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12 years ago
"FAQ" may be overstating it a bit. Not that many people have contacted us yet here on FA, but from those few who have, and our interactions outside of this community, there are a few things that seem to come up a lot. Chances are I will update this as time goes on, and it will stay linked from our Bio page as well.
It's roughly organized into "very general things/things about both of us", "things about Teo" and "things about art" in that order. I've put lines between each 'section', so you can kind of scroll around if you want to... the coding for journals here doesn't seem to allow me to organize it much better at the moment.
So you've seen us, you've read a little about us, and you're curious, but maybe you've never met a plural system before, or a trans person before, or for whatever reason, you've got questions but you're nervous about approaching us. Here, then, is the first rule: try not to panic. If you're anxious, we'll be tense, it just won't be very helpful for anybody.
Rule number two, just be respectful. You don't have to understand us. Just don't be rude or mean, and if we correct you on a term because we prefer to be referred to another way, adapt.
That's it. Just stuff you should probably have figured out by interacting with other people. See, we're not that different, really!
Now on to what people seem to want to know:
Q: I have questions. Can I just message you out of the blue?
A: Yup. You can note us here or get to us through AIM and Skype (text only) if you prefer. If you catch us off of FA, when you message us, let us know you found us here so we don't have to wonder if you're another round of spam-bots, please. We'd hate to ignore a real person.
Q: You say 'we' a lot. Can I talk to just one of you? Can you act like just one person?
A: You can talk to us separately, yes. Or you can have us on a 'conference call' where both of us will respond. Yes, we can pretend to be a singular person/entity, but what that really means for the most part is that it's just me (Shifter).
Q: Why are you 'out' about everything?
A: Because 'real life', off the internet, we have to spend a lot of time pretending to be things we aren't. Unless we're with friends who know, we have to pretend that Teo doesn't exist, and it isn't fair to him that that's how life should always be, online and off. I also spend a lot of time pretending to be your average cisgendered male, but I wasn't raised as a boy, and so there are stories I can't tell and experiences I can't share. I don't know if you've ever spent your life hiding who you are, but it's stressful, and online is where we let it all hang out, so to speak. We'd rather people meet us knowing who and what we are, and know us as individuals, rather than spring it on people later.
Q: Okay, so if I talk to you, how do I know who I'm talking to?
A: That depends, how did you contact us? If it's here or on Skype, you'll probably talk to me first, but you could also reach Teo if you ask. He's just not as good with words, so he doesn't talk quite as much, and we do often worry that the way that he talks will put people off if they see it first, though hopefully that's more our insecurities than actual truth. If you contacted us through AIM, you'll get whoever you sent the message to - our accounts there are separate, we have them listed on our main artist page. If you've contacted us in a way that you could get either of us (here or Skype), assume that the 'default' is me (Shifter), I'm by default at the 'front'. If we switch back and forth between myself and Teo, we usually bracket his words with slashes /like this/, so that you'll know it's him instead. Although, our speaking styles are so different, you'd probably know anyway. If you see capital letters at all, it's not Teo, unless somehow I made a mistake typing for him.
Q: Is it like "Sybil"? Are you going to 'turn into' different people?
A: It's really not like that for us, and really, Sybil is kind of a poor account to base your understanding of plurals on, in my experience. (That's without getting into the questions about the veracity of the account to begin with.) We don't get 'stuck' switching - you won't start talking to me, end up with Teo and never be able to get back. We're a very co-conscious system, what that means is that 'switching' for us is much more fluid overall. Basically, I'm stuck up here basically manning the console at all times by default, but Teo can either pipe up from 'behind' me, or share the front with me, or mostly take over (except for the things I do for him automatically like reading and typing), but I never entirely lose the thread of what's going on. Similarly, if he's at all interested, he will know what's going on all the time, too. If we're comfortable with somebody, he might just pop in with his comments in the middle of a conversation, but generally we take turns pretty calmly, and don't usually butt in on each other's conversation (at least, not without good reason). We are individual people, please understand that, but it's not the violent, uncontrolled switching that you've probably seen on TV.
Q: If you're multiple, then something happened to you to make you that way, right?
