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About this blog:
Contains my general ramblings on things I'm working on on my Neocities site, different art projects, worldbuilding and the occasional video game. This is a great alternative for me rambling on tumblr, as it is much less awkward here. It's my dairy, which is out there on the internet! You might even say its a live journal!

Links

Neocities - My website! Still a WIP but it has a bunch of things. I add stuff frequently. Its my new hobby.
Carrd Page - For some more links
Straw.Page - If you would like a different anon option or would like to send doodles

Current Mood: chipper

Website Stuff

Did a couple minor updates last week, but no major ones. Work was kind of busy and I kinda just didn't have a lot of brainpower all week. I did get up the "under construction" bit for Curio #2 and added a bunch of stuff to my Art Reference link page. Its starting to fill out nicely! I need more organization than regular bookmarking can provide so this helps me a lot.

Art Projects

Worked a lot on the big art for Curio #2 over the weekend. It is still in the Ugly stage. It has a particularly ugly stage going on, LOL. But its getting there. Its not a subject I am very familiar with drawing so its been challenging. However, its not like its a very complicated piece, so I can tell that the main thing it needs is some work on the contrast. Once I move onto actually detailing I think it will help a lot as well.
One thing I was very proud of with it is that while I did use a ruler when transferring the sketch, I freehanded all of the straight lines when inking to stop it from looking too stiff. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to actually do it without one wobbly as heck line, but nope! I DID IT.
Otherwise again ^^^ like zero brain power last week so not much else going on but I'm mentally juggling a couple things.

Video Games

Trying to catch up on FF14 patch quests (since I did up to 7.3 but did ZERO side quests) and kept getting roadblocked either by the side quests needing me to get farther, or by my ilvl not being high enough 😔I don't have much gil and I haaate how you are pretty much required to buy gear to progress if you haven't been keeping up with the current raids every week. Ended up doing the Limsa World Shuffle for a while to try to figure out who had the cheapest for sale. I know this is planned to be changed but its seriously one of my most anticipated updates.
In positive news I am digging these Hildebrand quests so far. Not too many in, but. "Hardiboiled" is a really good pun. I also didn't care much for Dawntrail's actual dungeons but I thought the optional ones like Tender Valley have also been pretty fun so far.

Aaaand I had more to say here (maybe worldbuilding related) but I already forgot most of it. Maybe next time!

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: The Old Year by Esselfortium

Website Stuff

Got some more character pages up as well as the actual Ahveph City page. Patting myself on the back for pre-linking everything to that in advance because there were A Lot. Ahveph's two main hobbies are Sions and also Buildings. If it is not making sions (which, sometimes it does not), it is making so many buildings.
Curio 2 - Started doing the writing for this, and I could actually probably start piecing things together in the offline version, just with a bunch of placeholder graphics. Again it is not remotely as complicated as Tunnels is, it's just a small silly project. I may or may not put the "coming soon" spot in the actual Curio section just to like. Motivate myself.

Art Projects

Curio 2 - With that said ^^^^^, I am actively working on the "main" big graphic even though I still need a bunch of smaller ones. Like, the sketch and lighting mockup is done and I've already transferred it onto a nice piece of paper. Next is the first pass of lines (for Reasons, I'm skipping the more detailed sketch lineart pass I usually do), and then painting. I really don't think this one is going to take that long. I did end up opening CSP and play around with blocks to get the shot I wanted because otherwise this was going to be a little too intense for me.
Somewhat relatedly, thinking about NOT participating in Artfight this year. I have participated the last 3 years and I'm pretty much always really busy in July with IRL stuff. It's so stressful. I'm also not really amused at the whole "rule update" debacle. Yes I know they are revisiting it. Yes I know "no tracing models" is not a new rule. I wasn't using models for artfight so this doesn't really apply to me anyway. I just think their choices are fucking obnoxious, for multiple reasons. Also, it's a game. For fun.
Anyway for reference I'm open for trades year round, you just have to ask.

