"don't forget to take proper breaks!!" [ #oc | #art | #illust ]

i finished up with the monhun stories demo yesterday... it's quite cute and i really enjoy the visual style but i don't know if it's $69.99 levels of "i enjoyed it." maybe one day on sale though... i made an attempt at one of my ocs in there and she didn't look half bad in monhun world.

a little sketch of lulumi lumi. from art. (happy birthday @charmwitch.bsky.social!!!)

dude at this rate maybe it's better to go to the stationery store and start a sketchbook drawing circle with my friends where we all draw pictures of our ocs in it and mail it to each other

it’s snowing in the city today so i took a few short walks around the neighborhood and i feel like all of my hp and sp have been restored… i love snow…….

got my hair cut. i have returned to apple mode.

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losing my mind this evening because i finally managed to find evidence that one of my favorite children's books i got at zany brainy as a very young kid was real...... the book was originally french canadian and came with a doll of gaele...i forgot how much of a creature (endearing?) she was

back at it again

i was working on a song last night and felt like a genius for a good 10 minutes when i realized i could sneak a thematically important motif in there....... music is so cool

chai sketch (crude) [ #oc | #art | #illust ]

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small piano

small piano

i made my first focaccia!!!!!!! we had it with some shakshouka and it’s pretty good!! by itself it tastes like when you go to bertucci’s (does bertucci’s even exist anymore…?) and they give you the warm bread and spicy garlic olive oil. except the olive oil is already in the bread.

a haniwa for your thoughts.

jumped back into earthsea (on book 6 now...got distracted with other books) and i keep thinking about the bit where one of the main guys elaborates on his constant horrifying nightmares for a good while and ged just thinks about it and goes, "a cat could fix you." and it does, in fact, fix him.

in my pursuit of making italian deli-style hot sandwiches i bought ingredients for baking homemade bread. i don’t think i’ve ever tried making rising bread before so we will see if i (and i guess my finicky oven with its max temps of 250c) have what it takes…..

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had to dig through some drawers and found my old ragnarok collection from 2005-ish… it’s so old it still reads from left to right.

quick elf scribbles

cutlet sandwich experiment went pretty well!!! cutting in 2 separate slices of bread with a few slices of chicken breast and fresh mozzarella/parmesan on toasted bread seems to be the best (and cleanest!!) sandwich option.

before i even started ragnarok i used to play nexusTK/baramue nara as a kid, which is one of the oldest MMORPGs in the genre (and still updating in korea!!!). their website has a little character dress-up page so i gave it a try. the spritework has come so far from the little old stick figures.....

was possessed by the urge to make italian deli-style chicken parm cutlet sandwiches this weekend so i went to the store to grab ingredients for tomorrow. i dont have it in me to fry the chicken (usually i just grill it to keep it healthier) but gonna experiment with different cuts/cheeses...

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every time i go to town hall for paperwork, no matter how alert or prepared i am beforehand, i always feel like The Stupidest Guy Alive and i think i just have to come to terms with that. like yes. i’m sorry. i will be asking the same question ten times to make sure i did everything correctly!!!!

the collection is growing……

there are times where i think it’d be fun to talk more about the little world i’m working on. but it’s mostly stuff i don’t want to spoil. also i tried verbally explaining a plot beat to a friend maybe a year or so ago but the more i did the more i felt like a shrimp slowly curling up on a grill.

little sketch

went on a little outing yesterday and got some books for art… i had an ebook of the one on the left but i really wanted the physical copy for easier reference and reading… i’m looking forward to practicing with these!!!!

went to look at the kr ue5 promo website for mabinogi since they're a few blog entries ahead of NA's and i just keep looking at these screenshots like "what do you MEAN this is mabinogi???" they're working so hard... i hope it'll be ready soon.....

elf (winter edition)

trying to practice making things look...dimensional??? it is challenging..... [ #oc | #art | #illust ]

girl (of the sea dragon variety) [ #oc | #art | #illust ]

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a while ago i decided to try relearning clip studio and got it for my laptop… it was awful and i Could Not understand how people used it well. i switched it over to my ipad a few days ago for fun and i cannot believe what a difference it makes. this program was absolutely made for screen tablets

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been digging through some old photos from my college days for some fun color/background study references… the japanese countryside is so scenic……

tried doing a paint style portrait. i dont like it. people who do more painterly styles may be art's strongest soldiers, i think.

atop the waves [ #oc | #art | #illust ]

i may have forgotten to post jrpg kenji ito auld lang syne for japanese new year but i will Not forget it for west coast new year youtu.be/8VsVZkPAXz4?...

for the triumphs yet to come [ #oc | #art | #illust ]

for the triumphs yet to come [ #oc | #art | #illust ]

thinking about 2025... this year is the reason i am going into 2026 with no expectations whatsoever, aside from wanting to survive it so i can make my own things. trying to juggle several extremely difficult, extremely personal things while keeping a household afloat is not really that fun!!

last year the local grocery store had little white chocolate snake cornet breads for the new year. this year they had…brown sugar horse.

in 2026 i think my goal is mostly just "survive so you can make the thing you want to make." and i hope i can do that... it will take time--probably a long time--but i still want to make the little world of project sacrament a tangible thing that people can experience one day.

treated myself

blessed be the merchant [ #oc | #art | #illust ]