100 questions for artists

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1. Introduce yourself! What kind of art do you make?: HAI, I'm Ouroboros and I make (or at least try) to make anything I can get my hands on. I've always been writing and drawing and more recently coding/web design/game dev, but I've dabbled in filmmaking, ceramics, animation, 3D modeling, music, etc.
2. How long have you been making art?
3. How many hours do you spend for each piece?
4. Do you prefer taking your time or do you like to quickly move on to the next thing?
5. When do you decide a piece is finished?
6. What part of the creation process do you enjoy the most?
7. What part of the creation process do you dislike the most?
8. Do you have a designated workstation or do you just work wherever?
9. Do you monetize you work or is it purely a hobby?
10. Where do you share your work? On social media or a personal websites? Do you keep to yourself and close friends?
11. What's an aspect of your art you enjoy?
12. What are things you would like to improve on?
13. Are you self-taught or had formal education?
14. Do you research about old techniques or stick to newer ones?
15. What do you value more, experimentation or mastery? experimentation definitely, yeah getting real good at drawing something realistically or mastering how to draw the human form is impressive, but it's not really interesting on its own.
16. Do you practice drawing with your arm? What other art techniques to you practice? If I don't get at least one cramp in the process of making something, I'm not a real artist (please help me)
17. How frequently do you do studies? I rarely if ever do, but I've been trying to do them more often recently.
18. Do you understand color theory? How'd you learn or do you want to? I kind of understand it, but not enough to employ it in my own work. I learned it partly from looking at colors and being like "that looks good" and actually being taught.
19. Favorite color(s)? Yellow is my favorite color, but I also like red lime green and deep pink.
20. Are there colors you avoid? Do you think ugly colors exists? What makes a color ugly depends entirely on how you use it, ugly colors in and of themselves don't exist imo.
21. Can you do perspective? Kinda?
22. Do you like doing lineart? How do you go about it? I LOVE lineart, but I didn't always. I changed my technique once to get myself to like it more, and the way I did it was that I would make a sketch, and then I would keep erasing and refining it until it looked like lineart. Nowadays, I do it kinda more traditionally, but I still do a more sketchy style on my first pass and then erase any stray lines.
23. Do you have multiple unfinished projects? Will you ever get to finishing them? 😬
24. How do you start a new piece? Do you have a plan or just figure it along the way? All of my pieces start by me thinking about it really hard for like a week and then starting it with little to no planning. Anything more long term follows along these lines but more extended and with a little more planning.
25. How do you handle art block? Unfortunately, I've discovered that the best way to handle art block for me is to stop doing the thing for like a couple years and then coming back to it.
26. Do you listen to music or watch something while working? I tend towards watching something on the side (usually youtube), cause whenever I listen to music I listen to the same song on repeat and get sick of it.
27. When are you most motivated to create? In the morning or evening? Rainy or sunny? I'm the type of person who imagines a masterpiece at like 3 am and can't recreate it the next morning, I also tend to get inspired to write whenever it's windy.
28. Are your sketchbooks messy or aesthetically pleasing? A mix of both.
29. Do you like showing sketchbooks to others? Sometimes, and only when I'm there to curate what they see.
30. Do you have any art friends? IRL or online? literally all of my IRL friends are artists, and I don't have any online friends that I don't also know IRL.
31. Do you collaborate frequently with your friends? Is there something you'd like to work on together? I don't collaborate with anyone, I don't think I would like to at all.
32. Have you created art to gift to others? How do feel about parting away from your work? Other than artfight which doesn't really count imo, only once or twice, but it was only as like birthday presents and stuff. Both of them were physical, and I really hate not being able to archive them, but it's whatever.
33. Have you drawn for someone else? Like commissions or requests? Did you enjoy it? I have done a couple of requests and I participate in artfight every year, which is super fun. I have never done commissions, though.
34. How's your posture? 🦐
35. Have you ever been injured making art? No, but I've gotten real close
36. What's a medium of art you've wanted to try / currently attempting? I've only done 3D modeling like twice, and I've been slowly working my way towards picking it up again. Being able to make music is my white whale.
37. Do you prefer stylized or realistic art? STYLIZED, realistic art is super impressive from a skill standpoint, but other than that it's boring.
38. Do you like hyper-realistic art? See my last answer
39. Do you like abstract art? Yes, I am also the kind of person who likes those pieces that are just like one or two colors people like to get mad at.
40. How do you feel about fine art? Fine art is a really broad category of art, so I'm guessing this means modern/contemporary art? If it does, I think it's funny how up in arms people get about it, like bro it's pictures.
41. How do you feel about outsider art? Do you think you fall in that category? I think only engaging with art that's made by people who've been taught by other artists is insane, and I guess I kinda fall into that category?
42. Do you follow art trends? I don't think so? I've gotten inspired by certain artists and incorporated some of their quirks into my own art, but I would hardly call any of them "trendy"
43. Do you think your art is influenced by what's currently popular? I don't even know what's currently popular
44. Do you compare yourself with others? Does it affect you negatively? Sometimes it does, and I have fallen into the trap of "this artist is so much younger and so much more talented than me, I'm a failure" but 99% of the time I'm like "oooh i should do that too" when I see art I like.
45. Your controversial art take? Idk really know how controversial this is, but you don't have to do anything you don't want to in your art process. Don't want to do lineart? Don't. Don't want to color? Don't. Don't want to study anatomy? Don't. Of course if you don't like these things cause you're bad at them doing them more will help you improve but at the end of the day it's your art, do it in a way that makes you happy.
46. Art related pet peeves? I don't really have any? There's not a lot of things that people can do with their art that annoy me.
47. Who or what are your inspirations? Homestuck and a lot of similar webcomics were huge inspirations to me both in my art and writing back in the 2010s. Undertale and Deltarune will eternally be inspirations to me, so will horror ARGs like Everyman Hybrid and Marble hornets, games like Doki Doki Literature Club and anything really weird like The Stanley Parable. Meta horror in general has always been something that has influenced me, and literally all of my dream projects incorporate stuff like it.
48. What's an art piece / artist you wished got more attention? Louis Waine is my favorite painter, and I wish more people knew about him, he made my favorite painting too, it's called cat advancing I'm pretty sure. Anything that's online horror/a horror game outside the big two: FNAF/mascot Horror, and slenderverse/creepypastas are all underrated as well, and there are way too many I like to list here. Sagan Hawkes has made a bunch of amazing videos on some of them and even made an unfiction video himself that I adore! Anything by Alan Resnick, the guy who made this house has people in it, is a must-watch too. (I have to stop here because if I don't this answer will be 10x longer than the rest of them)
49. Have you touch grass recently? Do you go out frequently or do you spend most of your time indoors? For the half of the past year I've spent literally 99% of my time inside, and I may have gone a little crazy, so now I spend most of my time outside.
50. Do you create art daily? If I did, I think I would die.
51. Do you take breaks from creating? How frequently? My breaks range from a couple weeks to like multiple decades.
52. Do you set deadline for your work? Other than trying to put out a myblace update every other week then no, and most of the time if it's self-enforced it doesn't even work.
53. Do you archive your work? Do you keep old pieces? I try to archive literally everything, I have a 1 tb hardrive that has everything I've made from all the way back in 2009.
54. Are you embarrassed of your old work? Or are you indifferent by it? I've never really been embarrassed by my old work, of course there are a couple of things I look at and are like "eeeeh I could have done that better" but overall I'm indifferent and there are a couple of pieces from years ago I'm still really proud of.
55. Do you seek out for criticism? How do you handle feedback? I don't really seek out feedback, but I do really like seeing how people view my work and how I can improve/better get across my ideas.
56. Are you harsh on your own work? Or do you love your work despite all it's flaws? I've never really been that harsh on my own work, at worst I've been indifferent to it. A lot of my drawing quirks/flaws that I notice are also things I really like and even intentionally include in my work from time to time.
57. Do you get compliments frequently? How do feel about them? I don't really get compliments that frequently, but when I do I don't really understand it (that doesn't mean I don't appreciate them, though). I've gotten the most compliments on my lineart, and I've never gotten why.
