Ok for some reason this ask just doesn't appear in my inbox at all...so I'll answer it this way @edenartfactory

From Michi's point of view she already is compromising quite a lot with Shinobu! If she had it her way, they'd live so deep in the mountains that they'd never see humans, which is why she's so interested in going to the US. And if Shinobu had it her way, they'd live in a big enough metro area that she'd have access to all the conveniences of city life and more sources (both historical and living examples) of research for her bestiary. Rural farm life has been the compromise they've reached til now. (They both dislike the farming aspect, but for different reasons of course.)

Congratulations!! I’m not exactly sure what “The Aces Hi!” is, but I’m definitely gonna look it up now!!! I take it you must be an artist for it? I’m very excited to see your work! ^w^

Hey friends!!

Check out this ace comic by @edenartfactory!! 

Reblog = people sharing your work which has credits, artist comments, and sources back to you. People who find your work by chance and want to see more can do so.

Repost = people sharing your work without credits, doesn’t source back to you and if you didn’t watermark it, there’s a good chance they won’t be able to find you. 

Reposting is disrespectful to the artist.  Rather than helping them gain exposure and a wider audience, taking the image and making a new post is about getting exposure/likes/reblogs for yourself, you’re using someone else’s hard work to do it.  It also makes it harder for people who might want to hire said artist do so.  It also insulates the artist- if they don’t know that thousands of people are liking and sharing their work because someone reposted it and later find out, it’s extremely lonely and isolating because they were never allowed to be a part of that experience.

I see my stuff show up on forums, pintrest, and other places and while I don’t mind people sharing, it’s disheartening on the occasions where I get messages from people who had to jump through hoops just to find me and I think about all the people who couldn’t be bothered or just plain couldn’t find me because someone took my work.

Gosh, thank you so much! >////<  And it’s not odd at all, I’ve been asked several times!

Persistence, communication and lots of (perceived) failure.  Daughter of the Lilies isn’t the first comic I’ve worked on.  If you’re interested in that specific story, I and Meg’ve talked about before at length.  (Honestly if you want to see if I’ve talked about a thing, explore my #Yokotalks tag, there’s some good stuff there).

The first time I was paid to draw comics was for the newspaper at my college, just fun one-panel editorials.  After that I was paid by a client to turn a story he wrote into a comic.  Two years later the project moved on without me and I found work as a background artist for Midwinter, which is comprised of a team of very lovely people.  The work itself (background drawing/inking) wasn’t really working well for me, so I attempted going back to retail for a while, picking up the odd job of helping with inks (and on one awesome occasion to make concept art and floor plan of a lab building) with the Midwinter folks again.  Every time I stopped/dropped from a comic project I always tell myself I’ll never do comics again- but the allure keeps pulling me back :P

If you’re looking to get work as an artist, especially freelance, you need to keep your eyes on the places where people are posting jobs/inquiries.  Places like DeviantArt forums/job boards.  And before people start poo-pooing on DA, as far as social websites go DA has been the reason I’ve gotten the majority of my paid work, INCLUDING becoming the colorist of DotL.  I used to be a part of independent contractor websites, but those jobs in my opinion weren’t particularly profitable and most of the people I see there posting jobs don’t appreciate or understand how much it costs to create art ($50 to illustrate an entire children’s book? no thanks).