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final wip wfriday ft. a couple of small mouse redraws in the corner of some of them i forgor to post last month. i thought i had more than these but i guess not?
#doodles#fire emblem three hopes#rune factory 3#oc tag#(And Nah)#im not tagging meru i kind of want to reuse that. for The AU.#well anyways thats it for all the aborted wips! Tune in next time when I start actually drawing again. Someday.
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(wistfully) The Character.....
#oc tag#bembly#doodles#ill redraw this properly once im off art block i just really liked this pose. shout out to that guy from hsr whose ult leaked#(i do not play hsr i dont know who he is i just know it was a cool ult.)
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cleaning out my recovered data folder in SAI. incoming WIP wfriday part 3 + doodle dump based off things i found including, to my excitement, the shara/sofia i mentioned during my last wip dump that had gotten corrupted. turns out the recovery data was still accessible
#postings#just letting yall know in advance this Will be dropping later today probably. or tomorrow#ive been drawing on some of these too w my mouse so. some might have binary doodles in the corners#EDIT ONE MONTH LATER: i forgot to post this LOL bc i went on vacation. ill do that eventually
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been going through all the files for an oc project i started 5 years ago and put on extended hold for a while and i found a bunch of sketches of these two i did early last year....
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so the bad news is that even with active effort i cannot get whatever mouse stabilisers i had with SAI before i got my tablet to work again
the good news is that, as someone who's been using a mouse to draw for 15 years,
i'm still able to make something decent-ish even without stabilisers when i try harder than just quickdoodling
#though this isn't really sufficient for long term use and sai still sux for my tablet sooooooo. back to csp unless i figure smth out.#Behold! My daughter who Missy and I share custody of!#i was actually planning on keeping anything i drew for this to a separate account but ummm. Not anymore I guess#doodles#i7 au#granting it a tag in advance bc. i loaf you alkcrab i7 au#i had an actual style experiment w aichan i did this morning on csp but i wanted her to be rounder....#then i was like. i want to draw her in an alice dress bc royal suit would be perfect. and missy said do it. So I did. W my mouse.
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happy approximately one year of art block lads
#i didn't talk abut it until december but i was struggling since last autumn. it's so sad i'm still having problems actually#sad in the like. Miserable way. i love art so much but it still does not love me rn. sniffle sniffle#postings#tbh a lot of it is my own fault i haven't been practicing the art and style studies as hard as i should be#(unfortunately that is because my entire life has become Work. Chores. Sit There For Five Hours. Play BOTW.)#but i really need to push myself harder with experimenting bc i miss consistently drawing#i need to get more used to csp too im still really awkward with the program#and keep drifting back to my shitty sai binary doodles (since sai doesnt clcik well w my tablet)#maybe should unplug my tablet and try going back to mouse art in full for a bit#see if it helps
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found an old redraw of that durarara ending that used to be popular for drawing characters over while i was trying to find an oc reference…
this is dated january 2020 according to my archive notes!
#january 23rd to be specific!#i’m posting this so i can have it in my bembly tag bc i do want to redraw it at some point#once everyone has gotten proper redesigns & outfits#it’s worth noting also a couple of the charas in this one have been written out atp so LOL. i’ll rearrange it eventually#had to draw it in pieces bc of space…….. since i did it traditionally……. well thankfully now i have Clip Studio Paint™#one thing to note also is that this might’ve been one of my last pieces before i started drawing five fingers on hands! i started in 2020#but most importantly (points) ELIJAB SPOTTED ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️#bembly
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i really like this comic
#doodles#oc tag#bembly#another one for the Drawn With Mouse folder...#SIGHHH this was difficult to do on vintessa's end bc i don't have a finalised outfit for her yet#i'm also tweaking elinor's still ever since i redid it to have more of a plague doctor theming....#these two are soooo funny to me tho genuinely my funniest oc duo to me. vintessa loves pestering elinor on purpose. Her Whimsy (FAKED)#actually this one is a great example of what i said in my last post abt my loving to put anime girl hair vents on everything now bc. gestur#vinty did not have those originally#sillies
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latest oc-based art practice update: been scanning a ton of old drawings onto my phone & downloading them to my computer so i can scrap the papers, redrew a handful of them as i went along
#have said this before but i feel like this compilation makes it obvious: i really like drawing profiles LOL#doodles#bembly#less obvious (thru this compilation): i’ve gotten really into giving everyone anime girl hair vents over the past several months
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another one
oc mouse doodles..............................
#this one is a really quick one i just wanted to redraw that colette summer feh alt i drew last year bc ive always hated it#doodles#bembly#colette taking a day off from her busy day of being the only loop aware person in bemblem 2 to play some beach volleyball
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oc mouse doodles..............................
#this is hard when your stabilisers wont work w your mouse bc your tablet is plugged in btw#the top two are mmmmmaybe a month old? a few weeks at the very least. i made them as little page cards for my oc blog#the bottom one i started a few days ago & just finished. sorry i draw so much natalia shes one of my only ocs i have down pat LOL#side note i really love drawing profiles but im not very good at it... i think ive been improving lately tho. my practice is paying off#doodles#bembly
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some of the brush tests & style studies i did today!