A: It's a common misconception, really, that all plurals must have been traumatized as children. Our experience has been that while all the literature on it says so, very few of the systems that we know actually have been. I think this really boils down to the fact that plurals who are not disordered - that is, the fact that there are multiple people inside one body is not a source of distress for them or impacting their daily life in a negative way - don't seek help for it. If they do go to therapy or seek psychiatric care for an unrelated issue, they tend not to report their multiplicity, because it's such a divisive issue in the medical community. So the only cases that psychiatric care givers are likely to ever 'see' are cases where the dissociation is so bad (which usually means everyone inside is not communicating well with one another) that it's a very negative thing in that person/system's life. And a lot of times yes, that was caused by something horrible, though not always in childhood. There are a lot more of us who are just sort of naturally this way. Our brains are just wired to hold more than one 'program', if you will. For us specifically, I was always a little changeable, without that stability of personality that 'singlets' take for granted, but Teo came along later. It's not a trauma thing, in our case.
Q: You're just parts of the same person then, right?
A: While I'm not able to subscribe fully to either the conventional psychiatric nor less conventional spiritual explanations for how and why we exist, the short answer is no. If you need to hold the belief that he's split off of me inside yourself to get along, fine - but don't treat us that way or refer to us that way. At the end of the day, when you're dealing with us, it doesn't really matter how we came to be - does it matter to you if your friends were born 'naturally' or via c-section? We're separate people, and should be treated that way. He's not a 'single purpose personality' like you may have read about or seen on TV - he's not just around to relive a memory, or developed to deal with certain situations, he has a continuity of self, diverse interests, independent opinions, just like any other person. Is our situation unique to that of two fully separate/separate bodied individuals? Yeah. Definitely. I guess the best way to think of it is we are two separate people who inhabit the same hardware and share a tele-empathic link... but we're still individuals.
Q: Can I ask you a really personal question about (transition/trans life/gender/sexuality/plural life)?
A: If you ask it respectfully, yes. Just be aware of two things: one, it doesn't happen that often, but I might decline to answer if it seems too personal or for some reason makes me uncomfortable. Two, I do not speak for, nor represent the majority of plurals or trans people. There are a lot of things for which I don't toe the party line, so to speak, so depending on what you're asking about, you might get an answer that's really very unrepresentative of what you'd get from asking a wide variety of people of whatever subset you're curious about. However, when I can, I will generally try to give the curious a general idea of what I've seen expressed in the wider community as well.
Q: Can I ask Teo a personal question, even though he's young?
A: Again, if you ask respectfully, yes. However, you might want to prepare yourself for the fact that his answer might not resemble anything you were expecting. It might be vague, it might go off on a tangent, or he might misinterpret it entirely - I've noticed his thought processes aren't always recognizably linear, even to me, and I can experience how he arrived at his answers.
Q: I'm talking to Teo, and I'm having a hard time understanding something he's trying to communicate. Can't you just translate for me?
A: I could, and if he's getting so frustrated that I have to, I will, but I don't like to if I think he can work around it himself. While it is true that since he doesn't have his own body, he gets a constant chaperone/empath/translator, he's still his own person and he likes to be able to operate as independently as possible, and since I feel like that's wholly reasonable, I try to stay out of things when I can to give him that chance. However, I will respond/butt in on things if I need to alleviate his anxiety or frustration, or if I feel like he needs protection from something or someone.
Q: I'm talking to Teo, and he seems to have weird gaps in his knowledge - didn't you say that you guys share information and he watches what's going on?
A: Yes, we do, but yes, he also can have gaps in his knowledge. While it's true that either of us can kind of root around in each other's heads, so to speak (after all, we're running on the same hardware), we can also choose not to. He tends to like to experience things firsthand, so while he could get information on just about anything, he sometimes just doesn't look, or doesn't want more than a bare-bones understanding until he can learn it by experiencing it. For example, I've seen the original Star Wars trilogy many times, but because of... things.. I haven't watched it in years. So Teo's never seen them. He knows they exist and has a limited understanding, and he's been on Star Tours at Disneyland. However, he's never actually experienced them himself, and while he could look at my own memories, his knowledge really isn't any greater than someone with their own body who's heard people talk about it and seen stills online and been on the ride. There's also the issue of how well he's paid attention when we've done things since he's been here - if a TV show is boring to him, he's not paying any more attention to it than anyone else who was just in the same room as it but not really watching, so he won't know more about it than that without looking around 'inside'. If we had to do something scary like surgery, he was probably hiding himself the best he could, and won't know details.
