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Deltarune today! I haven't been able to draw anything decent for over a month, so uhh... have this old comic I did a while back.

Battle Against Lancer

... Oh dear... That wasn't supposed to happen...

Deltarune belongs to Toby Fox

Ok, little headcanon here, I think it would be cool if Darkners turned into the object they are in the Light World if they die in the Dark World. Hence, Lancer turning into the Jack of Spades when Susie kills him. She has no idea what just happened, and even though she didn't get any LOVE or anything, she knows that Lancer is definitely dead, and it's her fault. And the player can't do anything to stop it because they can't control or stop Susie.

Anyways, with Ralsei, his robes would cover up the object he really is when he reaches 0 hp, but it wouldn't be damaged like Lancer's card is because it's not a permanent death unless the whole team dies.

But come on, turning into the object could have a whole lore behind it, because the Angel is worshipped by the Light and feared by the Dark, right? So what if it is because light doesn't mean death, but death means light to the Darkners? Like, when a Darkner dies, they are brought to the Light and forced into that form, permanently. It makes sense in my head, ignore my ramblings.

Anyways, I'm not sure how my headcanon would work for Chapter 2 Darkners, but come on, I wasn't going to miss the chance to draw a card sliced to bits with a traumatized Susie looking on. You can tell that I cared about that page because I added a background. Also, I realize that the soul on page 2 comes from Susie when technically it should come from Kris, but I liked the way it looked (and totally didn't notice where it was spawning from when I played the game.)

Comics are hard, but I had so much fun playing around with the panels on the first two pages. My pacing might be a bit off though... Also, it's so so hard to draw the same character over and over in different poses, so sorry if Susie looks a bit different than she should, I did my best. And sorry for the ramble, but that's why I put the keep reading thing up above. If you read through my brain dump, good job! Get yourself a cookie.

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D&D Character Idea

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I'm not sorry.

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World Turtle Day

May 23rd is World Turtle Day, so I painted a picture of my favorite world turtle, the Great A'tuin from Discworld!

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I had a dream that I set myself on fire, and I did not stop, drop and roll... I'm a little disappointed in myself right now.

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I really need ice cream right now...

I have to make a phone call later, and so my brain is doing weird things to compensate for the emotional distress I'm experiencing by turning it into physical discomfort, since that is something that is more easily remedied I guess?

Like, I really need some sort of weight on my shoulders and back, but I don't want a blanket covering my arms because that's just a really bad feeling right now. And I really hate violin music at the moment, like, it's causing me to mildly panic due to the way it sounds? Usually I love strings, but I think I can only listen to brass as long as it's somewhat soft (also I can't listen to woodwinds currently, only brass). And also, I need to taste something cold and sweet because of- hear me out- my current comfort color.

You know that scene in Ratatouille where Remy is tasting stuff and it's doing different music and colors and patterns and things? That's kind of happening to me, but instead the colors are coming first and I'm understanding what tastes I need to make my mouth feel those colors. And in order to get the comforting feeling of... idk, what is that, a pale night sky?... I need cookies and cream ice cream. Vanilla would work, but cookies and cream is just that extra bit I need, like stars in the sky. Not necessary, but it would give the best effect.

Anyways, I feel a little bit silly writing this now... I guess rambling and actually drawing my comfort color helped me calm down, so those things I said before aren't bothering me as much. I still want ice cream though.

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Dogbane Leaf Beetle

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If you were to combine the stories of Little Orphan Annie with Beauty and the Beast, would you call that "Cutie and the Beast"?

So, we've got Penny, the Beauty of this story, and the beast, Lord Riverwood (I'm no good at names), whose design is based off of Miles Edgeworth from Ace Attorney and devilish imps from many different sources. Penny is maybe 10 or 11 years old, with an innocence/good faith in everything that turns out to be a coping mechanism, and Lord Riverwood is a curmudgeonly widower who collects antiques of all shapes and sizes.

One day, Penny's father happens upon Riverwood's manor, and tells Riverwood that he would like some alone time for a week or so, and that if Riverwood takes care of Penny for that amount of time, he'll pay him with an old tea set that Riverwood's been dying to get his hands on. So Riverwood takes care of Penny for a week, then goes with her to her father's house to drop her off and get his tea set.

