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Brief summary of Sept’s monthly questionnaire:
🕑 Added 2022-10-06 02:36:22 +0000 UTCHow do you feel about this month's content so far?
- Happy with what we had - keep it up (22 votes – 100%)
- Need more content (1 votes – 4.5%)
- Prefer certain direction (1 votes – 4.5%)
Other:
- Good amount of content. I'd personally like more focus on pony.
The book "Practice Perfect: 42 rules for getting better at getting better" suggest that one should practice more on the “Bright Spots”, that is, one's strength. Rather than try to overcome every weakness, it is better to focus more on maximizing strengths and make the strength so great that it override the weakness.
What do you think my “Bright Spots” are and should put more efforts in?
- Form (8 votes – 40%)
- Light and shadow (4 votes – 20%)
- Coloring (5 votes – 25%)
- Character (12 votes –60%)
- Background (3 votes – 15%)
- Perspective (1 votes – 5%)
Other:
- Colour depth and definition
- Gesture
- Cuteness
Continued from the previous question:
What do you think my “weakness” are and I might want to avoid them?
- Form (2 votes – 11.8%)
- Light and shadow (4 votes – 23.5%)
- Coloring (0 votes – 0%)
- Character (0 votes –0%)
- Background (7 votes – 41.2%)
- Perspective (6 votes – 35.3%)
Other:
- You really like to stay in your Comfort zone and you don't really like to push your art in different directions
- i personally would say backgrounds but i wouldn't want you to stop them because i love how they develop sorry i like most of your stuffs ^^'
- Maybe because not a lot of people draw back ground? Practice does make perfect
My response:
Thanks again for everyone’s input. :D
About my “bright spots”. It seems most agree Character drawing is what I can do better. I will keep this at heart and learn more about character drawing. :) Though I’m really surprised some people think my bright spots include background. XD
As for my “weakness”. It comes as little surprise that Background and Perspective gets the most votes since I too think those are my weakness. Interestingly, this is about what to abandon, but it seems some don’t wish me abandoning background. It’s understandable since pics with proper background does have its unique charms. Just that considering the fact that ,from my experience, properly render a background takes 2-3 times more time and effort than rendering a character, I think I’ll still try to avoid them if they are clearly out of my league. But I will do my best to keep up with simpler ones.
About the Comfort zone. That’s a valid criticism. My primary reason for not expanding my Comfort zone is that maintaining the production rate to keep up the Patreon promises and commissions is already very difficult. Trying to go out of my way outside my Comfort zone would be a big burden. Nonetheless, this is still a thing I think I should try to overcome. I don’t really have a plan right now, but I would think more about it during the Nov pausing month.
By the way, the book (Practice Perfect) mention that “Practice make perfect“ is not accurate. The better way to express it is “Practice make permanent ”. Basing on this, if one practice good and reliable method, it will lead to perfection; yet if one practice bad and unreliable method, it will lead to undesirable result. Not only that, bad habit could be difficult to break, resulting in more time in learning when one is trying to forget about their bad ways and learn the better ways. The book therefore emphasize on finding a correct way to practice from the start.
Other requests:
1. more casual nudity please:
Sure! XD
2. Only news I can share is that I'm going to be promoted to the A-shift lieutenant at my department.
Congratulation! I once had thinking about joining a A-team, but my work schedule just don’t permit it. Not to mention I live in a vastly different time-zone. I eventually give up the idea. Nonetheless, good luck and have fun! (For anyone wondering A-team is support-group-like community for content creator created by Patreon. A stand for “Accountable”. The group will support, discuss or help each other creating content)
3. Add content not only on Twitter and Inkbunny, but also on Patreon:
Actually, aside from commission works, I upload almost everything on Patreon. I did receive request for uploading commissions works on Patreon, I didn’t find that necessary since Patreon isn’t all that friendly for gallery browsing and there’s far better website for such purpose. If people really wish that, I’ll start uploading commissions on Patreon as well.
4. Drawing on "currently" popular character like Kiriko from OW 2:
Well, I guess this is one of my “weakness” too. With day time works as well as pressures from keeping Patreon promises and completing commission, I hardly have time to inspect what is popular in the current trend, let alone create content about them. > <. Therefore, I’d like to ask if people know what’s being trendy, feel free to let me know or even request them as exclusive content.
5. I am on the side of the fence that your nsfw content is borderline"loli":
Really?! Man, to think that I try quite hard to make the character look more mature.
6. Your health is more important than meeting quota:
Thank you! Good thing is that I’m an occupational therapist, although not as proficient as physical therapist, I do know a thing or two about muscle skeleton injury and I know how to treat myself when I injured. Nonetheless, I really don’t want to get hurt if I can help it. Thanks again, I’ll take care of myself. :)
7. Keep up the good work! you're doing a wonderful job!
Thank you so much! I got a few big ideas that I’m working on, such as 4 pages short comic, and a 12+ pics image set. Hope I can complete them soon. :D
Joke question:
If you are in a zombie apocalypse and you can only have one pack of weapon from the start, what would be your weapon of choice?
- Hand gun (1 votes – 4.8%)
- Heavy Machine Gun (2 votes – 9.5%)
- Bow and Arrow (3 votes – 14.3%)
- Machete and Axe (6 votes – 28.6%)
- Boxing gloves and knives that can be combined together in maintenance rooms (0 votes – 0%)
- Chainsaw with skill-boosting books (1 votes – 4.8%)
- Several knives along with an armored police uniform that print "R.P.D" (3 votes – 14.3%)
- Rocket launcher which give you strange feeling that they are for the final boss (3 votes – 14.3%)
Other reply:
- crowbar, and muzzled gun with Snake's infinite ammo bandana
- Gustav Type M4D Messer and a tailored stainless steel welded chainmail full cover suit
- a repeater crossbow
- FLAME SHOT! Jokes aside, I think that the best course of action is getting a weapon with enough durability and range. A katana is a good option.
- The tears that I'll shed knowing that I won't survive this
Wow, so many customized answers! love them, XD!
I’m surprised Machete and Axe gets most votes. As a short and physically weak person, that probably won’t be my picks. But I can understand it’s advantage in the right hand. It’s quite, effective, versatile, handy even outside of combat and doesn’t need ammunition.
Origin for some of the answer if anyone don’t know.
- Heavy Machine Gun – From Metal Slug. I can hear the sound now.
- Boxing gloves and knives that can be combined together in maintenance rooms – from Dead rising two. Boxing gloves with knives is one of my favorite combo weapon. It’s cheap, easy to find, effective and powerful against psychopath.
- Chainsaw with skill-boosting books - from Dead rising 1. Small Chainsaw is the most powerful weapon in the game. Use skill-boosting books to increase its durability, fighting in Dead rising 1 become a cake-walk.
- Several knives along with an armored police uniform that print "R.P.D" – Resident Evil 2 remake. I haven’t really played the remake, but Leon’s powerful knives in speed running is so famous that I had to include there.
- Rocket launcher which give you strange feeling that they are for the final boss - Resident Evil series. Resident Evil series have the tendency to use special RPG as the final strike to the final boss. XD
But all in all, “The tears that I'll shed knowing that I won't survive this” probably is the most relatable answer.
