Ask Meme answers pt. 1!

[lb_lee]

(From the Ask Meme, still ongoing)

from minoanmiss:

10: What’s that one thing that inspired you to make drawing your consistent hobby?

I mean, we switch between writing, drawing, and comics regularly, so I'm not sure you'd call it "consistent," but we just feel compelled to make things and share them. We find the process intrinsically enjoyable and challenging, plus it gets us paid! What's not to like?

20: What works have you drawn fanart of?

Oh, this one's hard; we do fanart very rarely. (It was actually a point of shame for us as kids!) If you subtract things we did as children or for pay/barter (such as our fanart/fic for erinptah's Leif and Thorn), the numbers are extremely low:

This one is from the Xanth book Ogre, Ogre, which you should not read but was a book of INTENSE childhood devotion for Tiny Us. This pic was made to be the cover image for the 20k word fanfic me and Miranda wrote and stapled for our own glee. (Mac then said, "Baby, that's 20k words, you should file off the serial numbers." I went NONONO ABSOLUTELY NOT TERRIBLE IDEA but my husband knows me well. so now me and Mir are working on a fantasy romance novel about a subterranean guano farmer and a furry failed prizefighter sharing soul chunks and arguing with underworld management in fake ancient Greco-Roman times.)


We did a series of doodles for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth for an ask-blog I briefly ran on tumblr (now long-deleted). The icon I used for it still pleases me, so it's too bad I never found a later use for it! (I ended up recycling all the ask-blog planning for the fanfic the Binding of Isaac: Redemption, which is one of the few fanfics I've written for fun.)


Darla from the (very good!) post-apocalyptic webcomic Bicycle Boy, which actually ended up with the real Darla getting a brick tattoo as part of her design! The colors and environments in this comic are gorgeous, it's been a wonder watching the story unfold over the course of roughly a decade.


An incomplete drawing of Kirtn and Rheba, the protagonists from Ann Maxwell's sci-fi romance novel Fire Dancer. (If you're going, "Wait... that guy looks a lot like Rawlin..." that's correct! His look pulled mostly from that book. Though man, I haven't looked at that fanart in a long time, it's a little uncanny to realize we drew him basically spot on years before we even knew he was a headmate, never mind that he'd come back.)

 

We're bad at fandom!

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Awww I hate to. Think of wee you kicking yourself for not making more danworks. These are lovely. Abd I too had a Xanth phase.

[lb_lee]

Haha, aw, it's okay, Tiny Us felt like we needed to make fanwork to be artistically popular, even though our heart was never much in it. In the end, I think it was better that we failed than to have found success doing something we didn't truly want to do. (Like, all fanarts that got COMPLETED were for specific projects--a cover illustration, an ask blog, something to pleasantly surprise the creator with or because we were commissioned for it. But fandom for the sake of fandom just so rarely clicks with us, even though it clicks with many of our friends.)

Piers Anthony owned so much of our childhood soul, it's embarrassing. We have at least four headmates who pulled from his work, and every damn one of them ended up way cooler than the source material!

[stealthsystem]

That descriptiom of Maggy and Samson was excellent and we learned a thing or three we didn’t know.
Our ex, back before she realized she was trans and learned what a Dumpster fire Piers Anthony is, used to be super into Ogre Ogre so we recognized those. Also, does canon Samson have a black eye or was that artistic license?
Felisha

[lb_lee]

The black eye is artistic license, though there's an item that gives you one.

Man, Ogre, Ogre is such a mediocre book, but it has some admittedly interesting themes and ideas (all underused). Once I learned that Anthony sold books on the basis of elevator pitches and then smashed through writing the actual books in 3-6 months with one rounds of edits each, SO MUCH made sense.

[tintinnabulum]

That ask blog spread so much happiness. Thank you for runnimg it!

[lb_lee]

Aw, thanks Maggy. I ran out of steam fast but it was fun!