#idk I felt like uploading the sketch

[yourleftpinkytoe-blog]

The sketch I mentioned in p1. Not done but idk if I will be lol. I’m tired

[scrimblyscrorblo]

Sanegiyuu WIP I am growing more comfortable with digital art now I think, I’ve done a few practices I’m very happy ///^•^///

In my sanegiyuu loving hours again they just make my day

[lost-family]

FAQ asks!

Hi there! Before I come here and explain, I would like to apologize for leaving this blog dormant! My first chapter is done with the writing stage and now entering the sketching stage, however I still need to figure out how to work around this since it will be 40+ pages long and I want to at least upload 10 pages a week. But that is for me to eventually figure out, but also!

My excitement for TotK has been in the way on focusing on my au, a tiny worry I have is that depending on the story I could change or add a few elements to my au. Tho tbh I'm actually pretty excited for that rather than worried, I am so looking forward adding Gleeok's to my au (how would that work? idk i'll figure it out) I'm still technically in the beginning stages of this au even if I have been developing it for two years now and new ideas still pop out of my head. I hold this au close to my heart as it is dear to me <3

I am coming here to make a master FAQ post about my au! I felt like this account fitted best then in my main account for this to keep things organized. I usually get asked the same questions over again and sometimes I can't find the original answer post no matter how much I tend to organize my tags (tbh tho tumblr's tagging system kinda sucks). So I come hear for you guys to ask any general questions you have about my au! I will also write a few questions I get and write answers to it like "what inspired you to make this au?"

You can send the asks through either here or my main blog! I will write them down and put it all together in one giant post! Ty for reading ^_^

[yukarinuniversaltraveler]

An extremely long life update

Copy-pasted from a news post on my Newgrounds page: https://yukarinladyboss495.newgrounds.com/news/post/1381639

Hey, so I just kinda disappeared out of nowhere with only a vague comment about going on a hiatus but never making any "official announcement" about it. So here I am, just tryna get y'all up to speed with what's been going through my life. Nothin' much, but still quite a lot, so when I make a comeback to all art places, I'm gonna have to do some heavy rework of all my social media to make sure everything's up to date, since many things are very outdated.

So first off, the reason why I went on this hiatus was because of the heavy burnout and a lot of pressure that I was putting on myself, on top of being very emotionally unstable due to gruesome things happening in my life (cutting ties with "friends" that manipulated me, feeling awful about myself, my art, and everything I do, added to having an overall bad luck strike for some months, where it seemed like I could not do a single thing right without messing up five in the process), so I was forcing myself to draw to exhaustion just to keep doing something, so I wouldn't have an anxiety attack. But I just couldn't keep on doing that, which is why I decided to stop producing art for most of this year.

The emphasis is on the word "producing". I'm still making and creating new art, but putting less and less effort into it, and just drawing anything I felt like at the moment, mostly just pencil sketches that I posted on my Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr, and refraining from creating digital art.

It's worked wonders on my psyche, and with every week that went by, I began to "fall in love" again with drawing. I still do not plan to return to making art "seriously", but when I do, I definitely will change the way I produce art, so I can still find the art process enjoyable without putting too much "unnecesarily pointless" effort into it. Some of the sketches I made got a lot of likes and attention, easily putting the rest of my artworks to shame! So yeah, there's that.

The second reason is that since I am a person who just-so happens to be and live in Venezuela, my Paypal account got terminated when I received a very much needed donation, and now I cannot accept support from anyone until I can find a suitable replacement to use that is not Paypal. This means that I am no longer taking commissions(not that I ever got any commissions to begin with), and my Ko-Fi account has donations turned off, essentially locking away all the exclusive content that was uploaded there. Then I watched that Duchess Celestia video where she talked about Ko-Fi's lack of security and how she lost a lot of money, so it's safe to say that I will quit using Ko-Fi altogether. I'm planning to migrate all my content to Patreon so my content is still available for, idk, some lost wandering soul that sends me money probably by mistake, but till then, all of my more recent artworks are banished to the Shadow Realm.

