Art

[malibunny]

 I think something that would make me feel better is if I could make art that I really like, and also if I could make money off of it. The problem is that we're so exhausted most of the time, and our executive function sucks when it comes to sitting down to make art, so we just don't make things, plus despite us loving to write, actually planning a story is almost impossible for us to do because we don't think narratively like that. We do have a horror comic we want to make at some point, it would just be challenging to draw because of the whole... gimmick of it. We want to work on our horror website, we just feel bad because we don't want to give our partner system more things to think about, plus we feel like no help because plot is so soooo hard for me/us. 

I don't know how to think in a way that makes plot easier to come up with. I always feel like whatever I'm thinking of is too cliche, or gimmicky, or already been done (despite liking things that take inspiration from other things... and besides, what great work of art/writing/acting/music/Anything doesn't take any inspiration from anywhere else?), or it's just bad, or not deep enough, or too pretentious, or whatever, I just can't pick something. Except doppelgangers bc that's my fav though and like everything that I have been making lately has to do with them.

- MISTY

Comments

[houseburning]

This is so incredibly relatable honestly. I'm sorry you're dealing with it.

[malibunny]

Thank you ;o; It's tough, but now that we've written it down maybe we can use that to motivate us to make an effort to make art more frequently.

[mercuryfrosting]

seconded, can fucking relate. but short stories and even one-shots are still really cool to read, you dont necessarily have to plan a whole story, and im sure yall have heard this already but even if what you wanna do has been done before that doesnt mean you wont bring something new and valuable to it, its worth doing

assuming you can get past the burnout of course which is like. good fuckin luck lol

id be interested in seeing anything yall want to share :)

[malibunny]

Short stories are mostly what we aim for :') we have trouble even getting enough plot for a short story, but I think it's probably also us just finding ways to block ourselves and we should just go for it haha.

Thank you for the comment! We've been drawing tonight so we're getting somewhere at least ^_^.

We'd love to see y'all's art/writing/anything y'all create if you'd ever feel like sharing too! We wrote a couple short horror stories last year (and maybe early this year?), and I think I wanna go through those and make sure they're updated and then possibly post some links and such on here, I'll let you know if I do!

We have a unofficial portfolio here https://padlet.com/malibunny/portfolio just in case this is an issue: a lot of it's creepy, there's some body horror, blood, nudity, and a couple gifs! if any of that is an issue don't feel bad if you don't look at it haha ^///^'' I hope this isn't too weird to send, we're bad with figuring it out and our art tends to be kinda weird.

- Duke

[mercuryfrosting]

its not weird at all, im glad you shared it theres some really cool shit in there

my favorites are

https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/168295853/49c0f26f16908d469bf1620c453e79d1/IMG_9992.jpg

and

https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/168295853/6bc88d5ffa9673ee820675950ad6d9ea/selfieinthedark.jpg

stoked to see more if/when yall post it : )

[malibunny]

Thank you!!

- Duke