Jerry Peet / Lily Orchard / Lily Peet / Valkyrstudios / Bhaalspawn / Tara Callie / "Mod Ebara" - Sociopath writer of pedophile fanfiction and cartoon reviews, faked getting raped to force a divorce, then mobbed and gaslit their ex off Tumblr, satanist neoliberal of the MovieSlob variety, also wants to fuck dogs and/or pokemon

[ShiftyBoi]

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The subtle character transformation of Cypher begins.
"I wasn't a person in her eyes."
Give this a long enough timeline and Lily will all but say Cypher's empathetic reaching out and wanting to maybe tell Lily to not be such a barking cunt online 24/7 was akin to residential schools for North American natives. A sort of online modern-day reapplication of "kill the Indian and save the man."

It's incredible she managed to do everything Duine said she would in 2 sentences.

Instead of maybe just admitting she was a jackass once, Lily adds Cypher to the nazi cabal that wants her to kill herself.

 

[starborn427614]

Honestly?

It's easier to tear down than build up.

People like Lily don't have fulfilling lives. I know this is the common 'you just jelly' argument, but legitimately she doesn't. She's admitted to being a shut-in. She doesn't seem to have any acquaintances in real life and most of her online friendships crumble because of her own attitude. She has no desire to better herself or her life. She doesn't contribute to society but still expects society to contribute to her. She doesn't enrich anybody else's life, and nobody enriches hers. Even in the week of her marriage she said fuck all about the ceremony and spent most of the time getting in pissing contests with Anons.

There's no doubt in my mind that she is fundamentally miserable, and refuses to look inward for the answer. And that's understandable. Self-assessment is difficult, scary, and unflattering. Recognizing your own flaws and making yourself a better person is hard. Lily herself has acknowledged that change is hard (when she blames abuse victims for not getting out of toxic relationships because of complacency). But if you aren't willing to put in the work, how do you fix things?

You don't.

You reach out and rip down everything else. People like Lily don't believe in personal improvement and uplifting; they believe in dragging everybody else down. It's hard to make yourself better and easy to pick apart, insult, and belittle other people with broad stereotypes and wildly unfair accusations. She refuses to think about other arguments about anything she does because it means she was wrong and somebody else was right and reassessment is scary so THEY have to not only be wrong, but have evil, malicious intentions. This is why every one of her ex-friends inexplicably becomes not only a bad person, but an abuser, a bigot, a Nazi, a transphobe, a homophobe, and if you're lucky, an it.

To be generous, it's a defense mechanism, because the instant you get your head out of your ass and actually assess your own actions and think beyond yourself and about other people, you realize how terrible you are and have been. And that's unbearable. So you have to double and triple and quadruple down. Everybody around you must be a worse and worse person to justify your own abhorrent treatment of them. And once you've stripped away the concept of human dignity from people, well, of course you're superior to them, because you're still human -- a better human -- and they are not.

You can even see it in how she writes characters. Her characters are miserable people with virtually no redeeming qualities, and instead of acknowledging that these are flaws to be overcome she just makes everybody else worse and worse, because it's easier to drag them down than build hers up. Normally I don't put so much weight into how art reflects an artist (using the terms relatively here), but Lily's works are so steeped in this, and she takes any real criticism so personally, and it's such a reflection of how she treats people overall that it's difficult not to use it as a reflection of how she sees herself and her interactions with the world.

That's what it comes down to. An unfulfilled, desperate bid at feeling better without actually DOING better. She has to be smug; otherwise she would have to actually look at herself.

You kind of covered everything, but to me people like Lily also devalue criticism in regards to media. I'm very open-minded towards things I watch in general mostly because I simply want to be entertained and will critically analyse after the fact if I'm bored or frustrated with what I consumed. The issue with most critics is that they don't hold their own critiques to the same standards they enforce upon the media they themselves consume and it creates a disconnect that easily reveals nitpicking or shows the critic to be arguing in bad faith. Everyone deserves to have their opinion, but if you're going to create an actual video or blogpost (really anything that isn't just random blathering on Twitter) it should be be as critically unbiased as possible if you're trying to present a superior opinion. That's not to say their aren't content creators who simply want to entertaining and aren't interested in doing this sort of thing and I respect that, but Lily has no dignity or grace when it comes to criticism. Everything comes from a toxic, negative angle and even the things she like are just as easily thrown in the garbage when they step out of line.

 

[ÁchtunaRoll]

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[anliteralidiot]

I think she's using the tvtopes explanation of what executive meddling is as a be-all-end-all of the definition. It isn't casting blame, it's explaining reasoning. It's a very shade-of-grey difference, I know, but it is a difference.

It could also be that she's so sheltered from consequences, and has oppositional defiant disorder, that she can't imagine being told she can't do something, and not forcing her way. Good thing she'll never have a professional job to worry about that.

 

[work of art]

this might be late but something just clicked for me. lily said that saying that "bojack horseman is the backbone of american culture" is absurd.

the thing is: simpsons, south park and family guy are absolutely the backbone of american culture

theyre not the sole american cultural artifacts, obviously, but if you were to do research on american culture, you would ABSOLUTELY have to look up these works

and hell, bojack horseman might become a cultural icon, its a recent show. maybe in the future. much like rick and morty, that exploded in the internet and its a very important part of the 2010s.

lily doesnt really understand cartoons, does she?

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

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She's so stupid in this case, i love it.

The thing about Korra's finale was because Korrasami was rushed. Only a actual functional brain like the first anon explaining his dissapointment is actually the real emotion here.

C'mon man, like 2 or 3 episodes which have actual scenes about this duo of women talking about the plot and not trying to sabotage each other like in S1 & S2. And that wasn't enough 'cus... obviously you can't do even create a sub-narrative with all that crap before. S3 was good using all the phasing they're write, how you can't do the same in S4?

Bryke was allowed to do that because that fucking cursed duo of writers took a quick exit to finish S4 at once for all. C'mon, even Kuvira's character arc ended like shit. Even the fucking big robot was a asspull to make Asami's more relatable with his father dying off-screen. I still can't believe at this day how they're created more bullshit than Jinora's being a deus ex machina at the end of S2.

 

[Dahlia Hawthorne]

Legend of Korra definitely had a lot of problems, but I place some of them on Nickolodeon. I doubt any writing team could make something flawless with all the yanking around.

Spoiler: Off Topic, Paraphrasing of LoK Shenanigans

First Nickolodeon was like "your show is going to be one season, and one season only." So the team wrote one season and one season only, wrapped up well enough.

Then, "just kidding, another season for you! What do you mean you don't have more to work with, figure something out. But definitely no more after that." Which meant some characters and plots essentially had to be reset to get material to work with again.

Then, "...Hey you know what we said about only two seasons? You get four seasons, actually, get to work."

Then when season four came around. "This show is too violent and dark, we're not going to show it on air anymore, you have to premiere your episodes online using your janky website. Also we're cutting your budget." The result of that was the recap episode, as it was either that or not pay their creative team properly, and they were very against doing that.

That's just the information that was discussed publicly at the time or in later interviews. I'm sure there's more behind the scenes bullshit.

Also it's been said here before and in other videos and essays on the subjects but whatever. Legend of Korra and Adventure Time toddled so Steven Universe could walk so Owl House could run. It's not much with what we have now in 2021, but I do remember at the time seeing compilation videos of ecstatic reactions to the last few minutes of the finale.

 

[Chris_Stuckmann]

Jerry constantly sending asks to himself is one of those things that is so absurdly pathetic that you occasionally forget about it, but then are reminded of all too harshly by the Tara Callie business. Unironically less mature than the average thirteen year old.

 

[ÁchtunaRoll]

Legend of Korra definitely had a lot of problems, but I place some of them on Nickolodeon. I doubt any writing team could make something flawless with all the yanking around.

Spoiler: Off Topic, Paraphrasing of LoK Shenanigans

First Nickolodeon was like "your show is going to be one season, and one season only." So the team wrote one season and one season only, wrapped up well enough.

