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bad268 · 6 months

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Angel (Mick Schumacher X Reader)

Fandom: RPF/Formula 1

Requested: Day 16 of Writing Inktober prompts instead of drawing!

Warnings: pregnant reader, mentions throwing up once (literally just says it, doesn't actually go anywhere).

Pronouns: You/your (but pregnant reader)

W.C. 395

As always, my requests are OPEN

MASTERLIST // HITLIST

Writing Inktober 2023 Materlist

~~(^Google/US Sun)

It had already been a long day, and you hadn’t even done anything other than watch a movie, sleep, and throw up. Being pregnant was no joke, and currently, you were regretting it.

Currently, you were sitting on the couch, watching your comfort show while sipping some tea in an attempt to ease your stomach when your phone went off with a text notification.

“Are you feeling any better or is it still as bad as when I called you earlier?” It read from Mick. He called you right when you woke up since he was in the UK doing some pretesting and would be busy pretty much all day.

“Not really. I know you’re in a meeting, but I miss you,” You sent back. You didn’t want to be too much of a downer, especially when he couldn’t really do anything to help.

“I’ll always text you. Toto can’t take my phone away,” he replied immediately before three more dots appeared. “If you need anything let me know. I’ll call you after the meeting.”

It didn’t feel like you were asleep for long, but when you opened your eyes, the moon was high in the sky. Last you remembered, it was barely noon. You can’t even remember if you zoned out while watching your show or if you actually fell asleep. What pulled you out of your trance? Knocking, but who would be at your house at 10 o'clock at night (you checked the clock)?

You got up from the blanket cocoon you had buried yourself in to answer it, and it was a delivery of your favorite food. You thanked the person before closing the door and heading back to the couch to text Mick.

“Did you send me this?” You sent with a picture.

It didn’t take long for him to answer with, “Of course! I needed to make sure you ate something.” It made you tear up at his thoughtful actions.

“You're an angle,” You sent back quickly, immediately noticing the typo. You let out a groan before going to correct yourself, “**Angel”.

“Acute one I hope?” He replied to the first text, ignoring the correction. You laughed to yourself for a second, thinking of a response.

“If I say yes, will you come home sooner?” I joked, slightly optimistic.

“Answer the door,” his text read as there was more knocking.

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#mick schumacher x reader #writing inktober 2023 #bad268 #mick schumacher #formula 1 #ship268 #thing268 #pregnant reader

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electromignion · 6 months

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Bridgewater “inktober” 4: Cards 🃏

Here’s our favourite trio aka Jeremy, Vipin and Olivia playing a game of Uno together 🫶 It was very different from my very first idea for the prompt but when I was unable to do it (real skill issues for my first idea) I thought why not them playing some games?? And I thought Uno was the best thing because it’s fun, and also I let you imagine who the person Olivia gives a +4 is, it could be yourself or Anne or someone else who knows!

But it goes well with Jeremy, Vip and Liv doing game nights in my headcanons or Jeremy’s game evenings at uni which he does for his students (and he wouldn’t see any reason to not invite Liv).

And also new hc unlocked while drawing; I’m now convinced that it was Anne who did the little bracelets for everybody 🥹💜

This took me way too long to do omg about 10hours overall in 3 days, I did Vipin’s shirt pattern myself and that took me 30min on its own and same for the Uno cards 😭

And for Olivia I got inspired by the design I drew for her a while back!! And I thought it would be really cool to put it in colours!

And for Vipin it’s a copy of a shirt I had found a while back as I was looking for some Jeremy outfit stuff and when I saw it I just thought I HAVE TO DO VIPIN IN IT. And here you go my full brainrot as always jdjdjdjd

And just so you know, I will be very late on the other days for my prompts because I was on uni holidays for a week, and I have to go back to reality in two days and I will have less time for all this 💔 (and my creativity usually goes away but I will try my best to keep on going as I can! Because I want to draw them and I love them A LOT, I know it’s surprising/j)

And once again thanks to @rockinglibra for the prompt list 🫶💜

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the---hermit · 2 years

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07|10|2022

Not gonna lie to you yesterday's meeting with the professor totally demoralized and discouraged me. I have been feeling super tired for weeks, with things slowly going worse, but I always managed to keep my energies up. This morning I woke up with zero energy to work on this thesis, and I also didn't really want to do it anyway. So of course I had to force myself and now I'm even more tired and frustrated. It doesn't help that in the past few months I also had a couple of more personal things occupying my mind, and anytime I am a bit more moody these things come back kicking my ass. If you can't tell I cannot wait for this thesis and graduation thing to be over, I am so tired I don't have even words to describe it. In these past few years I have been slowly training myself to try to concentrate on the more positive sides of things, but I refuse to lie to myself when something, whatever it is feels like it's going wrong. I am incredibly happy with the choice I took to take a small pause after graduating and starting "late" with my master's degree courses in the second semester, because the closer I get to that, the more I realize how much I acutally need that pause to rest.

Productive things I did today:

found yet another set of titles of the chapters of my thesis (which hopefully will be fine this time)

started rereading and editing my thesis

almost finished my crochet sweater!

did my daily inktober dooble

practiced Irish on duolingo

Self care things I did today:

didn't pressure myself into doing too much and tried to take more breaks when I felt like I needed to take one

crocheting while listening to an audiobook

took some time to draw on my actual sketchbook after more than a year

📖:The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake (I a now a little over the half of this novel, and I must admit that although it took me a little over three hours of the audiobook to get really into the story I am now really intrigued by it!)

🎵: Sleepwalking by All Time Low (no matter how low my days might be their music makes me feel instantly better and this new song rocks tbh)

#studyblr #studyinspo #uniblr #university #currently reading #book #bookblr #studying #myhoneststudyblr #hiyatranquil #proeuctivity #motivation #self care #journaling #mine #the---hermit

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fruttymoment · 11 months

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how do i begin to love to draw if it's always just low quality and poor no matter how hard i try or practice

You dont need to make a quality art to love drawing. If drawing realistic and high quality is your main goal, then it will take pretty long and you need to resist.

