this was meant to be part of a 'sequel' to an older piece of mine, "Two Halves of An Imperfect Whole", in the form of a larger art project (music and drawings). I'm honestly unsure i will finish it now but still would like to share the one part of it I did finish, as well as various concepts.

the series was meant to tell the story of the Two Halves embracing each other, melting into one another, and reforming as the merged "Perfect Imperfect Whole". In other words, this is our collective fursona. in the first picture, they're quite excited about their newly realized form. Everything about this design is meant to be fluid and constantly changing, but a few general traits (rainbow outsides, gray insides, 2 sets of ears, chimera-like ) remain constant.

I worry the message will be taken wrong so, to clarify, this is about ACCEPTING multiplicity. This is about bringing your selves together. the way I see it, my parts and I; we are all parts of an elaborate machine. Every part of the machine needs to bear its weight and cooperate with the other parts of the machine, or the whole thing fails. often we have disagreements or communicate poorly, among other troubles, and have not handled it well in the past at all. This is about beginning the healing process of truly accepting yourselves for what you are, and learning to live & function (and function Well at that) without having to deny yourselves their existence or force yourself into consistency

tbh i dont think the clip studio paint line correction update is much to be excited about but thats because i draw with like 0 or almost 0 correction at all times and have a personal appreciation for any messiness/shakiness in art. I understand why someone would need it for accessibility reason but asides from that, when someone does clean lines and uses extremely heavy correction while having ZERO confidence in their linework, it just looks stiff as fuck (I had this issue for a long time which is why I say it. something i notice a LOT looking at my old art is how weirdly stiff all the lines appear).

i feel like having 0 correction/stabilizer is an awesome way to gain line confidence. drawing on paper is also great for this! i would recommend trying it, like genuinely I think my art improved a LOT from this and I have always struggled with a shaky hand + worsening joint pain over the years due to disability. drawing this way for a long time has given me more confidence in my lineart!

i dont think its WRONG to use corrections at all - I still use stabilizer/correction sometimes when I need to do squeaky clean lines, due to the aforementioned shaky hand/joint pain, but i am really glad i stopped doing it as much because i love the way my lines look now as a result of having this newly gained confidence <:) I think doing this and then returning to the stabilizer would be effective too

hopefully this is worded ok, just something Ive had a lot of thoughts about since hearing about the CSP update thing