Video Games

Was really wanting to replay Shadow of the Colossus again, but didn't want to dig out my PS2, or PS3....then I figured out it was released on PS4! Like 7 years ago! So I was able to get a cheap copy and started playing it again. This release is BEAUTIFUL. It was already a great looking PS2 game but this version is wildly gorgeous. This is one of my favorite games of all time, but I usually forget to mention it because of how much the game is like....vibes. Contemplation and vibes. I don't even know what the colossi are named. Like, I know they have names listed...somewhere, it's just that it doesn't really matter all that much
Also ended up picking up FF14 again. We'll see how long. Working on MSQ NG+ some more. Also decorated my apartment into something kind of respectable now (not just stuff in my inventory I threw out at random), and I finally finished Shadowbringers Shared Fates and got the Amaro minion. This was actually a long-running goal I had and I'm so happy. I need to work on Dawntrail stuff as I have almost nothing post-MSQ unlocked (and I'm still on 7.3 anyway) buuuuut. We'll get to that later.

Current Music: 07022016 by falls

Website Stuff

What did I do this week...uhh...I got a bunch of minor Places pages up, one character page, plus I have some more places in the works.They mostly just need to be pasted into the template and uploaded. After this batch is done the majority of the Place pages will actually be up besides the sentient cities.
Some character pages are also in progress, like Painted Rivers, I just got sidetracked back onto the locations :Va

Art Projects

Beacon Swords - Been doing more research this week and so far I am thinking I am going to draw the handle shapes more inspired by Chinese Jian swords. I was looking at non-European swords that were straight, double-edged swords that were actually used for battle and they fit the bill (being mostly military swords but also had very ornate variants), aaaand the handle shapes look fairly easy for me to draw. The guards are a lot more square and closer to the blade, handle is thick and fairly long, and I'm also seeing a lot of these flat disk-like pommels with stuff on top...which would be great because canonically Aki uses the top of the Great Sword as a platform. I still need to test this out though and kind of visualize what it would look like from a distance.
Chibi Character Art - I didn't forget about this idea, I still want to do it but then I realized I really have not drawn a lot chibis in so long that I'm trying to remember how I did them. Lots of futzing around going on here. So far I think I've determined that my preferred proportions are 3-4 heads tall. I think normally I draw around 6-6.5 heads 🤔
I have a really extensive "Art Ideas" list that has gone back for years but I always have a really hard time deciding what to draw (possibly due to. the size of the list at this point.), so anyway, I do want to do some more "Fancy Art" and I'm trying to figure out what next, and I am SEMI considering picking up an old "playlist art" idea I had. That is, I have a playlist with a handful of songs I get fairly strong visuals out of, so I could do a piece for each song. Still thinking about it, not really committed yet
Still need to work on Curio 2 art as well. One of the main pieces is maaaybe probably going to require me doing minor messing around with 3D models to get some angles referenced correctly. Or not

Other Stuff

Video Games - Been hitting my FF14 playlist since the announcement of Evercold and I got all pumped about Shadowbringers again...I love Shadowbringers so much...I picked up my NG+ a bit this weekend as I was at ARR NG+ 6/6 and I forgot how ungodly long the post ARR patches were. It's okay though, because the story is still interesting (as I can now remember what these characters were about), and I'm still salty that the cutscenes, camera angles, overall composition etc are still better than Dawntrail's. Anyway I still remember the first time I watched the Shadowbringers trailer (while I was still in Stormblood) and it being like complete NEURON ACTIVATION sooo yeah. Kinda want to play Shadowbringers again.
Watched the Exit 8 movie yesterday, based on the game of the same name. IDK what I expected, because the game does not have a plot, but actually it was pretty fun! better than I expected. I would say its one of the better movies based on games. Perhaps because it is free to just do whatever. You can also kind of play along with 'spot the anomaly' and it's not obnoxious about showing you what you missed!

