Been taking a break from the tarot drawings for a myriad of reasons but mainly because I want to spend my free time working on other things for a bit. Here’s a lil thing I’ve been working on for goofs and gaffs related to the current D&D campaign I’m in. If you saw the lil comic I posted recently, you’ll probably recognize some of the characters shown here. The two ladies are Evelyn and Evangeline, they’re mother and daughter and my friend’s characters. The man with the braid is my character, Guy, and the goblin kid with the hat (though depicted somewhat unfaithfully for comedic effect) is Maxwell who is the main NPC venturing with the party. Vinris Canephym is one of the big evil guys, he’s basically fantasy Elon Musk, and Szlomo the Baby-Child is an inside joke turned in-universe show. They watch it on orbs… I guess.

I haven’t used microliners in a hot minute. It was strange drawing with pencil then going over it, made me a bit sad cause the pencil sketches had a very pretty quality to them. I need to buy myself some new ones because I rediscover how much I like using them every six months, yet I continue to be content with a pack bought for me way back when I was in middle school and an assortment of ones I stole from the art classes I took in high school. That is, the ones that still work. Which is not many.

Anyway, art, woo! I’ve been working on my cosplays for C2E2 this year (which I am so excited for, I was gifted a 3 day pass!!) but I’ll probably just share those when I’m done or on a day closer to the convention. I made my first cosplay entirely from scratch last year when I went as Jinx from Arcane and it turned out great so I’m going all in this year with two of ‘em (one is just too expensive to make from scratch so I’ll be upcycling). I meant to share pictures of my Jinx cosplay here last year but never got to it.

I need to work on my letter spacing.

They locked the rating to “A” on the piece so some of you may have to turn off your filters if you want to see it/were wondering where it’s gone. I thought the non-sexual nature of her nudity would keep it at “M” but I guess not, duly noted!

WHAT YHE TITLE SAYS. I SCANNED THE DRAWINGS (FINALLY). NEED TO SPLICE AND DO COLOR CORRECTIONS WHEN I GET HOME BUT THEY’LL BOTH BE POSTED BY TOMIGHT. YAY.

Update: They have been uploaded!

What the title says. I’ve had the tower finished for probably about two weeks now and have already started on the next piece but I’ve been really busy and haven’t gotten a chsnce to go scan it, and if I haven’t been busy I’ve been disgustingly sick. Currently stuck at home with a nasty sinus and ear infection because I didn’t take good enough care of myself when I had a cold last week. …I maybe, just MIGHT, be overworked. Just maybe.

As an apology for this prolonged wait, and also just because I like sharing stuff with y’all, here’re some sketches and the like from the past while.

Maxwell!

The progress I’ve made on The Star when I’ve had time over the weekend/the week!

A little accordion comic I’m making for fun! Its been likened to a physical webtoon due to its format. Tells a goofy story with my friend’s and I’s current D&D characters. I plan to make copies to share with them.

I bought myself a little treat, shipping from Montreal!

I’ve stared at enough old fantasy art to whip out some evil looking clouds pretty easy.

I referred to the drawing as “just an evil fucking tower with some evil fucking clouds” when my friend asked what it was gonna be of and now I can’t stop LOL. Shoutout to her by the way, she was very focused on mixing the audio for one of her band’s new tracks and I kept on turning to her and asking if the clouds looked liked clouds when it barely looked different than before. Always nice to have a friend you can sit and work on personal projects alongside—economic creative and emotional fulfillment with how our schedules tend to be.

But yeah, some evil fucking clouds with an evil fucking tower.

The first three sounds I heard were fireworks, gunshots, and bagpipes! And then a minor explosion, a kid screaming, and a car alarm. All normal occurrences… besides the bagpipes. Hope your new years are filled with odd sounds aplenty and invigorating, optimistic passion!

About that moutn washing game everyone’s been raving about… it’s eh. I did wait and actually bought the game and actually played it all the way through no hints or spoilers, and yeah, it’s not bad it’s just… eh. Solid story though very predictable after a certain point. Wasn’t really interested in any of the characters besides Jimmy and Curly and I felt the dialogue was very stiff. Pretty OK chase sequences, made my palms sweat but were redundant and weirdly placed. Horse mascot was stupid but made for some good creepy sound choices in the chases.

Overall decent story, pretty damn gross, the graphic style isn’t my favorite thing. I think it was unfortunately overhyped. I think I would’ve liked it more if everyone and their mother on the internet wasn’t calling it a masterpiece LOL. I dunno, yeah, I’m disappointed. I waited a while and avoided spoilers and was ultimately underwhelmed and kinda just wanted it to be over even though it”s a short-ass game! Maybe I’m just too old for that style of horror, I dunno.

Arcane season two’s been so good I kinda just walked around my apartment aimlessly for about thirty minutes after finishing the most recent batch of episodes. WOW. Even when you predicted something pretty big (and no, not Warwick I think everyone who was on any internet space discussing Arcane knew that before the season even released) everything else still just blindsights ya in the best way possible. Arcane very well might be one of the greatest shows to exist, if you haven’t watched it, for the love of god, do it as soon as you can.

Won’t be able to scan the piece until this weekend but I am so thrilled to finally be finished with this piece so I’m sharing a crappy photo anyway! I plan to take a much more streamlined approach to the next one… I’m also gonna go with a composition that’s a tad bit easier so that it doesn’t take nearly as long.

In other news: Finally watched all of Superjail! (A show I’ve restarted maybe three different times across the past six or so years?) pretty solid show, I liked it a lot. I don’t know if it was because I was kinda just binging the last two seasons but the last season seems like it definitely fell off, I think the fact that it ended a whole four episodes earlier than the others and didn’t even have a finale proper was already a big hint to it’s decline. Combaticus and Dream Machine will forever be my favorite episodes and I think the twins are my favorite character… though they’re kinda tied with the warden and all the rest of the non-robot staff. The Warden and The Twins are my favorite, let’s leave it at that.

Superjail is one of the few shows that falls under the category of “adult cartoon” that’s actually an episodic cartoon through-and-through and by god I appreciate it. Also has one of the best art styles alongside Venture Bros, like a gory Where’s Waldo. On a brief side note: God I’m sick of almost every adult-animated show looking somewhat-Simpsons like, The Simpsons already look pretty ugly.

I also watched a decent bit of BBC’s Sherlock! Co-worker put me onto it and my mother further encouraged my binging as she is apparently a very big fan of everything Sherlock Holmes (a fact I vaguely remember now thinking back to one of my childhood halloweens when she very enthusiastically dressed up as Watson when I decided I wanted to be Sherlock knowing absolutely nothing besides “he’s a detective with a cool hat and Watson has a moustache”). Anyway, some good shit that series is. Think I’m about halfway through? My only prior knowledge of the show was superwholock which iykyk so I was reasonably deterred I think. My past attempts to watch the exceedingly boring Doctor Who didn’t further encourage me either lol I kinda just lumped all that stuff together.

Umm yeah. I’m doing anything to keep myself from compulsively checking the polls cause I’m tryna fall asleep but I dunno that probably won’t happen for a bit we’ll most likely be irreparably fucked in a few hours and that’s just, y’know, just a tiny bit hard to sleep on you could say.

Anyway, scan coming later this week! Stay tuned!