58. How do feel about the rise of generative AI? Do you use it for getting ideas or references? I don't use it at all when it comes to art, but I feel like a lot of people who are artists and completely swear it off don't really know the things you can do with it outside of like "chatgpt generate anime art of my favorite anime girl but give her massive tits," or that you can use it as a tool that doesn't do literally everything for you.
59. How do feel about tracing? What about tracing 3d models to streamline art process? Tracing can be good in really early sketching just to get the idea down onto paper, but anything I trace rarely makes it into the finished piece.
60. Drop you art resources! google images.......
61. Do you prefer making fanart or original content? ORIGINAL, literally less than 10% of my entire body of work is made up of fanart.
62. Do you think original content are more creative than fanart? HELL no.
63. Do you strive for originality? I try not knowingly copy any ideas like one to one, but being completely original is literally impossible.
64. Do you draw from imagination or heavily rely on references? I rarely if ever use references, and if I do, it's probably only like one glance at google images. 99% of the stuff I draw is from my imagination.
65. Do you think using references is a crutch? No, and I think that line of thinking is so stupid.
66. Do you like to make mood boards or scroll through Pinterest? I rarely make moodboards, and I've sworn off pinterest, but I do have a folder on my computer just labeled "Aesthetics" where I save any images I like to look at.
67. Does your work have a story behind them or do you just make things that you think look neat? Literally everything I make has a story behind it, and I am tortured by them constantly.
68. Do you think art should have a purpose? Nope, it definitely can, but it's not a requirement to make something art.
69. Favorite aesthetic? I ADORE really early 3D art/modeling, especially anything by Paul Wiley.
70. Do you have a muse or a theme you fall back to? I've noticed that I tend to create characters that have doppelgängers or are actually 2 or more people and/or who aren't human and try to emulate humanity. Which could mean nothing
71. If you could eat you art, what would it taste like? It would taste and feel exactly like sour patch kids candy (I literally once had my art described as looking like gummies).
72. If your work suddenly became sentient, would it adore or hate you? Some weird hate-based obsession that looks indistinguishable from adoration, like AM from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream but less torture.
73. Based on previous question, can you win in a fist fight against it? It would be a real close call and there would be a lot of blood, but my art would win
74. Is your art style consistent? Do you prefer making a wide variety of art? I feel like my art style is pretty consistent, everything I make seems pretty similar in looks to me, almost eerily so.
75. Do you revisit old concepts or sketches? Do you touch em up or leave them as is? I can literally never leave anything I've made alone, you could make a whole family tree of how one design I made from like 2010 has evolved into like 20 different characters, and I've been developing and redeveloping one of my dream projects for the past 13 years.
76. Do you believe in talent or is it all skill? I don't really believe in talent. Like, yes some people are gonna be naturally better at some things than others either because of life experience, personality, how they were raised or whatever, but it still takes skill to know how to use that talent and people who don't have a talent for something can still become just as good as or better than people who do.
77. What's your favorite thing to draw / make? Do you prefer making living things or still life? I love drawing animals, humans, mythical creatures, and any combination of thereof. I've made still lives/paintings of places and stuff, and although it was pretty fun, it definitely didn't scratch that itch.
78. Do you create your art with a specific audience in mind? Who? Me and anyone who can match my freak.
79. How do you feel about people taking inspiration from work? Do you think art style theft is real? I get so excited whenever people get inspired by anything I've made, and I literally can't wrap my head around getting angry about that.
80. Do you participate in art conventions? Do you sell your work or support everyone else? I've gotten a couple of commissions from other people, but I've never been to a convention art-based or otherwise (although I really want to).
81. Are you art materials expensive? Do you hoard any tools? Other than my drawing table/computer and a couple of copics I got like years ago, a majority of the things I use were either free or cost like 10 dollars at walmart. I definitely hoard tools too, I have like 100 different pencils kicking around my room at any given point in time.
82. Do you organize you supplies and tools systematically? I try to, but 99% of the time when I use something it does not go back in the place I had it before I used it.
