doodlemancy

i have not been keeping up with posting this stuff here this year. it's a mixture of being really busy and... posting images on dreamwidth... being kind of a nightmare lol. i finally figured out imgbb makes it a little easier, though, so here's some Iron Company stuff i drew this year. starting with the major characters i designed this year: Elemere, Alastor, Viktor, and Dimitri. this year doodlemancy truly became Doodlemancy Who Draws A Man Sometimes.

some of the more polished stuff:

and a boatload of sketches:

mentor-student-petra-and-alastor-study-in-the-garden

viktor-alastor-studying-very-heterosexually

this is not even all of it. if you want to see more, toyhouse or pillowfort are probably your best bet.
all these characters are from my current visual novel project which you can play right now for free!!

earlier this month i stumbled across this cool drawing challenge.
here are the results, plus a couple of bonus ones i did for sillies:

i've kind of been in brain freefall since The Big Important Wrist Surgery so here's a general housekeeping post of what i've been doing the last month and a half. it's a lot of things, none of which are the thing i've really meant to be doing, which is finishing Potion Stand Story DX-- that requires an amount of Think and Daily Committment i just haven't had available since my brain got blasted with KO drugs and painkillers and then my hand became able to play video games without severe pain for the first time in years. i'm trying to get this ship back on course though!! keeping myself on task right now is just still a little bit... herding cats.

recent art & doodles

clockwise:
• my first kinda-finished drawing post-surgery! i drew this like... 9 days afterward?
• you guys ever think about how the Oracle of Ages/Seasons Princess Zelda sprite has... odango...
• Petra/Ryfka doodle i really liked (i wanted to draw Petra wearing something more feminine than usual for funsies)
• Chiyo Sakura from Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun is my daughter and i love her

posting images here is kind of a big pain in the ass at scale so here are some links to more things:
• MakoAmi sketch
• ReiNako sketch
(i basically re-learned how to draw by drawing sailor moon yuri lol)
• Sailor Senshi from Dungeon Meshi dlsfkjghfdlsjgfds i really need to clean this up and make it a sticker or something
• Elly (Fields of Mistria version)
obligatory Easter bunny costume art of Petra and Sykes (and costume switch)
• Cardcaptor Petra
• a comic i made while playing Echoes of Wisdom
• Kell/Sykes brainrot doodles
• a thread of Sykes Backstory Doodles that are very cute imo

newwwwwwww shop stuff

new stickers: birdhouse sticker and milk sticker!

and there's a new shop section... ZINES! my friend HikaTamika gave me zine cooties! i got a long-arm stapler and so far i've made 2.5 zines. free shipping in the US on these babies. not every zine i make will be available digitally but the ones that are will be in my ko-fi shop or, if you prefer, itch.io.

and just for fun, here's some brief rambling on anime and manga and tokusatsu i've touched recently

Yowamushi Pedal - i'm only like 7 episodes into this but i love when an anime is extremely passionately excited and factual about a topic (in this case bikes). cant wait to dig further into this thing and find out why that one kid's face is Like That

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun - it is a crime that this thing got 1 twelve-episode season. gonna start collecting the manga. just a really solid comedy, i relate to Nozaki so much as an artist who cannot EVER turn off "that's good reference" brain and also as a neurodivergent dingdong who is frustratingly impossible to flirt with

Monster - we're getting close to the end and i love this fucking series so much. i love Kenzo Tenma and all of his funny friends. i love extremely average looking middle aged dude character designs. i love anime characters with distinct noses. i love to be scared and afraid and tense and very very worried. i think my fav lil arc so far was the one with Grimmer, i have big feelings about a guy whose feelings literally don't work right who chooses to be good and kind and gentle and empathetic even though he's not sure he's doing it right

Skip and Loafer - i've been working on collecting the manga and im so excited for this to get a second season soon. "i'm an adult i'm kinda done with school life teen drama stuff" bitch no you aren't you just want the good stuff. this is the good stuff. extremely My Daughter Whomst I Love series

Claymore - it wants to be Lady Berserk so bad. extremely self-serious, relentlessly edgy, it's got that B-movie charm. honestly A+ character choice to make your main character the absolute bottom of the barrel lowest-grade at the Badass Lady Organization, we love an underdog.

