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🤫 The Shortcut

Shut down all the garbage smashers on the detention level!?

This is so cute and it makes me very happy. Thank you! It's weird, super bendy, whatever, it's just fun and I love it.
-tbj

Aw, I'm so glad to hear that! It makes me happy too. And hey, being bendy can be pretty cool sometimes, right? As long as you're having fun with it, that's all that matters :D

🐓 Feathered Snake

I've re-read the story a couple times, and I can't tell if he's supposed to be like Nuv or Jack. He doesn't look right if you were going to make him limbless... Then I saw your above comment. It's a credit to your work that my brain jumps to "limbless" before "basically a bust portrait". Hahahahaha... You've got me thinking zebras when I hear hooves now.
-tbj

No, I was just trying to make a portrait/composition of sorts, using his arm as a picture frame :D

🎀 The Moebius Boy

Is there a contortionist-related saying for jumping the shark? Like, "they triple back bended it," or something? Whatever it is, you finally found a way to do it. I'm genuinely impressed, with your portfolio, that it's even possible.

I don't know why this makes me so happy, but it does. I love seeing how you cheat anatomy to put so much realism in your pieces. I also really love when you get weird.
-tbj

Sometimes the best ideas just come out of nowhere. Like, I was trying to take a break and work less, but then this idea popped into my head - "a human knot", they say, but what if I turned an actual knot into a human? And I just couldn't shake it off. It's pretty much 100% of my art that's made like that - I mean, I'm just trying to relax and do nothing, but then these ideas come along and I can't help but drop everything and go for it.

It's kinda crazy. Like, I was sitting there wondering how Wolfy would push Helmut's stomach against the back of a chair like a tube of toothpaste, and then Helmut would have this blissful grimace on his face. And I just couldn't resist. But not every idea is worth pursuing - like, drawing a person in the shape of a cone? Nah, that one didn't really grab me. But pushing a cone into a person? Oh yeah, that's gold. Sometimes you just gotta play around with ideas until they hit you just right.

That's my art journey in a nutshell - always on the lookout! :D

😇 Angel of Flexibility

Crap, sorry, I was so caught up that I forgot to sign it. I'm really in love with this one.
-tbj

Thank you so much! Well, now I will know it's from you :D

🎄 mAgIc is here...

I think it comes down to people misusing tools. Remember the controversy over Photoshop, and how it's not real art unless it's graphite and paint?

It reminds me of the screentone sheets manga artists used to use. For anyone who doesn't know, the dot shading in manga is called "screentone" "halftone" and "amatin". It's literally sheets of the stuff you had to cut out over the original picture. It's a pain in the ass, but saves a ton of time over hand shading.
youtu.be/xAtLdFmkRHM

Nobody talks shit about Masamune Shirow using the hell out of the stuff, because he's still a fantastic artist and storyteller. We don't begrudge people shortcuts when they're worth it... Except people who have genuinely no talent and come from a line of people with no talent. These are the fucks screaming about how you have to do everything the hard way because they're so bad at everything, maybe they'll get by just because people see them trying. Then they get shitty at people who have a talent with something, and don't appear to struggle. They're too stupid to know how much work a cheat is, sometimes and have never accomplished anything. They're the people who become low-level managers. I wish a real plague would come take care of the stupid people.
-tbj

🌪️ Sultans of Twist

I hate multi-posting, because I feel like I'm talking to much...

But God damn.

I use my phone almost exclusively, but I saw this on my laptop with a much bigger screen and... That face is stunning, Yuni. You've got all the little micro expressions running the whole time. He looks genuinely alive. He's breathing, for fuck's sake! I never knew how much I wanted to see what that would look like with your contortion poses. The way he bites his bottom lip... I swear you kept his pupils focused forward, even as his head moves, like living things do...

We both know how much of a fan of yours I am, but you also know I don't blow smoke up your ass. This is really, really, fucking impressive, Yuni. Don't make a minimizing joke, because you deserve praise for this. I'm telling you it got a legit emotional reaction out of me. I adore this one. The way you can almost hear his breath at the top of the loop, he's flat-out making bedroom eyes about being twisted up and it's so sensual and beautiful...

I'm just rambling now. I'm sorry. And I'm sorry I didn't look closer the first time, because it's absolutely my loss.
-tbj