Website Stuff

Got some more Place pages up tonight though I am currently dancing around some of the larger pages. The Sovereign's city pages will probably be last for sure. I don't have toooo much to say about some of these other ones...for now... so they aren't that bad.
Couple pages like Twelve Winds Over Stone Over Sea will most likely go up at the same time as the character page
Speaking of which, a number of the character pages left are ones I have been putting off due to the characters not really having descriptions. No joke these days I usually flesh out personality, backgrounds, events, etc first and then description like dead last. I know who these characters are but idk what they look like. Just vibes I guess. Might have to just skip those sections on those characters for now lol

Art Projects

Finished my zine piece!! Yaaaay. It turned out very nice. I probably won't be able to show it for a while, BUT its pretty much all ready to go in terms of sharing it. It's got a title. I've got the page for my website all together.
So hopefully I should be able to focus on some other things now!
Currently messing around with redesigning The Beacon's Great Sword/Wind Tower swords a little bit. Since I don't normally draw a lot of weapons I did just kind of use Generic Medieval European Sword shape because that's the first thing that came to mind. However, Aki himself isn't wielding strictly European swords, and it doesn't fit with the rest of The Beacon's aesthetic that much either anyway. I do like the 'blade' shape being straight because they DO have to function as wind towers, so I'm basically mostly looking at redesigning the handle shape. 🤔 Unsurprisingly, my initial internet searches have been pretty annoying as the internet at large is obsessed with European swords...and there is just a lot of overlap too with the sword shapes throughout history (for example Firangi being Indian swords but inspired by European swords), but I would at least feel better with a slightly more informed shape.
Bought myself an A5 sketchbook to use next. It IS pretty drastically different but I'm crossing my fingers it will be the refresh my brain needs (when I get to it)

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: World of Promises by Michael Oakley

Website Stuff

Got the plane art up and linked though it took longer than expected. I kept having to adjust the images themselves, and the text was difficult to retrieve (for the alt text), because the map file is perhaps one of my worst organized psds in recent memory. Actually putting the pages together was a challenge because my typing fingers have been twigging out for the last several days. (This is likely because I have an office job and sometimes my hands just decide to peace out)
uhhhh at least that's done though. On that note, those got dedicated art pages, but when I get to digging though and reuploading way older art, such as older buildings, I may treat them like the screenshots on the character pages. that is, just the image and the alt text for the full view. maybe a thumbnail. we'll see.
Similarly I'm still pondering what to do with guest art for characters. Originally I was going to make another gallery section, but possibly that might be too cluttered? 🤔🤔 I don't know. Currently thinking about just making a subpage for each character as needed and sticking them all in there in their full glory.

Art Projects

Work on community zine still progressing. I got a LOT done over the weekend. I am currently halfway through the second pass of the lineart (this is also the fine detail stage), then need to smooth out some things with colored pencil, couple other touchups, then call it a day.
Got about 20 pages left in this sketchbook... it would be 10 if I hadn't committed to both sides of the paper 🤣 its okay. This is a large format sketchbook and I already decided I'm going to TRY a smaller one (like an A5) for the next and see if that helps at all. I'm already considering just moving now to the new one and saving the remainder pages for digital art printouts, but we'll see. When I print and glue my art down I do prefer bigger pages.

Current Mood: sore

Website Stuff

Got the plane pages up but they took a little longer than expected as I kept getting sidetracked by other things and I have like 0 energy for anything at the moment. I'm doing my best. We're in the loooow energy zone
Did pull up my plane maps though and spent a bit adjusting them. Renamed some stuff and added the locations for Kelcher's End and Twelve Winds Over Stone Over Sea. Even though it required a lot of pondering and the maps are ultra zoomed out, has been incredibly helpful. Originally I was not going to make specific art pages for these but I decided that I had a lot more to say than I thought so now that is the current project.
The next pages after this probably arrrree going to be some of the simplier locations to describe

Art Projects

Community zine piece still progressing and still looking fabulous. I really should have started loosely plotting out big pieces way sooner than this last year; it makes things go sooooo much smoother than just 100% winging it 😂 No guessing where I wanted lighting to go. Anyway I got the first layer of paint (acrylic ink) on this thing, and need to do maybe a little more before moving to the details and final linework
Still a little head empty about other art though 🫠

