‘Cause at least Mondays are not pretending !

I think they reason why I ignored it was that many times before s2 came out it did occur to me that Jinx would likely bond the easiest with kids. That since she’s so childish in a lot of ways it would be easier for her to interact and find common ground with a kid, it would be the first time in her life that the familial power dynamic would be reversed, it’d be interesting to see her in an irresponsible but fun big sis role. And initially it seems that that’s what they were doing with Isha so I wanted to give her a chance.

In retrospect I think the reason why it felt off to me from the start is that what they did in ep 2, which introduces Isha and reintroduces us to Jinx, was they gave us a metaphorical scene portraying Jinx’s grief, then we see her walking to music for a minute and immediately after that Isha falls into her lap. We saw nothing of Isha whatsoever before that moment and we never learn anything about her past, she was never a character. The story’s visuals create parallels between this meeting and Silco and Powder's meeting, and like many parallels in s2 it falls flat cos the parallel just highlights how those two are not the same at all.

In s1a1 we spend 3 eps with Silco and Powder individually, with it never occurring to us and the story never hinting at these characters ever coming together. After all this time of establishing what each character has going for them, what makes them tick, and with some visual hints sprinkled in ep 3 we get to their first meeting and even tho you’d never anticipate it the characters immediately click and you GET IT. The characters’ pains and emotions and connections and goals that we’ve explored for 3 eps slot with each other perfectly. What happened when Isha met Jinx for the first time? she fell into her lap. ok.

Thank you for the fun question! I've included some very self-indulgent thoughts below.

Hello! I'm really flattered you like my art!

I'm still learning how to pick colors and do lighting myself. With the piece just posted, here's what my first color pass looked like when I was setting up what I wanted to do.

In real life, color and light is really complicated, and depending on your photo difficult to intuit, so it helps to break things down and simplify things into simple rules you can apply as you go - like "if this part is facing down, it should be getting that orange bounce light". The default rule I go by is that the shadow color comes from the color of the environment + color of the light

I recommend keeping an eye out for pleasing shots in movies and thinking about how those artists decided to compose the lighting and color. Movies are, like art, not really realistic or true to reality, but rather control and exaggerate colors and lighting to create something appealing.

^ An example of a shot I liked in The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love.

*** PROMPTS SUGGESTIONS OPEN ***

Can you believe this will be the 11th TogaFuka Week? How time flies!

This year’s ToFu Week is from 28 Sep to 4 Oct.

First, though, we need some prompts. Reblog or reply with words or short phrases that could be used for a prompt for one of the days. For example, here are last year’s. It’s perfectly fine to suggest prompts that have been used in previous years. Not everyone has taken part in each ToFu Week unless you’re me.

Each day will have two choices of prompts, though you don’t have to do either of them if you don’t want to.

artfights

fern

nate (sona)

“are we still sisters?”