Special Delivery

OKAY why not make this a 3 for 3? Three detailed pictures in three weeks!
I'm down with that.

 

I took part in a monthly art challenge which focused on creating good character designs, and how to present them. Might have cut a few corners, but considering how stressed I was about participating at all, it's like... eh. I'll forgive myself for that.

The fact that I saw this through to the end is achievement enough.

Anyway! The idea was to learn how to collect references, consider the nature and roll of our character, and thus put whatever was in our heads onto paper better than just simply saying 1-2-3-go and accepting whatever we came up with first.

Lemme tell you. When I first drew this guy in 2020, I was not satisfied. Like. It wasn't bad. But I knew I could do better, but didn't know how.
Now I do. And I'm much happier with the results.

This steampunk mailman was a concept I made purely for the aesthetic, so I never took it further than "Oh, he accidentally helps kick-start a revolution by delivering letters reliably and quickly."
Admittedly, I still haven't gotten further than that, but I now have a decent design that I can use whenever I do decide to expand on his universe... so it's cool.

The Fear of Death takes away the Joy of Living

You know how I've been complaining about not drawing something to the limit of it's max potential these past few weeks?
Well, you don't have to worry about that now. Because I just spent two days and roughly 6-7 hours on this!
*cue relieved sigh from the audience*

Yeah. I know. I'm happy about this development too.
So very, very happy...

Mm! Oh yeah. That looks good.

Wasn't sure how my shading was going to turn out, but I found a really nice home-made brush (one that I must've made months earlier) that did the trick really nicely! Didn't feel weird or forced, and it made the process that much sweeter to do.
Dunno what I did to deserve that, but I'll take it. :)

Although, I think I've gotten rusty with glowing effects... I mean, it's not bad. But I can definitely do better than that.

But anyway! When all is said and done, I'm pretty happy about this. I'm proud to call it my own.

It's Raining, It's Pouring~

Some UV content, to end the month of April properly. :)
(Because I feel like posting now instead of tomorrow... Just so I can truly relax.)
(Also it'll look much nicer to me if I see this in the April section of 2021 instead of May. It'll just feel wrong if I don't.)

 Man did it feel good drawing this. I draw so many little things now I barely have time for stuff like this anymore. Not like back when I was 15, when I did stuff like this all the time.
On the one hand, that's a good thing. The more things I draw, the faster I can improve and learn. But dang it's so much more satisfying completing a big piece! <3

 Seeing Ruby goofing off with her husband makes me happy on the inside. Harland's such a dork, and she wouldn't have him any other way.
*Contented sigh*

AppleStorm through the Ages

Well. It's that time, again. Time where I draw myself in an exaggerated and flattering style, just for the heck of it.

Well actually, not just for the heck of it. I'm doing this was because my green splatoon key-chain broke (I wear it around my neck), so I had to replace it with another colour.
It's teal now. But I also figured I might as well make it official and draw myself with it, because otherwise how else would people know about this very insignificant and subtle change to my appearance?

 And, uh... Yeah?
Might've gone an extra mile further than intended?

 I've drawn myself a number of times before. But I think this is the first time where I've purposefully added information that - to me at least - is a little private...
Although I suppose it's not big secret that I play video games, or that I have my head in the clouds a lot. And I'm sure by now everyone on here knows I'm Aussie. If the kangaroo protagonists didn't give it away, then my random bursts of national pride would've tipped you off... 

And me being part of the furry community? *pfft* Yeah. Never would have guessed that. XD

But, uh... for arguments sake, let's review some old art of my persona, shall we? Just for reference.
And because I spent almost half an hour digging up all my old art, and I don't want to do that again next time I want to review my art journey-

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2021/Feb/16. This one was a special sketch done for one of my baby cousins. Not coloured, but I think it's still an important link in this (now that I'm looking) art chain. So I'm including it.

Me and my twin sister's baptism, 2020/Dec/25. Literally drew it on the day of the event. Quite special to me, even if I was still figuring out how to use my brand new drawing tablet, and had trouble adjusting to the new angle and bright colours (which didn't match up on my laptop screen).
Still. I like it.
The water came out quite nice.

2020/April/4. Birthday Special. Turning into legal adults and walking into a world that 3 years earlier would've made me want to scream in despair. Because as a teenager, when the only thing that you remember anyone telling you as you were growing up was about a future you didn't want to live in, you too would want to cry.
But I'm now making my own path. And I'm trying not to let anyone force me into a life I don't want to live. So I'm now less depressed about getting older now. Which is good. And I'm not alone in this. Which is also good.