But like i said! Quality of a drawing shouldnt be how you can have fun while drawing. The way you can love to draw, is being able to draw something you desire to draw. If you desire something like tall building on a detailed night time with street lights reflection and moon on the sky with clouds raining 1920x1080 scenery , that.. wont work out well, if you are inexperienced.

The harsh truth is, we cant just "bam, done" our way out espacially when it comes to drawing something. Sometimes, for quality work, we need more than practice.

Now i obviosuly am just a doodler and not a professional, but i can give few tips to help you and others who desire high quality work and for those who are unsure how to love making art!

Research, And Study Art

High quality works requires their respect. You need to research and study the art topic of your mission.

For example, you want to draw humans? You need to take a look at anatomy.

In today's internet and technology, the information you want can easily be accessed.

Be Stubborn A Little

Do not ever give up if you truly want to love drawing. Be stubborn, and dont let go easily. But of course, this is only IF you are SURE you want to learn and love drawing.

Love cannot be forced.

Make It Interesting

Now, if the topic you want to draw is not interesting, it may bore you and you'd think drawing is no fun.

Drawing OF COURSE ISNT fun if you dont carefully choose your topics!! For example, i myself always find normal human drawings a bit boring. Sure, i would respect if it is highly detailed and all. But if someone draws a regular ass human portrait, with not even a pose, uh.. thats a bit boring? What am i supposed to do w that? I see humans all of time. It just looks regular, and not interesting to me.

However. If someone shows me some crazy shit about i dunno a war art of tanky robots taking over a castle with dragons fucking flying in the air or something they just drawed, and even if its low quality, THEN I WOULD GO "OOH THE FUCK IS THAT."

You even may notice it on my works as well! I oftenly do memes or overall stupid silly stuff! For me, i cant just draw Niko standing in there. No. I NEED to add something stupid. Like a banana costume. Maybe TWM in the back making a nuclear bomb with a horrific smile. Or just Niko but with some silly pose.

The point is! You should use your imagination and add elements to your art that interests you!

What is interesting to you? Or your hobbies? Try adding them to your art! And not for the sake of high quality, remember! To love drawing, you first need to have fun with it.

Challenge Yourself

Yes. Challenging yourself on ANYTHING can dramatically improve you.

For example i challenged myself to learn Python last year. I was like "if i dont learn more coding language i am going to die"

Okay maybe you dont need to be that harsh

Another example is me challenging myself to install Arch Linux with text to speech screen while i blindfold myself.

I know, sounds insane and looks pointless. But that stupid decision made me actually fucking learn Linux, virtual machines and bash language more.

Sometimes, all starts with an challenge. My last example is me starting to learn how to play flute just because i thought i should play sans music in a flute while walking around.

Okay my last LAST example : I challenged myself to draw Niko's hat accurately, months ago. Which was incredibly hard but it DID improved me how i draw their hat today!

Challenge yourself, but in a fun way! Dont quickly lose hope and get angry if you cant complete the challenge you just decided to do. You WILL complete it. Once you decide to, its over. It only takes time.

I can suggest daily stuff like Inktober Challenge too! I always wanted to do that!

Different Styles

Like i said previously, never try to draw the same thing in a same way. The result will not change in that way and you'll be exhausted.

Try different brushes, colors, style, objects etc.! Sometimes, draw something completely unrelated to you! Yeah, fr!

Friends Are Good. Artist Friends Are Even Better

If you are lucky and have art buddies, oohh DONT WASTE TIME. Draw with them!

I have bunch of art buddies that i draw with, mostly with online ways like aggie.com , skribbl.io , Gartic Phone etc! I can not explain enough how fun and important these moments are!

If you dont have artist friends, its actually easy to find! Like me, being in a fandom and making art for it is mostly enough to have interacting with other artists in the community!

They comment on your work, you comment on their work! You then talk other stuff besides art with them too, and in time, bam! Friens!

That's how it went for me! Amazing artists in OneShot community (also from other communities!!) reached me out, and so i reached them out too!

How? Drawing, of course :> when i draw Niko, other fellow Niko enjoyers found me, and so did i found them!

And i admit, i feel like a little bug sometimes when i compare my works and some of my artist friends work. Some of them are really born to draw, oh i can say! Me, not really am just vibing!

But this also helped me. Because, well, if someone is good at something and they see no problem teaching it to you too.. YOU ARE BLESSED!

Anyways this also went kinda long sorry

I hope my tips(?) helps you!

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bvannn · 6 months

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Weekly Update October 27 2023

This week wasn’t the best but hopefully things should be shaping up for a bit. I’m still trying to get art stuff done

I’m still behind on all my prompt lists, but I’ll still keep chipping away at them until they’re done (except the handful of cringetober prompts I’m skipping). I finished some inktober and a goretober drawings tonight so I can queue those up for this weekend, which should carry me to Sunday, which is a mostly free day I can draw some more for. I may be able to get stuff sketched tomorrow too, but no promises.

TRGA I’m still behind pace but I’m getting caught back up. Provided my mood and body stay stable I should be back to a reasonable pace this week. I got Emile all keyframed generally, there may be some bounces and stuff that need to be done, since I want Emile to come off as bouncy and energetic like he is, so that may be annoying to do but shouldn’t be that much harder than the high inertia stops I did on Jon’s movements. I’m getting better, just a bit slowly. I can probably brush up some earlier animations too, since they’re already tweened. Generally going well.

Music is also generally going well-ish. I tried pulling out my old guitar, sucked, had a meltdown because I sucked, and found a nice free vst. Also found a hole in my schedule next semester that I can hopefully fill with real guitar lessons through the university. Adding in a bass guitar would be the next step which shouldn’t be too hard. At the rate I’m learning things I should hopefully be able to do proper songs reasonably consistently in the future, provided I keep at it.

I’m doing things. I’m trying. Sorry is short tonight I didn’t realize it was so late, was playing a game with a friend (and drawing while doing it). Life stuff is kinda sorting out, even if today started off rough. I’m still going to prioritize school above all else though.

