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Burnout has got me in a chokehold, you have no idea how much of a pain it is to get back into drawing.....

I never realized how bad it was until I take one glance at my tablet, and I feel DISGUSTED at the thought of even drawing....it's like my brain went like "Ok, you went to school to learn art, now that you are done, art fart is over :V"

I'm doing the best I can to try and escape this, so please be patient with me. I'm slowly getting there T^T

Part 2:

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I graduated. I got the expensive paper.

More art fart coming soon, now that school is out of the way.

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My motivation really faded with each page (and it's only 4-)

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Check In

SWK: You haven't drawn me for more than 4 months now, pay attention to me :( Me: e_e I'm going to kill him

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Taking a little break from my monkie madness, to give you fanart of Caine from the Amazing Digital Circus.

A friend of mine recently posted a guitar cover of the Main Theme, and I can TOTALLY see him rocking out to this, so I made this doodle in response cause it blessed my earholes during my avalanche of homework and finals that must be completed before Winter Break.

Please give it a listen, you can listen to the cover here.

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I have risen from the dead, and dropped all my homework and projects to tell you about this thing that my friends have notified me about......the monkie boi has been announced in an indie game called Ravenswatch. You can watch the teaser here.

I was quite surprised on how muted his color palette is, maybe it's because I haven't seen his full model yet, cause it's obstructed by text, and the fast pacing of everything that was going on.

It's really giving me Dota SWK vibes, and I don't know how to feel about that just yet. We'll just have to wait and see if I like him in the game as a playable option and as a character.

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Soooooo, you know that absolute chonker of a tea pet that I bought? Well, I decided to finally bring it back to my dorms to accompany me on my desk, since I can't exactly properly use him as a tea pet due to his big boi size......so what did I do?

I gave him a new purpose.....as my honorable pen holder......I'm proud of myself XD

And don't forget to make sure to spritz some water every now and again (without the pen in the way) to help make your local monkey god grow, cause hydrate or diedrate

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Hi! I love your art style, it's soo spot on! Mario and Luigi are amazing brothers and I love them! Is it alright if you draw Polterpup in your style (it's entirely up to you). I love your adorable comics and commend you heartedly. Keep up the great work!

A very good pupper👻🐶

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Heya, found your art through that Primal piece you did a while back, and I wanted to say you’re an amazing artist/animator, and was hoping you could answer some questions from an aspiring artist/fight animator (Like Lego Monkie Kid level of awesome is my goal if you know that show). And the questions are: How'd you learn to draw/animate so well? Do you know any good online resources to help someone progressively better at art? Anything you wish you knew before starting your art journey?

I really like that Primal piece, I made it to be my computer's desktop background. 🌌 I'll try to answer the questions as best I can and be quick.

How'd you learn to draw/animate so well?

Practice. Always made art for as long as I was aware? Then I went to college, studied very very very hard and I managed to get my degree in animation (minored in painting). Then I had to re-train myself because the software evolved really quickly so it's a never ending journey of learning. 📚

Do you know any good online resources to help someone progressively better at art?

I can only speak on the animation (and painting) side of things, but the best resource to get started with learning animation is this one book; Richard Williams-The Animator's Survival Kit. It goes over the main principles, has illustrative guides, it's just extremely concise. I have not come across another animation book that even compares.

As for other online learning stuff, I think you can find many people willing to share what they know on YouTube? I'm always looking at what people put out there to see if it works for my needs. There are too many channels to list, but here are my top five I've been following and learning from recently. Specifically in regards to brushing up on ToonBoom, After Effects, and digital art.

ToonBoom: ZeBirdBrain & Drawn Sean

AE: Ben Marriot

Digital Art: Lucas Peinador & Marc Brunet (I bought their brushes. Using Lucas' right now ☝️)

Anything you wish you knew before starting your art journey?