Gintama - we finally started this one. long running/comedy anime like this tend to be really hit-or-miss for me, and it definitely has a lot of dated humor and impenetrable-without-a-translator's-note kinda stuff, but when the jokes hit, they hit, and it's slowly growing on me. i find it comforting. it's "weird thing i would have watched on a friend's laptop in 2007" kinda stuff. i'm interested to see how this one evolves as it goes on.

Kamen Rider Kiva - it's a Kamen Rider with Castlevania vibes and 80s fashion. a funny bat tells you fun facts at the beginning of every episode. what the absolute fuck else could you possibly want in your life. theres a flying dragon castle and i still don't know why. i don't even care. i've accepted dragon castle into my life.

Gurren Lagann - i'm finally watching this one as i continue winding my way through the Gainax/Trigger back catalog. it has every Expected Problem (please Trigger. i love a boob but sexual harassment is not good comedy) and yet just like everything else they make, it's compelling and goofy and relentlessly appealing. i already know What Happens and im watching them stick death flags into You Know Who like a pincushion and screaming and crying and kicking my feet

Current Mood: bouncy

sorry for almost no bloggy lately, hand pain has been killing me and i'm down to mostly left handed tasks. got an appointment soon to see if i can get CTS diagnosed for real and actually treated before there's no healthcare in the united states anymore haha things are a bit dire

Current Mood: working

here's some stuff i've been doing!

INDIEPOCALYPSE!
i got into INDIEPOCALYPSE #60! Indiepocalypse is a monthly zine that features small indie games. you buy it for 15 bucks, you get a handful of cool games in a unified launcher and a PDF with zine pages the devs made, and then all of us devs get paid royalties on it. it's a very cool thing that Mr. Andrew Pizzapranks has been doing for 5 years now. i submitted Potion Stand Story a couple of months ago. you should buy #60 and follow Indiepocalypse on itch! support people making small, weird, unmarketable stuff!

TRAGICALLY THIS SHIRT IS NOT REAL
but it is very funny. i was drawing a third angle for the Sykes sprite (the other two were not conducive to Rage) and i had all his faces on the canvas for consistency's sake. and i was like--

my friend Chel suggested that it was probably because it looks like the infamous three wolf moon shirt.

thus: i have poorly photoshopped it.

also some Makoto Kino fan art

...because if i don't draw Sailor Moon fan art periodically i WILL shrivel up and turn to dust.

it is fucking FINALLY not going to be pissing rain 24/7 for a while in the Willamette Valley. i've been waiting for enough sunlight to do some photography and stuff. maybe i'll have pretty pictures to show soon.

Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: Bravely Default OST

some clear patterns are starting to emerge in how i write VNs; all the best stuff happens in the edit. i write something that i feel like has some good bones but is frustrating and lackluster in ways i can't quite figure out, and then i get to the point where i'm styling all the text and seeing how it flows onscreen and suddenly the ideas firehose comes on and i get blasted into the stratosphere. this is how it happened with Potion Stand Story, and Iron Company Chapter 1, and i think it's probably a pretty typical pattern. but as someone who is now 33 and didn't get medicated for ADHD until 26, finishing stuff is still a little new to me. there's always a bit of panic before the edit where i'm like WHAT IF IT'S BAD WHAT IF IT ISN'T AS GOOD AS THE LAST THING AAAAAAAA WHAT IF THE GOOD THING WAS A FLUKE

i am MOST OF THE WAY through editing chapter 2. i've reached the final conflict. but it's a real frog-in-well situation. "at this rate i'll be done in a few days," i say, and then more ideas pop up and i write more. i kept reaching the halfway point and then writing something new so the halfway point was just where i was at for several days LMAO

editing is where the text styling happens, where i put in all the little pauses and decide which letters should wiggle and which ones should stay still and which ones should be big or red or italic.

