i honestly forget that autism mums say 'autism won today' to mean like their kid had a meltdown and that they are ableist. like nooo autism win means something like i found something cool out about my special interest or i managed to avoid a meltdown or i got to infodump!!!!! autism win is good!!!!!!
a bottom-tier autistic experience is being told throughout your entire childhood that you are just an overthinker when it comes to social situations and later finding out that your friends did, in fact, hate being around you and tried to communicate that through weird little hints
color studies 17 April 2024 — apo nattawin (pop edition)
timelapse below the cut (original sketches here)
wanted to play around with various styles and apo's skintone because i struggle with color and color pallettes on a good day but add in skin tones, and i feel like i'm going bonkers.
i especially love playing with unusual backgrounds and line art, so that was what i explored here. making an outlandish color choice in the hair or line art and then working to balance that choice into something cohesive.
obviously inspired by andy warhol's pop art, the watermelon colored apo was directly based on one of his marilyn monroe prints.
everything klaus does is so intricately and vitally intertwined with every single major plot point in the show and yet he is always on some bizarre side quest. simultaneously the most and least plot involved character.
he's a cult leader, he's a fashion icon, he's a war veteran, he's immortal, he dies all the time, he's haunted, he's high and he's sober, he's agnostic, god hates him personally. i didn't say his name but he popped into your head, didn't he?