Since I'm not practicing fighting games at the moment, I might fill that gap in my posting with me catching up on my long and ever-growing media backlog. I'll have to think on it.

I am, in fact, still doing that "how to draw" course. Now it's getting to the torso. One more step on the road to drawing hot anime babes...

"Well, the way I heard it is playing on wi-fi's fine if you're close to the rout- WHOA WHOA WHOA, CALM DOWN, SQUINTY!" The Surge and Kit podcast (name still TBD) runs into a snag while having Whisper on. Hopefully no one dies. #SurgeTheTenrec #WhisperTheWolf #IDWSonic

And that should be all the lineart for this picture. I'll do the colors and lighting and all next time. I'm pretty happy with how Whisper turned out, though man is her design weirdly complicated for how simple it seems at a glance. And her gun, goodness gracious.

I think I'll take a break from actively practicing fighting games for a while. It's starting to feel like a job again, which I really don't want. I might still play them from time to time, but I won't be specifically trying to get better at any.

Hey seriously, literally in the bills it says they'll also use identifying information, such as your age data for "other purposes". That means your data goes into a government surveillance database. This would be for ANY *OS*, which is the thing your fucking PC runs off of. Call your reps NOW.

Continuing on with this picture. Hands continue to plague me, and at this point I just don't want to keep working on a character I don't like very much to begin with.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was short, but at least the hand pain wasn't so bad this time. I even won the set I played, which was nice.

Lineart is happening. I'm surprised at how much I like how this is coming along, but I have been trying specifically to improve my linework, so hopefully this is a sign my work's paying off.

Much like yesterday, today's session of Guilty Gear was cut short by my hand bothering me. I gotta figure that out. At least I felt all right about how I was playing while I was able to.

Continuing on with this picture, now getting ready to do the actually detailed part. I plan to do that on a separate layer from this sketch, so I turned the sketch red so I can tell what's what later on.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was... cut short by hand pain. : ( Still, the games I did play were fun, and I got some practice with adapting to my opponent's behavior mid-match, so that's something.

Continuing to work out posing and such. I'm glad I decided to keep things loose and low-detail for now, I ended up reworking my original idea pretty heavily. I recently heard that it helps with posing to start at the part of the body bearing all the weight, and I think there's something to that.

Today I decided to check out the new Guilty Gear Strive patch. It seemed fun, but the connection problems are still there. So I got some practice in with Plus R and then messed around in Killer Instinct for a bit since I wanna pick it up again. Arbiter seems cool, I might give him a real go.

Today I played a set in Street Fighter 6 with a friend. I won more than I expected to, but it's been a *while* since either of us played this game seriously, so I don't think it counts. Especially since I still don't quite know what I should be doing with Alex in this game.

A sequel to a drawing I did not too long ago. I spent several hours reworking the background, *and then* I started sketching out the action. Not my smartest move. Also, man is it hard to figure out how to draw Sonic characters throttling each other. There's no necks for their hands to wrap around.

Today I decided to go back to Plus R and do some execution practice. I don't have the mental energy for actually playing someone, and I needed to get some rust off anyway. I definitely needed it, my performance was dire.

It's been a tiring day for me.

I lost motivation for the previous drawing I was working on, so this time I've done a quick and silly drawing of Hank the Chog drawing his sword from a stone while Monica the Mongoose takes a picture. I needed to remind myself to have fun with drawing.

Today's session of Street Fighter 6 saw me actually go online to play other people. I didn't really have a coherent gameplan, so naturally I got obliterated. But when I got to do things it felt fun, so that's something.

Back at this picture again. Mostly making smaller adjustments this time, I was fairly busy today and used up my brainpower on other stuff. Still, the little details matter, and I want to get them right.

Today I decided to actually boot up Street Fighter 6 again to give Alex a go. He does feel pretty fun, but I can already tell it's gonna be a good while before I get the hang of using him.

More work on line control. This time felt better than other times I've worked on this recently. I'm glad for that.

