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April Wrap Up

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As “essential” labor, I haven’t exactly had the full Quarantine Experience, but it’s been an incredibly tense and unpleasant month plagued with mental and physical health problems. Still, I mostly stuck to my daily drawings other than when I felt too sapped one evening and doubled down the following day. I’m finally on the up swing after getting in touch with my doctor and getting some actual help- seems like it was a combination of a viral nervous infection and day to day wear and tear on my neck adding up into one nasty package.

As such, there’s a lot of drawings in this batch I’m not especially happy with since I wasn’t able to focus or in a couple cases manage a straight line, but it felt like I was finishing on a good note when I ended on just a page of face practices. Hope you enjoy still, a lot of these are Critical Heaven design work as per usual since I’m really enjoying picking at this project.

SAD-II: Winter of Discontent Masterpost

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The following are sketch posts through most of March. What a month and a half it’s been, holy crap. I did skip *one* evening due to an emergency room trip but doubled down the following day I took off to recuperate. Overall I feel like I should finding areas to push myself in more as Cute Anime Girls is kind of starting to stagnate as a subject for me at long last.

One more day of March technically remains so I’ll probably just append to this post tomorrow. I’m gonna try to get an earlier start on these while I’m off work for the week and hopefully have more nice stuff to show soon!

A Febulation of Sketches

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Late January through February entries in Sketch A Day II: The Second Raid. I guess there’s no real reason I can’t crosspost here like I was posting to my Twitter other than laziness! I would like to start writing here again more often as a way to bump my general productivity up and chip away at my plane girls setting some more. There’s a lot of games I have had Thoughts on lately, too but I sort of wound up on a train of thought that nobody wanted to read plain text articles anymore after spending a couple years cramming them into comic format. I guess it would be a step up from “quietly stewing about it.”

So, the little exercise is chugging along nicely but definitely harder to pull off some days than others. Making myself produce at least *something* daily is helping me feel less depressed and lazy. I’m also attempting to put more effort into trouble areas so hopefully by the year’s end there’s a clearer improvement than the 2015 version of the project. Happy Leap Day, folks!

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.

Slayers Week Masterpost

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Another Slayers Week draws to a close on the Tumblrsphere and it was fun participating as usual. I was especially excited that my cross posts to Twitter managed to catch the eye of Rui Araizumi himself, which is extremely exciting given how much influence his style and Slayers in general influenced me.

The prompts are usually interesting and non-shipping-centric, which makes it easier for me to get creative as someone who prefers ‘cool’ to cuddly when left to my own devices. So, here we go!

Day 1 Prompt: Pokota- Not a character I’m super into or attempted to draw before, really, decided to try and give him a little of the vibe of a Sonic character being a little mascot dude as he is. I did come to like him a lot more last rewatch, though.
Day 2: Mazoku- With so many to pick from, I thought I would go for someone outside the lords/generals/priests but still recognizable, so I picked the tag team terrors of Kanzel and Mazenda from Slayers NEXT.
Day 3: Lina Inverse- I think Lina was the grand finale last time, but she gets an early appearance this time out. Lina is always fun to draw, in fact she’s basically my ‘test pattern’ whenever I get a new piece of software or hardware. Tangentially, my pal Evo sent me a new tablet, and these were all drawn on it. Funny, that!
Day 4: Supporting Character- Given so many to pick from, I decided to draw Ruma from Slayers Premium simply because I don’t think I’ve seen her get any fanart before. She’s got a cute design, I never actually noticed her cape was tattered and dirty until digging up reference pics. This and Day 7 are probably my favorites of the week.
Day 5: Sylphiel Nels Lahda- Or some spelling thereof. I don’t really have a lot to say about this one other than I had to redo her eyes because the first take made her look sly or seductive and I was going more for that gentle doe eyed look. I should also note up to here all of these images had no backgrounds because I was focused on the character art and hadn’t had time to play around much with the paint tools to make half decent backdrops.
Day 6: BroTP- Having two women as a ‘BroTP’ feels like stretching the term a bit but they always had a fun chemistry even if I prefer the main series to the specials basically any day of the week. It says something that they can literally fight against each other in a war then nonchalantly sit down and have lunch in a tavern like nothing happened. Best Frienemies.
Behind the scenes take, this one was *tough,* to be honest. I was having a Bad Anatomy Night and wound up using my Figma Body-Chan for reference photos, then scaling them to the proper heights made the proportions on the doll feel odd. I feel like I could have done better on this one, but given time constraints and working live on stream I gave it a solid “this is done.”
Day 7: Gourry Gabriev- Rounding off the week is the jellyfish brained sword prodigy himself, Gourry. Last time around I had him in an action pose, so this time I thought I’d show off his doofier side where he’s making the “Oh! I get it!” face but more than likely does not, in fact, get it.

If you’d like to check out submissions from people other than me, hit up the main blog at http://slayersweek.tumblr.com.

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