I Am Sickeningly Happy With This Selfie And Want To Share It On Everything. (Probably Because Getting

During the time that I’ve been overwhelmed with coursework and work to pay the bills, I forgot that I made this birb. It has been rescued from the annals of my hard drives after I decided to organize my files.

I’m almost done with some actual stuff I’ve decided to do over the holidays. I promise I won’t spam anyone with more terribly made typographic birbs. (I don’t even have any more terribly made typographic birbs.)

I’ve been going about some really rough color testing while I’ve been doing anatomical tweaks and ink refining on the main character of a webcomic I’m working on in my spare time.

It’s really frustrating, because I’m kind of old school with my mentality of “do not mix brown and black together, unless you are an unfashionable pleb”, but it seems like this calls for it. I’m sitting here thinking to myself “Hmn...can leather be dark red? How would I go about breaking that fashion rule? I don’t know how to approach this.” I’ve also noticed that character design for fantasy characters doesn’t typically have that many restraints, so part of me is wondering if I should just resign to mixing black and brown, and being like “Screw it, those are reddish-brown leather boots and gauntlets.”

>tfw you’re writing a rough draft for something and it actually alludes to the fact that coffee beans might be extinct or absurdly rare by 2080—ergo, coffee would be an extremely expensive black market luxury at the rate we’re going at.

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

Oh boo hoo! I didn't translate the list in the exact same order! I'm kinda mad about DuoLingo being picky about things! I know that it's probably some sort of weird function involving an <ol> tag somewhere, but it's like...why do I have to get penalized about "pen and pencil" as opposed to "pencil and pen"?

I normally don't like photos where I'm wearing my glasses because I haven't been able to afford anti-glare lenses for the past five or so years, so I inevitably get lens flare, but looking at a recent selfie where the rest of everything is more or less well polished is always nice, and I'm happy I have a stash of them that kinda look Leyendecker-ish. Also, I don't like the cold, but I do appreciate the consolation price of wearing coats.

So, I only worked a couple more hours on the hands up top, but I’d say it’s vague progress.

Forgive me, but I’m slipping into my old habit of listening to a bunch of hard rock, emo music, etc—and just rolling along with it for the sake of design. Any maybe to test some AfterEffects skills, if I can get my main computer to cooperate with me. (And I’m worried I can’t.)

Anyway, I’ll admit that one of the handful of genres I listened to A LOT growing up was hard rock...and there are times where I’ll sporadically recall lyrics from various songs, and go “Huh. Why can I remember THAT off of the top of my head?” Sometimes it’ll be relatable, and sometimes not.

Anyway, have some Three Days Grace related typography. Go listen to the song. Go enjoy yourself. Resist any urges to go scream at exes. Resist any urges to go punch your exes. Forget about the blood on your hands. Rinse your hands and repeat.

I’m normally not one to make personal works, but I felt like drawing a personal thing after listening to The Man by The Killers—with a dash of Oh No! by Marina and the Diamonds.

Enjoy the weird vaporwave gender themed drawing.

I officially have two finished webcomic pages now! I’m pretty happy about this development.

Also, my attempt at playing Passpartout was pretty fun, although I was sad that my favorite doodle of them all didn’t sell in the game. Oh well.