#asktrio156

Let me just start out by saying I love this fandom and this community. I’ve met some lovely people here, I’ve been able to talk about and share characters and things from a show and series that will always be very important to me.

It’s not without its downsides though. In recent weeks I’ve seen so many people I’ve gotten to know here leave this site, and even fandom as a whole due to… toxicity, basically. Even my husband had enough of this site and deactivated his entire account. I’d be lying if I said that wasn’t part of the reason I had to take a break myself. Him leaving the community because of all the useless problems left me feeling if there was even a point to stay myself.

But there is. I’m gonna keep it short. But I wanna thank everyone in this community who’s still here on tumblr. Thank you for being so lovely. Thank you for sticking through it, and you’re all amazing. I’ve stepped away and found the inspiration to come back. I plan on doing whatever I can on this blog to spread a little positivity and sunshine within this small corner of the fandom the best I can.

Keep chugging on guys. Keep smiling. Love ya’ll. 💖

I had a choice between two ideas. One: I draw these two meeting for the first time, underwater or Two: I draw these two dads wearing sunglasses and being cool bois. I chose sunglasses. 💙😎

Ice fighter dad belongs to me ( @sodor-spirit )

…ok so

This is a very sensitive topic for a lot of people, especially in today’s social climate. I’m not a stranger when it comes to this, my brother is on the autistic spectrum and I’ve gone through clinically diagnosed depression, and while I’m still waiting for a diagnosis I’m 420% sure I’ve got ADHD.

However, I’m not well versed in these conditions, in mental health in general and I prefer not to make a mistake or misrepresent something and end up getting cancelled for it or worse hurting someone. While I seriously believe representation is incredibly important, I don’t feel like I know enough to do that properly so I don’t want to risk it.

I also don’t really like it when a character’s entire personality and design is boiled down to literally one single part of it, and I have a feeling if I start focusing on giving my iterations of these characters conditions, people will not see anything else. They are also conditions, things most people probably don’t want to live with and are challenges. Not things you want to deal with. I know that’s the case for me and my brother. So I don’t feel like it’s necessary to start labelling my engines as various conditions. I have also been treated quite badly by someone I call a good friend, and they’ve always blamed their poor mental health and anxiety for treating me like absolute shit. While I’m nothing but understanding for her condition, it didn’t feel right to have to soak it all up and be called horrible things over nothing at all, only to be told ‘it’s just anxiety.’

I have quite a few favourites like James, Thomas, The Bees, the Twins, Duncan and Edward, but no. I love them all as characters but none of them come close.

I struggle with rushing my art a lot,so I’m just wondering

Depends on what kind of drawing it is, how detailed I’m making it, if it’s a sketch or a fully outlined piece, if it’s a reference sheet which has to be decently detailed, what software/device/tools I’m using, if I’m distracted by shit while drawing or if my fat ass decides to break and get food…

Depends on a lot of things. Usually a messy coloured sketch takes me anywhere from 30 mins to an hour, anything more detailed than that is at least an hour or longer.