I really should change my name to Lucy Lurgy X_X

[loobee]

 Not been too well these past days as I have migraine and I keep being sick, have to do my best impression of a mushroom and lay around in the dark. Though I started on some extra R!BB art. Okay, it's just Arthur for now, but I’m working on it. Might not be much art to share for a while though, so don't forget me ;_;

This may sound daft, okay it is daft. However, I’ve been talking to some people about art colabs and such. And the general idea I’ve collected is that sometimes writers are a bit nervous to ask us artist to draw for them. That sometimes they won’t ask because if they think you're good (pfffft where? Slow and lazy, yes XD)  they would feel rude. Probably can’t talk for the other artists, because that would be rude, but I know for one I’d love to work with some writers in the future. I’m having fantastic fun listening to the guys doing my R!BB, they have such cool ideas and it’s wonderful to see something brought to life. And I've enjoyed doing my BB immensely. So never feel shy, okay. I think when I finish all the things I have to do, I’ll get round to drawing more for the writers I love.

I’m a still a little down in the dumps because I’m convinced I’m the most boring person in fandom right now *sighs* I’ve been in fandom for how long? And I still don’t know people very well D: Maybe because I’m shy on Twitter and the like, but I’m also thinking of deleting that and my Deviant Art of late. If you can’t see things, you can’t feel lonely, is my motto in life.

Goes back to being ill in the dark. I feel like a Mogwai right now, argh bright light :D

Comments

[aimlesstravels.livejournal.com]

Oh, bb. How could you ever be boring? Your artwork has inspired so many writers, and just plain delighted most everyone in fandom. I'm not usually one to comment, but your artwork has never failed to amaze me. :)

I certainly hope you feel better. You're such a gem to the Inception fandom! ♥

[loobeeinthesky.livejournal.com]

Gosh if my face wasn’t hot enough already from my being poorly, it would be setting things alight right now. I have to admit your writing was the work that inspired me to start drawing Arthur and Eames in the first place, so that means so much to me hun ♥.

I’m feeling better today, thank you for being so lovely ♥

[aimlesstravels.livejournal.com]

Oh, goodness. Now I'm the one with burning cheeks. ^_^*
Thank you ever so much! I'm just happy to have inspired and be inspired. :)

May I put forth a tiny request? Would you be interested in, after your work right now, maybe drawing something for the post-apocalyptic AU I did for the Inception Big Bang?

[loobeeinthesky.livejournal.com]

It's wonderful that we all create together ♥

I would be very interested, in fact thank you for asking as I loved your story so much. I do have about 4 drawings to work on right now for the Reverse Bang, but if it's okay with you I can draw you something after I finish them.

[aimlesstravels.livejournal.com]

*Squee!!* Oh, I'm so excited! \o/
Good luck with your drawings for the Reverse Bang; I'm sure they'll be amazing, as always. :)
Looking forward to working with you, bb!

[delires.livejournal.com]

OH NO. Sorry you are not feeling well. I am sending you get better vibes.

...and now that made it sound like I am sending you sex toys. Which is awkward since we don't know one another that well. But am I going to try to rephrase it? HELL NO. That's effort.

Anyway...my point was, I LOVE collaborating with artists. If you ever want to randomly collaborate with someone in future, then I am so very game. ♥

(psst. don't be lonely. or feel boring. COME HANG WITH ME, DUDE. :D)

[loobeeinthesky.livejournal.com]

I think they worked as I’m not dying as much today XD

Ha-ha, well considering just opening my email means I get offered sex toys from perfect strangers, getting such a thing from someone I’m getting to know is a huge bonus XD

Yay awesome! I’ll certainly come poke you when I have my huge list of 'stuff I must do but I’m procrastinating' done :) It’s so much fun

(Thank you ♥ I WILL. For someone who has been in fandom since the dawn of time you’d think I’d be over the shy thing by now D: )

[delires.livejournal.com]

Good, they worked!

Cool, cool. Yessss...I too have a long list of things to do. From now on, I am not signing up for ANY FANDOM THINGS. I don't know why I thought deadline-controlled assignments would be a fun thing to do in my free time...? I already have plenty of that in real life.

Haha, no, if you are shy you are shy. It's not something that magically goes away. But I like shy people. They are often the nicest. ♥

[loobeeinthesky.livejournal.com]

I think i'll have to stick to that too. I mean i'm dreadful at deadlines anyway, what was I thinking? *laughs*. We can both promise one another to not take on more than we can handle ;)

It's true it never does quite go away, though i'm happy that i'm a lot more out of my shell than I once was. Wouldn't say boo to a goose 10 years ago. People often say i'm a sweetie and I can't hug them enough for that ♥

[delires.livejournal.com]

Yes and any collaboration we do will have NO DEADLINE. Because they are too stressful.

You certainly seem like a sweetie to me. ♥

I almost want to leave this comment anonymous but whatever

[keelain.livejournal.com]

I would love to work with a writer on a collab outside of these random match ups but I'm... not entirely sure my friends even like my artwork and aren't just giving me hugs because they are too nice to me ): plus I'm sort of... not sure how much to what extent a collaboration means. As an artist am I allowed to say "no I don't think this works in your writing" or to take liberties with whatever someone has written...

