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20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy

Loose fabric... It just makes sense in my head. I'm not as good at tight fabric unless it's skintight and therefore has no wrinkles. Some of these are older examples so they're not as good, but yeah. I like drawing fabric :3

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any

Yeah I... I don't. If I do 'warm ups' it tends to be those doodle pages I post sometimes:

While I was looking at doodles I found these which I think a specific person or two may enjoy.

3. What ideas come from when you were little

Cats. Lions. The Lion King. Anything feline. I had a lot of Lion King ocs when I was very little, before I got into Warrior Cats. My oc "Bandit" was one of my first ever entirely original characters and also one of the first ever things I drew digitally! Here is the highest quality version of it available (on my pc) and my most recent doodle of Bandit. 2+ hours vs 10 minutes:

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

And that's only the digital things I have saved to this PC...

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

I'm not really sure what this question means but often when I can't think of what to draw, I'll doodle a cat (or a carrot, depending on my mood). This has led to a lot of "[character] but as a cat" doodles. Both cats and The Lion King were special interests as a little kid, so that's definitely something to do with it :p

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

I couldn't tell you because when I lose interest I forget about it... I have a lot of abandoned warrior cat fanclans but those are closer to worldbuilding projects than art projects. A lot of half-finished drawings but again, not really projects. I've tried to do a Pokédex challenge (an oc for every pokémon) but I haven't lost interest in that, I'm just too busy. I keep doodling them over time!

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken

While typing this ask I got distracted by a pen that I broke earlier today... I kinda fixed it! But I think this is a pretty good example of my mindset when it comes to these things, lol.

Whenever a paintbrush breaks or gets matted I just go "huh, ok" and either tape it back together or figure out something else to do with it. Old, misshapen brushes are great for drybrushing or getting textured strokes. I mostly do digital, but I've spent about 40£ on replacement digital pens in the past year or so. I don't know how they break. I look after them, I swear :(

they're done!! the originals are 10,000x7000 px so these have been reduced a bit (and probably made smaller by tumblr, too).

this was a long and difficult process, especially with the personal stuff i have happening right now, but it's incredibly rewarding, i've learned a lot, and i'm very proud of the end results. i also can't wait to draw something else q_q

closeups under the cut!