#weekly update

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i-am-worm · 2 years

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Inktober 2022 - Day 23 - Booger

Meh, went a bit wrong for this one. I got this new a5 marker pad by 'Mont Marte' and I was hoping to do a few cute doodles of snot based characters, but this pad isn't actually suitable for markers (despite it saying so). While they won't bleed; it was like drawing on a white board, no blending allowed, and my pencil marks wouldn't rub out properly. Not impressed.

Oh well, while snot grosses me out (sorry Cubchoo, your snot...wobbles...too much for me), I did really enjoy arctozolt because I was suffering from illness at the time I got one in game and I felt SEEN. I WAS THE ARCTOZOLT.

I called mine suffering. 8D

I suspect now, looking back, it was possibly covid that I had. This was before tests were available and shortly after I recovered; the first few cases were confirmed in my local area. No way of truly knowing, but I did experience extreme tiredness and the worst chest infection for a couple of weeks. But I work retail, it could have easily been another flu, chest infection, bad cold etc.

Retail- where people go to incubate their hideous viral diseases. So wear a mask this season, just so you don't get other people's hideous viral diseases. I've seen people walk through fire to get to bargains, they damn sure come in when they're virally ill.

Rant over! Look! Snott! From earth worm JIM! 8D

#booger #snot #snott #earth worm jim #arctozolt #cubchoo #pokemon #rant #COVID RANT #ART RANT #NAAAAYAH #inktober 2022

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brella-boi · 1 year

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I can't believe the year has already gone. It went by so fast...

As per our tradition let's do a quick recap!

January: It was immediate work on new merch for a new years february update. This time it was focus on wooden charms.

February: I was ending my job contract that month, and didn't do much other than start listening to Lemon Demon and go a little insane.

March: Start of Merch and end of February I was doing donation commissions for helping Ukraine. Who knew this would be going on so long...

April: A month where I did NOTHING and I was a happy camper about that. Just straight up chillin

May: First time I decided to get out of my shell and start doing something fun with my life. I got my first car that month, and joined a local art group that sells art every saturday at a local park. The nicest people I hung around all summer, and this was the month where I worked on new prints to sell!

June: Preparations for artfight.... ref sheet hell.

July: Artfight

August: This was my holiday month!!! I barely drew because I also had a day job while on holiday. I was a wreck.

September: Back from holiday and out of a job again, I got to work on some new shop stuff in the meantime.

October: This month was a blur. I did some sketches here and there and worked a good bit on cosplay.

November: Everything Is On Fucking Fire. I may have skipped out on inktober and huevember this year, but I I did something so much worse instead. I was working day in day out this month without a moment break. I think I took maybe like 5 days off that entire month. It was neck breaking create new items for tabling at a con, neck breaking finishing kenku cosplay, and neck breaking family visit. Speedrun of everything. Im exhausted just thinking about it.

December: Month of strangling myself to do NOTHING. I travelled to america by myself. It's a tale and a half. I came home yesterday. I'm tired, I'm upset, I'm missing my luggage which has the kenku and other things I needed for christmas, I'm sick and my brain immediately wants to get back to work. Lord help me, two weeks was not enough with my friend to wind down

Here's to hoping that 2023 will be a better year. I've a lot of travel plans already, and I think art wise I just want to relax again. This year I've been breaking my neck over expanding my shop, and while I'll still like to make some new things, I'll be focusing on having fun like going to cons and tabling and meeting my friends. And have some time to relax and play games. I overwork myself way too much when given the time to do so.

Thank you everyone who have stuck around this year and hello to all the new people coming in!! I achieved my goal of drawing more bug themed stuff and will continue to do so! So here's to a whole new year in a week <3

#2022 #art #myart #archive #wow #i love you all so much #thank you for all yous support

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pawsitively-clawful · 2 years

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For my first post on this side-blog, I bestow upon you all an inktober prompt. In writing instead of drawing :’)

Day 7 - Trip

A quick little Alistair x Warden thing. I took the word ‘trip’ quite physically literally for this, rather than the idea of an excursion... It’s just some casual comfort.

I yelp and extend my arms out, reaching out to grasp Alistair's back. It's a futile attempt, especially considering the only thing I would grab is his pack and the fact that I've been walking about two meters behind him. The mud greets me more fondly than I would've liked, as I slam into the ground. I instantly feel my clothes become wet - dirty.

I lift up my begrimed gloved hands and sigh. It would be pointless to try and wipe my face with those.

Luckily, I don't need to.

"Are you alright?" Alistair is swiftly before me. He cups my face and wipes the dirt from my cheeks, gently shifting it away from my eyes.

"Dirty," I grumble. My knees have a dull ache and I still feel the twist in my ankle from where the root caused my stumble.

He laughs. "Well, if that's all you are then nothing's really changed."

I sarcastically smile back at him and he reaches under my arms, hoisting me back up.

"Really, though," His tone softens, no longer as urgent as his first question or as amused as his previous statement, "Are you alright? You just landed flat on the ground. Do you need a rest?"

Through our silent travels, I've picked up many of his mannerisms. But in moments like these, I'm reminded of his more obvious behaviours. I watch his eyebrows crease in worry; his hands linger on me and vaguely brush me down, trying to maintain any sort of contact with me for any reason he can find. He looks me up and down but his eyes always stick around my face, waiting to take note of any change in my facial expression.

I giggle to myself. The only change in my face Alistair can note is that I've started to blush - taking explicit note of how deeply he cares for me is more than enough to cause that.

He sputters, "What? Did you hit your head? What's so funny? I'm not dirty too, am I?" Alistair checks himself up and down.

"No," I lean into him, wrapping my arms around his neck. He lets out a pleased exhale. "I'm fine. I was just thinking about how you rescued me."

"Rescued you?" He snorts. "Makers Breath, if this is what you consider a 'rescue' I can't begin to consider what you think killing the Archdemon is."

"I tripped on something and you came to my rescue. It’s really quite simple.”

“As simple as killing an Archdemon?”

“The only one making that correlation is you, and only Andraste knows how you’ve reached it.”

