Originally Posted on Tumblr on Jul 28th, 2018

(Reupload notes: I remember this challenge on myself being actually pretty fun.)

For my next picture, I’m gonna try to challenge myself. I’ll try to make some laptop wallpaper of August and Elly eating ice cream together. Here’s the work schedule I’m looking to go by:

July 28–Polished Hand Drawing

July 29–Polished Line Art and Begin Coloring

July 30–Finish Coloring and Begin Shading

July 31–Finish Shading and Begin and Finish Background

Given the pace of my last set of pics (Elly’s shading situation was hell and a half, but even still), I kind of wanna see how much in over my head I am or if I can actually pull it off. Feels like a 50-50 thing, honestly, but I got the basic premise down for it all, at least. Schedule-wise, I think shading and layers are the things that’ll end up fucking me over. Thus far, they’ve been notorious factors in time management.

Welp, wish me luck. I’ll give you guys the play by play with each day’s end.

Originally Posted on Tumblr on Jul 21st, 2018

(Reupload notes: Up to this point, I've been skirting off sketch work, but this is something that I really want to show you guys. At the time, it was just too good. Here's the dump link, don't make money with it, give credit where it's due, totes NSFW, you know the drill: 

https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/e3f177f4f50b537feb2cd02521d52fc0

and yes, I am one for traditional means. Don't ask me how much paper I blow through.....I have my own printer, if that answers anything........It doubles as a night light.)

My Internet went down yesterday, so I just kind of took a break from drawing. Anyways, I still got a bit more to do, but I figured I’d share the picture below. While I was shading a few days back, I was tweaking the shade portions that didn’t quite line up appropriately. After I was done with adjusting the layer, I thought it looked pretty trippy, so I figured you’d enjoy it as well.

Originally Uploaded to Tumblr on Jul 13th, 2018

(Reupload notes: Another sketch filler post. Don't mind the discrepancy of acknowledgment here. Two other update posts were made, one on the 15th and one on the 17th.)

I’m drawing a solo picture of Elly anally masturbating in a beach house. Figured I ought to show you my progress thus far.

It’s been pretty humid and miserable, so as you can tell by the dates, I’ve kind of been dragging my feet with this one. Hell, Elly’s skeleton is a rough eye-judgment drawing of my own pose in front of my camera, and even then you can see the “fuck it all” in the draft. Those wooden dolls that I bought are helpful for some things, but they’re unfortunately a lot more limited in movement than one would appreciate. Maybe there are more effective ones made of wire or something, I don’t know. There’s likely zero chance that I’ll retire myself as a reference for anatomy, but it still would probably be worth looking into.

Anyways, I thought this would be a good chance to include water colored assets (by hand, I might add) into a project. It’s not exactly how I envisioned it, but I still like the aesthetic that I captured, especially how I sandwiched some faint digital paint with water colored layers to make it look like the last traces of sunlight are about to disappear.

I’m aiming to have her line art finished in digital form by the end of tomorrow. Could be a bit later, though–I’m looking to do variations here. Either way, stay tuned.

Originally Uploaded to Tumblr on Jul 4th, 2018

(Reupload notes: I don't remember it being all that eventful, honestly. I did get an assload of different fireworks, but after the fact, it was just kind of....meh. Apparently if you bunch multiple fireworks together and light them all at the same time, it doesn't become more awesome. They just catch on fire and do absolutely nothing afterwards.)

Just dropped this message to wish all you guys a Happy Fourth of July. Currently waiting for the sun to go down so I can blow shit up like every other American.

Originally Posted on Tumblr on Jun 16th, 2018

(Reupload notes: This had some skeleton wire drafts, but those kind of drawings seem a bit frowned upon here. They feel kind of like filler here, anyways. I had like two other posts consisting of drawing progress, one on the 19th and one on the 21st. I feel like sparing you the play by play for now.)

I’m making a drawing to commemorate the first day of summer on the 21st. Here is my progress so far. I still use the skeleton rubrics I made, though I try to be more flexible about it. Concerning hands, I’m just kind of inventing methods at this point. I bought some wooden manikins to use as reference, and, though they’re rather rigid, they have been incredibly useful in figuring out poses.

