You don’t have to know them. They’re all self-portraits.
Think of them as OCs and it will make more sense, I think.
Or maybe it won’t? I’m still learning how to convey what I want with my art. If it’s not being conveyed, I need to adapt my message.
… self portraits of other people is one I’m going to stare at the wall for a while and process because it does make sense but now I get to chew over ye olde “artist as presenter/point of view” topic and how many different layers of fingerprints there are in art.
Weren’t you talking about, for who you pick, that you’re looking at the places society isn’t highlighting right now?
Canon characters as self inserts in fanfiction is totally a thing, too.
I didn’t need to stare at the wall more
Though this is less “more” than “still” because @rosemoonweaver and I can’t stop talking about the mechanics of character resonance and how that interplays with fandom splits and subgroupings and why people ship things…
I’m so glad now that I’ve heard an artist say this b/c I thought it was an actor/writer thing.
I am every character I’ve written and they are me. They live inside my skin for a little while, they use me to tell their stories. I pick them, or maybe they pick me, because we have something in common that needs to be expressed. It’s all a self-insert. All of it. Everytime.
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