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another year, another art summary. hey, uploading on Dec 26 again!

Interestingly, I didn't post a single thing to this blog this year. I drew up two pages (and one un-uploaded page) of Joker and the Ace of Hearts, but that's about it for my uploads. Just didn't feel inclined to share anything else with anybody but my own friends, really. Sometimes it was because I drew reference images for my own OCs, or I drew somebody else's OC, or because I hadn't finished the set they belonged to (I have 4 more bunny girls from October, but I still have to draw 5 more to complete the full set of 10). I might post December's piece, as well as last year's December piece I never posted. Why not.

And I'm not sure whether or not I really made any "progress" with my art this year. Perhaps a little bit; if you take a look at the three-year summary under this, you'll see I re-drew Akari (pictured here in November) and it seems to be an improvement? And I found that I enjoy drawing realistic items (note the chili pepper in July).

But also, I kinda... don't care? I had fun with everything I drew. I'm slightly leaning into making more dynamic poses, though it's hard to see from this summary, so that's something. I'm realising my niche where I'm comfortable in is in drawing character designs and more cartoony things. And also, this doesn't take into account the literal THOUSANDS of words of worldbuilding I wrote for my original story.

All in all, 2023 was an interesting year. I finally have two complete 3-year summaries, so here's a 6-year summary to mark the occasion; my progress from 2018 to 2023 <3

#art summary #art summary 2023

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oi, I don't just draw people from the torso up with blank backgrounds!

I also draw flat colour fullbodies of people. with blank backgrounds.

#ily too <3<3<3

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#autodesk sketchbook free version on my shitty decade old amazon fire tablet #i cannot access the extra brushes and i can only have three layers at any given time :) #fear me #i also cannot change the canvas size

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#Listen. Kirby is so Simple that it is really notable when you mess him up #It used to be Dedede but then I Learned How #Meta isn't hard he's just. a bit tedious with so many features to remember--

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Art summary once again~ Not much fully-coloured/rendered art this year, and less that’s been publicly posted because I just... didn’t feel the need to post? But, I’ve had fun anyway~

Three-year comparison is always under the cut! I think I can definitely say that I’ve gotten better at drawing chins over the years, if nothing else. It’s hard to tell when I haven’t been drawing much, lol.

#art summary #art summary 2022

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If I had a dollar for every time one of my fav characters has been a purple-haired, blue-eyed, socially-inept weirdo who has dressed up in a Kuromi-themed outfit... well, you get the idea.

#Puyo Puyo #Ensemble Stars #Feli #Puyo Puyo Feli #Mayoi Ayase #Kuromi #do not ask me what this pose is i have no idea. the sketch was different and then this happened #because i was trying not to cover the braid #anyway! I love these two so much #Mayoi pls come home

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genshin tiiiime. collection of old stuff I never posted (like from 2020 old), and a snapcube realtime fandub comic, ft. my friend’s character Drake (from this year)

#I wanna start posting more of the random stuff I draw that I feel is too small to be their own post lol #I draw a lot more than I put out into the wild #Genshin Impact #Genshin #Albedo Kreideprinz #Genshin Gorou #Mona Megistus #Raiden Shogun #Traveler Lumine #Genshin Paimon #tablet doodles #swearing cw #everybody gets babyface when I'm just quickly sketching them out like this lol #Friend's OC

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I keep forgetting to post art, whoops! have Incubus ver. Akira Otoishi

#Puyo Puyo #Puyo #Incubus Puyo Puyo #Akira Otoishi #yes this is from scratch not an edit or anything-- #I like drawing in Puyo Style even if I'm Flawed at it~

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the long-awaited sequel

a moodboard for wtf arcana but it's out of context lineart and draft sketches

#persona 5 #wtfarcana #jokerandtheactofhearts

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Dear Doppelganger

Gen, 3/3 Chapters, 24k words

Tags: Friendship, Doppelganger, Self-Worth Issues, Emotional Hurt/Comfort

They say that one's worst enemy is their own self. Klug finds himself having to prove his skills to his friends, lest he end up losing everything to a devious impostor.

But, is a flawed person even capable of besting a "flawless" copy...?

[Read the work on AO3 by clicking here!]

