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I Finished A Big Step With My Next Blog Project!

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  I have NO idea how many more steps I have left (a whole hecking lot, I'm sure), but I'm still excited! 

How it's been feeling to be a fan of something:

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All these ridiculous and uncalled for things have happened, whether it be by other fans or the carelessness of the people who work on the content, and yet you're still holding onto that thing you like. You're tired of getting hurt, but you don't want to completely give it up. Why?

📙 "Hello, Bluey" 🌺

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  Happy Love Month! I hope you all spent your Valentine's Day with someone you care about. 💞

This Post Delights Me To No End:

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So Far, This Is The Best Thing I've Seen Since Steamboat Willie Became Public Domain:

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every copy of steamboat willie is personalized pic.twitter.com/uLgOpmuD1Z — new year new vi (@vivitism) January 1, 2024     Well, ok, and this:

"Daddy, come see!" 🦊🍃🐜

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  After seeing it in my IG explore tab multiple times, I finally sat down and watched Bluey back in November of 2022. It has got to be...one of the most funniest, weirdest, sweetest shows to come out of the 2010's (with solid animation to boot!). The first time I had ever heard of the show was when I came across a clip from "Camping" on YouTube before the international release. I thought it was interesting and was completely blown away by how much traction this seemingly random thing got years later. 😆 This piece is based on a scene from the episode "The Weekend".   I thought it would be nice for Bandit to have another chance to see Bingo's little bug friend. :] ___________________________________________________________________________________ Tools Used: Clip Studio Paint [Original Post]

Ducks Don't Dance

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  One of four pieces I had planned to post for a Delpad event back in 2019. (The robot leg being added is new, of course.) This is the first drawing of the batch. I had finished most of the coloring for it but as I ran out of time, I wasn't all that satisfied with it and focused on finalizing the second one instead. 😅 I based my pieces on the "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" sequence from the film Cats Don't Dance. I was thinking about the song one day and realized this part of the movie could go well with the ship: -Both pairs contained a guy with red hair and a girl with white hair -Both pairs are featured wearing green and teal -The song has a theme of determination; something both Launchpad and Della have a lot of So it's like, why not draw it? x) ...Ha, it kinda looks like they're being abducted, does it? 😆🛸 . Ha, I didn't expect this to come out so cool-looking! xD _____________________________________________________________________________...

June Birthday Project: Cookie Monster - (6 / 1 / 23)

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  In 2022, I started a project-challenge-thing on Instagram where I draw six pieces to tie-in with the character-related anniversaries and birthdays going on in June. I never participate in any monthly challenges, and I wanted to encourage myself to use my traditional art supplies, so I thought it would be a fun thing to do for my birth month. :3 June 1st is David Rudman's birthday! He's the current puppeteer for Cookie Monster! 🥳 💙🍪💙🍪💙🍪💙🍪 ___________________________________________________________________________________ Tools Used:   Lineart - Le Plume II & Faber Castell brush pens Flats - Prismacolor pencils  Shading - Digital, Clip Studio Paint (Didn't want to risk it, lol)  Background - Digital, Clip Studio Paint  [Original Post] Process Video:

June Birthday Project: Grimace - (6 / 12 / 23)

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  In 2022, I started a project-challenge-thing on Instagram where I draw six pieces to tie-in with the character-related anniversaries and birthdays going on in June. I never participate in any monthly challenges, and I wanted to encourage myself to use my traditional art supplies, so I thought it would be a fun thing to do for my birth month. :3 Here's Grimace the...uh...tastebud-shaped milkshake monster...thing for June 12th! 🥳  💜🍨💜🥤💜🍔💜🍗💜 (Boy, oh boy...did things quickly change after I first posted this, lmayo) I drew this for his birthday and McDonald's did some pretty neat things for it! A social media takeover, a Gameboy-styled webgame , and a fun ad to promote a meal themed after him! 😄 The resurgence of McDonaldland is officially here and I'm lovin' it (hahaha). I hope we'll get to see Birdie featured someday. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Tools Used: Lineart - Le Plume II & Faber Ca...

