I've spent hours and hours revising my manuscript, my artworks, and formatting of my debut novel. And this revision process is tedious and painful for most of time. It's not as fun or exciting as creating the work itself. Check out my novel~!!(I use affiliate links💚🌱) 'Done is better than perfect' is a really valuable concept to prevent endless procrastination for almost everyone, not just artists. We have assignments to do, paperworks to submit, and projects to tackle. Whe

Hi guys! It's me, AiTommy✨️ Have you ever found yourself aggressively cleaning your room mere hours before a critical deadline? Or perhaps, right when you need to focus on a difficult commission or coding problem, you decide it is the perfect time to reorganize your entire digital file system. You search Notion Organizing system or Obsidian note taking process on YouTube for... no reason. I believe this phenomenon is familiar to almost every creative professional, or really,

“Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.” — Max Weber This line appears in Science as a Vocation  by Max Weber, published in 1919. He wrote it as part of an argument that academic work and vocations cannot exist without Leidenschaft —passion. But he wasn't talking about the emotional intensity artists often feel. He meant a sustained commitment, a devotional attitude toward long-term projects. Yet more than a century later, I believe

Hi guys! It's me, AiTommy✨️ Consistency is often framed as a test of willpower, something that requires grinding through exhaustion and pushing yourself to the limit. But that mindset can quickly lead to burnout. If you have a theater performance tomorrow, you gotta go to bed and rest, instead of worrying about posting another podcast episode or blog post. ...yeah that's me. Today, I’d like to share a gentler and more sustainable approach to consistency. One that doesn’t rely

Hi guys! It's me, AiTommy✨️ Here's the photo of my daruma I bought on Jan 3rd I talked about in the intro. The new daruma doll does not have eyes, so there is a tradition of first filling in the left eye while making a wish, and then filling in the other eye when the wish comes true. Of course, there is also a tradition of filling in both eyes at the beginning, but since this is a wish for the publication of a book, I would like to fill in the right eye after the book is succ

Hi guys! It's me, AiTommy✨️ I recently purchased MOHO during the Black Friday sale. I love making animated videos, but hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation takes an enormous amount of time and energy. Because of that, I’ve often relied on other animation tools. Keyframe animation is built into apps like CapCut, but those tools are fairly limited in what they can do. Earlier this year, I tried Live2D, hoping it would be a good alternative—but in the end, it just wasn’t a good f

Hi guys! It's me, AiTommy✨️ I’m going to document almost all the assets I used in creating this book on this blog! I will update this post regularly until I publish my book📖 Softwares Google Docs for writing Scrivener(Ver 1.9) for outlining Milanote for outlining and gathering references, links, and images Clip Studio Paint EX for drawing Affinity for formatting(it's free!!) Canva for making promotional materials You can make images like this! Videos/Course/Posts About Se

Hi guys! It's me, AiTommy✨️ Today, I want to talk about something that every artist, whether beginner or professional, struggles with from time to time: finding inspiration . If you’re animating a scene, building a comic panel, or sketching a tender moment between characters, inspiration doesn’t fall from the sky (tho we wish it would). It grows from what you observe and feel. Here are three ways  I find ideas  and references  to keep my art moving forward. Which Matters More