#contentexplorer

Well, I am one year old.

After watching Dragon Ball Super SuperHero and letting my curiosity lead me to this place known as Tumblr last year, I can say it has been a fun and inviting experience to be on this platform. I've never had this kind of interactive and social outlet ever in my life. My creativity and ideas developed or were expressed in ways I never thought I was capable of doing; my discovery of all these talented artists, writers, opinions, everything I find on Tumblr has me feeling excited, attentive, and more curious each time I'm online. And all the support, likes, reblogs, and comments from all you wonderful people just make it worthwhile. It truly has been a blast of a year to be on here. : )

So that's why it saddens me that I will be inactive following the new year of 2024. : (

I've been considering this course of action for a while, and I've fully decided to go through with this.

Allow me to explain: The bottom line is stuff has come up. I don't feel comfortable to specifically state what that 'stuff' is, but I can assure you all that it's nothing life-threatening or life-shattering. Situations have arisen for me, and honestly, they're the kind of problems that I could ignore and still be fine. But that way of responding just doesn't sit well with me. I have to deal with them, so the issues won't build up over time and bite me back in the future. Unfortunately, that requires of me to cut my time here.

I wish to say that I'll return and resume my activity, but even I can't guarantee that. My process, if you will, will be of me accomplishing each obstacle, but once done, they'll lead to more handling of their consequences, both positive and negative. Coming back here: I just don't know.

But in case I don't return, I want to say something: When I started my account I had no intention of making posts or interacting with anyone. I just wanted to see what you guys were writing/making about Dragon Ball (The K18 material, TBH), like it, and have some asks of my own. But thanks to the suggestions and informative answers from @fantasyrecolors / @thefantasylife (you're the best), I put more effort into distinguishing myself from a bot to an actual person.

I figured I would repost stuff I liked and write the occasional, original post about anything on my mind, never having ambitions of being popular or affecting the Dragon Ball Tumblr community. But when I posted my Android 18 Not You Meme, you guys liked it and that just made me feel so appreciated. It was just an idea I had which I wanted to put out there. That inspired me to be more involved in this Dragon Ball Community. You see, I'm a dork, but I've always been one solo. I never had anyone to ask their opinions or say to them I enjoy their fan-work about a property we both enjoy, and vice versa. But as I continued to settle and develop my blog, I just kept finding so many incredible individuals here with their fabulous art, engaging stories, intriguing takes, and hilarious jokes. And these people/you guys took time to see and support what I brought to the table. Even beyond the Dragon Ball series. I felt inspired and motivated by that to keep doing what I could to support and join this rad community.

And I mean where to start with the list of creatives here:

-Dragon Ball Meta/Ultra Dork

-SweetEscapeArtist

-LongMonthArtist

-IncognitoMan1-2-3-4

-Chestnut Island/xfadedmemoriezx

-NiccoloYo

-Certified Krillin Stan

-Neterukuroino

-Everyone's Tea Room

-FuturisticBouquetdeer-451f4dcf

-DeadlyBeautyZ

-Koine Kid

I know Tumblr isn't a perfect social media platform with all its faults, but these people and many, many more made Tumblr an awesome playground to be in.

You all made my time here wonderful and jaw dropping. You guys make Dragon Ball fun. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.

I won't delete my account. I love this blog too much to see it all gone in a flash, the same unfortunate fate to fellow comrade Certified Krillin Stan. I'll just leave my blog here and step back from the Tumblr website; the most I'll do is just view (rarely) what's new. There may be a chance I could fully return when DB Daima rolls around, but no guarantees. I hope how I continue in my future will lead me back here to keep supporting this section of the DB community and any other cools guys I see here; possibly return with more resources/skills to do more for this group and my account than I could do now. I do hope so.

Until then, Keep spreading that K18 Love, Let your Creativity Roam Free, Keep Supporting Each Other, and above all else, Have A Great 2024 Everybody.

I've been trying to find a way to describe it, but I just can't make it into words. So, I'm going to go ahead and ask you in your own words: How does your art style work? Your brilliant drawings of K18, Marron, and the rest of the DB gang has a unique look to it, but I don't know what it is exactly. There are obvious details, such as the line filling in characters and backgrounds, and well as geometric-focused bodies (at least that is what I think you're going for). But I'd love to hear what is your intentional design and art process in your own words.

