Blugh. Chest infection, both lungs. Antibiotics. Neck pain, lower back pain, sore throat, sore roof of mouth, all from the strain of my body apparently trying to forcibly eject my breathing apparatus. I haven’t finished my Christmas shopping… ;O;

Apparently I’m spending my sick day watching cartoons and doodling a sad duck man. …yes I’m late to the show, I’m not much of a watcher of things, but… two incredibly overpowered old men annoying the shit out of each other in song? Warrants a closer look. #hazbinhotel #lucifer #lucifermorningstar

The good: I’m off work for 7.4 tomorrow! The bad: I took a sick day. Due to being sick. We’ll see if I can get through the patch with my lungs intact because right now my breathing’s fucked and my cough is bone-shaking. Yay, winter.

When you don't want to watch a thing because you know its humour and insistence on being an... immature kind of mature? And then Youtube decides to dump a ship dynamic you love on you during your mindless shorts scroll. Not a canon one... I'm just weak to bickering enemies/rivals to lovers. Oop.

My one remaining original from the weekend is now available to buy in my shop. jonathanestore.bigcartel.com

たたえたる #ゆめたにの絵 #イラスト #illustration #透明水彩

Is it just me, or is walking a rabbit on a harness something that should be kept to... well, NOT busy retail parks near popular dog walking spots? I felt sorry for it, not being able to run and hide when there's me with a confused and very interested labrador.

My entry to the FF14 housing contest. A non-winner, BUT… experience says it may very well end up in the game anyway, no credit or shiny new title for Kiwi. So we shall see. If they do it to me twice, I’m not sure how I’ll react! Probably with cackling laughter tbh. #ffxiv

Preparations for bicycle commutes in Autumn and Winter are underway!! Found this yarn in the attic. Pretty sure it's Opal but there was no label on it.

… well, luckily I’m starting a new job, because I just found out that Derwent is expanding the Drawing pencil range and I need that in my life.

When you have taken up micro-crochet and are a bit clumsy... ...I may have stabbed myself right in the nipple with a 0.5mm hook. Do you need to know this? No. However, please share my pain. Thanks.

Today on "I can't find a pattern I like for what I want to make", I designed a tiny crochet daffodil motif! Not sure if it's worth writing up the pattern, but it will turn into yet more earrings. I have a collection.

I have a problem. No, not the number of colourful crochet motifs that are rapidly taking over my existence. Ends. None of these ends are woven in. None.

I made glow in the dark earrings and I'm very pleased with them. I still have some non-skull motifs to block and make earrings out of, but sadly... further creativity is currently forbidden. The splint didn't stop me TRYING to crochet, but alas it is not happening. #handmade #crochet #earrings

stupid bloody metal bloody stick ...wrist successfully imprisoned. Now I feel like I can't do anything. "Guess you'll have to watch some telly" AHAHAHAHA haha.... yeahno

Just a little bit of mild screeching here over being told to immobilise my wrist for two weeks.

Some algorithm decided I needed to see a headline about the left abandoning their safe space. Some shit about Bluesky being dead/dying/abandoned. lol. lmao even. Anyway, back to enjoying creativity.

When you hyperfocus on crochet so hard you actually injure yourself... no crochet allowed now, my hand is buggered and made of pins and needles. Am I mad about it? Very. And hoping I don't have to go to the doctor. Anyway here's some earrings. Thinking £15-£18 would be a fair price... hm.

So um. My right hand has been kinda numb since about noon. Pins and needles and tingling. Fantastic when I'm in full craft mode... and probably repetitive strain. Anyway I have been trying to finish some crochet projects!

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"Kiwi, you have been crocheting less than a month, why do you just happen to have a 0.6mm crochet hook just lying around" shhhhhhh let me do tiny things

Something something crochet newbie... I do tend to click with yarny things, so a project on a 2mm hook was only natural. Handmade earring! Now to try and make that earrings, plural.

I'm glad we refused to watch the song contest that will not be named this year.

Don't mind me trying to crochet a whole dang cardigan as a first crochet project!

“Kiwi, you don’t crochet, why have you decided to crochet a whole damn cardigan??” Shhh.

Screentones, screentones, woooo!! Here’s a completed commission for Kristine, a drawing of Atom from Pluto. Tried to get a bit more… ‘classic’ in the art style!

Ugh. Just... ugh. Some noisy so and sos are about to be even noisier.

Gotta love finishing knitting a nice thick, fluffy cardigan right when the weather has decided to be too warm for a cardi that thick.

Weight loss mission has commenced, for the following reasons: 1. I wish to return to pre-illness activity levels and get strength and stamina back. 2. To spite the consultant who tried to convince me I wasn’t ill in spite of camera evidence (that went missing) and fussed over my BMI.

I think my brain is trying to autopilot my body back to my previous activity levels, which I guess is a good thing since it’ll make it easier to get there? But also, brain chill pls, it’s been two years, it’s gonna take time!

Today, out of a desire to be a nerd, I used the kitchen colander to observe the movement of celestial bodies. This is the right way to see an eclipse, right? It was, indeed, kind of neat.

And now for the screentone commission chart! Fear the way in which reducing the resolution so much DESTROYED my careful monochrome shading!! But yes. I am taking character portrait commissions, with 6 slots open on Artistree! artistree.io/kiwiwibean

I am sad because the FF14 patch refused to download for me. Will try tomorrow. I do, however, have WoL art!! This is my main lalafell, Kiwiwi Kiwi, who I rarely ever draw even though I think she’s a perfectly sensibly cute lala! Drawn in Procreate, as usual.

My current obsession is, apparently, screentones. It’s the layering. It tickles my brain. #digitalart #myart #illustration

I have been baking quite a lot of muffins, but these are so far the winners in the beauty awards. One did try to escape sideways, but the rest came up with a lovely top!

CW body horror // Root Rot ☠️🌱

I once saw someone saying they don’t understand why digital artists use screentones - it looks fake, they have better tools, etc etc. Turns out manually layering cymk layers is fun. I’m really wishing I finished this Tikal sketch I’m using to experiment on though.

Knitting a cardigan!! Don’t you just love when you spend AGES closely examining where you think the mistake might be, trying to identify it so you can either correct or adapt to it, finally give up, and THEN find the mistake and it’s something tiny and dumb?

Today I got imprisoned in a public toilet and had to be rescued by the council. So that was a thing.

the hill I will die on

Ahem. BEE. Having fun mucking about with Chaotix for @sonicthecomic.bsky.social purposes, and part of that is... well, just drawing them! So here we have a Charmy Bee. #sonicfanart #art #digitalart

wip.

It occurs to me I haven’t posted art for a while. I’ve been a bit preoccupied with the whole surgery recovery dealio, but if you need a reminder that I’m a doodler…! I have a Tikal from Sonic the Hedgehog (using her STC version as ref), and Fizzy from My Little Pony!

I am SO scatterbrained right now, and I can't even blame my meds - I think I'm just so overexcited about being on the mend that I cannot contain it.

tiny alien kitty 🪐

I need people to understand. My response to the ritualistic repetition of the ‘Garlic? Bread?’ joke goes beyond simple over-exaggerated cringing because groan, not this again. It is a full-body, physical revulsion that should be reserved for scenes of horror.

I have been trying for DAYS to express my current mental status, because it’s just that hard to put into words, so I’m just going to scream in allcaps. MY MIND SAYS ZOOM BUT MY BODY SAYS HOLD ON BUT ALSO MY MIND SAYS ZOOM BECAUSE BODY CAN MOVE BUT BODY WILL BE BUGGERED IF ZOOM!!