Other Stuff

Played through Call of the Sea last weekend. Really short, has a couple technical issues (all dialogue resets if you save halfway through a level and you get to listen to everything again next time), but overall I liked it! It's a Lovecraft inspired story but for ONCE it is not a dark story, so that was refreshing
I want to do another round of commissioning people but it's so hard between the shyness and kinda wanting skeb style/artist choice stuff. I have no idea what to tell people for poses otherwise 😭 I can barely handle stuff I want to draw myself LOL

Website Stuff

Mostly only did some minor things in the background the last week. More formatting updates, removed the Misc directory page for now (zero plans atm so it was Bothersone)
Uhhhhh I'm preparing to add the pages for the Planes of reality soon so I made a little template for that. I don't think (?) these pages are going to be terribly long (??) but you never know. It is going to be another multi-page update though.
Oh on that note I have been meaning to rename one of the planes for a while and finally came up with something satisfactory, so I need to remember to update any pages that have the old name too. Memory Plane --> Echo Plane, as after all the updates over the years I think this is more accurate as to what is going on now
Curio #2 - Did some more testing and I THINK I am finally, mentally set for how the pages are going to work. If I'm feeling particularly industrious I might start putting them together soon and just use placeholder images until those are done (it's only going live when it's actually all complete though lol)

Art Projects

Transferred the lines for my zine piece to a nice piece of paper and did the initial inking! Now I just need to nail some stuff, tape it down, and start painting. That might be a task for next weekend though. Although the due date isn't for another month and a half I am not sure there has been much action from other people on this so 😂 We'll seeeee
Still wanting to do some chibis for my character pages so I'm trying to psych myself up for that. Started the week off really tired

Video Games
Ahhh video games.

Got all the knickknacks in Lushfoil Photography Sim. You're supposed to relax and just walk around and take pretty pictures, but you have to do some collecting in order to unlock locations as well as accessories (such as the drone for aerial shots). So now I can actually relax! hahaha. though what sucks is I didn't get credit for completing 2 levels so I'm missing achievements. Like it gave me the full game 100% one but it bugges out on giving me 2 of the level specific ones. Really weird.
Also beat HiFi Rush! I have some really mixed feelings on this. I REALLY liked the characters and the design of it all but really struggled with the combat needing to be on the beat. I don't think my rhythm is actually that bad but 🤔 I suspect the issue is a combo of it being new songs that I don't know the beat of, and the rhythm bar looking like a steady beat when it's actually dynamic. I did way better on the songs I was already familiar with (like the NIN tracks) than the original ones. But I mean like. Ignoring the combat, the game was great.

Website Stuff

Made a pretty large update this weekend by adding a BUNCH of character pages. Like. A bunch. Mostly background characters I would say but some aaaa maybe less so. I mostly focused on the Present Day characters since those have been around the longest, so they are the easiest, and its very satisfying to have that section kinda filled in for now.
Slowly working on updating those formatting tags while I'm at it. We are getting there. If there's something else I need to update on a page I just go ahead and update the tags while I'm at it.
Starting to noodle further on Curio 2 and the most efficient way to pull off the art. I have some...ideas...for a particular effect though I'm not sure if I'll end up doing it. (it would be quite funny though. to me.) Also starting to put together a general list of things I'm going to need/the quantity.

Art Projects

I have located my little bluetooth printer, so I may now transfer my very loose zine lineart to a nice piece of paper and refine the lines some more from there. I still need to work out the lighting in photoshop but the initial digital sketch is looking really really good so I have high hopes for this one. ( o vo)b
Also started working on a ref for Thynarail. It's going to be a relatively quick piece, just the full body, a closer headshot, and maybe a zoom in on the tail. I was struggling with the feet and the tail design but I was able to work it out pretty fast (I THINK) just by messing around digitally for a bit. I actually made a lot of progress on the ref tonight; the main body lines are pretty solid so I just need to go over them again to make the final version.
Now that I have decent number of character pages up I'm thinking about doing some hopefully relatively quick chibi art of almost everyone to add to their pages. We'll see! It would be pretty fun though, there are some characters I've not drawn for a long time. If I do Nails I kind of also want to do an OG Tower too for nostalgia. HMM.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Make Me Love You ~ Dan Mason

