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Flat colours are down for the characters themselves - next one will be shading those guys.

I am really starting to regret thinking about pokemon while I was being taught how to use after effects. Whenever I try to figure out how to make a new keyframe I end up thinking about cubones.

Badtown, for those who care, have been put off and replaced with something ~artsy~ that I feel I can actually approve of. (It's not all that artsy, I just decided I wanted to do something that didn't involve beating things up. Which probably reduces its chances of catching on to about 0 but hey.)

I was meant to be keeping a devlog. So followballoons  if anyone's interested. With any luck I'll be posting up 3 seconds-ish of animation (though not exciting animation. It's an early bit that is ~setting the scene~) tonight some time. If I stop thinking about cubones.

I found old art of mine. It was very distressing.

But my old OC was kind of adorable so I redrew her and her pet ghost.

( I couldn't be bothered colouring in. )

Today I got that 'psh, I could do that' feeling.

While looking at the Odin sphere artbook. Either this is good thing or I am uncharacteristically confident in my skills today.

'Ordyne' is a pretty odd way of spelling 'Odin'. Especially when it's in the game name.

Also! From another book I glanced at today: 'There are three races in the world - the japanese, the americans and negroids. Negroids glow.'

Oh, japan~

typing like seiji now

i was googling for information on Inari so not to screw up drawing her.

and.

and.

i found someone saying she (as in the goddess, not the persona of Kiriko) was a rip off naruto.

yes. thousands-years-old goddess. rip off naruto.

what is this i don't even

edit: BONUS! 'kitsune is japanese for catgirl' whaaaaaaaat

edit2: and every time i draw anything Kiriko-related I always end up zoomed in at 1000% with a 1px brush making some detail that nobody cares about perfect while missing all my other mistakes. what the hell, self.

anyone in the UK (or elsewhere I guess but shipping will be a paaaaain so I'd need to look into it) want my old tablet? it's nothing special, an old volito something, no box and no cd (but you can download the drivers from the site) and it's cracked a bit with an a6-ish drawing area and I peeled all the stickers off it one night when I was bored and it's a little bit sulky but it's a free tablet?

and then if/when I ever do something noteworthy you can go 'oh hey I got the tablet she used to use' and people will go 'what the fuck who cares she sucks' and never be your friends again.

/i am a marketing whiz!

in other news: I have a new tablet! it's a medium bamboo fun. Not managed to test her out because dragon age, dungeonning and naps (and nightmarish lastminute christmas shopping) have been using that time but hopefully tonight! if I come up with an idea for inari I like she may christen the newtablet! right now I am being way too easily amused by it. IT FUNCTIONS AS A GIANT ONE OF THOSE LAPTOP TOUCHPAD THINGS. EXCEPT MY LITTLE FINGER MAKES IT RIGHTCLICK. (this is cooler than it sounds, I swear). I sort of want to take a picture of it. Most boring picture ever.

in other other news: I should not be putting more thought into my RP characters' social life than my own. no matter how drama-ful it is. but here I am trying to carefully plan how to dump someone in the most hurtful way possible using the knowledge the character has on hand. without risking becoming the trigger for A WORLD MADE OF DESPAIR.

...and I'll just forget it and improvise at the time anyway /fail