2019/Nov/8, back when I was in full swing with my 'crayon sketching style'.
It's kinda cute. A lil blurry, but not as much as the previous method was. And I liked the colours a lot.

 

2019/July/11.
Fast and loose with a new laptop, with an adjusted paintbrush for all my sketching needs.
Not sure what I was doing here. Experimenting, probably. Which is good. But not what I would go for nowadays.

Ah yes. 2019/June/1. The good old days when I outlined my work.
No real comment. But I do like how I drew my name. Very satisfying.

 

2019/April/19. I still adore this piece to bits, even after all these years! I drew myself so cute! I was so fluffy!
Head empty! No thought! Only spider webs and brain fluff! <3

2018/Nov/24.
I remember this was supposed to be part of a bigger project, as a gift to my grandmother for Christmas. I was planning to draw my whole family, but I think I ended up getting so sick with stress I dropped the idea and literally couldn't draw for a whole month or something because of it.

I had no idea what an anxious child I was until much, much later. But it was examples like this that forced me to acknowledge that maybe I wasn't as carefree as I thought I was.
Hooray for self awareness! 

2018/Sep/18. I drew this as I was sick. But I still put as much effort as I usually did, though. But that's because I was an overachiever; because if something was worth doing, it was worth doing 'perfectly.'

But I'm now of the school of thought that if something is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. Better to have loved and died then to have never loved at all. That kinda jazz.

Makes brushing my hair and teeth a little bit easier... and actually spending time doing the things I want to do, too.

2018/Jan/1. A fancy new years' piece I did for fun.
WOW, I had energy to do special things like that back in the day... Ha. I struggle enough as it is without adding extra holiday pictures into my day.
Aint nobody got time for that! XD

 2016/Sep/3. Another artwork I did while I was sick.
Me in my ancient leather recliner, with mum's fuzzy orange blanket, and my comfort rug around my shoulders like a shawl. Back in the days where I depicted myself as a fox, instead of a hyena. Because Animal Jam.

2016/June/2. Me with the good dragon boys, and being excited to share my first 'public' comic.
I'd probably find it cute if I looked at it now. Or maybe I'd cringe internally. Or both.
I like how I drew the special effects, though.

 

 2016/April/4. Hey, I actually posted this on my birthday! Didn't call attention to that fact, but I still did!

Yeesh, my characters look colourful here. Midnight, why are you wearing a banana jacket? Ruby, pink and red should never be seen! Especially on you! And Sapphire! You're clothes are too saturated! Turn it down, you're giving me a headache girl! Haha, good grief.

2016/Jan/23. I made these two drawings on the same day, but I only shared one of them for some reason.
Odd. But, I'm happy I get to share both of them now. My younger self would probably be having a heart attack for breaking protocol, but I don't care. It's cool.

2016/Jan/9. I cry at my attempt to be clever with perspective, but I'm still so proud of 14 year old me for doing it anyway. That girl was brave.

 

2016/Jan/2. I find this piece oddly charming and beautiful. Honestly.

Imagine what I could do now, with all my skills and experience today.

Food for thought, anyway.

And finally. 2015/July/28. The first official time I drew myself.
I didn't even have that much to work with back then; just a silly Pokemon spinoff game, which I used... probably way too much, now that I think about. And a few notebooks and a good old fashioned pencil, with my dad helping my with the printer whenever I wanted to share something to the internet.
That was it.

Ha. Simple. Yet, I made it work for me.

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My personal art journey has taken on quite the magical adventure so far. It changed a lot. I got a little better. I've shed blood, sweat and tears for my hobby. And poured more heart and soul into it than anything else, too.
But I'm far from done.

*Picks up tablet and pencil again*

See you guys next week! Hope you take it easy, unlike me, who just spent almost two hours on this post instead of eating dinner. XD
*waves farewell and starts drawing some more*

Reginald Steel

Gave myself a treat yesterday and drew my favorite wolfman. Because I deserve to draw my characters every now and then, between all the other things that I'm always doing.

Just... something simple and easy for a change. No bells or whistles.
Just a good boy with his sword.

For a sketch, I suppose it's not bad. But I'm getting anxious about not working on anything big for the past few months, because I'm afraid I'm forgetting all the skills I worked so hard on when I was younger.
All the glitzy backgrounds are easy; but they only work when I do line-art. Otherwise it just looks silly to me. And also something I didn't earn doing.
... Don't miss drawing shadows as much, but shading and sprucing up the flat colours is also something I really don't want to forget.

Meh. I'm probably overreacting. And I guess I haven't been mentally stable enough to commit to drawing something more complicated than a fancy sketch anyway.
All the same. I wouldn't mind spending an entire two days on the same drawing for a change...

Maybe after I've finished my current project.
Maybe.

My Favorite Jacket (in all the styles!)

 Ha, wow. Sunset is pretty early now. No longer do I need to prepare my weekly posts a day in advance! (Not like I usually did, but I now no longer have to do that.. soo-)
Hooray for Daylight Savings, AmIright? *wooh!*

Haha, anyway. It's a multiple picture post again, but I'm pretty sure no one will complain if I upload more art.

More Inside Out stuff, too. Because it brings me joy drawing them.

Each of my emotions (except Sadness) wearing my favorite Assassin's Creed jacket. Because I realized I wear it differently depending on my mood, and I thought that was interesting enough to draw about it. So I did.

Joy wears my jacket like a cape, allowing her to keep cool and free without having to physically wear it. I did that a lot whenever we went on holidays to other countries.
I'd pull the hood up or down depending on the weather, too (or for extra support for my shoulders). And playing with the limp sleeves and twirling about was always fun.

Meanwhile, Fear is using it like your supposed to. Nothing too special, but considering I almost never wore it like that, it should speak for itself.
Only in the darkest times did I put my arms through the sleeves, zip the zipper all the way up, clasp in the special little button, and pull the hood up.
... Or when it was actually cold enough to justify it. But I digress.

Disgust's method was also something I did a lot. "Can't be bothered wearing it because it's too hot, and don't want to carry it around until you get back to the car? Simply tie it around your waist and waste no more time on it. Easy." (And oddly fashionable!)
I always had to undo it before I got in the car, but then I could either throw it on the floor or use it as a blanket. So I didn't mind too much.

However... The few times where I was told I had to wear my jumper (for whatever bizarre reason... like if it was snowing), I'd just slip it on and roll up the sleeves as far as they would go, and pointedly ignoring to zip it up. And depending on how cranky I was with the world, I'd maybe pull the hood down so I couldn't see anything except my feet. Hence why Anger's wearing it like that.

Heh. It might be 'officially' Sadness' jacket, but seeing the others wearing in their own ways makes me happy.

And, um... Yeah! I think that's about it.
They might be sketches, but considering how much fun I had drawing them, I think I can justify being lazy again this week.

When it starts getting colder here in Australia, I might go and dig my jacket out and wear it again just for old time's sake. Because we're not going to be doing any worldwide traveling for a while...
I did start wearing jeans sometimes last year... and I'm now comfortable wearing those in public. Maybe I can work on wearing more than one layer unnecessarily? Just for the heck of it?
(Ha. Maybe. Don't mind me. Just thinking aloud. :))

Hope your week turns out good, and you achieve everything you need to do.
See ya! <3

Memory Orbs

A'ight. New week, new month, new post.
Let's not beat around the bush and get this over with. I have a whole night of relaxation to get too!

My personal version of the Core Emotions from Inside Out.
Been a while since I've drawn these guys. It was nice to revisit them.

It's interesting to see how my mental health has developed since last year. Some things have improved. Some things haven't. And then there are some things which I didn't even know were problems to begin with.
There's always some action happening in my brain.

But these guys do a good job helping me figure it out, though.
Mad props to Fear for growing so much and Joy for being less toxic. And Sadness, for being the team mum and voice of reason. Even with her moments.

Early Courtship

 March is almost over. Finally.
Not been my favorite month this year, in all honesty. But I wont hold it against it. I still had some good days, and I spent a lot of time with my sisters. And Pokemon. Amongst other things. So it's cool.

My Art Studies are going well I think? I can tell in less then two months my understanding has increased, even if my hand is having trouble keeping up... I'm just worried I'm giving myself too much information all at once, then too little because I'm worried about forgetting anything. But I'm also too excited to stay on one topic for too long? Because there is A LOT OF GROUND to cover, and I want to see it all?
But then I just get scared and don't learn anything new anyway.
*shrug*

Anyway.
Still struggling to make art, but I think the worst days are over. Just have to persist and push through the rest of my frustration, but also make sure I don't burn myself out before I've filled up my tank again.

... I can probably do that? Maybe...

*... doubt*

I made this, in any case.