Website Stuff

Got a couple character pages going at the moment. I was expecting them to take forever, but it's not as bad as I thought. These characters have actual descriptions though so it's going to be weird when I get into the ones that are mostly still vibes 🤔
Trying to decide if I want to put all the different planes of reality on one page or if separate pages. I guess separate?? So I can add images and links. I don't have that much to say about like. The mirror dimension. so that's going to be short, but surely much to say about old reality
I did get the coding required for one of my first "Curio 2" ideas working! So I think THAT idea is a go. No ETA yet as it's going to require some art as usual but it shouldn't be remotely as intense as the maze is. (it's not another maze btw).

Art Projects

Currently working on a entry for a community zine in a patreon discord server I'm in. Can't say much about it yet, but it is very pretty so far! I have the loose lines done in procreate and need to do a quick mockup on the coloring to figure out the lights/darks. I also need to figure out where I put the printer I use for printing this stuff out and sticking on my lightbox to transfer it. I thought I put it somewhere obvious but now I've no idea 🤔

tumblr completely fucked up my vibes the last two days with that update debacle, which also kinda fucks with my ability to draw. I'm trying to counter this by working on some text based stuff instead (website, this blog). This post is now way out of my normal dreamwidth posting hours, lmao

Website Stuff

Finished reuploading Lost Kingdoms art challenge 2023. The little thumbnails look super satisfying all together, including the one that just links to the list. I'm very happy with how that looks.
Finished changing all internal links to relative. I would like to go back through and update some of the formatting HTML like "i" -> "em" and "b" -> "strong" but it's less of an annoyance so thats kind of a "whenever" project. I know these tags are antiquated though I'm not exactly sure why/why the longer tag is preferred over the shorter one. Oh well. I'm just trying my best to make it sort of correct.
Going back to working on the Places page though I am half tempted to start throwing out character pages at this point too. A lot of the more minor character ones should be fairly short; I'm not doing full writeups on anyone here o_o a
There is also even more stuff I wish to drop hints about but I do not know the best way to do this very specific one I have in mind. At least, not without potentially hinting something thats easy to make the wrong conclusion

Art Projects

Got a really stupid doodle of Thynarail from the other day. I was having this thought about xem getting a communication from an Elder Wyrm just to check in, and just continuing to be kind of a shit about everything. I don't know why, but I just feel in my bones xey would answer a phone with "Moshi Moshi", so its a picture of xem yelling into a phone. What a mysterious piece of art
Otherwise I am feeling plagued by this sketchbook I don't like but feel the need to finish. It's got like 40 pages left. Really, really need to think of a way to burn through these.
Even like a mini challenge would be okay, at least its something

Worldbuilding Stuff

More details about canon AU have been hammered down. It is definitely frontloaded with angst stemming from the events of the original timeline past and present, though it gets much better later. There are now characters that exist specifically in this AU and have defined names and personalities (such as Temporal Wake, who is one of Aki's daughters.) What have I done
Well anyway the main worldbuilding ponderings are going fine as usual. There is so much going on my general approach is different stories that take place in different locations and periods of time. Some of them are connected and some aren't. There is a bit of a through line but its not like a big one and done story
I also usually stew for a bit and then suddenly write like I have been possessed.

Current Music: Bleeding Binary ~ NoRinTon

Website Stuff

In the middle of reuploading my Lost Kingdoms 2023 art challenge! Took a while to get the pages staged but finishing them off and posting is going fast
Also doing a general maintenance update and fixing all internal references to relative rather than absolute. Basically the headers and navbars were hard referencing the neocities.org pages and there's no reason to do that. I work on my PC and then import them, and the folders have the exact structure as the live site so. Doesn't need to be looking at online stuff until it's actually online.
Got ANOTHER curio idea... this one is probably the easiest on a technical level but it would be one that would basically go up and be ongoing/open forever. (I will spoil it slightly and say it's basically "where selected writing snippets go and where future ones would be stored")

Art Projects

Managed to color in Thynarail without ruining the drawing (which was an actual concern) aaaand now I'm back on the "What do I draw" path. I did at least determine that Thynarail is kinda rancid LOL. Kind of dig it because I don't have a lot of shit personality characters. Not a full antagonist (I get bored of Big Bads), just a rude-ass person.

