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Li’l Update

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It’s been a hot minute since I last posted here, got a bit lazy mirroring my artwork here that I posted to the socials and haven’t really been doing anything out of the ordinary worth reporting on. Really enjoying the iPad as an art tool the more I get a feel for proper settings, may still look into other software since it seems worth the investment. I’ve also found that my desk space is *way* more comfortable now that I’ve removed the arm rests from my chair. It struck me while I was streaming the other day that my elbows were kind of getting ‘pinched’ inward awkwardly while holding the controller and I’ve been apparently subconsciously contorting around the rests and developing extra neck and shoulder pain. So hopefully that tweak leads to some more productivity.

I haven’t really had the juice to update the plane girl stuff for a while, had some surprise work drop in my lap like the *day after* the TTS demo went up and got hit with a wave of pretty bad burnout once I caught up to everything I needed to do, and it also coincided with one of my vacation weeks so I didn’t really get to unwind as planned. I feel like my head is on a little straighter this time partly because I kept my time off a freaking secret so I could work ahead early then decompress a bit before I go back for the holiday boss rush that caps off the year.

I’ve been participating in the Slayers Artober event again this year but I’ll save my contributions for a masterpost at the end this time since I’ve already waited this long. I’ll go ahead and catch up some of my other doodles since last time while I’m here, though!

The True 3/2 Day (6/2)

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Today is my birthday! I was actually kind of down about it through most of the week, but I ended up having a very nice time beginning from running AstroLancer on RGL, meeting my Mom, stepdad and brother for Mexican and my best friend for some pizza and stupid Youtube videos. And even better, I have next week off from work to maybe, hopefully get some stuff done on Plane Girl Game or at least draw something. I also got my first fanart of my avatar ever, very happy about that.

By cutepiku who put more effort into the shoes alone than i do lol

We’re Over the 2D Wall, Lads

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This week I got to screwing around in Vroid and managed to create a model I don’t hate, so I’ve been using it on the last few streams and just wanted to kind of mildly gush about it.

I’ve wanted to do it for a while because I usually had some piece of recent artwork and eventually an animated PNG placed in the corner of the screen, but kind of wanted to do something more eye catching or dynamic. It was kind of hard to justify dropping a pile of cash on the stream though since I’ve been at it for years and pretty much only have single digit viewers unless I’m guesting on another channel, so finding a cheap and easy alternative was really nice. I’m working on editing some assets into my ‘intended’ outfit but since I’ve been on staycation this week, the Hawaiian shirt felt apropos and is kind of within my color range, too.

Like, it’s been a while since I’ve been this excited about streaming and I’ve been sort of conditioned against outright self promotion, so I just wanted to get into it somewhere. Maybe once I’m more used to it and get my outfit finished I’ll do a proper ‘debut’ stream but it feels kind of dumb since I’m not fully rebranding or anything like that and I’m already playing with the model.

Recommend Vroid heartily to anyone interested in getting an easy in, with the caveat it’s really easy to edit models and textures but it really doesn’t do body types past ‘skinny teen’ unless you got crazy with making a bunch of skintone ‘accessories’ to pad yourself out. (I usually draw myself with a wider chin and stubble and all the models are pointy chinned and the facial hair is about as convincing as a Mihoyo background character.) You can edit a lot of things within the program and export the textures as PNG files to hand draw details in, which is what I’m currently doing with my coat and plan to do to tweak the face into closer to my drawing style. Getting the model working was super easy with the use of VSeeFace, which can import the files directly or link to your pixiv/vroid hub account. (I prefer to keep my stuff locally as much as possible, so going through Hub is kind of an extra step for me but it’s good to know it’s backed up I guess.)

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