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Strawpage Picasso Archives, thank you and i'm sorry for running off!

@Awwbergrin What genre is the one in the top right...?

All my brushbug arts so far

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@SketchesbyBoze Modern fantasy is built on a literary and history obsessed war veteran deciding to pour his soul into a genuine epic (Lord of the rings) The most modern form of sci-fi is extremely influenced by the near schizophrenic obession with absurd and intense ecology worldbuilding (Dune)

@SketchesbyBoze It's the difference between good and bad fantasy, half the authors are basic normie bullshit but then there's Gene Wolfe

@luna_protege @SketchesbyBoze

There’s a certain point where I want people to stop tying “fantasy” and “medieval” so closely in their brains. Fantasy is a Cosmology. Medieval is a period in history unique to our world, because of its context in continuation from the fall of antiquity. I can understand why people tie them together in their minds, it’s because the medieval period was the kind of age where people believed in the kind of magic used as the basis of the most common fantasy stories. But it’s not necessary for fantasy to be medieval. You could go all the way back to the dawn of life, and ask “how would magic have affected the evolution of life itself?” And write a world where hands never evolved because easy telekinesis made hands redundant, resulting in some kind of civilisation of floating psychic cats. You could set your story in the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, or maybe the materials are different so neither of those happened. You could also write your fantasy story in an age of magical technology where every teenager has an app on their phone that does all the magic for them, saving them from having to study for years to learn magic. …Or if you think that’s cheating, you could prevent that by making magic an intrinsic part of being alive, like a psychic or spiritual energy, so they have to at least put in some training to be strong enough to use it. At which point the technology associated with that magic would be more like the Psycho-frames or Psy-Coms from Gundam. Now… On the topic of “Research”… How much that’s applicable to the actual fantasy elements will vary, depending on whether you’re trying to base it off the mythological worldview of a historical people, or if you’re building your cosmology from base principles. In the latter case, maybe you’ll get lucky and someone else has already thought out the consequences of a similar cosmology to what you’ve thought of, but otherwise, it ends up less “Research” and more workshopping. … Of course, everything else besides the cosmology itself can be researched. And even sometimes parallels can be drawn even where it’s not perfect. Bronze was preferred over Iron because it was easy to work with, so in the west the loss of the trade of certain materials to make bronze was seen as “the dark ages”, and this they were thrust into having to work with iron, not yet knowing that it had more potential than bronze… Meanwhile, I think Bronze didn’t take off in Japan, since they didn’t have the the necessary trade for it, so they didn’t have that kind of fall since they probably skipped straight to iron. You could imagine a world full of magical metals, and their equivalent of bronze might be a compound that can be reshaped at will via magic, resulting in a culture with a focus on tactics of reshaping one’s weapon for shifting situations on the battlefield… And their “Dark Age” might be that the metal needs materials from a crushed bug that is getting harder to find, so they have to switch to another metal that while it doesn’t change its shape from magic so easily, works as a magic conductor, which could be used in blades to cut easier, or in staffs to fire magic across the battlefield with precision. I’m rambling at this point.

“Fantasy authors don’t do research.” An author on reddit built a medieval economy that was so accurate, their protagonist could no longer afford to go on the quest.

@SketchesbyBoze "... their protagonist could no longer afford to go on the quest." Damn, even they can't afford to travel💔

@dedylant Let me guess... they're on TikTok? btw i'm sorry

i worded this wrong they are also an animator and have been. just balantly copying my video ideas almost one to one 😅😅

@discette4 @endormance

@ill_sloth @endormance try it out, it gets addictive

If you render everything in one layer they euthanise you

This actually makes a lot difference

isnt blue period about painting why tf this shit kinda relatable

@Dagron06 @endormance Methamphetamine and god

@ill_sloth @endormance Vibes and confidence

@SlothfulOnie a shared IQ of 0😭❤️

Growth

@henemimi A beauty within chaos😭❤️

@ill_sloth sure but you can draw a picture

comparing yourself in a negative light to a creative peer is a trap. you are lucky enough to exist at the same time as wonderfully artistic, talented people & the internet lets us connect with each other across oceans. we can all create & inspire despite this bitch of a world...

@kuuhaku2tsu 2 and 3😁 looks really sportsy!

Which outfit do you think is the cutest? I'm thinking about his outfits, so I'd love to hear your thoughts! (I want to use them as a reference!)