Ja ich bin eine Frau :>

1. finding new music often leads me to getting ideas for certain "moods" or atmospheres (color combinations, compositions, light-setting) and for subjects I often return to "themes" that I like, undead stuff, mutated stuff, ghostly stuff or just plain doggos and dragons. It also helps to steadily keep an eye out for artwork I like and keep collections of them like www.deviantart.com/remarin/fav… or rema-rin.tumblr.com/tagged/ins…

2. uuuuh I used to do animation in Krita (free) but now I use TV Paint for school assignments ( not free) and at school we use Maya for 3D art, but for simple 2D painting I only ever use PS.

3. Sorry but not at the moment :'> I barely manage to finish a commission once a week, and for months now it feels like I've continuously had at least 5 projects on my to-do list at any given moment. (school stuff, personal stuff, commission stuff and more) so starting to accept trades would be a bit overwhelming for me (posting a trade for me means getting at least one or more immediate asks from other people, and I want to be able to everyone equal treatment,,so I'd feel obligated to accept those too after doing one - and then the cycle would repeat)

4. basically 8 years of blindly just doing whatever i felt like (and more than once refusing invites to meet friends to instead draw oops (my social life outside of school is still near to nonexistent hahah.........)) and then 2-3 years of sudden motivation to figure out the path to "professionalism" and more conscious research and even occasional studies -short version :'I