What do you do that would be worrying if you weren't an artist/writer?

[69Michi]

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[jjfresh]

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[NanettesClouds]

Locking myself in my room all day is probably the biggest thing - actually that's probably not good
for me even with the excuse of being an artist/writer >_>

EDIT: @indagold that's picture is my desktop background now.

[Dranif]

Taking long naps, and staying up late at night.
Actually, that's probably worrying even with the excuse.

But other than that, I can't really think of anything else.

[stephaniegodin001]

Definitely my search history. Way way way too many pictures of fire, but its a fantasy with a fire using character! Do you know how hard it is to draw multiple light sources without references?

Conversations I have with myself, because they are eventually supposed to happen in my comic and I want to figure out how they are going to play out. I try to limit these to when I shower though.

Facial expressions and poses. Although I know I am doing something odd, when my fiance gives me "that" look, but I just can't help it, and it really helps! I swear!

[stephaniegodin001]

I do that every single day I have off. It's not worrying, some people just have different sleep schedules, so long as you are getting enough.

I always find 2 in the morning is when my best ideas happen!

[375]

Omfg yes XD Then again I use to major in Mortuary Science because I wanted to be a Mortician/Funeral Director and studied a lot of serial killers and their methods of murder, mostly due to my teacher because she had these books and I would read them like I was drinking water.

I was also heavily into psychology so sometimes my history would be "PTSD" "Types of Personality disorders" or "How much blood can you use before you faint" "Can you lose all your limbs and still live?"

[lunaartemisasama]

Sometimes I watch youtube videos of naked people so I can draw them OoO... I mean, I look for life drawing sessions videos.

[thekinginthesun]

Being the author of a murder mystery/BL comic is seeing my google search history fluctuating between "shirtless sweaty man" to "how to kill a man using a paper clip and wet napkins in such a way that he won't scream".

[YangKoete]

Effectively stalk people to draw them.

Remove the "To draw" part and you get quiiiite the predicament.

Also; Lewd anime. Since my second drawing layer is always them nude minus the clothes, I need references.

So...yeah.

[Luminosophy]

HAHA. I came to say this.

I use a lot of photo references to determine key distinguishing features of ethnic groups, even between the same race certain features will become a common denominator which gives that person the stereotypical [insert region] look. So my search history looks really creepy if you took away the reason I was looking for these things. Even something benign like "Irish woman" could look like a fetish. Or when looking up stock photos. "MAN HOLDING BOX".

Hot.

[Luminosophy]

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Oh my god, I used to be on forum full of these people. The cognitive dissonance is real. "The point of life is love, one day we will all ascend and beam hippy space love lasers at each other and read everyone's minds. What, you don't agree with us? Fuck off and die reptilian scum."

[Testaccount]

For one of my stories, I planned out some "mer" intercourse, so yeah...I've been looking up how certain fish do the deed. If anyone looked up my search history, they would think I have a fish fetish or something.

Oh! I also look up a lot of real-life paranormal stories, so I'm sure that would creep some people out.

[melindemari]

For me it's talking to myself... Even at work I find myself whispering words to myself that get me to open a word doc and start writing when should be working... Boring office work with lots and lots of numbers....
And it isn't just at work...

My 9 year old cousin might have picked up on my talking to myself and singing to myself in unknown words and now she has her own language too!!! I sort of get what she says even though I don't but it feels too awkward to tell her mom, my aunt yeah actually she's telling you "No, you crazy!"... "Chakka la ne ma nagga..." Or however she really says it...

So as a writer it doesn't bother me but clearly some family and friends think I'm mad, thankfully I know that the day they decide to read my stuff they'll get me! They'll finally understand me!!! My mom does cause she took the time to read some of my stories, though she's not fantasy reader, only romance and drama for her! And yet she read my stories and now whenever Dad or my brother tells me I should stop making weird noises she waves them off!

[Jophiel]

voice-acting to see if the dialogues fit my characters and sometimes even re-enacting the scene when I'm alone Q_Q

[Bones]

Like some others, I have a habit of talking to myself in character voices and sometimes even writing out their dialogue. I also have some of their mannerisms because I try to imagine how it would look in real life. And I've worn down many carpets due to pacing back and forth while trying to get an idea. A lot of my notebooks and stuff have writing of words, people, phrases.

OH! And I've been on many sites looking up baby names. That's something to explain to a teacher.

[joe_galindez]

A man walks into a bar . . .

[melindemari]

I have the baby names too... 2 books with meanings on my bookshelves a entire notebook full and an entire word doc dedicated to sites I get my inspiration for names... And it doesn't help that I love children... I already told my parent when I was 18 that if I don't ever get married I'm going to adopt... And then the kicker... I told them that I'm going to same my children after anime, movies and book character... Sakura? Sasuke? Asuna? Natsu? Hime? Rukia? Alice? Dante? Lock? Arya? the list is long... I did it purely for the laughs but... I mean those are some really good names and why not?

[Bones]

Sounds like a plan to me. I'd love to see a Sasuke Uchiha in my classroom, though I'm pretty sure by then, most people would've moved on to BNHA names. Ah anime, ever changing, always prevalent in life.

[melindemari]

The day people forget about Naruto and Co. is the day I have a real heart attack!
I still haven't gotten to BNHA though still hooked around One piece, Fairy Tail and Naruto and few (a lot) of others in between everything else, newest one I love if Knights and Magic!!! But even my brother said BNHA is really good (before he became

But the worst part of name one's children after Anime, Manga and comics... imagine truly in the future, the next, next gen not knowing and then them finding your hidden stash of recorded episodes or copies to the very names that are theirs...

"Naruto, Sasuke, Stop fighting!!!" I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now...