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  1. TheRatsArePaidActors Fri 20 May 2022 05:59AM UTC

    Holy shit, not to boost your ego, but holy shit. You’re really talented at drawing faces. What hardness did you use for your pencil? It looks soft, I could have mistaken it for charcoal.

    ALSO F YOU. “Because even when he inevitably changed, when this was no longer his body, when this drawing was no longer his face, he wanted to remember: It was the one that fell in love.” I MELTED
    THIS WHOLE DAMN STORY WAS SO SOFT AND I KINDA GOT TEARY IS WAS SO SWEET

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    1. GrendelsMommy Sat 21 May 2022 01:36AM UTC

      heheheeeheehee you are an absolute fucking joy my dude, and when I saw you doing the rounds on my fics last night, i was BESIDE myself. I'm so glad I saved reading them for now

      1. IT'S DIGITAL!! I'm still so new to digital drawing, but it's kinda spiffy as a medium, not gonna lie. And NO I will not STAND for you boosting my ego how dare you. It's a decent portrait, but I think the image I'm chasing in my mind will always be better than the one I'm capable of on the page. David Tennant's just got range I can't capture in a single image

      2. YAAAAAY I LOVE HEARING WHICH LINES HIT PEOPLE!!! I live for softness in fics so hearing that I was able to create that for someone else is beyond words. Like *I* made you teary?? Right back at you my guy

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      1. TheRatsArePaidActors Sat 21 May 2022 02:49AM UTC

        Ok, yeah. I definitely read almost all of your stories in one sitting. I haven’t gotten to see all of your responses yet, but you’re about to get them 😂

        It’s digital?! Damn. What app are you using cause I’m trying digital art but it’s definitely iffy. But honestly, yeah. I can never get the image in my head on the ‘paper’. I have one specific memory of when I was like 10(?), and I had this detailed fight scene in my head, but when I drew it out it looked like stick figures. I remember just sitting there for a long while trying to figure out how and why I couldn’t just print the image from my mind onto the paper.

        Ugh. The whole story hit like a sledge hammer, but oof that last line was so sweet.

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        1. GrendelsMommy Sat 21 May 2022 03:30AM UTC

          I use clip studio paint! I haven't paid for the program so I just kinda draw what I need and take a screenshot when I'm done (which messes with the resolution a little but my wallet is happier this way). From a fellow noob, I don't think it's particularly more intuitive than the other programs (and I'm sure there are a TON of features I have yet to figure out), but it works mighty fine for my purposes ;D

          And yes!!! That feeling of having an image in your head be SO CLEAR and then not being able to materially create it fucking HAUNTS. MY. ASS. In writing and art, which is kinda funny, because I got into both of them through and for fandom. It sucks in a way, because everything I create kind of feels like practice for a bigger, better thing that I'm just not capable of yet. But then I get comments like yours that make me think I might actually be making some of those "better" things now --which is so SURREAL! The progress is snails-fucking-pace, but the idea of leveling up with each story/artwork I create is definitely something that pushes me.

          I think of that last line as an alternative to "I don't want to go", in a way. That quote sucker punches me every time I hear 10 say it, and I think it really summarizes what regeneration is like for both the Doctor and the viewer

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