#and i would have felt bad

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[lotus-pear]

charm stat at debonair ‼️‼️

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[anatomical-puppet]

my source is that i am autistic about horror

[trubluebecca]

I guess I need to do a better job checking the cash people hand me. The items I marked down that I sold (which also can be difficult to keep track of and could be off) and the final money count in my change bag + the credit card sales are off by $8. I can think of one big mixed up pile of bills I was given that I didn't check closely. However that person had already made another purchase of $40, so I was like, ok, they've already given me a lot, I don't care if it's under.

$8 isn't much in the grand scheme of things, but it makes me wonder where I messed up.

BTW I did a small, library hosted, comic/pop culture show a town over and it was fun. I heard it was slower this year from other vendors. I never have super fast/amazing sales at these, but I just don't know where else to sell the creature portion of my work. Also, as mentioned, they tend to be fun.

I was a table on the "passport" and got to stamp passports for people (mostly kids) that posed like one of my drawings. At first I thought that was kind of silly and they were just thinking of the opossum, but then I realized I actually do have a lot of different poses in my work, haha. Still, some kids tried to pose like the Captain America photo that is printed on my commission sample sheet. I had to tell them "No, that one doesn't count. I didn't draw that." Despite the traffic from that, I made only a couple small sales from it.

I think this is the first not dog show I've done since I have had more merch. Bird art was quite popular. Little kids liked the stickers with lizards on them (as suspected!) I'm so bummed I didn't get to do the holiday craft show at a nature center that I was set to do last year because I caught COVID. I think I would have done REALLY well at that show and had a lot of stuff made up specifically for it. Barn owl stuff got a lot of comments asking if it was Jareth from Labyrinth. So guess that's a good species for nature shows and pop culture things. Sold a few greeting cards of various designs. Got asked if I had art of x breed and said no. The purchase freebie preference was for prints and not stickers as seems to be the case at a lot of shows.

I was told if I do a show in Sedona to jack my prices up. I also had a few people interested in pet portraits, but we'll see if those pan out. A younger person may commission me for some pieces to use in the book they wrote. I really hope they reach out, because it sounded like a fun project. I should have gotten some contact info.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Horse Meshi. Delicious, in Horse.

[lustlovehart]

Something something you brush Gargoyle Malleus’s hair back and he bites you [Cw: Just a little blood ]

Also Rook’s here too ig!

[idolomantises]

I… don’t really see myself continuing with the Amazing Digital Circus anymore.

[bittasol]

smile, iruma! | hey ive been here before

[bunnieswithknives]

Thinking about his brain

[jetpackgeneratedcat]

It took literal months, but I finished it!!

Top left: linked universe logo

The jojo's lu logo is sooooo detailed. It is one of the things I love about Jojo's asethetic with linked universe. The detail she adds brings so much life and information about the world of Linked Universe. Great example is all the embroidery on the chain's clothing. Let's you know about civilization, that an item may be magical, etc. It is difficult to keep small details in watercolor, but I think I caught most of the main details in the painting.

Middle left: Soulful legend

This was the fourth of the images I did for the painting, and the first image I really started to get into the painting. I think legend is my favorite to paint because he makes composition so easy. The red tunic adds an easy focal point. I did learn from this that I do not like masking fluid and likely won't use it again. It added to many hard edges that I wasn't intending. Very happy with the sky!

Bottom left: Evening snack

In this image, I liked the idea that wind and sky don't know what Ramen is because their worlds don't have enough space to produce wheat. So sky and wind are super excited about this new food, while legend has no idea why they are so hyped for noodles. I also liked the idea that four found a green pepper in the ramen as a topping and is a hater (this is from a note that jojo left somewhere saying that the chain will eat anything but four in the Manga does not like green peppers, idk where this note is to link it though....). I didn't end up drawing the Ramen noodles as it was just getting too small of a scale for me to be comfortable drawing the thin lines for the noodles in.

Bottom right: Testudo

I am very hyped in the future when we see more collaborative fighting with the chain and them working together effectively. I absolutely love the scene in shifting shadows part 3 where lenged and hyrule work together with the beam and hookshot.

Middle: Legends storage

This is a reference to one of jojo's earliest works where the chain goes to legends storage for him to pick up some gear. I love that scene and I tried to put as many references as I could. The one thing I need to figure out is how I want twilight to look. I can't wrap my head around it. Need to sit down and just try out a bunch of different faces for him. My Pinterest inspo for twilight is all over the place. I want twilight to look different from time because when Malon was trying to guess who was the descendent, she did not consider twilight (she looked at wars and wind (so I typically draw time, wind, and wars looking similar). For my own personal headcannon, twilight and time are very similar in their manner (the way the walk, stand, etc) and personality (their stubbornness (as seen in sunset pt3)) but not necessarily in looks.

Middle right: Boat boys

The first image I did. I like how the water turned out, but I will not be using masking fluid for the same reasons I noted earlier. I did trace the boat (i think this is the reference [L240632 Hornet Class. J. Arthur Dixon Ltd. Beken and Son]). I do regret not doing anything creative with the boat, but I just wanted to get into painting and needed some confidence by working directly from a reference. I also forgot that legend might not be so keen to be on a boat again based on a comment jojo left in 2022 or something. I think she mentioned something in a discord event back then about legend not too willing to be on a boat again. But that doesn't really matter, I put that boy in a boat whether he likes it or not lol.

Top right: Winter storm

Second image I did for this painting. I did trace most of the horse because I do not care to learn horse anatomy (ref. [Winter Save By David Stoecklein]) Favorite part about this is the lighting on the rope from the lantern. I think it turn out well.

Top middle: Heavy armour

Third image I did for the painting and the one I realized I need to spend more time painting people in neutral or back lite lighting. But for my first time I think it is good. I really want to see what jojo does with the armour sets! I like the idea that war's armour is clean and pristine while wild's armour is rusted and beaten from the calamity. In this painting I played with adding pink to the golden armour and I liked it. In the middle picture of the collage (legends storage), you can see i added pink to time's armour.

That's everything! ❤️

[themortaldraw]

fleshed out the wedding outfits i made for this silly little post

edit: realized i used the wrong pngs without the very minor fixes that only i would care about. so i fixed it.

[salmonlyster]

what if they were littlest pet shops. what then

[bixels]

The more I think about it, the more I question Arcane S2's politics and themes, which were so foundational to S1. Like, a tiny example [SPOILERS AHEAD]:

Singed wins. He gets exactly what he wants in the end. All his "efforts" are rewarded. What does that say about people who share his ideology of eugenics? He is the source of nearly every horrible thing and conflict that happened (Shimmer, the factory deaths, Jinx, Vander as Warwick, the corruption of Viktor), and he gets a happier ending than any other character. Not even a 'he got what he wanted but he has become completely unrecognizable/monstrous to his daughter' tag at the end. You can say they're setting him up and need to open his daughter to future shows, but the way you end a character's story says something about what you think about that character. What does it say when the eugenicist war criminal gets the happy ending he doesn't deserve?

[julijbee]

girlbossing too close to the sun.

[sergle]

BY THE WAY, Hugo The Dog pulled out a nightmare scenario on me and ate an entire half-loaf of homemade raisin bread, which had an EXTREMELY HIGH RATIO OF RAISINS, and for the first time ever I had the experience of inducing vomiting for a dog at home. At like midnight. HE TRIED TO DIE.

this is the face of a dog who tried to fuckin kill himself. he wagged his tail while I forcefed him hydrogen peroxide.