 Ruby and Harland in their early twenties. Slowing making their way through a more romantic relationship.
Ruby isn't convinced this will go anywhere, but Harland is optimistic and doesn't mind taking things slow for her.
At least they're dancing. That makes Harland very happy on the inside. :)

Simple Friendship

Another slow week for me, I'm afraid.
Drawing takes a lot of mental energy lately... It's getting better now, but I clearly need to play some more pokemon in the evening for another week before I go back to drawing for 5-7 hours a day.
Hopefully I'll only need that much time to complete my Nuzlocke run... so long as no one accidentally dies just before another important match.

But anyway.
Figured if I couldn't share something cool, I could at least share some of the little sketches I've been doing for the past two days.

 I like them. I had some good references while I drew them.
They have a nice low-key happy vibe about them.

Good kids, they are.
I like them a lot.
I wish them well in whatever it is they want to do.

On the Edge of the Distortion World

A'ight. Second verse same as the first... Not a terrific week, but apparently worse than the last one, because I couldn't even draw anything cool. So I'm pulling a super sketchy concept piece that I did last week, in place of an actual artwork.

It's not... bad? But it didn't turn out the way I envisioned it. Which means I'm biased, so this is probably still okay to literally everyone else.
But I'm hard to please.

Eh.
It's a thing, anyway.

Gotta have some bad to make the good look better.
All in the name of progress.

At least the spacey sky was kinda fun.
I like space.

Chibi Saturn with Croagunk

 Hm.
Been one of those weird unproductive weeks for me.

Not a bad week. Just didn't get that much done, for whatever reason.
*shrug* Oh well. It be like that sometimes.

But if the only thing my brain wants me to draw is a small evil nerd with his frog, then I guess a small evil nerd with his frog I will draw.
Who am I, a mere artist, to argue with inspiration on a slow week? :)

Besides. This makes me feel happy on the inside.
That's enough for now.

Vampire Wife with Fashionable Husband (10/10 Would Marry)

 This week has been an odd mix of activities for me. I got out of the house twice in two days (which is very social for me), watched two movies (also pretty weird for me) and spent a good amount of time doing odd house chores? But not much drawing.

So. On the one hand, it feels like my week has been packed. On the other hand, it feels like I've done next to nothing. No big drawing projects or a pile of fun sketches to show off... Practically nothing.
But if I tick off this week as a 'holiday from serious drawing' I think I can get away with it. *hopeful thumbs up*

But yeah.
Still didn't change the fact that I needed to draw something for my weekly art post.
But thankfully, as I was doing some drawing exercises on Friday, I drew something kinda sweet and thought "Huh. Ruby and Harland would be pretty fitting to draw in that position. But aw man, it's for human proportions..."
"Wait."
"I can still work with that..."

And about an hour or so later I had this on my hands.

My favorite penguin and kangaroo couple! But humanized! <3

 I've never ever drawn any of the UV cast as humans before. Which sounds odd, but I guess it's something I'd never considered trying to do?
Mostly because my characters being animals play a huge part in the grand scheme of literally everything. Why it's such a big deal for Ruby to marry someone who's not one of her species; why having hybrid children can be amazing or terrible, depending on the parents or magic blood; why some magical species are going extinct because of inbreeding or mixing too much... etc etc.

But! I still think this is pretty neat. For what it's worth.

Obviously, if I was to draw them like this again, I'd want to fix/improve on some details... but that's not important.

I'm content with what I've created. It was a neat experiment. It brought my joy for a little while. :)
Best odd couple! <3

The Boys

Hey.
Guess who finally drew something that wasn't pokemon yesterday?
*bright neon sign flashing on and off above head*

It's me.
I was the one who finally drew something that wasn't pokemon.

 And even better, it's UV related!
I manage to draw some good boys with some good kids!
Overall, it's a good day in AppleTown. :)

It's times like this where I realize that most people are going to look at these characters (more specifically Harland and Vincent DeathDancer) and go "Oh! Look at these lovely green girls!" while I'm in the background snickering like "Yes, those dudes are indeed very lovely."
What started as a perfectly innocent joke when I was but a wee lass has turned into a perfectly innocent running joke which I love to bits.

I dunno. I just adore seeing guys in dresses and skirts.

Reginald is at least wearing a kilt. Very masculine. No mistaking him for female. (Probably)
Flavio is the only one who you don't immediately second-guess yourself on what gender he is.
Until he starts brainwashing you. Then you start doubting yourself! XD

The background was a bit of a surprise. Wasn't planning on doing that when I started drawing this. But I did.
Didn't turn out too bad, I think.

Anyway it's almost 8pm now so I gotta go.
Hope you guys have a nice weekend! May you end up being less stressed than you started!
*salutes myself out*

Cyrus!Giratina

Aaaand I'm back with another Pokemon sketch from my Archives! Yay.
I would've made something not pokemon if I could've... Really! I would've. I did try! And it ended with me being sad for a few minutes and then giving up and resuming drawing Team Magma.

I can't tell if I'm digging my own hole deeper every day, or if my hyper-focus ability is always being redirected to something similar but just different enough to keep my imagination chugging along happily so that it FEELS like I'll never draw anything but Pokemon ever again...

???
Who knows.
I'm not gonna let it upset me that much though. I am enjoying having an interest lasting for longer than a week or two. And I think I've gotten better at drawing human faces because of it.
Like... not useful? For UV? But still a skill that I've neglected over the years.

Anyway. Here's what I managed to draw yesterday.

I've never really paid much attention to Cyrus before (mostly because there were so many other Pokemon Villains I had my attention on) but he's been growing on me slowly over the past few weeks.

Giratina was my favorite legendary from Sinnoh, though (I love that good centipede dragon! <3) so when I made the decision to draw this sad nerd... - possessed? I'm gonna say possessed - possessed by Giratina it was a lot of fun.
And it was a whole lot easier than drawing Maxie!Groudon or Archie!Kyogre.

Love Maxie and Archie very much, but out of the three of them Cyrus was the easiest for me to draw.
He just hit all the right sweet spots... None of this wearing weird wetsuits or having three layers of clothing and LEGGINGS, Maxie. *pfft* Dork. :)

Screaming into the Air Conditioned Void

 Hello there! I have no idea how much time I have tonight, and because I completely forgot to prepare anything yesterday afternoon, I'm speed-running this just in case I have to be called away to do other things...

Basically tho, I hadn't really drawn anything impressive this week, so I'm doing what I predicted I was going to have to resort to last week...
Which is post another of the drawings I made last week.

But that's okay, I guess.
Could be worse. :)

 The only reason why I drew all of this was because I wanted someone to be screaming into an electric fan. Because the way your voice distorts when you do that is a lot of fun, and seemed like something Maxie's Jigglypuff would love to do.

Love that little heavy-singing puffball. 

Also drawing windy hair is a lot of fun. Need more practice doing it, definitely, but I think it's a cute look on Courtney.
Pasta's lil' blep tongue brought me joy too...

Movie Night

Hm. This week has been pretty productive, if I do say so myself.
Made four complicated and fully coloured sketches that I was reasonably proud of, as well as a half a dozen little sketches that brought me minor enjoyment.
My stress kept itself purely professional - which was nice - as we had to go to the dentist yesterday, and the only way I could keep myself sane was by focusing all my attention and stress onto my work, one day at a time.

My anxiety can work for my benefit too, occasionally...
But I'm curious to see if I can do a repeat performance next week, since I think we'll be going to our yearly optometrist appointment in the next few days... And I hate going to the optometrist.
So I'll either draw lots, or crash and burn with stress.

We'll find out when we get there, I suppose.
Worse case scenario, if I draw nothing in the next 7 days I'll just post another of the sketches I made this week on here and ramble for a bit. I think no one would mind if I did that.

This was just one of the four fancy sketches I posted on Instagram this week... I did this one on Monday, I think. It took me almost two hours to do the floor because perspective and I are still strangers and I hate it with burning indifference.

But the rest of the drawing was fun to do!

I've been drawing Team Magma a lot over these past few months, and it's gotten up to the point where I can draw most of them from memory, and be comfortable with them? Like... Tabitha is almost a comfort character for me to draw now, because he's big and round and soft and has a cool horned sleeveless hoodie and he's an utter mad brat and I love him. So much.

And it's thanks to Maxie that I'm getting better at drawing glasses.. even if I think his Mega Glasses look stupid. Also, anyone that decides that wearing a turtle neck in a sub-tropical climate has my scorn and respect.

Courtney is still giving me some trouble, but I blame Nintendo for giving her such a weird outfit in the first place and wont hold it against her. She's a lovely psychotic child, even if I think she defies the laws of fashion.

*mmm* yeah, I think I'm done talking now.
I wish you guys a lovely weekend, and hope to see you in good spirits next week! :)

Rainfall

 This week's been a mixed bag. I've had my highs, and I've had some lows. My anxiety has returned to it's usual hum at the back of my head, but I'm remembering how to live with it again. That's okay. I can deal with that. Even if it is annoying feeling like I can't eat lunch. It's fine.

