Panic! And Boredom! At the Disco!

 Once again getting inspired by a song and using it as a springboard for some good old fashioned creativity! Because as if ONCE wasn't enough this week. XD

Social anxiety has never sounded so boppy before XD 

"I'm trying to accurately depict an anxiety attack and you're not helping"

Funny thing happened on the way to getting up on an average Tuesday morning and having no idea what I was going to draw, but knowing I wanted it to engage me on at least two different vectors.

Also funny thing happened when I was browsing through what kind of song to listen to while I warmed up my hand for drawing said nebulous and engaging thing.

Turns out one triggered the other and I haven't been able to stop drawing about a comic about Anxiety's average day, but to the lyrics of a song I already liked but it'll be imprinted in my brain forevermore after it's over!

Such is the way of inspiration, as always. XD

Sleeping on the job

Okay

So maybe saying to myself "you know what I should do this week? Rewrite 9 character bios for ArtFight within a week, AND write up 8 brief descriptions for the relationship every character has with EVERYBODY ELSE" was maybe a little ambitious.

And maybe I should've have been surprised when I felt like death before the week was out. XD

But all things considered, I'm happy with the progress I've made so far! And I've done more than half the work, so with any luck I'll get the rest finished well before July hits! 

In the meantime tho, I'm following Ennui's lead and I'm going to crash out. With any luck I won't wake up until a thousand years has passed XD

Hanging out at the Sniper's nest

 Howdy, folks! Spent most of my week writing again. Writing and sleeping, actually! Been going through a weird time when my brain needs more rest, I think. Or at least more rest during the times when I want to be awake XD

Despite that though, I think I've managed to mitigate most of the damage and whatever else I needed. Still going to take it easy, but I'm happy to be poking my big SWH2 fanfic project with a stick this much. 

Nice to be back in a small SWH2 mood, too! Haven't fallen in that deep yet, but the ground is soft and anything could happen.  

Seas, Skies, and the Shattered World

 Right! Out of all the things I expected to happen this week, getting invested in writing and drawing SteamWorld Heist shenanigans was not one of them. But this has been a welcome distraction from everything else! Nice to get back into the robot stuff again.

 Was pretty proud of the colors for this came out. Definitely want an excuse to play with more tropical colors again!

Selkie Transformation

Think I'm finally starting to get some momentum to draw again this week.

If all the new concept art for a story about Selkies I've been thinking of has been any indication, it's  probably only a matter of time until I do something insane again

And by insane, I mean creative!

And by creative? Well.. we'll find out when we get there! 

In the meantime, seals are fun to draw! 

Take a walk with Mii

 Okay

So maybe redrawing 9 character sheets plus half a dozen other smaller (but no less creatively-draining) projects in the span of a few short weeks was maaaaaaybe going to have a higher cost than I expected.

But in my defense! I was riding the high of Completing Tasks and forgot that there are consequences to my (creative) actions!

So yeah. Had a good drawing day on, what? Monday? And then crashed and burned for the rest of the week.

Good thing a new game came out so me and my twin got invested in! 

I played the original Tomodachi Life game as a kid, so watching my twin play it for the first time has been enriching. Some things I remember, and some of my knowledge can be transferred! Other things we are learning together.

Either way, we're making sure we are best friends in every universe and every game. So far it's going well XD 

Finding our Routes

Another week officially done and dusted. Minecraft is still inspiring me to draw a lot of stuff, and I've made a lot of progress (in the game) since last week. Documenting all the shenanigans I've done is taking time, but at least it gives me a good list of options to draw should I need the inspiration.

However, I am also busy redrawing all of my Inside Out character sheets (which I made in 2023, I think?) so it's been tricky balancing all the things I want to do at once. But I haven't burnt out yet, so I suppose I've been doing a good job making sure my plate isn't too full everyday!

 

  

 I think this is one of the favorite things I've drawn this week, though. Really proud of how the map turned out, and the lighting feels exactly how I wanted it. Can't wait to find more excuses to draw maps :3

Mapping our World

 Ha! Well, it's that time again folks! A time where the fourth day of April lands on a Saturday.
It's happened once already - 2020, I believe and fact checked! - and now it's happened again.

On the one hand? I've felt a year older since January/February, so like. Officially reaching 24 years of life is like *shrug* "yeah, I know. No big deal." And on the other hand...? Well, it's just funny because I'm glad I've reached to the point where having another birthday isn't sending me into bad spiral anymore.

In fact, I'm almost looking forward to seeing what kind of shenanigans I can cram into my life until the next birthday happens!

But anyway- enough introspection and musings. Here's this week's art showcase from yours truly! 

Last week I bit one bullet (I had many bullets to choose from) and decided to try playing Minecraft again. And it's been inspiring me to draw again! I was kinda going through a writing phase during March, being more interested and motivated to write instead of draw... but it feels good to wake up in the morning and feeling excited about art again.

... also it feels good to wake up in the morning and get excited about playing Minecraft like a kid again. Except this time I'm being an Adult(TM) about it XD  

So yeah! Let's see where this year takes us. I'm planning to celebrate my birthday properly when my twin gets to come home from studying, but until then let the Emotional times roll!

Whether the Weathers

 March coming to a close feels like a small ripoff, but since I've already started thinking of myself as a year older (even before our birthday has happened) I think that balances things somewhat.

Maybe not a satisfying balance, but a balance nevertheless! We'll take what we can get. 

