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Currently playing Pokemon Violet. I'm having fun despite the frame rate/glitches/purely decorative buildings/the sad fact that wild pokemon can no longer use hyperbeam on me directly.

But the one thing I'm desperately missing from earlier entries is dress up. I want frills and ribbons, damn it!

Anyway I'm getting out my frustration by drawing the cutesy outfit that will never be. I can't believe they made me look at a character with a giant pokemon backpack and won't let me own one.

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I think I know what my problem is.

When I was a kid, my dad kept a Mad Magazine subscription running for me. My brother and I would go to his house and enthusiastically tear into each new issue. Spy Vs. Spy, caricatures of celebrities and politicians I didn't know, the absurd-yet-not-unrelatable misery of Monroe...

But of course the first thing I read was the letters other kids had sent in. I read them and wondered how -Ed. would insult me if I gave them a chance.

So I did. I wrote a letter...a long letter. I drew pictures. I asked them questions. I told them which Tom was my favorite Tom. By the time I was done I needed a manila envelope to mail it in.

Sealing it, I said to my dad, "There's so much stuff in here, they'll *have* to respond to *something*!"

He said he didn't think so, which I was hurt by at the time--but he was right. Of course he was. It was unfocused, multi-media child spew.

Which is basically how I live my whole life, art-wise.

I learned how to knit last year! I picked up 3D modeling this year! I've done pencils, pens, highlighters, sharpies, pastels, charcoal, origami, papercrafting, still lifes, comics, poetry, mix-and-match books, short stories, novels, visual novels, digital painting, irl painting, animation, sculpting, cooking, very bad attempts at music, sewing for humans, sewing for dolls, so many tutorials, autobiographical junk like this post...

I'm still a kid stuffing a manilla envelope.

I called it a problem in the title, but I don't know! I love having experienced all these different sides to art, even the ones I wasn't any good at. I'm fascinated by Art the Broad Concept more than any particular medium.

If I could improve at limiting scope and increasing focus within a given work, though...yeah, that would probably help.

In unrelated news, I'm writing an entire self-help book for my visual novel. I assure you it is integral to my vision.

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Stupid bonus version below the cut!

Husband thought it needed googly eyes.

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I made a pixel art tutorial featuring this sweater-wearing goon! It's, uh...as long winded as you'd expect if you've ever talked to me about art. I try to talk more about the reasoning behind different possible artistic choices more than I try to like, prescribe a Single Correct Way to Draw and that means there are...tangents. But I'd be very happy if it were of use to anyone!

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Guess it’s time for my biannual tumblr post! Having way too much fun with free assets and the selection tool.

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I love this game so much <3

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Playing with some very cool usermade clip studio paint brushes :D (mostly https://www.deviantart.com/iridescentdelirium/art/Free-Brushes-for-Manga-Studio-5-Clip-Studio-Paint-568034572). 

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sinking

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“We could think about flowers / We could think about cake / We could think about wonderful promises we have the power to make / There's an awful a lot of awful things we could be thinking of / But for just one day, let's only think about love”

animated version:

 https://i.imgur.com/cEKtErz.png

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Sometimes you just gotta draw a terribly asymmetrical horror face.

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“She held the world upon a string / But she didn't ever hold me / Spun the stars on her fingernails / But it never made her happy” --She Had the World, Panic! at the Disco

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“And dedication has no reward. Those who cannot accept this are not fit to be magical girls.”

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"This evening was all thanks to you! A long and wondrous, marvelous night!”

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And the baddie goes *poof*!

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“I’m not alone anymore!”

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And now for something completely different.

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Clip Studio Paint has some fun brushes.