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an OC; i'm not gonna tell you ANYTHING about who this character is because I read somewhere that if you announce a project or say you're going to do something, you'll feel accomplished just from getting praise at the idea of doing the project and never actually do it SO MY LIPS ARE SEALED
(i changed my mind, her name is Charlotte)
i have no idea what afflictus means. i always thought it meant heartbroken but it seems like it also means jonas (the afflictus brothers????)? and also shattered? and also stricken, and prostrate, and depressed? someone who knows latin, please help
alallalala also alaos also als ALSO i've had these porcelain doll refs sitting in my folders for FOREVER so i finally used them as refs on this drawing YAY
hope u like the drawing <3 <# <#,3,<#,3,3
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To be honest, it was just something I saw on twitter, which obviously isn't a credible source. I can't even remember if it was a link to an article, or if it was just someone talking through their ass, but I took it to heart mostly because of my own past experiences with failed projects. I can think of two main examples. One was when, a while ago, I had a sailor moon "Harajuku project" where I drew Usagi, announced I was drawing the others, got people excited, and then gave up. this project, also, was once a failed effort. I announced this comic I think two years ago now and got people hyped up for it only to ditch it. This is mainly why I decided "hey, this must be true," about the twitter comment I saw, simply because of my own little anecdotes and fear of failing once again. The only person who will be disappointed is me in myself, and for me, that hurts more than anything. I've learned over the years that I definitely can hold myself accountable if I really put my mind to it in that way. The more I tell myself I want this, the more I tell myself that this is something I'm going to absolutely make happen, the more accountable I feel. When I picture myself giving up on this comic, it's more heartbreaking than my initial failure.
But! Your comment gave me a lot to think about. I think you're right; humans do justify their failure very easily and I'm definitely guilty. I've also talked to my brother a little bit about the project, and despite not giving a damn about art or comics, he used his past D&D campaign writing to give me advice about how to go about writing when it was unthinkable that he'd be able to give me "good advice" at all, which proves what you said about communicating with others to benefit yourself.
I even started to consider if anyone would even be interested in my project if I just continue to drop nameless, no context images of characters like I always have been. In fact, I've dropped other projects after doing that. Disclosing enough information to keep people curious and wanting more actually starts to sound a lot more fun, and I think even I will feel more engaged with my own characters that way. And if more people can hold me accountable, it probably wouldn't hurt. I remember someone commenting "hey, don't you have a comic you're working on?" when I ditched it, and it hurt like hell to have to explain what happened lol..
I know you weren't really asking me to, but since I'm always drawing the characters in this comic, next time I post them I'll reveal a little more! i'll start by saying that, since you're wondering, her name is charlotte :^)
(i think my comment by itself also proves that what you said about talking to others being beneficial is right. i would've never gotten this viewpoint so soon had you not said something. fun how that works lol)
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the funny part is I've always known the reason bad things have happened to my projects since 2018, and it's art block. i'd lose confidence in my art, then get tired of the project and ditch it. yet i still believed twitter! my big brain moment of the year lol
and thank you, i'm looking forward to more insight from you in the future :]
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alright i'm answering these completely out of order lol sorry
It's stuff like this that makes me really dislike just how restricting English can be. there's so many different words in Greek to describe different forms of love, yet in English, we only have the word "love" and depend on our voice's tone to get across what kind of love that is. I didn't know that about Latin either. A lot of my teachers in school would mock the usage of Latin in science/medicine, which I fell into, but I didn't know the reason it was still used is that Latin has no double meanings. That's actually really cool!
It's a little confusing though, I looked up "heartbroken in latin" two years ago and got afflictus. But recently, I'll get "greatly" and then most of the keywords you mentioned for adflictus underneath. I also saw "adflictus" under similar words as well. I wonder if it'd be more correct for me to use the word "adflictus" to get across the meaning of heartbreak rather than "afflictus," or if they're interchangeable like google implies. I also wonder if I should just invest in an actual Latin dictionary instead of relying on something as futile as google translate lol OTL
thank you for the help and the really insightful comments!
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