I was watching @virexialislight.bsky.social yesterday and we were discussing their Minchkins. The concept that an object of value to you having its own spirit. And it got me thinking of the only object in my art supply I have never replaced, which would be my pencil sharpner.

I drew this for @slushyotter.bsky.social because I was obsessed with how wiggly and floppy the ears on their avatar model was and had to draw them.

for a while my truesona was part wolf (and idk maybe she still is) but im reverting her appearance to just rough collie... suits me a lil more juniper <3

I've been watching @psychecyclops.art and @icyeclipse.bsky.social streams of Cult of the Lamb over the past week while drawing. So did them both in watercolour pencils as doodle exercises.

Continuing my fun time with watercolour pencils, I did some Cyndaquil and Quilava. I feel I'm getting a little closer to the Sugimori style with this pair, still chickening out and not leaving enough bright white space in the highlights.

Actually fun random fact about the food industry. During intensive food tasting trials in development companies, we will sometimes give people the food to sample under different coloured lights. As this removes distinct colour differences the taster instead focuses only on the flavour.

More watercolour pencil practice. The charmeleon is a lesson not to do colour work in a room with dim yellow lighting. This is why my usual art set up is next to a window. But otherwise I'm really pleased with the results.

My collar emote done for Nuada

A lil trip emote I completed for @iklickklacki.bsky.social

Emote club this month had this fun little bite emote. Atmos starring in this one.

This one ended up being quite personal to everyone involved. Featuring my good friends Sai and Iklicki.

When your local bargain craft store rolled the dice and stocked stupidly high quality sketchbooks that are far better than ones sold for twice the price. So you buy two years supply of them.

Another lunch break Another chance to play around with the watercolour pencils. This time Venusaur, which I deliberately tried to find one of the original Sugimori designs.

I use my lunchbreaks at work to do practice sketching and try out new techniques. I really enjoy the very soft look you can get from watercolour pencils.

Playing around with colouring pencils. From right to left, basic pencils, watercolour pencils dragging colour out from shadows and watercolour pencils using a layering technique. The scanner failed to capture the true colours of the middle pair of pictures though.

First art of the year is this page of Kirbie's that I doodled, then painted with the Himi Gouache.

And that's the final art summary of the year. The year certainly took an interesting turn art wise compared to what I expected. Taking up animation and working alot with traditional painting weren't what I had initially expected.

Wifey got me Jelly Gouache for Christmas, so I cracked them out and spent my morning testing them. Really liking how they layer and the vibrancy.

I am finally! Able to show these. This was my Christmas present to wifey, her favourite mario characters being the Boo ghosts. So I hand made her polymer clay figures of a Boo Ghost and her Chain Chompy Bois. I tried to buy the chains, but gave up and made those by hand as well.

Finished this piece for Sage/Dargon. Really pleased with how this turned out, having to take some time to study different techniques to get it looking just right. I'm honstely way behind on my work practicing backgrounds, but I find at least taking my time with them and putting effort in works well.

Sunday morning art warm up with Acrylic painting in my sketchbook. I used Archival Ink brush pens for the final line work and I'm a convert, they go over the paint so smoothly. I've been struggling with doing black lines in acrylics all year.

And another of my Wing Flap animations for Nelly. I really like doing these, and this would also be the third time I have tweaked this animation while working on it to improve the animation. I have a really bad habit of doing this, taking older animations and constantly improving them.

A set of emotes for Nelly and her Dragon OC.

Wifey's Mynnie returns, this time as Big Chonkus. This is a sticker to go on the front of her new beefy laptop which is a big heavy boi. I took majority inspiration from the Final Fantasy classic Fat Chocobo.

Continuing my goal to make more emotes for myself I got this pair finished. Replacing my very old peek emote that looked so wonky.

I loved doing this winter emote for the Emote Club. It just looks so cosy and I got them all done in the first week of December so they had plenty of time to use it over the next few months.

As I have now caught up in my art summaries, I can now just post regular art updates and summaries at the end of each month.

One oddity of this year is that I was so busy with commissions I hadn't done any new art of my OC's. So I've been taking the time to update all my old emotes. I had been using @stupidshepherd.bsky.social blep base for years and finally took the time to reimagine it in my artstyle.

In November the Emote Club requested a partner emote to the collar one I did in May. They wanted somebody holding the other end of the leash, kind of kicking myself I didn't plan the leash in advance. The leashes don't quite line up, so I have to go back and redo the collar emotes at some point.

I mostly focused on completing the emotes for the club in November. I distracted myself more with making decorations for my friends wedding.

November would be a very sparse month of art for me, because two weeks after the passing of Toastie Bun. Her bonded partner Cinnamon Bun also passed away. He was our first rabbit and we know no other bun could replace him for us or our last rabbit Sweetie Bun.

While I was struggling with drawing through the grief my good friend Lilac did this beautiful painting of Toastie as a Jackalope for me. Her art does not get enough love with what wonderful work she does. braingones.carrd.co

The end of November hit very hard for our family. We had house rabbits, a trio of bonded rabbits who were sweet and full of character. One evening Toastie Bun fell ill, I was caring for her, on the phone to the vets getting advice when she died in my arms. I have this sketch of her done halfway.

This emote caused a lot of mirth between me and Klicki. The bug eyed version was my first attempt, I sent it as a joke before the final version, and Klicki loved it and requested I complete both.

I'm a sucker for a good OC design. I'd made this sketch as warm up for @icyeclipse.bsky.social while I was working on her animation. I ended up flicking back through my sketchbook for something to draw digitally and saw the sketch. Sometimes drawings can't remain sketches, they have to be finished.

I really like this hug emote. I was glad Vinum gave me the prompt to do a more full body sticker design.

Ravyn made the very sensible choice to give me full freedom to draw them however I wanted. He said he trusted me. ... Teehee

October art summary. Alot more emote work this month as I worked through my backlog and picked up more commissions.

This very quick sketch page I made for Wifey in regards to her benign brain tumour. Kind of caught off guard this year when she got the diagnosis while getting scans for something else. Wifey as always took it in her stride, and wanted the tumour represented as this dumb bunny slug.

And I got to play even more with Gold effects with Vinum who requested this lovely pair of emotes. I love doing gold effect, you can add so much highlight to a character with those details.

One of my practice sketches ending up being this cheeky animation.

Emotes for Felix the Bunny. I really liked their character design, I might have filled my sketchpage with practice doodles of them.

And Kaylare came in again to let me do another tail animation. This one together we tweaked the frames to give it more of a swish.

I followed that up with this tail animation for Sai. It took alot of variations before I found a version that had that smooth fluid look.

And @anchanup.bsky.social spoiling me further by letting me play around with more animation work.

Getting to make emotes for @anchanup.bsky.social & @psychecyclops.art was an exciting time.

To September we arrive! An exciting month, from several new animations, to getting the opportunity to draw artists I had been following for years.

A set of peeking emotes I did for my Emote Club. This one was simple and cute to do.

This is a remake of a drawing I made for a friend two years ago. They love Koffing and a big MTG fan, so I used the poison token from MTG as the logo and background. I also used glow in the dark paint on the poison logos, so my friend should be surprised the first time she looks at it during night.

The eevee I painted with acrylic on a Canvas sketch pad. I'm going to be honest, I don't like working on canvas, too much texture moves my pencil work outside of my intent. And I'm not that good enough with a brush to do acceptable lines with it. Also why is his mouth so tiny, look at it!