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Art Repart

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I’ve been putting a serious effort into improving the quality of my line art and coloring lately, and finally kind of feel like I’m kind of… happy with it? I still wanna tweak my avatar’s design to be a little less ‘smol’ looking but the overall look of the saggy jacket and white bangs i dig. Originally the concept was for there to just be a patch over the missing eye to kind of imply whatever happened to it bleached it, but I kind of liked the light front part after settling for it in a picrew a while back.

Been in a mood to draw Radona a lot lately, for some reason, but I’ve also been back on my plane girl kick again thanks to back to back USAF Museum visits. It was nice to get some direct input on some of the ‘lore’ stuff I’ve been kicking around and I feel like I’m going in a good direction.

Also, been playing with a sketch app on my phone that’s actually decent(!) and found a good stylus for the tiny-ass screen. If anyone’s wanting a pretty robust art program with a freebie version, IbisPaint has been very good to me so far. Seal of approval or something goes here.

https://twitter.com/TheThreeTwo/status/1672348719021211651?s=20

Unfortunately, said phone is also kind of on the fritz and probably going to need replaced, which I’m dreading since I spent the afternoon setting everything back up from factory resetting the thing. Customer service line keeps repeating the same “have you tried turning it off and on” line and this all started after a firmware update so I have a feeling it’s something they can’t actually fix on their end. Bleah.

Chiseling A Story

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I know I was all fired up about plane girls and game design and stuff, and I still am, but lately I’ve been really feeling my dragon girl Radona and thinking about what to actually do with her.

She basically came into being when I was on a big 80s fantasy anime/game kick, mostly brought on by Valis and Astalon, and I kind of just thought of her as just a random fun character to doodle when nothing else sounded good. She feels like she’d be a great character to make some sprites of and throw into GameMaker to fool around and learn the program, or otherwise exist as a prototyping assistant. She’s kind of just this upbeat, adventurous half-dragon who lives to roam around and see the world with the ‘catch’ being she’s superhumanly strong and really has no sense of danger in regards to herself.

Sometimes I think about things that would be really interesting to apply to her in a bigger picture story or something- she’s going to live a *really* long time and that kind of thing paired with nigh-indestructibility and a general lackadaisical attitude would pretty believably lead to her just being completely out of touch with general humanity in a non malevolent way, just, things like promising to come back and visit someone and only remembering to do so by the time their grandkids are all that are left, or ‘settling down’ and starting a family, repeatedly, getting bored once the kids grow up and hitting the road again to the point where any time she sees someone with dragon blood she gives them a little sniff to be sure they’re not her offspring.

For a while, a few years back, I was thinking about doing a reset of Revolver Knight using some story ideas from online roleplaying and well, generally approaching it with a better idea of how stories fucking work. A lot of the ‘rules’ from that reboot still stuck with me as good ideas and I’ve been kind of retroactively applying them to the tentative Wanderer Radona setting, along with some stuff that was intended for the Irrgarten card game. I almost wonder if it would be a good idea to redesign Radona’s gun blade into a revolver style one and just recycle the title since I’m sitting on the domain name.

I think,maybe, she’s another character that just kind of gelled for me out of traits I wish I had or feel like I’d like to have around. It’s not quite the same as like a Twitter Artist Waifu thing, but more like designing your own muse or cheerleader. Eishi has bottomless optimism, Tomcat is like a ‘cool big sis’ who acts like a goof but is low key wise and powerful, and Radona is brave, adventurous, and not tied down by anything.

Also Flanker is a little troll bitch and sometimes being pointlessly antagonistic sounds really fun! But alas, I live in a society.

Artgrind 001

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Kurogane Gen and Eishi Dennou

I’m gonna make an attempt to at least draw more often again even if it doesn’t end up being officially daily. As a side condition I *also* want to avoid using the Clip Studio posing tool since I feel like I’ve been relying on it too much and while it’s helpful it also feels like it creates kind of ‘flat’ results so I’ll try to work on like… actually drawing better. If nothing else, I’d like to avoid getting ‘rusty’ since looking back at stuff from like 2015 and thinking it’s better than my current work really gets under my skin.

I spent a pretty substantial part of New Years Eve in a hardcore mope state lying in bed in the dark while listening to a really depressing manga summary on Youtube before snapping out of it and joining friends in a few rounds of Mario Kart until midnight hit, and I just really want to avoid wasting my free time like that so often.

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