Im An Artist With Dysgraphia As Well. And Ive Always Struggled With Things. My Style Is Inconsistent,

I’m an artist with dysgraphia as well. And I’ve always struggled with things. My style is inconsistent, the things in my head just do not come out in paper no matter what I do, and just overall art can be extremely difficult for me. It’s very hard for me to figure out where the line between my disability and my lack of skill are and it’s incredibly frustrating.

and I’ve always had this worry that I’m just horrible at art even though I know that’s not true and that it shouldn’t even matter!

especially when I’m drawing stuff with writing or some words because it takes so long for me to write legibly and spell everything correctly.

When I say I’m a disabled artist, I don’t mean “oh look I’m an autistic artist who draws their special internets!” I mean “I have dysgraphia and it effects my art and style in a impactful way. I work very hard to work with my dysgraphia but it’s still difficult”

The difference

You must me aware.

When I recommend Gregor The Overlander I do so because it was an amazing book! It was well written and thought out, with interesting characters and great pacing.

when I recommend Michael Vey I do so not because it’s well written and in terms of quality is pretty much the opposite of Gregor The Overlander. But because I miraculously still greatly enjoyed it! My hope is that you might start reading, get hooked on the first few books that are actually pretty good, and therefore be too far gone to stop and subsequently become obsessed too. And now I have a new person to obsess over this niche thing with.

Cirque du Freak

Not me looking up Cirque du Freak out of curiosity only to discover a surprisingly large community/fandom?!

like, I didn’t think anyone knew about these books! I feel like the existence of a (regrettably terrible) movie should have tipped me off but I’m shocked! I could make fan art and more than three people will actually look at it?! No offense to those three people who look at my obscure art, I love y’all, but like, what?! I was ranting to my poor friend for nothing! I could have been here the whole time?! What a waste!

Revisiting an old Oc by the name of FigEater.

He’s an ex-soldier of Queen Burn, and loves to travel. Man’s a tank and finds it hilarious when other dragons are intimidated by him.

Did anyone order some mudwing siblings?

One of the ideas was essentially having Quentin be the leader of an ongoing B-side story to tighten up several aspects of the later books (make it more clear that the Hatch Elgen kids are all victims, even Tara and Torstyn, foreshadow the eventual mutiny, make it more understandable why they'd jump ship to Team Electroclan).

That would actually make a lot of sense. Because when they joined the Electroclan I was kinda confused? I knew they stopped liking Hatch but I don’t think we got enough redemption for them. It just felt a bit rushed. And whenever they get brought back I have to remind myself, “oh yea, we like them now.”