melodybottles
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this is an art and doodle blog! mouse era (2009-2022) is over. tablet era has begun. ...mostly, anyway. (please do not reblog any of my old sketches -- the pencil ones, usually but not always on lined paper. i keep them up because this blog is first and foremost an archive for me to track my improvement, but i really don't want my old stuff getting passed around.)
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melodybottles · 3 days ago
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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?
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melodybottles · 6 days ago
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(wistfully) The Character.....
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melodybottles · 1 month ago
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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
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melodybottles · 2 months ago
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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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melodybottles · 2 months ago
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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,
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i'm still able to make something decent-ish even without stabilisers when i try harder than just quickdoodling
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melodybottles · 2 months ago
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happy approximately one year of art block lads
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melodybottles · 2 months ago
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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!
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melodybottles · 2 months ago
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i really like this comic
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melodybottles · 3 months ago
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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
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melodybottles · 3 months ago
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another one
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oc mouse doodles..............................
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melodybottles · 3 months ago
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oc mouse doodles..............................
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melodybottles · 3 months ago
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some of the brush tests & style studies i did today!
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melodybottles · 3 months ago
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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)
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melodybottles · 4 months ago
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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...................
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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
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melodybottles · 4 months ago
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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!
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melodybottles · 5 months ago
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oc piece from 2022 i never finished but found recently & quite like :]
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melodybottles · 5 months ago
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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
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