No advice would have helped; I started when I was like five or younger. Nothing would have stuck in that baby brain. 🖍

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Prepare the Dead

Tang looks at the demon monkey as he is covered head to toe in blood, with multiple bodies of the demon kidnappers behind him, as Wukong stands proudly in front of him puffing his chest out expecting Tang to thank him for yet another rescue.

Unfortunately, instead of a thank you, a scolding lecture is given.

"Wukong, what have I told you about killing?!?! Killing is bad!! We are buddhist monks, we solve our problems WITHOUT VIOLENCE!!!!," Tang shouted at the monkey, as said monkey turns away with a scoff, now with a deep frown on his face. Wukong has heard this lecture so many times that it has almost became second nature to block him out at this point. "OH YEAH, let me just convince these demons out of eating my master, the reincarnation of the Golden Cicada, one of Buddha's diciples, and gaining immortality! DO YOU KNOW HOW REDICULOUS YOU SOUND??," Wukong argues back.

Tang and Wukong's squabble continues on for a few more minutes, until Lily slams her now extended wand on the ground, creating a loud thud to garther everyone's attention. The glowing stone at the end of her wand releases a wave of energy which then transforms into the shape of a shovel blade. She throws the glowing shovel towards Wukong, which succeeds in catching it.

"Since you are responsible for the corpses, you will also be responsible in helping me prepare them for burial," Lily stated. "Pigsy and Tang will assist me in recovering and moving the bodies, once finished with digging up the graves, Wukong and I will prepare the bodies for burial, and Sandy will help Wukong in lowering the bodies to the graves." Lily then faces the Monkey King before facing Pigsy since they are the touble makers in the gang. "I expect no snarky remarks, sarcasm, and especially no disrespect for the dead beginning, during, and after these tasks are done." If looks could kill, she would be more than six feet under, with the glare a certain monkey is giving to her right about now.

The woman ignored the progressively fuming monkey, as she walked towards Tang to grab the string of coins that was on his person. "I will also now be responsible for this gang's money. For every person Wukong has killed, there will be one coin used and placed under their tounges to ensure them safe passage to the Underworld."

Tang looked at his deciples, before turning to the woman with a look of uncertainty. "Miss Lily, that's our entire supply of coins for buying food, shelter, and other supplies when we get to the nearest town. What will happen if we used up all the coins for Monkey's misdeeds?" Lily rolls her eyes at the monk, explaining (lol mansplaining) to her the monetary value and purpose of the coins, as if she doesn't know currency. "Then you will know who to thank when we arrive at the next town with no money to afford a single bowl of rice, and forced to find alternative ways to get by before our next departure."

Wukong stares in shock for a split second, before he bares his teeth and fangs at the only woman in the group, looking like he is about to add one more to the pile of copses. "How dare you command me to do such an abhorrant task woman, I aught to knock some sense to you. I am a KING, therefore you will treat me like one!!! I will not do such foolish and lowly tasks of a undertaker, ESPECIALLY to the bodies of my enemies!!!"

Uh uh, he did NOT just talk to her like that. Lily will not stand for such disrespect. She turned towards Wukong with a sickly sweet smile, eyes shining with hidden rage. "Then you, my homicidal ass of a furry gremlin with nuts for brains and no impulse control, will have the blood of your enemies as well as an innocent on your hands. And you are not a king right now, you are a traveling monk, and last time I checked, monks result to violence when there is no other option other than self-defense, and even then it is NON FATAL. Now start finding a spot and start digging, these bodies aren't going to bury themselves. We will be here all day and night doing this if we have to. You took their lives prematurely, the LEAST you can do is provide them with a safe passage to the Underworld!"

The two of them have a stare down, analyzing each others movements, before Wukong lets out a frustrated shout and backs off with the shovel to find a spot to dig. "Stupid woman, making a king do such disgusting tasks," he muttered.

