FAQ

I’ve been drawing since I knew how to hold a pencil, but it wasn’t until middle school that it became a legitimate hobby for me. I only started to get “serious” about it in high school. 

I’m self-taught, which is actually more common than you’d think. I guess I learned how to draw by watching the world around me— I would draw faces over and over again to figure out the correct proportions, I would practice lighting and shading while sketching an object at different times in the day, and I watched other artists draw and learned the techniques that worked best for me. In the process, I started to develop my own style and some of my own techniques. 

tl;dr- practice and observation. I’m still learning. 

Initially, I was very heavily influenced by other artists. As I became more confident in my drawing ability, I started to develop a more individual styles. I’m still experimenting, though. 

Glen Keane, Lois Van Baarle, Brigid Vaughn… mostly Lois. She will forever be an artistic goddess in my mind.

Yeah, but I also want to be a princess. You can’t pursue everything.

It probably was.

They have hair.

I like hair.

Probably not. Sorry, I don’t mean to be a jerk, but I’m still in high school and I don’t have a whole lot of time for requests. If I have the time to take requests (which will usually be in the summer), I will let my followers/watchers know.

Roughly eleven years. “Classically trained,” whatever that means.

I wrote a stupid tune for my Grandpa when I was seven. Four years.

Because I already have enough math homework to deal with.

I come up with a chord progression, fool around a bit, identify a motive or two, fool around some more while incorporating the motive(s), come up with some chord changes and key changes, fool around some more, and yeah. That’s the method that works for me, but it’s not the conventional way to go about it. I know a lot of people prefer to start with a melody from which they draw a chord progression, but I do it the other way around. 

No. 

Not talented enough.

Thank you. Unfortunately, talent is relative— the creative industry is very competitive, and the people who succeed in that field generally have a great deal more talent than I do. They also have better practice habits; I’m not as dedicated to music as I used to be. It’s just a hobby.

No, I just write because I’m a masochist. Yes.

Yes.

Have you ever heard of Charles Dickens? William Shakespeare? Mark Twain? Charlotte Bronte? William Shakespeare invented more than 1.7k words commonly used in modern English, words that you use every day. Mark Twain gave a literary voice to the Southern vernacular and established a style of writing central to American literature. He also managed to eloquently communicate the timeless and inevitable conflict between social and personal morality, begging the question: is morality truly relative? Charles Dickens carried the plight of the English working class, unexpressed political dissent, and the harsh reality of the human condition in every drop of ink he used. He saw the very real coexistence of cruel injustice and tender joy in every aspect of life, and he basically told the world to shut the fuck up and realize that life is going to sometimes suck and sometimes not suck and there’s no point in sugar-coating things or making them seem worse than they are because goddammit Charlie is not taking any of your shit because it doesn’t matter if the glass is half full or half empty, it’s still the same fucking amount of water. Charlotte Bronte created a beautifully unremarkable woman with absolutely nothing going for her except for her work ethic and hard sense of self, showing that you don’t have to be a scholastic badass to be a badass and oh god, you can slap that bitch society in the face by just doing your thing. Whether or not these writers changed the course of history with their work or not, these writers changed many of my perceptions and, in the process, changed my soul. If being a writer gives me the ability to change even one person like these writers changed me, then goddammit that is a difference I want to make in the world. Bite me. I’m not answering this question. Please, go suck yourself. 

That isn’t a question. It also happens to be false.