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Finally finished my King's Quest cross stitch project! Wasn't the first I was planning to do (favorite KQ5 death screen coming soon to a tumblr near you lol), but it took a while for that aida fabric to come in, so I worked with the black I had in the meantime. I think it turned out pretty well, all things considered! (Choosing colors was a paaaaaaaaain)

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i actually properly scanned it and threw color on it like i said i wanted to wut

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Sanji Week 2025

Day 6: Emotions

Didn't come out quite as I wanted it to but was still fun.

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Sanji Week 2025

Day 5: Sea

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Sanji Week 2025

Day 4: Bonds

Me: Oh, hey! There's a Sanji Week going on while I've got a little extra downtime - neat! Well, I'm behind, but what's Day 4... "Bonds", huh? So, something nice with the crew or maybe Zeff or—

My Brain: A promise to kill you if you lose yourself is a bond. 8D

Me: ...you are so right.

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From about a month ago. Just never posted them. Kept thinking I might actually finish up the bottom one, but it seems like it might stay simple lineart forever.

First one based on imagery used in my fic "(Keep My) Back To You" (mostly the end of chapter 2, but really it's just a big theme of the first half of the fic).

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Was a bit of a weird costume year for me in that I actually got everything done with time to spare! XD Younger nephew wanted to be shrimp tempura sushi, so the older decided to be chopsticks (stilts made by my dad and uncle). But the younger needed a costume he could play an upright bass in, so I threw together the strawberry in a couple days. Turns out it was big enough that my sis could wear it while taking them trick-or-treating!

Only my second time making a costume for my older niece, but she wanted to be Princess Pipp Petals from My LIttle Pony. I had never made a wing/tail harness setup before, but she LOVED it (the hat not so much as it was "kind of annoying" lol), and other than the tail being a bit higher than I'd wanted, I thought it turned out super cute!

Inexplicably sitting around with extra time on my hands, I decided to make Naruto's jacket as I had most of the materials already and the "hair" (which I made... 2 decades ago...? ^_^;;). It might be the most well-constructed thing I've ever made? XD Super comfortable - love it so much!

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I got tired of one of my oldest OCs being the only one without a colored thumbnail on ArtFight, lol. Created Gideon here in 10th grade so please excuse the fact that he is a red-haired hothead that can control fire. XD

Gideon has a special place in my heart due to all the memories I have surrounding him. A friend of mine and I used to come up with stories together where one would control one main character and the other would control the other main character. We came up with 6.5 such stories, 5.5 being written down, and 4.5 still surviving to this day (one I turned into an AU fanfic and is up on my ffn account lol). Gideon is from our 4th story, and it's always been my favorite. It's not good by any means, but we had a blast working on it - our notebook is chock full of inside jokes all over the margins.

So yeah, this is Ignatius Gideon Russell - Gideon to friends, Iggy to anyone that wants to be burned to a crisp. His grandpa was the last dragon in the world, hiding in human form to keep from being hunted, and his red hair/eyes and affinity for fire were passed down to Gideon.

When he was young, Gideon accidentally set his house on fire and killed his parents. Ever since, he was feared and ostracized, living alone on the edge of town, until a wandering shapeshifter named Cecilia decided he was interesting and tried to make friends with him.

After being accused of murdering a local bully, Gideon, with Cecilia in tow, ran off. While trying to stay ahead of the soldiers chasing them, the two had various adventures, all while coming to understand what it meant to just simply be a friend to someone.

He's a total jerk. He can be a real idiot. He's the most stubborn person ever. And I absolutely love him. XD

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ArtFight Attacks Round 2!

Top - Madelyn by Lexiip Bottom Left - Esrev by @soupmanimation Bottom Right - Perceline and Isalina by Perceneige (insta)

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ArtFight Attacks Round 1!

Top - Noa by Perceneige (insta) Bottom Left - Cynthian by 4LeafRose (toyhouse) Bottom Right - Elise by DemureGirl (dA)

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Creature of Night, to me succumb! Fire and Brimstone leave thee numb. Purity bind thee like a chain. To do what e'er I now ordain!

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Haven't drawn the screennamesake in a very long time. I was due.

King's Quest has the best funky little critters, from Rotten Tomato to Dangling Participle to cats that are actually evil wizards that ate porridge flavored with a cookie that turns them into a cat.

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I feel like I've barely drawn at all the past few years. My sketchbook reflects this, having started drawing in it Jan 2018 with about a third of it still blank as of last summer. So I have been making genuine attempts to sit down and draw more. Feeling out of practice, a lot of the time I would copy images instead of freehanding (collages 1 and 3), but I tried not to rely solely on that (collage 2), and lately I've been feeling more confident. So I'm just gonna post my progress here. Because that's kinda what this sideblog is for, lol.

I used to be able to say "if you wanna know what I'm into at the moment, just open my sketchbook". For the past year, that's been true for the first time in quite a long time. It feels nice.

Thorfinn showed up first, working on him while on vacation last year. Meant to draw him more, but it took me quite a while just to finish the one (gosh I'd drawn, like, one, small picture in the two years prior?).

But then my One Piece phase hit, and I realized that I had only ever attempted to draw Sanji maaaaaybe once about 15 years ago? lol So I practiced until I felt comfortable enough to try it without copying. Not all the final results made it into this post, and I'm still not super satisfied, but all the random headshots really helped get me back into the groove.

The random guy in the middle of the second one is an old OC named Xander that I was never fully happy with his design (the drawing was an attempt to update it, though I'm not sure I was successful, lol). And we've got a couple very boring Zukos - I hadn't drawn him in like a decade so I went as simple as possible.

Characters I haven't had a lot of practice with, though, are superheroes in general - I drew Spider-Man a fair amount, like, 30 years ago, and I'd attempted some version or other of Robin a couple times, but I tend to find all the details a bit intimidating. So I finally sat down and practiced drawing some of my favorite comic heroes. X-Men '97 got me to finally draw Gambit for the first time and that lead to me rereading some of my Batman/Robin/Nightwing comics and drawing Dick and Damian as well. Pretty far outside my comfort zone, but I quite enjoyed it.

Lately I've been filling the pages with some King's Quest, but I'll save that for a future post (maybe lol). I've got maybe only a fifth of my sketchbook left, which is especially great seeing as how it is completely falling apart and being held together by duct tape and a prayer. XD It'll be nice to finally be able to move on to the new one I've had sitting around for a couple years now, waiting to finally be opened. If you for some reason decided to read all my ramblings, kudos to you! lol It's just nice having somewhere I can get this kind of stuff out on occasion.

(References taken from the Vinland Saga anime, One Piece anime/manga, X-Men: The Animated Series, Batman and Robin comics, and Nightwing comics.)

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The live action Avatar the Last Airbender series coming out got me to finally sit down and finish an AMV that's been in limbo for over 11 years. So there's that.

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Got an email out of the blue asking if I’d be up for a magnet commission. In this economy? Yeah, why not! Always warms my heart to hear that years after I’ve stopped selling at cons someone out there still has an old business card on their fridge. <3

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A bit late, but pics of my nephews in the costumes I made them for Halloween this year! Link (Zelda BotW - a hand-me-down from last year) had lost the gloves and arm guard the day prior and poor Emperor (Splatoon manga) only had one gun, but the day was nice, and both boys had a great time. Was really happy with how Emperor turned out! I started with this pattern for the Bokoblin mask, altering it as I saw fit, like non-stuffed buttons, but it was really helpful!

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Much to celebrate on this Odaiba Day!!