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Stumped

I'm still trying to find a good title for my JTTW Reaper AU, and I've been sitting on this for an entire month, and now it's almost time to me to go back to school, so I won't be on Tumblr to post as much anymore ;A; I'll post a teaser or something of another scenario of the Gang sometime this week, or at least, before August ends. In the meantime, if anyone has a title, feel free to send me a message or comment on this post :V

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Okay, a lot of you guys asked how Sophie met the group so I made a shitty animation to show it ✨

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I colored him cause I was bored, but didn't fully finish rendering it cause it's making me go insane. Here is the original doodle I made. He still lives rent free in my head, and I still hate it. He's growing on me.......like a tumor. I will continue to bully him in the meantime <3

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yeah ummmmmm, about that......

What I expected..... a little tiny boyo who can sit with me for tea time

Vs. what I got: a giant behemoth of a giga-chad that takes up half of the space in my fam's tea tray.....he's about 13-14 cm tall XD

Jingu Bang isn't show here because it's not as good looking imo (the seems where they are conjoined together is REALLY obvious). This is for my father, but now I lowkey thinking I might want one too XD

I found some cute “Tea Pets” of Sun Wukong on Amazon and want to share them with you

Isn’t he just the cutest?! Apparently you are supposed to pour/brush tea on them.

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Introduction to the Gang

I have decided that I will give some ideas in how everyone will treat Reader in my Reaper AU: How the Reader meets the gang would be that Tang will be once again kidnapped by the featured demon of the week. Reader senses that this monk in distress is the one she was looking for after landing in this world a few days before (she finds a village to live in and scope out her options in before the gang just so happens to arrive in town to rest and replenish supplies). Reader sneaks into the demon's lair and manages to free Tang from his prison, but gets found out after accidentally alerting the demon when she failed to sneak away with the monk. Panicking, she then pulls out her trusty little can of pepper spray (I need to describe what is in her bag someday) and uses it on the demon, enraging them even more. That is where our favorite Monkey King comes to the rescue. While Wukong was busy fighting the demon, Reader helps Tang escape the lair, only to be corner by Sandy and Pigsy. Also Panicking, not knowing that they are Tang's disciples, she also pepper sprays them XD

After the whole fiasco is over (and Sandy and Pigsy mostly recovered from being temporary blinded and in pain) Tang thanks Reader for helping him escape the demon and from almost getting eaten and starts introducing his disciples one by one. Reader's brain slowly remembers where she heard their names before, and slowly puts two and two together. Unfortunately, Reader didn't finish reading the Journey to the West book before being isekai'd into this world, not because it was a boring story, but because it was a hard read (the books really are difficult to read for me). When Tang ask for her name, she panics, and introduces herself as "Lilly", despite not being her real name. I also like to imagine that since Lilly is not from this world, and with her affinity with her Nari/ Death, she has a sort of "aura" to her that is present and foreign, but not to the point where it is bothersome. With that case in point, everyone in the gang, including the dragon horse, EXCEPT Tang (everyone that is not human), can sense that Lilly is not normal. Everyone is cautious, but still hospitable to Lilly. Sandy and the dragon horse plays devil's advocate, and ignores it cause she hasn't showed hostility yet, Pigsy is still flirting, but stops temporarily after Lilly gives him a look (he also doesn't want to get pepper sprayed again, that stuff HURT T^T) Wukong is the most distrusting of them all. He knows that she is not a normal human, yet when he uses his eyes to see if she is a demon in disguise, he can't find anything. HIM, THE GREAT SAGE EQUAL TO HEAVEN, CAN'T EVEN FIGURE OUT WHO THIS WOMAN IS!!!! HOW PERPOSTEROUR IS THAT?!?!?! He thinks she will kidnap Tang at their most vulnerable, and steal their supplies when they are not looking. When Tang says the word, he would gladly change this woman's pronouns into was/were.

Lilly asks them where they are going, and Tang happily answers and explains their journey to the west and recover the sacred scriptures from the Buddha. After another explanation on who the Buddha is, Lilly asks if she can join the group, because she also has some questions for the Buddha. If he is really one with the universe in this world, perhaps he knows a way for her to get home to her Nari, and Death Inc.