The only problem is, Penny's father has packed up and moved out of the house. Penny is understandably upset (and in denial) that her father would leave her, and Riverwood is just upset because he won't be getting his antiques, plus now he's stuck with this kid. So he, Penny, and a couple of his servants try to track down the father.

As they travel, Riverwood gets to know Penny a bit better, and finds that she's a sweet kid, even if she's a bit too worried about what other people think of her. Eventually, he decides that maybe it would be better if she just lived with him. After all, her father did abandon her and flake on their deal, so even if he is a beast, he's sure he could be a better dad than him.

The rest of the story is probably Penny coming to grips with her father abandoning her, and realizing that Riverwood does care about her like her father never did. Although Riverwood does have trouble expressing that sometimes...

Additional fun facts:

Riverwood's manor is staffed by human servants. Penny's favorite is the cook, who lets her steal little tidbits of food from the kitchen sometimes.

It is completely possible that Riverwood is just an imp/creature of some sort. But, if he is a transformed human, then he can attend the support group for transformed humans that meets on Thursdays (not to be confused with the support group for animals that were transformed into humans, who meet on Mondays).

Riverwood has a rival who also collects antiques, who has outbid him more than once on one-of-a-kind items at auctions. I think it would be really funny if Riverwood discovered that the tea set he was promised by Penny's father ended up in his rival's collection.

Penny does not know how to swim. This isn't really important to know except for one time when she gets lured away by will-o'-the-wisps and nearly drowns. Riverwood insisted that she learn to swim after that incident.

Penny gains quite a bit of sass when she gets adopted by Riverwood. Her father's love was conditional, so she repressed a lot of things so she could be "worthy" of his love. Her first argument with Riverwood was a shock to her, especially when he came to her a while later and apologized for losing his temper.

Penny was told by her father that the "beast" threatened his life if he didn't give up his daughter. She was unaware of the deal he made with Riverwood for quite some time. She was unwilling to accept that her father would really abandon her, and when she finally does accept it it's hard for all involved.

I swear I'm not a hypocrite. I know, last time I talked about Beauty and the Beast I complained about typical beast designs, and now I've got this bipedal, mammalian based design for Lord Riverwood, but... he's small now. That's got to count for something, right? Most depictions of the beast aren't of small little imps because that's just not threatening, so I'm only partly a hypocrite. Plus, Riverwood is vain and likes fancy clothes, and there is no way I'm designing clothes for some sort of eldritch monstrosity.

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So, it's that time where I am actually able to compose music again, and I recently did a piece that was very beautiful, probably the best piece of music I've ever done (this isn't it), so I wanted to do a little animated piece of environment art to go with the music... except backgrounds are impossible.

So instead, I put on this music and just started scribbling and came up with something that ended up looking like a dragon. I used the music as inspiration for colors, energy, and general vibe, and I used the art as inspiration for the song's title. I like the scribbly style, it's a good way to add texture.

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Some thoughts about Beauty and the Beast

I'm referring mainly to the fairytale itself and how we interpret it. I'll bring up the Disney movie because that's definitely the baseline for a lot of people's experience with this fairy tale, but also the older versions of this story.

There are a lot of retellings and versions of this story. There's the Disney movie, of course, and I remember reading Beauty by Robin McKinley, which is closer to the fairy tale than the movie is, that's for sure. There's also the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche and the Norwegian fairy-tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon, which I am lumping into the Beauty and the Beast category. I'm sure there are so many retellings I just have never heard about, so take this with a grain of salt, because the things I'm going to rant about probably have already been done, making this whole little ramble pointless, but I need to address this, because a lot of the stories I've read feel the same.

so, my mom told me about some more retellings, including one where the beast is a werewolf and one where the beast stays a beast in the end... i still want to ramble

As I ramble, I'll be kind of creating my own disjointed idea to highlight how you can follow the basic premise of the story and still create something wildly different. This will be very, very long, so I'll put a cut here, but there will be art for you to enjoy, so if that convinces you to hear me rant about fairytales as I make my own retelling/reimagining, great!

So. Beauty and the Beast. Prince gets cursed by enchantress into a beast. Beauty's father steals a rose from the beast's garden and is told to bring his daughter to the castle or he'll be locked away forever. Beauty volunteers to save her father (she often has two older sisters that do not want to live with a beast) and is treated like a princess. Each night the beast asks, "Will you marry me?" and Beauty unsurprisingly says no. Eventually Beauty visits her family, and the beast nearly dies of a broken heart, but Beauty comes just in the nick of time and says she will marry him. The beast turns into a handsome prince, they live happily ever after, the end.