The third reason is that my ol' dinosaur PC is finally gonna get upgraded to 64 bits, so I had to do the tiresome task of making backups of everything I had on it, using only one 23 GB USB drive. Because of that, I couldn't make any digital art even if I wanted to, because I do not have the program to do it, so yeah, if anything, I'd call that a win. That said, once my PC is fully functional again, THAT is when I will be able to produce digital art normally again, so my hiatus will go on a little longer after I feel fully "recovered".

That, in a nutshell, is why I went on this massive hiatus, and let me tell ya, hiatuses are underrated! I know y'all who live off of art have your brains consumed by hustle culture and wouldn't take a break even if your working hand fell off your arm, but as someone who never had art as a career option, taking this time off was the best thing I could ever do. I feel rejuvenated! I'm starting to enjoy things again! I'm happier! I'm exploring new things and rediscovering things that I'd forgotten about or left behind!

I am much better now!

So yeah what I'm trying to say, is that this perception of taking a break as something bad that has to be avoided, and more like a positive thing, seriously! People gotta stop focusing on those silly Twitter numbers and start focusing more on their health and well-being!

"Yeah but it's not that simple, some of us need to make art for a living", brother, I am not looking for a debate, please do not try to reply with this, because I will ignore you. I am in the right, and so are you. Let's just agree to disagree, and move on with our lives, okay?

And that would be it! Just dropping by to let y'all know that I'm still breathing, that I haven't given up on Newgrounds, and that hopefully soon I will return with more art and better than ever!

As my favorite FNaF character would say, I always come back. ;)

Be seein' ya!

[lucygriefer]

Mythcraft Aiden

Speedpaint Link: https://youtu.be/PGkdGYQ1R_M?si=aFBna0UHxyycozHO

I've got other characters for my Mythcraft Series and I'm thinking of uploading the rest of the characters from that series to here.

This is Aiden from MCSM. I decided to make Aiden based on the Camazotz myth. I wanted to make Aiden based on something in mythology that can fly since Jesse herself can also fly (There were other flying myths but I’ve already got an idea of who I want to use for some of those other myths). I wanted to make sure the two of them were somewhat on equal fighting levels. Especially since during season 1 episode 5 where it would be needed so the fight isn’t as easy as Jesse kicks Aiden off the sky Island platform and wins in like 2 seconds or she flys around and easily dodges all of Aiden’s attacks (That part of the game towards the end of the chapter is what I kept in mind when thinking about Aiden’s design when what I needed to keep in mind when picking the mythology to make Aiden as).

While looking at different myths I wanted to make sure that for each character the myth could closely match to the character in some form, or felt like it could possibly best suit them. The Camazotz is also known as the “Death Bat”. In Maya mythology a bat spirit served the underworld's lords. While the bat can be associated with night, death, and sacrifice. Now I didn’t stick to the sacrifice part of the Camazotz. But I mainly focused on the Night part with a few ideas from the death aspect.

I wanted to make sure that each character I worked on was based off of a different myth as I didn’t want to repeat any. I see Aiden fitting close to the role of Camazotz. Being a bit of the opposite of Jesse being more nocturnal and mischievous, being part bat I also used a bit of vampire bat inspiration. Where he needs to drink some blood once and a while to maintain a healthy diet but overall primarily sticks to eating fruits and insects. All and all it was interesting and fun learning about the Camazotz mythology and working on the design for Aiden.

For the bat references I was mainly looking at a species called Sinaloan Mastiff Bat. The images of the Sinaloan Mastiff all look adorable. These bats have long soft fur that ranges from a blackish color to dark brown, with some spots fading to a slightly lighter brown. Their faces have short fur or little to no fur in the area.

I haven’t drawn the moon before so this is the first time doing so, as well as I haven’t done a red sky in a long time. I do know with a red sky the background objects basically become completely black the further back you go. So it was fun practicing a red sky and everything again after doing only one long ago.

The next Mythcraft character I’ll work on will either be Maya or Gill. IDK which one at the moment but I’ll know once I’ve gotten the sketch of them done.