P.S. Fun-side question: Besides the Dragon Ball franchise, who/what else do you love to draw, whether it be fictional or real world inspirations?

Keep Warm and Have a Wonderful Winter : }

Dear Content Explorer,

Thank you so much for the ask and I must say I am honored by your question. I think the reason why I picked my style, which as you've carefully observed to be consisted of geometric shapes and filling of forms with lines, is my way of mixingd DB style with a more innocent quality. As we all know, Toriyama's style is also largely consisted of geometric shapes and as I started to draw K18 art, I began to experiment with different ways of portraying the characters using similar yet different approach. Eventually, I chose to use simpler and more circular shapes for my characters because of the innocent quality this method gives. K18 is all about an unlikely couple who managed to find love in a chaotic world that can be very cruel and life altering changes sudden without warning so preserving their purity is essential in my opinion. I know from my visual vocabulary and experience that simpler line work and shading contributes to innocence so that's why I chose to forgo traditional shading techniques in favor of clearly distinguishable outlines and line fillings. This way, the characters are highly distinguishable and their facial expressions brought to the forefront of viewer's attention. Another factor that led to this development in style is I was taught extensively in children's drawing when I was much younger and that childlike quality of mine surfaces whenever I do K18. As for other subjects and franchises I like to draw, I actually started off as a tradtional painter/illustrator and favored hyper detailed realist style. I do a lot of landscape drawing and painting before started doing fanart. For fanart, I like to draw DC comics like Batman, Superman as well as Japanese manga such as Kenichi's Strongest Disciple, a bit of Naruto (not a fan of Kishimoto's art style tbh), Gundam Wing (I know I'm old), and oh yeah, I was a Tokyo Ghoul fanartist.

Is your name LongMonthArtist because you are an ARTIST and your art usually takes a MONTH LONG to complete? Just curious is all.

Have a Sensational Summer ☀ : ]

Sincerely, ContentExplorer

Aww thanks so much for the ask @contentexplorer

I chose the name because of the month I was born. In Japanese (I am not Japanese btw, just a weeb), September translates literally to long month.

Please forgive me for what I'm going to ask you, but I am curious on your take. Hopefully, what I ask at the end cheers you up. Again, I tremendously apologize for my heinous act of an ask that follows:

What was your reaction/thoughts on the first 2 minutes of DBS Ep. 100, AKA U7 members bagging on Krillin for being out? Not only unnecessary, but just plain despicable of Toei. Your thoughts?

And now to remind ourselves that the Ep. 100 incident was just a fluke, what was your reaction to Ep. 117 of Dragon Ball's OTP kicking Ribrianne's ass? A mix of sweetness and badassery? Did it reaffirm your love for K18? It always does for me.

I can't stress enough how sorry I am for asking you to revisit your thoughts on an ugly moment of DB for Krillin fans. I just wanted to ask for what you thought of the dark times (Pre-Nov. 2017 = Pre-Ep. 117 release).

Please take this photo of Krillin smiling @ 18 in the TOP as a token of my apology.

Have a nice day : )

Dear ContentExplorer,

honestly, I hadn't ever gone to take a gander at the scenes since my first time seeing them, so this was a good refresher for me,,

I will say, it isnt completely out of character for krillin to gloat a little after a win, and I think he totally deserves a little bit of time to hop around about things, but it totally sucks how Super handled it :( Especially because it looks like everyone there was surprised when that frost guy showed up. for a gag, it isn't completely out of the ordinary to make fun of a character for a loss, but watching this was more awkward than funny,,,

and i loved to see k18 kick ass, and little scenes about how close and in love they are :] the little comment about there's love that we don't even know about yet was soooo cute, we love to see k18 staying positive <333 they're so cute <33

thanks for the ask! I personally am pretty neutral on DBS because I don't really pay attention to it, I know its canon but don't think about it as canon, etc, so I don't mind revisiting topics such as these.

Cheers,