That's... what I think. I would love to do it but I probably can't. Instead I think I'll just hide in a corner forever.

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[keelain.livejournal.com]

concentrated too much on that one topic >_<

but anyway no one's boring. Come on :) would love to get to know you if you want? I just might come off as annoying once you interact with me one on one.

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[loobeeinthesky.livejournal.com]

I’m sure they’re not hun *hugs* This sounds terrible but when I think that way, I always tell myself that people can be lazy and if they reply to you it means they had something to say. If that’s being nice about your art, then they mean it ;)

From what little I know of collabs it’s sort of bouncing ideas of one another (I’d say see Platina and butterflythread. And weatherfront and Platina for how teams up work wonders (bloody helly Lydia you enabler) Foxcubb says it best. Some writers are very accommodating to ideas, but I think that depends on the writer.

I do try not to be but I think my shyness sort of makes me seem a bit And awesome, feel free to talk to me anytime.

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[keelain.livejournal.com]

I always get so depressed about my work and yeeeees I have the same reasoing: if I have a journal that only has art in it the people who watch must be genuinely interested- but this is when I'm being reasonable and I'm sometimes I'm not reasonable and I doubt everything.

I know... but I don't think I have that type of relationship with my writer and omg I envy so much >< but I think you've encouraged me! When I get home today I'm going to tell my writer about all the boobs and motorcycles I've been thinking about OTL

Maybe we can paintchat sometime? That's something else I've always wanted to do... I've always seen people have a lot of fun with it and I've never done it before.

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[loobeeinthesky.livejournal.com]

I can so relate to that, it's so much easier to doubt yourself than believe that people really do mean what they say. But they do so try not to be so down *hugs*

It can be hard working with someone you don't know very well, but there's nothing wrong with putting forward ideas to them. Good luck with that ♥

I would love to, but sadly i'm not so good at drawing with my tablet, only my colours are digital D: I am practicing like crazy though, so once my drawings stop looking like something I did left handed i'll give you a poke ;D

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[keelain.livejournal.com]

Alright haha though if it's any reassurance my digital process is horrific xD

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[keelain.livejournal.com]

Oh and @_@ I was being a creeper and reading the other comments and um I have a twitter too? can we... be friends on twitter? 8Db usually just use it to reply to other people but mine is: http://twitter.com/#!/keelain

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[loobeeinthesky.livejournal.com]

Of course we can be friends there. I'm lurking quite a bit at the moment but only because I'm trying to work it out still. I'm lu_be_loo ;)

I'll add you later, just have a billion comments to reply to right now *eeep*

[ilovetakahana.livejournal.com]

*glomps*

Like I said, I'm here for you, and perhaps we could ease you into the idea of a collaboration? maybe you could give some prompts for stories you always wanted to read, or draw the prompts, and ask people to write stories for the prompts? It works for foxxcub and for cherrybina and since you're such a light in the fandom it should absolutely work for you. :) Go wild! challenge us!

[neomeruru.livejournal.com]

Getting random commentfic on my art MAKES MY DAY, omg. If I could call it on command, I would.

[loobeeinthesky.livejournal.com]

Thank hun ♥ I'm sure once less busy I could maybe do what I did a while ago, and that's throw up a poll of ideas and see what people think. I'm not sure if I'd get a response like foxcubb and Bina as I hold no clout in fandom but still it would be cool to see what my friends think.

[neomeruru.livejournal.com]

I want to collab with writers a thousand times, yes, all the time. I actually sign up to illustrate for bb_shousetsu, haven't been picked the last few rounds, and yet still people are posting unillustrated stories. It breaks my heart, people. I am a good artist. Don't you want shiny art for your fic?

I think, don't delete your dA because it's a really useful tool for collecting your favorite art, and if you delete your stuff there will be a Lucy-sized hole in my Inception collection, and that would be sad.

It's okay to feel boring, you know. People are generally boring, actually. It feels like people are leading more exciting lives than you because they only share the exciting parts with you -- not the parts where their back hurts from work and they maybe need to go pick up some more milk and clean the litter box. I'll let you in on a little secret: everyone is boring, so everyone thinks that other people are more exciting.

Do you know what I do when I get home from work? I play video games, mope until Husband makes dinner, read fanfiction, and surf the internet until I am literally too tired to move. We all do that. Sometimes I throw some art in there, make a funny blog post, and maybe people think I am exciting because of it.

Anyway, I hope that makes you feel better. Even a little. I've only recently discovered it myself, and that knowledge was half the kick I needed to actually go out and find things that I thought were exciting, like learning a new art style or going for a long walk or getting Twitter, or whatever.

*big hugs* And your art is amazing, darling, I shouldn't even have to tell you this. You're easily my favorite artist in the fandom and I learn a lot even just from looking at it.