I've also taken the first (of hopefully many) serious steps to making my dream come true this week! Scared? Oh yeah, a lot. I've never done anything like this before. But I've got time. And I know in the end I'll come out better for it. With any luck I'll have a clearer map to the rocky road that I've decided to travel on over the year.

But enough about that.
Let's get on with the post so we can enjoy the art I've decided is good enough to share tonight.

I wasn't expecting anything special when I sketched this out. Just assumed it was going to be another unfinished doodle in a nameless folder that I'd never look at again.

Instead, it turned into something that.... actually makes me really happy to look at?
It sparks joy. It's not perfect, but I'm proud to call this my creation.

 I missed drawing this idiot. Missed drawing his stupid kangaroo face, short tail and clawed feet.
Just... Aeron taking a second to appreciate the weather, in a time period not his own, and probably thinking weirdly poetic thoughts about the beauty of something as mundane as rain.

He knows it's been done before. He's aware that this moment, and his feelings, aren't special. But he thinks it's still pretty neat anyway.
When you've seen countless marvels of the universe you sometimes have to relearn to appreciate the little things in life.

*sigh* MAN I love this idiot so much. Ruby's disaster son, doin' what few mortals have done before.
By that, I mean cause Minor Problems for the Immortals and do ridiculously bizarre things for the sake of saying you've done them.
Well... one could argue that's what most of the UV cast does. But not on such a large scale.
Few people can claim to have accidentally become Merlin the Wizard For Real while role-playing with a group of crazy Fey. Amongst other things...

"Mightyena's shouldn't be allowed Ice Cream..."

I remember when doing my weekly art post was easy. Well, not easy... but more organized? No, that's a lie too. I usually scrambled to come up with something at the last minute. Not always, but usually.

But if feels like I've gotten a lot more lazy over these years. Which is silly, because I probably draw a lot more than I did when I was 15. And harder, too. But because I don't spend an entire day devoted to a single drawing and making it as over the top and detailed as possible, it feels like I'm falling short.

It's probably time I moved the goal posts, but I'm a perfectionist. If I'm not working at 120% then I clearly don't care. Even if I care a lot.

Which is probably why I still feel physical pain when I try and post something... less clean. Like this. Even when I like it, it still hurts when I do this.

Hm. I was probably going to go somewhere with that train of thought, but heck if I can remember what it is now. Oh well.
I'm tired from this week and want to go to bed.
I think that might be the basic gist...

I push myself to my limits far too much.
Don't believe a word of it, but that's probably what's happening.

Mm. Anyway.
I have a splatfest session with my cousins tonight, so I should probably get to that.
I'll probably feel better tomorrow. A good rest will cure any depressing mood... or so I'm told.

See ya! *picks up controller and prepares to murder the innocent*

Vampire Kid (Redraw)

*Raises hand in salute* SALUTATIONS, my beloved comrades!
We have come to feast on some leftovers tonight; recooked, and re-imagined!

Take a bite out of this!

 Decided to do younger me a favor and re-draw an old picture I absolutely loved. It was nice and relaxing to do.

While not particularly impressive, I had a lot of fun and it refreshed me from all the pokemon fanart I've been doing for the last three months.
(probably refreshed all you guys too)

Original picture - (2016, July 2)

HA. Wow. My style both changed dramatically and not at all? That's cool.
I think I grew more simple, and spent less time shading and texturing everything. The eyes are still pretty big, though. Haven't changed THAT at all. XD

Okay. That's pretty neat.

 *****

... I just got a WEIRD sense of Déjà vu just now. Did... did I plan to redraw this?? When I made the original, did I... unintentionally PLAN to one day come back and redraw this???

Huh.

So maybe I did have a point doing this after all.

.....

YOU'RE WELCOME, PAST ME! <3  

Ah. Self-love is such a nice feeling.

"Look, I'm not sure what you want me to do about this, Shelly."

A brand new year and a brand new post~ What could be better than that?
Nothing I can currently think of, anyway.

Have some more fanart, because I have literally nothing else to share.

It's been three months and I'm still drawing Pokemon art for my sister. This shocks me.

I think it's because every time I try and draw for myself I end up being depressed? But drawing for someone else is far easier, for they are less critical of my art and are easily satisfied.
*shrug* Who knows. Either way, I'm drawing a lot, so I'm not seeing this as a bad thing.

I ride the wave until it washes me ashore. Then I go forth and catch another wave!
The cycle of hyper fixation is a wonderful and exciting one. :)