Other Stuff

I got an extremely Big Brained idea last night. I have tons of writing stored online between Ellipsus and LegendKeeper. I also now have the power of HTML and CSS. There is really nothing stopping me from making an offline worldbuilding/story website for my use only with full details and organization. (as opposed to the stuff I pick and choose to put online). BUT DO I HAVE THAT KIND OF MOTIVATION....? that is the true question.
Video games! Playing two at once right now. #1 is Boyfriend Dungeon, which is...okay. I like the characters for the most part but the pacing is strange as fuck. There are three dungeons, I'm not even done with the second dungeon, but it seems like I can go see the final boss now, on the overworld, if I want. okaaaay. Game #2 is Lushfoil Photography Sim. Basically several locations IRL have been recreated in LAVISH detail, and you just walk around in them, taking pictures. There are challenges where you are presented with like 6 pictures and you have to go find those spots and take the picture, but really the main point of the game is just wander around and try to get pretty shots. I had bought it to take my own "reference photos" where I can control the lighting, but it's just very relaxing.

Current Music: Brand New Phone - New Arcades & The Bad Dreamers

Website Stuff

More or Less finished the races/species section for the moment. Lots of shenanigans to be found in those pages actually! Some more obvious than others. Much I did not even get into 8D
So yeah started the Places section! I am hoping most pages will also be quick but we'll find out.
I may also start reuploading more old art soon, like my ink challenge... maybe even add directors cut notes
Also thinking about adding a misc page with a bunch of art reference links. I have a lot bookmarked in my browser but having it organized on the site would actually be more convenient for me. plus others could use them!

Art Projects

Much I want to work on but feeling kinda tired/uninspired at the moment 😅 Trying not to force myself to do anything but it's hard
Hopefully I can finish a doodle I have going on tonight...Thynarail redesign. I have decided xey were not weird enough for fungal space dragon so I gave xem more flesh ribbons and mushrooms 🤣 and a new muzzle so they look more consistent with Nybrieth. Also: upgraded the pronouns. the old ones were not feeling correct

Other Stuff

Played two different Nancy Drew games over the weekend! 🤣 That is two more things off the backlog. Thankfully those games are usually pretty short
Fell up some stairs and bruised both knees and an arm. Currently super sore and kind of stiff

Website Stuff

Nearly done with phase 1 of the races/species section! Just need to do Sovereigns and then I'll move onto another section. I may do some of the locations next. I think those pages should be relatively quick since I'm not really adding a bunch of new art right now. Like the some of the other pages a lot of art DOES exist but I don't want to add it at this moment. Along with wanting to make some new pieces anyway it's way too easy to get caught in the weeds digging though my files.
The sion pages were tricky since my note documents on both ancient and modern are HUGE. There's a lot I left out, like ancient sions also having internal organ shenanigans going on. I just really did not want to play Compare And Contrast with both sion versions as I don't think that type of presentation is particularly interesting, and they are separate peoples anyway...
I had a list of new Curio ideas going but I thought of a new one this morning...I don't want to reveal what it is just yet but it is my FAVORITE so far, and unlike some of the other ones I don't have to go on a coding dive to learn how to do it; I already know. The only downside is it too, will once again require a shitton of art, and probably of different styles this time, so I'm like....HmmmMMMM. big think.

