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justdrawingcatsandotherstuff · 7 months

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Animation Idea I will draw very slowly (and other talking)

If anyone's curious - I have an idea of animating William Afton with Still Alive song from Portal. May not be the first one to do so since I animate without a rush (otherwise nothing good turns out), very slow (sometimes for years), but at least I thought about it at the start of this autumn. While listening to ai covers of songs and finding no cover with William for this song.

For now I have only 1 sketchy scene and sketchy key frames which only I will understand while looking at them. And I draw him as a furry for convenience. Not a rabbit tho, sorry 👀. Cats are easier to draw for me.

I already had fun imagining some scenes from it. They look memeble .. memable. How to write this word? Alr- . And the other scenes look sad. And some are blank for now, but it's like 10% of animation. (I guess?)

Also I don't remember if Tumblr shows years etc so I will write for myself when this was posted — 15/11/2023.

The animation starts with fnaf3 then the flashbacks happen, then fnaf pizzeria simulator scene, then fnaf vr, then we're in the past again and see his fnaf3 death, then he comments on fazbear entertainment as Springtrap, then he ruins the cake mini-game bc he can👌, then .. I forgor. Then flashbacks again, all of his deaths. One looks like a meme. The he was happy when he was in fnaf sb time, then he's sad, oh no. Aaand this is the end.

Then I talk about how I animate anything, isn't a video scenario anymore.

Btw I draw animations either in 1 week out of huge inspiration or for 5 years bc I lost it. Then inspiration reappears when I can draw faster and I draw this old project again, thinking that "oh no, this isn't good anymore, I could do a better scenario". Yet I finish it bc I promised it to my past self. Today I was drawing something I sketched in 2018 for example. Not out of inspiration, but out of boredom. This is another reason I may come back to my 5 year old project.

Also I'm having hard time leaving anything I started behind bc I promised to myself I'd finish all of it one day, and I don't want to disappoint myself (again.). But also I will never finish some of it bc I grew up from that phase. .. Damn it. (Or I'm just bored in the same activities bc I have no job for now and it affects my imagination capabilities.)

One of the reasons you shouldn't procrastinate that much, people! You may change too much and won't be able to finish something. ... Tho in art it's not always that. I'm getting burned out if I draw the same project for months, so I'm always leaving it at some point. Unless it was short.

#animation #(But not a vid. I'm just talking)#fnaf william afton #five nights at freddy's #fnaf #Portal Still Alive song #animation ideas #animation is hard #(when you can't keep inspiration for it forever)#(or when inspiration takes 5 years to reappear for you to finish this project)#procrastination

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robynlilyblack · 2 years

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Robyns Procrastination Tuesday / Request and Series updates

Due to the ball yesterday I didn't have time to do this so we will have procrastination tuesday instead this week

Procrastination Monday Tuesday

So most of my morning was in bed because I am so tired, my lil hermit self had fun but my social battery is zapped. On the plus side I do though have inspiration to write tonight!

The drawing is my sketch for the Polaroid which will be in Part 3 of the Holiday series. I'm sure you can guess who it is x

Request Updates

I have alot of requests and i might not be able to do every one but I shall try x as always here are some notes on stuff I'm working on

James Potter x Slytherin reader, enemies to lovers - forced proximity with them working on a extra credit project after arguing so much they messed up the orginal in class assignment

Remus Lupin x reader, hella slow friends to lovers - Reader was dating sirius but when he is taken to Azkaban, Remus and reader find comfort in one another and eventually fall in love

Fred Wealsey x reader, kinda acquaintances to lovers (featuring quietly pinning Freddie)- Reader dated Draco in secret revealing their relationship after the war but when he is 'forced' to get an arranged marriage and accepts it, breaking up with the reader she opens up a shop across from the twins where she and fred fall in love.

I have ones for Remus and wife! reader that has a daughter, Sirius secreting dating reader where they are sneaking about (feat James and Reg doing the same thing), and finally a heavy angst Sirius one

I have smaller drabbles/blurbs for Ginny, Hermoine, Marlene and others xx

If i haven't mentioned one you've sent in don't worry I have a few that are similar, eg i have 4 Sirius x Slytherin reader ones, and i don't want to write them all at once 💛

OH AND MORE WOLFSTAR DADS!

