The Instagram Version Of This Is So Much Better, Btw. Here Is This Thing In Its Non-pixelated Glory.

@freackthejester I’m sure he’d appreciate it, although I might want to do that sparingly.

I’ve decided to upload my digital paintings from the advanced illustration class I took over the Spring.

I’ve decided to upload my King Lear illustration for now, because I’m pretty pleased with the fact that I know of a slightly different coloring method in Photoshop that...admittedly, is much quicker than what I was doing before.

I decided to finish (mostly) an old Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer doodle I had in the depths of my computer a long time ago—but with it being explicit that Rudolph just has issues with allergies and sinusitis. His nose glows because he’s miserable. (I mean, why else would his nose glow red?)

Any way, happy holidays. :D

Oh snap. I just realized that the icon client has Pepsi colors because I'm trying to avoid IKEA colors.

Crap.

I’m at the point where I never want to work with this color combo ever again.

Upon realizing that I’m less than a year (hopefully...) from graduating with two degrees, as well as noting that there’s only a six month grace period between graduation and loan repayment—and therefore, only six months to find a full-time job, hopefully in one’s field...

...I recalled how my high school graduation went, and how I didn’t cry the expected tears of joy, but tears of agony, because life wasn’t going to get any better (and unfortunately, it kind of went as expected.)

I honestly don’t fathom that undergraduate graduation is going to be much better, so I ended up making an illustration about the stress before, and the future stress that looms overhead...and how no ceremony can make either of those things go away.

I appreciate this advice...also, I think this puts yet another bullet point under "Let's establish some boundaries at work and shut off availability on at least Tuesday".

Maybe more streaming would be in order as well.

I’ve noticed that I’m quite abysmal at keeping up drawing whenever I have a new partner in my life.

I love art and design, but I’m absolutely infatuated with my bae, and it’s conflicting. because I don’t know how to balance both loves at the same time, as well as my day job.

I don’t know what to do with myself at the time, and advice would be lovely.

Here, have an animation for Star Trek’s 50th anniversary!

Even if it was technically an assignment for my advanced illustration course, I had fun with my sorry excuse for fan art (Yes, I grew up with Star Trek in the 90s. My parents and I would watch both TNG and Voyager together, and TOS on occasion.)

I also had fun revisiting nebulas and space as subject matter for digital painting, and this was a lovely excuse to do that, too. Also, this was actually the first time I’ve ever used overlays in something, to be brutally honest. You’d think I would have touched them at some point if I’ve known Photoshop for years...but nope. Not once.

I may have to make a Zelda 30th anniversary illustration and a Pokemon 20th anniversary illustration to accompany this as well, as I grew up with those, too...(and without parental influence.)

I felt like my headphone cords draped around my head would make a neat aesthetic. I was right. Also, I like my face.

The first panel is almost done! That said, aiming to the hatching look vaguely like medieval woodcuts is not as easy as I was hoping it would be, so it seems like this might be another one of those time-sink pages. :/

I’ve been on a roll for the past day or so.

Anyway, have some gothic angel amputation as done by a demon.