Still using paint.net. Clip Studio Paint is a bit more complex than I thought. There is much about it that I don’t understand, and even simple tasks seem like foreign directions–I’ll likely be sifting through tutorials for quite a while.

Originally Posted on Tumblr on Jun 7th, 2018

(Reupload notes: Come to think of it, Democrats took back the House this midterm election, didn't they? Maybe there will be some balance moving forward. Maybe. Not saying either side is pure, but there's at least some hope now of them cancelling each other out.)

Hey.

June 11 is on Monday. The net neutrality repeal goes into effect by then. We’re gonna be the ISPs’ fiscal pocket pussies if we don’t do something about this. This all hangs on the House passing the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to restore the Title II protections of the Internet.

Citing my personal emails, it seems that “[o]ver 175 members of Congress have indicated their support for Net Neutrality but we need 218 to sign on to pass the CRA” (Freepress.net). To be more specific, “that means we’ll need to convince all the Democrats and about 25 Republicans to support the CRA” (Battle for the Net).

Call your representatives, even if they promise to support the Net Neutrality CRA:

https://www.battleforthenet.com/call/

Oh, and here are the people that stand in our way:

https://www.battleforthenet.com/scoreboard

Please note that these links lead to a secure website. If you try to search for these on your own with Google or something and it appears that the site isn’t secure, something’s up. Just a thing for all of you to consider moving forward. Don’t want you to toss your efforts into decoy sites or anything.

Originally Posted on Tumblr on May 16th, 2018

(Reupload notes: I kinda wonder how much further the topic will go on in the political scene. I'm just grateful that I keep a handful of activist email subscriptions in my back pocket. I honestly would hardly know what the hell was going on otherwise.)

Awesome news, dudes! The votes are in and the Senate voted to overturn the FCC’s net neutrality repeal. I took the liberty of whittling down some personal emails of mine, and have managed to boil it all down to the following:

At a 52-47 voting margin, the Senate just voted to pass a resolution of disapproval that would overturn the FCC’s net neutrality repeal. This resolution now must be passed by the House of Representatives. The repeal will go into effect on June 11, but if the House also votes to overturn the FCC’s decision, net neutrality would be saved courtesy of the Congressional Review Act.

June 11 is less than a month away. I advise all of you to keep your ears cocked and stay on your toes.

Originally Posted on Tumblr on May 13th, 2018

(Reupload notes: Sucks that this overall issue is still actively on the table.)

I’ve honestly been taking my sweet time on Elly’s personal stat card—I’ve kind of been just dicking around for the past few weeks.

Anyways, apparently there’s more news on the net neutrality issue. There will be a vote in the Senate this Wednesday concerning the FCCs decision—there is a chance to reverse the repeal and restore the Internet protections we secured in 2015. Make sure to contact your representatives to express your stance on net neutrality.

https://www.battleforthenet.com/redalert/

Sorry for the half-assed exposition; I’m typing this out while tired. Just wanted to toss this news out there for you guys. Really should’ve put this out sooner.

Originally Posted on Tumblr on Mar 11th, 2018

(Reupload notes: Rereading this, I sound awfully somber.)

Hey, it’s me. I know I’ve been quiet for a while, but not only have things been busy for me (and will continue to be so for a little while longer), but I also figured it best to step back for a bit to put more serious consideration into what I want to make of this blog, and frankly, I’m still pondering quite a bit, most notably concerning my own OCs.

Initially I had planned to make a trio, but now that I am almost done with the second character after having put her creation on hold for over two months, I feel it best to only keep it at two–a sort of night and day duo. I like the idea of August having an opposite to complement her. There are a few other things I’m mulling over, so I would appreciate your patience.

Anyways, the second character I will try to post by the end of the day. I hope things have been going well for all of you so far during 2018.

Originally Posted on Tumblr on Dec 19th, 2017

(Reupload notes: My head really was somewhere else back then. It was kind of a stressful time for me.)

The OC I had in mind is going to have to wait. I have a good idea of what I want the end-product to be (still pondering on the hair style though), but my head has been kind of somewhere else; I just can’t focus. I guess I’ll have her creation be a surprise. All things consistent, the Christmas pic and New Year’s pic will still be drawn as scheduled.