For my tech class we had to talk with experts on a topic on twitter. My topic was fantasy art (dragons etc…). I followed several hobbyists/professionals in this field. Their twitter names are:

@willmurai @TitanBooks @selinafenech @SheppardArts @TanjaWooten @PurpleDragArt @stevethegoblin @wcwart @jackmonkygames @MarkAdelhoch @KimDeMulderArt

All of these people I followed because of their knowledge in drawing creatures that don’t actually exist. I asked them to tell me where they got inspiration from because I found it hard to draw things I had never seen in reality. they told me that they got inspiration from the world around them and that they took aspects of different things and put it together in a drawing. This realy helped me because at the time I was trying to draw wings on a dragon but they never looked right. Once I got this information I looked at pictures of bats and drew something resembling that.

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I got varied results. Only four of these people responded to my questions.These people were,  @jackmonkygames,  @PurpleDragArt, @MarkAdelhoch, and @stevethegoblin Most of them did not follow me. Only two people did in fact,  @jackmonkygames and @PurpleDragArt. Aside from answering my  questions a few did more. @PurpleDragArt asked me to give her an idea of something to draw.

Over all I think that this is not a very time effective research method because it takes so long. we were doing this for three months and we only got a little information. In theory I think it was a good idea but in practice I think that it would just be more effective to just google what you want to know.

Have you ever done a project like this? If so comment on this post about it and tell me if it worked well for you.