Storyteller

Water overflows into a basin, spilling everywhere. Text reads: "Perhaps my passion overflows the basin of my skill and the story I tell falls short of what I dreamed it would be."

The artist lies in a ginormous bed, visibly anxious. Text reads: "At night, the question echoes: 'What if the potential of this story is wasted on me, a total amateur?'"

First panel: Comic pages are scattered. The artist is holding one, looking directly at the viewer. Text reads: "Well then, it's wasted. So what?"
Second panel: More comic pages are scattered next to an empty mug. Text reads: "It's not the worst thing... that could happen."
Third panel: An empty chair by a desk, lit by a single lamp. Text reads: "The worst thing might be that it never comes to life at all."

Two splotches of paint contain illustrations. The upper one shows the artist reaching towards a bright star. The lower one shows the artist, upside down, bright colors flowing from her hair and around her. Text reads: Besides, it's more like this story found you rather than the other way around, right? The themes, the characters, the journey... all of it is born from how you experience the world."

The artist floats in space, surrounded and partially covered by overlapping colorful shapes. Text reads: "It's the culmination of your interaction with every other person, and all your unique hopes and dreams."

Blank figures stand in rows, a single one is colorful and filled with stars. Text reads: "You worry that you're not the right person to tell this story, but the truth is--you are the only one who can tell this story."

A starry sky. At the bottom, the artist sits at her desk, drawing on a tablet. Text reads: "And after this, there will still be more stories to tell. Just write this one first."

storyteller

sometimes I forget that I'm just a teenager writing a webcomic in my spare time, so I shouldn't hold myself to the same standards as, say, a feature film with an entire team of professional writers, or Hiromu Arakawa. Writing flawed stories is okay, and even necessary in order to write better ones :)

(if you want to read aforementioned amateur webcomic...)

not doing great?

clean your room

open curtains/windows

take a shower

put on clean clothes

get out of your room a bit

stretch

drink a glass of water

get the hard/important stuff out of the way while you have energy

set some (any!) goals

remember that it is okay to have bad days

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sapphire-53

4 years ago

Using a Ghibli Prompt list and for the first day it is a female character. I can relate a lot to Umi from "From Up on Poppy Hill". Also a good start to use some grey markers I had.

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art drawing studio ghibli inktober2020 what do you think? from up on poppy hill ghibli tag

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sapphire-53

7 years ago

Cats and Tumblr

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sapphire-53

9 months ago

waiting for people to realize that things like matching idles (kavehtham, eimiko), mirroring (kavehtham, wriolette) and complimentary colors (clorivia, aventio, renheng) are important for establishing a connection between two characters especially when it's a wlw or mlm pairing

you can't rely on implications alone to establish a connection between two characters

things like mirroring and complimentary colors are used to show they match/mirror and compliment each other

I think those things are just as important as implications and shouldn't be dismissed because it shows the characters are connected to each other even in something as simple as their designs

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sapphire-53

7 years ago

☆「プロジェクトイーブイ」Project Eevee ☆

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sapphire-53

7 years ago

“what are you reading?”

“its a…online book.”

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sapphire-53

1 year ago

My deaf spider OC, Marisol, isn't impressed by Mr. O'Hara

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sapphire-53

7 years ago

i hope you’ll find peace with the world and within yourself. i hope you’ll figure out what you want to aspire in and what you want to study. i hope you’ll improve your confidence and finally start loving you and your small imperfections. i hope your health, both physical and mental, will improve drastically. i hope you’ll find amazing people to surround yourself with. i hope you can enjoy food without guilt and same goes for resting instead of exercising. i hope you’ll learn a lot about life and yourself and i truly hope things will work out for you in 2018

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sapphire-53

8 years ago

I get so caught up in my head that it eats away at me. I believe the worst is going to happen because it always has. I always have these “what’s ifs” that drive me crazy and make me miserable. I create trouble in my head that isn’t even there and get myself worked up. I just want to shut it off and not overthink everything to death. To just live in the moment.

Chapters from my life (via melindacarolinee)

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sapphire-53

7 years ago

NYALL

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