Hi!! I love this series so much, and as someone who hasn’t really drawn since they were a kid but wants to start as a hobby, do you have any advice for sort of learning to doodle on paper and get better at it? I want to start but I don’t really know how/where
The most important step in getting better at any skill is Persistence and Consistency. Practice and keep practicing! The best way to do that is to keep it fun! Picking a project helps generate ideas (e.g. drawing Pokémon, or characters from a series you like). There are also a ton of monthly prompt lists out there!
I also highly recommend scheduling in a 'drawing/practice' time in your day. For me, I started with 30-60 min before bed (bonus: its a good 'no screentime' activity), and the habit took root there.
There are a lot of 'technical' things to study but find the fun first. At a certain point you will discover you've hit a wall, and have a specific aspect/goal you want to target (colour theory, anatomy, lighting, comic layout). Then it's time to go looking for resources.
Once you have the habit and some goals, go collect some inspiration! Find people who inspire you and study their work!
Another little 'art skill builder' I recommend is the Shrimp Method! Only if you find technical challenges like this fun though (Example of one of my studies below)
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the music in WOT is never random. even if it's just very soft background music, it's relevant to the scene. practically every time there's music playing while egwene is onscreen during s2, the tune is egwene's theme, rearranged and reinstrumentated in dozens of different ways to match the tone of the particular scene. mat has quick little snippets of his theme tune play during various scenes of his, often mixed with the old blood theme from s1, and it finally blares out in full glory for the first time during the horn of valere scene, to parallel how mat is truly finding himself for the first time. even secondary characters like liandrin, siuan, and aviendha have their own dedicated theme tunes that play during their scenes and are never repurposed as background music in other characters' scenes. and all the themes have lyrics in the old tongue that suit the character or concept the theme is about! in conclusion, lorne balfe is truly doing the Most, and i'm so grateful he's the composer for WOT and i hope he'll return for every season the show goes for.
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was talking to Zoey @figthefruitfaeth about my current post-s4 Nancy brainworms and they just wont stop.
Nancy Wheeler. Nancy, the overachiever. The perfect student, perfect grades, head of the school paper, cut-throat won't let the tragedy of her hometown knock her out of balance, ready to take the world on, ready to make it hers.
Nancy, the gunslinger. The fearless leader in the big fight, ready to avenge her best friend and everyone that has fell to the hands of the monsters that live beneath her feet. Avenging the death of all the teenage girls that have died, not realizing that includes her too.
Nancy, the teenager that died the same day as her best friend. The girl who grieves in quiet moments in her dead best friend's bathroom. Haunted by her until the very last fight, targeted for her grief, reminded until the very end that no matter how had she fights, it will always feel like her fault that her best friend is dead.
Nancy, who still packs her bags into the back of her parents station wagon, ready to start the next phase of her life. Why wait? The world is saved, she sees no reason to wait. Time keeps moving, life will keep happening, it would be stupid for her to wait.
Except, Emerson is different than Hawkins. College is a different beast than high school ever was.
Her roommate, who asked about the scars on her wrists and arms and eyed her with caution upon move-in day never warmed up to her.
She stayed up all night editing this paper, why is did she get a B? Why is everyone raising their hand? Why aren't there more seats in the front of her classes?
Why can't she sleep?
Why is all of this feeling hard? This was supposed to be easy. She saved the world, dammit. Why does college feel so hard?
Can't help but let her mind wander to Barb. Would it be this hard if she was here with her? Did she even ever tell Nancy what her dream college was? Or were they too young to think that far ahead. Not young enough to let bad things happen to each other, she lets her mind wander. She's never let her mind wander like this before.
Her roommate remains cold. Nancy challenges herself to be colder.
"Everything is great, mom," she lies through her teeth. Every phone call home is another lie to her family.
Her roommate walks him and gives her the same coldness, Nancy feels her stomach lurch.
"Of course it is honey, we are all so proud of you." Feels like a punch in the chest, a kick in the stomach. The letter from the Dean's Office burning the skin of her palm, physical proof that she doesn't belong here.
She can't sleep.
By the time finals roll around, echoes of I don't belong here, bounce around her head.
Pushing through the crowd leaving the lecture hall where her last final took place, she heads right for the admissions office.
That same station wagon that dropped her off in August is waiting for her in December, all the same bags in tow, dropping them to the ground and falling into her mother's arms.
She'll explain what deferment means later. She'll explain it all later.
She just wants to go home.
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