#prismcorps

I have not been secretive to anyone that PRISM and June have had a massive impact on my art, how I create art and my approach to it, and the fact it is the reason I now currently have my most important project to my heart. I will always be greatful for that. Inspirations and artists who impact you as an artist can quite often be one of the most important things to you as an artist, and PRISM and June is one of those for me. I have other inspirations, and other piece of media and artists that have impacted me in massive ways, but not in the same way June has in recent memory.

Honestly, the most flattering part of making this was all the people in the ActuallyRea server going insane over how I drew these characters. Particularly Reece and Ben, that was genuienly so funny and amazing to see. Also people trying to figure out the little tricks I put in my art, the interaction over this silly (/pos) piece was amazing. (Sharing what people said because it genuinely made me so happy, and I'm so grateful for all the love people gave me on the piece)

Although a part of me really hopes June does see this art (and likes it, obviously /lh), and was able to read my message on my ArtFight attack, I understand if they aren't able to. I just also wanted to share it with everyone else because of how proud I am of it... and also possibly to have another chance for June to see it if they didn't see it on ArtFight BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S A CRIMEEE-- /LH /SILLY

I'm being silly. I also just really like this piece and I'm really proud of it, so I wanted to post it. And if I am posting it, not talking about why I made it feels like it would be a crime because PRISM is important to me. At least, the fact that PRISM exists and was made, and specifically that it was rebooted from the ground up, is important to me.

I have Anima because of PRISM, ultimately, although I have barely talked about it on this blog. I am proud of where my art is right now, even if it's not always where I like it, because of June's videos and content, and the way they make their art. And sure, I could have used anyone else. I could have gone to anyone else. But I didn't, and June has a very unique way of making art. That unique way of makin art helped me out of a rut I was in with my art, and with my character design.

Ultimately, I'm an art student. Even if I'm not in education right now, I've always been one. Studying an artist because I like the way they make art, and because I look up to them as an artist, is something I will always have as an instinct. We are taught to study artists for projects; we study in depth the way they make art, how they make it, why they make it, the active decisions they make in their art process. We make art in the way they make art to better understand it, and that's what I did. And, for what it's worth, I came out the other end a better artist. I have improved, and I still have a long way to go.

I won't go into what PRISM has done for me exactly because I plan on making a masterpost on my Anima blog going over why I made it, and how PRISM impacted my decision to make it. But TL;DR, Anima is a project I made using elements of my friend's story as the barebones base to work off, took my BNHA OCs (who are incredibly important to me) out of BNHA, and then got really into Batman not even milliseconds after starting Anima, to create what is currently the most important project to me. I hold it incredibly close to my heart, and it's something I truly want to make something out of.