#suchai

With this series of copying other artist's styles, I've had so many instances of fiddling with something for a while and finally getting it right to realize: wait, shit- that's not how they'd do that! (it's just how I would...) But with this one- while I still did that a little bit- it wasn't as much an issue since I actually took a different method to doing the lineart! Krita has some vector options, so I made a vector layer and used the line tool & just made & edited curves on the lines til I got the shapes I wanted. In this video I noticed blue using a similar method - Although if you watch it or even just examine the lines closely in the animations, you can tell that they're hand-drawn and not using the straight line tool like I was. So I just tried to make sure none of the lines I had were perfectly straight (although I'm not sure how noticable that is) and touched up some lines by hand after converting the vector layer to bitmap. I don't really know if Krita's vector layers even allow for hand-drawn lines, and tbh I wanted to give my drawing hand a bit of a break, which is part of why I even did this method. Bonus frog:

I'm currently testing out a speech to text program to a lot of this so I stop straining my wrists. still editing and adding certain words by hand, because I still need to learn it and also some of what I have tested is hard to use... + adding more info just before posting :b speaking of writing this as posting: I forgot I had this but why not post during disability pride? last day but w/ever.

some of these guys I've talked about their disabilities before, I mentioned Reece has Treacher-Collins (though in this drawing I still hadn't figured out how I'd draw it, he's got smaller ears now. idk why I couldn't commit when other characters without microtia would have smaller ears) Suchai I mentioned his back issues and autism- both him and his brother also have dyspraxia and issues relating to their burn scars. Everyone in that story- except maybe Kitty- is actually supposed to be disabled. Mhairi has a cane, Kristian's I can't make up my mind on. Kitty's would probably be metaphorical though on account of the whole being dead thing (I think that's the name of a song actually. whatever) Aurum has monocular vision (missing eye) obviously, Cori's got knee issues due to gigantism (I might not have mentioned that second part, or maybe I was still undecided.) I think I kind of alluded to Vincent's, he also has autism and the thing with his arm is kind of one. Not a real-world one, but it's something that was meant to be seen as just a nod to how stories reset back to the status quo each episode and then gets explored more later through the lens of disability. I kinda do that with my writing a lot- have something be one thing, just seem like a joke or whatever- and then explore it through the lens of disability or whatever else, idk why. I've probably never mentioned that Babe has ADHD, just because I didn't talk in my descriptions much when I did work on that story. A few other characters in that one were disabled too, Wilde and Enfys were autistic and Lei is audhd I think, Siobhán had albinism, Cyrille was also monocular vision? Pyry used crutches, and Klára's vocal chords didn't work. A lot of these characters were never public so dw if you've never heard of some of them Austin now has a traumatic brain injury and is colourblind (protanomaly). he also needs glasses, but he broke them and isn't going to replace them psuedopterosin is also colourblind (tritanopia) among other things. (I'm correcting it but if you see me spell colour without a u, blame the speech to text lol. I'll see if I can fix it later, but I might forget...) With Liliam I've been thinking of giving her achromatopsia, which is 'total colourblindness', and also has symptoms of day blindness, photophobia, nystagmus (shaky eyes),.

I've already drawn her with nystagmus before, but I was still unsure about it. since she's a nervous character it's hard to tell apart from just general anime shaky eyes, at least the way I drew it. and I hadn't researched into a disability for her yet and hadn't really worked on her/her story in a while.

so she has incomplete achromatopsia (incomplete often has less severe symptoms, and there is still some colour vision). I did research into types of sunglasses in history, which are used for photophobia and hemeralopia, I've been thinking maybe they exist in that universe, but not where she's from.

liliam at the start of the story lives in a forest- but while there's discussion of where everyone's from, cori notes her appearance and behaviours and points out she must be from an underground settlement like him (different race, but some similarities). so everybody understands that she doesn't have that many options for keeping light out of her eyes, she can get more later on- but she has to travel through some way brighter places first... If you saw the new design on artfight with the hat & veil this is why she has them.