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Happy Halloween!

I BARELY SQUEAKED THIS OUT IN TIME but happy halloween everyone! hope everyone who goes out tonight stays safe and have fun :)

Drew the gang dressed in different costumes referencing various things! Try and spot them all ^^

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I completely forgot to mention this on here because I'm a dumb dumb lmao but I'm over on Bluesky now! Or again I should say... see, I was on it before but it was fairly quiet (this was like back in March or so) which is fair ofc but I felt like it was yet another attempt at abandoning ship from a much larger social media that some people would do but not everyone would follow through with. So about month ago, I deleted the account over on there cause I was conscious of it not doing anything, and then like a few days later it popped off like crazy -v-; So I'm giving it a go once more! I'm adding the link to my pinned post and it's already available through my Carrd, but here is another link too: https://bsky.app/profile/astronomic727.bsky.social

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Uncanny Resemblance

Decided to finally make a comic that acknowledges in-universe the extreme resemblance between Evelyn, Via and Kayleigh. This was done deliberately when I designed them ofc, I enjoy the trope of characters looking identical to one of their parents, but still it's funny to poke fun at lmao anyway it's late af and I got stuff to do tomorrow so I can't write for much longer lmao night

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Fortnite - Lexa Hexbringer

Just felt like drawing this skin as I really like the design, also hey I guess this counts as an early Halloween post right :P For those wondering why she has the War Machine jets and that one ranked skin pickaxe is cause it's the combo I personally chose for her when I play as this skin (cause they're what I have that match her colours the best), I like to imagine that despite having like a witch hat and stuff she relies on technology and stuff like that, kinda harkening back to how the OG Lexa has like a robot suit thing or something. Again being relatively new to Fortnite I'm not 100% sure on the lore so yeah lol Oh and yeah decided to doodle her with the rest of my mains too ^^

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Mona and Lana

Lil' doodle of Mona winding down at the end of the day, also to showcase she has a pupper! Lana the Golden Retriever :) was also technically an excuse to draw Mona with her hair down since I haven't done so yet (even though I hate drawing hair lmao it's hard ok ;-;)

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Journey through Far-Flung Space - Project Dream

First Project Dream post on Tumblr and Cara woooo!... but wait that ain't meta knight- Yeah so, I explained in the description of the accompanying Youtube video that I'm bringing back the Interlude videos! These are videos that are a part of Project Dream and it's story, but aren't about any Dream Friend in particular. This interlude and the one that'll follow Meta Knight's video are to show what Kirby is up to while Bandana Dee, Meta Knight and King Dedede are off on their own excursions! Love how this piece came out, this one has been planned for several years and it's great to finally have gotten around to doing it ^^ Speedart video available here!

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Ngl I've been feeling a bit burnt out for a while, so I figured this may be a good time for me to start periodically posting old stuff from my Instagram and Twitter accounts that I've moved on from. There will of course be new drawings/posts in between too! Just gotta recharge is all. I guess for a bit of insight, and also story time I suppose, for the past few months I've been having driving lessons and I had my test a few days ago. Thankfully, I managed to pass but I think the stress of the journey coupled with pushing two videos out a week apart, and everything else that had happened in those months took some sort of toll on me overtime. So yeah, not taking a break or anything per say, just will be posting old stuff more often so it's all archived somewhere, and to take pressure off feeling the need to upload something here and there. With these old doodle dumps I'm also probably gonna give some insight into how I feel about them from an artistic standpoint. I may have not much to say, or I may have a lot, who knows lol. Anyway to begin with the stuff in this post, it's all fairly recent. Some were Insta posts, others were Insta stories. We have Via messing with a cranky Kayleigh, the sister's parents when they were young adults (Evelyn is dirty from working on her motorbike, and Vance is working towards his degree in Astronomy), sleepy Via helping Kayleigh get ready for school, young Via and Orion, and the duo again but in 2 memes lol For how I feel about these, it's complicated... this technically goes for like most doodles I've done up to now too, but I'm not fully satisfied. I'm happy with my full illustrations, but I feel as though my doodles miss the mark. It's like a weird perfectionist mental block or something, these are only meant to be sketches but it takes me forever to do them for some reason, and also (what is probably the reason why it takes so long) that along the way my sketch lines somehow turn into lines of line art quality. But I feel this over cleanliness sucks the soul out of my doodles and makes them feel flat. More recently to combat this, I've tried to give slight shading to these doodles whether it be cel or gradient shaded, like the Fortnite or Streetview meme posts I did, but I feel like I need to embrace sketchiness more, for both time saving sake and for appeal. Maybe I also need to do some experimenting with new brushes too, idk. Maybe I'm being overdramatic lol but that's just how I've felt for a long time, and just felt like getting it off my chest. Anyhoo, enough rambling... boy, you thought I had a lot to say here? Just wait till we get to the older stuff lmao, but anyway, I'll ponder on these thoughts, but see you all until then :)

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Dubior (and Dubior EX) - Kirby's Return to Dream Land

Quick drawing over an old sketch I had of Dubior from Kirby's RtDL :) This was actually something I did for a remix of the second Mid Boss theme from the same game I made! Remix video available here!