i need you to do something for me: when you play a video game that has more than just bold and italicized text, when it has little pauses and wiggles and things i need you to psychically beam appreciation at whoever did that, because that is SO MUCH WORK AND TESTING OH MY GOD I HAD NO IDEA UNTIL I WAS DOING IT MYSELF. even though i have some pretty standardized practices at this point (0.4s pause after long sentence, 0.3s pause after short sentence, 0.2 pause after a comma, 0.1 pause when someone st-{w=0.1}stutters, various shake intensities for different moods, specific size increases and decreases depending on the volume i want to imply they're speaking at) every single line has to be tested and scrutinized for flow. and it takes. a long time. it's a lot of copy-paste. i've set up some code snippets in VSCode now (finally made the switch from Atom, which got abandoned last year RIP in peas) but i haven't actually finished doing that (tedious; somehow more tedious to me than what i'm doing-- i never claimed that i make any sense as a person). so a lot of times i'm just copy and pasting in all this shit:

shoutout to VSCode for pansexual syntax highlighting. i have an Obsidian document set up with click-to-copy code snippets which has been saving me some time but it's still... it's a lot. you know. 5000+ lines of code and most of them need text styling.

currently the chapter is 5886 lines of code. by comparison, chapter 1 is 5511... and i'm definitely Not Done so that gap is going to keep widening. i don't think it'll be significantly longer playtime-- some of the branches in this one represent pretty big chunks and it's hard to actually tell. we'll see! it'll be pure text for the time being (text comes first, everything else is second to text and i don't think i'm gonna let myself do art for any other chapters until i get chapter 1 into a state i consider pretty finished) so i hope you're ready for some questionable descriptions of images i haven't drawn again.

i did put in one sound though, because i couldn't stop myself. you'll see. or hear i guess

also: there's another possible bad end. i think i'll probably be sneaking at least one into each chapter. this one's a lot easier to blunder into, because i am evil, and i want to make you anxious when you make choices. my previous philosophy was "messy success > littering the game with game overs" but Slay The Princess has made me into sickos.jpg and i can have a little game overs as a treat.

when i start to feel burned out on copy-paste and testing i switch over to working on these discord emoji lol

Current Mood: determined
Current Music: MAISONDes - Love Trap Muchuu

everything in the world is stupid and my brain is bad and so i have done silly actions.

incredibly satisfying to hold. i think i'll use the box to store backups on a USB stick or a SD card or something

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: loop of Castlevania music stuck in my head from Vampire Survivors

i didn't really get to finish OC-tober because Things Kept Happening and my drawing hand kept hurting in between those things. but i did get this started during it and it was a really fun composition! i've always wanted to do one of these anime/game box style illustrations with the Iron Company cast.. i re-drew ALMOST everyone here several times (Petra (cigarette), Erika (outstretched arms ghost) and Naomi (bird corner) behaved well and i only had to draw them each once) and re-arranged the composition... countless times.

i would also like to thank the color purple today; this illustration is brought to you by the color purple because it ended up being the color i used to get everything else to play nice. i don't have a screenshot of it because i was TOO BEWILDERED at the time, but there was a first color draft of this that was just awful, and not in the fun 90s Sailor Moon poster way where the colors are kind of awful but in a way that rules, like this:

i looked at a lot of sailor moon group illustrations while i was planning this lmao

here are some progress shots: the initial sketch, an early draft, and a mostly-monochrome draft from before i started coloring (and i continued changing my mind about things). Carson (big) and Maddie (glasses) gave me the most trouble-- i don't have their proportions nailed down yet as much as i do the other characters and they kept coming out kind of Not Quite Themselves. you can also see the way i use 3D models to compose stuff! thank you Clip Studio Paint 3D models for my life. my goal with this one was basically not to settle for "good enough" and to keep going until every character drawing made me go "yeah! THAT'S THEM!" (i cheated with Ryfka because i had already drawn her lil' Carmen Sandiego Outfit Hat Tip sketch and ended up pasting it in from another canvas after i realized i already had a usable drawing of her i liked lol). you can see all these characters' profiles and stuff on my toyhouse btw.