#turning reblogs off because style studying involves studying the work of artists and styles you like and all that#and i don't want to risk art of mine being put out there when i'm trying to push and pull at things based on how my fav artists do it.#i'll be compiling all the studies as i go along so i'll go over the artists in a full list as i do so#but my main inspo for my studies today is my favourite artist who is someone i've mentioned here before! M/AEPOP#they've been one of the biggest influences on my art for a long time#doodles
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finished sorting my csp downloads. quick doodle test to confirm there's still no lag before i move forward with my style studies (& brush testing because i downloaded a lot of pens)
#doodles#we're back in business lads.......#i have to say drawing hands is a lot easier in an art program. Somehow. i struggle really badly on paper but on csp it comes easier
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thank you all for voting! i did this because, as i said, i was curious. wanted to see what people thought because i am very much established as a Rune Factory fan & fanartist 🫶 and
i'm not going to lie i am actually really surprised by these results! i was expecting 3 to win because that's the game i've drawn by far the most of, so i was figuring people would think my favourite was from that cast. i was also really surprised to see 4 sweep so hard! (and was surprised at first to see no votes for 5, because that is actually my favourite overall cast in the series, but then i remembered i have actually never said that here and that's just something i've mentioned on my main LMAO)
i ultimately have a lot of favourites across the series because RF has so many characters -- 4 does actually have one in the form of Frey, who, while not THEE favourite, is still a favourite! so while not correct i do have a favourite from that game. (others include Raguna + Bianca from 1/Frontier, Alicia from 2, Iris [Noire specifically, but I do like both] from Frontier, Pia + Sofia from 3, Sonja + Aden from Tides [which is my favourite game in the series!], & Cecil, Alice, & Reinhard from 5. yes i like a lot of protagonists RF has good ones.)
but as for my #1 favourite.............. from a game with two (2) votes out of 19...................
MANA SWEEP
hello melodybottles fans. little Rune Factory question, since we all know i love this series:
I’m just curious! Want to see if enough people can guess correctly; I’ll draw them as part of my style studies if the right game wins. :p
#sprite credit is jigglyanchor!#postings#the reason this character is my favourite is from ultimately overanalysing the meta surrounding them#thinking about their place in the game + writing combined with the supplementary material from their game#there's another character i've gotten really interested in lately for the exact same reason so#I <3 True Route Characters who are defined by their being The Canon Partner and the meta surrounding that i guess.
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happy august the 30th! i have an update for everyone that is not, for once, a real life life update & might actually appeal to you all as followers of my art blog, for art:
i think i’ve fixed my clip studio paint problem! i uninstalled the program & reinstalled it under my second hard drive, which so far seems to have fixed the lag (which was likely caused by coolranch [my main drive] getting overworked because of how CPU-heavy CSP is as a program). despite backing the folders up, none of my materials seemed to have saved though 😅 so currently i’m manually redownloading and sorting them. which is ummm… probably a good thing, since it turns out i apparently have about 2500 of them and by doing this i can cut back.
once i’m done with that, i can actually return to art! :-) i plan on doing a bunch of style studies as i figure things out, so i’ll be posting those as i go along. stay tuned for the near future!
#i’m glad i can finally get back to doing things; i miss art very very badly.#postings#‘why is your c drive named coolranch’ don’t worry about it. my laptop is named cool whip to match#(short for new french vanilla cool whip holiday commercial jingle)
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oc piece from 2022 i never finished but found recently & quite like :]
#i should finish this sometime........#oc tag#bembly#no new art sorries! i've been drawing but it's been horrific atm bc i'm still troubleshooting csp#and drawing on paper is for once not really doing the trick bc i want to do my art studies on my computer#what HAS been going good tho is oc planning#ive made more progress on bembly than i have in... the three years since i scrapped & restarted the project?#also ive been making oc inspo lists for bembly + 131000 and its rly funny. do any of you remembre my oc colette? her list is ATROCIOUS
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job has been going well for the most part btw 👍 i’ve been there for officially one month!
unrelated to my actual real life life updates and related to art for my art blog: if anyone knows a fix for clip studio paint lagging really badly please tell me bc that has been like. my current major art roadblock & i don’t want to use sai. the program is just mad laggy for me atm and i don’t know why
maybe getting my motivation to draw back was a bad thing bc i'm trying to work on a job application and instead all i want to do is draw femslash. god help me
#almost reblogged tbis a few weeks ago with an addition of ‘i don’t want this job anymore LOL’ bc i got yelled at rly badly over the phone#but i’ve been adjusting pretty well i think. and drawing bit by bit#still get rude ppl over the phone occasionally but i’ve picked up some suggestions on how to handle them from my coworkers#and i’ve learned to navigate the system enough. i try to put a lot of effort in w helping how i can#so that does work on like. most grumpy customers. bc even if i can’t help they can tell i’m trying. 🥲 but some of them…. yeesh.#anyways yeah baby’s first fulltime job is generally going well! if anyone knows csp fixes please tell me#postings
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