My birthday is coming soon 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

allergies have been flaring up so bad lately that I actually just feel like I'm sick and it's the worst thing ever. oh yeah and huge heat wave coming soon. anyone who can sit here and tell me they enjoy summer in this area is a damn liar

I'll get back to drawing soon enough. It's just that it's summer. My room is too hot for it

A lot of times when I talk about things that could be touchy I phrase my way around things because I know if I point out certain things or use certain words, I will not be listened to at all because a lot of terms carry that much stigma

I feel like I'm insane when I see people try and say hatred against dudes doesn't exist and isn't wrong like any other type of hatred. I saw some commenter on youtube say we're the broken chromosome and looking at that made me feel sick. Is it not wrong to say things like this about any group??

gonna start reminding myself again that YES it's okay to use photo reference for poses

somehow me not being one of those more privileged artists who can stay home all day because they don't have a dayjob has made me feel lesser, since they have more time to improve and pump stuff out than I do, which leads to their art being leagues above mine. I need to stop. but it's hard to do that

Persona fans reaching the same levels of nitpicky and pedantic as Sonic fans infamously are is honestly frying me

Fuck this little guy

I think I'm gonna have to stay offline for a while and maybe only come on when I have some art I wanna post. I feel extremely sad and nothing I look at online is helping. I'm in need of a little break

Sheet of characters I first came up with around 4 years ago

oh my GOD MAN

I noticed I've been yapping too fucking much and I apologize for that, I'm just getting that stuff out my system and I've been struggling artistically anyway. And I know it's because the shit I'm going through in real life is grinding me down too much. Just bear with me please, friends

I'll be honest I hate opening myself up for critique online when it comes to art. Not because I think I'm perfect, hell no, but because in online spaces it feels like there's always someone in the group that's looking for their chance to humiliate you and I don't wanna deal with that

I worry a lot that my ability to really connect with others is completely shot now that I've been through so much trauma and disappointment related to those things. Expressing myself fully simply doesn't feel normal to me anymore and it's been bothering me for a while now

was never a big fan of art takes that amount to "(x) group are fundamentally incapable of depicting (y) thing correctly or respectfully" There's plenty of bad art but not everything comes from a bad place, that's a reductive thought process to have. it makes you hate shit before even looking at it

It's always eaten me up inside to think that the internet is what it is now. Just a toxic space where everybody hates everybody, when much earlier in my life, I had gotten into using it because I wanted to connect with people who were different from me to begin with. Shit just sucks now

I'm still happy I managed to get all the platinums in this game. If you're wondering why I'm on NTCS-J, it was so I could play a version where the secret level times load correctly. Also I ran into a bug where I was able to do the second cortex fight when I was still missing one gem

I saw everyone doing 3x3s of games and I considered doing one too but I can't narrow faves that far down so have a 5x5. I did this a few years ago but this one's changed up a little. I just went for what represents my tastes. 25 games that changed my brain chemistry

I always wanted to make a sort of journal comic about my problems because it could help my expression and generally be fun but doing so would involve so many deeply personal things for me that sharing it on social media might be dangerous with how hostile audiences can be and that's a shame

It still doesn't feel real

Sometimes it helps to appreciate the life you have and the little things that make it worth living. Whether life is sweet or sour. Those things can make you smile!

I don't know exactly why but watching other people completely deify artists lowkey gets on my nerves a little bit and in the worst cases it's made me not want to engage with their work even if I know I'd otherwise very interested in it. Maybe I only think like this because I'm a loser myself

scanning a pencil sketch to edit digitally in case you fuck up inking is the traditional art equivalent of saving your CSP file in case your computer crashes

Lifted the sheet right from Twitter but either way I'm gonna accept comms for a while. Hit me up in DMs if you're interested.

Always wondering if I'm trying to do designs I haven't worked on in a long time if it's better to go back and touch up old sketches I already like or just work on new drawings from scratch

I'm an awful writer and I feel bad about it so it keeps me from sharing stuff I do make. I still need to get past the idea of having to be perfect at everything the first time.

I had way too much to drink last night now my stomach hurts and my balance is off but I'm still going to work knowing I'm gonna feel like Goku with the heart virus

debating drawing some valentine's day cope fellas I'm never in a good way in february anymore

If it were to be possible for anyone to help within their reach and without putting themselves in risk, any donations to Ko-fi would be truly appreciated and of immense help. The ko-fi being ko-fi.com/brickshoes

depending on the game, I would agree Though not even the worst filters I've seen look quite like that. It really depends. It doesn't matter for most games for me but anything that uses pre rendered graphics, for example, I will at least use a filter I just like seeing what changes between setups

Looking for Saturn games to play...........

Trying to draw at night is kind of painful. But that's on me. I'm trying to do something that requires immense focus after spending all my energy already. I noticed at some point that I really do just find this stuff easier in the morning when I'm more relaxed. I can actually think then

Been thinking about fuckin FusionFall of all things today I missed out when I was 10 purely because I wasn't sure my PC would run it and I never did get a decent computer until I was 18 Many of the character designs in that game were fire though

I swear restaurants seriously need to STOP sealing their plastic containers with fucking staples. Every single time I try to handle those packages, I end up hurting myself. It always ends with me getting pricked at some point

I need to start experimenting again. Now I'm going through the kind of art block that's going to make me really anxious until I manage to work on something fun. But I keep getting stuck at figuring out poses.