i also made this version when i was stuck on coloring. it's one that's more appropriate for just chapter 1 (WHICH YOU COULD PLAY RIGHT NOW. YOU COULD DO THAT. YOU COULD PLAY CHAPTER 1 OF IRON COMPANY FOR FREE.)

this illustration was a really fun puzzle. putting together something like this a few years ago probably would have just made me cry, but now i already want to do more of them, haha. it's really difficult, but once the pieces start to fall into place it's like HELL YEAH HELL YEAH HELL YEAH all the way to the finish line.. i should really get back to work on the visuals for the novel now, but i wanted to have some like... "key art" kinda stuff to promote it with instead of just the old sloppy placeholder sketches.

please hold for the inevitable PS2/Gamecube box versions i wanna do as a joke. all the elements are pretty scoochable and i have a printer, so... there's really nothing stopping me except my willingness to put time and effort into bullshit.

speaking of putting time and effort into bullshit, i also drew this Sonic Adventure Box Art Pose Petra as a goof and i like it so much i might make it into another sticker LMAO

Current Mood: accomplished

some things that have happened this last week-ish:

• my mom got a new job! so we are in less financial peril. for now. the car almost decided to ruin that by having a tire pressure issue the day before her first day but it was super fixable so it's fine. it's fine. it's fine. IT'S FINE

• i started cleaning up 7 months' worth of "i'm scared and depressed and i never get enough time to myself so i have no energy literally ever" mess. got through the first layer of kitchen gunk. pulled some things out of the back of the fridge that were, frankly, unidentifiable and trending toward sentience. i haven't done this much laundry and cleaning in one day since literally last year. it's a race now to get things deep-cleaned (or at least better-than-surface-cleaned) before the seasonal depression comes crashing through my brain like the kool-aid man lol

• i submitted my first round of Faire listings for review and they got approved, so i'm officially open for business there. highly specific call to action: do you own a brick-and-mortar business in the united states, or do you work at one where you have some sway over what products are stocked? do you need cute stickers? well just click this here handy dandy hyperlink: https://faire.com/direct/doodlemancy

• wrote down my out-of-control to-do list now that i finally have more brain again. i have so much to do before mid-november. a taste of not even all of it:

☐ schedule November/December shop social media posts
☐ fill Pink/Shiny Envelopes for ko-fi
☐ hard drive & phone storage cleanup
☐ more merch photos
☐ process vograce/acornpress charm orders
☐ clean all the things
☐ replace computer chair (seriously) (you've been putting this off all year) (why do you love back pain)
☐ shop restocks
☐ use up the 60 eggs you accidentally purchased

• no but for real. due to the Car Incident, we could not go grocery shopping that day as planned. so i had to doordash our groceries (sigh) and i was stressed out and tired and i didn't look hard enough. the price didn't tip me off because shit's always stupid expensive on doordash, so over a dollar more than usual for what i thought was going to be 18 eggs rang no alarm bells. and that's how i ended up with sixty eggs. sixty of them. SIXTY!!! i guess i'm going to be making quiche. (and a lot of other things. people on bluesky had many suggestions.)

• my carpal tunnel syndrome has been trying to ruin OC-tober for me but i'm back at it... this one's gonna take me a few days though ;D (poor Carson is still bald here because i keep re-drawing him and Maddie dsflkghfds)

• i'm working on a Fun Secret Entry. it's Sailor Moon related. you'll see it eventually.

• i finally updated the main graphic on doodlemancy.com to a fun slideshow.

• oh also: here's the packaging/display design i did for the Mystery Sticker Bags (Retail Version). very pleased with how these came out. i'm really learning as i go with this stuff, always, but my 7 years in retail helped with a lot of Considerations.

sorry i haven't been very good about responding to comments here IT IS THE CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME LMAOOOOOO

Current Mood: accomplished

third anniversary shop update
okay, we'll get the blatant advertising out of the way first. it is my shop's third anniversary! i've added some new stuff: lots of prints! a few stickers! a notepad! plus there's tons more stuff there that was there already. notably, there is Potion Stand Story and Iron Company merch now. my first official merch for my visual novels!!! it's only a hop, skip, and a jump from here to nendoroids, right?!

it's OC-tober, NERDS
i say, nerdily. OC-tober is one of those 30 day drawing challenges like inktober and swordtember and mermay and whatnot. you draw your OCs (original characters. like your characters from your projects or your RPs or whatever) every day. i do it real loose and wiggly. i don't bother with sticking to a prompt list, and i don't even actually draw every day. sometimes i just repost or touch up old stuff. I DO WHAT I WANT. LOOK AT MY CHARACTERS. I LOVE THEM. HERE IS SOME OC-TOBER ART.