So, we've got some basic story here. However, so much of that is actually unnecessary to create a Beauty and the Beast story. The only truly necessary things are a beauty, a beast, and the basic moral of not judging a book by its cover (or beauty is in the eye of the beholder, both work for me.)

I am a character writer, meaning that I usually let the characters write the story through their quirks, their needs, etc. So I'll be outlining the story through the characters of Beauty and the Beast, starting with...

The Enchantress

This is a character that doesn't even physically appear in the story, but is absolutely crucial to its existence. There are many different versions of her, but I think the thing that makes the most sense for my purposes is her being a fairy. And this is actually very important, because if you've ever read about fairies, you know they can be the cruelest, most sadistic creatures imaginable. My inspiration for the enchantress comes from the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

So, the enchantress gets slighted in some way by this prince. It could be full on rudeness, or it could be a perceived slight that a human would not understand. I'm going to say it was a perceived slight, probably something about how fairies think themselves superior to humans, and the prince just didn't give the enchantress the respect she thought she deserved (because yes, I love the idea of the beast being cursed without deserving it, I'll explain later).

With her cruel, twisted sense of humor, the enchantress turns the prince into a hideous, monstrous beast, and the only way for him to break the curse is to have someone agree to marry him and mean it. And here's the fun part: she doesn't realize how impossible this is. Fairies are extremely long lived, but the beast will most likely die before he can break the curse.

Either the enchantress knows this and takes morbid pleasure from the futility (like a cat playing with a mouse) or she can't understand how short humans live and views this as a fair punishment. Seriously, you know how Oberon and Puck play with the lives of humans by using that love potion in Midsummer Night's Dream? Fairies do not understand that humans are more than just animals. They do not understand the psychological torment humans are capable of experiencing due to their actions.

The Beast

The artist in me is very, very annoyed at how many people reach for low hanging fruit when it comes to the beast. He's almost always based off mammals, sometimes he's more animalistic than other times, but he's so normal, even in cases where he's a dragon instead of some big wolf or something.

Come on, this is a fairy we're talking about, possibly one of the most alien things that's not actually from space. The curse should be alien too! Where are my beasts with 8+ limbs or tentacles or mouths covering his body? What if the beast becomes his castle or something? Can you imagine how hard it would be to fall in (romantic) love with a house? I want beasts where the physical transformation is a drastic downgrade in quality of life, like, it's hard to move, or he's got gills so he has to be in water all of the time.

This is my personal version of the beast. He's slow, but strong, and it's hard for him to speak because he's got bug mouthparts. I think Lovecraftian type beasts would be fun to see, but that's outside of my artistic range so... also, can you imagine a beast that's basically a gibbering mouther? idk, someone should make some sort of D&D side quest like that.

I get that in Disney's case, they had to make the beast easy to animate with an expressive face, but do you know how easily that backfires? When he transforms into a prince, we all want the beast back. But can you imagine being Beauty and looking at the face of the most terrifying thing you've ever seen in your life, and you can't tell what it's thinking because he can't express emotions with his face or with body language because his body is so different from a human's?

Not to mention, the psychological effect this would have on the beast himself. He feels trapped in a body that is so foreign from his own, he had to learn how to move and speak and eat, and he knows that he is impossible to love. If you've ever read The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, think of the physical and psychological difficulties Gregor experienced, and you know why I think making the beast's body more beastly can help make his character so much better.

Also, in the case of my beast's story, he didn't really deserve to be punished by the fairy, so he's a bit sore about that. This means that his personality is actually worse than when he was a prince, and thus one obstacle he has to overcome is being a bad person. And the person who helps him is...

The Merchant/Beauty's Father

You thought I was going to say Beauty, weren't you? Well, this is where I discuss my own Beauty and the Beast story a bit more, in which Beauty is barely present, because here's the thing. Love stories bore me. I hardly ever read romance novels unless they're funny. And while this particular story I'm coming up with doesn't have much in the way of romance, it does have some humor and action.

Basically, I liked how Maurice in the movie was this goofy little inventor, a good-natured guy who loves his daughter. So I'm throwing all of that out except the goofiness (and some of the good-naturedness). Basically, the merchant has a terrible sense of direction, so he ends up at the beast's castle, and the beast of course does the usual, "Bring your daughter here, or I'll lock you up forever," to which the merchant agrees. Rather quickly.