83. Do you clean up after a project? Or do you just leave everything lying around till you need the space? I don't really do anything that often that requires a lot of supplies, but when I do, I try to put everything back when I'm done
84. Do you have a ritual before you start creating? Do you have a drink or some snacks? I can jump in head first at any time.
85. How do feel about censorship in art? Where do you draw the line for inappropriate art? No art is inappropriate, and It betrays a very specific mindset *cough*fascist*cough* whenever someone tries to portray art as something that needs to be censored.
86. Do you censor your own art? Do you feel like you leave out details for it be socially accepted? I definitely don't post/show people things that I feel are NSFW or that I just don't want to show anyone for whatever reason, but in the process of creating it, i never intentionally hold anything back or censor myself.
87. Do you feel intimated with starting a new projects? I wish I was intimidated by starting new projects, other than the classic ADHD "it's hard for me to switch tasks" pain, I start projects like I'm eating chips.
88. Are you scared of your art regressing? Do you think it's even possible to get worst at art? I feel like regressing or getting bad at art is an entirely internal perception. Like, sure, your art is definitely gonna change if you don't do it for a while/get rusty or learn a different way of doing things, but that's all it's gonna do, it'll change, whether that change is for the worse is subjective.
89. Do you frequently make compromises for your work? Does your art come out the way you envision them? The only thing that stops me from making art the exact way I've envisioned it is my own skill, and even then I put may all into learning when I want to make something.
90. How well do you manage your mistakes? Do you stress about them? If I catastrophized about making mistakes in my work, I wouldn't be making art, and tbh sometimes mistakes make a piece better.
91. Do you make lists of things you'd like to make? Do you actual commit to them? A majority of the things I plan on making never leave me until I do or forget about it (I should probably make a list).
92. What is your ultimate goal of your work? Like, is to tell a story, connect with others, or just to enjoy the process? Telling a story definitely, I wouldn't be creating if I didn't have a story to tell. I also enjoy the process of creating as well, no matter how painful it is.
93. What's something you've recently worked on that you're really proud of? I'm currently developing my first video game, and I'm really proud of how far I've gotten and how accurate it is to how I envisioned it. It's still a really long way from being playable and even longer away from being done, but I'm still really proud (I'll probably add a link here once I get a playable version done).
94. Do you have any dream projects? Have you started on them? I have like 3 and the video game I mentioned in my last answer is one of them.
95. Would you prefer unlimited money or unlimited time to make your projects? unlimited money, no competition.
96. Why do you create art? What the fuck else am I gonna do.
97. Are you happy with what you create? I haven't always been, but currently yeah.
98. Do you think everyone should make art? YES!!!!!!!
99. What's advice you'd give to newer artist? Do whatever the fuck you want forever, and if you're not having at least a little bit of fun, you're probably doing something wrong.
100. When did you finish this? How'd you feel? Finished on November 3rd 2025! I really liked it, it made me think a lot about my art in ways I haven't before.

100 questions for webmasters

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1. Please introduce yourself.: my name is abby! i'm finally trying to figure out web design for myself and mostly i just like to yap about what i'm into!
2. How long have you been making websites?: technically my neocities account has been active since 2023 but i didn't actually use it until mid-2025. so...a few months now!
3. And what got you into the hobby?: i've always been interested but lately i've just been wanting my own corner of the internet that i could make my own. even though i have a tumblr it isn't quite the same and having somewhere outside of social media where i am *forced* to make it my own without relying on reposts from other users is kind of freeing.
4. What kind of website are you most interested in?: personal blog mostly i guess, since that's what this is!
5. What's your workflow? Do you plan your websites out thoroughly or do you come up with the design as you go along?: oh definitely just come up as i go lol.
6. Please link to your biggest inspirations.
7. What's your favourite part about making websites?
8. And the thing you struggle with the most?
9. Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?: some of them use the same layout but i also like using different ones to keep it unique-looking!
10. How confident are you with CSS?
11. Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?
12. What is your favourite HTML element?
13. If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?
14. Do you know JavaScript?
15. How about PHP?
16. Does your website have a theme that you stick to?
17. Are you more focused on content or design?
18. Do you own a domain name? If not, would you ever want to?
19. What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?
20. Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?
