What pieces of art or media would you consider to be major inspirations?”,

easily the most formative media that i’ve ever experienced was yume nikki. masada-sensei’s space ship is one of the greatest het age gappy liminal spaces i’ve come across in media. at its core it is a man and a girl who cannot communicate sharing a space owned by him and unfamiliar to her. it gives me such heartaching comfort, but you can’t stay on the ship forever.

naturally homestuck. its influence was so heavy that i used to be able to clock former homestuck fans in online art communities years and years later. the web-focused approach to webcomics was incredibly influential to me over the plot or art direction when i realized just how much i could do as i continued to study web development. but it had your brocon, age gap if you squint, etc. none of my current ocs were fan trolls but uhhh (throws horns on it)

i think i am most heavily influenced by the feeling some media leaves me with over a literal, more stylistic visual influence. i struggle to say “this is this artist’s linework” or “these are that artists’s color palettes.” within my own art, i focus on a feeling i’m trying to leave a viewer with and build everything else around it. it leaves me open to translate those core emotions across different subjects and mediums.

this is such a nice question! i appreciate you asking.

I don’t know why but your art reminds me a lot of Nagabe’s work. You should read some of their stuff, like mienai-hito-tachi, The Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms or The Girl From the Other Side, thought, almost all their stuff is furry or monster/human.

this is one of the highest compliments i have ever received i’m only familiar with the girl from the other side but i absolutely love the energy nagabe’s work has, that softness and intimacy despite the grim melancholy… i could only dream of capturing that bittersweet energy. i should look more into his work and do some studies.\n\ni really want to lean in on fetish for wolfsbane but this would be a really interesting approach. a little girl taming a monster, terrifying to itself and others, through the pure love that only little girls can feel… this is such a sweet thought. thank you for this message. it brightened my day.

What are your favorite video games?

i tend towards horror games but here’s a quick list of my faves by genre:

• survival horror: pathologic, silent hill 2
• indie horror: yume nikki/2kki, off, space funeral
• mystery: danganronpa, your turn to die, chzo mythos
• puzzle platformer: oddworld: abe’s exoddus and soulstorm
• life simulator: animal crossing, harvest moon: a wonderful life

and some others by series:

• animal crossing: population growing
• pokemon: heart gold
• zelda: minish cap

i think of this list yume nikki, abe’s exoddus and animal crossing were most formative! i don’t get the opportunity to play video games too often anymore but if you are on desktop you have the opportunity to play the art game every day the same dream in your browser. you can also download it for windows and mac.”