Yes, you could ask him to 'find out' from 'inside', but we'd prefer that you don't - if he asks you a question it seems like he should know the answer to, he's asking because he wants the answer firsthand, not secondhand. Telling him to find out himself feels a bit condescending and frustrating, especially since it's something that people used to do to him specifically to brush him off.
Q: I was trying to joke around, but Teo took it very seriously. Doesn't he have a sense of humor?
A: He does, but he's also exceedingly bad at understanding sarcasm, irony, puns, double entendres and humorous exaggeration - even though these are things that I use frequently. Language is not his strong suit, and while he may have an inkling that this is 'one of those times' when a person is saying something they don't mean, he generally takes the road of treating it literally just in case. The only time he really 'gets' the joke is if there's an image or vocal cues to illustrate it as well - it always really reminds me of a bit from Family Guy where 'the foreign guy at the office' is explaining why sarcasm is funny. That's pretty much how it works for Teo - if you say 'nice day we're having' and he can see that you're wet from the rain, he's pretty likely to understand from your tone of voice and the situation that that's a joke. If you type "it's been raining a lot - such nice weather!" and he cannot see anything nor hear your tone of voice, although he knows most people don't love rain, he's going to assume you like it.
Q: I think I might have met Teo before, but it was roleplay. I'm a little uncomfortable now that you're saying he's real.
A: Roleplay is still pretend! So take a deep breath, everything's okay. Roleplay allows Teo a couple of things - he gets to be 'seen' as what he is, a four legged cat-lion, and not what he lives in - a human body. That's very valuable for him. It also gives him the same chance it gives everybody - to play act things that he likes to think about but doesn't/wouldn't actually do, or to experiment with concepts he doesn't have another outlet for. Yeah, he's behind it/involved, but everything does get filtered through me first so I can put things in context for him and so I can polish up the ideas that come back out, so everything ends up with my spin, too. So really, you only know him about as well as you know anybody who RPs who'd tell you their fursona is pretty much them - I've done that too, and although attitudes, opinions and feelings are true to life, actions usually aren't, and reactions are tinkered to fit the fantasy! You can still approach him if you want, and expect about the usual degree of awkwardness when you first meet someone 'out of character'. You're also welcome to address your feelings with me if you need to.
Q: Looking at your gallery, you don't really seem to stick to one thing or one style. What's up with that, is it because you're multiple?
A: I don't know! I've always just been terrible at sticking to one medium or one style forever. As you might have seen in our plurality primer, I do, myself, seem to be a bit fractured, separate from Teo. That might have something to do with it, maybe different bits of me like different things. Maybe I'm just restless! Teo doesn't stick to any one thing forever either, but he mostly just wants to try everything available. It's all play to him on some level and he likes to try out any new 'toys' that make things look 'cool'. So do I, I suppose, at the end of the day!
Q: Can I get art from you? Trades? Commissions? Gifts?
A: Maybe. It really depends. Because we switch mediums a lot, there are some things we're more comfortable and familiar with than others, and depending on what you want, it might be something we're able to tailor to spec or it might be something we don't have a great grasp of yet and don't feel comfortable tackling. I'm going to tend to be picky about trades, and I'm not technically having us open for commissions, but if you're really taken with something and want a piece like it, feel free to drop us a line. Gifts, we really just have to be moved to do it, I don't think it's something that can really be requested, per se. If you want art from Teo, first understand that I doubt he can work to spec. For him, things for other people are tailored to them, but in a much more emotional/feeling way than in a literal 'this is what they like' way. It as much expresses his feeling about the recipient as his sense of who they are. If you wanted to request something from him, you'd be best off either not expecting anything more specific than "I wanted a collage thing" or "a painted thing", or getting to know him pretty well before inquiring. Occasionally, we may just have pre-existing stuff up for straight sale or auction.
Q: Can I offer you artistic advice/critique?
A: I suppose, politely, although I doubt there's a harsher critic of my own work than me. Please don't for Teo, we're just letting him play, and I don't want to ruin the fun for him. What I do definitely need are some digital tips for coloring, texturing etc, so if you know some stuff about GIMP and the Wacom Bamboo tablet, let me know!
Q: Can you teach me how to do something that you do?
A: Maybe. I'm often not that great at explaining art stuff without visual aids, though. Depends on what it is, but I wouldn't say that we really have any 'trade secrets' at the moment - that is, things that we do that are so different from how everyone else does it that we want it proprietary so we are better able to sell our work. If we've adapted techniques, we're generally okay sharing how we did it.
