a screenshot with the text "cherry blossoms get their color from anthocyanins, so do hydrangeas. a higher pH results in a more red/pink color, and a neutral pH affects the color much less. limestone can naturally keep water in a roughly 6.5-8.5 range. 7 is completely neutral. less sunlight, and warmer weather can cause cherry blossoms to be more dully colored as well. so we assume the water is lined with limestone, keeping the pH neutral-high. There is little sunlight in the cave-thing, and it traps heat well. therefore the flowers are less pigmented, and so is their dryad after staying here."

a screenshot of a web browser with several tabs open, all about cherry blossoms, flower coloration, or limestone. The displayed page is the wikipedia page for anthocyanins - specifically the pH subsection

not to spoil one of the puzzles but... god forbid I just say 'the dryad is magic, don't worry about it' no no I just *had* to spend an hour researching the coloration of cherry blossoms and how to affect them.
speculative biology my beloved <3

working on the dryad sprite. I need pretty much one animation from her but oh man have I never done anything more than a simple walk cycle

before and after I added some lighting !! it's not the greatest but I've given myself a time limit on this game so I'm pretty happy with how quickly I knocked it out

BAROTRAUMA UPDATE TRAILER YYEEEAAAAAHHHHH I can't wait for that game to steal my soul a second time :DD

a couple more oc meme sketches, lesbian edition! I'll probably color all these eventually but for now they're a really good way to relax with everything going on.

Game update coming soon!!

three of my OCs drawn over a meme. Cerys is pointing threateningly at Vala's mother while lifting vala who looks somewhat distressed and clings to her like a child. You can see Vala's arm which showcases she is stronger than cerys. Valas mother is seen from the back and labeled due to her not having a canon design and never appearing before

two of my OCs drawn over a meme. Dwynwen sits in the drivers seat, casually touching up her lipstick while Kavi, her husband, panickedly reaches across her for the steering wheel she's let go of.

combating burnout from working on my game by drawing my favorite self indulgent OCs !

like mother like daughter, somehow cerys and dwynwen are always serving while vala and kavi are .. there for sure. (I can't even blame it on drawing men because vala isn't one)

A picture of a watercolor and goauche painting. It has a metallic painted golden moon in the top left corner, and a floating bundle of poppies and cottonwood on a blue gradient background.

Been having some extra stress at work and banging my head into a wall over the game I'm working on so I decided to try out the goauche I bought a little while back! I usually work in watercolor but this isn't too bad for a first try I think.

The good part of my 'day' job is that it's not very mentally demanding so I can think about all my projects on the clock!

The bad part is I always forget all the cool stuff I've thought of by the time my breaks come around :((

sketches for kamma's portraits are done! cleanup won't be till much later since how much I do depends on how long all the other stuff takes me

fixed that bug and am finally starting work on kamma's portraits! trying to get his energy right and he looks so much younger than he is. which is the point, that's why he's on this research trip anyway, but still. making him look both young and mature is hard.

a grainy illustration of a husk chimera from barotrauma stepping out of a darkened doorway and over a dead body in a combat diving suit into a lit area.

finished another barotrauma wallpaper! I love this game so much, I wish I enjoyed it more singleplayer :((

Like last time you can grab a fullsized version (2560x1440) on my kofi! (It's free too, don't worry)

I don't really need a sprite for Urbek but I made one to go with kamma's anyway and I'm pretty happy with it :DD

A group of pencil sketches of my goblin character, Kamma. There is one rough one of his entire outfit, a closeup of his face where he looks angry, and four very loose sketches with focus on his ears and how they move for different emotions

Been drawing on my breaks at work trying to figure out how I want to handle kamma's expressions. I think I'm onto something because you can never go wrong with big floppy ears :DD

a still image of an rpgmaker title screen with a pink-tinted map in the background. The title is 'Bestiary : Dryad' and the menu buttons read (top to bottom) 'New Game, Continue, Options, Game End'

a screenshot of an rpgmaker error. It says "Type Error" in bold yellow font, and the line under that reads "Cannot read property 'tilesetNames' of null"

good news! I got the cool animated map title screen working!

Bad news, it's causing an error that I can't figure out how to fix. Hopefully I'll have a bit more luck when I try again later :((

a closeup screenshot of a wip illustration. it features an unrendered dead body wearing a combat diving suit from the game barotrauma, with a husk chimera stepping over it.

making another barotrauma illustration - this time I'm recording a (hopefully) better timelapse ! #wip

a screenshot of an rpgmaker map, using kokoro reflections dryad palace tileset. there's an archway leading to a leafy platform in front of a pond with a large statue in the center.

Got the base maps done! here's the final room, minus the dryad you'll find in there :DD trying really hard to keep this as small-scale as I originally planned but hoo boy. The Urges.

Finally locked in long enough to both get obs and figure out how it works (sorta) hopefully I can have nicer timelapses of my art now - and hey maybe I can learn to stream stuff next!

JUST WATCHED THE NEW DIGITAL CIRCUS EP AND W H A T

the credits rolled and I just kinda stared at the screen bc what a place to end oh my godddd I cannot wait for the next

Got all his walking directions done! He looks a little out of place with the tileset I'm using but I'll fix that later, for now I really need to finish the map - rpgmaker makes it easy but it's still not my favorite part

finished the barotrauma watcher wallpaper I was working on! pretty good practice, and the full sized version is on my kofi (for free!) along with a couple of wips and a (low quality, oops) timelapse for anyone interested.

So anyway if you have a spare ten minutes or so you should go watch those performances - they're amazing on so many levels and if you're a little overemotional like me you might cry a bit but it's worth it I swear.

I'm not a film buff in any way, nor am I some sort of cultural scholar - but seeing two extremely different cultures and genres in every way and they're both so prevalent in the mainstream is just amazing to me. I think it's a really good thing and it made me so happy to see.

Whereas "Golden" has *very* uniform dancers, and that's where their unity comes from. Their support for the main three, rather than the support for eachother individually causes a similar feeling as the group of 'doing their own thing but together' dancers in "I Lied to You"

"I Lied to You" is such a great expression of individuality and rebellion, and the performance made that clear. Tons of dancers of different styles, no uniformity but there is unity among them still. Loved the extra singers too - and they add to the point! Miles gets lost in the crowd a couple times

However watching them both back to back really made me emotional. Maybe I'm just tired but that's two films that are centered around nonwhite culture. Two songs celebrating nonwhite culture. They're so different too! You can see that in the movies but also the performances!!

saw some people talking about the "l Lied to You" oscars performance so I watched it - amazing! Every bit as good as they said and I loved what they did. Youtube recommended the "Golden" performance right after - also great! Really cool to see and I loved the choice of using the cloth.

ego renegade boy is still consuming my brain, so I had to draw about it. not my best work and I've never done anything with an eyestrain pallet before but hey it was pretty fun :DD

a colored sketch of leon kennedy in his resident evil 4 outfit. He is drawn over the meme of danny devito asking "can I offer you an egg in this trying time"

in honor of my friend group wanting to play requiem but not having money we've started replaying 2 and 4 and streaming for eachother. So of course I had to make a meme about it to go with the ones I made a couple years back.

anyway I'll go back to art and game rambles now lol. I just love pretty much all uses of len and of course had to check out 'the transmasc song'

honestly I'd love to do a whole analysis of all my favorite bits in the video that could be symbolic/implications but there's never enough time :((

idk it just. it really hits when you think about how fixated they always are on these "little girls" doing "self-mutilation" or "ruining your chance to ever bear children" and I really like that detail. It's not the focus of the song but its something that holds weight I think.