The problem is that the merchant with his tendency to get lost ends up coming back to the castle over and over again, until finally the beast is forced to accompany him back home (he has to hitch a ride in the merchant's wagon because it's hard for him to move). Except Beauty is not there, because her father took so long to get back home that she's now out looking for him. Hijinks ensue.

See, the reason I think having the beast and the merchant as a duo is an awesome idea is because both of them are flawed. The beast is grumpy and angry all of the time, and the merchant is pretty selfish. To be fair, the reason he throws his daughter under the bus is to save himself from being locked up, but I still think that's a flaw for a father, especially since he's now actively looking for his daughter because he cares so much about his own skin.

Anyways, as both of them search for Beauty, they are forced to acknowledge their own flaws and fix them in order to achieve their goal of finding Beauty, and eventually grow to respect each other. And now I have to confess something. The whole reason I went on this rant about Beauty and the Beast is because a while back I wrote, "What if Beauty's father was the beast's wingman?"

That's right, it bothered me so much that Beauty's father would sacrifice his own daughter that I had to find a way to make it sweet and a little bit funny. The idea I had was that during this time the merchant and the beast were traveling together, they actually became friends, so much so that the merchant forgot that the guy he's genuinely singing praises about is a beast. Beauty, having gone through none of the stuff her father has, is worried about her father's sanity.

Also, I told my dad about this story, he had an awesome idea for the merchant and beast's road trip where they have to do basically a circus freak show thing with the beast so no one will go on a monster hunt, and the show is a naturally dehumanizing thing. Of course, the beast has already mentally dehumanized himself as much as anyone else can dehumanize him, but there are surprisingly humanizing moments that occur. A cliche example is a little girl giving the beast a flower or something. I love the idea, and my dad is awesome.

Beauty

Honestly, I'm pretty much okay with the variety we have when it comes to depicting the character of Beauty. One thing I would like to see though, is the conflict of Beauty loving someone else.

Like, in most Beauty and the Beast stories, the main reason Beauty says no to the beast's proposals is because he's a beast, which is fair. But inevitably, she falls in love with him, even if she doesn't realize it. And in none of these stories does she already have someone that she already loves so much more than the beast. Some stories have guys that are interested in Beauty, and she's interested in them, but those guys are pretty much forgotten once she goes to the castle.

But can you imagine how terrible it would feel to be forced to leave someone you love, because you don't want your father to die? Can you imagine how hard it would be to make the decision of either sending your father to his death or losing the man you thought you were going to marry? And when the beast asks if you'll marry him, you always say no, even when you consider him a friend, because your heart will always belong to someone else. That would be torture for both Beauty and the beast.

So, in my story, Beauty falls in love with someone else, a guy she met while looking for her father. He's funny and sweet, and they grow close during this adventure. And when her father and the beast finally catch up to them, her heart belongs to the man she met. I have an idea that the father wouldn't accept this, but the beast would. Having gone through character growth over the course of the story to become less angry, he would accept that Beauty was in love with someone else.

Because here's the thing: Beauty and the Beast is a great story about how pretty much anyone can find love, that it's what's on the inside that counts. However, not everyone is right for each other. You can go on a date with someone and just not feel any romantic interest, and that's okay. Sometimes you'll get along with them, enough to become friends, but never more than that. Plus, Stockholm Syndrome might have had a part to play in the original story... but that's a can of worms I'm not going to open right now.

Anyways, for my particular story, I don't know how to give the beast a happy ending, because it would be unfair of me to take Beauty away from her own happy ending just because Beauty should end up with the beast according to the original story. Maybe her own "beast" is the guy she ended up with, because I know he doesn't need to be particularly attractive and probably shouldn't be. So, uh, the beast is stuck as a beast for now because I deviated from the plot of the original story in a way that doesn't let him become human again... whoops. Maybe some sort of Penelope ending?

To sum up the version of Beauty and the Beast I came up with: The prince is turned into a beast by a fairy because of a perceived slight. Beauty's father, a merchant with a terrible sense of direction, gets lost and happens upon the beast's castle. In order to not be locked away forever, the merchant must bring his daughter to meet the beast, but because of his tendency to get lost, the beast is forced to escort the merchant back home. Beauty is gone, having left her house to look for her missing father, and now both the merchant and the beast must find her. Those two become friends as they travel, but it turns out that during her own travels, Beauty has met someone as well, and they fall in love. When Beauty and her father finally reunite, the beast is forced to face the reality that Beauty is in love with another man, so he will have to find another way to become human, or face the reality that he never will (again, I don't know how to end this story).