[lunchtimebedamned1997]

Hellaverse OC art :3

I really like this design, but I still feel like it's missing a certain 'oomf', especially with what my backstory is for them. But I thought I'd share this bc I really like the art :3 They're based off a bat - fruit? vampire? idk something batty >:3 This was a fun palette cleanser after my radiostatic comic

Bonus Adam and Lute doodle for anyone who looked under the cut:

Can you tell I've never drawn them before XD Trying to get more of a feel for other characters in the show. I've drawn quite a few at this point, but none of the heaven gang til now. Adam's mask and crime-against-fashion outfit is actually pretty fun to draw! His horns are a super satisfying shape. Most of my Hazbin art that I haven't posted on here is traditional sketches - maybe I'll upload those another time if I can get some decent pics of them :3 And, yes, drawing Lute smiling felt illegal lmao

[idleglowingpixels]

It's 12am and I'm sitting here debating which fanfic WIP I should work on again q-q

The two Monster High AU ones could honestly be released interchangeably so I could work on either or (I mean, Trapped In The Rain happens after BOTH of these fics in the timeline so it's not like I'm hyperspecific about chronological releases). Though the Clawdeen POV fic takes place a few months before the start of freshman year and the Frankie POV fic starts even further back, but is mainly based on their first week's experiences being in a public high school for the first time, the beginning acts almost like a prologue. Also debating whether or not it should be written in 1st person to emulate Frankie's narrations throughout the G1 films (Also kinda reminds me of Cady's narrations in Mean Girls 2003, it fits the "fish out of water" trope so well).

But the PPG fic is JUST A SMIDGE AWAY FROM THE BEST FREAKING PART FOR ME TO WRITE IN THIS PARTICULAR BATCH as if Chapters 8, 9 and 10 weren't already absolute BANGERS to work on and have at least one scene that made me go "THAT'S THE ONE DUDE I AM COOKING" y'all are not ready cause I'm sure not lol. And I literally have like 2 1/2 chapters left to write before getting to my editing drafts, and I've been dying to share what I've got and finally update the fic after...I don't even wanna know how many months. :'D Definitely over 6 at this point, I am SO SORRY.

The last thing is a super secret 4th thing (and no it's not the potential Miraculous rewrite, that's debatable on whether I'm making it as of right now but we'll see cause I still have enough ideas and interest for it, just wanna get through this long-term WIP first). I'm probably not gonna share it on the blog or my AO3 but that's only because it's a different kind of WIP (also different fandom than any of my previous works) and idk I'll just keep it at that. But I've been working on it 5+ years (even earlier than the first XXY drafts back in 2019) and my LORD do I want to just complete the mfkin first draft that I'm only like 50 scenes away from finishing bhngvfdcfgvbdcx ugh

Also I've been drawing a lot more lately so expect some MH and/or PPG art whenever I complete more than a sketch lol. I LOVED making my little title cover thing for Trapped In The Rain back in October (the perfect excuse to let my shipping brainrot go feral) & sharing my AU version of Stitched In Style Frankie art (which btw idk if I ever mentioned it but my cousin is the GOAT and bought her doll for me as a Christmas gift!!! She's hanging out in-box with my G3 dolls). Having art to go alongside chapter updates for XXY and oneshot uploads for my MH AU is something I have a lot of fun making and it's something I would like to be consistent with moving forward. I will also probably make art covers for Chs. 1-7 of XXY too because I had felt like doing it at the time of uploads but just got too busy with life stuff. Last year was awful for me besides these fics and my blog. :') Also istg I need to make that Instagram account for my art that I share here! Maybe someday, if I do I'll let y'all know.

[rokutaro]

I posted 78 times in 2022

That's 70 more posts than 2021!

70 posts created (90%)

8 posts reblogged (10%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@rokutaro

@halflifealyx

@toytle

@my-executives-cant-function

@cassthecringe

I tagged 69 of my posts in 2022

Only 12% of my posts had no tags

#0 - 29 posts

#jjba - 31 posts

#sketch - 28 posts

#csp - 28 posts

#fanart - 26 posts

#jjba fanart - 19 posts

#jotaro kujo - 19 posts

#jojos bizarre adventure - 10 posts

#jjba art - 8 posts

#jojo's bizarre adventure - 6 posts

Longest Tag: 90 characters

#i looooooooooooooooove the patriot opening night pictures i think thats what this is from?

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

its *looks at hand* jotaro september or something idk. i booted up sai for the first time in over a year and felt like my art got better, GOD i missed my brushes. dont know if i’ll make the switch over quite yet but its a damn good program.

