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Welcome To Fantastic Year 2020

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I’ve been battling through some pretty severe funks over the course of the past few years, and began to hit ‘depressed to the point of non-functionality’ fairly frequently in the past two particularly. In an effort to combat this, I’ve started a second Sketch-A-Day exercise I call SAD-II which conveniently puts the word SAD up there in a way that looks professional and is attached to something fun.

As per last time, I don’t have any hard goals beyond drawing or creating one Thing every day. (Technically, writing this post counts, but I’m still going to do an actual drawing later tonight.) But should I do some crafting or model building or something, I may substitute some shots of the product. I do have a list of things I would like to focus on and improve, in particular I’d like to get better at pinup-worth character art for a game I’m working on. Many of the original characters I’ll be sharing as part of this are related to that of course. I’d also like to improve my backgrounds and overall finesse inking as I go along.

I sort of dragged my feet cross posting the dailies here since 1) Twitter is easier if lacking in options and limited to 4 pics max and 2) I keep holding my breath that I’ll do a proper site revamp but that didn’t happen when the year turned over, so I’m not using that as a deadline! I’ll be batch posting for now and making smaller more frequent posts after catching up here.

  • Started with an Eishi, will attempt a redraw on Dec. 31
  • UMP-45 as Lina Inverse
  • Rough sketches of how Tomcat’s AirFrame works
  • Dassault Mirage III
  • Captain Novolin for the NEXT GEN of over a decade ago
  • Su-27 Flanker
  • F-15 Eagle
  • Eishi Leap
  • Lina Inverse
  • F-117 Nighthawk
  • Misc. Figure drawimgs
  • Tohru, Dragon Maid
  • Red Baron
  • A kind of “meh” night
  • F/A-18 Hornet, take 1
  • Take 2
  • Hornet details, sort of
  • Eagle and Hornet
  • Ame-Rider
  • F-4 Phantom/Wild Weasel
  • UMP9 is here! Everyone, we’re family now!
  • A-10 Thunderbolt II

Hello, Cruel World

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So, I’ve decided that I’m going to start building up some more art/comic work and restructure the site around that, possibly ditching WordPress or looking into other plugins for content management. I’d apologize yet again for going *forever* without an update, but I fell into a habit of posting everything I draw or feel like blurting out in bite sized pieces on Twitter or live on my Twitch page then forgetting to come back and collect/repost the work. (I’ve also developed the probably not great habit of using a screencapping tool and pasting it into the tweet box instead of actually saving a properly optimized file locally. Ahem.)

It came to my attention last week though that the site had gone down as a result of some backend meddling on my part that I misinterpreted at a security issue, which lead to me opening a help line and being grilled for the better part of a half hour about my content, what I intend to do with it, and what I’d do if it all just vanished one day. Which did make me think a bit, but not about coughing up a monthly fee I can’t afford to protect my disorganized stash of hobby works. In all seriousness, I’ve been doing pretty okay the past few years on the art front, even if I hit a serious burnout point midway through last year I’m only kind of rebounding from now. So, I’ve made backups of pretty much everything of importance, and I have something of an idea of what I want to do going forward.

Portfolio and commission info need updated and fleshed out as I find myself occasionally stumped by things that are kind of outside my illustration wheelhouse but still want to lend a hand. I want to get a system going that will let me run multiple comic storylines as separate archives a la Clone Manga circa… when did I read that site last? And I still want to be able to write and ramble about games when I feel like, of course. Beefier projects like board/card games will likely get their own site and format to make them easier to track and expand on. And now that I mention that, I suddenly feel kind of bad I’ve been away from here so long my plane-girl game concept hasn’t been mentioned yet. I’d better gather my pics and fix that soon…

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