I'm realizing that I kind of made a completely different story using the characters of Beauty and the Beast, does it still count as a reimagining at least? The beginning is the same until Beauty has to go to the castle. I just wanted the characters to feel a bit different, but to do that I guess I changed the story too... ah well. I like fairy tales, I like character analysis, I have a version of Cinderella where she's actually a dragon... I guess that's just how I roll.

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It's done!!! Finally, finally, I have finished my afghan. I have had that yarn (and pattern) for three years, and I finally did it! This is the first time I've done a project this big too. Five and a half skeins... wow!

And it is very comfy too. I actually have it wrapped around me right now, and it is so nice. There's just this weight and texture to it that I really like, I don't know how to explain it.

I did like 25 rows yesterday, and my wrist is killing me... and my back. I have even worse posture when I crochet than when I do art. But the comfiness is worth it! And I still have several more skeins of this purple yarn to work with on whatever project I decide to do next... after I take a break.

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About Toriel

Ok, you know how the first child's items are in the ruins? What if Toriel had years with that child, years to love and protect and be a mom again? For whatever reason, the child does not want to leave. Then the child dies. Maybe they are killed by a monster, maybe there's some sort of accident, but Toriel is devastated because she's lost a child all over again.

So she lets the next child leave, and the child after that, because she is too scared to love and lose again. It's like she's cursed to lose what she dares to love. She continues on, years and years of waiting, wondering why on earth Asgore hasn't just gone through the barrier and collected the rest of the souls himself.

What makes it worse is that now she's heard that some of the human children have killed monsters, human children that she let leave the ruins with barely any resistance. It's her fault that both the humans and those monsters are dead now. It doesn’t feel like she can do anything right.

She can hardly stand the guilt, but speaking to her friend on the other side of the door helps. They share jokes, talk about nothing in particular, and Toriel feels herself opening up more and more. A part of her is healing due to this time where she can set her expectations and guilt aside and just listen to a friend.

Then the final human falls down. That terrible flower is attacking them, but she takes care of him swiftly. It's strange though. He usually does his best to avoid her, and she knows that he knows that she visits the flowers at this time.

What she doesn't know is that this flower is her son Asriel, but it's not like he never told her. But Toriel didn't give the reaction her son was expecting. It's like she refused to believe that this flower is her son. Flowey thinks that she forgot him, that she moved on. But in reality, she was scared. Scared that if this really is Asriel, if she really believes and loves and lets herself heal, she'll lose him again, like she's lost everyone else.

Of course, she doesn't know any of this. Flowey has reset so many times that he's a different person now, unwilling to feel, just like his mother. But unlike Flowey, Toriel has some hope. She protected this child from the flower after all. Maybe she can protect them from everything else. Maybe she can love again without fear.

Everything seems to be going great for a while... but then the human asks to leave. Toriel is terrified of losing another child, and she knows that this is the last human they need to break the barrier, but she can't be responsible for the death of another child. She won't be responsible, so she decides to destroy the entrance to the Ruins. She'll never speak to her friend again, but that won't matter if she saves this human, if she breaks the curse that makes her afraid to love like she wants to.

But the first human that fell never left the ruins, a tiny part of her mind protests. She remembers the feeling of a cold, dead body in her hands all too well, something she wants to never experience again. She is still scared to love, but she's even more scared to be the reason a child dies. So, she makes a deal. "Prove yourself... Prove to me you are strong enough to survive."

So they fight. Toriel does not want to kill the human, only scare them back upstairs. But in an instant, no time for her to react, the human gets hit and collapses to the floor. She stands there shocked for a few moments before rushing to their aid.

The body is so warm... they could just be asleep, they look so peaceful lying there. But deep down, she knows. She has too much experience with this sort of thing not to know.

And this time, it really is her fault. All the guilt she felt before is nothing compared to this. All of those other times there was something else to blame, something she could be angry at during the hard times. But this time, this time she has no one to blame but herself.

Toriel remembers crying when Asriel and Chara died. But the tears won't come as she cradles this human in her arms. "This human..." She didn't even know their name. She feels a pain in her soul like she's never felt before, both dull and aching and sharp and hot, worse than anything she's ever experienced. But the tears still won't come.