Then, "just kidding, another season for you! What do you mean you don't have more to work with, figure something out. But definitely no more after that." Which meant some characters and plots essentially had to be reset to get material to work with again.

Then, "...Hey you know what we said about only two seasons? You get four seasons, actually, get to work."

Then when season four came around. "This show is too violent and dark, we're not going to show it on air anymore, you have to premiere your episodes online using your janky website. Also we're cutting your budget." The result of that was the recap episode, as it was either that or not pay their creative team properly, and they were very against doing that.

That's just the information that was discussed publicly at the time or in later interviews. I'm sure there's more behind the scenes bullshit.

Also it's been said here before and in other videos and essays on the subjects but whatever. Legend of Korra and Adventure Time toddled so Steven Universe could walk so Owl House could run. It's not much with what we have now in 2021, but I do remember at the time seeing compilation videos of ecstatic reactions to the last few minutes of the finale.

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She heard you.
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I’m really starting to think @anliteralidiot has it down right. Lily, becuase of her O.D.D, can’t consider a world where a creative is unable to scream and tantrum their way into getting their way in the face of authority.

Bonus:
Lily praising her slave’s art. You know the art she tells Mikay to be half assed and rushed.

 

[Son Goku Baku]

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Shading.

The only thing she really changed was shading and adding a little highlight on the eye. Before it was flat and later it looks like there's actual depth.

Otherwise it's the same thing.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

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She heard you.

Fuck you Lily, you can't simply hide the sun with a finger this time.
Korrasami is a thing since 2013, same year which Steven Universe was premiered and near two (or one? i can't remember clearly, but i'm sure the first season wasn't the first) years before Garnet's revelation of being a actual fusion between two lesser gems (a Ruby & a Sapphire).
Oh, and i'm referring the long-ass anon.

 

[Stuck Pooh]

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And I'm sure our always reliable Lily, will soon provide examples for all the 60 years of LGTB rep in animation!
''no person in the chain is more important than the other'', so she realizes this is a chain of event then, she just refuses to understand how this chain affects the next tooth in it.

I wan't to know which two series she's referring to for being the inspiration behind TOH, all I could find online is this;

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She really fucked herself with how she markets her content. There are things she is interested in, none of them have anything in common instead of getting her hard, and she still indulges in only the most specific littlest things about it...

Her animation analyses (or whatever they are), focus exclusively on representation and how cartoons want to be the next Avatar. And when it comes to basing her career around representation in fucking kids cartoons, is a very unstable system, because it makes her dependent on cartoons consistently providing said representation. Which is not something that can be predicted. If the western industry would stop including LGTB+ themes in their kids shows, or there just would be a longer break until the next one rolls around, then her career would be virtually over.
That is of course coupled with the fact that she doesn't search for any content featuring good representation, half the time she doesn't even want to check out the shows that are popular in those circles. She just wants to sit at home and for studios to produce shows that cater exactly to her interests, without aaaany effort spent in any way.

If you want LGTB creators to flourish and make content, you need to support them - show to them commercial company that there is interest and profit for such content - and those creator mostly work in alternative scenes.
There are festivals devoted just for LTGB films, hell, a quick google search tells me there are two in Halifax! OUTeast Film festival and The Halifax Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Video & Film Festival. Theres AFX, The Animation Festival of Halifax.
If you have budget issues and can't attend the screenings you can just look up the movies that are on the progrmame and try to find them online, that's what I do.
The National Film Institute of Canada has their entire selection of LTGB shorts available on their website FOR FREE!

It takes so little effort to find interesting stuff, but she doesn't care. why would she bother trying out stuff where it's uncertain that it'll be exactly after her tastes. *exhales*

What's with Aliana's nose in the second picture? Is she holding her head up? Should have move the chin forward then and expose/highlight the jawline. I would advise Mikaila to research 'line of action' a bit in her free time..

 

[Ben Laden]

If you want LGTB creators to flourish and make content, you need to support them - show to them commercial company that there is interest and profit for such content - and those creator mostly work in alternative scenes.

