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heat of the moment

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Moriarty is showing off his fucking thing he created

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It's been a while since I've checked here, but apparently I've been on this site a year by now. Cool

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My dog recently died.

On the morning of December 28th this year, my beloved dog Penny, my rat terrier I've had since 2007 finally passed away. She was almost 16 years old. This has hit me really hard and I don't think life will ever be the same without her. It's been a rough past few days. I was hoping she would make it until 2023 at least. But I guess it just wasn't meant to happen. She was not put down, she died in our home peacefully. But it was sad seeing her in her last days; she struggled to get around, barely if at all ate (which was very out of character for her as she loved food) and had trouble controlling herself resulting in accidents. It was clear she didn't have long. Even then I hung on to some hope that she could have survived a bit longer. What's kind of odd is that night, I randomly woke up at 4am and felt something was off, but I brushed it off and was able to get back to sleep. At 8am I woke up, and unfortunately found her dead in her kennel. I think she may have died around 4 am because of that. Regardless, I will miss her a lot and as I said, it's gonna take a while to get better from this. I hope you all are doing well though.

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"Redesigned" Ice Bear for a digital painting assignment ❄️

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It me :)

Doodle for a friend on twitter

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Nostalgia

One of the things I've been feeling a lot recently is nostalgia, I have a love-hate relationship with the feeling. On one hand you smile remembering good times but on the other you get sad you can never re-experience that ever again. That's why I try to enjoy so many things in the moment now. But anyway, it's been on my mind a lot. I recently watched a video about a design language called "Frutiger Aero" (video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL7kTMtvebQ) and this is what I grew up with. Skeuomorphism was rampant during these years, which is considered to be a key part of the design language. This design langauge in operating systems such as Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. These are my personal favorites not just because of nostalgia, but I feel these systems were really refined and looked really clean. It also just felt like you were in a different world, especially with some of those wallpapers. I remember as a kid I would just go through the wallpapers on Windows 7 and imagine the kind of worlds they were in. Truly a magical time. Also around this time, I was first exposed to the iPhone, namely the 4. I was too young to care about "antenna gate" and I thought a touchscreen phone was just so incredible. iOS 4 through 6 were definitely the most nostalgic for me. I remember iOS 5 on my sister's iPod Touch 4, another super nostalgic piece of tech for me. She really liked Owl City, and I would then come to listen to a lot of their stuff too. My favorites were Fireflies and then Peppermint Winter, a song I've been listening to a lot recently, with it being Christmas and all.

Enough about tech, another thing I'm super nostalgic for is TV channels back in the early 2010s. You see back then cable was actually worth watching I feel like, and definitely peaked then until Netflix took over in the mid 2010s. I also miss old Netflix from 2011. It was reasonably priced, no ads and had a good library. As far as TV networks go, I would mainly watch Cartoon Network, Nick and PBS Kids. CN was going through a huge renaissance, with tons of new shows, that are super nostalgic to me now, something I like to dub the "Check It Renaissance" referring to CN's branding at the time. A kind of weird interest of mine is channel idents or bumpers that air between programming and commercials. Check it 1.0 from CN (2010-2013) is by far the most nostalgic for me, with cool flipnote like bumpers, catchy music, and skeuomorphism galore. But PBS Kids' bumpers from around the time (and PBS Kids Go's) are also super nostalgic for me. Nickelodeon's branding was already bland af and hasn't really improved since. But I loved spongebob, drake and josh, and icarly as a kid so I would watch it frequently. I think it was just such a good time for me simply because I was a young kid. I wasn't quite aware of what happened in the world, I just enjoyed life, played with friends, and quite a few family members who are unfortunately deceased now were alive and doing very well then. I think people weren't quite as addicted to the internet back then as a lot of us are now, obviously the internet has done a lot of good over the years, getting us through a pandemic and all, but it definitely has its downsides. I just feel like back then people would only pull their phone out if they had a call, or to show it to friends/family because it was such a novelty then. I miss when technology was advancing so fast, everything new was so cool. Each new iphone was a huge improvement over the previous, while now it feels like the only thing that really improves is the battery. The iPad was first introduced in 2010, quad core processors became standard back then too in desktops and high end laptops... and desktops nowadays are STILL shipping with quad cores. I'm not saying there's been no improvements to tech- that is incredibly untrue. VR has matured a ton since the clunky Oculus DK1 from 2013, 100 core processors are now a thing apparently, Apple's M1 and M2 processors have been able to accomplish things unimaginable back in 2010, and tons of discoveries with technology has been discovered to help the medical field and such. I guess I'm just not a young kid who thinks every new piece of technology is the coolest thing ever haha.

In conclusion, I love the late 2000s/early 2010s, it was just a truly special and incredible couple of years for me. Hopefully one day things like the design language from then will make a comeback or something. Anyway, hope you all have a wonderful Christmas Eve. Happy Holidays :)

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Up all night

You ever just

stay up all night and then take like a two hour nap in the day only to stay up all night again? Yeah, thanksgiving break is going great so far

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let the revolution begin

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Vibri is just standing there... menacingly...

(Also a test of a couple of things. I wanted to do some chromatic aberration as well as have some sort of fisheye thing going on that is focused on the top of her head. I think it turned out pretty alright!)

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Time for an art dump post. This time I have decided to choose 4 images to show off. I might show off some more in a different post but I might that would become too long of a post, at least for today.

Vibri plays pool for the first time. She has just realized the importance of NOT moving the 8 ball into a hole until it's time. Safe to say that she didn't win that game.

Rai (cat) and some unnamed specimen exchanging... lovely sentences of affection...? Probably not a good idea to base yours off a book about psychological conditions from the 1960s.

This one was from a prompt by someone from school. They had generated some images of a fictional Pokémon, specifically one that is pink and blue holding utensils. After generating a bunch of them, he challenged me to pick one and draw it. (Left: My image. Right: original reference image, courtesy of OpenAI)

The only digital art for this art dump. Uninterestingly, Rai just talking about something. If you are wondering what he is talking about, an answer cannot be given because I never thought about that. Sorry!

Glad I'm being given the chance to one, draw more often, and two, talk about it more. Back on Twitter, I do draw sometimes but that was because I didn't give myself enough time to actually do more of it. It also seems that I like to write about as can be seen from my generally long Tumblr posts.

Also a lot of the mutuals I have that do art things have accounts on here too, so I'm not losing much by posting here rather than there. As long as I have my friends' approval.

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Yours Truly ✨🐺⚡️