Art Projects

Just did a bunch of meme redraws over the weekend. Really happy with those, got them done fast and they're very silly. Probably going to do another batch before I move on to something else
That something else is TBD. Still wanting to make a nice painted piece of some kind but I'm also half tempted to see how fast I can pull together some new critter species refs. When I was putting the Bolt page together on my website I realized their original refs were old enough to drive a car 😭

Current Music: Where We Go - New Arcades

Website Updates

In an attempt to """procrastinate""" the sion info pages I ended up writing all the other initial species pages...it was like 8 of them in a couple days.
I did end up STARTING working on modern sions today and ooohhh boy. I have pages and pages and pages worth of notes so I was just going to do a summary. I thought I was going to be clever about this though, because MANY years ago I did a little species sheet which summarized them at the time, so here I was thinking I could just crib my own old summary. It turns out, because I'm not super precious about my lore and revise stuff that I don't like anymore or doesn't work, it has been revised so much that barely any of the original ref sheet is usable. Whoops.
Oh Well. I'm looking at this again and I agree with all the stuff I dropped, lmao. They are much more interesting now, to me. Just stinks that I am going to have to freshly attempt to summarize things without getting too far into the weeds or like, spoilers. There's so much stuff that I just have to dodge writing about. Like a couple extra secret subtypes besides just Architects! I just hope that I can drop enough hints throughout the whole website for people to pick up what is actually going on as far as Ahveph and modern sions go

Other News

Well In other news I have been working at it all month (January) but I finally finished BALL x PIT and got all the current achievements! It just got a free DLC update with new characters, but there aren't any cheevos tied to them.....yet. I played them a little bit (Falconer is S tier omg) but I don't think I have the strength to go through all the levels again right now. Great game though
Need to finish Lies of P next. I got mostly through the DLC but stopped at the secret boss to obsess over BALL x PIT. I am not super thrilled by that boss so I might just skip it. Otherwise I think its a cool game. Really dig what they have going on with the narrative and can't wait to actually finish the game just to see where it goes.
Unknown what game next! I want to work through some of the stuff I already have installed but I already forgor

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: ラブレスナイト (Loveless Night) by Dan Mason

Website Updates

Finished phase 1 of several character pages (Tower, Torch, Cavi, Aki, Sy) and am currently switching gears to work on some other worldbuilding pages
Phase 1.5~2 is going to include adding a "guest art" section for trades, commissions, etc. I'm still deciding where exactly it's going to be. Currently the galleries are in the middle of the page so people I'm getting art from don't have to go that far to find it. I could either add a section there or stick it at the bottom to break it up a little. Still pondering.
I am also specifically thinking about Sy with this issue. Being such an old character whose design has not really changed, he has an absolute fucking shitton of art, by me and by others. I'll pick and choose my art to re-upload but I'm not sure how much other's art to do 🤔
I got some of the species pages done yesterday and am currently working on some more. Doing my best to procrastinate the sion pages even though they are probably the most critical ones 🤣🤣 The reality plane page is also going to be short so I'll probably end up doing that first too

Current Art Projects

Been sorta tired this last week so I've been focusing more on writing + neocities rather than drawing
Yesterday when I was writing the page about Bolts I had a Vision of a hairless breed bolt. Wrinkly hairless creature as big but much longer than a man, and its blobbed all over your couch. Truly awful. Love it, might need to draw it now

Current Music: The Slayer - StreamCatcher

Website Updates

Added a bunch of worldbuilding pages and put stuff ON them ~ they're mostly lists for now and will need to be rearranged but at least it's SOMETHING to look at in that corner of the site.
Took a while but I also finished putting together a template page for the character pages. I don't think it's going to be too hard to adapt it for other pages (like species). The most challenging part by far was making the flexible image galley with captions, lmao.
On that note I put together Tower's page! The majority was simply transferred over from toyhouse, and I want to add more images and stuff later but it still looks soooo fancy. The one Not Found placeholder image is planned to be a portrait in the same color scheme as the rest of the site, but since I don't have any of those done right now I thought it would be cool and mysterious to leave them in place.

Current Art Projects

My Aki color test looks pretty good! At this point it's basically going to be turned into a ref sheet. I figured that there is so much going on with this canvas it would be silly not to. I need to ponder over a couple more things but otherwise I think everything is pretty much ready to be rearranged and typed around.
Next projects - uhhh, get back to doing some traditional sketching, need to get the character portraits on the radar. Also want to do some location doodles and general finished pieces.