42 notes - Posted September 3, 2022

#4

art from last year (2 years ago?) im 22 years old and still into AATC, whatever.

this is based off of that one tiktok where alvin comes out as bi and simon is mean or whatever.

i love experimenting with poses and clothing and color when i can.

(josuke.1999 is me. that is my instagram, which is what i used to use for uploading art. angeichaoschao is my old twitter handle.)

43 notes - Posted May 5, 2022

#3

See the full post

71 notes - Posted February 9, 2022

#2

a sketch this time. in this home we support autistic jotaro , Not sorry!!!!!!!!!

79 notes - Posted January 7, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

quick sketch . sorry i havent been uploading much, all ive been drawing is [redacted]

82 notes - Posted March 13, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

[lpfreakification]

I actually have no idea how many I'm about to upload rn. About 3 or more? Idk. Anyway, long overdue 1st page of the K9 Doodle Notebook 😅 Ok, I was trying to see if watercolor can do well here. Answer: yes but with caution. Tried doodling a Dratica head to dip my toes in the water(color). A messy DaArk doodle from a diluted fountain pen 1st + then added holographic watercolor flakes after. Adding that made me like this doodle a lot more X3 Morei Sky started as a pencil sketch. I've learned my lesson b4 to not put too much pencil in the 1st + last pages of a notebook. So I colored it :P I then added a dark watercolor for the shading of her jacket. While holding it to the light at different angles, the dark watercolor changes from black to blue to purple :3 of course, that was already shown in a previous post. For Trance, I just like his profile view the most. Next to him, I replicated my "rainbow blue hair" approach + turned it into a lady XD I felt a bit daring one day + wanted to do a smorgasbord of LP Freak's album outfits into one. The shiny watercolor was a perfect addition! Then that made me question the use of watercolors when I could've used (gel) pen. I found the answer: no gel pen can do holographic sparkles like this. I'm glad I took this pic b4 I (stupidly) decided to draw on the backside XP Then I was just so on + off when doodling Shikago. I had the (right) idea of coloring his jacket with a shiny blue watercolor. Until the page started warping. That was a battle of puddles + piles of patience. Then the fun(?) part of all of this was the bg. I added masking fluid to surround each doodle (better safe than sorry). Yeah sure, warping occurring. Two tricks: 1. Binder clips + 2. Use less water. Once the initial layer dried, I went back I filled in the rest or blank areas :) Watercolors were/was/is the main reason I haven't really doodled a lot in July. I got nothing to end this post with so... On to the next one! #doodlenotebookpages ... #lpfocdratica #lpfocmoreisky #lpfocdaark #lpfoclpfreak #lpfocshikago #lpfoctrance https://www.instagram.com/p/ChAmMk3uEFK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[clairence-draws]

How I'm feeling today 😂

[safirasart]

Little sketch dump I didn’t finish any of these because ... impatience really... also for some reason i always feel weird finishing lightly dressed people I do enjoy drawing them tho, idk it scratches some aesthetic corner of my brain anyways hope you enjoy these some of them are of dnd characters and absolutely not canon, some are of some other older ocs and the kneeling one is just a random lady because... There’s gonna be another sketch spam in a bit, with like... kid and silly sketches, felt weird uploading those in the same bunch so ye 

[rc-dragons]

@aaxooli gave me permission to tag them in some of my cat!dsmp artwork, which quickly made me realise that i havent posted hardly any of it lmao

so ill go in order of finished pieces, to concept art/sketches, to animations/animatics!

first up is finished works:

"The House Always Wins", featuring Quackity!

"And Icarus Fell", featuring Philza! This is depicting when he lost his wings protecting someone (I believe it was Wilbur) from the explosion at L'manburg

"Allium Glen"; I drew this back when Ranboo was doing a ton of heavy lore and I thought c!ranboo deserved a break from all the angst to ske a nap in a field of his favorite flower.

next is sketches/concept art!

heres captain puffy! super thick, curly fur, with a marbled taby pattern in a honey color. I don't know if ill keep the bell or not, but i do think its quite cute :3

this is ponk's design; after the unfortunate events that transpired between him and sam recently I figured he needed a full design sketched out. I thought tortoiseshell would fit his head thing on his skin well :)

foolish! my friend zibs (@dr.zibs on tiktok) was the one to come up with him having the shark features + the sphinx-like neckpiece, and i sketched out this design with those ideas in mind.