Day 1: a Petra sticker design (available in my shop above, as you can see) + a silly edit

Day 2: i described Erika as "the Navi to Sykes' Link" in the group chat and then had to draw it. love drawing my very serious little man in cosplay.

Day 3 & 4 (sketched one day, colored the next): a suggestion by

kayin from the request post. and i mean yes obviously Utena Petra. obviously. i'm not sure why i hadn't already done this. princely women...

i can't promise i'll draw of them, but if you have any OC-tober ideas you wanna drop in the request post comments, please do so. ;D i enjoy playing to the audience.

my very important anime opinions from this week's Anime Day

Dead Dead Demons DeDeDeDe Destruction (completed) - a companion for the manga imo, this adaptation clearly had to make some impossible choices between quality and length, and some of the choices they made were... baffling. "episode zero" covers some of the END of the manga?? but i still liked it overall. finish the manga, then watch the anime lol. content warning for this one if you end up checking it out: a teacher/student relationship is in there; no laws are broken and it's certainly not framed as ideal. Inio Asano is not here to make you comfortable all the time ok

Uzumaki (episode 1) - one of my fav manga and another "that's gonna be hard to adapt" situation, the pacing feels WACK but idk how else you could have done it-- other than maybe splitting it up into 2 chapters at the commercial break, which i think maybe would have felt less confused? the choice to keep it greyscale is A+, and the surreal never-quite-still animation style is working for it.

Dan Da Dan (episode 1) - since this is new... content warning for Relatively Silly Alien Rape Threats in the first episode if you pick this one up this season, which i expect won't be the last time because this is not my first rodeo with Science Saru lol. that aside-- the animation is wild, it's very funny and charming, i like the premise and our two weirdo main characters, hope this one turns out to be a banger

Monster (episodes 13 & 14): Monster is good. i have nothing insightful to say about Monster. it's good as hell. i love Kenzo Tenma with my whole heart and soul

Hellsing Ultimate (episode 2) - high-grade schlock. Alucard is my husband and Integra is my wife; so it has been since my teens. kind of impressed by how well it cleans up the manga's storyline, which i barely remember but which i do remember being A Nonsense Mess a lot of the time lol. content warning for Hellsing is pretty much everything, and you're not allowed to be mad at me if you go watch it because i said i liked it. actually that last part applies to every anime i post about. i'm tired of feeling like i can't mention my favs in public without some people assuming i endorse every sin committed, i already had to put up with that when i was a child trying to enjoy things during the tail end of the Satanic Panic okay. oops sorry this turned into a rant sorta oops i've been thinking about this a lot lately sorry

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (episodes 14 & 15) - i love The Batou Show. i don't have anything insightful to say about GITS that hasn't already been said, at least not yet. i just think Batou is a Type of Guy and i like him. i wish the future still had discs and things that go click. i think i maybe said this all before

No Guns Life (episodes 7 & 8) - i think it has a cool premise and some cool aesthetics/worldbuilding, but i also haven't really been wowed by it yet. i'm hoping it'll show me some teeth. i like when gun man become funny scribble like Alphonse Elric though

Hare + Guu (episodes 17 & 18) - this is a 2000s comedy anime that i don't think most western anime fans have heard of, and it can be pretty hit-or-miss (with the expected Discomforts you'd get from... like i said, 2000s comedy anime) but when it hits it fucking hits, episode 18 was a riot. this would have been the LOLZ TEH RANDOM!!11 anime of my teens had i known of it back then lol

other things that are happening

i'm attempting to read Hellboy. this is surprisingly difficult because i'm used to shoving manga into my face constantly and i keep reading the pages in the wrong order. i want to absorb the minimalist backgrounds and learn how to incorporate that energy into my own work!!

