But this got me thinking, maybe I should do a friend-ship with a character. Summon loona and have her be a roommate with a character. Smoke weed, play video games, and make fun of stupid shit.

Could be fun maybe.

Watching a friend doing this self-ship with a character from a video game.

I don't get it. But again, I've never had a thing for a character. I've loved the story about them, thought about how cool it would be to chill with them. Not nothing beyond a friendship level.

I've seen how much people can make selling, I have also seen how little they make. When I go to conventions, im only there to be with people.

If I start a comic, get known, get asked to be GOH, I will decline.

Many doubts about that last part but really don't want to.

Been stupidity busy and taking the next few weeks off. But was asked today if I would start to sell my art once I get that far.

Maybe... I don't think I would do commissions. And already saying no to having a booth. All things will be sold online.

I have to remember that there are all kinds of body shapes, it's best to just keep going and enjoy the mistakes. A mistake can be a new character or a weird side story. Or, fix it next time because they were never meant to have two left hands.

Had a bad night yesterday with the sketches so wasn't going to finish. But I told myself to shut up and made 3 more and inked. Yeah, still not great but I'm going to keep pushing on. And after watching a video by Melody Nosurname, I'm a little bit more motivated to keep going.

Tonight was learning forshortning (I think I spelled that right) I don't have much to say tonight. Quick pose was kind of helpful tonight but not the most helpful. Most poses there are not what I needed tonight as I needed the top or bottom to be closer to the camera, but got it done.

It's hard to see tonight because I didn't want to ink, trying my best to make it look like they are rotating and turning but maybe another round of practice on these.

By doing this kind of thing, I have enjoyed art again. Even if I want to be more realistic, doing these is giving me freedom and can also serve as a better planning/sketch phase for more important things later on.

I will get to realism. But doing this for body structure has been helpful and fun

20 bean shapes for art practice with the pinch side colored in.

It was another bean day. Today was to focus on the pinch and stretch more. I had to put into my head how even if the bottom is bigger, run with it. All imperfections are just new body shapes. Base too narrow, the person skips leg day. Make fun of it, have fun with it.

January 5th, 2016 is the date on this one. I did not like how this turned out as the perspective was just bad. Made a note to myself to start over under the date.

Jan 6, 2016. This is my second attempt at making the lab. This was going to be scanned and inked on the computer but never got that far.

Bonus from the archives post.

Pic 1. 1/5/16

I was trying to draw a lab background and stopped what I was doing

Pic 2. 1/6/16

Second attempt at the lab. This was going to be for a short story about an escaped lab experiment.

More info in alt.

I might try and make a tutorial for all this once I'm done. Taking a lot of notes on what I'm doing here and hope that this new style works.

A drawing of 15 bean shapes. One side is colored so I can learn how to use them and see what happens.

Hey look... art practice tonight.

Taking some advice from someone and doing the bean method I kicked it up a bit by also leaning the different ink pens and markers to see how they work.

They are not like the prismacolor markers I once had but it's something.

Oh yeah, I'm thinking yahoo. Forgot that Google was a bit later. And I think I didn't personally use Google till about 2005 so kind of shows how much Google has taken over things...

I tried everything, pompodoro, lofi music, schedules for every hour, and nothing made me feel better than this 10 mins of wall starting.

10 min meditation, it's all we ever needed and all we ever wanted. Today's internet is all noise, we don't need it.

The noise faded, each voice coming forward to say this or that. I gave it the attention it deserved and questioned why it needed to be there. Then it went away. Productivity boosted. I spent 3 hours focused on a work related issue.

I have been a bit overwhelmed with life and getting things going here. Travel for work is always a pain in the ass but today, I took 10 mins to just look at a wall. Just let my mind quite, forget everything that needed to be done. It was basically meditation but just looking at a wall.

VCL was great, barely remembered it but it was a great start for what would later become things like DeviantArt and Furaffinity.

Don't get me wrong, social media isn't that bad, but it becomes bad either through dependence, or addiction.

Anytime I log into anything, I miss the old internet more and more.

I'm not talking late 90s where everyone was getting online, im talking early 90s, there was no mass social media. If you wanted furry porn, you had to go 5 pages deep on Google to find one person or a small group that was posting.

It wouldn't be the answer I'm looking for, but it would still be a valid complaint from him.

Every artist talks about the mistakes they made in their art that no one points out. I want to bring back some of the most famous artists/painters and ask where mistakes are in their work.

I'm sure Michelangelo would be upset over how few dicks he painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Only going to talk about art stuff here. Not going to bring life stuff here. Yet at least. Maybe make a personal account later. But art related things a guy I'm talking to at this worksite is an artist and gave me a tip. Going to try it this weekend and maybe start posting results on Monday.

I have to wake up at 4 and start driving at 5, yet here I am, questioning my life choices. How do you people use this tablet thing? I need to get better on both mediums but man, this is hard and weird. Also, what the hell did I draw? The world will never know.

Might not post much this week, work is sending me to Wisconsin tomorrow for a few days. 8 hour trip from my place in Illinois. Could be fun. All paid for.

I promise I won't be political here, much. There will be times like today where there was a lot going on and things will get worse with Trump and the GOP in office. Im not good at politics and stay out of it but when we have had what we had over the past few years, its hard to not get involved.

How Bluesky feels on a #NoKings Day ☺️

Beyond inspiring to hear @brucespringsteen.net sing “Streets of Minneapolis” today at the Minnesota State Capitol for No Kings Day 3.0!

Here’s a small clip from his amazing performance:

Carved a banjo frog 🐸

#art #linocut #illustrator

A quick sketch from the knees up of what looks to be an anthropomorphic lion lady. The sketch is still really rough and is on the ink layer showing that I was maybe going to try and ink this. Better luck tomorrow I guess.

A quick sketch of the lion, still trying my best to do the body and think that soon I will just be doing quick sketches like this everyday and just making a bunch of WIPs that I will just come back to at some point to finish. I still have no idea what I'm doing but its something.