Welcome !! @Cottean's Carrd

cotty∙25∙she

i'm a filipina-swedish american artist!
I have severe OCD / am neurodivergent, so please have patience with me!inside this carrd is just a little bit about me and the things i like!
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" からまってる胸のリボン優しく解いて "

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FAQ

common cotty questions

art

What is your fav tool?

su cream and hibi pencil are my mains!

how do you make your lineart and art so noisy?

i applied one of my fav noise tones to a marker brush and set the texture to invert texture and emphasize density.
i usually use the same noise texture as an overlay or i use this auto-action (perlin noise) set to 30% or 15%

what is your main inspos?

flip to page three!

what motivates you to create?

mystery, excitement, romance... i want to make stories that stick with people, even if they aren't the best works drawn or the best words said, I want to say them and hope someone enjoys them.

what size canvas do you usually use?

usually i do a sketch on roughly a 500x500 or 800x500 and then upscale by x1.5 or x2! i usually have it set to 300dpi for better quality! ^^
lately however, i've been slowly easing myself into using canvases as large as 2500-3000px but that's only for big illustrations!

what is your fav things to draw?

magical girls
ribbons & lace
ballgowns

what is your least fav things to draw?

muscles
city scapes
most "punk-styles" (cyberpunk, steampunk, etc.)

how long does it take you to finish a piece?

I tend to work on projects a little at a time in bulk over the course of a couple of days to weeks. it keeps me from getting burnout and helps me keep my mind going so that it's not focused on ocd stuff. so sometimes it can be (all together) 5hrs to 10hrs. sometimes it's only 1hr it just depends on how much energy i have when i get started and how well the subject hits me.
the main thing that slows me down most of the time is obsessing over small details, so sometimes i'll spend a few minutes just trying to get one line right.

general

do you speak any other languages?

unfortunately not yet, i've been working on learning swedish, tagalog (philipines language), and asl!

**who are your fav ocs (drawing & lore wise)
**

i love to create for all my ocs (detailed and simple) but i especially love to draw my simplistic ocs the most! here's my top three and why...
kiri kueri - her mysterious charm
ocean (baobear) - his simple, colorful design
kip - her cheery, bright colors

interaction

can i ask you a question or chat?

you can anytime, i don't mind! ^^ despite being so shy, i do love to interact often! i just might take a long time to respond since it's a whole thing for me to think of what i want to say haha.
i am okay with pings unless stated otherwise!
though please keep dms business only unless it absolutely has to be thru dm. please make sure why you're messaging is clear and don't just dm me "hi" or "hey" please ^^;

do you need tone indicators?

you don't have to use them around me but they do sometimes help me! if we talk often (ie acquaintances or friends) you don't have to use them around me.

hey something you liked might be bad!

please let me know if something i liked might be bad! i tend to be oblivious and i'm not always aware of the entire background of something on my feed, etc.
i would never want to support something that is problematic, so please lmk in a dm!

Do you have a dni?

not really since i don't think they're very practical but if i were to have one i'd say: no homophobes, transphobes, pedos, zoos, racists, proshippers, nft, or extremists

_{just general rule of thumb: keep conversations superficial with me, because of my ocd it makes it really difficult for me to have serious conversations because i overthink constantly, so i'll most likely dip if a convo is starting to become too heavy.}

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cotty cressida

about

adult
female
kemonomimi

cotty reprisents all of my insecurities but also my will to overcome them.

story synopsis

our story takes place in the realm of my own mind, during my high-school days. the story is called "dreamy daze" a play on words for "dreamy days" and is a auto-biography / fantasy story that takes place for the most part in fantasy with symbolic ties to real life.

magical girl keaton was the most powerful witch imaginable; she ruled the sky and with her fervent pen, cast shadows into night, but after a series of unfortunate events she was betrayed by her own magic.magic is a fickle thing, in order to wield it properly, it must be respected. in her failure to see her own insecurities, she broke that promise to respect it, so her magic broke her instead.

now as cotty cressida, she must go on a journey of self-healing to return back to normal.but every misstep takes it's toll and the more she neglects to

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