Tia jumped from the windowsill onto my boob at 5:45 AM today and it hurt really bad/startled the shit out of me but it also woke me up right in the right part of my sleep cycle to actually feel refreshed upon waking (which simply has not happened the last... 9 months) so i can't even be mad. i will definitely get sore boob tomorrow and be convinced i have cancer (i can't tell you how many times this has happened it's ridiculous)

it's cold enough to wear sweatshirts again! i'm sad about cohost though. i bought my current crop of big pullover sweatshirts the first winter i was on cohost and i ended up associating them with cozy cohost-and-cat-and-chill-and-draw time BWAAGGHGHGHG COHOST AAAAAAAGHBBHGH BUHUHUHUH HHUHhhh sniff snorf wehhhhhhhh

in cohost's wake i am posting in All The Places, truly. i've dusted off pillowfort and made a new mastodon account. i had weird times on mastodon.social (people yelling at me for not cwing things like literally mentioning a very small injury... c'mon) and mastodon.art pretty much just ignored me when i was last trying to post there, but i don't want to write off the whole concept because cohost taught me that smaller, quieter spaces are worth something too, and pursuing the Biggest Possible Audience is not only not always great for your mental health, it's not even actually better for your sales if you're like me and you have to hustle online all the time lol. i'm hoping i can find a good balance-- i can't possibly keep up with the feed of every website and discord i have some presence in, but i also don't want to be the person who posts and runs and never interacts.

...and why not also an excerpt from chapter2.rpy

chapter2.rpy
`erika "Honestly, I don't see why you don't just ignore him. You're leaving in the morning anyway." sykes "(Good chance we'll keep running into him if we come through here regularly... I want to know what he's up to.)" erika "Eh, that's a good point, I guess." erika "Keep your friends close..." sykes "(...and your enemies within strangling range.)"`

sometimes they're on the same page (about guys they hate that you, the readers, don't know anything about yet). go play my visual novel demo if you wanna meet these characters!

Current Mood: productive

(this is a crosspost of the original post on my cohost blog from september 12th, 2024.)

i had always meant to draw @kyn's perfect creation, intern secretary eggbug, and for various reasons (hand pain, slippery brain, etc.) i just never got around to it until now, so... here's that. (the other character is Petra). i'm not sure i've ever drawn anything with quite this mix of, uh, sincere grief and tongue-in-cheek absurdity. art is communication, okay? and what i'm communicating here is: i am so sad and also i watch so much anime.

in a terrible way, i'm glad that i'm this sad. ditching previous internet homes-- deviantart and twitter, to name two of them-- was a little sad, but mostly a relief. and there's something to be said for finality, i guess. i won't have to see it shambling around all rotten and gross and zombified, like the other places i've left behind. seeing cohost come to an end also hurts, but i'm glad it'll be a happy memory, instead of one tainted with resentment.

cohost was the first place people really took an interest in my original stuff. i had a few followers on other sites who consistently showed up for my OC-posting, but for the most part, it went unnoticed in other places in comparison to my fan work, and... you know. that's predictable, that's just how it is. and there's a lot of stuff people say about posting your creative work online, about not worrying about numbers, or popularity, or whether anyone else likes it at all. some of it's fine advice. i don't share absolutely everything i make. but i make most things with the intention that they be seen, and there's a certain amount of desperation in that, with passion projects. i was used to posting original stuff and mostly getting silence from the crowd. i was also wrestling with this painful shyness about my writing (which i think i pretty soundly broke myself of this year lol). i was a little stunned the first few times i posted some sketches of Iron Company characters here and people like... responded! and wanted to know more! it meant a lot. it really did.

i'm grateful. and i'm not sure i would have made Potion Stand Story and then gotten started on Iron Company properly this year if i hadn't been here, specifically, on the Fourth Website. i may well have just continued languishing in my hesitance.

thank you, sincerely, to everyone who stumbled across my stuff in the infinite ocean of the internet and gave it a chance, even though there's so much else vying for your time and attention. we all only have time for so much, and i'm glad that we all spent some of that time together. i'll try my best to pay forward the gifts that cohost gave me.

