Some Art Fight Hamsters (week 3 & 4)

I realized one day too late last week that I had forgotten to update my weekly art post, and then after feeling some minor regret for missing something so ingrained in my routine I forgot all about it again and figured I could mash week 3 and 4 together.
So I am XD

In all fairness, last week was pretty busy because  I was visiting my grandmother, sooo I didn't have much time to draw anyway. But still! The principle must stand!
I'm pretty happy with these three drawings though.

I might squeeze in one more hamster Art Fight picture tomorrow (because AF lasts until the first day of August) but this is basically what I've been accomplished this year! I had a lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to doing it ALL over again next year!
Maybe not with so many hamsters, but y'know XD

Some Art Fight Hamsters (week 2)

Only half as many hamsters as last week, but I've still drawn more hamsters than not so far on Art Fight, so I'm not complaining. XD

This week we had the equivalent of Batman and an evil J. Jonah Jameson, so I think it's been a good week!

 I've got at least 5 more hamsters bookmarked, so with any luck I'll draw them all by next week. Or at the very least by the end of July. We'll see how it goes!

Some Art Fight Hamsters (week 1)

 Well! It's started, folks! This is my first serious week of participating for Art Fight. 6 artworks in total- 4 of which were hamster characters
I'm not saying I'm going to make every attack against hamsters this year.. but I am targeting them with the biased sway of someone who has been obsessed with Hamtaro for over 3 month and would very much like to use the new skills they got during that time.

The hamster oc owners won't know what hit them! XD

Tiger Twins comic panels

Busy week! Interesting week. Pretty good week. I've finished sketching (and coloring) all the Hamtaro comic panels I've been working on since early June (despite my initial fears of burnout), Art Fight has officially started, and lots of other shenanigans have happened since I've last uploaded.
I'm tired, but content.
Mostly tired, tho. XD

 

I still can't believe I managed to color all 14 panels (not counting sketches) in a week. Especially these four. Backgrounds have never been my forte, and definitely not perspective! yet I'm reasonably proud of how these came out. Not perfect, but they'll do, and that's all I need from them.
Gonna start posting these on Instagram tomorrow.

I'll be too busy with Art Fight to sketch any new comics for a while, but I'm actually hyped to continue this lil' story if I can. Ah, but we'll see.

Hippie Hamster

  Bit of a rough week, but I think I've gotten through it without any long term damage, so that's a good start! I'm not feeling like death, so with any luck a few more days of rest and I can start getting (slowly) back into my art studies or something.
Unless I'm jinxing myself, in that case I'll just spend another week not doing much. This is fine.

 Jingle has been sparking an unusual amount of joy this week, tho. He really does grow on you with his quirky ways and nonsensical rhymes.
Plus he's so scruffy and fun to draw. :3

Smudge and Ebony character sheets

 Whelp! Finally figured out I have a small touch of burnout yesterday. It's been building up over the past week (or month, I have no idea) but I didn't connect the dots until now. Which is unusually sharp for me, now that I think about it XD
Hopefully I'll sort out this problem soon. And if not........ well. I was only trying to crack the mysteries of perspective and finish sketching out a Hamtaro comic. Nothing that can't wait, I guess.

 I was going through all the things I had drawn this week trying to figure out what I could share, and then I remembered I made some character sheets for Smudge and Ebony for Art Fight!
And they are of better quality than anything else I've made this week, soo... Yeah.
This is what I've done lately.

Tiger Twin Thieves

 Another week goes by and I'm a little deeper in this hamster hole than I was before.
How do I know that?
I've started making comics about them. XD

 We've brainstormed a few ideas over the weeks, but the one I'm working on during the evenings right now is a Maxwell, Stan and Sandy story. The twins are petty crooks masquerading as street performers, and Maxwell is the captain of the royal guard trying to catch the 'Tiger Thief' without knowing there's two of them.
It's a lot of fun. And if nothing else, it's giving me a good excuse to practice my perspective and storytelling abilities. And I REALLY need that.

Hamster Gal Pals

Well.
I'm now so deep in the Hamtaro obsession I've started designing ocs.
This is now a thing I'm doing with my life.

No regrets whatsoever tho! <3

Te Wo Tsunagou

 To say I like all the Hamtaro Japanese songs might be an understatement. Just a tiny one! But it's till an understatement.

They have no right to be this adorable, and yet here we are. <3

Two dorks making Big Sales

 "Breaking news! Local Italian man teams up with his future son-in-law and they combine their business charisma to make big sales, more at 6"

No but seriously. I adore Curtis' relationship with Zack and Goldie. The man is willing to ditch his own shop and help out the second he thinks they need it. Literally pushed Goldie aside, told her to get some rest, and took up the slack and started shouting advertisements to the public. What a guy!
Zack is also a good little businessman. He might've learnt most it from his mum, but he clearly picked up a few things from his neighbor too.
They make an adorable team. 

Anyway. That's how I spent my Thursday.
No doubt I'll be doing this again in the near future.

Hydrangeas in the Rain

First time drawing something with a background in.... *looks back* early March! (Apparently XD) and gotta say, it was a headache, but one with a good result! I'm reasonably proud of this.
WELL, I still like looking at it days after I created it, so it must be good, right? Riiight. <3

 Watching all the English episodes that I never got the chance to see  as a kid has been fun, but I'm SO glad the Japanese dub has also been living up to expectation too! (The different voices threw me through a loop for a hot minute, but I'm used to 'em now!)
Never thought they'd give us a Pashmina+Dexter+Howdy adventure, but they did and I loved it! In the rain, no less!

