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[kradeelav]

I think i've successfully resisted the idea that my artwork has to be within a "brand" (at least compared to 2-3 years ago), and i'm really loving the ... bite? that i'm seeing grow in my art year over year. "sleaze" is one of the few words that I'll consistently use to describe it.

but i'm always a little curious as to what's like. that thematic thread that loops it all together. not "technical" wise so much (a fondness for inky darks, neons, expressive emotions etc), but the "feeling" themes, abstract tropes that keep popping up. Some artists are deliciously obvious where there's a sense of adventure and happy-end freedom, sometimes it's as short of a word as "defiance", sometimes it's a keen sense of, mm - story-with-taboo when the artist plays with achingly close fraught relationships and the fuckery within.

it's hard to see from the inside because I always think I'm wildly swinging from like, gunplay one day to, say "vanilla" fire emblem drawings but I know there's something that links both, because what would the appeal be otherwise?

anyway if you have the bandwidth and have seen my shit, i'd be curious as to what you think it is. :v

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[clonecumber]

I went through your gallery, though I mostly know your work from your Republic Commando art. Trying to word this, but...Personality? Intensity? I fiddled around with the phrasing of "always seems like something's about to happen" and "coiled spring" but I know that doesn't really work when applied to things like art of someone who's just lazing around and chilling, though I still mean it.

I think intense is the best description I've got, with that intensity always being a constant on a sliding scale between fierce and playful.

EDIT: Wait, you wanted a theme. Um...I guess I'd describe it to someone like: People existing a whole hell of a lot, for better or for worse, and isn't that something.

[kradeelav]

oooh i love this, especially your intensity line since it tracks with what I search out in other folk's fics and art. you know, your words make me think "charged presence", almost? which is fascinating to consider because it "would" envelop my, ahh, tamer works as well. thanks for the kind words and the thoughts~!