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i love the stereotypical “edgy oc made by a 12-year-old” characters & i feel like we should just let kids make whatever ocs they want……….my ocs as a kid diverged from that bc i was introduced to the internet at an early age and i was afraid of people thinking my characters were too “cringey” so i’d modify them to make them seem “less like that” but i was 11 at the time i was still learning character creation pls……..i was just getting into anime @ the time too and i wanted my characters to be Super Cool like the ones that had the huge fanbases of young people that happened to fit the edgy stereotype (and to clarify i don’t mean shock humor edgy which is never funny but coldsteel the hedgehog edgy u kno)
years later i stopped……..caring…………i am aware that some of my ocs are glorified coldsteel the hedgehogs and i do nothing about it anymore bc like your creativity REALLY suffers when you suppress things so that you dont appear “embarrassing” to people…..it’s not like i’m planning on getting those characters in particular published anyway…..and who knows even, maybe one day one of my ocs becomes widespread popular and the younger kids think they’re so cool and want to make one of their own and like. honestly that would be one of the greatest things to happen in my life. i would cry
“Umm, how can you be ‘semiaquatic’, you either are aquatic or you’re not. Don’t be greedy.”
“So, I get that you’re a monotreme and everything, but do you identify more as a rodent or a bird?”
“Ugh, why do you have to be such a special snowflake. Do you and like three other species need an entire order to describe yourselves that separates you from mammals that birth live young?”
“You needlessly complicate an artificially constructed system of classification. Why don’t you just lose the webbed feet and beak and egg laying ways and become a proper mammal.”
“Ha! You may look like you belong to class Aves, but I know for a fact that birds don’t have fur. You’re such a phony.”
“Why do you insist on appropriating beaks and webbed feet. Like, you admitted you weren’t a bird, stop incorporating them into your anatomy. All you’re doing is making birds look less legitimate as an order.”
“RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!”
One of our awesome volunteers brought in this submarine as enrichment for the octos, and this little sea monster has had a fantastic time sinking the ship, causing chaos, and finding food while doing so! I love the simplicity of this little vessel as a form of enrichment, and the potential it holds for more complicated activities.
Happy 1st of Spookmas!!!!
Did a very loose panel comic for the first time in forever (and it really shows in some of the panelling and angling I did, I do apologize) but I hope it’s cute and in keeping with the spirit of Spookmas!
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“ART SKILL” Is subjective, someone might have a worse grasp on anatomy & technique but great ideas or grasp of color/design, or vise versa. someone might be INCREDIBLE at drawing detailed anatomy but be completely shit at composition and color theory.
The only thing that makes someone a “bad artist” is if they have a shit attitude.
people are reblogging this post & it makes me glad to see people being aware of their strengths/weaknesses in art cus being aware at both what you are good at and what you are bad at is how you improve as an artist
This is so important – we can’t compare trauma experiences, it is all valid. Even two people who go through the same trauma can react differently.
Now this is a metaphor I get.
AngelMihe 