#cherrvak

I’ve mentioned how much I admire the expressiveness of your drawings of hands but it really jumps out in that panel of Kim. Even though her face is totally obscured, the tension in her hands and the way they push the skin on her forehead convey her emotions perfectly.

i have actually yeah, although i’ve lost a lot of interest in imagining nofna styles anymore because it’s pretty clear zack doesn’t care about the sorta… “rules” he originally had. way back in the day, there was a forum for nofna, which is still up, but people made fan characters to role play – those were moved to a different forum, which doesn’t exist anymore. on THAT forum, he specified several guidelines for MAKING a nofna fan character, and the one i remember the most is about how you can either be good at Art or good at DENYING art, but you can’t be both. so now that all of the styles are basically who can scream the loudest as a mouthpiece, it’s lost its challenge to be able to make one. but a few i did think up at least partially

a words book or a comic book?

blew my mind as a kid to realize the analogous truth about binary encoding in computers; an “zero/empty” bit encodes as much info as a “one” bit.

Have you considered studying mathematics? Many people get turned off from mathematics because it’s taught very badly in schools, but there are fields abstracted enough from quotidian arithmetic that they feel more like puzzle games than “math”. I recommend Topology without Tears, which also contains a decent introduction to proof methods and an overview of cardinality (there are different sizes of infinity!)

the “medical school” arc of folie a dupe would be wild