#dragon age #dragon age origins #alistair theirin #alistair x warden #grey warden #inktober #i'll probably do a lot of alistair x warden. its me fav :')#drabble

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karen-carlisle-off-the-artboard · 4 months

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Obligatory 2023 Round Up.

https://karenjcarlisle.com/2023/12/29/obligatory-2023-round-up/

It’s that time of the year. Time for year round ups and formulating new year’s resolutions. I thought I’d share a quick look back at 2023.

Books

This year was busy with writing, revisiting works-in-progress, releasing three more books, and all the events that go with them.

The following is the number of book-related things for 2023:

local events attended: 5

This year I attended Oz Comic Con, Comic & Toy Fair, Supanova, and two new events: Mayhem Collectors Fair and Author Night Market. I trialled new tables displays and book merch at the last two events.

interstate events attended: 1

author talks: 1

This was the first year for the Wimmera Steampunk Festival (to be held bi-annually). I was fortunate to be invited to do an author talk (and steampunk 101 for those new to steampunk). The talk co-incided with my character – Viola Stewart’s – birthday and the 30th anniverary of (the coining of the name:) steampunk, so bonus!

books published: 3 paperbacks (includes republished Department of Curiosities) and 3 eBooks

online book launches: 3

This year, I re-published The Department of Curiosities with a new cover and new internal art. Two new books included the steampunk short story collection Cogs and Conspiracies and Blood Ties, the first book in the mini adventure series the James Findlay Journals.

Both new books had an online launch party with giveaways, and there was another (delayed) launch for the re-release of The Adventures of Viola Stewart eBooks, combining the previous stories, with new covers, to match the paperbacks. You can rewatch them here:

Blood Ties – book launch

Cogs and Conspiracies – Online Launch

eBook Series Launch – The Adventures of Viola Stewart

words written on current WIP: 45,824 / total November NaNoWriMo: 17,227

I’ve made headway on book 2 (The Department of Curiosities series) during the two dedicated NaNoWriMo events this year. Not as many as I’d have liked, but it is moving forward. Real life has been an issue.

new story ideas added to my list: 8

I can’t elaborate too much on this, as… well, spoilers. (Patrons get early sneak peeks… just saying)

number of book covers created:5

Two were: Cogs and Conspiracies and Blood Ties. One was for a fellow author (and I can’t show it until she’s ready to publish), and two are related to the new story ideas. (See above comment re spoilers). I tend to create the cover while the story is bubbling away in my head.

number of writing/research courses attended: 5 (online)… actually six!

These included research for future book projects, an ASA (Australian Society of Authors) course on public speaking (in hope it may help some pre-event panics), one on using a writing resource, and writing courses dedicated to specific genres.

Shorter Stories

short stories written for Patreon supporters: 10 (+2 excerpts from WIP)

short stories submitted to anthologies: 1

Top tier supportes get a short story reward each month. Many are exclusive. Some have been printed in the recent Cogs and Conspiracies or other short story collections. This year, I also added two excerpts from the first chapter of my current work-in-progress (book 2 of The Department of Curiosities series)

Art, Design & Book Merch

bees crocheted: 49

I started crocheting bees as book-related merch for The Aunt Enid Mysteries (the bees communicate between the many worlds in my stories), with AU$1 from each bee sale going towards helping bees on Kangaroo Island. I’ve sold 31 so far. I love bees. They are crucial to our lives and pollate various foods, especially stone fruits. They also provide us with honey. Though I’m allergic, we plant bee-friendly plants at home, and don’t use sprays.

new t-shirt designs: 8

new mug designs: 2

When I can’t write, I crochet. When I’m not crocheting, I draw. I NEED to create. This year I did (half) of Inktober. Some of the images were digitalised, coloured, and uploaded to my RedBubble store as t-shirts (and mugs)

new badge designs: 5

I loved the cat and books design (from my original art in Aunt Enid: Protector Extraordinaire), so I made a new badge… then I designed and made some more. The new badges debuted at the Author Night Market this month. I’ll have to load them onto my webshop some time…

On a more personal note:

tiktok posts: over 365

This is both book-related and personal. Someone told me I was too old for Tiktok. Ha! There are many on #over40tiktok and #over50tiktok, especially authors and readers. Books do well on Tiktok. While I’m not in the popular genres of romance, romance fantasy, or spicey romance fantasy, there are many who read my genres. I talk about my books, as well as tea, D&D, and mental health. I’ve found creating short posts has helped with desensitising myself to appearing in public… (even if it takes several ‘takes’ to get in the right headspace.)

number of mid-night hospital trips: 1 (only one is a record!)

I’m still working on minimising my panic attacks before events. I continued to talk about mental health (and my experience with anxiety and PTSD). Talking about mental health is important.

I usually end up at hospital (via ambulance) 3-5 times a year (my extreme panic attacks mimic heart attacks). So far, I’ve only had one this year! I’m extremely happy about that.

Health Scares and dodging bullets: 1

2023 started in the worst possible way. I faced January 1st with a diagnosis of breast cancer, prepping myself, then surgery and my family for ongoing treatment. One week after surgery, I returned to the oncologist. I was confused. Why was he grinning like a Cheshire cat? Turns out I had a very, very rare (<0.1% in women 25-45 years had this option, and I was over that age group) fibromatosis – a benign tumour that mimicks breast cancer in every way. The only way to differentiate is with extensive pathological testing once the tumour was removed.

So, a worst-case scenario became one of relief. Weirdly, I found a sense of calm from the whole situation. It’s helped my mental health, and I’ve actually had more moments of bliss than I’ve experienced in over a decade.

Please don’t forget to do your checks!

And that’s the short version…. (I know)

Thank you all for following my adventures this year, and I hope you have peaceful and safe holidays. See you next year!