Series Updates

I have been really bad at updating, I am still so excited about these but as you can read below i've been having a couple of setbacks x

The Holiday - Took me a bit to choose which scene I wanted to draw then struggled with the sketch a fair bit...although i did draw a raindow robin which is hella cute

Bookshop Girl - the next few chapters are complex as this is the one which sets up next which will be split into three parts, showing the same day from Remus, Sirius and the readers perpective. So everything has to interlink. I do have it planned out and I will be trying to get it out soon x

(better taking a while and getting it right than rushing it right? 💛)

Possible Part 2's (Will write when i can x)

Welcome to the family ~ it will include Draco at a Weasley christams dinner and wolfstars daughter will be played by one of my OCs (Robyn, so imma be your best friend in this fic x)

Truth or dare ~ perhaps Remus and the reader find comfort in one another and Sirius has to watch

Double date ~ James' best man speech

You ever wonder if birds are afriad to fly? ~ lil angst during the christmas dinner, fun fact the ending orginally was at the dinner where george does something really petty but i scrapped it because i couldn't get the twins argument right since I hadn't written alot back then

Shes a keeper ~ someone catcalling his puff and her going off on them and sirius is like thats my girl

Smart cookie ~ so I got a request in for Remus explaining the story for harry and I love it but a part of me wants to write their whole frickin story...i'll make a seperate post about this to gage if people would read it x

#robynsmondayprocrastination #when really it's a Tuesday #the holiday #bookshopgirl #updates

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cedarbranch · 2 months

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🍉, 🥝, and 🥨!

omg thank you!! these are such fun ones hehe

🍉: Are you a pantser or a plotter?

plotter. 10000% plotter. for everything i write i have a planning document sketching out the progression of scenes, Especially if it's one of my longer fics (i.e. over ~50k words). i approach storytelling primarily thinking about the overall structure, so it's easier for me to start by figuring out pieces and shuffling them into a whole picture as opposed to building each piece off the previous one! often times though as i start writing i figure out new things about what the story wants to Be, so then i just have to adjust my plans/make notes in the doc for how i'm going to change things in the second draft lol

🥝: Who are your literary influences, and have they shaped your own writing?

it depends on what i'm writing! but since most of my writing is fic, my influence primarily comes from other fic writers (and often specific stories). in chronological order across the years and fandoms, some of my biggest influences have included: dear_monday; scarredsodeep; still, a great deal of light falls on everything by s0dafucker, muzzlemess (rustywrites); water closet by stillmadaboutpetra; haunted house with a picket fence by erce3; emungere, and zipegs. the latter two are my biggest inspirations rn, aside from the source material of nbc hannibal itself which is having a Huge impact on the way i write! it's the first time i've ever been so influenced by a tv show but it fr unlocked smth in me when it comes to improving my writing

🥨: How do you overcome writer's block?

on a short-term level, by taking breaks and focusing on absorbing other people's art (reading fic instead of writing it, reading books, watching movies, etc). but in the long-term it depends on how far into the fic i am tbh... if i've already sunk a ton of effort into a story and am over halfway through (which for me usually means i've already written 40k+ words), then i'll brute force my way through a lack of inspiration if i have to. i will survive based on pure willpower. if i lose my steam before then though i might end up abandoning that work 😭 (this is usually what happens if i try to take on too many wips, i write SUCH long shit i can usually only complete 1-2 fics for a fandom before the hyperfixation-fueled motivation leaves)

this got very long lol but thank you for these! i love to procrastinate on my writing by talking about writing!!

ask me fic questions!

#rip to the two BANGER stranger things fic ideas i started and abandoned #realistically they are never getting done now that i've got hannibal stuff on the backburner too but GODDD they were gonna be SO good #but yeah i love talking about the writers who've influenced my fic hehe :3 #scarredsodeep's work was what got me to realize how much i love lyrical prose... water closet has affected my narration style...#fences (hiiiii apple) got me thinking about when to abbreviate or extend a scene...#zipegs' hannibal fic is like. Everything i want out of my own work rn #such a perfect balance of dialogue where every word counts + rich prose and metaphor #anyway #answered #n.txt

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thegrinningkitten · 3 years

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Hey youre a wonderful artist there! I just wanted to ask when it comes to drawing a comic or a short one. How do you make it? Like to het an idea and then start making it I allways wanted to make one but since I don't know any pf this just asking from a pro

Obligatory disclaimer: I'm not a pro. I've just been doing this for a while.

Not sure what part of the process you find confusing, so I figured I'd just go over the general steps in comic-making process and give some personal notes. You can ask for clarification for a particular step then, if you still find it confusing. (Also, not gonna cover other drawing skills here, like anatomy, color theory, character design, acting, etc.)

1. Idea. You need one to make a comic. While there are some exceptions, comic ideas are usually stories — yes, even if they're four-panel strips. If you plan on making it a one-shot, you obviously have to know what that story is — beginning to end. If you're making a longer comic, you can leave some parts to be figured out later. (My longest comic, the Apple Incident? Like, half of its contents were improvised as I worked on it. Things often fall in place when you're already making a comic, so you shouldn't procrastinate on starting just because you don't know every last detail.)

