6, 9, and/or 29 for the artist asks thing :3
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6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)
Oh gosh actually there are just tons and tons of things but unfortunately due to the subconscious nature of it all it's very hard for me to like, call to my mind in the moment. I know there are things that suddenly dawn on me occasionally, particularly when I'm drawing with our friend ari hehe. I do know something recently was I realized my eyelids are always very puffy and greasy/shiny and like... fuck. That's how I draw eyelids. So that was kind of funny. But there are certainly tons and tons and tons of other things and specifically things I've seen people do in art and whatnot that got baked in there without me necessarily intending for it. I've also had yet to like, have an experience that my art reminds people of other things? But that could just be due to only having a very tiny 'audience' hehe on various platforms. If I can recall other stuff I'll definitely reblog this in da future and add onto it bc honestly this is a great question and I personally would like to try to catalogue that information and have a thonk about it. Oh also the movie Rover Dangerfield for sure.
9. What are your file name conventions
Honestly the most important thing for me, personally, when saving my files is just having them organized by date. Which, sure, your computer technically does that for you, but I like my files like. Documents -> Photos -> My Art -> [Year] -> {number][month] lol. That's just what I like. Well wait that's more like. File organization not naming. I'm a goofball. UH SO IN THAT CASE there's nothing too special or funny unfortunately. I pretty much just name things as what they generally are? I will however add a "mouse" to a file name if something was mouse-drawn, and a "left hand" to a file name if i drew it with my left hand. But really that's about as funky as it gets hehe... archiving my shit normalstyle.
29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically
Oooh well to be very honest I would say that's like, all of it. At least if inspiration is defined as like, this thing you intentionally cultivate and respond to and act on. Inspiration as a concept feels kind of nebulous to me. Idk if this is just like, my brand of autistic tendency to hypercategorize and connotate every individual word ever, but even "motivation" [a thing i am nearly incapable of experiencing] feels easier for me to understand than "inspiration". I see things I think are beautiful or clever or otherwise impressive/impactful, and I may want to like, produce something of my own I could compare in the way of like, caliber of technique and/or meaning communicated? But I wouldn't say I see art/stories and go, "oh I want to make something like that". This may be due to me just having no real well-defined goals around making art. My history with it is so messy and annoying and I'm just glad to be in a place where I make things and I don't agonize about them anymore, or at least not nearly like I used to.
Mmm anyhow I do think this may be a case of me splitting hairs, but it feels necessary enough for me to distinguish in my answer lmao. I suppose if I'm saying "i'd like to make-", that alone suffices as artistic inspiration, yeah? I think it would be easier for me to point to things that at the very minimum inspired some aesthetic tendencies, but even those are minimal for me I feel? But you know, cartoons from the late 60s through the early 90s, where the backgrounds were dark if not pure black, and the toons dancing around the film are all bright and stark and floppy and geometric and delightfully unreal. Think the hallucination/nightmare sequence in Dumbo. Think Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure. But even those things cover just Some??? of my stuff? Idk. Tee hee!
I am primarily a cartoon freakerino first and foremost but I love all art, I love photography and film and poetry and theatre and blah blah blah and I feel like there would be a deal of like... arrogance or at least gross underestimation of how things worm their way into your mind in all sorts of ways if I tried to state definitively that XYZ doesn't influence my work or the thought process/visual language/cultural assumptions behind and baked into that work. And you know, multiple things melt and meld and swirl all about in your mind, especially the more art you see over time, the more you grow and change (or, you know, don't change!)- so perhaps I could not neatly outline or define the things that shape what I do, but they certainly must be there?
I could even maybe tell you things I may naturally or intentionally avoid? I suppose I don't prefer to draw in a Disney princess style, even if I love some of those movies as the classic cultural and artistic moments they were. I suppose I don't prefer to draw in styles that would be perceived as "anime" (we need a better word for this concept in general lol), although animes like Princess Tutu, Futari wa PreCure. Mushishi, and Gal & Dino are some of my favorite shows ever. I also don't prefer to work in hyperrealism, I don't prefer to work without color. Color is very important to me and being able to physically and psychically bear the process of making something. Mmm I don't really care for themes of individualism much, although I'm not actively averse to them. I'm not really into themes of family although I end up enjoying a lot of stories about families (pretty common theme :p). Mmm I love horror but I'm not interested in producing scary work. I love comedies and comics/sunday funnies but I don't necessarily want to produce comedy myself. At this point it's like, well good lord ube what DO you want to do lmao. I don't know. I kind of just push the pen around until it sort of looks like something and then I chip away at it until I just cannot stand it anymore.
I think it would be really good for me intellectually and creatively to like, put more intentional thought into my work. I think it would make my stuff better. I think I have great taste- and it's fairly broad; I'm curious, and i already have been exposed to so many foundational and peripheral ("outsider") artworks that I feel like my love of those things and more broadly cultures/humanity as a whole that maybe I could do/say something really neat with my art. But for now it's a lot of furbys and sadie miller's fucking head lmao.
Tysm for the questions ilysmmmm i miss you sooo much I hope we can draw together soon angel!!!!!!!
