How cringe would it be if I gjinka-fied the Hollow Knight characters lol. I love the idea of bug-inspired armor

Received this gorgeous illustration of Zenos and Jehan from my good friend @ryuucae.bsky.social 🥹

Started playing Hollow Knight to catch up with the hype…with her horns my WoL would likely be some kind of beetle (I don’t know the extent of the bugs in the game lol)

Comes back from vacation and is immediately so miserable that I sign up for therapy (again) ✌🏼 We are doing great out here

I’ve never taken a full 2 week vacation before so I feel like I need to walk away with some kind of epiphany or key personal learning so I don’t end up going back to the same dreary day-to-day that I escaped…

I took a peek at my work phone just to check the goings-on and seeing the client’s list of vague questions and my team’s scrambling about to deliver on the ask made me close Outlook real fast I found out mid-trip that I was promoted but I literally just don’t know how to deal lol I’m just a guy

One more full day before my vacation ends 😔 How am I supposed to go back to 10–12 hour workdays after spending 2 weeks in central Europe frolicking about mountains and hills and medieval towns

Having a blast on vacation but I really miss my cat so badly 😔 I can’t wait to snuggle him again

Pulls out old drawings of my non-WoL OC, Sirius A cool-headed lady with a sorrowful past

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Won’t be able to play the new patch for another few weeks but I hope folks have fun! W/o spoilers, would people say 7.3 MSQ was good, or…?

Can’t believe I slept on Art Studio Pro for so long…its built in perspective grids and brush rotation function are amazing 😭

Leaving for vacation tomorrow and absolutely devastated at having to leave my cat for 2 weeks 😞

#scenicmuseap #heavensward didnt get to go in game so i did it on my own 😣

Thank you for 1k 😊

Every week I have to give a 1 hr client presentation, and every week I want to throw myself from the cliffs

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I took a 20 min nap and woke up to find my cat snuggling next to me. Having to get up and go back to work was actually heartbreaking

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If only I could afford to quit my job…if only!!!

Stares at this 150-slide deck that I’m supposed to read through before tomorrow afternoon and immediately goes blind

I swear I am too dumb for consulting, I just want to draw my silly little characters!!

Forced onto a second project as the lone PM+content builder, goodbye WLB it was nice knowing you for less than a month

Emet-Selch was one of the characters I was especially proud to work on for the set. One of the greatest «villains » with a fantastic character building. So I paid a lot of attention to his pose and expression here. #MTG #MTGxFinalFantasy #FFXIV

Started Expedition 33 at a friend’s behest and it’s actually jaw-droppingly good. I’m amazed

Really want to improve my Mandarin CN listening 😞

We’ve been watching the CN dub so I’ve been able to explain some of the nuances missing in the English subtitles and translations, e.g. Chen Xiaoshi’s name being a play on the word “hour” and Lu Guang’s a play on “light” 😂 Her reactions have been fun to watch

Roommate and I have been doing “media exchange” and she asked me to watch Link Click with her…it’s pretty good!

Received this beautiful illustration of my WoLs and ancient by my good friend @ryuucae.bsky.social ✨

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Made it to the Elpis segment of my EW replay and it really boggles me that WoL’s original size = apparent size of a child in Amaurotine society. Like. Are they really born that small then shoot up like trees????

So…several weeks ago I said I’d try to open up a few illustration comm slots…now that work is dying down I’m going to aim to open up like 2-3 slots sometime this week so if anyone is interested, plz keep your eyes peeled!

The “keening sound” from the earth that was described as a Final Days harbinger…did we ever get an explanation for what it was (I’m assuming it was the Song of Oblivion but apparently it was rising from within the star, not outside of it)???

Feeling more emotions this second playthrough…I just miss them so much

Playing through EW rn and lord I missed Fandaniel so much

All of my WoLs face their final trials + complete their character arcs during EW so I just get so emotional over my kids

I still think about EW MSQ and become so emotional 😞 I need to replay when I get the chance

Does anyone have any recommended resources/tutorials on character foreshortening 😞 Like applying dynamic perspective to character posing?

But god what is it going to take for me to feel any kind of attraction to a person 😔

Should not have been as nervous for this date, it was so so casual (may have overshared a bit so whoops but whatever)

Oh god, what to even wear 😞

I just laugh cuz I told my younger brother (who is straight and has way more experience) and he tried to give me a bit of a pep talk on how to go into a first date 😂 I just find it amusing since its a topic we rarely talk about