philza! featuring his clothes (that techno, who can be seen in the top right of the screen, totally didnt help him make it, why would he ever do that /s) that help keep his desert-cat build warm up in the tundra.

corrupted!ranboo design! this was an idea zibs and i had came up with, where, somehow, ranboo's enderwalk state became permanent, and he lost much of what he was. this was actually tied into something with karl, the in between, and the other side, but that would take Wayy too long to explain and is rather convoluted lol

1/2-2/3 of the cast of the dsmp has designs, but I only felt comfortable uploading art that had been done by me, so theres plenty of designs that are missing. i really recommend checking zibs out; their art is absolutely incredible and theyre a joy to work with!

next up is animations/animatics!

this was a lipsync practice animation i did with awesam; took i think 2 hours??? i spent a long time fighting w/ the program so idk how much time was actually spent drawing

i also have a very cute video of ranboo + michael, but tumblr wont let me post more than one video in the post. alas 😔

zibs and i mainly work together on animatics, which can all be seen on their tiktok!

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeyedwSS/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeye2W9d/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeyeFULB/

on all of these, i did most/all of the sketching, dr. zibs did all the linework (a godsend, truly), i did all the backgrounds, colors, and lighting, and zibs did all the editing and audio work!

this post got. Long but i think its a pretty nice compilation of my work relating to cat!dsmp stuff!

also one final shoutout to @drzibs (@dr.zibs on tiktok) hey are AWESOME to work with and have incredible ideas and incredible artwork ily

[ringfellowship]

JANUARY 2021— looking ahead

okay so i was inspired by @galaxycastiel to make a post about what to expect from me/my blog come january, and i felt like it could help organize me a bit so that i don't lose track of some goals of mine and i can stick to them!! + also so you guys know what to expect 🤍

— SPN THURS as always, i'll be around on thursdays on the spn thursdays discord server (at the main time slot, if anyone wants to come hang out w/ me !!) but i also want to post some more art/sketch pages based on the eps...i think it'll help me get more comfy in posting my art + i need the practice lmao

— RAMBLE ON we've watched through season 6 for Ramble On in the last month, so come the first week of january, we'll be mapping out the bigger plots for RO, including chapter-by-chapter plot ideas and character arcs (in addition to what we've already planned). i'm hoping we'll get good direction on this, and that we can get some drafts done in the first few weeks of the month (which is!! exciting!!) and hold more meetings to reflect this

— FICS i also had an idea for another fic (an au) that i think i'll start this month. no promises, but if i go through with starting it, i think it'll end up being really cool!! (and likely multiple chapters) IF NOT then i still plan to upload some of my other ficlets to my ao3, and possibly write some more ficlets (bc they're shorter) and post them here/on ao3 as well (,:

— FIC RECS *this was added on after my original post lmao but. i started making a fic rec page and i intend to finish it . or die trying 💞

— FOLLOWER CELEBRATION *ok this was ALSO added after the fact. SORRY!! i keep remembering things. i hit...several milestones since making this acc and i will be celebrating it and planning that all out because i wanna make it cool!! and stuff! if you have any suggestions of what i should do please lmk via ask box (,:

— EDITING guess who just downloaded after effects again !! ✨ i'll be re-learning how to make edits if i can find the time to/remember to. i have an idea that i'd like to get out this month. i think that's doable tbh !! it'll be posted on my instagram when it's eventually finished (;

— POETRY because it's not too much of a time commitment and because i enjoy it a lot, i'll likely post some more poetry this month...woo me!!! if you don't like it...uh, me neither! but hey it's content and i'm starved for it!!