#Puyo Puyo #Puyo #Klug #Dear Doppelganger (fic) #heehoo funny number 24 #additional tags on ao3 #pepdog story #this one took me a YEAR to write and edit #I keep writing stuff but not finishing them #and then... not posting them because they are unfinished-- #maybe I should start posting more wips

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"Joseph’s probably my favourite JoJo” I say as I proceed to draw Giorno almost exclusively (the secret is that I love all the JoJos nearly equally and Giorno’s just the most fun to draw)

also, i’m gonna be pushing my “Hamon User Hayato Kawajiri” agenda, and you’re just going to have to live with it

#why do the sketchiest and least effortful ones look the best lkjhgfhjkkjhg #long post #tablet doodles #jojo's bizarre adventure #JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind #Vento Aureo #Giorno Giovanna #Squadra Guardie del corpo #aaaand everybody else is here too lmao #also don't worry Fugo ends up fine <3 #because Gold Experience doesn't actually work like that I don't think--

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We’ll get through this.

#another later reblog for terrible timing

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We’ll get through this.

#Digimon Ghost Game #Kiyoshiro Higashimitarai #ask to tag? #we love our easily frightened boi and his... other personailty?? #after Nightmare and Monster Pollen I REALLY want some solid answers lkjkhgfhjk #it's not spoilers if it doesn't happen in canon :peacesign:

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cherry-loving emerald splash boy my beloved <3

#later reblog because my timing is terrible lmao

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cherry-loving emerald splash boy my beloved <3

#noriaki kakyoin #jjba kakyoin #jojo's bizarre adventure #jojo's bizarre adventure stardust crusaders #digital art #the japanese says his name in case you were wondering #yeah i'm into jojo now. already watched all the anime and now i'm reading the rest of part 6 #i have drawn more stuff this is just the first one that isn't a silly sketch of giorno ljkhgfghjkh #i'll probably post my sketches in a big bunch later

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my dad–also a writer–came to visit, and i mentioned that the best thing to come out of the layoff is that i’m writing again. he asked what i was writing about, and i said what i always do: “oh, just fanfic,” which is code for “let’s not look at this too deeply because i’m basically just making action figures kiss in text form” and “this awkward follow-up question is exactly why i don’t call myself a writer in public.”

he said, “you have to stop doing that.”

“i know, i know,” because it’s even more embarrassing to be embarrassed about writing fanfic, considering how many posts i’ve reblogged in its defense.

but i misunderstood his original question: “fanfic is just the genre. i asked what you’re writing about.” 

i did the conversational equivalent of a spinning wheel cursor for at least a minute. i started peeling back the setting and the characters, the fic challenge and the specific episode the story jumps off from, and it was one of those slow-dawning light bulb moments. “i’m writing about loneliness, and who we are in the absence of purpose.”

as, i imagine, are a lot of people right now, who probably also don’t realize they’re writing an existential diary in the guise of getting television characters to fuck. 

“that’s what you’re writing. the rest is just how you get there, and how you get it out into the world. was richard iii really about richard the third? would shakespeare have gotten as many people to see it if it wasn’t a story they knew?”

so, my friends: what are you writing about?

#y'know what? as one of Nova's FanFic Mutuals I'll RB this-- #Dear Doppelganger is about the irreplaceable nature of human life #how a person is defined not purely by their skills but by their memories. their opinions. their thoughts. their experiences. #and also about the nature of friendship and how there is not a skill-based requirement #you can be the most unskilled person and you can still gain friends who love you and care about you #and they won't want you to be replaced by somebody who is not you. no matter how much more skilled that other person may be #....and it is a Puyo Puyo fanfic. hee hoo funny coloure blob puzzle game go brrrrr #i should finish editing it so i can finally post the 24k words I wrote--

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Digimon Ghost Game main Tamers/Partners, in a Puyo Fever 2/15th-esque Style~!

#go listen to the op it's so good #and also watch Ghost Game <3 #this is my first time really trying to draw the fever 2 style and it's so fun #Digimon Ghost Game #Kiyoshiro Higashimitarai #Ruli Tsukiyono #Hiro Amanokawa #Jellymon #Angoramon #Gammamon #these are not transparents lmao sorry-- #puyo puyo