Dollar Store Goth Makeup Is Simultaneously The Best And Worst. Fight Me.

I was in a bit of a nihilistic mood for the past few days, and decided to spit this out.

The edge, I know.

Here's a digital painting based off of an old OC I had from late high school/early college.

I wish I had more time to sit down and do more digital painting for my characters, but I tend to be doing design and economics work for college.

This was the result of my Twitch stream today! I can’t say that I got as much done as I would have liked, but that’s because my roommate’s corgi, Truffles, started vomiting on both of the couches. She had to be taken care of, and things had to be cleaned. That’s kind of an emergency.

Incidentally, I’m thinking that I want to try the Lazy Nezumi plugin at some point in the near future. I like technical drawing by hand and all, and getting by on on Brush>>Shift>>Click and drawing out a perspective layer isn’t the worst thing I could possibly do...but it seems like Lazy Nezumi’s Illustrator-esque grids might be helpful, and the fisheye thing seems SUPER neato. (Until the inevitable happens and Adobe just adds that as a thing anyway...like how a file recovery plug-in I once had basically became standard anyway.)

These are some pencils I designed within the past few months, with a pencil case included.

I decided that the idea was that they would use flocking (so that certain parts of the pencils would be fuzzy). The overall theme, of course, is creepy stuff.

In Love with Love, 2018

I’ve finally decided to finish this stupid thing after keeping it on hold for about five years—and loving someone not for the person, but because you desperately want to be loved seems like such a terrible thing to make an illustration about, but I finally finished it.

I just realized that I could have easily made an MS Excel spreadsheet for the economic model I usually construct for quoting design, instead of doing everything by hand with a pen and paper.

It would even automatically calculate annual metro-area inflation discrepancies FOR ME if I structured it like that, so that I can just feed it yearly data without worrying about it.

Doing it all on paper is just punching myself in the face.

Friend: Is Brendon Urie even real?

Me: I don't know, but even if he is a fever dream, he's A Fever You Can't Sweat Out.

I decided to make myself an album design project centered around something I used to doodle a lot in my early college years—Sierpinski gaskets and Apollonian gaskets. (Incidentally, I think I may have found the one thing that’s easier to draw traditionally than digitally...but perhaps that’s because I’ve been drawing a lot of economics graphs for exams for the past four years, so I’m used to drawing geometric things by hand at this point.)

While I know there’s no such thing as an “Artemesian Gasket”, I decided to assign Sierpinski gaskets to Artemis, because Apollo and Artemis are supposed to be diametrically opposed twins, and triangles are the opposite of circles, imo (because triangles have the bare minimum of three points for a shape, and circles have theoretically infinite points on their circumferences.)

I’m currently working on Apollo at this time, and I’ll showcase that one in the near future.

(Oh, and as full disclosure, the mock-up file I used is here.)

So, the kitsune death god I’ve been meaning to draw has been mostly speedpainted in the past 3 hours. I need to work on some contrast stuff, rendering that scythe, and deciding on the left hand, but...eh. Still pretty cool

Also, I have a 5-minute Milhouse doodle for no reason other than being asked.

It’s not even a good Milhouse doodle, pssh.

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?