#2023 round up #Aunt Enid Mysteries #book events #books #conventions #Events #fun #launches #memories #new year #steampunk #The Adventures of Viola Stewart #The Department of Curiosities #writing

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alexthemenace · 6 months

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Inktober 2019 archive

Posting all my Inktober 2019 pics cause it was the only year where I successfully did a drawing for every day of the month. And also used actual ink for these which I know is not required but I wanted to. Most of these were never posted outside the "Rebel Taxi" Amino so I wanna document their existence and share them with the public. My gimmick with these was to do them in 5-15 minutes as a challenge to come up with ideas on the spot. And also so I wouldn't spend too much time on these since my college projects took priority. I also had my purple Halloween neon lights on when I took these pictures so that is why they're all purple (minus day 31's drawing). Anyway, here they are in order of the days I made them.

Day 1: a generic east coast rapper on the mic rocking a show. Mostly inspired by Chuck D of Public Enemy and maybe subconsciously Todd in the Shadows. Oh and totally forgot that I was watching Vin Diesel's 1997 feature directorial debut, Strays, before I drew this which had a very gritty 90s NYC setting. At the time I was very impressed by his short film directorial debut, Multi-Facial, so I wanted to see if his feature was just as good (it wasn't).

Day 2: a defeated young man submitting to an alien/holy light shining down upon him. You could also interpret it as seeking of a higher power. Inspired by the CD artwork of OutKast's ATLiens album. This was later turned into a self-portrait oil painting for class which turned out really great.

Day 3: vaguely retro comic book Batman crashing through a window upon a crime scene. This was done right before I went to see Joker in theaters. The perspective and anatomy is meh but it was a quick drawing so I can live with it. Apparently I took 20 minutes with it according to my notes from Discord in 2019 which wow.

Day 4: Close-up of Cesare from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. This was one of two drawings where I intentionally broke my 5-15 minute rule as I did this in about an hour. I used a reference of the iconic scene of him waking up but I still tried to be quick so the face looks less like Conrad Veidt and more like David Bowie imo but I'm still quite proud of it.

Day 5: a possessed woman. Took a wee bit longer to do but this was a fun exercise to draw longer hair like this (something I still don't have a lot of experience with) and to play a bit with perspective and anatomy without a reference iirc. She is also supposed to vaguely be from an older era far from civilization - hence the lack of clothing (she is tastefully censored though). Apparently I wasn't happy with how stiff she turned out back then but I think in hindsight it works quite well.

Day 6: a bald child from a mental ward stares at a man laying face down on a haystack. The girl was loosely based off Eleven from Stranger Things. The man in the haystack also reminds me of that one Junji Ito manga but I don't remember if that thought that came to me while making this or that's just hindsight. Also I didn't start with a finished concept in mind for this one so, very randomly put together.

Day 7: Nostalgia Critic 2Pac. As it says, it's Doug Walker if he modeled his Nostalgia Critic character after 2Pac's aesthetic. I personally really like this one. Have also been told he resembles a Beavis and Butt-head character which I see lol but that's ok. Apparently I was watching JAR Media's video on if Nostalgia Critic was cringy and for some fucking reason the idea of 2Pac came to mind lol.

Day 8: a baby with a dripping spear celebrating the head of a medium sized therapod dinosaur they successfully hunted. This one was inspired by Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal which I was a very big fan of at the time. Censored cause I like my Tumblr account and don't wanna risk losing it.

Day 9: Count Orlok from Nosferatu opening a door. I think it turned out nicely but don't really have much else to say about it other than the fact that I didn't use a reference.

Day 10: sullen twink laying bare on the ground. This was inspired by that iconic image of Maria from Silent Hill 2 laying down on the ground by the Heaven's Night neon sign. I think I just particularly like this kind of imagery since a mood piece I shot later that month incorporated a shot that is exactly like this (minus the lack of clothing). Also, the uncensored drawing actually shows nothing explicit since I intentionally had that area covered in shadows. But I worry Tumblr will think otherwise and smite down upon me so it's better to be safe than sorry. Also the perspective on his right leg is off so better to not see it in full anyway.

Day 11: gentleman combing his hair in a mirror that reveals a skeleton doing the same thing. The pic crops off the bottom part of the drawing which shows his legs and the tail flaps of his suit. But I always thought that part looked extra janky so I never include it. It was a rushed drawing anyway.

Day 12: Tim Burton inspired child sitting in the corner of a room, looking very sad. Supposed to represent being overwhelmed with life and emotions. I recall I also had Dib from Invader Zim in mind when drawing this. I don't tend to draw in this art style much so I'm pretty surprised even now how good it turned out. At the time I was doing a presentation for my Directing class on Tim Burton - so he was definitely on my mind for this.

Day 13: imprisoned droid waking up in the middle of the night. Apparently I was thinking of a bunch of movies when I did this plus I think Scud: The Disposable Assassin and my own avatar. Also I just like robots with this kind of thin pill shaped build.

Day 14: my idea of man that has fully evolved into only being able to eat, sleep, and stare at a screen. I didn't sleep the night before so I thought to draw a human that has devolved into a lazy slob who only eats and sleeps and as a result is incredibly out of shape save its legs to move around as it scours the land for any food before deciding to fall asleep for days. Thank you Discord notes from myself in 2019 for helping me remember this exact story lol.

Day 15: Undead Pan Pizza of RebelTaxi singing his pathetic little heart out. The design is based off of Jack Skellington (namely the proportions and spooky qualities like the stitches across Pan's face) during one of his more sad song numbers in The Nightmare Before Christmas. It's worth noting this era was sorta the last big hoorah for my obsession and fanboyism of Pan. I had a mild burst of being hooked one last time around Fall 2019 after losing interest in his podcast around the beginning of that year (a podcast I previously would follow religiously). I still liked him after this era and would definitely have periods of renewed interest but not to the same extent as before sadly.

Day 16: an imprisoned boy looking at the light coming through his barred window. This one used more pencil than ink to break away from mostly keeping it ink. It's very janky but the idea speaks to me. Apparently was also trying to think of a portrait for my oil painting class so this was one of the ideas that came to mind (didn't end up using it for anything though).

Day 17: a spooky little sickly old guy. I apparently was inspired by a character from Courage the Cowardly Dog when I did this. No clue which episode now though unless you guys can remember what he looks like.

