Hello, and welcome to my personal World!

Here's where I'll share some personal notes, fun/random stuff, and my original writing. Enjoy!!

Featured Fiction:
Dreamer | Eternal Rain | Pet Projects | Search for the Sky | So Distant | Unraveled

Role Plays:
dis-colour | Prismatic Haven

OC Profiles, References & Development:
OC Library | Character Development

Just for Fun
Ask Us! | 30 Days of Art Event | DA 30-Day Drawing Challenge

You can also find me on DeviantArt and Unvale.

TO-DO list!

Simplified list to be edited as I see deadlines coming up. Might not get to all of these, but I hope to be able to do them!

Challenges

Other projects
Challenge prize -- toyotami kun - seahorse family -- WIP (coloring!)
Challenge prize -- Calicoe - Jinks — WIP (sketched)
Eternal Rain world/web banner update

UnVale Review + Mini-Update

Hey, guys! :D I took some time off work this week, so I am working on challenge prizes!! Hoping to have at least the first one done and maybe will get to sketch the second. As you may know, I've been poking around UnVale, a site spec...

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Check-In / Congrats, Grads!

Hey, everybody!

Summer's knocking, even if the weather says otherwise (like here in the Midwest US, where it's cool and rainy). XD So, first off, I want to say congrats to all the grads!! For those of you who aren't out early for graduation, hang in there, you're almost done! I hope you enjoy your summer breaks. ^-^

As for me, I know I haven't been posting a lot of art lately. I'm drawing, but mostly sketches since I'm working on anatomy and facial variation. I've been watching a lot of YouTube tutorials that have been helpful. The finished work I've done recently has been for DeviantArt art trades, so they're not on here. I'm planning to draw a nice pic of the Eternal Rain core cast for -- and I can't believe I'm saying this -- their 20th anniversary. (MY WORD, I feel old. STOP IT, TIME!!)

I'm planning to slowly pull out from DA, or at least severely cut back on using it. I initially joined it because my IRL comic club buddies had introduced me to it, and I wanted to try commissions while I was still looking for a job. I had a bad experience with a commissioner who never paid and then other stuff happened; so I stopped offering those. Ever since DA was bought out by Wix, it's been going downhill, and a lot of the people I knew there are gone (including my comic club buddies). They made their own "AI art" tool, and it's being overrun with the stuff. Since I'm busier now, DA's notifications are also way too much to keep up with, and I keep getting weird, scammy spam messages there, too. I've already started pulling out of the groups I'm in there, soon to only leave the ones I'm adminning (like theOtaku on DA). I haven't decided how much of my current gallery I'm going to leave and how much I'm going to clean out (though I have started taking stuff down). The only ones I know for sure I'm going to keep are my pieces for RP groups.

On the writing side, I've kind of paused to work on development stuff for characters and world-building. That new Unvale site I've been testing out for the past few months has an interesting feature that gives me some inspiration on that end. I'll probably make a separate post with my thoughts on that, so that's it from me for now.

Hope you're all doing okay, enjoy the long weekend, and be safe!

OC Comparison: The Art of Persuasion

In looking into some character development advice, I ran across the phrase “method of manipulation” – in other words, how does your character get what he/she wants? Springboarding off that inspiration, this installment of the OC ...

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Challenge, Anyone?

I want to make a fan art challenge for May! What theme would you guys want to do?

A. Spring has sprung!
B. Mer-May
C. Mental Health Month