02/01/24

I need to be serious about this. I have three days of holiday left and I need to get work done. I have one essay, five pieces of art to do and one life to take care of. By Friday, it'll be the start of the last term of college (K-12 education), which means it'll be exam time for me. What I want to do is to get the essay up to a good standard so that I don't have to waste precious hours while everyone else is working on a game. Added to the fact that my pantomime is in the middle of January, which means I need to crunch some hours into the days.

To do:

• Essay on Character design - half-way, in bullet point form
• Lucario Mystery Meat thingy - colouring and background
• Timburr Mystery Lovers thingy - not done
• Logo for my brother's project - make variations on it
• Dog commision - in progress
• Glep for Adult Swim collab - in progress
• Pantomime - final stages rehearsals
• Musical - dance routine for opening act
• Prepare for University auditions - currently reading Chekov

I can do this.

01/01/2024

The start of the year I saw Hayao Miyazaki's newest masterpiece, The Boy and The Heron.

Or... How Do You Live?

Honestly, it was worth it skipping all the trailers, this movie is astounding!

Just seeing all the painted details in the backgrounds makes it so much authentic. There's a lot of animation projects trying to make things as "realistic" as possible, especially with Weathering with You recently. It's the little things that matter, it's why I absolutely adore impressionism as an art form.

The story was slow; that's the best thing about it. A lot of movies try to be as fast as possible, and so much of that would end up being pretty forgetful. This movie is a perfect balance, added with Miyazaki's direction of leaving long pauses between each moment (known as "ma" in case you didn't know!)

I was watching the dubbed version of this, and safe to say they did a great job!

Look, it doesn't matter which version is better, but switching between reading the clunky words and being engrossed in the scenary is like trying to look at a painting while looking at a wiki article about it at the same time. It's distracting! I'd rather be in the environment if I say so myself.

Also, Robert Pattinson was fucking amazing. I got him confused with Willem DeFoe, kinda strange how they're both in the same film about birds...

From The Lighthouse

Also, how the hell did Christian Bale manage to sound younger? I can't wait to do that when I enroll in acting!

Welp, just finished my delicious yaki soba as I'm writing this. I'm gonna do some essay work when I get back and also finish that lucario piece. The colouring's all that needs to be done!

Also [SPOILERS BY THE WAY]:

31/12/2023

Went on a morning walk today. Just gonna share some photos that I took, I also enhanced these selected photos by the way.

Urgggghhh I hate gloom so much. I really feel depressed.

I'm gonna shake it off tomorrow, it'll be a brand new day and a brand new year! Plus, I'll get to see The Boy and the Heron!

30/12

grey skies and mulled afternoons...

Living in England is so much fun.

Well 'tis a saturday anyway, so I'll be more relaxed now. Don't really wanna overwhelm myself with a lot of work on the weekends, especially when 2024 rolls around. It'll be another hour for me doing my essay, but I'll spend most of my time on drawing instead. Last evening I got a bit cut-off after my friend called for a DnD prep meeting for my cleric guy, don't wanna blame her for that: I was happy that happened actually.

My morning was watching a nice film called Weathering with You with my brother, made by the same guy who did Your Name. Nothing much, execpt for the brillliant visuals and animation as always, it was just a sweet little rom-com between a boy and a girl....

...and a religious weather apocalypse thingy. Check it out if you can, you can find it for free on All 4 - if you don't mind a TV amount of ads.

Anyway... uhhhh... speaking of New Year's. I'm thinking about doing a Lunar New Year's post. Seems everyone is rushing out to draw a dragon, I don't blame 'em! Dragons are cool as hell.

Maybe I'll do a lil' dragon now...

Hehehe! Therrre we go!

29/12

Today's a Friday!

Yaayyy! 

And I go back to college next week...

Boooo!

Today I aim to do some research on Sonic the Hedgehog, for my essay. I want to look at how and why the franchise is popular in the first place, looking at a character design standpoint, and what about him makes him stand out amongst the rest. I'll make this easier for myself by listing out some questions for myself. Maybe...

• Why is he popular?
• How did Sega manage to do this?
• Did pop-culture at the time help this?

Again, this is just to help me stay on track while writing this essay. Though my autism/undiagnosed ADHD brain is fucking amazing and does it's job... it does doughnuts most of the time. So I need to kindly put some... discipline into it.

Anyway, get onto writing more of the first section in that hour... sort the notes into chunks... badabing... badaboom... you'll get a nice treat after this...

Oh! I also made some study sketches of Lucario last night! Check 'em out!

You can find most of my scribbles in my Reading Corner, where I post daily sketches. Right now I'm testing out some fine liner pens!

If you have any tips for me, please do mention them in the comments!

Otherwise have a nice day!

this blog is just to help me keep track on what I'm doing today.

28/12/2023

Today I am going to get on with my essay. Boring stuff, but when I get this out of the way, I can be able to do the stuff I wanna do! First, I'll make a summary of the responses from both of my surveys, then crack on writing the first paragraph. Afterwards, I will do more research into Sonic the Hedgehog, how he came to be and how this little fella is beloved by all.

After that hour is done, I'll go back into drawing! Right now I'm working on Thetageist's Mystery Meat collab. I'm not really a Pokemon fan, other than watching the OG anime and playing B&W, but I just wanna join for a laugh innit.

I won't spend a lot of time on it, it'll have to be good enough for me to do anyhow.

For this, I want to create a Riolu/Lucario/karate-pooch-thing absolutely petrified after punching his sparring partner a bit too hard. While, I do want to use my current skills, I'd also want to learn a few more techniques on a bit of rendering in Krita. Do suggest me anything that might be helpful!

(I might even join the Mystery Lover's collab too!)

Wip thingy

Now, starting this blog, this'll help me get into the groove when I continue this for about a month. And perhaps by the end of December, I'll also start a monthly summary of what I did.

Thanks guys!

By the start of the next year, I will hope to post more regularly on Newgrounds. I think it's best for me to start a monthly blog on my current status.

Just telling myself to "pOsT MOrE ARrRrTtt!!11!" won't get me far enough, but it's best for me to stick to a theme of some-sorts every week... though I tried to do that for Inktober.

I am making great progress in my art dump so I'm already in great hands at the moment.

With college and other stuff in a few weeks, heck even with my final final major project, it'll be best for me to post regularly on it.

Posting at the end of each day would help my perfectionism, otherwise I would be spending five hours a day just finishing a digital piece. Looking at YouTube tutorials will be good, instead of watching meaningless short-content crap. I am learning how to render and sketch on Krita. So... mid-afternoon on any free-day maybe good, or after college...

See it's challenging to come up with a schedule, it's a great way of forming habits. It's currently helping me with my scroll addiction.

Hey! This gave me an idea for posting blogs on here. I'll post a little task list every morning on my blog page, as well as a monthly one to help me get in track!

Any suggestions would be great thanks!

Another year another Christmas.

Gosh how this came quick!

I really hope life won't be a bitch....

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I'm not gonna say anything else, but @Didjargo is an absolute unit of a guy.

Here's the original board.