And, of course, when a show is made that seems to pander exactly to her and is made by a largely LGBT crew (High Guardian Spice) she pirates it, depriving the creators of any kind of monetary support, no matter how miniscule because she can't be assed to pay for Crunchyroll for, like, a month. I'm not shitting on Lily for pirating (I've only played the majority of the Fire Emblem franchise thanks to emulators) but if Lily really cared she'd as much as she claimed you'd think she'd be willing to show some kind of support for more LGBT focused media.

It is as you said, she just wants to sit around and wait for people to make shows that cater to her, rather than put in any effort to seek out media that already exists to scratch that itch.

 

[ShiftyBoi]

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I’m really starting to think @anliteralidiot has it down right. Lily, becuase of her O.D.D, can’t consider a world where a creative is unable to scream and tantrum their way into getting their way in the face of authority.

Bonus:
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The addition of pupils in the third picture really does it some favors. The third picture is objectively the best one, as it doesn't make me want to punch something.

But Mikail really needs to make a model sheet for her characters. Aliana looks like she's three different ages in these pictures.
The size and wildness of her hair seems to fluctuate with mood, and it looks like she steadily learned and forgot how to put eye liner on. For some reason she wears her pointless torso belt™ over her right boob instead of...maybe in between them like a bag, and it's in different places in the three pictures, what the fuck is the belt for? It's got a buckle, why is it there? She already has one for her lightsaber. Her neck seems to be recovering from the removal of kayan rings, which explains why it shrinks over the course of the three pictures. And the anomalous mass that is her hair seems to be made of disparate vector lines that don't suggest any kind of texture or waviness, they just look like vector lines with no weight variety. This must be an ancient Sith technique.

Honestly these pictures make me wonder what Mikail's strong suit in art is. The third one legitimately looks semi-decent. Her face is appealing, there's shading and darker tones to give it more depth and life, her hair doesn't look like a tablet glitch. Aside from anatomy problems it's not bad. Is the problem just Lily I wonder? Or is it just overall laziness? If Mikail applied herself more would some of this art actually look like cute expressive tumblr OC sketches, and not flat vector napkin scribbles?

If I had to give some advice I would suggest varying line weight, making quick strokes so everything doesn't look like one continuous shaky line, especially with digital the human hand cannot hold steady for a very long time. It will quake uncontrollably no matter what you do. Especially if you're using vectors this will get the unsteady ms paint looking lines we have now.
Look at this cheap drawing from Baalbuddy:

It's way rougher but it looks leagues better than Mikail's work because not only does he have a better grasp of anatomy, but he's using quicker lines to suggest things rather than agonizing over them for too long. He's able to do more with less because he has better control of his lines. (and that's not just my inner coomer talking).

Open letter to Mikail: Don't listen to Lily, she knows next to nothing about art or the drawing process. Apply yourself. You gain nothing from the experience if you aren't trying. If she gets impatient and tells you the art doesn't matter, tell her there will be no art if you aren't allowed to put your best foot forward. Part of your income comes from the quality of your art. Once you two are splits-ville you'll have more of a leg to stand on because you've improved your craft.

 

[work of art]

i dont care enough about the owl house to read tht excerpt but it seems like she is trying to get the moral highground by telling people theyre enjoying thinks wrong, so i did this

 

[Duine In Cudromach]

Full disclosure: I didn't bother to read the full text of her insane 'executive meddling' rant, but right at the top she says "How did you get through the pitch meeting without bringing this up?"

Does she not know how pitch meetings work? A pitch meeting involves extremely rough concepts about the plot of a show. You bring in your primary characters and their rough drafts, you bring broad concepts about their interrelationships (this is the protagonist-- they're bright and quirky, this is the protagonists best friend-- they're the neurotic foil, this is the antagonist, etc), and you have a rough concept of the setting. You don't enter a pitch meeting with specific, hardened concepts or go into minutiae like "And then in Season 2 these two are going to start a lesbian relationship!", because that's not how show production is going to go.

