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.
A little late for a "Hello" to fall, huh? We're already almost halfway through October -- how crazy is that?!
Anybody doing art challenges this fall? I want to try to tackle both OCtober and Huevember, so I cut back the amount of pieces for OCtober to pace myself. I enjoyed my first go-round with Huevember, and I really need to practice with color theory.
By now, students are all settled back into school, so I hope your school year is going well thus far. For everyone else, I hope work and life are going well!
Congrats to the grads out there, and for everyone else, happy summer! :D I hope everyone's doing well.
It's been a crazy couple months on my end. My family has been going through some health stuff, and work is burning me out. People have left, the company has reorg'ed (cut staff), and my workload is all over the place. Thankfully, I'm now taking my yearly "summer break" vacation time to rest, recharge — and hopefully do more art/writing. (I know I want to participate in Alchemic Mushroom's upcoming OC fanart challenge! Just debating which character(s) I want to use.)
On the art side, I've done two finished pieces this past month, one of them a crossover piece for an artist on UnVale. Both of them were kind of experimental, which was fun! On the writing side, I've been working on story, world and character development for Pet Projects and the Eternal Rain universe. I've been watching some helpful videos on YouTube for both art and writing. (The writing channels are AbbieEmmons and BookFox, if you think you'd also find these helpful.)
I think that's about it for me. For the students, enjoy your summer breaks! To everyone, hope you get to do all the fun summer things (but stay cool)!
Windows 11 is trying to murder my laptop. So, don't be surprised if posts are sporadic.
Until literally an hour or so ago, I could barely even use the internet on here. I had to uninstall an update to roll it back to where I could use it again. My laptop has my Photoshop and SAI on it, too.
Here we are again, at the end of another year. I hope everyone is well! :D
It's been a better year than last, though of course it still had its ups and downs. For now, I'm off work on a break, and I'd bet a lot of you are off from school also. While I've got time off, I'll be working on an Eternal Rain anniversary pic (that I actually started earlier this year but didn't like how it was coming out, so I started it over), and I'll also hopefully get a chance to write.
Recent updates on the art side: I bought my first sets of Ohuhu markers, and I've been trying those out on my last few coloring projects. I like them a lot! I'll probably do a post with a ranking/recommendation of markers separately, but basically the story behind me hopping brands is that stores no longer sell individual Prismacolor markers; so, when my colors die, I have to replace them with new brands. I've also been interested in getting a wider variety of skin tone colors in my collection. One of the Ohuhu sets is exclusively a skin tone set.
Recent updates on the anime side: I've been watching two anime that have been good thus far -- The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity and Mechanical Marie. I also started the anime adaptation of Anne of Green Gables but haven't been back to it in a while.
This site has been down -- what? -- three times in the last few weeks, and it's scaring me. :( I saved a bunch of my OC character development stuff to move over to Unvale in case anything happens here... but Unvale doesn't replace here. I'll always think of theO as my online "home". I had a lot of firsts and fun times here, and I've gotten so much inspiration from everyone's art over the years. Miss you guys. Hope you're enjoying your breaks, and be safe!