I was totally prepared to come up with my own story, but it was nice of them to acknowledge the trio in the show anyway XD
Little leaf raincoats sparked a lot of joy, too. And leaf umbrellas! That was adorable. 10/10 would love to seem them again in those outfits.

Hamster Humans

Now that I've had a chance to get my energy back and do whatever I wanted for a week, I finally have something other than homework to share with you guys!
Nothing wrong with homework. But it's nice to say I had time to do something fun for a change of pace.

Still obsessed with these guys a month later. But now I'm drawing someone other than Dexter and Howdy.
Working my way through the group in no particular order. Just going with the vibes.
Oxnard was a lot of fun to draw, tho. Quite proud of how I designed his hoodie to reflect his fur pattern.

Expression Homework (week 3)

Aaaand this was my final batch of homework!
Overall that was 24 emotions with 5 characters.. meaning I drew 120 expressions in 3 weeks.

That was certainly one way to spend my month, but I think it was worth it!

Overall I learnt a lot and I'm glad I took the challenge. Even if I was dead by the end of it, but I think that was to be expected XD

Expression Homework (week 2)

 Second verse same as the first- this was my second batch of emotions I had to draw and stuff.

 

 If I had more time I would've loved to have redrawn some of these, but the name of the game was quantity, not quality. So I had to let it go.
That's okay tho- I'll know better next time and be a little more creative.

Expression Homework (week 1)

 Haven't had the time or energy to draw anything else except my homework, so I guess I know what I'm doing tonight don't I?
Uuhh basically I've been using my Inside Out crew as practice for drawing expressions this month. Pretty basic, but considering there's five of them and I want all of them to be different.. it's not so easy XD
I'm doing alright though.

I'll probably upload week 2's homework next week. It'll give me something really easy to post, if nothing else.

More Hamsters- but I made them Human too

I can't believe I'm still drawing these two dorks.
What can I say? The poet and the mathematician compel, and their friendship is the best thing I've stumbled across in a long while.
And since I was having an off day on... must've been Tuesday or Wednesday? I decided to have fun and draw Howdy and Dexter as humans. Like you do!

I've been busy doing other stuff too, but like... *indicates* My highlights have almost always been these two. XD
Hamsters, man.

Hamsters eating Strawberries

Another week doing nothing much except drawing hamsters is a good week I think.
Well, it's at least a non-stressful week, anyway. That's good enough for me.

 Lil' hamsters eating strawberries almost as big as them spark joy. It makes me happy.

Hamster Lads

 I have no idea what happened to me this week, but I'm going to take an educated guess and assume I'm suffering from either burnout or too much stress. Maybe a little of both. (which is a shame because I really wanted to get back into my art lessons seriously again)
Either way, didn't draw a lot, but I did watch a lot of wholesome hamsters have adventures! So I think I had a good week anyway.

 I remember as a kid watching Howdy and Dexter do their thing and not being able to compute a word either of them said (I understood all the words individually, but all in the one sentence? HMM nope XD) but now that I'm an adult I can appreciate how much poetry Dexter spews out and I FINALLY get the terrible jokes and rhymes Howdy says in his ridiculous American accent. (he thinks he's the funniest man in the world and I dig it)
The poetry dork and the comedic mathematician- truly, no better rivalry has ever existed before or since, and I love them.

50's Rock&Roll with a Hotdog sheep and a Country Zebra

 Howdy all! Heh, didn't realized I was pushing myself so hard until I stopped suddenly at the beginning of this week. Trying to do too many things too quickly. Didn't prioritize too great. Got stressed and fell flat on the floor for a hot second. Same old story.

But because I caught myself before my engines overheated, I think I'm okay. A little irritated and frustrated that I didn't do anything I wanted to do, but it be like that some weeks.
I'll have to pick up my art lessons seriously again afterwards... but not before I rest for a few more days.

Played Pokemon Arceus Legends a lot (obviously) but I also played Animal Crossing a few times this week. I find I enjoy ACNH the most when I'm stressed, because it's like "Head empty, no thoughts. Only cute animals and easy jobs to do." And I got reminded of how much I needed this game way back in 2020. And the ideas and stories I had for our villagers was fun to think about again too.

So I drew some gals just for old time's sake.

 Frita is an OG villager- she came with us when we first started to tame our wild tropical island, and Savannah was our first new neighbor after we had civilized Sanctuary enough for more people to move in.
Both of these girls have completely different vibes - one's a loud big sister type who's into rock&roll, and the other's a sweet country bumpkin - but both of them have the singing hobby, so that always makes me happy when I see them next to a jukebox or radio together singing their little hearts out.
They're quirky neighbors. But oddly fitting too. I think they have a beautiful friendship.

Anyway. Between the Animal Crossing stuff I've been doing and the one 50's song I blasted all day on Thursday, that's the reason why I drew this piece.

I'm thinking of drawing our other 8 villagers, all with a fun music theme or something. Ah, but I'll go with the vibes, If I draw something, I'll share it. If I don't, then that's okay too. (I really want to draw Buzz and Peggy together with some sort of modern pop song; Buzz would have no idea how do react and Peggy's just all energy and smiles. That sounds amusing) 

Hopefully I'll be back in business next week, but even if I don't I reckon I'll be fine.
I'll see you guys next week. Same time, same place. Have a good one.

Random Splatoon Panels

 Head empty. No thoughts. Not much art either, now that I think about it. Haven't done anything interesting all week except draw random comic panels for my cousin.
I have absolutely no idea where this is going, but I'm just here to enjoy the ride.
Feels nice drawing some good squid and octo kids again.

 I'm getting some decent background and perspective practice from this. I think everyone would agree that I definitely need that. XD