2. Should this idea be a comic? An unexpected question maybe, but consider whether this idea is best suited for a comic. For example, sometimes, if what you want to do is highly introspective or relies on monologues, it would make a better written story than a comic. On the other hand, comics allow for the timing and visual descriptions that writing doesn't provide. So consider what art medium is best for what you're doing first. (Side note: if you have a chance, check out Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. It's an amazing exploration and explanation of comics as a medium.)

3. Assuming you are, in fact, making a comic, figure out the technical stuff.

One-shot or a lengthier comic? Depends on how long your story is.

Strips or pages? Strips are best for humorous and slice-of-life stories; pages are more versatile.

Traditional or digital? Depends on your skillset.

How detailed will the artwork be? Depends on what you're trying to achieve: humorous strips rarely need a lot of background; if you plan to get new pages out quickly they shouldn't take you days to draw, etc. (A lot of my decisions have me cutting corners. I rarely have shading in my digital comics. The Apple Incident is made traditionally and in grayscale because it takes me less time to draw it this way. Etc.)

4. (Optional) Write your script. Some people prefer to have their script written out in advance — at least for the page/strip they're about to work on. Some don't. (I tend to keep scripts only when I have very specific dialogue I want to fit in.)

5. Plan out your page/strip. Make a thumbnail that indicates where the main parts of your comic page/strip go: panels, characters, speech bubbles, etc. You might want to look up a tutorial on comic composition (there are plenty online). Though the basic ways to check yourself are such: If it's unclear what bubble/panel to read next, you're probably doing something wrong. (And yes, it's best to plan the placement of speech bubbles at this stage. Pretend they're also characters you need to fit into the scene. That way their placement would be more coherent and won't interfere with the composition afterwards.)

6. Draw the page/strip. Here the process is the same as with how you normally draw your artwork. One thing to note: it's best to treat the page/strip as a single artwork, so when you're sketching, sketch all of it at once, and the same goes for all the other stages of drawing.

7. If there's more than one page/strip, repeat points 4-6 until you're done.

#Jass rambles #asks

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bourbon-ontherocks · 4 years

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36,46,47,34,12,19??

36. Last sentence you wrote

It's hard to tell because I often write through an iterative process which leads me to develop sentences already sketched, so when has the sentence really been written and which one's the last, y'know? However, I think that this one from the upcoming chapter of It's All Coming Back To Me is a good contender:

His fingers brushed hers when he wordlessly took it, in a way that she was practically sure was intentional.

46. Do you reread your own stories?

Oh, more than I should admit!!!

Of course I do. I re-read them when I'm working on the next part, I re-read them when I just posted them, I re-read them when someone left me a particularly lovely comment about them, I re-read them to cheer myself up and remember that I wrote some good stuff when I hate everything, and sometimes I just re-read them for fun.

47. Best way to procrastinate

Answering asks on Tumblr. Sleeping. Binging TV shows...

But mostly hanging out on Tumblr, really. I've seen whole days disappear into that black hole.

34. What was the hardest scene you ever had to write?

Emotionally, the set up in the last chapter of While Your Lips Are Still Red because I wasn't very comfortable with the idea of Rio hitting Beth, even if it was staged.

In terms of can't-find-the-inspiration hard to write, a lot of scenes from Love Of The Game, especially Beth and Annie’s arguments.

Oh, and all the sex scenes are always super hard to write! My very first one in chapter 6 of Love And War was probably the hardest of these.

12. Describe your perfect writing space

My Poang chair with a cup of tea/drink aside, my laptop resting on my lap, and a room temperature that I feel comfortable at. Sometimes I put music on, but it can as well drive me into writing or totally distract me so that depends.

19. How do you keep yourself motivated?

By re-reading what I already wrote in the WIP I'm working on. If a part of it has already been posted, re-reading the comments I got also helps.

If I'm stuck on a scene, I try to work on another part to keep my attention and motivation up.

Thank you for playing, anon! ❤️❤️

Ask me writer questions!

#anon #writer's ask #game #fanfic #writing

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lackadaisycats · 6 years

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I don't know if this a bit of an inappropriate question, but how do you deal with procrastination in terms of art. I'm an artist myself but I often draw things months apart and I wanna make myself draw more. Any advice?