Day 18: guy getting his face vacuumed off. I like that one episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy where Eddy's face get sucked by a vacuum. I got nothing else to say.

Day 19: self-portrait of me directing. It's a cutesy little drawing of me! And also the outfit I wore when I directed my mood piece that day.

Day 20: a large and vicious snake lizard hybrid. It's pretty self-explanatory. I think ultimately it's more just a snake with forearms and a spike tail. I guess I just was thinking at the time "what would be the ultimate snake?" Like a snake that can beat any snake. Also this was done on day 21 since I didn't have time on day 20 for it.

Day 21: large older guy hiding a knife behind his back. His looked is based on a friend of mine I went to college with and how he looked on set a few days ago when the light glistened over him. Although instead of a knife he held a script. He also vaguely reminds me of Al from Toy Story 2.

Day 22: sleep paralysis demon taunts twink. I like twinks, ok. Also I think just noticed something about that demon that I forgot I did but oh well. I think it'll be fine.

Day 23: guy with a very, very itchy head. I really like the pose and facial expression so it's actually one of my favorites here despite it being relatively mundane. Also, the itchy head may have been cause my head was itchy while drawing this but I don't remember. But I do remember part of the influence here was how sometimes great feelings of stress and anger would trigger an itchy head for me.

Day 24: a corpse brought back to life in a very rough and unfinished form. Obviously a bit of a Frankenstein's monster meets I guess Sally and Dr. Finkelstein from The Nightmare Before Christmas influence here. I may have had Pearl from Steven Universe in mind when I did this too since me and another friend definitely saw the resemblance.

Day 25: a twink who hit their face a little too hard on the bathroom sink. Twink. The full picture isn't really that gruesome imo (the face isn't visible) but I was trying to censor the liquids a bit for obvious reasons I already disclosed earlier. Also, he was loosely based on me but don't think too hard about that. I just had a bad day directing on set was all.

Day 26: Cute, unamused Hot Topic employee being bitten on the left leg by his pet lizard. Yet again another twink but this one's outfit is based mostly on my wardrobe at the time (minus the Jack Skellington shirt but I did/do have some pajama pants of him). And I guess I find reptiles cool so, only just noticing a bit of a reoccurring subject here (along with twinks).

Day 27: a melting zombie-like corpse crawling away from a puddle of acid. A tad more gruesome, sure, but I think it's a pretty cool drawing. And also it's like, a zombie, so it's not that inappropriate for standards here I hope. Apparently took a while to come up with an idea for this one.

Day 28: that one guy from Jacob's Ladder with a bag over his head and no legs walking with his arms. When I drew this, I had just seen Jacob's Ladder the night before for the first time and it became an instant favorite of mine. So, I drew a character from it. Him walking with his arms is based off of Mugshot's mode of travel from Sly Cooper.

Day 29: Jimi Hendrix inspired voodoo guy with a crystal ball. Pretty self-explanatory. Had fun with the texture and lighting although I was never quite satisfied with how I did the shading on his hair. The straight lines make his fro look like a porcupine lol. Regardless of that, it's a pretty cool drawing. Also worth noting is that during this time I fell back in love with 60s music. The Doors and Beatles in particular were major points of obsession for me. Especially their psychedelic period and ofc Jimi Hendrix was part of that era so that deep fixation for psychedelic and hippie music made its way into this.

Day 30: lizard amphibian fish mishmash girl with pony tails happily waving at us. This was definitely my least favorite of these and if not for my next and final drawing, would've been a lackluster way to end this. It's not awful but eh, just never really personally resonated with me. Also, she is wearing a seaweed braw so don't panic moral guardians of the world. For some reason Mrs. Bighead from Rocko's Modern Life came to mind when I drew this. Along with a certain friend of mind, @fishboigazer-blog, (which if you or a mutual is reading this lol hey).

And that's it for now since I can't fit more than 30 pics. Which is fine by me cause Day 31 deserves its own post since that one I did spend a few hours on as opposed to the rest of these. That one I also did actually post to Tumblr back in the day so I may just reblog it come Halloween.

If you actually read this far, thank you! I spent hours trying to put this together in a way that is satisfactory to me and hopefully gives plenty of insight into my process. This has been a very long time coming and hope to actually post more original stuff on here instead of just endlessly reblogging things.

#inktober #inktober 2019 #the cabinet of dr. caligari #rebeltaxi #nostalgia critic #nosferatu #jacob's ladder #cesare the somnambulist #fan art #sketches #AlexTheMenace art

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keefwho · 6 months

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October 25 - 2023 Wednesday

8:12am

I think I'm worried I'm still nourishing an unbalanced dynamic with people. I always used to see myself as the inferior one with friends and I'd put other people on a pedestal. I fear I am still doing that, even though I'm trying hard not to. I try to see myself as equals with people but sometimes their language or admissions suggest I am like a pet to them or that they generally hold power in the dynamic. It might be a case of giving too much as well. Maybe giving even though I don't receive back can give someone the impression that they deserve that from me so it becomes the norm. Then I get treated unfairly despite no one's intention to do so. Maybe I neglect my own social needs too much. I wear a mask and appease others so I can try to ensure they actually like me. I end up sacrificing a lot because it feels like no one is right for me. No one ever sticks. I feel doomed to always be the one giving just so I'm not alone.

3:29pm

As usual this time of day I just feel lonely. I feel hopeless and it's affecting my desire to do literally anything. I don't wanna put in any work if I only have more bland life to look forward to. I'm not sure how to even pretend like there is a better future waiting for me. I really do want to see the positive outcomes of anything I might do. Ideally right now I'd be having fun drawing the things I gotta do but it's hard to do that when I'm anticipating sorrow and misery in the near future.

6:15pm

I'm done drawing and I didn't even have good results. Now I'm lonely, tired, and disappointed in myself. This happens a lot.

