wada arco art style study ft my beloved medusa ⁠♡

Finished reading Tsukihime for a VN book club with friends! I really love Arc so much, she's so cute 😭

I really do think that if people want to find more creative original fiction they should actually...start looking. Cause they do exist. I've seen them. Go looking for them instead of waiting for them to come to you.

Go on Itch.io and look at what people have been doing at game jams. Force Youtube to actually show you the interesting things people have been making on there. Look through neocities and comicfury and find someone's personal project or recommendations. Go find on bandcamp and see what strikes your interest. There really is a lot out there to find.

I'll even help! Watch this:

02A2 is a Itch.io game jam whose acronym stands for "Only One of Any Asset" and it's exactly what it says on the tin. People make micro visual novels with these restrictions:

one sprite / one character / one pose (multiple expressions without change in pose are okay)
one background / one place / one time of day
one illustration (in place of the one sprite and one background) one thousand words

And the stuff made is Interesting and Creative as the devs work within those restrictions. Exexorista is a VN about a fan and a creator. VESSEL is a horror puzzle game, Cyclestance is a time loop where you stop the younger version of you from getting married, Cupid's Kiss is a love story.

"Oh but I don't like VNs" Well look at the other Game Jams! Spooktober just started! There's a link on the homepage of itch.io that shows all the jams running currently. Or just go through the tags of your genre of choice and see what you can find!

Actually just use tags! Yeah sometimes it's not robust but at least your walking around and seeing things. Comic Fury has a tag system and you can also just...put things in the search bar and see what you find. Same with Neocities. People post processes or sneak peeks or advertise in game dev tags or indie animation tags. Find a blog you think has good opinions or uh- bad opinions you can reliably use to determine if you would be interested in something and have fun looking at things that you might enjoy.

Even if your trying to search on heavily algorithm sites you can still find things. Student Animations tend to be uploaded on Youtube and if you search "x schools student films" You'll probably fine something. Even for non-student work, you can find them. You might have to search hard but you can find things like Dream Catchers or Mandlebrot High or Diminish (Go Watch Diminish right now-)

And, actually, to end this: Don't be afraid of looking at things you might not like. Because, this sort of searching sort of necessitates looking at things you won't enjoy or find bad or whatever. And that's alright actually! It's alright to see things you don't like! At least you know and can more accurately figure out your feelings on art and what not. Go do it! Have fun! Learn more about your own tastes and the art around you! Support people who you might not have found otherwise through a leap of fate! It's better than getting spoonfed to by an algorithm.

the urge to draw evil women got me out of my artblock

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Inspired by the new official art from the umistage cd!! 80s casual beabato my loves