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.
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!
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!