My Style Of Procrastinating—work On Other Things That Aren’t Immediately Productive, But Are Productive

So, I started my Twitch stream on a newer page and the like—although I still need to do a few tweaks to a previous comic page.

Unrelated; I was really sad to find out that Odile van der Stap/jumei passed away recently; I really loved her work when I was on DeviantArt years and years ago, and it was really shocking learn this when I wanted to mention an artist I really liked in context of a specific thing in the Twitch stream.

That said, I’ve found that I don’t handle learning that people have passed away, period.

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.

So, this is the result of my Twitch Stream! I’m pretty stoked that I’m back in the swing of things after Hurricane Irma, and I’m pretty happy that I made A LOT of progress on the page in the past 4.5 hours (although I felt like I wasted a bit of my time with Lazy Nezumi. I want to see if I was doing something wrong, because I only found it useful for two things.)

I also appreciate that the quote “Vaporwave Trash Child’s Baby” is now immortalized in a Facebook status of @arzeron‘s, and I got some good pointers for drawing babus from @galacticglaciers.

I’ve been to a lot of places. :’D

…I just got a glitchy version of the taxes design a few minutes after I posted it.

I have no idea how that happened, but here.

I didn’t upload this from the class I took, but here—have an irritated chemist dude.

I decided to draw some very tiny, low res Stardust Crusaders for the 50 followers Twitch stream today! Also, it turned out to be a good endurance test—I haven’t sustained 7 hours of solid drawing in a while.

(Fun Note; Avdol actually turned out to be my favorite one to draw. I also wonder if Araki wanted to kill him off because he’s so detailed...but that’s actually what I enjoyed about Avdol’s design when I actually got into drawing him.)

I ended up finding a REALLY old high school doodle of a character I made  when I was about 15-16ish. I haven’t drawn much of him in a while.

It was my 26th birthday last week, and I decided to try to do a speedpaint of the same thing about a month ago in order to get a general idea of the progress I’ve made in the past decade. Overall, it’s definitely and improvement, to say the least, assuming I’m only given an hour or so to pop something out.

I’m quite pleased to see an obvious visual improvement at this point.

(Also, I’m totally not enamored with this character, I swear...even if he is a main protagonist in a story I wanted to write. I’ll try my best get to him later.)

This is my Day 1 for Inktober—and like a total nerd, I decided to draw a greyscale Alolan Muk for the theme of “Poisonous”.

I know Alolan Muk is super colorful, but I’m thinking that keeping the greyscale palette that I intend to keep for my (mostly neglected) webcomic would be good practice.

Current lessons in DuoLingo land; being specific about translating 写真 as “photo” as opposed to “picture” because it’s already a pet peeve of yours to call photographs “pictures” in ENGLISH, and that’s technically what’s going on here already…is apparently a penalty in Japanese.

Also, taking a more literal translation with 良い is also a penalty.

(I’m concerned about this happening with Mandarin soon, too, even if I’ve yet to encounter that at this time.)

If there's anything I'm proud of today, it's that my Halloween pumpkin that I doodled at my day job today managed to earn me a Pez dispenser that's shaped like Eleven from Stranger Things.

I am weirdly proud of myself for this