21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?
22. What do you think of button walls in particular?
23. If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?
24. Are you envious of other people's websites?
25. What text editor do you use?
26. Why do you use that one?
27. Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?
28. This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?
29. How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?
30. Do you keep local backups of your files?
31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?
32. Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?
33. Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?
34. Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?
35. Do people in your real life know about your website?
36. Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?
37. And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?
38. Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?
39. Do you do web design professionally?
40. If not, would you like to? And if you're comfortable answering, what do you do for work?
41. Do you communicate with people by email very much?
42. Some people reject social media and use websites as a replacement. Do you keep social media outside of your website?
43. How about instant messengers? Do you use a mainstream one like Discord or Telegram? Or something like Matrix? Do you avoid them?
44. Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?
45. Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?
46. On a similar note, do you keep to one topic on your site, or many?
47. Do you present your real self, or at least try? Or do you construct a persona on purpose?
48. Have you ever made a good friend thanks to your website?
49. Are you happy with the way HTML and CSS currently work?
50. What are practices that you think people should avoid?
51. What about under-utilised practices, or things you think people should do more?
52. Do you use a lot of semantic HTML? Or are you guilty of generic structure?
53. Do you consider different browsers?
54. Speaking of, what's your preferred browser? Convince your readers why they should use it.
55. And what OS are you on?
56. Do you have a strong opinion on that, or do you just happen to use it?
57. Are your websites mobile-friendly?
58. What are your thoughts on autoplay?
59. What are your thoughts on webrings? Are you in any?
60. Do you have any web shrines? What do you like to see in that sort of page?
61. Are your websites "cliche", in your opinion?
62. What is your ideal website? Are you striving for that, or for something else?
63. Are you an artist? Do you draw or design your own assets?
64. What are your favourite resource sites?
65. Is there a habit you just can't get away from no matter how hard you try?
66. What's your biggest advice for a new webmaster?
67. Do you keep all your styling in CSS? Or do you hard-code some?
68. What do you think of frameset layouts?
69. How about table-based layouts?
70. Do you subscribe to the ideas of "one-column", "two-column" and "three-column" layouts? Do you use any of these?
71. Do you spend longer on the HTML or the CSS?
72. Have you ever made a page with no CSS? It's useful for your thoughts.
73. Do you ever find yourself making layouts with nothing to put on them? Or do you only make layouts when the need arises?
74. Would you consider yourself a beginner? Or advanced? Somewhere in the middle?
75. Do you have a habit of looking at the source code of websites you visit?
76. How did YOU learn how to make websites?
77. Do you ever force elements to do things they're not supposed to?
78. Thoughts on floating elements?
79. When you're sizing stuff, what do you use first? Do you use px, em, %, or something else?
80. Do you have a favourite font?
81. Would you run a website with another person? How would that work?
82. Do you surf the Web to find new personal websites very often?
83. Do you bookmark other people's websites? How would you feel knowing someone else bookmarked yours?
84. What do you want people to be most impressed with when they see your website?
85. Are you interested in technology outside of websites? Do you collect?
86. How often and for how long are you online?
87. When it comes to your website, who is your target audience?
88. Have you ever been interested in XHTML?
89. Do you program in general? Have you ever written a program for use with or on your website, not counting simple JavaScript?
90. Speaking of programs that help you make websites, what do you think of static site generators (SSGs)? Have you ever used one?
91. Do you keep a hitcounter? Why or why not?
92. Do you frequent forums? Which ones?
93. Do you write your page content directly into the editor, or do you prepare it elsewhere, like a text document or a Word document?
94. Do you think you appear cool to others? A more accurate answer now: do other people ever say you're cool?
95. Are you embarrassed of your old work? Have you ever deleted everything out of shame?
96. Would you close down your website if you couldn't update it, or would you leave an archive?
97. Do you reveal a lot about yourself on your website? Or are you more secretive?
98. Are you willing to reveal who your best online friend is, and/or if they have a website?
99. And do you optimise the images on your website?
100. We're out of time! How do you feel after answering 100 questions? ....other than exhausted.