Also the feeling of being a professional artist but struggling to illustrate a scene from a fic because all you’ve been doing for the past several years was either vector or tattooing and you no longer have a go-to style for fanart featuring semi-realistic likenesses of real people in three-dimensional spaces? Apparently that’s my new thing.
Don’t worry about it! I’m just thrilled and honored that you’d even want to illustrate my fic; I have no expectations about how long it’s supposed to take. God knows I take forever to write things when I’ve been in academic paper mode for too long and I can’t remember how to describe things. Or make actions happen.
Evidently that conversation helped chip away at my brain block because I actually just made progress! The construction’s quick and dirty but it’s starting to feel like him in my style now, oh yes.
When you’re supposed to be doing Decembird, but you want to draw people, so you stick a birb on it and paint some douchebag in his magpie pajamas, which his mom totally made and gave to him while he was in prison.
Loki is the Philosopher King 