10:51pm

This morning I had left over beef rice a roni for breakfast. I was very tired also since I've been losing small amounts of sleep every night for about a week. It's taken it's toll. I got to stream late after napping on my desk. I really didn't want to stream, I felt terrible. I felt like today was going to be like every other. Working on commissions I don't want to do, internally berating myself for not being able to really connect or relate with 570 or the rare others that show up, hoping Daisy will join at some point, and dreading the cleaning/workout I have to do after. I did the commission and the episodes of Mia and He-Man were good. Inktober didn't turn out great.

Afterwards I only had enough time for 30 minutes of wood chopping and a good chunk of that was spend getting a sled and looking for other things. I didn't get much done. I didn't clean too much after either, just my toilet some. In the shower I wanted release. I had a hard time figuring out what to do, I spent way too long in the shower. I bothered Daisy about it and felt bad after because I know she's at work and has a lot of other stuff going on. It's frustrating that we handle this so differently. When I'm under stress, my go to is to nut generally. It helps take my mind off of things and express my emotions in some ways. She seems to stray far from it during difficult times which is fine, just a way that we don't connect. I just don't want it to cause conflict at any point which it shouldn't if we're both understanding about how each other feels.

I didn't have much time for lunch so I made Ramen, a granola bar, and a pear cup. I got to my afternoon work late as well. I also had a hard time getting myself to do it but I found a lofi stream (I usually hate lofi), ambient rain noise, and I hopped in a call while I did today's request and a couple meme drawings that didn't turn out as well as I wanted.

Afterwards I booted up Legendary Tales and decided to stream while I waited for Daisy to be free because at this point I was lonely and just wanted to talk to her. No one showed up which made me feel even lonelier. I also lost my current character and had to start over but I worked up almost to where I was before.

When Daisy was free she worked on her costume for the con while we watched She Ra which is a great show, I'm excited to watch it. We watched the first 3 episodes. While she went to bed I played Cities Skylines. She was holding Rosalina for awhile, her pet rat who is near her time with a massive tumor on her neck. I feel extreme sorrow at her inevitable loss. I feel awful that Daisy is having such a hard time lately. I feel bad that I'm struggling lately too. I just wish I could do more to make things better but that's not my job and it's something I literally can't do. I can't change all the terrible things happening, I can only offer my support.

Lately I've been focusing on making sure I'm not suppressing my feelings again. That means admitting some uncomfortable truths about how I feel about certain things. It means really letting my reactions be how they are. It's scary being unfiltered because I feel like I have problems that WILL scare people away, even though this is a necessary step for me to get past them. I feel horrible that to most people I think I used to be more fun and care free to be around but now I'm so emotional and withdrawn. I feel like I have no social value because I can't really fit into any chill get togethers and I can't seem to actually care about anyone besides Daisy usually. I'm scared because I can't figure out why. I can't figure out why I can't accept new people into my life as friends. I can't figure out why I get so obsessive about things. I feel ashamed at myself and will be crying in bed tonight. But in a way that feels good because usually I try to hold it in or pretend like I should feel okay. Well I'm not okay, I have a lot to cry about. I have extreme amounts of fear and sadness and I have to let them out.

#journal #diary

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nirvanox182 · 1 year

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Ness from EarthBound.

Original Drawing Date: October 22 2022.

I'm sorry it's been a long while since I posted here on tumblr. I still owe you half of my Inktober drawings, and every drawing between november and april. I'll try to upload them all at ones (that's a lot of writing for the captions) but I don't want to abandon my tumblr account, I feel like I have better reach here sometimes, and Instagram is not that reliable lately, so anyways! Here we go with the caption.

Ness is one of the most important characters in my life, every year I make a drawing about him, and it is always so emotional. He reminds me that there is always a light under the tunnel.

Back on the summer of 2009 I was having a hard time, I played EarthBound and it left a deep emotional impact on me, seeing how Ness was awfully betrayed by his friend and neighbour Porky, Ness was the only one who treated him decently, not even his family could stand Porky, but Ness was there as a kind guy and Porky took the first chance to hurt him, that is so sad...

In the end Porky always saw Ness as a friend, even keeping his yo-yo framed nicely on MOTHER 3, guess some people realise their mistakes too little too late, and in Ness' case, sometimes, even many times, the people who you expect the least will betray you, and that's something we have to live with, Ness didn't hurt Porky back, he just stopped him from destroying the world, but he never forgave him for what he did and that's totally okay since you don't have to forgive everyone in your life.

#drawing #art #pencilart #dibujos #dibujo #ness earthbound #earthbound #mother 2 #mother #mother 3 #super nintendo #snesgames #snesclassic #video games

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bvannn · 7 months

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Weekly Update October 6, 2023

I’ve been very volatile this week, which may continue next week or may not. I don’t know yet. I’ve been on weird cycles of doing a ton of art then doing nothing for a few days. It will probably continue.

So October is started and I’m an impulsive little greedy fuck so I decided to do three different prompt sets, but I’m doing them all differently. OG inktober is getting priority, because I feel bad about failing inktober 52 earlier this year. Maybe I’ll ink or digitize the few of those sketches that I never finished once I’m done, or maybe I won’t. Anywho I’m trying to do inktober daily, more or less. Second priority is goretober, because I need practice and also with life stuff being still weirdly volatile despite all I’ve done, bloody pictures are really cathartic. I’m tagging everything to be extra safe, even though I’m honestly probably over tagging. Idk day one was mouth stuff which really sets some people off so maybe I was overly cautious because of that, but I’d rather be over cautious than get in trouble. Lowest priority prompt set is cringetober, because even though I just kind of avoid most of the stuff on the list naturally due to personal distaste, I still appreciate the spirit of it. Cringe always has a place, even if that place isn’t on my monitor specifically. I’m not doing every prompt from that list because some of them I really can’t figure out anything Oc related (deadass almost gave up for ‘overly complex fit’ and drew Shulk Xenoblade and his ugly ass outfit instead, but decided against it because that’s against the spirit of the prompt set). I still want to fit in as many as I can, and even though most of those will be late, I’m still going to try. At a minimum I want to do the MS paint one that sounds fun.

Also I threw in a random drawing of Stitch this week. Maybe I’ll do other random drawings too, probably not. I’m already pretty behind on stuff.

