advice for concept/species makers

update I think this needs to be reposted with all the weird bad vibes I'm getting lately from DA.
Another good journal too: Remember kids, ask permission.

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Literally make everything. Everything you could possibly think of. Who cares if it's been done 100x before, do it again and again. AND AGAIN.

You don't know what will hit off. Sometimes you'll make something the public loves. Sometimes you'll make something you adore. Sometimes (most times) you will make something you hate, dislike, or aren't even interested in.

make. everything.

This is literally the best advice anyone ever gave to me. You got an idea of wingless chickens? do it. You have an idea of moss covered dogs? do it. You have an idea of crazy sparkle saber-bunnies that poop gems? DO IT.

Write down all your mad ideas. Even the ones that seem "stupid" to you. Write them down, in your spare time add more and more to them. You'll never know what might actually become of them. I've been developing my species and Clo World for the past 10 years and they're still rough around the edges and no where near complete.

Trust me, write down all your ideas and build them up for fun. For practice. For yourself.

You don't know it yet, but it could be gold.