And that's it, as of this moment. If other things seem to come up, I'll try to keep this updated for reference!
It's roughly organized into "very general things/things about both of us", "things about Teo" and "things about art" in that order. I've put lines between each 'section', so you can kind of scroll around if you want to... the coding for journals here doesn't seem to allow me to organize it much better at the moment.
So you've seen us, you've read a little about us, and you're curious, but maybe you've never met a plural system before, or a trans person before, or for whatever reason, you've got questions but you're nervous about approaching us. Here, then, is the first rule: try not to panic. If you're anxious, we'll be tense, it just won't be very helpful for anybody.
Rule number two, just be respectful. You don't have to understand us. Just don't be rude or mean, and if we correct you on a term because we prefer to be referred to another way, adapt.
That's it. Just stuff you should probably have figured out by interacting with other people. See, we're not that different, really!
Now on to what people seem to want to know:
Q: I have questions. Can I just message you out of the blue?
A: Yup. You can note us here or get to us through AIM and Skype (text only) if you prefer. If you catch us off of FA, when you message us, let us know you found us here so we don't have to wonder if you're another round of spam-bots, please. We'd hate to ignore a real person.
Q: You say 'we' a lot. Can I talk to just one of you? Can you act like just one person?
A: You can talk to us separately, yes. Or you can have us on a 'conference call' where both of us will respond. Yes, we can pretend to be a singular person/entity, but what that really means for the most part is that it's just me (Shifter).
Q: Why are you 'out' about everything?
A: Because 'real life', off the internet, we have to spend a lot of time pretending to be things we aren't. Unless we're with friends who know, we have to pretend that Teo doesn't exist, and it isn't fair to him that that's how life should always be, online and off. I also spend a lot of time pretending to be your average cisgendered male, but I wasn't raised as a boy, and so there are stories I can't tell and experiences I can't share. I don't know if you've ever spent your life hiding who you are, but it's stressful, and online is where we let it all hang out, so to speak. We'd rather people meet us knowing who and what we are, and know us as individuals, rather than spring it on people later.
Q: Okay, so if I talk to you, how do I know who I'm talking to?
A: That depends, how did you contact us? If it's here or on Skype, you'll probably talk to me first, but you could also reach Teo if you ask. He's just not as good with words, so he doesn't talk quite as much, and we do often worry that the way that he talks will put people off if they see it first, though hopefully that's more our insecurities than actual truth. If you contacted us through AIM, you'll get whoever you sent the message to - our accounts there are separate, we have them listed on our main artist page. If you've contacted us in a way that you could get either of us (here or Skype), assume that the 'default' is me (Shifter), I'm by default at the 'front'. If we switch back and forth between myself and Teo, we usually bracket his words with slashes /like this/, so that you'll know it's him instead. Although, our speaking styles are so different, you'd probably know anyway. If you see capital letters at all, it's not Teo, unless somehow I made a mistake typing for him.
Q: Is it like "Sybil"? Are you going to 'turn into' different people?
A: It's really not like that for us, and really, Sybil is kind of a poor account to base your understanding of plurals on, in my experience. (That's without getting into the questions about the veracity of the account to begin with.) We don't get 'stuck' switching - you won't start talking to me, end up with Teo and never be able to get back. We're a very co-conscious system, what that means is that 'switching' for us is much more fluid overall. Basically, I'm stuck up here basically manning the console at all times by default, but Teo can either pipe up from 'behind' me, or share the front with me, or mostly take over (except for the things I do for him automatically like reading and typing), but I never entirely lose the thread of what's going on. Similarly, if he's at all interested, he will know what's going on all the time, too. If we're comfortable with somebody, he might just pop in with his comments in the middle of a conversation, but generally we take turns pretty calmly, and don't usually butt in on each other's conversation (at least, not without good reason). We are individual people, please understand that, but it's not the violent, uncontrolled switching that you've probably seen on TV.
Q: If you're multiple, then something happened to you to make you that way, right?