Worldbuilding Stuff

I think I just cursed myself yesterday. Right so I had the two main settings, which was the ancient world and the modern world. The ancient world basically had one event that set off a series of events, eventually leading to a cataclysm and that's why we have the modern world.
HOWEVER ☝️ I had a side AU going where things did not completely go to shit and things can be cute etc
HOWEVER HOWEVER!! ☝️☝️I realized yesterday that I have enough Time magic bullshit going here that I can make this completely plausible as an ALTERNATE TIMELINE. Like actually an alternate timeline in another universe. The ancient world happens, then the modern world happens, then Aki (don't worry about this lol) gets catapulted into the other timeline but before any of the bad stuff happened. Except that he does still remember the original events and can stop them.
So now we can have that setting with all the cute for reals, but now. Additional angst. That Aki seems a little different (to everyone else) and they can't put their finger on why
This is also why I love original worldbuilding. Anything is canon if you just try hard enough lol

Current Music: One Million Voices - Thomas Bergersen

Website Updates:

Almost done uploading 2024 Art! Took a while but I think I'm getting the process down. Slowly working out how to do lots of alt text.
2023 and older art is going to be lumped on one page. I will once again share the 2023 ink challenge I did but this time it gets to be in its own section
However I think I'm going to pause on the art section and start working on the worldbuilding pages a little, especially the character pages. I want to link to mentioned characters ON the art they are in and I really want to get those going before I have a million art pages that need correction later.

Current Art Projects

Finally made a new icon! Made several different backgrounds actually. As predicted long ago it didn't actually take that long; I spent waaaay more time thinking about it than actually doing it.
Aki outfit ponderings - Got sidetracked trying to do the new icon before the new year, and also tired from lots of furniture moving (no new renovations for this year THANK goodness). But! Still in the works. I need to come up with a good pose for the last one. Kinda want to do a sword drawn type of thing so we're in the Pose Research phase.
Want to start another art challenge or a mini prompt challenge or SOMETHING but haven't fully decided yet. Some sort of "project" is brewing.
On that thought I would like to finish more character art this year. With "Cool Lighting" ™️. That's all I got so far.

Website Updates

Finished catching up the 2025 art page for now, now I can do the 2024 page, then I can do anything older on a catch-all page. I just don't like huge walls of images so this approach works pretty well for me.
The whole website is starting to look pretty respectable now! I am pleased.

Current Art Projects

Working on drawing Aki's different clothing layers so that I can get a better idea of what he's actually wearing as well as do a proper color test. I'm REALLY happy with the main drawing, probably the most accurate one of him so far.
Need to think about finally updating my icon art... 🤣 It always doesn't take very long I just need to sit down and do it. Plus I already know I just want to do the exact same thing but with my new sona instead.
I don't really like my current sketchbook at all (it's a leuchtturm) but I hate just abandoning sketchbooks, especially since it's already halfway filled. Trying to come up with something to do that will start using up pages quickly.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Stranger Days - Midnight Danger

Busy couple of weeks! Finally signed up for neocities and started building my website up. Still needs a lot of work but at least it looks really pretty!
https://corvarrow.neocities.org

Curio #1 Progress

This is finally done! I can now reveal that I was painting a first-person maze, and strung it together on a bunch of webpages so it would be navigable.
Basically no-lifed the whole last week working on the last stages
Took a long time overall but I'm really proud that I Did It and it looks cool.
https://corvarrow.neocities.org/Main/Curios/C1Tunnels/Intro

Website - Next Stages

Definitely have ideas for more curios (next one will not be a maze, lol) but they need to stew for a while, plus it's stuff I Definitely don't know how to pull off without a lot of research
I want to work on the character pages but I feel like I should do the Art page next as it's prooobably less work to make it look presentable
At some point I want to make some worldbuilding graphics in the same color scheme so it matches the rest of the site, though I don't want everything to be in the same colors

Other Projects

Now that I've finished that big thing I think I should treat myself. Time to draw a bunch more Aki's
Need to finish the outfit exploration/breakdown I started before forcing myself to prioritize the maze
After that I think he needs a ref sheet, for Reasons

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