owe a lot to my teachers who informed the way I think about art and storytelling, not just how I draw.

As for more straightforward visual art influences, they're usually artists I found through their work for film, games, animation, and other media: Ayami Kojima's delicate brutality, Danny Antonucci's energetic cartooning, H.R Giger's erotic form.
Artists who I found as a babby on the internet, through their fanart, are also huge continuous influences for me: hallokatzchen, khorosho, pu-sama.

Yeah, and I mostly learned how much I don't like school or the art industry. I had a few cool teachers, and I snuck into a couple of illustration classes. I didn't learn that much about drawing from the animation classes. I found the general humanities classes (media criticism, feminism, gender studies, intersection of race) more enlightening for my creative process lmao.

I'm sure other people have a better time at art school if they are into “networking with industry contacts” or “learning how to perform for a professional standard”. I'm kind of a no good hooligan with oppositional defiance disorder.

Traditional art: Pentel pocket brush, and sometimes just a regular dip brush in ink.

Digital art: Clip Studio Paint 1.4 with a downloaded Kaze Fude brush, or the default g-pen brush.

Sure why not, I respect your headcanons. You can respect that the “scout” and “spy” characters I draw are original characters with that class title. They are not related to the TF2 comics characters of “Jeremy” and whatever gayass name they gave the spy, and thus not familially related.

I do enjoy shipping packages to my clients and customers. I am also a fan of shipping services that allow me to send snail mail to my friends. But I don't really like the idea 1 day Amazon shipping becoming the default, as that make postal workers drive around in poor conditions and puts factory workers in danger. Not to mention all the fuel usage around the world makes my head spin… I would prefer to get most things locally if possible, like food and produce.

So, I am pro-shipping in concept, but I want better working conditions for everyone. And I don't personally need a hyperspecific label to let people know that I like mailing stuff to friends. Some people lose the forest for the trees in online arguments, whether they're pro or anti shipping packages!

I actually coined that term for Grandpa Mutou x Exodia shipping, since it's not on many Yugioh ship lists yet. Check out whim's duel monsters ship name list for other ship names - I can't wait for Antishipping to become as popular as Puzzleshipping!