A: It's a common misconception, really, that all plurals must have been traumatized as children. Our experience has been that while all the literature on it says so, very few of the systems that we know actually have been. I think this really boils down to the fact that plurals who are not disordered - that is, the fact that there are multiple people inside one body is not a source of distress for them or impacting their daily life in a negative way - don't seek help for it. If they do go to therapy or seek psychiatric care for an unrelated issue, they tend not to report their multiplicity, because it's such a divisive issue in the medical community. So the only cases that psychiatric care givers are likely to ever 'see' are cases where the dissociation is so bad (which usually means everyone inside is not communicating well with one another) that it's a very negative thing in that person/system's life. And a lot of times yes, that was caused by something horrible, though not always in childhood. There are a lot more of us who are just sort of naturally this way. Our brains are just wired to hold more than one 'program', if you will. For us specifically, I was always a little changeable, without that stability of personality that 'singlets' take for granted, but Teo came along later. It's not a trauma thing, in our case.
Q: You're just parts of the same person then, right?
A: While I'm not able to subscribe fully to either the conventional psychiatric nor less conventional spiritual explanations for how and why we exist, the short answer is no. If you need to hold the belief that he's split off of me inside yourself to get along, fine - but don't treat us that way or refer to us that way. At the end of the day, when you're dealing with us, it doesn't really matter how we came to be - does it matter to you if your friends were born 'naturally' or via c-section? We're separate people, and should be treated that way. He's not a 'single purpose personality' like you may have read about or seen on TV - he's not just around to relive a memory, or developed to deal with certain situations, he has a continuity of self, diverse interests, independent opinions, just like any other person. Is our situation unique to that of two fully separate/separate bodied individuals? Yeah. Definitely. I guess the best way to think of it is we are two separate people who inhabit the same hardware and share a tele-empathic link... but we're still individuals.
Q: Can I ask you a really personal question about (transition/trans life/gender/sexuality/plural life)?
A: If you ask it respectfully, yes. Just be aware of two things: one, it doesn't happen that often, but I might decline to answer if it seems too personal or for some reason makes me uncomfortable. Two, I do not speak for, nor represent the majority of plurals or trans people. There are a lot of things for which I don't toe the party line, so to speak, so depending on what you're asking about, you might get an answer that's really very unrepresentative of what you'd get from asking a wide variety of people of whatever subset you're curious about. However, when I can, I will generally try to give the curious a general idea of what I've seen expressed in the wider community as well.
Q: Can I ask Teo a personal question, even though he's young?
A: Again, if you ask respectfully, yes. However, you might want to prepare yourself for the fact that his answer might not resemble anything you were expecting. It might be vague, it might go off on a tangent, or he might misinterpret it entirely - I've noticed his thought processes aren't always recognizably linear, even to me, and I can experience how he arrived at his answers.
Q: I'm talking to Teo, and I'm having a hard time understanding something he's trying to communicate. Can't you just translate for me?
A: I could, and if he's getting so frustrated that I have to, I will, but I don't like to if I think he can work around it himself. While it is true that since he doesn't have his own body, he gets a constant chaperone/empath/translator, he's still his own person and he likes to be able to operate as independently as possible, and since I feel like that's wholly reasonable, I try to stay out of things when I can to give him that chance. However, I will respond/butt in on things if I need to alleviate his anxiety or frustration, or if I feel like he needs protection from something or someone.
Q: I'm talking to Teo, and he seems to have weird gaps in his knowledge - didn't you say that you guys share information and he watches what's going on?
A: Yes, we do, but yes, he also can have gaps in his knowledge. While it's true that either of us can kind of root around in each other's heads, so to speak (after all, we're running on the same hardware), we can also choose not to. He tends to like to experience things firsthand, so while he could get information on just about anything, he sometimes just doesn't look, or doesn't want more than a bare-bones understanding until he can learn it by experiencing it. For example, I've seen the original Star Wars trilogy many times, but because of... things.. I haven't watched it in years. So Teo's never seen them. He knows they exist and has a limited understanding, and he's been on Star Tours at Disneyland. However, he's never actually experienced them himself, and while he could look at my own memories, his knowledge really isn't any greater than someone with their own body who's heard people talk about it and seen stills online and been on the ride. There's also the issue of how well he's paid attention when we've done things since he's been here - if a TV show is boring to him, he's not paying any more attention to it than anyone else who was just in the same room as it but not really watching, so he won't know more about it than that without looking around 'inside'. If we had to do something scary like surgery, he was probably hiding himself the best he could, and won't know details.
Yes, you could ask him to 'find out' from 'inside', but we'd prefer that you don't - if he asks you a question it seems like he should know the answer to, he's asking because he wants the answer firsthand, not secondhand. Telling him to find out himself feels a bit condescending and frustrating, especially since it's something that people used to do to him specifically to brush him off.