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Skeletron - Terraria Legends

First big illustration post on here! Our heroes face off against the Dungeon Guardian, Skeletron! Really happy with how this piece turned out, currently is my favourite right now. Speedart video available here!

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Fortnite Mains

So uhhhh I may have gotten into Fortnite lately -v-;

I'll be so fr, I was never thaaaat interested in it mainly cause I'm not great at shooters, especially if online, but the character designs/crossovers always looked cool… and then I was informed by a friend that Lethal Company was added as a skin and I decided "fine time to lock tf in" LOL

But yeah I gotta be honest it's actually been pretty fun, I like all the quests that you can do to unlock stuff, so I guess I'll be stickin' around! And here we are, decided to draw my three mains together as a trio :)

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The goofballs on Streetview

Redrew the meme of that one Google Streetview image but with the goobers lol

Anatomy and foreshortening are hard T-T

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So I wanted to draw something else for today but I won't have the time so here's a dumb doodle instead lol, but today I am 22 years old. Wtf lmfao

So while I'm here I figured I may as well give a quick update, things have been going alright, the next Terraria video is coming along nicely but I did notice something, and that is that August 4th will be my 10th anniversary of playing Terraria! The game as you all know is very special to me and I'd like to do something for this milestone, so I'm hoping that to celebrate, the next Terraria video will go up on said date. I may miss it, you all know me lmao but I'll continue to do my best :) But yeah, hope you all have a good day, and see you all next time!

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The Gang drew each other with varying results :P

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Sunny Dilemma

It hasn't been too hot over here yet but still, it's summer regardless so I felt like it was about time to make a summer based comic. Via fightin' for her life rn xD

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Mario & Luigi: Brothership

OMG MARIO & LUIGI GAMES ARE BACK WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I am so excited to play this omg and this dude in the trailer (likely the main villian) looks amazing, everything about the trailer we witnessed OOZES charm. The Switch seems to be going out with a bang before the successor arrives and I'm all for it :D

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Kirby Star Ride

Ok so for context, I made the first image a while back and posted it on Insta and my Youtube Community Page. This is part of a hypothetical fan made game that's meant to be a modern Air Ride, so that should bring you all "up to speed" xP But anyway, now part 2 of my little Kirby Air Ride successor thing is here! (totally didn't forget for a while no not at all -v-;) Rick, Kine and Coo like in Star Allies would swap between each other in the appropriate scenario, like Kine in the water and Coo in the air, with Rick in place for everything else. I haven't gotten around to thinking of a story yet or anything but maybe next time, just felt like getting these designs done for now since it's been a while lol

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Apologies if I seemed off yesterday, but something happened on the 11th of June and I'm ready to get it out there now. Yesterday, before I got around to posting, my family had to put our cat, Skye, to eternal rest. To keep it brief, she essentially just got too old, and started getting ill over the past few months. We didn't want her suffering any longer, it would be just too unfair and selfish to put her through the stress of getting operations done and bringing her back and forth from the vet, just to keep her around longer for what felt like our sake. It's better off this way. We had plenty of time to say good bye and had expected this day was coming soon, but it hits hard.

I would just like to vent for a bit because this cat meant a lot to me. Our household had many pets growing up. We got Skye and her sister Smudge since they were born in 2008. Smudge tragically and unexpectedly passed one night when she was only 3. Child me was sad she was gone but I couldn't grasp the concept of grief. We also had a dog the same time who passed by the time I was in my first year of secondary school. This hurt more on a deeper level since I was starting to mature. These 3 were the pets I grew up with and remember the most, as my parents had a cat and dog before I was born too, but I was only a toddler by the time they were gone.

This cat however lived for almost 17 years. She has been with me through primary school, secondary school, college, and everything in between. She's been there for every hardship I've faced, and has been around for so long that even my earliest memories contain her in some way. That's what makes this hurt so much more than anything I've ever had to experience in my life. The last little bundle of fluff from my childhood. Gone. But I have to remind myself that I can't be too bitter over it all, and that things could've gone much worse.

As I said, she's been around a long time. We've had many good memories with her. She was quite the character. She hated being picked up and was feisty. But if you sat down near her she would cuddle up with you pretty much instantly. She became even more affectionate as time went on. We gave her the best life that we could've, right up until the very end, and we prevented her from suffering any further. We were all with her as she went to sleep forever. She's with her sister now after all this time, I know it.

We're not quite petless anymore, I will say. We have a dog that we got back in 2018 and she's 7 now. So I'm glad to say we at least still have her and she'll be around for another good while. I was planning a drawing one time of her and Skye, and had the rough sketch for Skye done, but it fell on the back burner as other things took over. I felt like this was the perfect time to finish at least her bit off and post it. I really don't know if I should've rambled about all of this but I just can't keep it in man. I needed to get all of this out there. It's rough, but I will pull through. It's life. This is what happens. And I'm thinking maybe anyone else going through this situation, or will soon be going through this situation can sympathise a bit knowing they're not alone.

It's been hard to talk about, but don't worry, I do have the support around me to get through this. The only thing I ask of you all is, please go hug your pets. Appreciate the time you have with them, and let them know it. They aren't just animals, they're family. I'll be back with some more light hearted stuff soon enough. Thank you for your time, and rest in piece Skye.