...I Just Got A Glitchy Version Of The Taxes Design A Few Minutes After I Posted It. I Have No Idea How

I’m dead serious about this seamless dolphin vector pattern I made a while ago.

I ended up scrapping this a while ago, simply because pastel dolphins really aren’t something that fits in with the rest of my main portfolio, but...yeah...I did make this a while ago.

Dolphins. Yeah.

I am constantly annoyed with DuoLingo gaffes like this, so I shall start making a chronicle of the various screwups that DuoLingo makes in the DuoLingo Japanese course, as well as silly sentences, because why not?

I’ve actually gotten off of my butt to produce a logo design draft at 4:00 AM for my roommate’s new company that they’re using for subcontracting work. (And my portion of rent is gonna get reduced for this, so eeyyy.)

I somehow managed to forget a couple of Adobe Illustrator shortcuts off of the top of my head, but I got back into the groove of it after a few seconds.

Other than a few technical tweaks and any personal requests, I’m pleased with what I can spit out in about 2.5 hours.

I learned that Tapastic lets you put image banners up for your comics. I still wanted one for Twitch, so I did a speedpaint of my planned webcomic’s five main protagonists to get a feel for composition and color planning.

I’m glad that I had a pretty solid idea of what I want my two high elf characters and my one human character to look like, but the furry creature and the dwarf are difficult to pin down in terms of color scheme, and I’ve been struggling to figure out what I’m going to do for them. I think I’m getting somewhat close to what I want for the furry critter, but the dwarf guy is harder to pin down.

That said, the moral of the story is that designing characters in black and white at first makes it difficult to pin down their colors later.

Oh, and as a fun fact, I’m a filthy Orlandoan who’s been corrupted by Disney so much that I’ve made the big tol dude do the Disney point. lol, it’s bad, I’ll do the Universal handwave and/or the Disney point IRL, and it upsets me.

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.”

Today I learned that Corel Painter has a new edition out now, Adobe Flash is now Adobe Animate, and that Toon Boom Studio is no longer available for commercial purchase.

I’ve been caught off guard with these developments. I’m disappointed and surprised.

I found myself revisiting an old drawing that touches upon a lot of the same fears and feelings I have right now—and I have to say that I’m pretty happy with what I can do these days with my speedpainting skills... even if I don’t have a lot of time and I’m kinda weirded out by the sense of deja vu.

Streetlamp by weliad - 3D model

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I’m semi-proud of the fact that I did some 3D modeling recently.

I’m still not the best texturer in the world (even though 2D digital painting is something I’m super familiar with), but it’s something!

I’m just happy that I won’t have to do many streetlamps ever again...because I can just use my own model as a reference!

Ok, I've been tagged

Even though I rarely use my main Tumblr for anything, but shhhh, it's what I like everything with.

Anyway, I was tagged by @asphodel-night-adder, and it's posting about five things that make you happy, and tagging the last ten people in your notifications (I'm not counting any bots, galleries, or people that Tumblr seems to refuse to let me tag, FYI)

So, in no particular order, five things that make me happy include

Time spent with my friends playing tabletop RPGs

Cooking with the boyfriend

Petting cute cats and dogs

Pokemon GO

Days off from work where I get art things done

Consequently, I'm tagging @loveisjustabloodsportson @arzeron @plaguenurse @scyllaxcharybdis @saikou0taku @galacticglaciers @violet-ks-garbagery @schreiliebe @goldenspaceoddity and @extinctgender because they meet this criteria.

I’ve officially completed my own logo. Again. For the umpteenth time now. It’s going to have other applications other than this, but I figured that showcasing it on black lace would be nice.