It’s not inappropriate. It’s a good question. Different things work for different people, and I’m not sure my thoughts about it will be helpful, but here they are. (Pardon the excessive verbiage. I didn’t edit…because I should be working >_>)-Break the work into pieces. Staring down a sizable comic chapter or complex illustration like you have to charge at it wholesale can be daunting. Even if you’re excited about it initially, reality eventually sets in and whatever reservations and anxieties you have stored at the back of your mind quickly become tactics for negotiating yourself out of doing the work. Sometimes even a smaller project can have that effect if you’re thinking of it in terms of how many total hours you’re bound to spend poking at it. So, parcel it into whatever bits make it manageable, whether it’s looking at the writing, layout, penciling, color flats and final polish as separate tasks or deconstructing it into time segments like ‘however much painting I can get done during the 2 hour duration of this podcast I’m listening to’, then break and strategize your next move.

-Take breaks and reward yourself. Sometimes I’m really in the zone and I’ll happily work a 10-14 hour shift on something without distraction. More commonly, though distractions do arise, the cat keeps trying to sit on me, my neck hurts, I’m not firing on all cylinders on a given day or I’m not feeling too enthused about the work. That’s when it helps to use breaks like mini-rewards for each completed task. Stop and watch a half hour of Netflix, play a game, take a walk, stretch, have a snack. Reward progress.

-Do stuff you love and are interested in. Mix as much of the “want to” into the “have to” and “ought to” work as you can. Granted, if you’re doing art for a living, it’s not always an option to focus on your personal interests, but if you’re trying to do your own creative projects, working on a school assignment in which you have some license to choose your subject matter, or if you’re able to be a bit selective with your freelance gigs, pick things that genuinely interest you, or add some of your pet topics to the mix - whatever will heighten your emotional/intellectual investment. I find I’m far more eager to do the work when there’s something about it that I can really glom onto, be it a favorite character, an animal I like to draw, a certain mood I want to translate, a historical setting or costume, a color palette or motif I want to toy around with, etc.

-Step away if it’s not coming together. Struggling with a frustrating piece of art can be a lot like having a heated argument with someone. Eventually it devolves into irrational appeals, antagonism and hurt feelings and any chance of productive discourse leaves the scene. Instead of sticking around and making it worse, turning the project into miserable drudgery, set it aside and come back to it later with your composure and sense of perspective intact. That’s not to say all projects must be or should be followed through on, and not all projects will be a continuous bowl of cherries to bring to completion, but it might not be as hopeless or unappealing as it seemed upon returning to it.

-Mindspace and workspace matter. Find things that help you get into the rhythm of your work. Listening to podcasts, audiobooks and music helps keep me focused when I’m in the midst of the long-haul on comic pages - doing all of the value and toning work that takes hours. Being in the right place with a comfortable seat, in a comfortable (but not so comfortable you fall asleep) position, with minimal distractions, tools within reach and good lighting is important too.

-Collect inspirations. Keep things on hand that you can look at for ideas or simply for that motivation to keep on trucking. Personally, I have a lot of art books around, a lot of historical material like 20th century fashion books, books about old cars, books about flappers, comics with great art, funny collections of syndicated strips, character sketches hanging on my walls, and many gigabytes of inspirational and reference images collected off the internet. Sometimes just browsing through one of those folders sparks ideas and makes me want to pick up my stylus.

-Sleep right and eat right. I have had a deep seated, lifelong terrible relationship with sleep. I’m still working on that part. If you’ve got a pretty consistent sleep schedule, though, you’re probably off to a good start.As for food - it seems perfunctory to say that it matters what you eat. On some level, we all know that, but, yeah, it really truly absolutely does matter..a lot. When I was 20, I could live on ramen noodles, goldfish crackers, microwave ravioli and energy drinks. I could pull all-nighters on top of that and still keep chugging merrily along. Boy, the years run like rabbits, though, and eating like a deranged dumpster goat catches up to you sooner than you might think. I eventually found myself struggling with perpetual malaise, brain fog and a sour mood that made it hard to do anything or to enjoy doing anything. I’m ashamed to admit to how long it took me to realize - after blaming it alternatingly on allergies, anemia, depression - that my apathetic diet was not conducive to basic life functions, let alone fueling creative fires. I started putting some effort into food selections and it has made the difference between fumbling through life in a semi-conscious state and feeling bright and motivated and - in spite of myself - even happy.(And, contrary to the way society romanticizes connections between depression and artistic impulse, most people work better when they feel better.)

-Practice self-discipline. Here’s the thing no one likes to hear. Sometimes, no matter how many devices you have in place to make work fun and comfy and something you look forward to, you just won’t feel like it. You will have to be an adult about it. You will have to simply muster the willpower. You can be that “creative” person who has lots of ideas but never anything to show for them because a million vectors for instant gratification circle around you constantly like distracting little red-devil imps. Or you can be a self-starter building toward something, playing the long game with goals in mind; you can dig your heels in, grit your teeth, take a swig of coffee and get down to work, dammit.

#art #procrastination #advice #q&a

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