Spent some more time looking into the SF6 version of Alex today in lieu of practicing. Geez, this guy's got a lot of tools for how few of them I expect will be useful.

It's been one of those days.

Today I decided to do some research on a fighting game instead of playing one. Specifically, I decided to get an idea of how Alex plays in Street Fighter 6. He does seem pretty fun, so I'll have to see if and when I can spare the money for the DLC.

Today's the first day of Passover, so here's the start of a drawing to mark the occasion. Surge is there as a follow-up to the Hanukkah-related picture I drew, Knuckles is honorary Jewish in the movies, and I've got nothing for why Blaze is here.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was... fine. Not great, not terrible. Honestly, I'm mostly just happy I was able to get myself to play today.

More line control practice today. I think it's coming back to me, thankfully. Next time I really want to do an actual picture again.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was fun. I played against someone in my local fighting game scene who likes to play the most annoying character in a game, and I won the set pretty handily. And in the last game one of the Guilty Gear songs I really like was playing, which was also nice.

Working some more on getting my hands steadier while drawing. Better than last time, thankfully. Honestly, I haven't really been in a good headspace for working on my drawing skills lately, and I'm hoping that changes soon. I feel stagnant and I don't like it.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was... fine. I think I'm getting back to an equilibrium, which is probably fine, but it isn't very exciting. I gotta find a way to make things interesting again.

Line control practice today, since I've been having some trouble with keeping my hands steady. I gotta do more of this, I think, I'm really not where I wanna be.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was okay. Not great, but I'm just trying to stay consistent.

New ship unlocked, Surge and Jewel but they're a pair of no-good punks with chips on their shoulders. I imagine them as the sort of couple where they take turns talking about what they care about while the other listens carefully. Also they plot a revolution together. #SurgeTheTenrec #JewelTheBeetle

Today's session of Guilty Gear was against someone I know but haven't played against before very much. I got beat pretty badly, of course, but it was a fun time.

Back at it with this picture again, this time filling in the background a bit. The dumpster felt empty, but I'm not sure "YOUR AD HERE" is a good way to fill the space on its front. I'll have to think of something.

Finally got to play fighting games again. It's been too long. I lost pretty badly today, naturally, but I'm just glad I could do that without hurting myself.

The last few days have been stressful for me, thanks to trouble with my car, so I decided to draw my feelings. I hate driving cars and car-centric city planning so much.

Just trucking along with this picture. There's probably some more details I'll notice need fixing later, but right now I think it's mostly just working on the background before doing the final lineart and colors.

More work on the sketch. At this point I think it's mostly the background I want to tighten up before doing final lineart. And maybe a hand or two. Still, overall I think things are coming along well.

Continuing to sketch. I can tell already that I'm gonna be spending a lot of time fiddling with the hands and faces, to say nothing of the hair. But at least I've made some progress today, which I'm happy about.

I won't be playing fighting games very much for at least the next few days since my hand is still bothering me. Though it's my off-hand, so I'll probably keep drawing.

New drawing, this time I'm trying to figure how best to incorporate a distinct sketching phase separate from doing lineart proper. The idea was inspired by a drawing I saw earlier today by a Sonic fanartist called Novika featuring Jewel in her rebellious youth. Lots to work on, but it should be fun.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was fun. I didn't get to play long, though, since my hands have been bothering me the last couple days. Still, nice to get some games in.

Today ended up surprisingly busy for me, so I didn't have the mental energy for drawing anything involved. Line control practice happened instead. It's something, I suppose.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was fun. I managed to intentionally do Jam's parry in a real match for the first time ever. I'm pretty happy about that.

Decided to test out some new settings in the drawing program I use. I think it'll help with getting my linework where I want it to be. I really do not have the Sonic Adventure pose down, but that also wasn't the focus this time, so it's fine.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was short but fun. It was nice to enjoy playing this game again.

I am not immune to following the hot new trend. This is a mix of games that had a big impact on me and games I've played a lot of. The Kirby game is SNES Super Star (specifically that one, I prefer it over Ultra). I don't know what this list says about me, but I'm sure it says something.