June Birthday Project: Neutral Chao - (6 / 19 / 23)

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  In 2022, I started a project-challenge-thing on Instagram where I draw six pieces to tie-in with the character-related anniversaries and birthdays going on in June. I never participate in any monthly challenges, and I wanted to encourage myself to use my traditional art supplies, so I thought it would be a fun thing to do for my birth month. :3 Here's a lil' chao for June 18th! 🥳 💙🥚🟡🎹💙🎺🟡📺💙🥊🟡🏁💙 I drew this for the 22nd anniversary of Sonic Adventure 2 being released on the Sega Dreamcast!  My brother and I were very loyal to Nintendo, so I've never played this version before. 😅  I grew up with the Gamecube one. :3 (Heh, I didn't even know we had a Dreamcast in out house until years later.  It turns out that one of the older brothers had one stashed away with a SA2 demo disc. 😲) (Or was it a disc collection with the City Escape trial on it? Can't remember.) The Chao Garden kept coming back to my mind for quite a bit. It was such a fun breakaway from ...

June Birthday Project: Daisy Duck - (6 / 12 / 23)

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  In 2022, I started a project-challenge-thing on Instagram where I draw six pieces to tie-in with the character-related anniversaries and birthdays going on in June. I never participate in any monthly challenges, and I wanted to encourage myself to use my traditional art supplies, so I thought it would be a fun thing to do for my birth month. :3 Here's Daisy Duck for June 20th! 🥳 💙🎀💙👗💙🎤💙⚓💙🚗💙 Every year I give myself the option of drawing either Daisy (since I share my birthday with her voice actress, Tress MacNeille) or drawing Delpad. I kept telling myself that I was going to draw Daisy at some point, but I'm always more likely to do something with the latter. I was on a pretty good winning streak this year with posting on time. I didn't want to risk breaking it, so, something simpler with Daisy was a lot more attainable. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Tools Used:  Lineart - Le Plume II & Faber Castell br...

June Birthday Project: Simba - (6 / 24 / 23)

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  In 2022, I started a project-challenge-thing on Instagram where I draw six pieces to tie-in with the character-related anniversaries and birthdays going on in June. I never participate in any monthly challenges, and I wanted to encourage myself to use my traditional art supplies, so I thought it would be a fun thing to do for my birth month. :3 Here's Simba for June 24th! 🥳 💛🦁🧡🍂💛👑🧡🎶💛 It's been 29 years since The Lion King premiered in theaters! 🤯 It's my favorite Disney movie and I've been wanting to do something to commemorate the date every time it came around. I was stalling really hard on this one...☉‿☉; I haven't quite nailed the TLK style when it comes to the lions and didn't want to end up taking too much time. I ultimately settled on something more inspired by the plush toy Funko made. (And still ended up posting this late. 😫) That style didn't give Simba his whiskers, but I couldn't resist adding them at the last minute; he doesn...

June Birthday Project: Barney - (6 / 25 / 23)

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  In 2022, I started a project-challenge-thing on Instagram where I draw six pieces to tie-in with the character-related anniversaries and birthdays going on in June. I never participate in any monthly challenges, and I wanted to encourage myself to use my traditional art supplies, so I thought it would be a fun thing to do for my birth month. :3 Barney is back for June 25th! 🥳 🎂🦖💜🥪🥜🍇✨🎶 He's the only character I've done twice for this project-challenge-thing so far. Huh. 🤔 Well, anyways, yeah, just like  last year , Barney was chosen for this date because he has not only one, but two voice actors who share a birthday and I will never not be amused by that. xD This piece was heavily based on a Birthday Journal I came across on eBay. :3   ___________________________________________________________________________________ Tools Used: Lineart - Le Plume II & Faber Castell brush pens Flats - Prismacolor pencils Shading - Digital, Clip Studio Paint (Didn't want to...

