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Hello again fellow Elias appreciator, I only now realised that you are the hot cardboard arthur fanartist (at least that's how I call you in my head). Just. Mhm. Such am honor

By the way, do you still do requests, or this thing is ended already?

OH MY GOD HOT CARDBOARD ARTHUR FANARTIST HAHAHAHAHAHA a beautiful title i shall take it, is it bc of how i color his hair or just his general wet cardboard consistency?

Anyways yes i do! Its an ongoing thing, i still have several asks that Ive neglected (hi to all the people who’ve sent their designs, i havent forgotten you im just slow and also very busy) but i dont have any plans to close the malevolent design asks any time soon, its just kind of a… i get to them when i can type thing

Every day I wake up and relate a little bit more to Hezekiah Wakely

Everyone the fuck shut up I gotta bury myself and take a nap

Do you take commissions by chance?

I do! I have actually been intending to get an official comm page put together for here, but I’ve been very busy and forgetful lately rip

If anyone wants to commission me, shoot me a DM and we can discuss it, I’ll also work on getting a comm sheet made soon as I can

HOWEVER, a few things to keep in mind before contacting me:

1) I am in college and I work, so replies may be slow and commissions might take me awhile to finish

2) I eat scammers for breakfast, so if you come into my DMs saying you’ll pay 500$ for a portrait of your dog if I just send you all my personal information first, you will be blocked and reported sorry not sorry

Greetings ladies and entities, I come to thee in search of aid. I am looking to get into the business of making animatics, and possibly actually start learning real animation too if I’m feeling ambitious

The problem is I don’t really know where to start and its incredibly overwhelming looking for tutorials and stuff. I also have the motivation and attention span of a boiled pea, so I was hoping anyone could give me pointers/recommendations on how to get started

Please i have. So many ideas that have been intensely rotting my brain for months now and i fear they will drive me quite mad if i cannot get them created

Alright thats that

do you have a favourite animal and if so what is it?

Oh that’s a tough one, if we’re going basic I really love cats, but my more interesting answer would be frogs (specifically the San Jose Cochran frog they look like little jellies) or Manta Rays! I also love jellyfish, i envy their serenity and lack of brains

Do you like drawin stuff outside of digital mediums? If so what’s your favorite?

I do! I don’t do traditional art very often, mostly because I’m lazy and am most experienced with digital art, but I do enjoy drawing with pencils and pens when I have time :D

I also have a very love/hate relationship with oil painting and watercolors but I really don’t do those very often (largely because theyre so fucking expensive💀)

If you could choose to be either the voice inside someone's head or the one with the voice in their head, which would you choose?

Oooo this is such an interesting hmmmmm

It’s tough, i think i would kill it at being a voice in someone’s head, getting to say the craziest shit and be as annoying as possible. HOWEVER, if its an arthur and john situation i think i would probably go a little bit bonkers just being bored whenever they were sleeping (or in a coma lmao)

In terms of practicality i think i’d choose to have the voice in my head because i (presumably) get to keep at least some of my bodily autonomy and have the added bonus of some bitch in my head yelling at me aside from my brain