So I’ve mentioned I’ve been slacking off with TRGA the past couple weeks but I’m trying to get myself back together with it. I’m trying to figure out timing a bit better, and I did finally get some assets I’ve been procrastinating on done. Jon now has actual soles to his feet, and soon Emile will have the sketch lines I’ve been trying to lean into with my art. I can recolor the foot sole asset for Tim and Emile also, although they won’t need it for this animation. I’m mostly at this point messing with actual movement timing and strategies to make the boys more distinct from one another, although I’m probably overthinking it admittedly. The current shot, 1-4, is by far my most complex in this regard, and may be the most complex of the animation, so chances are I’ll post a WIP once the ‘main’ character animation is done. Or maybe not. I’m not sure.

This week hasn’t been the best for personal life so my mood is extremely volatile, so there’s no guarantee anything will be consistent. My plan is to do one inktober drawing and one keyframe/batch of tweens/chunk of work a day for TRGA done every day, and then the additional prompt sets and/or general drawings done whenever possible, but I’m such a mess I can’t guarantee anything. I’m trying to get stuff together with doctors, since they have been telling me pretty good news, but my primary today said something that, while it would be great news, contradicts what a specialist told me. She did outright say to double check with the specialist since they were probably right, but you know how hard it is to get ahold of doctors for that so now I need to worry about that. I’m a mess this semester isn’t going very well, and tomorrow I’ll probably end up doing music instead of art which will suck because I probably won’t have anything to show for that for a while yet.

#weekly update

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ending-the-cycle-ask · 3 years

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(For the mod) How´d you find your artstyle, and do you have any other HS OCs? (Excluding any Tophat Clan members you made)

This artstyle is one I use pretty much exclusively for Henry Stickmin related stuff. My usual artstyle is pretty similar, execution wise, but I actually draw human faces, and give the characters all five fingers 😅

Here’s an example of something in my usual style I did for Inktober a while back.

I figured out this artstyle by just doing a lot of practicing, and trying out a bunch of different bits and pieces from other styles I enjoyed. For example, I’ve always hated doing a lot of shading on my pieces. Since I used soft shading, and I shaded literally everything, it always took forever, and I never enjoyed it. So I cut down on shading time by doing cel shading instead, and much less of it, too, since I liked that simpler look some artists did with their shading. Now I only shade hair, the face, joints like elbows, knees, and knuckles, and shiny things like metal. Everything else is either a flat color, or it has a bit of texture to it. A lot of my artstyle’s development was figuring out what things I enjoyed spending my time on, and what things I could style differently to make the process a bit faster.

As for Stickmin OCs, I don’t actually have that many. Quite a few characters that are featured in EtC were made by members of the Discord server, or were otherwise made by someone else I know. For example, Zentaro isn’t actually my OC, he’s my girlfriend’s OC (who I got very attached to and decided to add to the story, whoops—-) The guards from the bank are some of the few background characters I’ve made, though they’re still just background characters, and aren’t very developed. My only real Stickmin OC is Walter Pretzel, Zentaro’s roommate, who you likely saw at the diner a while back.

He’ll be showing up again eventually, I love him too much to not have him make another appearance ;)

-Mod Mello 💎

#askmodmello

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ssj2dggirl · 2 years

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Hello again, back with part 2 of grouping together all my remaining Our Life Inktober drawings because I'm dumb and forgot I had a tumblr for a month and a half : D

Day 23: step 3 Miranda and Terri Just a couple of buddies being pals; fully used this as a chance to practice drawing textured hair in my traditional style. I've been doing some practice work with it digitally, but I've always been bad at it traditionally so this was good. Definitely going to keep working on that!

Day 24: step 3 Baxter So canonically this man takes ballroom dancing classes and shit but you can't convince me that he's never taken ballet before, if only to further his flexibility to make this joke lmao. And in skinny jeans too-!

Day 25: favorite moment in step 3 It's a running theme with these prompts that I can't decide what the hell to draw because every moment is so damn good so yeah. Honestly though if forced to choose I would have to pick the dlc moment Reflection, because getting to hear a more in-depth and serious look at Cliff and Kyra's marriage and Cove's early childhood was absolutely incredible. It was so well done, especially with how lighthearted and fun a lot of the game is. But I couldn't think of anything to draw for that moment and was stuck thinking about the dlc Happiness moment so yeah, I ended up drawing that bit at the end where you switch the plans on Cove and take him to the poppy field <3

Day 26: halloween outfits! I didn't want to go too ambitious considering I was already super behind in the event at this point, so I just drew step 1 Cove and Hunter in their spooky costumes. Cove is a zombie, as per canon for the year he got his cast off, and he convinced a reluctant Hunter to dress up too. Hunter, as a little brat, thought dress-up was dumb, but humored his friend by picking a blood-splattered biohazard suit thing lmao

Day 27: step 3 charity outfits Just a lovely drawing of the boys in their suits for the charity moment. Hunter wasn't a member of ORCA, but went to support his bff. Bonus flustered Cove slowly coming to terms with his feelings for his friend~

The last few prompts of the month were about step 4 and the poppy hill and I decided to just kind of combine them all into a big finale piece since by that point it was already November and I was getting burned out pushing out a drawing a day lmao. The finale project is going to take a while, mostly because I decided to be stupid again and try more comic page type stuff. Oh and did I mention my ambitious ass is going to turn the messy traditional art I've done for the finale piece into good digital art? Yeah, don't expect to see the rest of this any time soon haha I have bit off way more than I can chew. 2022 goals I guess.

Anyway, I really liked doing the Inktober event, despite falling off the rails at the end there. I've always been real insecure about my art, so forcing myself to get it out there every day for a whole month is a good push of my limits. And now I know I can whip up a whole traditional drawing in like 5-7 hours if I need to, though I still prefer taking my time haha. Thanks to everyone who has left likes on my previous posts; yall are awesome.

And as always, Our Life belongs to the lovely GB Patch Games~

#our life inktober #our life beginnings & always #our life miranda #our life terri #our life baxter #our life cove #cove holden #our life mc #my mc #my artwork

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