Once your pitch is accepted, it goes through a revision process with the executives. You present ideas and they give feedback about what will and will not work or what is and is not acceptable. They do preliminary focus testing about concepts. They reference The Charts, or tell the creator to dial back certain characters, or tell them what they believe audiences aren't going to respond to or will respond more strongly to and work with the core creative team to outline the final structure. The creative team can object or fight for ideas that are dismissed by executives, but at the end of the day the executives have final say about what is and is not allowed. If they look at a script or a storyboard later down the line and say no, guess what? You can't do it. They won't air it. And if you dig your heels in the sand and make demands? They reserve the right to fire you. They own the show you pitched them, they bought the rights. They can kick your ass out and replace you with somebody who doesn't give them trouble and now you've lost your show and all the rights to it. And you're out of a job. And they've probably warned other production houses that you're a nightmare to work with.

I’m really starting to think @anliteralidiot has it down right. Lily, becuase of her O.D.D, can’t consider a world where a creative is unable to scream and tantrum their way into getting their way in the face of authority.

Also Lily has never held a real job in her life. She has never needed to actually work and cooperate with other people. She thinks the world works like her Youtube channel, where she gets to say whatever she wants and her editors have to do whatever she says and there's no oversight.

She seems incapable of realizing that not everybody (in fact, almost nobody) is in a position where they can just do whatever they want as a creator, especially when they're responsible for a show that probably costs a million an episode to produce. Once your costs get up there executives will start making sure you're a safe investment-- or you stop being an investment entirely.

The Aliana on the right is close to finishing her transformation into a bobblehead. (Serioulsy those fucking proportions.)

The art assessment's already been done, I just want to point out the sheer arrogance of making an OC and then saying "My character is fucking beautiful". And then using this quality of illustration to support your point.

 

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I’m really starting to think @anliteralidiot has it down right. Lily, becuase of her O.D.D, can’t consider a world where a creative is unable to scream and tantrum their way into getting their way in the face of authority.

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I want to point out a source from something closer to The Owl House:
Alex Hirsch directly states that Rebecca Sugar is the reason cartoons recently have been more open in their gayness.

Alex Hirsch is the romantic partner of Dana Terrace, creator of The Owl House, and voice of King.
I hope she cites the other 60 years of cartoons she has in her back pocket.

As for Mikaila's art...it's better, but I can still see how she makes the sausage in the lineart. Taking into the idea @achtunaroll said about her tantruming until she gets her way, as a creative, I wonder if she did that to Mikaila for shitty art. Mikay might've asked for more time, but Lily demands it NOW NOW NOW NOW NOOOW!!!

 

[Typical Anime Trap]

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I think everything that could be said has already been said about how off all of these pictures are, especially when placed side by side. The inconsistent hair, the inconsistent noses, the face shape changing, the addition of pupils, etc.

I've pointed this out before but Mikaila's art would really get much better if she just spent an extra 20 minutes thumbnailing, and working on bettering her details. Out of all of these pictures the last one is clearly the best, as Shifty said it the best.

Honestly these pictures make me wonder what Mikail's strong suit in art is. The third one legitimately looks semi-decent. Her face is appealing, there's shading and darker tones to give it more depth and life, her hair doesn't look like a tablet glitch. Aside from anatomy problems it's not bad. Is the problem just Lily I wonder? Or is it just overall laziness? If Mikail applied herself more would some of this art actually look like cute expressive tumblr OC sketches, and not flat vector napkin scribbles?

If I had to give some advice I would suggest varying line weight, making quick strokes so everything doesn't look like one continuous shaky line, especially with digital the human hand cannot hold steady for a very long time. It will quake uncontrollably no matter what you do. Especially if you're using vectors this will get the unsteady ms paint looking lines we have now.

Open letter to Mikail: Don't listen to Lily, she knows next to nothing about art or the drawing process. Apply yourself. You gain nothing from the experience if you aren't trying. If she gets impatient and tells you the art doesn't matter, tell her there will be no art if you aren't allowed to put your best foot forward. Part of your income comes from the quality of your art. Once you two are splits-ville you'll have more of a leg to stand on because you've improved your craft.