 

Whatever the next few weeks brings us though, may we get through it all as best we can. 

Don't stop now! There's an army of Sharks around that corner!

One week later, and I am resigned to report that the Ninjago hyperfixation hasn't abated yet. It has shifted towards a Ninjago!Movie flavor of the characters I know and love very well, which was... weird! But if it sparks joy, who am I to question it?

And instead of drawing a lot of the things in my mind, I've been writing about it instead! And it's been enjoyable, digging my teeth into a big writing project for a change of pace.

Maybe I'll keep writing fanfiction for another week before getting back into my art. Sometimes flexing my other creative muscles for long periods of time is a good thing. And I'm enjoying it, so why not?

Of course that won't stop me from drawing things like this, though. Even if it's only a little. :3 This sketch is inspired by the things I have been writing. And we'll see if I can make a few more companion pieces to go with it later. 

Fire Ninja Fight

*Long. Very long. Drawn out sigh.*

So.

After 3 years of radio silence, guess what hyperfixation has reared it's masked head from the depths of my brain again.

Yeah, I don't believe it either! But it's Ninjago, folks! 

I'm hoping this is only a temporary bout of madness and then my soul can be cleansed again. But until then, I guess I'm gonna be thinking about fruit-colored ninjas for a hot minute.

Such is the way of the dormant hyperfixation from your childhood. XD  

Not a competetion, but if it was...

Had a bit of a rough week, but despite dizziness knocking me around a lot, I managed to eek out another SWH2 comic before Friday so that was good I think!

Also in-between trying to make comics, I also doodle some RK stuff. Which was an unexpected but pleasant surprise :3

Once again Lapis and Jim are my go-to nerds for easy and comforting RK characters to draw. As they should be. XD

What do you see (when you look in the mirror)

Currently feeling like a horse stuck on a broken carousal, because my inner-ears are going through the wringer for bizarre reasons

But lo and behold! Art!!

Made this at the beginning of the week because I saw some cool pictures of broken mirrors and reflections. Figured it would be good practice and good fun, and I was right

We gotta get Tristan a dictionary or something, I swear

 Another week done, and another comic done. Although the comic I made this week was 10 pages long, and I got it down in 5 days, so it was a little exciting and thrilling to get all that down on paper!

Unfortunately I didn't really draw anything else this week, except concept art for a Spiderman OC I've started musing about during the quiet moments of the night when sleep is fickle and the dreams won't come. So even if I have been too busy, I've at least been entertained by all sorts of thoughts.  

Anyway, I'm pleased with how everything has turned out this week. I look forward to seeing what happens during the next 7 days of my life!

Beacon sketches

 I think it's at this point that I have come to a realization: it's February!

Which is something that I should probably have already known, but in my defense it's funnier if a part of me was still absolutely convinced it was still December of 2025. The year's going to be over before I even register it's begun, huh? XD

Still trucking my way through Steamworld comic projects, and I'm pleased with how good my endurance has gotten in the last year. Averaging a comic project a week is pretty good, and I'm optimistic (and excited) about all the other things I'll get to do with these advancing skills!

But that's future problems and delights. For now, practice (and persistence) makes good things better! And I'm relieved I'm FINALLY getting the hang of drawing Beacon's face. XD 

A man and his nuclear-powered therapy crab

Okay, after that intensive odd week of Warrior Cats, I am pleased to report my Steamworld obsession is back on track!

Not like it ever left, but now it's back with a new interest and passion! And also a mild fascination for new ideas I'll want to explore later.

But til then! Behold! The man of the hour with his therapy dog best friend! 

I'm still learning how to draw Trophy, but I'm pretty pleased with the vibes I'm getting down on paper lately. I'll see if I can start making some comics including them or not over the week. :3

Cats cats cats

Well this is an unexpected shot of nostalgia for my system! Warrior Cats, huh?

I figured one day I might become interested in cat drama again, but also getting invested in a bunch of WC OCs too? Now that's something you don't see everyday! 

We'll see how long this lasts, but until then it has been very fun spinning these cats around in my head while I work on comics. :3

A wheelchair user, a HoH person, an amputee and a half-blind kid walk into a bar-

What was supposed to be a brief creative exercise turned into a sketch that I actually quite like

And by that, I mean who knew translating robot designs into human variants would be so much fun?

Also Quincy, you are living up to the Pirate stereotype of hiring people with disabilities and we love you for it very much XD

My Bane, My Antidote

So.

This piece got slightly out of hand! A little more polished than I was bargaining for.

But you know what? Some days you just gotta draw something and then keep coloring it until it accidentally becomes something more than you first planned! And that is okay.

Quincy Leeway doodles

Well! I sure drew a lot this week! Roughly 12 comic pages of various projects, and a handful of smaller doodles throughout the week!

Unfortunately none of that is easy to show off in my typical blogger format, and the thought of having to dig up and upload even one comic page out of context exhausts me, I have decided to go for option B! Something I made on New Years day that still amuses me! 

Love how despite only having one arm, Quincy is still hilariously chatty with his hands and unreasonably fun to draw. I'm so glad I've started to get the hang of working with him. XD

Remember the Fallen

Wrote a SWH2 fanfic earlier in the week, and then decided to make some kind of 'art companion' piece to go with it.

I didn't want to draw any submarine interior, but honestly the wispy smoke and steam works better with the emotion I wanted to capture. 

It was an interesting experiment, one which I am not unpleased with.