This was the last picture I took of Dougal before he passed away.

Don't worry, he was at peace anyway.

He lived with us ever since we moved into this place, and gotta say he was a bastard alright.

He was actually sweet, when he wasn't tripping us over that is. And he was the best cat in the household.

Thank you for everything.

I am seriously going to treasure this, I cannot believe this has happened.

I know this is an RNG thing, but the chances of it happening is fucking unbelievable. It is an honour to be on this platform in the first place, things just wouldn't be the same if I joined (b)intsga or tw(a)tter. The community is just outstanding, the amount of support and general trust is superb.

But this is a great opportunity to thank a lot of people!

@SageIsReal - creating the collab that helped me love newgrounds

@JAMRIOT - helping me understand the joys of writing

@Shiek13LoZ - providing excellent feedback

@MarshyBruh - creating a banging collab

@fe3l1ngsk1lledd - cool as fuck

@Tyhond - just for being a goober! And also brightening my day with those positive messages!

@Xinxinix - creating the best discord community out there, and the secret santa collab!

@StevSteelEn - cool as hell art, and just being cool as fuck.

@TestSubjectManiac - just want to mention you honestly, you slay.

@TomFulp - Sorry for pinging you, but you have seriously created the best platform there is. Like, keeping it up to a high quality while still maintining its charm is a lot of hard work, especially with a lot of other platforms that take users for granted. I am so glad that Newgrounds didn't fall into the trappings of toxic-by-design, that is the greatest thing I could ever praise.

And to everyone else, I love you guys so much.

Fluctuating-half-homo.

Had an overwhelming day....

Just an influx of so many things... Finishing work, wondering about my future...

I feel a bit better now, but I'm feeling a bit tired.

I sometimes don't know what the hell my limit is. Am I doing too much? Too little?

ur da best, 8 follrs lets go.

tadaaaa! three concept drawings of Captain Albert C. Herron! Pushed myself a bit by chosing different colours!

Really proud of this, after doing some mannequin studies im a lot more confident with pose and figures. I deffo need to figure out the colour scheme here though...

Just gonna share some concept art for the college project I'm working on!

9/02/2024

Sorry again about yesterday! Had a bit of a caffeine meltdown (and staying up at 2am playing P3R).

Haven't got much to talk about, just gonn share some dogs.

Oh yeah! I'm gonna from now on be trying out 5 minute sketches every morning. Perfectionism has been plaguing me like rats, so Ill have to beat the shit out of it.

Gee I hate rats. They make me crazy.

Heh, crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room. A rubber room with rats.

I hate rats, they make me crazy.

Crazy?

07/02/2024

For the sake of my sanity, I moved my saturday to Wednesdays. Why? Well I've heard that it's a bit better to take a break in the middle of the week so I'm gonna try it out.

Think about it! Mondays are the worst after a nice break, then you manage to get into gear by the second day. But past that you start to feel tired and yearn for those two sweet days of rest. You get me so far? To which Ouroboros vores himself and the cycle repeats again. It gets tiring when you continue that for many weeks! Even if you have a holiday, it's only a few days...

But as opposed to resting on Wednesdays, you get to have a quick stop. That's all. A time to pause everything and take a breather, 'cause after all you need to stop for a while after running from the police...

After which you're mind is set on what you need to do and continue to plough on as always! This basic rhythm will help maintain a constant flow of work, with almost dips in quality.

Or so that's what the idea is. It's been my first day, so I'll have to see after a few weeks or so.

Finally, I managed to post something on the art portal after a long time. On Monday, I was doodling the little rascal Susie Derkins for some ideas for my main protagonist, Lucy, for Bones in the Ocean. I had a sense of character from Susie, which is one of my inspirations.

To be fair, I didn't know what was meant to be in an "art study", I just drew. Now I know what it take to do it

I got a bit sidetracked since I played Persona 3 Reload the day before.

So... I thought it would be a good idea to expand that, and did a full colouring of that!

Well... it took longer than usual trying to replicate Bill Watterson's artstyle. It was a bit silly, from trying to get the lines correct to figuring out how he did the backgrounds (I was a bit foolish of that). What I learned from this is not to fret about getting everything perfect. If I did, having everything indistinguishable from his work, that would essentially look like I traced it.

It's important that the little imperfections add up to what it is, it's what makes an artwork more humane. And anyway, that was the whole part of the process. Thinking mostly slows you down!

This is evident here. Earlier today I went to my art tutor to use her resources to paint an acrylic seascape, another thing for the world of Bones in the Ocean. I wanted to capture some otherworldly...ness...thing, which I won't get into much since it covers some spoilers.

But in the end... it just became an ocean (beautiful one at that too). It didn't matter though, I was trying out different ways to achieve this. From mixing colours to rolling the brush over the paint, I wanted to try strange new methods of making a weird world. This came out brilliant though, from those shades of green to the sprinkled grey clouds in the skylines.

It's funny how the Susie Takeba sketch took many days while this took about 2 hours. It just goes to show that maybe you don't need to think...

and also digital drawing sometimes sucks...

Not gonna spend too long here, but I'm gonna try out a new thing for sketching. From now on, I will time myself 5 minutes drawing a piece of work. No matter the details, I will attain this shape.

Woof (sorry meow), that was the longest I wrote. See you tomorrow!

Side note: here's some proper art studies.

Well... kinda, I'm still new to this. It was just figuring out if a Scottish Terrier is perfect for Albert...

May have to go for a Newfoundland, though I'll have to study them first.