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I made the terrible mistake of restarting my Animal Crossing New Horizons game, brand new island and everything. All my creative motivation is now dedicated to terraforming my island uuugughhguguhhh.

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So yeah 2020 consisted of me trying to finish dozens of single drawings/series of drawings and failing to maintain any sort of attention span. Let me tell you working in the healthcare field these days sucks away any motivation to want to work on personal projects. :(((

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Animal Crossing x original character Noisulli crossover doodles! These are like from July 2020 but I’m like super late in posting anything I do these days lol

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“The Proxy”

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An over-the-top sketch page to practice shading. But mostly it was just an excuse to draw Noisulli with Iolaria formation “hair styles”!

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Hi guess who has art block. 

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what inspired you to make this story? was it out of pure boredom or does it have a more significant beginning? I really love your work and it really inspires me =)

First of all, thank you!! <3 Alright I will try to not write a wall of text, here it goes!!

The Noisulli storyline changed several times over the course of over a decade, in mostly three major variations. Initially yes it was out of sheer boredom in some extracurricular activity/club I did in highschool back in 2008 I think. I remember being in poetry club and writing random words backwards to try to come up with ideas for a poem. "Lunar" to "Ranul"... and welp there's the birth of a new OC. :'D I designed several Noisulli off of elemental themes based on their namesakes, the first few being Ranul, Ralos, Radec, Latep, and Larips. They originally weren't alien, but almost pixie-like. Shortly afterwards they did become alien and reported their "earthly findings" to a higher up known as the "Creator" (at the time was only Etinifni). It was for the most part a cutesy "Noisulli learning about humanity" story. Ranul and Ralos followed day and night human life differences (they were also starcrossed lovers in this variation), Radec and Latep were considered the original "fairies" in mythology to humanity, and Larips had a crossover story with another of my OCs Miro and Tuooneo for some reason.

A few years later I completely redid the entire Noisulli universe, no longer taking place anywhere near Earth or humanity but instead the singular Noisulli homeworld of COTU (a stupid abbreviation for "center of the universe"). This revision is a little closer to how it is now, with the introduction of the Successor/Creator hierarchy, cloning, and the Noisulli deity, Muinnellim. The Creators in this version (Etinifni, Edaced, Etunim, Raey, and Ruoh) were the direct descendants of the original Noisulli race who died out due to their own demise (it wasn't clear what that demise was at that time). Ranul, Ralos, Radec, Latep, and Larips were the current Creators' direct bloodline or "children". The Creators in this version directly managed the cloning machines that birth new Noisulli. Their title of Creator literally meant that they created life, named all the new Noisulli themselves, and were the "parents" to all Noisulli. Ranul in this version had "daddy issues" with his Predecessor Etinifni, hahaha.

My current version of the Noisulli story (since late 2013) is mostly inspired by the "Grey Goo Effect" theory (nanotechnology that self-replicates by consuming carbon). There has been eleven generations of the Creator Program as of present day, which is an education program that chooses the most qualified Noisulli to become Creators. Creators are considered now more as members of an elite ethics committee that work with homeworld leaders on the management of the Lanretni Iolaria system each Noisulli hosts, given at birth via controlled cloning/birth. Noisulli host this system to give them the ability to survive the unrefined "wild" Iolarian nanotechnology, preventing them from being devoured by it (this is how their original race almost died out) and rendering them immune. Life is no longer apocalyptic for the Noisulli, and Iolaria nanotechnology has become a common everyday thing and a major building block for their daily lives and infrastructure. Gradually over the past 5-6 years or so I've been slowly adding on to it and expanding on their lore. I began to focus on world building and creating the new Noisulli homeworlds of Esrevinu, Aniram, Elpam, and Citcra, as well as developing the downfall of their old world Enacra. I've mostly been developing each individual characters, and bringing together all their stories and perspectives into one major event of their present day. And despite all these years of working on these dumb characters I still don't have a fluid overall story or goal in mind for ending this whole thing!! |:D

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Hey hi yes I am still making art I promise. Problem is... I get a new laptop and get the opportunity to make digital art again after SO LONG without it... and I sort of went berserk with like way too much inspiration and art ideas. Big multiple drawing series too heh. So, here is proof. Pray for me that I’ll eventually finish something!! My attention span is shot from work as is. Also video games are taking like 50% of my freetime too. I love Animal Crossing New Horizons so muuuuch uugughhhh

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Limited color palette sketches!~

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Guess who got their new laptop finally!!! It’s been like 3 months without digital art.

Playing around and fixing settings while working on this sketch. I’m now realizing it has very strong “don’t talk to me or my son again” vibes...

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Some sketches I inked during these stressful days at work. Playing around with appearances and ideas for Muinnellim, that it has different motifs it assigns for each first in command Creator it has worked with. It takes on these motifs in its appearance when it references or thinks about past Creators.

(Enilapo was supposed to be included too but I spilled food on that sketch... I’m a slob ha)

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Hello all! Apart from the latest in news, I had the bonus of my laptop dying on me. So the past few weeks have reignited my love for traditional media. I need something to de-stress myself, working in the healthcare field is awful right now. Stay safe and healthy everyone!!

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Something different and not original characters, decided to do some Warframe fanart and I drew my Mag! It's mostly just an excuse to draw a lot of shiny gold stuff.

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Between it snowing over here a couple weeks ago, and getting sick now twice, I had some time away from work to do some drawings! Top drawing is an unnamed Remmus Elpam location, recently abandoned and becoming overgrown by fungi. I missed making fractals so much!
Bottom drawing is a profile picture of Ercan I indulged in. I can’t decide if I like drawing Ranul or Ercan more… both are dramatic pretty boys. :’D

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2010 (top) -----> 2019 (bottom)

Not so much of a complete redraw, but more just inspired by an almost decade old watercolor drawing I did!

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I guess the year 2019 was the year where I drew Noisulli headshots and nothing else. And also learned the magic and joy of shading fabrics :’D