[loobeeinthesky.livejournal.com]

Awww that sucks so much. They're missing out not picking your art D:

I guess it is, i'm just having a awful time keeping up and replying to people. I feel bad when I don't comment or say thanks X_X

That actually does make me feel a lot better, because my days of being are unemployed are so boring i'm bored all the time. And sometimes that boredom sneaks online with me. I should stop being shy and blab more about the books, films, TV and games I love. or the interesting things I note but keep to myself.

And thank you ♥ Oh man I hope you don't learn from my bad mistakes for i have a LOT of them *laughs*

[paperflower86.livejournal.com]

I would love to collaborate more with writers, too, though keelain raised a really good point about the extent of collaborations that I'm kind of worrying about with my reversebang authors: is it okay to bring up certain things that don't work for me in a fic or is that out of line and should I just provide the pretty art and generally cheer them on?

Anyway I hope you feel better soon.

[foxxcub.livejournal.com]

*butts in*

I think in the case of writing FOR your art, yes, by all means speak up and say which parts don't work for you! I mean, if I wrote a fic and was collaborating with someone who, say, totally drew Character A's hair all wrong, I'd point it out. Not in a mean way, of course! But I think the collaboration benefits far more when both parties are honest about the final product. :D

/two cents

[keelain.livejournal.com]

/random person appears

Ill be taking your pennies? Haha... thanks for this advice!

[loobeeinthesky.livejournal.com]

I think foxcub says it much better than I. But with the R!BB being for our art I think it's perfectly okay to bring up points you not so sure about. After all I think most of us had some sort of idea of what we wanted and it can be hard to let that go.

Thanks hun, feeling a bit better today. I have so much to catch up on, including your art :)

[foxxcub.livejournal.com]

BB, you know I'd collaborate with you any day of the week and twice on Sunday. ♥

[loobeeinthesky.livejournal.com]

I can't even begging to say how much of a HUGE grin that puts on my face hun ♥

[weatherfront.livejournal.com]

It's also always an option for the artist to approach the writer first, you know! I mean obviously that's a lot more difficult than saying "I am open, knock on my door anytime", but the only reason why anyone would ever turn you down is if their grandmother just died and they are too busy making funerary plans.

[loobeeinthesky.livejournal.com]

I know Iffy, but like I said I'm shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyy *laughs* And you know me I'm little miss hints a lot rather than actually come out and say the damn thing.

Hahaha wait till they see how slow I am and suddenly grannys funeral would come up twice.

[dumbimps.livejournal.com]

WAIT WAIT YOU HAVE A TWITTER, please add me (augustline), I am way more active on twitter than I am on LJ. Unless you decide to quit twitter :( :( :(

I had no idea that was what writers thought! But I think it makes sense because I think that'd be the general.. feeling you'd feel if you approached anyone for a collaboration, really, unless you happen to be close to them.

FEEL BETTER, LUCY ♥

[loobeeinthesky.livejournal.com]

I do and I will, it's lu_be_loo. I'm sort of lurking like hell at the moment as I'm apparently crap at it lol (that's why I thought maybe to quit it, so rubbish at keeping up with people)

Nor I, it was a bit of a surprise. But your right, I mean I won't approach due to being shy and not quite knowing people that well so of course it will be the same for others.

I AM ALREADY BUNNIE ♥

[adelaide-rain.livejournal.com]

Being ill sucks, and afterwards I realise that the period of being REALLY UPSET ABOUT EVERYTHING is a sure indicator that I'm getting ill. I hope you feel better really soon :)

Haha, you kow, it's funny 'cause though I would cry a thousand tears of joy if anyone ever asked me to collab with them, I would also never ask an artist to collab with writer-me because I would be afraid they would find me cheeky or would just laugh at me. Interesting.

[loobeeinthesky.livejournal.com]

It does, I can't seem to stop shivering and I've had a headache for 4 days now X_X I think i'm the same too as i've been really sad lately.

I hope people read it and just think 'well there's nothing to be shy about and collab with more people.' Why would they find you cheeky hun? Inquiring minds want to know *poke*

[red-rahl.livejournal.com]

First of all, is that MOSS?! *hearts in eyes over icon*

Second of all, you're amazing and incredibly talented! I don't think you should delete your accounts (although I hate DA's interface, guh). And may I add you on twitter?

Certainly, share amazing stuff with us, although I do get where you're coming from. I'm boring myself and only post art so I don't think people really care if I posted otherwise. <.<

And you should totally do more collabs with writers! Your stuff is amazing and very inspiring! *is in awe* It is hard to ask though. T3T *will admire you from a distance*

[loobeeinthesky.livejournal.com]

It is indeed. I love him so much ♥

Thank you ♥ I've been having a hard time with that interface since it changed, and replying to people. I feel so bad when I don't. I'd love that, i'm a bit quiet at the moment, but I aim to start chatting more once I stop being shy.

i'm sure your not hun *hugs* But yeah sometimes i think it's all about the art and not myself. But I guess people replies proved me wrong there.

I hope I get to I had so much fun working with Rei. I had to talk about it though, as I hope people realise it's not so scary to ask people. Though from my shy perspective it's damn scary.