#I'll have to post the full version on twitter and bsky and link it in the post

[nekrosmos]

Spicy nikprice art coming later today lads 👍

[kigut]

Hi I'm not dead

I've been rebalancing priorities ever since September-ish. I have some coms I still owe and besides that I haven't been drawing much. That's not to say not at all, just the things that I have doodled have been low-effort, low-energy scribbles.

As soon as I get these coms finished I'd like to get back to doodling semi-frequently again. 2024 was a good year for me art-wise, I made more art than ever, more than the previous two years combined. That's huge!

Although it's also unprecedented and potentially unsustainable. I got a bit addicted to how much reception I had been receiving and might have burned myself out.

Once I wrap up my affairs, I'd like to slow down the pace. I don't want to lean full into posting nonstop like I once did, but I also don't want to continue being radio silent like this either.

I also need to get over this mental block of "no one will care" - that is, if I post non-sonic stuff that I work on, it won't be received as well. I know I shouldn't care, so I'll try not to and post anyways.

I'll have to get into the habit of posting on Bluesky as well since I still draw adult stuff. I don't want to close off that piece of myself since I'm proud of my art and what I do. I'll begin working on censoring the original image when posted here and linking over to Bsky for the full, uncensored version.

Come 2025, I'm excited to see where my art takes me now that I've put Twitter to bed.

[pumpkin-spike18]

✨Weekly Progress 48-49✨

As expected, being on time 3 weeks in a row is too much for me.

Weekly Progress #48

Updated twitter links to bsky links in various places

Lined new animation frames for winter jam

Updated eye frames

Lined bounce frames

Tested full chara animation

Buggy BL design ideas

Weekly Progress #49

Uploaded psd files for fan project BGs

SWAK brainstorm + base outline

December planning

BG testing for Winter Jam

Initial shading animation for Winter Jam

Sketched Buggy BL designs

Starlight Meets the City Lights

If you've been following my bsky, you probably already saw my variety of struggles. But since you're here, I guess you'd want to hear more backstory?!

Well the backstory is that I went to Times Square and spun around looking like a silly tourist to get a panoramic shot for the BG bc I didn't want to draw the whole thing myself! I probably looked a little crazy being the only one who took a picture at eye level while everyone was looking up at the lights.

Since I was in the neighborhood, I also dropped by Kinokuniya for some window shopping, but then I saw this:

and I couldn't resist buying a few volumes of manga........

A-Anyways, back to VN dev!

After getting these shots, I tried it with what I had so far. These were the initial test frames for the full movement I had drawn.

I put the BG through a few filters, and did some light paint over to make things look... a bit more fitting to the character art. There's no replacing hard work. Without a doubt, this would definitely look best with a hand drawn BG, but I am running low on time.

Unfortunately exporting as a gif compressed the image a lot. Here's actually an example of how large the full image is.

Ultimately, these gifs are just tests. Each frame will be saved separately and chained together with code.

The full effect will be done by keeping the BG separate, having it spin in the opposite direction of where Star is facing to give the illusion of movement.

The initial frame where Star appears to be moving, but is actually still is also created with shadow movement along side the BG. These are also manually drawn frame by frame.

There's still a lot of work to do and I'm forever afraid of the ding! that sounds whenever I run out of layers, but that's a story for next week.

Jincan Underground

Or, Buggy BL finally has a title! Wait, I only have one post about it?

A number of things have changed about the concept, but the core of it being based on Kodoku remains. However, since I'll be using more than just insects as character themes, I decided to reference Jincan (the Chinese version of Kodoku).

The main character, Roach, is an underground fighter still grieving the death of his employer, Catarina. By chance, he runs into Catarina's younger brother on the run from a beggar. By saving him, however, Roach lost his name and sealed himself into a death match with 20 other participants...

Eat or be eaten, become the Jincan and have your greatest wish granted.

...Or something like that.

SWAK Jam

No rest for the weary. It appears I'll be participating in SWAK Jam with a short BL story I'll be writing for. I've been busy working on the outline this week and I'm over halfway there so I'll hopefully be able to discuss it in more detail next week! <: