u/corvid1692

I'm learning to be an artist, and I have aphantasia. My father is a professional artist with vivid visualization. He has told me several times since learning about my aphantasia that I should channel my unique (aphantasic) perspective into my art. I'm... not sure what that means.

Do you have any thoughts as to what that would entail, and how I could try that out? To a real extent, I just want to make neat art, but maybe it'd be interesting to follow his suggestion as an exercise.

The closest I've gotten to this was, after learning I had aphantasia and that others could see pictures of my memory, draw a picture of my grandmother's front porch entirely from memory. I hadn't (at the time) seen the porch in the fifteen years since her passing. A few weeks ago I saw a photo of it and could compare and I got pretty close.

So any ideas on what I could do?

I'm looking at hitboxes, curious about trying them. The left and right hand buttons look very close together. I have larger hands and would prefer one with more space, but they don't seem to exist. Does anyone know of one, and is there a good reason why they're always so close?

I built a fight stick using an AFS enclosure a few years ago but haven't had much chance to use it. I'm playing more now and the hard edges are hurting my arms. I was considering building a second one when I could, and wanting to start researching my options. I like the sega2p layout, but want something rounder and maybe lighter than the metal afs. I have long arms and big hands, so maybe a wider deck would be better.

Picture of my current deck enclosed, art is mine. I want something softer than this.

https://preview.redd.it/h5j9aiov5v0h1.jpg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58a503441a3eaaf7e400e5cae56ed32512189980

I know Tekken does with EWGF, do any of the other major games have any?

Edit: I should have said "Just frames" not frame perfect. My apologies.

What social class or status were 17th century, around 1660-11680 or so, French opera singers likely to come from? And were there exceptions, or was this a hard and fast rule?