Current Mood: devastated

i finished the sad task of going back and curating my cohost blog a bit before everything goes into read-only mode and the archiving begins. there were some vent posts from the rougher bits of the past year that i kind of... it wasn't that i was ashamed of them or anything, i just don't want to go back to look at the archive someday and remember how shitty i felt in that level of detail. it's a thing i go back and clean up occasionally, since my brain is bad and sometimes i post a little too much of my sadness on the internet. i didn't delete much, but i trimmed the hedges.

it's been nice to reminisce, but it's just so fuckin tragic. the whole thing sucks. i am "draw dramatic and highly context-dependent art about it" sad. (that's a cohost exclusive until the site goes read-only.)

i started posting there in october of 2022, on the 30th. so when cohost goes read-only, i'll have been there just about two years. it feels like so much longer. it kind of already felt like home when i arrived.

i have some hope, because people on cohost really cared. there are other people out there that wanted this to exist. it existed, for a while, because we wanted it. i'm not getting my hopes up for some miraculous revival a la SheezyArt's repeated emergences from the grave or whatever, but i don't think this is over. i don't think we all just go back to our lives and quietly accept that social media has to be garbage.

the highlight of my day was definitely watching Porco Rosso with my friend crepe this evening. dunno how i managed to not see that one until now. Castle In the Sky and Kiki's Delivery Service are my two favorite Ghibli movies and this had some of the spirit of both, so it's easily elbowed its way into my top favs. don't overlook the funny pig Ghibli movie, it's a hell of a romp. i love Fio and she deserves the world.

Current Mood: morose

here are some finished pieces i've made in 2024!

Princess Serenity standing on the moon, with the earth behind her.

i drew this Sailor Moon fan art when i was just first starting to feel better after a few weeks of PT!

an angel sheltering a mouse from the rain with an umbrella

the same angel and mouse from the previous image, but the storm has passed and there's a rainbow

two of my favorite things to draw... cute angel wings, and little mice.

a friendly meeting between a princess and a dragon in a castle garden

"what kind of bird are you?"

Elly's two forms from Potion Stand Story

some art of Elly, and also some other girl, who knows who that is??? from Potion Stand Story, a visual novel i made!

Lum Invader on the sparkly streets of a city

i drew this one as a sticker design in 2022, but i glitzed it up recently with a background.

Elly from Potion Stand Story and Petra from Iron Company having a tea party. they're from different universes but would definitely be the bestest friends-- they're both spellcasters and huge nerds. they'd like, go to the library and stuff.

Naomi at the gate of a garden, surrounded by birds

Naomi, also from Iron Company, though she won't appear until later chapters.

(miraculously, despite everything that happened with my wrist, i also managed to do art fight this year. if you want to see all the art i drew for that, click here. i've learned a lot in 2024 about the power of taking Little Breaks Frequently instead of... going ham for 6 hours.)

Current Mood: arty

sure, let's make this the first taste of my visual novel that i put on DW, why not. i love being an artist + writer because when i write something funny i can turn over to my xp-pen and hastily scribble it

Panel 1: Petra (protagonist) trying to light a little pile of sticks on fire with a match; she's disheveled and in distress. Panel 2: Petra's silly crying face. The text says 'it's the most pitiful excuse for a campfire I've ever seen. She's also crying.'

additional context: she's a spellcaster and her medium of choice is fire, but she's already tuckered out from fighting and can't cast anymore. pray for her. she is an indoor cat, she's not supposed to be out here.

it's Petra (a tall lady with short, messy anime hair that doesn't make sense, an eyepatch, and a long coat. she is posing flamboyantly)

my beloved disaster lady Petra

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Banjo Guy Ollie's Castlevania covers

drawing of a pink-haired girl wearing a green tunic and pointy hat, holding a sword and shield

Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: AGDQ Majora's Mask speedrun noises

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Style: Starflower for Mobility by branchandroot
Resources: Rounded Star 005

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