#alecrambles

Thank you for your kind words!  I still write!  I just don’t do it very often if at all?  I am in a very different place in life now than I was when I began Ichidaijiwhen I was still a college student, and definitely in an even farther off place than I was when I wrote i am your king in high school, so writing has taken a backseat to doing other things (my job, finding a new apartment, etc adult life things).

I don’t really have any proper tutorials, but I guess my biggest advice is to just not be scared to start!  I started pixel art when I was super young and the only art program I had loaded on my computer was MS Paint, and I just played with it a lot when I was bored.  There’s a ton of great tutorials on DeviantArt from back in the day that helped me too.  I know personally I do all my pixel art with a mouse because I was a broke bitch and I didn’t have anything else at the time, and even now that I have a tablet, I still use my mouse on pixel art because I find that it gives me more control in placing things down dot by dot.  Anyway, my biggest advice is that, beyond finding other artists who inspire you, and following a couple tutorials, the best way to improve is practice.  Pixel art is just like any other kind of art, and getting better at it is a process that I’m still working on to this day, too. :)

Well the long story short is basically that I felt really betrayed by what happened with Voltron as a show in its later seasons, and I didn’t want to create content for something that queer-baited, with the actual gay rep ultimately treated poorly and culminated into nothing.I did have more for Sweetness of a Storm written that I didn’t post, and I recently started doing more on my patreon, so one of the things I have on there is everything I have for SoaS, past and present, including unposted chapters.  I didn’t really ever finish or polish them up, so they’re extremely rough and they hop around a lot, but if you’re interested in reading more that I have written, that’s an option.  I’m not trying to advertise this like “Oh, sorry I ignored your message for a million years (I’m sorry, I never check this inbox), please pay me money.”  If you really really want the chapters and can’t or don’t want to afford them on patreon (fair enough, I too am broke and I Understand), you can contact me on Twitter which I actually routinely check (@bittercalypso) so I can forward you the word doc or I guess try here again and I’ll try to remember to check it.  I just don’t spend any time on my Tumblr here anymore (current art posts aside.  I literally just upload, and abscond.)And as a blanket statement for everyone, I’m more than willing to give another author permission to adopt Sweetness of a Storm if they have ideas on continuing it.

I have been having trouble feeling confident about it but I think it’s actually partially because of my mental health situation right now, which is why I was thinking of taking a break. But every time I draw, I always really want to show everyone and find validation in that, like, confirmation that the little insecure person in my head that hates everything I do is shut up by the weight of everyone else's kind words...?

A link to my twitter if anyone is interested! Please talk to me, I'm lonely