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Very old artwork from 2014. OCs and... myself. I’m not that up my arse lmao it was done for promotional artist purposes

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As an add-on Friend-aversary social-distance gift; I present to you, Rebecca, the gifset of Pastylicious featuring our college friend Shelby 

This whole thing is one big inside joke lmao

Happy WE MET A DECADE AGO, Rebecca!

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I want to wish my best friend a happy 10-year-aversary! 

We met in college waaay back in 2010. Neither of us can remember how we became friends, it happened like it was always there. 

So here’s to Becky. I hope these images are suitably humiliating <3

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Based off this vintage image under the cut

(I’d already posted this but Tumblr flagged it as NSFW and I think it glitched???)

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Dumb Marauders doodles I may or may not go back to and do properly

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What do you think Lister’s cravings would have been?

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So because of my current... set up I couldn’t try the clean-line animation that I wanted, but I tried to fix up issues where I could. See below under the cut for a more detailed explanation of this process (which also serves as a record for my own future reference so it isn’t really complaining. It is, but it isn’t really. Kind of).

I’ve never actually tried animating lighting and shading like this. I think it came out better than I thought it would.

Originally it was a 32-frame animation, but I fixed the pacing and it became a 49-frame animation. 

Here is the first as a comparison 

Considering.... below... I am very happy with how it came out. 

Now I die in peace xD

Also the compression for Tumblr is terrible. Here is a larger version (remove brackets and spaces bc Tumblr don’t like outgoing links apparently);

https [://] 1drv[.]ms/u/s!AiJ2rEKcRHVihDJxgCnxVeVD4S7G?e=T1o6yC

I hope you guys like it and I sincerely thank you for all the lovely comments on my work. Thank you! You guys are great!

Okay so a little bit of an annoyed rant but;

The laptop I am using has issues. I have BSoD often which really slows down progress, even if I DO save often. I also don’t trust it with my data. This problem came about during uni so I bought a new laptop - a gaming laptop so it could handle the things I want - but I ended up with a dodgy one. It got to the point where I’d struggle bringing up the task manager and it’d take up to an hour to boot up. I stopped shutting it down entirely. 

Couldn’t do anything because I was living in halls and I NEEDED a laptop for work. I couldn’t just send it off to be fixed. We (me and my brother) tried everything to diagnose the problem. It turned out to be a hardware issue. 

After uni I sent it back to be fixed, and they swapped out the hard drive and the wifi card and gave it back. It declined again proving the issue isn’t the hard drive. It was most likely the motherboard. I sent it off again, and they just formatted it and sent it back. Ofc I was upset over that so I sent it off again and explained in detail why it’s not a hard drive issue, not a virus, please check the motherboard.

They formatted and sent it back.

This was over the course of months. In the end I asked for a refund. 

With the refund I bought parts for a PC to build. Have almost everything except a mouse, keyboard and my own monitor (I salvaged one). I can’t use the PC with just the on-screen keyboard (you NEED a keyboard and mouse with TVP you have no choice) so we hooked my older laptop up to it for remote access. I installed TV Paint, but the lag from the PC, over the internet, to my shitty laptop and into my dodgy tablet is a bit much.

I could connect the tablet directly to the PC but the cables are not long enough and I have no comfortable chair, unless I want to end up with a sore arse for the end of time, it’s not a good idea to be doing work such as this without a comfortable seat. 

We’ve ordered longer cables, a mouse, keyboard and speakers, but it’s just waiting for them to arrive now. I’m sure there will be just as much delay as the PC parts due to the current pandemic.

What I’d do normally, animating, is have the initial sketchy-sketch (that I had already posted) then build a skeleton atop of that to ensure certain things (like head size) don’t change throughout. I wasn’t able to do that because that process absolutely requires an animation software to complete. It can’t be guesswork. It has to be watched in motion. 

Atop that I clean-line from what I’ve already done. More talented animators can animate in one go, but I can’t do that so I’m stuck doing it in a few layers.

What I had to do this time? Well the keyframes were drawn in Paint Tool SAI, transferred to TV Paint where I did my best with in-betweens. Fixing animation isn’t going to be a thing I can do in TVP so I tried it in SAI. Tried. 

After every few frames I’d export and transfer them to the PC and import them into TVP to watch them in motion. More often than now I’d fuck up somewhere and have to go back and fix the new issue. 

Shading and highlighting was done in SAI also. I had to do the base colour, export as a PNG as to lose the layers, then import them back so I can clip shading and highlighting layers ontop of the flattened image. 

It was... a process.

After all was said and done (including a background and foreground shading / highlighting layers), I imported them into TVP to watch the motion

I do NOT recommend animating this way. 

Just don’t. 

Don’t.

I’m just desperate to animate something after a literal year of being unable to do anything at all lmfao

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a-haha ha 

Okay so I installed TV Paint on my new computer but I can’t use the computer itself so we set up a system where I am screen-sharing the computer with my laptop and then from my laptop to my tablet screen. 

The lag is real. 

I had to do the key frames in Paint Tool SAI (on my laptop) and transfer them over (to my PC), tweening just in TVP. All of this is so so soo not ideal, but I’ve been wanting to animate something- anything- since graduating, but with [insert long-winded laptop troubles here] I’ve simply not been able to 

So I decided to kill myself today with a real shit 32 frame animation of something I’ve never even tried before. I don’t go light on myself. Clearly.

Consider this draft 1 guys I can do better I promise xD 

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This scenario is endlessly amusing 

(where Rimmer comes back from being Ace for real)

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My sunset girls <3

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Oh ey I didn’t want to throw my tablet out of the window today! Hopefully whatever was wrong has been fixed xD

The boys Jim and Bexley age 12 (+ first sketches)

So I have a fic and Jim and Bexley are going to be in it and with it being a Rimmer/Lister fic I’mma gonna have the boys be named James “Jim” Arnold and Bexley Alexander Lister (after Alexander the Great). I thought that’d be cute 

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After cooling down I went back to complete the belated Father’s Day scribble;

Lister spending the day with his dad and three sons <3

I can’t wait until I get the PC up and running properly and draw in TV Paint again (not that’d it fix my tablet problem, but I do be like drawing in TVP yano)

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tl;dr computer problems, delays, becoming a carer for family I’ve not been able to draw at all until now. (also I’ve been writing so that’s been taking up most of my creative time)

However my tablet is... let’s just say I was this close to throwing it out of my window. I need a new one. 

Because of my tablet’s condition, I wasn’t able to do what I wanted. I was going to do several screenshot re-draws as warm-ups (I ended up doing the one) and I wanted to finish that illustration I started a while back but my GOD was my tablet taking the absolute piss by then.

(also those two boys are cute don’t @ me)

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Live brief work for The Light House Cinema in Wolverhampton

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Some stuff I did for uni. Character concepts and that

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Character concept doodles for a university project.

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Select images from a storyboard project for university. The full thing can be found [On Youtube].

It’s about a teenager in 1902 who discovers shady goings on during her own debutante party. In order to get through the crowed without looking undignified and as quickly as possible, she fakes fainting so her male friend can rush her over to the exit.