All Toriel can do is hope in vain that somehow, some miracle can bring her child back.

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When that miracle comes, Toriel won't remember the pain. It's better that way.

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World Art Day!!!

It's April 15th, World Art Day! As an artist, I am taking this holiday to celebrate the many, many different forms of art and the sheer variety of mediums available to make art with.

It's been a while since I've done traditional art. I'll admit that my skills have kind of devolved, but it's a lot of fun anyways. I have an Altoids tin where I keep my watercolors, and I bring it with me when I go birding. When I use it I usually end up painting flowers or leaves because birds move too much, though I've done some decent heron sketches (no idea where I put them).

I love Celtic knots so, so much. It is a lot harder than it looks to physically knot a Celtic knot. Also, the design that is stamped (and knitted) is my own design. I am proud of myself for being able to make a unique triquetra of my own. That doesn't mean no one else has made that particular design before, but I have a book with over 60 triquetra examples, and I'm pretty sure my design was not one of them.

I love sculpting. I'm not that good at it, but 3D art often scratches an itch that 2D doesn't. Strangely enough, I am really heavy handed, which makes it difficult to shape/preserve small details, yet most of my sculptures are small (like this one). In fact, I once made a spinning wheel out of mouse bones (for a sleeping beauty piece of art) and it was only about 2-2.5 inches big. It was so delicate... it might still be intact though.

Photography is something I got into in 9th grade. Our biology class was supposed to make bug collections (gross) so I asked if my collection could be a photo collection. Being a birder, I continued with photography and got my own camera in my junior year of high school. Photography is one of those art forms that looks like it should be easy, but getting good shots requires effort and an artist's eye, and I didn't realize that until I got into it myself.

My little brother was in a play recently. He was Michael from Mary Poppins and did so well! I'm not an actor myself, but one of the best high school memories I have is playing violin in the pit orchestra for a high school production of Beauty and the Beast. My brother (different than the actor one) played cello, so he could actually see the stage as he played. He's doing Newsies this year, and I am so jealous.

Speaking of music, here's a piece I wrote a long time ago (because I made a lot of these artworks today and didn't have time to compose anything new).

Anyways, happy World Art Day! I had a lot of fun celebrating and I am so grateful for all of the different forms of art available for us to appreciate!

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Laughing at Myself

April 14th is International Moment of Laughter Day. I am not that good at funny things, so I just thought I would share some doodles that have made me laugh at myself, whether it be because they're ugly, I was just having fun, or I was so terrible it was funny to me. That last one is about pixel art, by the way. Pixel art is something I will probably never be good at.

It's fun to look back at art that makes you go, "What was I thinking?" It's a good reminder that I don't need to make amazing art to just have a good time making art. These doodles bring back good memories because I was just having fun when I drew them.

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Draw A Picture of A Bird Day

April 8th is Draw a Picture of a Bird Day! I've been trying to figure out how to do digital watercolor, and one thing I always paint is birds. This doesn't quite have the watercolor look I would like, but practice makes progress. It also doesn't help that owls are just really hard to draw. (I just realized the eyes are a bit off, but liquify is really hard to use in Krita.)

Okay, I have a new favorite bird, the Purple-throated Mountain Gem. Just look at those colors! Absolutely gorgeous! I think I'll make this my new profile picture.

Gonna be honest, this is heavily referenced from a picture on eBird. I usually do my best to use multiple references or use my own pictures, but lighting and iridescence are not easy to draw from imagination. I wish I could take my own reference pictures of this beautiful bird but that's not really feasible.

First time drawing Martlet. I needed a break both from digital art and the indoors, so I visited a nearby park with my sketchbook. It was a bit windy outside, so my hands were cold as I drew, but it was so worth it to go out, sit on the grass, feel the wind... man, I love nature.

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DELTARUNE RELEASE DATE!!!

Deltarune 1-4 releases on both National Ketchup Day and National Start Over Day. I now have Deltarune comic ideas for Start Over Day to celebrate. I can't wait for June 5th.

In the meantime, I should probably replay Chapters 1 and 2 so I'll have a save file with the shadow crystals and everything. Man, can't wait to possess a teenager against their will and force them to make friends with everybody. (Unless I decide to do Snowgrave... which I might. Good thing Deltarune has multiple save files!)