Q: I was trying to joke around, but Teo took it very seriously. Doesn't he have a sense of humor?
A: He does, but he's also exceedingly bad at understanding sarcasm, irony, puns, double entendres and humorous exaggeration - even though these are things that I use frequently. Language is not his strong suit, and while he may have an inkling that this is 'one of those times' when a person is saying something they don't mean, he generally takes the road of treating it literally just in case. The only time he really 'gets' the joke is if there's an image or vocal cues to illustrate it as well - it always really reminds me of a bit from Family Guy where 'the foreign guy at the office' is explaining why sarcasm is funny. That's pretty much how it works for Teo - if you say 'nice day we're having' and he can see that you're wet from the rain, he's pretty likely to understand from your tone of voice and the situation that that's a joke. If you type "it's been raining a lot - such nice weather!" and he cannot see anything nor hear your tone of voice, although he knows most people don't love rain, he's going to assume you like it.
Q: I think I might have met Teo before, but it was roleplay. I'm a little uncomfortable now that you're saying he's real.
A: Roleplay is still pretend! So take a deep breath, everything's okay. Roleplay allows Teo a couple of things - he gets to be 'seen' as what he is, a four legged cat-lion, and not what he lives in - a human body. That's very valuable for him. It also gives him the same chance it gives everybody - to play act things that he likes to think about but doesn't/wouldn't actually do, or to experiment with concepts he doesn't have another outlet for. Yeah, he's behind it/involved, but everything does get filtered through me first so I can put things in context for him and so I can polish up the ideas that come back out, so everything ends up with my spin, too. So really, you only know him about as well as you know anybody who RPs who'd tell you their fursona is pretty much them - I've done that too, and although attitudes, opinions and feelings are true to life, actions usually aren't, and reactions are tinkered to fit the fantasy! You can still approach him if you want, and expect about the usual degree of awkwardness when you first meet someone 'out of character'. You're also welcome to address your feelings with me if you need to.
Q: Looking at your gallery, you don't really seem to stick to one thing or one style. What's up with that, is it because you're multiple?
A: I don't know! I've always just been terrible at sticking to one medium or one style forever. As you might have seen in our plurality primer, I do, myself, seem to be a bit fractured, separate from Teo. That might have something to do with it, maybe different bits of me like different things. Maybe I'm just restless! Teo doesn't stick to any one thing forever either, but he mostly just wants to try everything available. It's all play to him on some level and he likes to try out any new 'toys' that make things look 'cool'. So do I, I suppose, at the end of the day!
Q: Can I get art from you? Trades? Commissions? Gifts?
A: Maybe. It really depends. Because we switch mediums a lot, there are some things we're more comfortable and familiar with than others, and depending on what you want, it might be something we're able to tailor to spec or it might be something we don't have a great grasp of yet and don't feel comfortable tackling. I'm going to tend to be picky about trades, and I'm not technically having us open for commissions, but if you're really taken with something and want a piece like it, feel free to drop us a line. Gifts, we really just have to be moved to do it, I don't think it's something that can really be requested, per se. If you want art from Teo, first understand that I doubt he can work to spec. For him, things for other people are tailored to them, but in a much more emotional/feeling way than in a literal 'this is what they like' way. It as much expresses his feeling about the recipient as his sense of who they are. If you wanted to request something from him, you'd be best off either not expecting anything more specific than "I wanted a collage thing" or "a painted thing", or getting to know him pretty well before inquiring. Occasionally, we may just have pre-existing stuff up for straight sale or auction.
Q: Can I offer you artistic advice/critique?
A: I suppose, politely, although I doubt there's a harsher critic of my own work than me. Please don't for Teo, we're just letting him play, and I don't want to ruin the fun for him. What I do definitely need are some digital tips for coloring, texturing etc, so if you know some stuff about GIMP and the Wacom Bamboo tablet, let me know!
Q: Can you teach me how to do something that you do?
A: Maybe. I'm often not that great at explaining art stuff without visual aids, though. Depends on what it is, but I wouldn't say that we really have any 'trade secrets' at the moment - that is, things that we do that are so different from how everyone else does it that we want it proprietary so we are better able to sell our work. If we've adapted techniques, we're generally okay sharing how we did it.
And that's it, as of this moment. If other things seem to come up, I'll try to keep this updated for reference!