June Birthday Project: Oscar and Slimey - (6 / 1 / 22)

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In 2022, I started a project-challenge-thing on Instagram where I draw six pieces to tie-in with the character-related anniversaries and birthdays going on in June. I never participate in any monthly challenges, and I wanted to encourage myself to use my traditional art supplies, so I thought it would be a fun thing to do for my birth month. :3 Here's Oscar the Grouch's for his birthday. 🎂🥳🐛💚👟💚🗞💚🐟💚⏰💚🌂💚

June Birthday Project: Sandy and Stan - (6 / 6 / 22)

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  In 2022, I started a project-challenge-thing on Instagram where I draw six pieces to tie-in with the character-related anniversaries and birthdays going on in June. I never participate in any monthly challenges, and I wanted to encourage myself to use my traditional art supplies, so I thought it would be a fun thing to do for my birth month. :3 Here's Sandy and Stan for June 6th! 🥳🎂 🌻🐹🌻🎀🌻🐯🌻🛹🌻 I had said in an old IG story that I wanted to make something for their birthday at some point. I almost forgot again. 😓 ___________________________________________________________________________________ Tools Used: Lineart - Le Plume II & Faber Castell brush pens Flats - Prismacolor pencils Shading - Digital, Clip Studio Paint (Didn't want to risk it, lol) Background - Digital, Clip Studio Paint [Original Post]

June Birthday Project: DuckTales - 6 / 20 / 22)

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  『 "𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙!” 』 .*•.¸💕 🌌 🌕 🚀🌎💕.*•.¸ In 2022, I started a project-challenge-thing on Instagram where I draw six pieces to tie-in with the character-related anniversaries and birthdays going on in June. I never participate in any monthly challenges, and I wanted to encourage myself to use my traditional art supplies, so I thought it would be a fun thing to do for my birth month. :3 Here's what I intended for June 20th . As far as I know, nothing DT related happened on this date; it was just the annual birthday gift to myself. 🎂🥳  I've been doing Delpad pieces for my birthday since 2020 and almost skipped out on this year due to how long it was taking to put together...   (And the fact that thinking about DT reminds me of how upsetting the series finale was.  😒  )   But then I was like: I’m ...

June Birthday Project: Sonic - (6 / 23 / 22)

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In 2022, I started a project-challenge-thing on Instagram where I draw six pieces to tie-in with the character-related anniversaries and birthdays going on in June. I never participate in any monthly challenges, and I wanted to encourage myself to use my traditional art supplies, so I thought it would be a fun thing to do for my birth month. :3  It's Sonic the Hedgehog for June 23rd! 🥳🎂🦔🌭🍧🏃‍♂️🔵💨💎 (And a chilidog, of course!)   Seriously tho, have they officially collab'd yet? And if not...why?! C'mon now. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Tools Used: Lineart - Le Plume II & Faber Castell brush pens Flats - Prismacolor pencils Shading - Digital, Clip Studio Paint (Didn't want to risk it, lol) Background - Digital, Clip Studio Paint [Original Post]

June Birthday Project: Garfield - (6 / 19 / 22)

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  In 2022, I started a project-challenge-thing on Instagram where I draw six pieces to tie-in with the character-related anniversaries and birthdays going on in June. I never participate in any monthly challenges, and I wanted to encourage myself to use my traditional art supplies, so I thought it would be a fun thing to do for my birth month. :3 Here's Garfield for June 19th! 🥳🎂🐱🍔🍕🍟🧸 I was watching a bit of Garfield and Friends stuff while exploring Pluto TV .  ('Cause it's like, why not? 1t's free. And nostalgic.  I used to watch GaF through reruns on Nick...and now they completely own Garfield. Hm, full circle moment.) I really liked his outfit towards the end of the episode, "Puss In Hi-Tops", and wanted to draw it at some point. What better time that to do it for the 44th anniversary of his debut? 😄 ___________________________________________________________________________________ Tools Used: Lineart - Le Plume II & Faber Castell brush pens F...

June Birthday Project: Barney - (6 / 25 / 22)

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  OH NO! I POSTED  CRINGE! 😩  I'M GONNA LOOSE SUBSCRIBLER !!! 😱   Whatever. 😂 In 2022, I started a project-challenge-thing on Instagram where I draw six pieces to tie-in with the character-related anniversaries and birthdays going on in June. I never participate in any monthly challenges, and I wanted to encourage myself to use my traditional art supplies, so I thought it would be a fun thing to do for my birth month. :3  And, yeah, I drew Barney the Dinosaur for June 25th! 🥳🎂🦖💜🥪🥜🍇✨🎶🏝

The Fifth and A Half Update!: 8 Major Goals I Have For 2024

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As you can gather from the previous update , I wasn't really feeling last year. At all. 🥴 I want this year to be VERY different. Here are some of the things I hope to do: