Where to begin…



So since the passing of our beloved Monty Oum I’ve had a lot of thoughts in regards to many things I won’t get into. While everyone was drawing their tribute pictures to him when we first heard the news I just…couldn’t. I wish I could say just drawing a picture would have been enough to help me move forward but even I knew that just was not the case. My admiration ran far deeper than that.



It’s been a tough few months but I’m happy to have finally drawn another fanart from his amazing project.



For this I would like to thank my dear friend captainmidas who lit the spark in me through his appreciation for my fanart and made me want to try again. I’d also like to thank Shane Newville. Because even though it makes me cry a little whenever I see him retweet something Monty said I feel like he gave me a swift kick when I said I’d lost all my drive for my RWBY fanart and my own projects…Monty wouldn’t have wanted me to stop creating. I think he wanted a world full of creativity and in that aspect…while I couldn’t think of how to go out of my way to pay tribute to him, by not creating I haven’t BEEN paying tribute. I don’t need to build him a monument or draw a dozen portraits of him. I just have to never stop what I’m doing…and I think that’s more than enough.



This picture isn’t a tribute, its a fanart of the series I love. This doesn’t express my inner sadness from his passing, its an expression of my desire to create. While I’d like to do the male villains of RWBY too I make no promises for the future. We’ll just have to see where things go and keep moving forward.

