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Myha'la Herrold

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 6 April 1996

Ethnicity: White, Afro Caribbean (Jamaican)

Nationality: American

HI THANK YOU <333

good ask... scratching my brain. making me have to THINK!!!

1: Overcome your fear of vibrant colors. And I do mean that literally. It took me years of slamming my head into the color wheel to finally set myself free. I used to get genuine anxiety over my art being too loud or silly or childish; this is the devil speaking, and I have since then beaten the devil to death with my bare hands.

2: Realistic does not equal boring. Number one thing that pisses me off about video game/tv/movie art direction is when their idea of "realism" is just brown grey brown grey brown. This is NOT at all what real life looks like. Intense color hides everywhere in plain sight. Our eyes are used to it, our cameras screw with it, either way our perception is often skewed. See impressionism—a practice that seeks to capture reality the way our minds see it, rather than what is most accurate—the results are goddamn beautiful.

3: Filters, blend modes, and color adjustment tools exist for a reason, so use them!! They preserve the relationship between your colors while granting you great control over the mood of the piece. Post-processing is massively important in the creative process, something that professionals in the art industry AGONIZE over. But for whatever reason, I feel like artists have this unspoken taboo that editing your art this way makes it less legit?? Which is once again the devil speaking. Use filters, use editing tools, use them to find freaky juicy colorways that you would never have discovered with the naked eye alone.

In my experience, a limited color palette also helps. When every individual color serves a clear purpose, it unifies the whole piece and really makes it POP!! Plus it reduces workload. You spend less time stressing about the colors if you already know how they'll behave together.

Let's be Slayers together with Papa!!!!!!

(i know this won't come out until the page is out for everyone but i couldn't resist)

The saddest part of this is Jack can never be Slayers with Papa

Jack can only be Slayers like Papa.