I struggle to explain what I mean when it comes to the flaws with the drawing and so I'm very glad you put it into words much better than I could, but I'm much more of a visual learner so the urge to redraw the last picture to point out it's flaws is very tempting for me, but I don't want to try and seem like I'm showing off to act better, because truthfully I don't think I am. Last year I did a redraw of a poke-madhouse drawing of G to illustrate my points better as to how lazy Mik's art really comes off and I think it still applies here.

Mikailas original drawing from the comic

My redraw of the same picture

As Shifty said line weight is DEFINITELY something Mik should consider adding to her work. It makes a piece seem far better and also helps with simple shaded/sketchy styles. Mik can also benefit by adding just thicker lines in general. I've noticed in a lot of her pieces she uses very thin lines which is fine if you know how to do good line work and your art is already good, but Mik's could clearly benefit from it. Adding color to linework is also something that would help her out immensely, it makes a piece look softer and way more appealing than normal thin black lines, especially when that's all the drawing is without any shading. I think she could also benefit far more by learning how to do simple cell shading in her pieces for things like madhouse. As for the Aliana pictures...

If I had to redraw any picture from the Aliana lineup it would be this one. There is no clear light source, and Mikaila could highly benefit from a deeper understanding of basic anatomy and atmospheric shading. In pieces like these it is important to remember the characters are not the only aspect of the drawing that require shading, the background does too. I have enough problems with Aliana's design already (character design is unironically my passion) but this picture I think speaks for itself as to why it doesn't work. Her clothes are skintight, her hair looks messy instead of curly, her red make-up is the same tone as her skin, and none of it benefits from having added shading.

I would be happy to go into a long winded post about Lily's character design flaws in general, as well as re-do a couple designs, but I fear no one would really be interested in my sperging and power-leveling on the topic so I've been hesitant.

 

[anliteralidiot]

I'm pretty sure that Mikaila uses the Photoshop pen tool, or similar vector line tool, and lets the stroke path setting do the line thickness for her.

It's a quick and easy way to get linearts out, but it's very amateurish if you don't take the time to improve it.

For example, each finger on this Teenage Bonnie follows a similar thickness path to the one I've laid out.

Individual stroke paths will be tapered on their own, when they're not connected. So it looks like Mikay goes in with the pen tool, uses the auto-taper. Maybe she has the stroke paths be flat, with a smaller brush, to give a general line, too. Like this.

Either way, she should use looser strokes. It's very stiff and robotic.

 

[Typical Anime Trap]

I'm pretty sure that Mikaila uses the Photoshop pen tool, or similar vector line tool, and lets the stroke path setting do the line thickness for her.

It's a quick and easy way to get linearts out, but it's very amateurish if you don't take the time to improve it.

For example, each finger on this Teenage Bonnie follows a similar thickness path to the one I've laid out.
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Either way, she should use looser strokes. It's very stiff and robotic.

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure Mikaila uses firealpaca. If she does use this method to line though, what a terrible way to learn pen control and line weight. The problem is is that it thickens out to the centermost point of the vector line, when in reality line thickness should be added to define shading or draw the eye into a certain points. Aka the side of the hand should be the thickest part if not the center of the palm, depending on where you want the eye to be drawn.

The thing about art is really just figuring out how shit works for you the best and what allows you to draw the pictures you want, so while using this method isn't technically wrong by any means, it doesn't do her any favors either. I've found that when I line I do everything at the same thickness, go back in with an eraser to define sharp/tapered lines and then go over the line art to define the weight in a separate layer. Is this more work than using the line tool? Yes, but the results are always better. If you have a problem with shaky freehand lines then all you have to do is turn up your stabilization tool.

I have a feeling Mikaila doesn't truly know how to use her programs to the fullest of her abilities, but I'm not going to sit here and act like it's something you can learn over night either. It's like coding, you can't just jump into typing out an entire webpage layout, it takes time, research and understanding and only then can you truly apply what you've learned. From what I've seen though Mik's been drawing for around 5 years so you would think by now that she would've found a better way to line her art, but then you look at her drawings and realize she never bothered to study anatomy either and it makes a bit more sense.