#keep in mind: panic

[skettchyartendevours]

Here's the second instalment of Keep In Mind drawings! I will likely post more at some point, because I found a few more stray drawings today while sifting through old papers (and I know I still have more than that in my sketchbooks)

Also, an extra little bit of yapping for one person who was curious:

The "curated rant" I mentioned that I almost put in the previous Keep In Mind post went something along the lines of this:

"I have two main emotional responses when looking back at these. Part of me wants to violently cringe at how I inter-cut a bunch of goofy meme-based jokes in with my amateur attempts at covering serious subject matter I had no personal experience with... and the other part of me looks back so fondly at how I was just unabashedly playing around with these little guys I thought were neat. But I guess I should cut myself some slack, I was in my mid teens at the time."

I thought of this paragraph at least a day or two before making the post, and then I changed my mind by the time I properly started writing it out. I did hit most of the same beats in the final post though, so I guess it doesn't matter all that much in the end ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, have a lovely morning/afternoon/evening/night!

[technically-human]

For the ugly cat au. I wonder if Stone ever tried to take Ivo to the vet. I don’t think cat Ivo would have let him for the justifiable worry of coming back missing a few important things. Or getting a mirochip put in him.

I think he's weird enough to not care as much as he probably should.

@imdoingmybestgoddamnit told us how to say cat in Finnish, so thank you!!

ko-fi

[starry-bi-sky]

yall ever think Shen Yuan went through like, internet withdrawal after being transmigrated into Shen Qingqiu? Like, he's canonically a NEET shut-in who did nothing but spend his time online, you can't tell me that for the first week or first few weeks of being SQQ he wasn't twitchy.

Like, reaching instinctively to his pockets for a phone that wasn't there, having an obsessive itch in the back of his mind that he should check and see if X or Y novel or webcomic has updated -- only to realize he can't anymore and being irritated by it. Wanting to go and see if there's new posts about this or that, but again realizing that he can't.

When he's bored or uncomfortable or just feels like wanting to escape he tries to go for his phone to distract himself, but oops! Not there anymore, and now he has to find a new and different way to distract himself from his feelings. And going through system notifications, quests, etc only does so much.

And there's that Tetris Effect too. SQQ makes a mistake while writing and instinctively goes to backspace on it except hey-ho that's not a keyboard and now he just dipped his pinkie into a bottle of ink or on a still-drying letter.

With him scrambling to fix his reputation and learn how to be a peak lord, I think his abrupt cold-turkey from all things internet would just be another straw on the camel's back that he promptly Ignores until it goes away on its own after he acclimates to his new surroundings.

[cent-scratchnsniff]

l-o-v-e l-o-v-e

[op-dumpstertruck]

“I got you no matter what” EXCUSE ME WHILE I CRY SCREAM THROW UP—

Yesss - if there is one thing Zoro is, above anything else, he's loyal! I haven't drawn much out yet, but I do see him being not exactly perfect with this (he does tumble along, says some insensitive stuff, really doesn't get Sanji for the longest time because they communicate badly) but! When shit hits the fan he is there! And of all the strawhats I think he'd be the most quiet/calm/stalwart support there is. (And Zoro is definitely pro choice, I do see him as someone for whom it's as simple as 'he doesn't want this so it's not gonna happen'.) With alllllll the other things they argue about, this should be a huge fight. But it doesn't happen - not here, and not about that.

[wyrmwizzard]

two jo wips and a dead pen dragon

[skettchyartendevours]

I dug up some photos of two plushies from probably a little under 3 years ago now ^v^

These guys are from a fairly obscure game I fixated on a while ago called "Keep In Mind". You may have heard of it since both Markiplier and Jacksepticeye played it at one point, it was a pretty short game with a 2D pixel artstyle about overcoming personal demons (that's the most basic explanation I can give)

Anyways, the characters pictured here are named Suppression and Panic. I didn't have white fleece while making Suppression so I opted for faux fur, plus both of these guys have squeakers in their bellies :]

I had plushies planned for pretty much every other Keep In Mind character, but the fixation wore off before I could make anyone else. It might be kinda fun to make another one of these guys with my current plushmaking skills and style, although there are many more projects that take priority now so it's not very likely.

[constantvariations]

ACoTaR: Under the Mountain

ACoMaF: first dinner with the Inner Circle

Inch resting

[odstacle1]

ethel cain voice Its Just Not My Year!!!!!!

[fisheito]

wait. puss in boots rei? unfulfilled dream? as.. as in. kinda like. a last wish.? like. the last puss in boots movie.? perrito garu?????

[applesofdaventry]

I think it would be pretty neat if the magic shield could change shape. Like as a big old shield it's pretty obtrusive- pretty obvious to on lookers. But as, like, a necklace or some kind of jewelry it would be less so. Perfect if you want magic protection on the go, or at a high stakes high stress political event or something and having a shield strapped to your back or immersed in your nearly endless pockets would provoke too many questions or worse, the wrong idea.

[darabeatha]

Valentines' personality test ! : 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐘

[aquaticfreakshow-sys]

Ugh :(

[skettchyartendevours]

I fixated on the indie game Keep In Mind sometime during 2020, and as a result I've got a whole boatload of drawings that I haven't shared here yet (mostly because I didn't have my blog at that point)

Hell, I've got tons of drawings in general that I haven't shared yet! I should really remember to post some more of 'em from time to time

---------------------------- [Also, I have a bit of additional yapping for this post]

I was gonna write a whole curated rant about how part of me looks back fondly at these and the other part wants to violently cringe at how I combined a bunch of goofy jokes with amateur attempts at covering serious subject matter... but honestly, this isn't so bad in the grand scheme of cringey mid-teens' artworks. Whichever way you slice it, I was having fun playing around with these little guys that I thought looked neat. And as an added bonus, I think most of these drawings hold up pretty well by my standards today!

[lxkeee]

It's me and my inconsistent writing style against the world

[laughinglikespring]

mom asked me why my grades were down this time. the real answer is because of the professors and i told her that (they taught us the wrong portions and like. not what came in the exam. so the entire batch didn't cross 40 above in anything. mine came between 35-40 for every exam). she said that im making things up and then i called my friends in front of her and they vouched for me too that i was telling the truth.

and then i asked her if she could survive in this type of environment in uni and she said 'no'.

since then, she's been real quiet about marks.