Ask A Hero!

As a bonus: pick out a song for the muses’ fusion dance.

(Not sure if you’re still responding to interactions, but I wanted to give drawing smol aizawa in your style a shot all the same. He’s an angry little bean. Also I can’t submit stuff from AskAHero, so sorry for that potential confusion, lol) ——-

{ Awh shucks thank you! I, unfortunately, have run waaaay too many ask blogs so I hope I can help!

For the traditional aspect:

I think you should go for it! I know @ask-lunchrush does their lines traditionally and colors digitally and their stuff looks awesome!!! I’ve never really done a traditional ask blog myself, but if you have access to a good scanner or an app scanner on your phone (I use TinyScanner personally and it works great) then it should be fine! I think the only issue at hand is it would take longer to create things just because you’re having to create them traditionally and upload them digitally and some color/quality may be lost in the process. But if you work with markers and pens you wouldn’t have to worry about that as much as in my experience colored pencils and pencil marks get missed by scanners.

For ask blog tips!:

Make sure you have in mind how you want to run your blog, What quality are you hoping to churn out? Can you do that consistently? What kind of content are you aiming to show? Is it funny or serious? 

Personally, for 13, I aimed for low-quality but highly humor based. All my other blogs try to achieve the high quality and humor based/serious and I normally burned out from them rather quickly ahaha,,,

Set boundaries for your content! I always forget that part as I’m normally quick to bound and make an ask blog. Personally, this doesn’t necessarily relate to this blog as much but I don’t tolerate extreme NSFW asks for 13 unless it’s just for The Jokes ™, for instance. Also whether you’re okay with character interactions/OC’s/RPing/shipping etc. So an about page is pretty crucial. Also don’t let other’s tug you around about what you should be posting or how frequent, it’s 100% your decision on what you want to do!

I heavily agree with the above mentioned advice, but I’d like to add my own two cents regarding the actual art side of things. So here’s that

Your materials don’t have to be fancy! I draw all my stuff with cheap mechanical pencils on walmart sketchbooks, then line them with a ballpoint pen. For the first few asks, I used my phone to scan the pictures and port them over to my laptop, but now I have a printer with a scanner so I can make higher quality images! 

For all the coloring, I use Medibang Paint Pro. It’s a free program similar to firealpaca, and their website has a whole bunch of cool tutorials! It’s a cool program to experiment with!

If you want more examples of people using traditional/digital blends for art, I highly recommend you check out @sarlisart and her speedpaints on her youtube channel!

Some advantages of coloring digitally are:

You can go back and sample your palletes for images instead of having to find the colors each time

“Sansa Tamakawa, at your service!”