*note (to myself and others): i start school again on monday...while i'm taking less units than last quarter, it's still an obligation that'll take up some of my time, plus i'm working part-time still at my job. i tend to put too much on my plate lmao so if i end up falling through on one or more of these, my apologies, but it's okay. there's always time. i'll get to them eventually!!

so it'll be an eventful month, it seems!! idk how to end this...uh...i hope you guys like my content?? lmao, and good luck to me i guess! 💛

[diasy]

i'll give you my left tiddy if you upload speedpaints of your work, i'd adore to see your process!!! Your art amazes me so much!! :D (Also what program do you use? the texture for your brushes is to die for hHHH)

oh its ok king… u can keep ur tit. thanks though,

ur not the first person 2 ask tho so……. I will hhhhh post a speedpaint in the coming months. it will HAPPEN. anyway my brushes - get ready this gonna be long - I use clip studio paint, all default brushes, stuff like this

is done using this in varying sizes,

stuff like this

is done w this, I think I used 17 line weight but idk I normally just go with whatever its on or change it to suit

this 

was sketched out first with above brush and then lined with ugh the sexiest brush in the whole world this bad boy is my baby i never felt love like this before getting this brush

idk WHAT the thickness was but it sure as hell wasn’t 20. try like 15 or something. maybe less. I vary it a lot bc I use it for colouring too so who knows. also note the anti aliasing is off. very crucial for me. I got into art by making minecraft texture packs so anything that’s smooth is just disgusting to my eyes. I do not like to see it. 

Okay so for the halftones, I use the halftone tool on csp but basically like select the area I want to be filled, 

then fill (from the circled bit, thats the halftone tool) with these settings

but saying that - depending on the canvas size/dpi, this might look shit! so just mess around with the frequency and density tools until u get what u want. THEN the layer is gonna have a clipping mask. I then use my sexy line brush (above) and an eraser to buff out and erase the half tone bits that I don’t want. 

ANYWAY thats literally all I ever use, except for mono pen if I’m feeling crazy. idk what to say if u don’t use csp though! enjoy these brushes that you don’t have I guess! hope u enjoyed seeing me try to explain all this, thank u for reading!

[memcaked]

Handmade

Source: Subarashiki kono Sekai | The World Ends With You

Relationships: Eri (TWEWY)/Misaki Shiki

Characters: Eri, Misaki Shiki

Additional tags: Sewing, Mr. Mew, pre-game, Meet-Cute, Not beta read

Summary: This is the first real template Shiki’s drawn up and sewn herself. Or would it be sewing?

Beginning notes: Addendum: This was first written and uploaded on October 8th, 2020. day 7 was while really cool was also really exhausting... so, shiki sewing mr mew and meeting fashionista eri for the first time. learnt while writing this october 8 is international lesbian day, so i think this means we have to wish these two well

even if the actual sewing didn't actually make much of an appearance i went through a shitton of old plushie tutorials i used to watch and i feel like i am obligated to put some here. maybe watching stuffed animals being made is good for your mental health idk mate im not a therapist i just type words here.

mario plushie tutorials

alpaca sock plushie tutorial

sheep sock plush 

Body: This is the first real template Shiki’s drawn up and sewed herself. Or would it be sewing? Its been like this for days now - finishes her meagre lunch fast, reaches into her bag for the sewing box that’s so packed with threads and needles and felt her spine will be horizontal when she’s done, pulls out the carefully straightened templates encased in a large ziploc, and gets to work. It’s a clump of black felt that spreads out flat like a Rorschach, but when her needle goes through she knows it’s going to take form into the head. If she can make sure her blanket stitch loops do go through, of course…

She’d stuff socks and make these cutesy pill-shaped things, tape googly eyes and decorate them with her (god, not even fabric) markers, stitch up small charms she found in DIY books or online and knot them to zippers. She’s had this idea in her head for some time now, a black toy cat with white socks to carry around in your arms. And after all the sketches she did of how it’d move around or sit the template finally came to her - she used up 3 hours of her weekend drawing shapes and thinking in her head of what stitches she’d be using to piece them together. She’s only really started cutting up the felt and putting together the scraps recently and made her first stitch into it days ago.

The fabric joins together roughly - she pushes down raw edges and undoes the last six stitches when she realises how the seams will stick out like a sore thumb, trying to visualise how the cheeks group up to form the face (oh, she just realised the eyes and mouth need to be embroidered) and which point to attach the body to. She hears a thump, something like the ones of sewing machines--

“Hey,” Shiki jolts up, almost losing the thread off her needle. She scrambles to pick it up from the table and sees these stylishly smooth thin navy sneakers, washed red laces that reach up to her ankles. Her eyes travel up to the school uniform, grey tartan skirt to the black blazer unbuttoned at the top to reveal the white dress shirt with the red and white striped necktie. Up top, red-streaked hair that falls under her shoulderblades topped with a dark grey newsie. She’s only okay at faces, but Shiki assumes this is the sleeper hit Eri, the fashionable, bubbly, popular, smart, the all-star girl she sees.

“Who are you?” Shiki must be staring owlishly at this girl with her hands clapped over her mouth in a dreaded shock. She swears she saw that paperboy cap jump in how fast she moved.

“Oh gosh, I didn’t mean to shock you like that!” The girl lifts out her hand, wearing this warm smile tinged with an apology. “I’m Eri, yeah. I, didn’t want to interrupt but I’ve been watching your sewing for a few minutes now and I wanted to tell you how good you are with a needle… how long have you been doing this?”

“I’ve spent a week on this,” Shiki lifts up the ziploc. “He’s meant to be a cat. I don’t know what to name him…”

“Mr. Mew.”

“Hm?”

“I said, call him Mr. Mew.” Eri points up, eyes glittering like this is her eureka moment. “It’s a cute name for a toy cat and it’s alliterative. You’ve just got his head?”

“It’s a work in progress, I haven’t even finished his head, I still need to bring it together and do the rest of him.”

“What’s he going to look in a week? A fortnight?” Eri’s eyes blow wider and wider like if she’s imagining something immaculate, sprung from golden thread and six-figure thread counts.

“In a week I think I’ll be doing his body. Or starting on the stuffing. If I really crunch in two weeks, maybe I can,” Shiki’s thoughts trail off, but Eri’s excited awe cuts the slack for her.

“He’ll be finished?” Eri claps her hands, grinning this pearlescently white smile. “Mr. Mew’s going to be a handsome little cat. Next period’s starting soon, can I visit you again? And see him again?”

Shiki stares down, lazily pulling another stitch through the loop. “Come all you like.”

End notes: i guess this didnt touch upon too heavily on the sewing thing but i tried to make shiki sound noviceish with this GOD why does mr. mew look so good i did textiles in school and i was heavily intimidated by my teacher who was this 60 something woman who's been sewing since 12 and has had a living ruler in her brain and would laugh at me when i had to count centimetres with rulers. also had a in-built centre of gravity/alignment and assured me she cannot leave any wonky frame alone even if the queen was there. i should've continued textiles alas stem/language consumes all my units

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Final 2020 Update: 2021 Goals!!

Cross posting from my devART

Also links to all my alts and shit will be at the end of the post if you need them!

So some of these may be unrealistic due to my struggles with ADHD/Depression Combo but. I wanted to get these down somewhere so you guys can see them and be aware..

Please note, my executive functioning abilities are absolutely Butchered on the regular by my ADHD alone, and the various stressors of 2020 have absolutely taken anything else I might have had in that department and tossed it out the window.

Something something something, financial stressors outside of my control sends me into shut down mode and I can't do anything productive or even fun until it's handled, but because I'm not doing anything productive, I'm not making any money, and the stressors gets worse and worse and it just ends up in a horrible cycle where I constantly want to die because I'm not able to create anything to relieve the stress! Which is why you've all seen... pretty much a standstill on my productivity save one or two pieces a month if I'm lucky

That said, I'm going to start trying (hopefully with some outside help/accountability to keep me on track while I'm unmedicated) to put a system in place that doesn't make me constantly want to die while like. maybe actually getting stuff done! So I'm making some optimistic goals for 2021 regarding both my art and ability to make money, so here goes!

I'm breaking this down into 3 parts:

Changes to expect regarding my social media, commissions in general, posting, etc;

Overall Goals for 2021;

and Goals for January specifically.

Changes to expect going forward from here:

I'm going to be making some changes regarding my social media accounts, including this one, mostly concerning when, where, and how I'm posting.

I am also going to be making some changes to my commission policies, prices, and payments in the coming year, namely:

Lastly, I will be making some changes to my art discord server!

Moving forward, I am going to be MOST active on my twitter and tumblr accounts. They're just easier for me to maintain in general, and although I hate twitter's formatting, it's just easier and faster, and frankly after deviantART and Instagram fucked with their websites/algorithms, it just makes the most sense for me as an artist.

I'm also going to be making an effort to make scheduled cross-posts on all my accounts. In the past, I've been really irregular about when and where I post things (most things got posted to my old tumblr account but never here, i rarely remember to post to instagram, etc).

This is going to include commission slots, finished piece dumps, etc.

I will also be making an effort to semi-regularly post sketch dumps, both digitial and traditional. I am also considering at this time offering a monthly digital download of my sketch collections, though I am undecided as I'm not really sure how many people would be interested.

Increasing commissions prices to reflect time spent working on specific commission types, as well as my personal cost of living.

Planning and announcing commission slots in advance.

Taking and finishing regular commissions to cover living expenses on a monthly basis

Payments will be exclusively through paypal invoice, and will be broken up in halves: first half will be taken up front after I have started and given proof of start (base sketch), the second half will be paid after completion, with WIPS given between first and second payment. Fully completed art will be given after receipt of second half. This is both for my personal protection as an artist, as well as for the comfort of the commissioner as my completion time can sometimes be long due to my ADHD/executive dysfunction.

Moving forward into 2020, my discord will be SFW, but 18+ only. This is a personal comfort thing. I'm 25 years old now, and just really don't want to spend time hanging out with teenagers.

I'm also going to start trying to schedule art streams again! Since this is the only place I can live stream due to my art computer's limitations, it just makes sense to like. Schedule them so more people are able to attend. I haven't decided exactly how that's going to look, but once I have I'm going to make an announcement and formatting guide somewhere for people to see so they can make an informed decision about joining the server.

I will also be regularly posting in the server again. This may or may not be cross posts from twitter and such, we'll see, but I DO plan on being more active there since it's been kind of dead.

I may also reformat the whole server again. We'll see!

Goals for 2021

Regular Adopt Sets -- 2-3 per month. Size, price, and number in set will be decided on case by case basis.

I'll be doing a monthly prompt for myself as well. This is just to get me back in the habit of creating things I like for myself to just feel... less bad about my art in general, and about making art. Also it'll be good for my artistic development i think?

Keeping a monthly sketchbook for warm-ups and in-between pieces. May be offered as a paid download at the end of the month, we'll see.

Might start a patreon? This is EXTREMELY dependent on what my userbase looks like. Tiers and rewards to be decided at a later date

Regular traditional sketches + scan and upload of said sketches. May also be offered in the monthly sketchbook.

Draw more self portraits & self-expression pieces! I don't know if any of yall realize how repressed I've been in the last year without therapy, and I did't either until I forced myself to pursue a vent piece earlier this month, and then felt immensely better afterward so. Going to start doing that! Maybe I'll feel better weee

Regular posting to social media! (see changes above)

Drawing less fantrolls bc I'm just bleh about them lately, drawing more original content!

Drawing fancontent that ISN'T homestuck? We'll see but I'd like to. I don't usually draw fan art bc like. Idk in my mind I don't feel like my interpretation of things is important or cool and I think thats a confidence thing and I'd like to change that so! I'm gonna start making more fan content.

Draw more full illustrations & backgrounds in general because I actually enjoy doing them it turns out?

Practice painting more !! Both traditionally and digitally....

Goals for January 2021

Finish at LEAST 1/4 of my art queue. I'm shooting for half, really, because fully completing it might actually kill me but! We'll see! Maybe I'll surprise myself. But I'm setting the goal low to keep my mental health problems in mind.

Finish and release the base set i've been working on, on and off. It's an homage to  the old pixel doll days of 2009-2012, and the full sheet will be free to use (with stipulations, as I have some people blocked that I don't want using it). BUT! There will also be a mix and match .psd that will be pay to use (it'll be pay to use a, bc it'll be huge, and b, bc the edits to make it mix and match results in like 6 seperate bases in general so.... yeah. pay to use)

Finish the pay-to-use base pack i started in june (i may scrap and restart though, we'll see)

Possibly release all old p2u bases of mine in one pack on gumroad? price tbd but it will include old iterations as well as unreleased remakes.

Making some dainty-specific bases! One will be f2u, one will be p2u.

I have a whole dainty YCH set for january! I just have to finish the example... (:

Perhaps I'll be announcing a collaborative project later in the month! It depends on where each of us are at, at the time! We'll see! (: You should be excited though! It'll be a ton of fun!

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